University of Arizona College of Fine Arts

Digital Arts Symposium

Friday, April 7, 2006
free and open to the public

 

9:00 - 11:00 am - AME 212
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 1130 N. Mountain Ave.
(mountain and speedway - parking: speedway & park garage)

Speakers: Roy Ascott, Margaret Dolinsky, Cristina Miranda de Almeida, Carlos Nóbrega, Yacov Sharir

 

1:30 - 5:00 pm - ART 312
Art Building 1031 N. Olive Rd.
(ua fine arts complex - parking: speedway & park garage)

Speakers: Martha Blassnigg, Diana Slattery, Roy Ascott
and
Peter Anders, Elif Ayiter, Mike Phillips

Sponsored by UA Fine Arts Technology & Treistman Center
Thanks to The University of Arizona Libraries & Museum of Art
For information contact: Lucy Petrovich lucy@email.arizona.edu

 

 

 Roy Ascott "Highlighting the Dark: in search of the hypercortex."

Artist, theorist, founder and president of the Planetary Collegium, and director of its CAiiA-Hub, is Professor of Technoetic Art in the University of Plymouth, England. He is a pioneer and seminal theorist of telematic art and has an extensive exhibition record.

 

Peter Anders "Planning for the Planetary: An Application of Cybrid Principles"

Architect, educator, and information design theorist. He is the author of Envisioning Cyberspace (McGraw Hill) which presents design principles for on-line spatial environments.

 

Margaret Dolinsky "New media technologies and projections in experiential arts for the 21st century"

Assistant Professor and Research Scientist, School of Fine Arts, Indiana University Bloomington. Margaret Dolinsky researches, designs, and creates for the CAVE Automatic
 Virtual Environment (CAVE). She investigates visual metaphors for navigation
and guiding participants' roles in completing an art experience in a virtual
 environment.

 

Elif Ayiter "The Bridge Project: A visualisation exercise on Free Association and internet search procedures."

Graphic designer, artist, and full time faculty member at Sabanci University, in Istanbul, Turkey. Worked as a graphic designer both in New York and Istanbul, in both freelance and art directorial capacities. She has exhibited her artwork in Turkey with Urart and Nev Galleries from 1989 to 1999, and worked full time as a design faculty member since 1993.

 

 Carlos Nóbrega "Body as Interface"
An artist from Brazil whose main interest is to explore the interfaced body with aid of digital technologies. His work has been exhibited in festivals in Brazil and abroad including Interactiva (México), Digital Art (Cuba), Center of Photography, Woodstock (New York), FILE (Brazil) amongst others.

 

Martha Blassnigg "Angelic presence: Agents, Mind and Flight"

A Cultural Anthropologist and Film and Media Theorist. Previously worked as film restorer at the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam and subsequently in the Computer Software sector. In her Masters thesis of the University of Amsterdam she has compared cinema technology with the phenomenon of spiritual apparitions. Her first documentary film "Shapes of Light" (2000) presents four Austrian artists who express their belief in angels and mediate their own clairvoyant sensitivity in their artwork. In her latest film, co-directed with G.I.Hauzenberger, "Lotte Hahn - A Life for Art", 2004, a portrait of her grandmother's artistic and personal life, she treats the subject of memory in its relation to time and space.

 

Mike Phillips "Transforming Architecture: Arch-OS, a sea-change into something rich and strange."

Director of i-DAT (Institute of Digital Art and Technology) / Head of Nascent Art & Technology Research / University of Plymouth. Recent projects include: STI Project (The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence - SciArt), 'Artefact' (V&A), the ¬Arch-OS† architectural operating system and the LiquidPress.

 

Cristina Miranda de Almeida "Drawing as a Virtual Inner Performance: Contributions of the Intro-vision to the Transformation of Consciousness."

Artist and architect with a PhD in Art, from the University of the Basque Country, Spain, and a Masters in Architecture, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her theoretical research is an endeavour to take a closer look at the creative process in art from the point of view of the artist, not from the point of view of the receiver.

 

Yacov Sharir "What's Beyond the Electronic Connection?"

Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Texas, Austin. Yacov Sharir danced and performed professionally for thirty years including thirteen with the Bat-Shave dance Company of Israel. Sharir was the founder of the American Deaf Dance Company, which pioneered the inclusion of deaf artists in professional dance.

 

Diana Reed Slattery "Psychedelic Science"

Research: The Glide Project. The project consists of a novel, The Maze Game, (Deep Listening Publications, 2003); interactive applications utilizing the Glide visual language (the Oracle, the Collabyrinth); performance instruments utilizing Glide 3D forms (LiveGlide, the Synestheater). Current research: evolutionary language, consciousness, and psychedelic levels of reality.