Friday, February 20, 2009

Feb 12 Artists

Optic Processes: a prehistory of automated techniques

Albrect Durer's Perspectograph

Picasso. Woman Playing the Mandolin (1909).

Camera Obscura

Early cinema’s most prolific star, Annabelle Moore. Appeared in films for Edison and biograph between 1894 and 1897, starred in the first film in the Kinetoscope’s first showing in London in 1894. Sales boosted when it was rumoured she would appear nude at a private dinner party in New York.

The Kantian Sublime:
Caspar David Friedrich. Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. 1817.

The Game of Life
http://www.lesiteducube.com/atelier/tramusbret-lefunambule.html

http://www.siat.sfu.ca/faculty/Thecla-Schiphorst/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4EGZc_E7Ow

http://www.charactermotion.com/gallery/index.html
Play first one

http://whisper.iat.sfu.ca/

http://www.meshperformance.org/default.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO9RggYz24Q

http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/english/projects.htm
See: Bodies Movies (Second video) and Underscan

"Interacting with an Intelligent Dancing Figure: Artistic Experiments at the Crossroads between Art and Cognitive Science" Leonardo. February 2005, Vol. 38, No. 1, Pages 46-53

Monday, February 9, 2009

Natalie Jeremijenko OCAD Artist Talk

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M.C. McCain Design Speaker Series presents
Natalie Jeremijenko

Thursday, February 12, at 6:45 p.m.

Ontario College of Art & Design
Auditorium, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto
www.ocad.ca | 416-977-6000

All are welcome to attend, and admission is free. Seating is limited; guests are advised to arrive early.

Natalie Jeremijenko is Director of the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, where she is an assistant professor in Art, and affiliated with the Computer Science Department. She is also a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London, England and an artist not-in-residence at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. Previously she taught visual arts at the University of California, San Diego and engineering at Yale University.

Jeremijenko, whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering, creates work described as experimental design, as it explores opportunities presented by new technologies for non-violent social change. Her research centres on structures of participation in the production of knowledge and information, and the political and social possibilities (and limitations) of information and emerging technologies - mostly through public experiments. In this vein, her work spans a range of media from statistical indices (such as the Despondency Index, which linked the Dow Jones to the suicide rate at San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge) to biological substrates (such as the installations of cloned trees in pairs in various urban micro-climates) to robotics (such as the development of feral robotic dog packs to investigate environmental hazards). Her permanent installation on th


Media inquiries:
Sarah Mulholland, Media & Communications Coordinator, OCAD
smulholland@ocad.ca , 416-977-6000 Ext. 327 (mobile Ext. 1327)

Monday, February 2, 2009

Interspecies Collaboration

Lisa Jevbratt
"Online Participatory Research to Interspecies Collaboration:
Creating New Understandings of the World Through Artistic Collaborations"


Thursday, February 5, 2009, 6:45 p.m.

Ontario College of Art & Design
Auditorium, 100 McCaul Street
www.ocad.ca | 416-977-6000

All are welcome to attend, and admission is free.

Lisa Jevbratt is Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work, ranging from Internet visualization software to biofeedback and interspecies collaboration, is concerned with collectives and systems, the languages and conditions that generate them, and the exchanges within them. Her projects explore alternative, distributed and unintentional collaborations and the expressions of the collectives they create.

Jevbratt will discuss her online participatory art projects and her exploration of "interspecies collaboration," including her current project, "ZooMorph," a series of Adobe Photoshop plug-in filters that simulate how a large selection of animals see, generating pictures that allows viewers to experience the world through the eyes of another species. At the core of interspecies collaboration is an urge to become an intellectual, emotional and spiritual partner with the species around us in the quest for a sustainable environment.

Media inquiries:
Sarah Mulholland, Media & Communications Coordinator, OCAD
smulholland@ocad.ca , 416-977-6000 Ext. 327 (mobile Ext. 1327)