MINDS, MACHINES AND ELECTRONIC CULTURE
The Seventh Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology Schedule of Events.
March 4-7, 1999
Center for Arts & Technology at Connecticut College
Four stimulating days filled with three keynote addresses, exhibitions, presentations, papers, performances, concerts,conversations, panels, and workshops by noted leaders in their fields.
All events are free to the Connecticut College community (banquet requires pre-registration, $30 per person). Sessions will be held in Oliva, keynotes and concerts in Evans Hall, except where noted. Schedule is subject to change.
Schedule
Thursday, March 4
8:00-9:00 Registration and coffee, Oliva Foyer.
9:00-9:15 Opening Address, Claire Gaudiani, President, Connecticut College, Evans.
9:20-10:10 Neil Postman, Chair, Dept. of Culture and Communication, NYU, Keynote address: Six Questions About Technology, Evans
10:00-10:25 Break, Oliva Foyer, move to Oliva, Sponsored by AWARE Communications, Groton, CT.
10:25-10:50 Zach Settel, McGill Univ., Cort Lippe, Univ. of Buffalo, Low Dimensional Audio-Rate Control of FFT-Based Processing.
10:50-11:15 Russell Pinkston, Yacov Sharir, Univ. of Texas, Interactivity and the Composer/Choregrahper Interface.
11:15-11:40 David Smalley, Conn. College, The Role and Use of Three Dimensional Software in a Fine Arts Environment.
11:40-12:05 Brett Terry, Burnett Group, NY, CASPAR New Educational Music Software for Melodic & Harmonic Dictation.
12:05-1:40 Lunch, on your own.
1:40-2:05 Rebecca Lord, Emily Luce, Glossary Design, CAN, The Navigable Art Project.
2:05-2:30 Bridget Baird, Ozgur Izmirli, Connecticut College, An Approach to Visualization of Musical Sound
2:30-2:55 Keith Brown, Manchester Metropolitan Univ., England, Not Touched by Human Hand.
2:55-3:30 Break, Coffee Salon, Evans Lobby.
3:30-4:00 Janet Zweig, RISD and Yale-Visiting Artist, Featured Artist Ex Machina.
4:15-4:45 Arthur Ganson, MIT-Artist in Residence, Featured Artist, Ex Machina.
5:00-6:00 Ex Machina, Gallery Reception, Joanne Tour Cummings Gallery.
5:30- 7:30 Video Showings, Cummings Salon
Perry Bard, Timothy Nohe, Valerie Nelson, William Smith, Ivan Chabanaud, Ronaldo Keil and Anita Cheng, Reynold Weidenaar.
6:00-8:00 Poster Sessions/Open Computer Facilities, Center for Arts and Technology Lab, Olin 214.
Volkmar Klien, England; Lucy Petrovich, Univ. of Arizona; Sally Pryor, Australia; James Rouvelle-Slater, NY; Astrid Sommer, Inst. For Visual Media Improvisation Technologies, Germany; Reynold Weidenaar, William Paterson University, NJ; Arts & Technology Certificate Students Works in Progress.
8:00-10:00 Music Concert, Evans Hall, Music of sax, clarinet, interactive electronics, animation.
Loredana Arcaro, Conservatiorio Giuseppe Verdi, Italy; Luigi Ceccarelli, Computer Music Center; Cleve Scott, Ball State University; Elio Martusciello, Italy; Mary Lee Roberts, Mike Ruth, Moorhead State University-Music Dept.
Friday, March 5
8:00-8:45 Registration and coffee, Oliva Foyer.
9:00-9:50 Roger Dannenberg, Senior Research Computer Scientist, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Keynote: Machine Intelligence for Interactive Art, Evans Hall.
9:50-9:10:10 Jeffrey Kreiger, AC/DC/VC Concerts, CT, VideoCello, Electric Cello and Computer, Evans Hall.
10:10-10:25 Break, Oliva Foyer, move to Oliva.
10:25-10:50 Carey Phillips, Bowdoin College, Computer Generated 3D Animations for Scientific Visualization.
10:50-11:15 A. William Smith, Ohio State University, Dance Codes.
11:15-11:40 Michael ORourke, Pratt Institute, Ancient Chinese Landscape Painting and 3D Computer Graphics.
11:40-12:05 Andrea Di Castro, Director, Centro Multimedia,Centro Nacional de las Art, Mexico, Artworks with Global Technologies.
12:05-1:15 Lunch, on your own.
1:15-1:40 Julio Bermudez, Jim Agutter, Univ. of Utah, CyberPrint: Unfolding the Nature of Being.
1:40-2:05 Thomas Licata, Univ. of Maryland, Luigi Monos "Omaggio a Emili Vedova" for Tape Alone: An Analysis of its Spectrum, Density, and Amplitude Design.
2:05-2:55 Roger Dannenberg, Rob Fisher, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Brain Project.
2:55-3:10 Break, Coffee Salon, Evans Lobby.
3:10-3:35 John Giffin, William Smith, Ohio State Univ., East Market Gardens: American Vernacular Dancing.
3:35-4:00 Robert Krull, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Fundamental Differences in Training in Computing and the Arts May Slow Technology Adoption.
4:00-4:25 Gloria Brown-Simmons, Center for Advance Visual Studies, MIT, Mind over Matter: Visualization and Data Art.
4:25-4:50 Peter Anders, Mind Space, MI, Jamy Sheridan, Univ. of
Mich.,Conjectures on the Nature of Space.
6:00-7:45 Dinner, Hood Room, Blaustein.
8:00-10:00 Music Concert, Evans Hall.
Music for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, custom glove controller, interactive electronics Dennis Miller, Northeastern Univ.; Joseph Rovan, Florida State University; Pete Stollery Northern College, Aberdeen; Frank Ekeberg, City University-London; Anthony Cornicello Westborough, MA, John Mallia, Brandies Univ.
Saturday, March 6
9:00-9:50 Margaret Morse, Assoc. Professor Film, Video, New Media, Univ. of California-Porter College, Keynote: Deep Metaphor, Evans.
9:50-10:05 Break, Oliva foyer, move to Oliva.
10:05-10:30 Diane Slattery, William Brubaker, Daniel ONeil, Rensselear
Polytechnic Inst., What A Maze meant Gliding By: A Linguistic
Collaborinth in the Domain of Visible Thought.
10:30-10:55 Mladen Milicevic, Loyola Marymount Univ., Computer Music and Mind Machine.
10:55-11:20 Nell Breyer, Rumana Omar, Thorsten Knaub, Indian Dance Society Recurrence.
11:20-11:45 Paul Higham, University of Minnesota, Sir Alphabet Function.
11:45-12:05 Anita Cheng, NY, Andrea Wollensak, Conn.College, Memory Places: GPS Satellite Dance.
12:05-1:15 Lunch, on your own.
1:15-1:40 Susan Joyce, California State University-Fullerton, Advances in Art and Technology.
1:40-2:05 Andrea Polli, Columbia College, Inside the Mask
2:05-2:30 Jamie Brassett, Central St Martins College of Art & Design, CyberDesire.
2:30-2:55 Gregory Little, Kent State, The embodied Eye/The Body w/o Organs.
2:55-3:10 Break, Coffee Salon, Evans Lobby.
3:10-3:35 Joseph Nechvatal, Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, NY, Affinity Between Artistic Ideologies Based in Virtual Reality and Previous Immersive Artistic and Philosophic Idioms.
3:35-4:00 Sarah Prown, Yale Univ. Library,
All the Worlds A Web and All The Webs a Stage: Theater Research
in the
Digital Age.
4:00-4:25 Reynold Weidenaar, William
Paterson Univ., Magic Music from the Telharmonium.
5:00-6:00 Dance Demonstrations, Myers Studio, Cro Student Center,
Robert Weschler, Palindrome Inter-media Performance Group, Germany,
Yacov Sharir, Dept of Dance and Russell Pinkston, Director, Electronic
Music Studies, Univ. of Texas.
5:30-7:30 Open Computer Facilities Center
for Arts and Technology Lab, Olin 214.
8:00-10:00 Concert, Evans Hall.
U.S. Premiere: Three works by Jonathan Berger, Roger Dannenberg, Roberto Morales featuring interactive dance accompanied by flute, clarinet, piano, interactive electronics, and "Flock of Birds" stage sensor, plus works for sax and interactive electronics; Zack Settel, McGill University; Roberto Morales, Mexico; Gianantonio Patella, Italy; Jonathan Berger, Stanford Univ.; Noel Zahler, Conn.College; Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon Univ.; Cort Lippe, Univ. of Buffalo.
Sunday, March 7
9:00 Registration and coffee, Oliva.
9:25-9:50 John Haworth, Univ. of Manchester-England, The Embodied Mind, Technology and Fine Art.
9:50-10:15 Bridget Baird, Andrea Wollensak, Conn.College, Virtual Poetics: 3 Poems by William Meredith.
10:15-10:40 Joy Wulke, Projects for a New Millennium, CT, Through the Looking Glass.
10:40-11:05 Tiffany Holmes, Univ. of Michigan, Littoral Zone: Seeing Bodies and Letters in Cyberspace.
11:05-11:30 Luisa Donati, Gilbertto Prado, Arts Institute of Unicamp/Brazil, Artistic Uses of WebCam in the Internet.
Ongoing exhibit throughout the symposium
Ex Machina, Cummings Arts Center, Joann Tour Cummings Galleries,
Arthur Ganson, MIT- artist in residence and Janet Zweig, RISD/Yale-visiting
artist.
Exhibitors Cummings Arts Center, third
floor
Sky Bergman, California Polytechnic State University; Carol Kinne,
Colgate University; Michael ORourke, Pratt Institute; Alan Rutberg,
University of Maryland; Pat Swain, William Paterson University;
Anna Ullrich, Clark University; Dennis Miller, Northeastern Keith
Brown, Manchester Metropolitan University; David Smalley, Connecticut
College;Gregory Little, Kent State.
Sound installation James Rouvelle-Slater, Cummings Listening Room.
Email Access
E-mail available on campus at Shain Library, Greer Music Library in Cummings, 8:30am to 10:00pm, Olin Arts and Tech Lab room 214.
Corporate Sponsors
Aware Communications, Sonalysts, Analysis and Technology, Adobe Systems Incorporated, Intelligistics, Inc., The Racine Company, The Day.
Special Thanks to Art Department, Dance Department, Information Services, Music Department, College Relations, Theater Services, Conferences, Print Shop, Physical Plant.
For Further information contact:
Bridget Baird, Director
Libby Friedman, Symposium Coordinator
Frank Fulchiero, Technical Support
Jim McNeish, Music Technical Director
Richard Schenk, Dance Technical Director
David Smalley, Center Co-Founder
Andrea Wollensak, Symposium Director
Noel Zahler, Music Director, Center Co-Founder
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