2006-2007 Ammerman Center New Media Colloquia Series - Supported by a generous grant from Citizens Bank
*Additional funding from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation

All Lectures will be held in OLIN 104 at 4:30 pm. Receptions to follow.

Feb 28 Wednesday
Doug Scott
"Art, Technology, & Politics of German Design, 1890-1945"
Scott is Design Director at WGBH Boston, a producer and broadcaster of public television and radio content. He teaches graphic design, typography, and design history at Yale and RISD

March 27 Tuesday
Jon Rubin
" Meaningful Contexts in Media Art Production - The Floating Cinema and Cross Cultural Video Production"
Rubin is a film and new media artist based in Brooklyn; Associate Professor of Film and New Media at SUNY/Purchase where teaches a Cross Cultural Video course in which SUNY students collaborate with students from Turkey, Mexico and Belarus; and serves as Director of the Center for Collaborative Online International Learning.

April 5 Thursday
Todd Winkler
"Where the Physical Meets the Virtual: Synesthetic Explorations in Multimedia Dance/Theatre"
Winkler is a composer and multimedia artist at Brown, where he co-directs Multimedia & Electronic Music Experiments @ Brown (meme@brown), the Ph.D. program in Computer Music and Multimedia, and chairs the Music Department. His work explores ways in which human actions can affect sound and images produced by computers in dance productions, interactive video installations and concert pieces for computers and instruments. *

April 12 Thursday
Butch Rovan
"Studies in Movement: Resistance, Technology, and the Work of Etienne-Jules Marey"
Rovan is a composer and performer in the Department of Music at Brown University, where he co-directs meme@brown) and the Ph.D. program in Computer Music and Multimedia. Rovan researches gestural control and interactivity.
For more information on Marey. *

April 25 Wednesday
Terrence Masson
" Digital Fauxtography"
Masson is President of Digital Fauxtography Inc; Specialist in Computer Animation, Graphic Design and Special Effects. Masson has worked for ILM, Warner Bros, Dreamworks; collaborated on "Flushed Away" and "Fantastic Four, and served as the Computer Animation Festival Chair for Siggraph 2006.
For more information on Masson.

2004-2005 New Media Colloquia Series
Barbara Lattanzi
Media Artist, Dept. of Art at Smith College
"Viewer As Performer, Or How You Can Watch Videos By Improvising With Their Display"
Lattanzi improvised with video playback to analyze Quicktime-formatted video as well as to play and experiment with the video's time structures for rhythmic and aesthetic effect. Lattanzi demonstrated her software on such archival works as the film classic Nosferatu, satellite news feeds, NASA cinematography of the Apollo Moon Mission; and new works: "The Interrupting Annotator" and "CSPAN Karaoke" that demonstrate unique ways of viewing and "talking back" to streaming news videos on the web. Lattanzi’s presentation will feature original software that is freely available for download from her website: www.wildernesspuppets.net.
Peter Kirn
Graduate student in Music composition at The Graduate Center, CUNY
"IMAGE + SOUND: Integrating visual and aural in the digital realm "
Camille Utterbeck
Interactive Installation Artist. Brooklyn, NY
|"Interaction with Digital Media" www.camilleutterback.com

2001-2003 New Media Colloquia Series Sponsored through a generous grant from AT&T

Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel
Graphic designers who live and work in Falls Village, Connecticut, in a modern studio originally built for the American muralist Ezra Winter in 1931. Their talk focused on rethinking the role of graphic design as a humanist discipline. They discussed recent and current projects that engage language and literature, science and mathematics, biography, geometry, and media both new and old.
Tim Roy
Vice-president for Information Architecture at Dynamic Diagrams, Providence, RI
"Dynamic Diagrams" - Roy discussed how visual design and information combine and are organized in Web site construction
Tristan Murail
Music Department Columbia University. Professor Murail discussed highly sophisticated digital sound analysis tools and the contribution they have made to music composition. Murail is renowned for work that concentrates on the spectrum of sound rather than on melody, allowing listeners to enter into the structure of sound itself.
Gerardo Orioli and Jay Nilsen
The Many Faces of 3D Computer Animation
Sr. Animator and VP Animation
Sonalysts Studios, Waterford

Robert Weschler and Frieder Weiss
Dancers, musicians and computer science students at Connecticut College worked with Palindrome to present an original arts and technology performance piece involving video, music and dance. CC Professors Zahler, Izmirli and Schenk also participated in the residency.
Ted Gipstein '76
Forensic Animation Evidence
The use of forensic animation as courtroom evidence. Co-sponsored by the Center for Arts and Technology and the Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series.

1998 COLLOQUIA: Robots, Avatars, and Sound Sculptures: Artists Redefining Technology
Through Words, Sound, Sculpture and Performance
The 1998 Colloquia Series, "Robots, Avatars, and Sound Sculptures: Artists Redefining Technology Through Words, Sound, Sculpture And Performance" featured three technology leaders who brought new and fresh perspectives to sound, web sites and robots. Helen Thorington, Matt Heckert, Adrianne Wortzel all presented to the college community examples of their interactive work. Descriptions of their individual use of technology in the arts follows.

Helen Thorington
Helen Thorington is a sound artist, writer, and radio producer whose work has been presented internationally. She is currently at work on several productions for radio; a CD-ROM project; an interactive narrative that relates Tarot, a serial killer, volcanoes, and the imagination of an unknown person who may or may not be the user; and a book with Jacki Apple, Breaking The Broadcast Barrier. Radio Art 1980-1995: American Artists making images and telling stories with sound and language.
Matt Heckert
Matt Heckert builds large mechanized sound sculptures. He is a former director/artist with Survival Research Labatories, where he staged unique theatrical performances with the only performers being remote control robots. His current work involves the Mechanical Sound Orchestra, machine sculptures that produce sound and develop a control system that allows them to be orchestrated in sound performances. He is a recent winner of the Golden Nica for Computer Music award at the 1997 Priz Arts Electronica in Austria.
Adrianne Wortzel
Adrianne Wortzel is an artist, educator and writer. Her robotic interactive installations have been exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival in Austria, and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Her web projects include "The Electronic Chronicles", "Permutations" and documentation of her robotic installations and performances: "Globe Theater: Robotic Pageantry".