For immediate release – January 22, 2009
2009 Studio Works Colloquia Series
Connecticut College brings arts and technology to life
Experts infuse arts with engineering, computers with dance
NEW LONDON, Conn. – The Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology at Connecticut College is breaking all the rules—combining computers with dance, music with science and turning weather into sound—during the “Studio Works Colloquia Series” beginning Jan. 29. All lectures begin at 4:30 p.m. in Room 014 of the F.W. Olin Science Center on the Connecticut College campus and are free and open to the public.
Thursday, Jan. 29: Elaine Chew, professor of industrial and systems engineering and electrical engineering at the University of Southern California will explore the roles of engineer as artist and artist as engineer in “Musical Science and Engineering Art.”
Wednesday, Feb. 25: Allison de Fren, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ammerman Center, examines the way in which women are represented in film and other media in “Disarticulations of the Artificial Woman.”
Wednesday, March 25: Rachel Boggia, visiting assistant professor of dance at Wesleyan University, presents “Getting a Handle on Subjectivity: Remediating Akira Kurosowa’s Rashomon through Improvisational Interactive Performan (and other stories of dancers messing with computers),” which explores computer use in improvisational and interactive performances.
Wednesday, April 22: Andrea Polli, director of interdisciplinary film and digital media at the University of New Mexico, presents her short documentary “Ground Truth,” a look at real-time sonic and visual representations of Arctic weather patterns.
The Ammerman Center, one of four interdisciplinary centers on campus, crosses the divide between technology and the arts, fostering a symbiotic relationship that encourages a combination of the disciplines. To encourage imaginative, as well as speculative, thinking about the use of technology in the arts, the Center also sponsors colloquia, symposia, special events, exhibitions, performances, and interactions with visiting scholars.
Situated on the coast of southern New England, Connecticut College is a highly selective private liberal arts college with 1900 students from all across the country and throughout the world. On the college’s 750-acre arboretum campus overlooking Long Island Sound, students and faculty create a vibrant social, cultural and intellectual community enriched by diverse perspectives. The college, founded in 1911, is known for its unique combination of interdisciplinary studies, international programs, funded internships, student-faculty research and service learning. For more information, visit www.connecticutcollege.edu.
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
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