Isabelle Wallace

Tuesday, May 29, @ 5 p.m. Scholar Lecture: "No Shit: Thoughts on Wim Delvoye's Cloaca" & "Landscape and Apocalypse in the 21st Century: Paul Pfeiffer's Morning After the Deluge"

Isabelle Loring Wallace is Associate Professor of Contemporary Media at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. Her research attends to broad philosophical questions about the nature of representation and subjectivity in the West, and her publications have covered a wide range of artists, objects and concepts in an effort to address these issues: authorship the perfect copy, cloning, information technologies and robotics. Isabelle Loring Wallace is also co-editor, with Jennifer Hirsh, of Contemporary Art and Classical Myth (Ashgate 2011), as well as co-editor, with Nora Wendl, of Architectural Strategies in Contemporary Art, forthcoming with Ashgate in 2013.

She earned her B.A. in Art History and English from Amherst College and her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1999. She has been an affiliate Faculty Women Studies Department at UGA since 2004. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Theory in the Department of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College and an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Department of Fine Arts & Women's Studies at the University of New Orleans. She has also been a recipient of the prestigious Georgia O'Keeffe Scholars award.

More information: http://art.uga.edu/people.php?id=4035

Watch Isabelle Wallace's Lecture here.

Francisco Lopez

Wednesday, May 2nd @ 7 p.m. "Hydro-Acoustic Study 1" in the HyperCube with Paul Prudence. Also, a solo performance.

Friday, May 4th @ 7 p.m. "Hydro-Acoustic Study 2" at Gates Planetarium, DMN&S with Paul Prudence.

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion.

He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, workshops and sound installations in over 60 countries of the five continents. His extensive catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 150 international artists) has been released by more than 250 record labels worldwide. He has been awarded three times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival and is the recipient of the Qwartz Award 2010 for best sound anthology.

See his work at: http://www.franciscolopez.net/

See the performance from Paul Prudence and Francisco Lopez here.

Paul Prudence

Wednesday, May 2nd @ 7 p.m. "Hydro-Acoustic Study 1" in the HyperCube with Francisco Lopez.

Friday, May 4th @ 7 p.m. "Hydro-Acoustic Study 2" at Gates Planetarium, DMN&S with Francisco Lopez. Also, "Rynth" full-dome visualizations.

Paul Prudence is an artist and real-time visual performer using generative and computational methods to create audio responsive visual systems. An overview of selected works can be found at Transphormetic, as well as information on performances, lectures and exhibitions.

He is a researcher in the field of procedural art, computational design & earth processes. He maintains the weblog Dataisnature devoted to these subjects.

See his work at: http://www.paulprudence.com/

Watch Paul Prudence Artist Lecture here.

Brian Knep

Wednesday, April 11th @ 6 p.m. Brian Knep presented an artist lecture in HyperCube. Brian Knep is a media artist working with cutting-edge science and technology. As the artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School, he works side-by-side with scientists, co-opting their tools and techniques to explore alternative meanings and ways of connecting to the world. Knep's works range from microscopic sculptures for nematodes to large-scale interactive installations. His work has been shown at the RISD Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the New Britain Museum of Art, the McColl Center for Visual Art, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, and others. Knep's Deep Wounds, commissioned by Harvard University, has won awards from Ars Electronica, the International Association of Art Critics, and Americans for the Arts, who selected it as one of the best public-art
projects of 2007. He also has grants and awards from Creative Capital, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the LEF Foundation, among others.

Knep holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and a Master's degree in Computer Science, both from Brown University. He also studied ceramics at the Radcliffe Ceramics Studio and glass blowing at Avon and Diablo Glass. Early in his career he worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Industrial Light & Magic, working on films such as Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible, and Star Trek: Generations. While there, he developed tools including two for which he and three others were awarded technical Academy Awards. Knep also helped found Nearlife, a high-end design and technology company, creating interactive experiences for science and children's museums. His publications have appeared in computer graphics and computer-human interaction journals.

Knep lives and works in Boston and is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY.

See his work at: http://www.blep.com

Karolina Sobecka

Marsico Visiting Scholar Karolina Sobecka gave a public Lecture on Wednesday February 29th at 6pm in the Shwayder Art Building, 2nd Floor.

Karolina Sobecka works with animation, design, interactivity, physical computing, computer games and other media and formats. Her work often explores cultural repercussions of scientific and technological advances, and the subjectivity of perception. Sobecka received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Cal Arts in Experimental Animation/Integrated Media. She has also studied and taught in the University of Washington's Digital Arts and Experimental Media PhD program. Sobecka's work has been shown at festivals and galleries around the world, including the V&A, the Beall

Center for Art + Technology, ISEA, Medialab Prado. She has received awards from the Creative Capital, New York State Art Council, Princess Grace Foundation, the Platform International Animation Festival, Vida Art and Artificial Life Awards, Asia Digital Art Festival and the Japan Media Arts Festival.

See her work at: http://www.gravitytrap.com/

Watch her Artist Lecture here.

Jeremy Bailey

Famous New Media Artist Jeremy Bailey gave a lecture at 4pm on Tuesday February 21st via skype.  It occurred in cyberspace with the local node in the Shwayder Art Building, 2nd Floor HyperCube.  He talked about his work and how the live video camera has changed the nature of New Media.  The talk was an Augmented Reality.

Jeremy Bailey is a video and performance artist whose work is often confidently self-deprecating in offering hilarious parodies of new media vocabularies (Marisa Olson, Rhizome). His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and festivals internationally. He received his MFA in Art Media Studies from Syracuse University in 2006.

See his work at: http://jeremybailey.net

Watch his full lecture here.

Michael Salter

Marsico Visiting Scholar Michael Salter gave a public Lecture on Thursday February 9th at 6pm in the Shwayder Art Building, 2nd Floor.  Michael Salter's work is a massive and in-depth response to visual culture. A self proclaimed "obsessive observer" he culls through the avalanche of mass media and corporate branding to find poignant, absurd and baffling pieces which become part of his work. His work bridges all disciplines from product and toy design, to kinetic sculpture, logotypes, animation, and signage. He is currently interested in cognitive behavior and its relationship to particular visual stimuli, and the continued construction of styrofoam robots.

Watch a video documenting the Workshop.

Michael Salter is an Associate Professor of Digital Arts/New Media and the Digital Arts Program Director at the University of Oregon. Salter received his BFA from Miami University,

Oxford Ohio. His BFA is a double concentration in sculpture and graphic design. He received his MFA in studio art from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Salter's art work has shown nationally and internationally in Brussels, New York, L.A., Portland, London, Amsterdam, Miami, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Seattle, Atlanta and Chicago. His work has been featured in Art In America, Best Art NY 2009, Dot Dot Dash, Pictoplasma2, Grab Magazine, Arkitip Magazine, Repellent Magazine, and LoDown Magazine. In 2004 he had his first major museum solo exhibition at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston Salem North Carolina. In 2005, he received an Individual Artist Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. He has exhibited solo installations at Charles de Jonghe gallery, Brussels, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Jeff Bailey Gallery, NYC, The University of Texas, Arlington, and Black Market Gallery in Los Angeles, California. Salter has lectured at the Adidas Corporation (Portland and Nuremburg), Wichita State University (in conjunction with the Ulrich Museum show 'Robots'), the 2010 IDSA "DIY Design" Conference in Portland, The Gallery at UTA, UT Arlington, TX, and Rice University, Houston.

See his work here: http://michaelasalter.com

Here you can watch his full Artist Lecture.

Steina and Woody Vasulka

Visiting Artist Public Events
February 14-25, 2011

eMAD & Digital Media Studies Programs
School of Art & Art History
University of Denver

Steina Vasulka: Hamilton Visiting Artist
Woody Vasulka: Marsico Visiting Artist

Schedule of Public Events:

Thursday, February 17, 2011, 11AM-noon
Steina and Woody Vasulka
Roundtable forum "Keeping New Media Alive"
The Cloud, C-cubed Studios, 2nd Floor, Shwayder Art Building
University of Denver

See the full Lecture here: http://vimeo.com/31800238 --->

Monday, February 21, 2010, 7-8:30PM
Woody Vasulka
Lecture, "Image to Object"
Hypercube, C-cubed Studios, 2nd Floor, Shwayder Art Building
University of Denver
2121 East Asbury Avenue

See the full Performance here: http://vimeo.com/31770607 --->

Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 7 -8:30PM
Steina Vasulka
Performance, "Violin Power"
Hypercube, C-cubed Studios, 2nd Floor, Shwayder Art Building
University of Denver

Bios:
Steina Vasulka: HAMILTON VISITING ARTIST
Born in Iceland and trained as a violinist, Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir (Steina) is a major figure, considered legendary, in the field of electronic and video art. She received a scholarship in 1959 to study at the Prague Conservatory, where she met Woody Vasulka. They married in 1964 and moved to New York in 1965, where she worked as a freelance musician. She started using video in 1969, and embraced it wholeheartedly when she discovered that, with it, she could control the movement of time. In 1971, along with Woody Vasulka and Andres Mannik, she founded The Kitchen, a performance space devoted to electronic media.
Her collaborative work with Woody in that period was remarkable for its interworking of audio and video signals. The goal of these phenomenological exercises was to explore the essence of the electronic image and sound. Steina's installations often involved electronically manipulated visual and acoustic landscapes. For example, the installation Orka, shown at Iceland's pavilion at the 1997 Venice Biennale, juxtaposed two transformative natural forces - water and fire - which, in their various manifestations (volcanic eruptions, waterfalls, glaciers), reveal the workings of time. In 1991, she undertook a series of interactive performances with a MIDI violin, which let her generate video images as she played (Violin Power). In tandem with Woody, she was awarded the 1992 Maya Deren Prize and, in 1995, the Siemens Media Art prize. In 1992. Her installations and videos have been shown throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Since 1980, the Vasulkas have been based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Woody Vasulka: MARSICO VISITING ARTIST
Born in Brno, Czech Republic, Woody Vasulka studied film in Prague. He made several documentaries before relocating to the United States in 1965 with his wife Steina. He then worked as editor on a number of film projects, and experimented with electronic sound and strobe light. In 1969, dissatisfied with film, he started using video.

With Steina, he worked to explore the nature of electronic image and sound, and directed several documentaries on the New York City avant-garde, and more specifically the theatre, dance and music produced at that time. In 1974, the Vasulkas moved to Buffalo where they taught at the Center for Media Studies at the State University of New York (SUNY). In 1980, he left his teaching post and continued research into what he called "a new epistemological space."

Using new media tools, Woody Vasulka sets forth a critique of the dramatic space of traditional film and theatre, while exploring new forms of narration. Among his many prizes and awards are an honorary doctorate conferred by the San Francisco Arts Institute in 1998 to both Woody and Steina, and the National Association of Media and Culture's award to both artists honouring their exceptional contribution to the field of media arts.

More information at www.vasulka.org

Deep gratitude to the Hamilton Family Foundation and the DU Marsico Visiting Scholar Fund for their generous support of these events.