Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology New Media Colloquia Series
2010 - 2011
Michael Rees
"Putto 4 Over 4: The Public and the Private"
4 p.m. Thursday, September 16, 2010
Charles Chu Asian Art Reading Room, Shain Library
Sponsored by the Art Department, the Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology
and the Office of College Advancement.
Betsey Biggs, Post-Doctorate Fellow in the Multi-Media and Electronic Music Program at Brown University:
"The Walking/Dream-ness of Sound"
Nov. 13, 2010, Olin 014
Harmony Bench, Assistant Professor of Dance at Ohio State University:
"Social Dance-Media"
Feb. 17, 2010, Bill 106
Michael Casey, Professor and Chair of Music at Dartmouth College, and director of the Bregman Music and Audio Research Studio (BMARS):
"Scandora: Using Music Information Retrieval and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Predict Musical Meaning"
Mar. 7, 2010, Olin 014
Casey Neistat, Independent artist and film-maker:
"A Camera Marker Paper and Scissors"
Apr. 4, 2010, Olin 014
2008 - 2009
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." Thursday, January 29, 2009.
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, February 25, 2009.
Rachel Boggia Visiting assistant professor of dance at Wesleyan University, presents "Getting a Handle on Subjectivity: Remediating Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon through Improvisational Interactive Performan (and other stories of dancers messing with computers)," which explores computer use in improvisational and interactive performances. Wednesday, March 25, 2009.
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. Wednesday, April 22, 2009.
2006-2007
Supported by a generous grant from Citizens Bank with additional funding from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation
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
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.
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. *
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. *
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.
2004-2005
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
2001-2002
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
1999-2000: Dance Interaction and Forensic Animation
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: 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 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".
