Mediated Realities is a group exhibition curated by DM student J. Susie Hwang, including work of DM students and alumni, Alicia Dolabaille, James Franco, Laura Swanson, Michael Tauschinger-Dempsey, Mikhail Mansion, Niu Miao, and Sophia Brueckner.

The work featured in this show explore the bounds of perception.  They play with the ideas of reality, our perceived notion of, and in some cases, highlights the limitations imposed upon our ways of sensing.   Various pieces allude to the ways our behaviors are mitigated by our environs, and how experiences cannot be fully conveyed through the translation of image or text.  In several video pieces, the pictures the viewer perceives are vastly fabricated, though not apparently so upon first viewing.  Technology often plays a factor in perceptual mediation, and many pieces point to this issue.  Others take a more fanciful look at phenomenology, and create playful pieces that may take on larger and sometimes thornier concepts. Works range from sculpture, time based/video, multimedia, and the interactive.

Mediated Realities opens on Friday, January 27, 2012 from 6 pm to 8 pm at the Cohen Gallery in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University, 154 Angell Street.

It will be on view through Friday, February 17, 2012.  Hours are Weds. to Fri, 11am – 4pm, and Sat. 1pm-4pm.

Hapax Phaenomena is a collection of historically unique images discovered by Google image search from collaborators Clement Valla and John Cayley. The fragile and tenuous Phaenomena are organized into subcategories within the five folders; 1_discordant_wonderfulness; 2_nondurable_megabyte; 3_inventive_monetarism; 4_patriotic_leaseback; and 5_diatomic_roach. Each Phaenomena is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, a screenshot of its moment of global and historical singularity taken by one of the artists.

The Download is a new program through which Rhizome shares one work per month with our membership for free download. Part curatorial platform, part incentive to budding digital art collectors, the Download highlights great new works and encourages members to display them at home-on any screen, computer, or suitable device.

Click Here to access The Download

“Identical twins Kirk and Nate Mueller sat side-by-side in identical leather chairs wearing identical GANT gabardine suits fiddling with identical Le Pen pens. It was chilly December afternoon just before the New Year at the Fort Greene offices of Studio Mercury, a boutique design firm made up entirely of alumni from the Rhode Island School of Design’s hyper-exclusive Digital + Media graduate program.”

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Stephan Stoyanov/Luxe Gallery is pleased to announce the inaugural New York City solo show of Anne Morgan Spalter, a new-media pioneer who initiated and taught the first fine arts new media courses at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1990 and Brown University in 1992. Spalter’s exhibition, Traffic Circle, is a milestone in her two-decade odyssey in integrating art and technology. Spalter draws on centuries of work in the landscape genre but brings a new perspective on the modern landscape.

With works created exclusively for this exhibition, Spalter introduces geometrically patterned video works generated from footage she shoots in traffic, from aerial perches, at airports, and on the highway. Several pieces feature iconic New York City landmarks such as Rockefeller Center. The rhythmically structured compositions isolate or abstract features and motion of the landscape, highlighting the passage of taxis down 5th Avenue, for example, and the soaring of planes on takeoff. Inspired by her mathematical background and interest in Islamic art, she uses a symmetrical kaleidoscopic framework to brings order to complexity.

Spalter’s art has explored the concept of the “modern landscape” since first shown publicly at the deCordova Museum in 1992. She draws on her travels and her digital photographic and video database to create still and moving pieces. Works are realized as prints, intimate screen-based works, and large-scale screen and projection works: her work was shown this past summer at Big Screen Plaza’s 30-foot LCD screen in New York City as part of Leaders in Software Art (LISA) and at the RISD Museum of Art’s Open Call Video Art Screening Program.

In the past two years, Spalter’s art has quickly been embraced and collected by museums such as Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, as well as renowned private collections in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, including those of art connoisseurs Bobbie Foshay and Dick and Pamela Kramlich.

Spalter lectures around the globe about her art work at venues including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University. She has been widely discussed in print publications and TV interviews, ranging from the New York Times to USA Today. This past summer she was featured by Dubai as an artist inspired by the region in July 2011 supplements to The International Herald Tribune (worldwide), The Guardian (UK), Le Figaro (France) and Suddeutsche Zeitung (Germany).

A triple major B.A. graduate from Brown University (Mathematics, Visual Art and Independent Studies) and an M.F.A. in Painting from RISD, Spalter is also the author of the text The Computer in the Visual Arts, used at schools from Harvard University to Pratt Institute. Roger Mandle, current Director of the Qatar Museums Authority and former President of RISD, described this book as “a seductively articulate and illuminating introduction to the rapidly expanding world of the computer and art, design, and animation.” The book has been required, referenced and cited in hundreds of art and design classes and books on digital art, new media and art history.

In 2008, after a decade of contributions to digital and visual computing as Artist-in-Residence at the world-renowned Brown University Computer Graphics Research Group, Spalter left to pursue full-time art creation. While at Brown she worked with or was advised by many computer science and humanities luminaries, including Andy van Dam, a computer graphics pioneer and cofounder of SIGGRAPH, and Alvy Ray Smith, cofounder of Pixar and NYIT. She has been on numerous committees devoted to the digital arts ranging from SIGGRAPH’s Lifetime Achievement Award to the Digital Art Museum’s Advisory Board.

She is represented by the Stephan Stoyanov/Luxe Gallery in New York City, Catherine Rubin in Paris, and Candita Clayton in Rhode Island. In addition to her visual art, Spalter is also a martial artist. She received her black belt last year, at age 45, and competes successfully in tournaments. She and her husband have a twelve-year-old daughter.

Anne Spalter Studio Contact: Oliver Diamond—curatoroffice@yahoo.com
Anne Spalter Press Contact: Gladys Ndagire—gladys.a.ndagire@gmail.com
Studio Visits: annespalterstudios@gmail.com

Statement by the jury:

QR Type is a work that merges technology, information design and a spatial concept in a surprising and intelligent approach. Highly appealing in its aesthetic implementation, it creates an additional level of human communication for the established QR Code which, based on a sophisticated concept, thus acquires an outstanding identity.

At the annual D+M picnic we enjoyed a beautiful day gathered at Tillinhast Farm to greet our newest students – the class of 2013!

welcome to RISD!

Recognizing excellence in all areas of design enterprise, the Core77 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and its practitioners.  For our inaugural year, we present 15 categories of entry, providing designers a unique opportunity to communicate the intent, rigor and passion behind their efforts.

MORE HERE:

Kurt Ralske, Friday 1:10PM to 6:10PM, Room 407 / CIT
This studio course provides students with practical skills for using Max/MSP/Jitter to
create custom software to work with archives of sound, image, text, video, and network
data. Students learn simple but powerful techniques to create, access, structure,
analyze and transform databases of these various types of media.
We study the work of artists and theorists who engaged with the past as a source of
new forward-looking perspectives: William Burroughs and Brion Gysinʼs cut-up method,
Aby Warburgʼs Mnenosyne Atlas, Jacques Derridaʼs Hauntology, Walter Benjaminʼs
books of quotations. These projects, in connection with brief readings from Giorgio
Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Italo Calvino, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, and
Okwui Enwezor will outline specific strategies that students will implement in the custom
software they write, and challenge students to consider the political, cultural, and
personal implications of historical consciousness.
Students create a major final project, working individually or in groups. Projects may
take a wide variety of forms, including video, performance, installation, interactive
installation, image, text, or software art. Max/MSP/Jitter is a versatile software
environment: students will discover methods for utilizing the custom software they
create for projects linked to their individual interests and working style. By directing the
power of computation at the ever-expanding digital archive of cultural artifacts, new
types of encounter between past, present, and future become possible.
The course is open to students of all levels of technical expertise; no experience in
programming is required. Students from both Design and Fine Arts Divisions are
encouraged to participate in the class.

Artistic investigations into the Biological Sciences
Professor Sara Wylie  • 7045-01 • MONDAY • 1:10-6:10 • CIT 407

Within biology, particularly synthetic biology, which aims to engineer organisms from
the ground up, we are developing the tools to build and transform organisms. In the
process we have transformed humans, creating immortal cell lines of human tissues,
in vitro fertilized embryos, and transgenic organisms that bear human genes. With the
resurgence of epigenetics, our environments, what we eat and chemicals that we are
exposed to, are being found to influence our reproductive, neurological and
immunological development. How are these transformations changing the
relationships between ourselves and other life-forms, and transforming our lived
experiences of our bodies and environments? How have artists and designers
participated in these changes? How might that participation be enriched to develop a
critical dialog between arts and sciences? To begin answering this question, this
course develops an experimental laboratory for artists and designers, a laboratory in
which the biological sciences are themselves the subject of study.
Contact: sawylie@mit.edu
Gen-Pets: http://www.genpets.com/

Poetry Reading on Sept. 20 to Feature Two Acclaimed Poets
Patricia Smith, author of six books of poetry, and Monica Ong, an artist and poet, will read their work as part of UNH’s Arts@Night series on Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 6:30 in the Alumni Lounge in Bartels Hall.

Smith is the author of “Blood Dazzler,” a book of poems chronicling the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. Ong creates installations and interactive narratives that investigate social hierarchies and cultural silences in the context of public health.

The program is sponsored by the UNH English department and the Elm City Review.

A Chicago native, Smith was a 2008 National Book Award finalist for “Blood Dazzler,” which was named one of NPR’s and the “Library Journal’s” Top Books of 2008. She also wrote “Teahouse of the Almighty,” a National Poetry Series selection, winner of both the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and the 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in “Poetry,” “The Paris Review,” “TriQuarterly,” “Tin House” and many other journals, and is included in both “Best American Poetry 2011” and “Best American Essays 2011.”

Smith is a Pushcart Prize winner, a Cave Canem faculty member and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, making her the most successful poet in the competition’s history. In 2006, Smith was voted into the National Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent. She is a professor at the City University of New York/College of Staten Island.

Ong completed her M.F.A. in Digital + Media at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a fellow at the Kundiman Asian American Poetry Retreat.

She has collaborated on designing digital poetry for “Born Magazine.” Her experimental image poems are also published in the “Lantern Review” and will be included in the forthcoming issue of “The New Sound: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Art & Literature.” Recently, her narrative installations have been featured in exhibitions at the AC Institute in New York City, and the Parachute Factory of New Haven, where she also curated the exhibit “Critical Condition,” focusing on the cultural silences in public health.

For more information, call (213) 932-9991 or email: rhorton@newhaven.edu.

D+M Alum John Ewing’s Virtual Street Corners receives high honors

John Ewing’s “Virtual Street Corners” garners top recognition at the 2011 Americans for the Arts Public Art Pre-Conference
NEFA site HERE
Project Site HERE

The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program are collaborators on “Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter.” This exhibition is the Smithsonian’s first major showcase of contemporary Asian American portraiture. Through the groundbreaking work of seven talented artists from across the country and around the world, the exhibition offers provocative renditions of the Asian American experience. Their portraits of encounter offer representations against and beyond the stereotypes that have long obscured the complexity of being Asian in America.

MORE HERE:

John Ewing’s “Virtual Street Corners” garners top recognition at the 2011 Americans for the Arts Public Art Pre-Conference
NEFA site HERE

Project Site HERE

Exhibition at Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY. Opening on July 2nd from 6-8pm. For more info: www.risddigitalmedia.com

read all about it!

The 2011 D+M MFA critics have awarded the following thesis awards to
Thesis Project Awards to Laura Swanson and Byeongwon and to
Jason Huff the Written Thesis Award – Congratulations!

The 2011 RISD MFA show is open @ the Providence Convention Center
May 19th – June 4th
CONGRATULATIONS D+M 2011!

See reviews of the show below:

http://gregcookland.com/journal/2011/05/25/the-2011-risd-graduate-thesis-exhibition/

http://www.projo.com/lifebeat/content/go_risd_grad_show_05-26-11_0QO8NK9_v15.183656c.html

http://providence.thephoenix.com/arts/121126-review-the-2011-risd-graduate-thesis-exhibition/?page=1#TOPCONTENT

Spring Has Arrived Multimedia Performance
Four Seasons – Antonio Vivaldi
In collaboration with Bach Sinfonia, DC
at the Cultural Arts Center, Silver Springs, MD
Saturday, May 7th @ 7:15

In an online exhibition of her live performance ‘ Locker Room Tease’
Streamed from her studio in Peterborough.
The performances can be watched live via UStream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/low-lives-3
her personal channel is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rachelle-beaudoin.

Christopher Robbins will be running a Community Action Research Workshop “INTRO TO PRA (Participatory Learning & Action)” with his SUNY Purchase ‘Art for Social Change’ class at the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of Trade School special evening on March 25th, (Fri) 7-9pm.

This workshop will focus on PRA techniques—also known as Participatory Rapid Appraisal / Participatory Learning & Action / Action Research—ways of exploring a community from the varied perspectives of the people in that community, without having to rely on the “Official” perspectives put forth by those who already have a voice.

To participate, please register via http://tradeschool.ourgoods.org/whitney#class180
(sorry, space is limited – Sign up is limited to one class per person )

Whitney is “pay as you wish” on Friday evenings, and there will be a total of
16 Trade School classes going on simultaneously at various spots around the museum!

http://www.risd.edu/About/News/RISD_Ranks_1.aspx

D+M and MEME welcome the first artist of our new Performance and Projection Lecture Series
Hilarious, smart, and physical; performance and media artist Michelle Ellsworth
will give an artist talk about her work on Tuesday, March 15th @ 7pm at RISD’s CIT room 103
and a performance on Thursday, March 17th @ Brown’s Grant Hall

http://michelleellsworth.com/index.html

http://www.theburgerfoundation.org

http://www.tifprabap.org/

http://motivationalvideoarchive.org/Mota/

http://preparationY.org

A description of her Thursday night performance follows:
Preparations for the Obsolescence of the Y Chromosome, (preparationY.org) is a performable website that embraces the science surrounding the shrinkage of the Y chromosome (while both X and Y chromosomes started out with roughly 1000 genes each, the X chromosome has retained this number while the Y chromosome now carries fewer than 100) and asks the question, “What will be missed when men are gone?” and “How can we replace them with choreography, apparati, web technology, and a well stocked ‘man archive’?”

http://www.businessinsider.com/control-a-video-game-by-swapping-spit-2011-3

Thursday, March 3
Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral
263 Mulberry St. (enter on Mott St. btw Prince/Houston),
New York, NY
$7 Suggested Donation
Doors at 7pm, Show at 7:20pm

featuring audiovisual performances
by Mark Cetilia, Blake Carrington and Kamran Sadeghi (aka Son Of Rose).

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Mark Cetilia is a sound / media artist working at the nexus of analogue and digital technologies. Over the past decade, he has worked to develop idiomatic performance systems utilizing custom hardware and software, manifesting in a rich tapestry of sound and image. Mark is a member of the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1 and the experimental media art group Redux, recipients of a 2006 Creative Capital grant for their Callspace project. He received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D in computer music and multimedia at Brown University.

Cetilia’s work has been screened / installed at such galleries and festivals as Laptopia (Tel-Aviv, IL), the Sol Koffler gallery (Providence, RI), the Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, FL) and SoundWalk (Long Beach, CA). He has performed widely at venues including REDCAT (Disney Hall), the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Issue Project Room (NYC) and Electronic Church (Berlin). His solo sound works have been published by Iynges, Anarchymoon and Quiet Design. His group Mem1 has collaborated with a variety of artists including the Penderecki String Quartet, Steve Roden, Jan Jelinek, Frank Bretschneider, and Stephen Vitiello. Age of Insects, a full-length album by Mem1 and Vitiello, will be released in May 2011 by Dragon’s Eye Recordings. Together, Mem1 curates the experimental music series Ctrl+Alt+Repeat and the record label Estuary Ltd., who recently released the group’s fourth full-length album, Tetra. More information is available on his website at http://mark.cetilia.org/

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Blake Carrington (b. 1980) operates within the spheres of the sound, visual and media arts. His work in all of these forms is informed largely by cultural geography, landscape and architecture. The areas between these formalized spatial practices and the experiential qualities of sound and visual art practice are the main focus of his work.

In 2011 Carrington will be artist-in-residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space on Governors Island, and has recently completed residencies at HIAP in Helsinki, Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, and Rustines Lab in Montreal, where he performed “Cathedral Scan” at Elektra International Digital Arts Festival. In 2009 he received his MFA from Syracuse University and was recipient of the Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Fellowship. There, he co-founded the platform for outdoor projections called Urban Video Project, and last year curated a series for UVP featuring Trevor Paglen, Jill Magid, Thomson & Craighead, Miranda Lichtenstein and Jaume Ferrete.

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Kamran Sadeghi (aka Son of Rose) is an artist and composer who creates sensory environments at the intersection of sound, light, acoustics, and technology. Sadeghi draws from these elements to accentuate time and space, and to play with the awareness that can materialize between their physical properties and the human perception.

Sadeghi is mainly interested in sound for its impermanence, non-object nature and structural integrity. His compositions are often marked with hyper magnification, stillness, unexpected shifts, and sharp punctuations that give way to an idea of drawing lines in space with sound.

Kamran Sadeghi’s work has received critical acclaim in publications such as The Wire Magazine, Signal To Noise, e/i and several international online publications. He has shared the stage in performances with artists such as Richard Chartier, Fennesz, Akira Rabelais, Tim Hecker among other notables. Sadeghi’s performances, collaborations and installations have been experienced at the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), ICA (Boston), Diapason Gallery (New York), 4Culture (Seattle), Staalplaat (Berlin), DTW (New York), Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), RAM (Italy), SICMF (Korea) and others. Kamran Sadeghi currently lives and works in New York City. More info at http://kamransadeghi.com/

QR Code is an effective system to convey huge amounts of data, but we cannot read any information without using electronic devices. If QR Code gives us more information than just black and white pixels, it would enhance the quality of communication. I designed a converting system with module sets. My system allowed me to replace black squares in QR Code with customized shapes.

I Sky You a collaboration with composer and new media artist Kevin Patton,
winners of the 2009 Rhizome commission competition

http://anewdayswork.com/2011/03/i-sky-you-2009/

D+M Student Collaboration featured @ sundance

http://bit.ly/g4ztF1

Tracing the digital/Conceptual

Otis Graduate Public Practice presents Concentric Conversations
Voice: Critical Pedagogy and Public Practice
February 25-27, 2011

Educational theorist Christopher Robbins will offer a keynote presentation and guide intense conversations between artists and educators during a weekend focused on the philosophical underpinnings of critical pedagogy in relationship to public practice in art. Using writings of critical pedagogy scholar Henry Giroux and other educational theorists and activists, the weekend’s conversations will search for common pedagogical ground between art and education. Intimate discussions, case studies by artists, and public presentations are free and open to the public.

Participating artists and educators include Otis faculty members S.A. Bachman, Krista Caballero, and Malik Gaines, Karla Diaz of Slanguage, Sean Dockray and Caleb Waldorf of Public School, Ken Ehrlich, Ashley Hunt, Unique Holland of the Alameda County Department of Education, Chris Johnson, Dont Rhine of Ultra-red, and Otis MFA students speaking on their project Dismantled.

Christopher Robbins is Associate Professor of Social Foundations at Eastern Michigan University. His research interests include critical and public pedagogy, the interrelationships of social and educational policy, racism and racial inequality, and the impacts of criminalization and militarization on schools and public culture. He is the author of Expelling Hope: The Assault on Youth and the Militarization of Schooling (SUNY, 2008).

Organized by Suzanne Lacy and Sara Daleiden of Otis College of Art and Design’s Graduate Public Practice Program, this weekend intensive continues the Concentric Conversations series of dialogic events offered to encourage discourse among L.A. cultural practitioners. The Graduate Public Practice Program is the only educational program in the Southern California region dedicated exclusively to providing artists with advanced skills for working in the public sphere, focusing both on collaborative and individual art production.

Creative Divergents is pleased to announce the award recipient of the Creative Divergents Winter 2010 Showcase. The $1,000 award goes to Lin Zhang for Endless 绝句. The five-screen format of this interactive digital media installation is inspired by the line length of a form of classical Chinese poetry known as jueju. Be sure to check out the videos of the work in action.

Honorable mentions go to Mary Choueiter for Enlarged to Show Detail

http://ymlp.com/zlnezG

BOSTON DOES BOSTON IV
From: December 11, 2010 – January 29, 2011
Artists’ Reception: Saturday December 11, 6-8pm

Proof Gallery is pleased to present Boston Does Boston, an exhibition of 6 local artists.

Now in its fourth annual installment, Proof Gallery asked three Boston affiliated artists to each choose another local artist to exhibit with. The result is an exciting cross section of the Boston arts community. Spanning a range of media, the participants in Boston Does Boston IV represent the vanguard of contemporary approaches and concerns

http://www.proof-gallery.com/exhibitions.html

RISD is pleased to be hosting Keitaro Sakamoto as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Departments of Digital + Media and Graphic Design during Academic Year 2010-2011. Keitaro’s fellowship was made possible through a partnership with Morisawa Inc., one of the largest font companies in Japan and producers of FONTPARK, an online game that lets you create font-based multimedia animations.

While at RISD, Keitaro will be taking classes in a variety of Departments and will be conducting research on different approaches to typography in three-dimensional media environments. He will be in residence in the Department of Digital + Media on the 4th Floor of the CIT.

Welcome Keitaro!

thursday october 14   6:30pm

metcalf auditorium (museum/chace center)

http://www.farocki-film.de/

Introduction to the Environmental Health Clinic Lecture by Natalie Jeremijenko followed by discussion.

Friday 1 October 7-9PM

At Brown University, Hunter Lab, Carmichael Auditorium, 89 Waterman St

Artist in Residence and Visiting Professor Kurt Ralske Interviewed by Cycling74

HERE

AutoSummarize, created by D+M 2011 student Jason Huff, is a project that uses Microsoft Word 2008 to summarize the top 100 most-downloaded copyright free books. It was recently reviewed on the New Yorker’s Book Bench article, Rise of The Literature Machines.

Read the article here.

Below is a snippet from Madeilene Schwarz’s piece:

“For his ‘Auto Summarize’ project, the graphic designer Jason Huff took the one hundred most downloaded copyright-free books and reduced them each by ten sentences with Microsoft Word 2008’s AutoSummarize function. The result is absurd and also quite funny.”

The poster for Digital+Media Lecture Series 2009 by Nancy Skolos and Thomas Wedell as one of the finalists in 2010 Chicago International Poster Biennial!

It’s also featured in Graphis Posters 2011.
Great job!
Here is the link:

http://chicagobiennial.org/2010/finalists/detail/nancy-skolos-and-thomas-wedell

Congratulations to the Digital + Media class of 2010 and all of their fellow RISD graduates!

D+M alum Danqing’s RISD thesis has been published in the new issue of Leonardo this June!

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/43/3

Look for his work titled “Cinderella Lunar Mission” in the section of Re-imagining the Moon.

ELO_AI June 3-6th, 2010

dedicated to Robert Coover with two overarching themes: Archive & Innovate

Hosted by the Brown University, Literary Arts Program with the cooperation and help of RISD D+M

Full details:    

First Year D+M students finish up their first year with a 2-day round of reviews. Congratulations to everyone for their hard work and a special thanks to the critics for their thoughts and conversations about the work.

The thesis work of more than 170 students receiving graduate degrees from Rhode Island School of Design [RISD] will be on display in RISD’s 2010 Annual Graduate Thesis Exhibition at the Rhode Island Convention Center. The work of graduate students in Architecture, Ceramics, Digital + Media, Furniture Design, Glass, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interior Architecture, Jewelry + Metalsmithing, Landscape Architecture, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture and Textiles will be on exhibit from May 20 – June 5, 2010.

http://feed.risd.edu/gradexhibition2010/

“Larsen, who recently finished his M.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design, often produces work that plays with technology, and with the value of art objects. An interesting feature of ‘A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter’ is that if it continues to sell, the artist gets a 15 percent cut of the profit every time. A work that’s programmed to escape ownership suggests an ambivalence, or even tension, about the role collectors and the marketplace play in sorting out what art is ‘worth.’”

-Rob Walker, New York Times Magainze

Link to the article here.

Also mentioned and reviewed in Reuters Art Blog here by Felix Salmon.

All of this excitement started at the Lawrimore Project in Seattle

The very first DM Breakfast Salon has been celebrated on the topic of ” What is Digital + Media?”

Thank you for everybody who has contributed for the exciting discussion!

The next BS will be on Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010

This is an event for the DM community but also for the larger RISD and beyond
community. It’s an opportunity to think together on how the department
frames Digital+Media (now & future), what kinds of practices make up
Digital+Media and how Digital+Media can connect with other creative
practitioners in the community.

Congratulations!! Digital+Media alumn Hye Yeon won in Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

Her video will be screened at Times Square in NYC  on Dec. 17th

for more detailed information, please visit the links

http://www.babelgum.com/metropolisartprize

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/#34414015

Betsey Biggs is a composer and interdisciplinary artist working with music, sound, video, interactivity, installation and performance. Her work aims to expose the beautiful in the mundane, to actively engage the audience, and to transform the city into a creative interface through psychogeographic practice. Recent projects include a theatrical work with flutist and performer Margaret Lancaster, an outdoor mixer powered by people’s shadows and a series of downloadable soundtracks meant for walkers to engage with their surroundings. Betsey recently received her Ph.D. at Princeton University, writing about public sound art, and is currently a Cogut Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Music in Music at Brown University.

Tuesday November 17th   7pm    RISD auditorium @ canal walk.

Click here for more information Betsey Biggs.

Digital + Media alumni Naomi Kaly and Hye Yeon Nam both won places in the annual FuturePlaces competition in Porto, Portugal this year. Naomi Kaly collaborated with Alyssa Casey on Oporto-Brooklyn Bridge to win Second Prize for their interactive sound installation.

“Based on their observation that the Dom Luis I Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge roughly reflect one another across a horizontal access, their elegant project explores the thin line where two different linguistic and cultural territories can connect and engage in conversation. The engaging and very tactile project allows for user created conversation, as well as deep reflection on the metaphor of wire in today’s digital society.”

-FuturePlaces 2009

Hye Yeon Nam earned an Honorable Mention for her video project in the exhibition.

“Hye’s video of walking backwards throughout downtown Manhattan quickly creates a sense of unease and discomfort for even the most casual of viewers. Her simple and very understandable idea immediately captures her difficult experience in assimilating to a new culture.”

-FuturePlaces 2009

Congratulations!

For more details about Oporto-Brooklyn Bridge please check the following link:

http://futureplaces.up.pt/2009/doku.php?id=exhibition:naomi_kaly_alyssa_casey

Telematic Performance : exploring embodiment at a distanceThis Internally Sponsored Studio* will explore a broad spectrum of  Telematic or Networked Performance practices from paper cup telephones  to Stelarc to Second Life, including a consideration of how these  technologies and practices relate to distance learning and other  solutions to practice across sites.  What is embodiment? How does the  connection of multiple sites enhance or obstruct our experience of the  work presented, or does it somehow create a new experience? We will  examine and experiment with musical/dance/theater/performance art and  other works that are sited in multiple locations simultaneously and  demand a connection between the spaces to function.  The course will  include visits (lectures/workshops) from several notable artists in  the field.*NOTE: This course explores a new model for research at RISD, internal  sponsorship.  RISD’s Continuing Education Program is sponsoring/ supporting this course as a progressive model of intra-RISD research.   The projects and thinking that emerge from this course will not be  dictated by the sponsor but will be used by them to think through/ inspire conversation about some of the issues and opportunities in  developing future online learning offerings at RISD.

The Digital + Media class of 2011 portrait – in ASCII!

TOMPKINS PROJECTS is a contemporary art gallery showcasing compelling work by emerging and mid-career artists. It is located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York and was founded in 2009.

Krzysztof Wodiczko speaks at RISD as part of the Digital + Media lecture series.

Welcome new DM11 students.

Hye Yeon’s work “Wonderland” has been chosen for the Tertiary New Media Arts Prize for Screengrab.

This small symposium brought together the work of media artists and researchers who are interested in notions of embodiment and/or mobility and who work together at the Digital Media department in 2008/2009. This Digital Media (D M) event enabled discussions across departments and attracted a varied audience, with both Faculty and Students from Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Interior architecture, Painting, Photography, the Department of History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences (HPSS), as well as Literary Studies, Music and the Library from Brown. The symposium also attracted participants from the wider arts and music community of Rhode Island, for example from Waterfire.

After opening remarks by organisers Teri Rueb (Department Head of Digital Media) and Frauke Behrendt (Visiting Assistant Professor at Digital Media) the morning session started with Christiane Paul’s (D M part-time Faculty) Keynote “Contexts as Moving Targets. Mobile Media Art, Embodiment, and the Shifting Ground of Context-Awareness”. Paul is Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. This session continued with the presentations “Boundaries, Connections, Care and the Mobility of Embodiment” by MIT artist and researcher Kelly Dobson (D M Artist / Designer in Residence), “Thinking Through the Skin: Art for the Sense of Touch” by artist and researcher Erik Conrad (D M part-time Faculty) and “Media Walking as Lefebvrian Rhythmanalysis” by media theorist Frauke Behrendt (Visiting Assistant Professor at Digital Media).

The lunchtime keynote “Embodiment, Subjects and Machines: Some recent projects in performance, installation, sound and architecture” was given by Chris Salter (Associate Professor, Design & Computation Arts, Concordia University), in collaboration with Brown Music Department.

The afternoon session started with “A Feeling for the Environment: Embodiment and Mobility in Design Process” by landscape artist Teri Rueb (Department Head of Digital Media) and continued with “Urban Affordances and Creative Interactions” by artist and researcher Lalya Gaye (D M Artist / Designer in Residence) “Touching Earth” by artist and dance technologist Jamie Jewett (D M part-time Faculty and Technology Research & Computing Coordinator). “The Locative Challenge to Modernist Dualisms of Place and Event” by media theorist Francisco Ricardo (D M part-time Faculty) was the closing presentation, followed by a diverse and detailed discussion of embodiment and mobility issued in Digital Media. This discussion brought together many of the connections that had been made between the different presentations, and continued conversations that had started during lunchtime. The exchange of ideas continued during dinner – after the evening talk by Chris Salter that was part of the “Music and Body” Colloquium at Brown’s Meme program with whom Digital Media co-organised Chris Salter’s contribution to the symposium.

Titles and Abstracts

Contexts as Moving Targets. Mobile Media Art, Embodiment, and the Shifting Ground of Context-Awareness

By Christiane Paul

The talk will explore how different forms of locative, site-specific new media art affect our awareness of social and physical contexts of the environment surrounding us. Among the topics discussed will be different approaches to understanding context, as well as different categories of mapping experience, from media annotations of geographical space to the repositioning of cartography.

Boundaries, Connections, Care and the Mobility of Embodiment

By Kelly Dobson

The concept of care is applied lately to too many things. Eldercare robots that look like children or nurses and say “I love you” question the need for authenticity of emotions, affection and care. Does an emotional response need to be earned to be authentic? What does it mean to care? As machines are fit into roles that people previously held, those roles are altered and we may not always immediately notice all of these changes. I design and build machines that interact through functions analogous to human subconscious, autonomic, and visceral behaviors based on social, cultural, political, psychological and physiological research into what else besides information exchange is going on with us when we interact with machines. In this talk I will share some machines that participate in the mobility of embodiment — the fluidity of what is experienced as part of one’s self or separate from one’s self. These projects are part of a larger process of revealing and making workable crucial but often dissimulated elements of being and care.

Thinking Through the Skin: Art for the Sense of Touch

By Erik Conrad

The “mother of all senses” – touch is the sense which became differentiated into the others, and is the most ancient and largest sense organ of the body. The skin both separates us from our environment and allows us to learn About the environment. Despite being the largest organ of our body, the skin has been generally neglected by both the fine arts and human-computer interaction. In this presentation, I will discuss a tactile aesthetics to foster embodied interactions.

Media Walking as Lefebvrian Rhythmanalysis

By Frauke Behrendt

This talk makes Lefebvre’s concept of rhythmanalysis productive for discussing mobile art practices that involve walking. Lefebvre understands rhytmanalysis as a methodological project, where rhythm is a mode, or tool of analysis, not the object of research. While Lefebvre’s understanding of space is largely visual, his rhythmanalysis is concerned with the temporal and has a multi-sensory approach. I suggest that some mobile media artists can be understood as rhythmanalysists in conceptualising their pieces. This concept can be extended to the audience, who by walking the piece can also become rhythmanalysts. In his rhythmanalysis, Lefebvre is longing for “moments of crisis” but feels that as theorist he does not have the right to “provoke an accident”. I argue that this could be the privilege of the artists who can provoke a crisis of the senses with their artworks. This would suggest that walking around the city while participating in a work of mobile (sound) art could question our sensory experience of our media-saturated everyday lives, allowing us to focus on embodied aspects of mobility.

Embodiment, Subjects and Machines: Some recent projects in performance, installation, sound and architecture.

By Chris Salter

This talk will examine recent artistic projects in the areas of new media art, performance and architecture/design that explore the tension between our body’s relationship to dynamic media spaces and how new sensing and computational technologies dramatically transform our concepts of subjectivity and perception. Despite the continued rhetoric that we increasingly inhabit the datasphere and zones of representation (now a move from the VR ecstacy of the 1990s to the seduction of data visualization in the 2000s), I will use several projects to discuss the move towards more dynamic and enactive notions of interaction where perception is seen as action in the world; an active exploration of the environment through our sensory-motor capabilities and a history of interactions taking place among the body, the brain and the environment.

A Feeling for the Environment: Embodiment and Mobility in Design Process

By Teri Rueb

In her biography, “A Feeling for the Organism”, Nobel Prize winning geneticist Barbara McClintock asserts the role of intuition and empathy in the process of scientific discovery. The recognition that scientific insight is not arrived at entirely through rational, linear and quantitative methods would seem obvious to artists and designers, yet still we find our processes fall easily in step with the inherent methodological biases of digital tools that emerge from techno-scientific paradigms. For over ten years my design process has been starkly divided across direct experience with site – especially through extensive walking – and the extreme abstraction of cartesian representations of space in the realms of GPS, topographical maps, programming environments, etc. However, with a recent GPS-based sound walk, “Core Sample”, I began to find alternative ways to combine embodied and mobile aspects of spatial representation in the design process which I will share in this talk.

Urban Affordances and Creative Interactions

By Lalya Gaye

Mainly focused on but not restricted to mobile sound and locative media, Lalya’s work explores the poetic integration of digital technology into everyday environments, behaviours, urban space, clothing garments and other everyday artefacts. She designs devices that enable people to interface with the physicality of their everyday settings and engage in new aesthetic and embodied interactions.

Touching Earth

By Jamie Jewett

This presentation explores an interdisciplinary arts practice grounded in the union of contemporary dance and new media practices. The work explores questions of interactivity, embodiment, the use of media to collide site-specific and theatrical spaces, (Il)legibility, liveness, and Buddhist ideas of emptiness. By underscoring the sensory and human elements of inter-media performance, I will explore how creative practice engages awareness through the connections between materiality and technology. This practice privileges non-linear and abstract narratives, and experiential ways of knowing — thereby troubling any reductionist notion that technology is disembodied or inorganic.

The Locative Challenge to Modernist Dualisms of Place and Event

Francisco Ricardo

As a state of continual engagement, one’s way in the world comprises all that happens on the overlay of personal movement across fixed surfaces. This dualism creates two spaces of memory: the immobility of place becoming amenable to chronicling within historicity, and the dynamism of personal mobility becoming patterned within subjective experience. In many fields and particularly in architecture, this spatiotemporal experience, comprising these two lines of “becoming”, has been dually structured along Cartesian subject-object boundaries, a disconnection that is now critically challenged by practices within the locative paradigm.

Paulina Sierra and Clement Valla have won the first ever D+M Departmental Award for Written Thesis. The awards were announced at the departmental end of the year celebration on May 29th. The award recognizes the thesis that best integrates practice and scholarship, in this case a tie was declared. Erkki Huhtamo, Professor of Media History

Paulina Sierra and Clement Valla have won the first ever D+M Departmental Award for Written Thesis. The awards were announced at the departmental end of the year celebration on May 29th. The award recognizes the thesis that best integrates practice and scholarship, in this case a tie was declared. Erkki Huhtamo, Professor of Media History and Theory at University of California, Los Angeles judged the award and served as an external critic for the Final MFA Critiques as part of the overall process.

Congratulations Paulina and Clement!

Abstracts Follow:

Paulina Sierra – Eye I Eye Us

The following thesis is divided in two books. Both of them explore the relation of gaze and the Digital + Media.

Eye I, the first book is directly linked to a more personal or autobiographical work where these narratives of sight evolve around psychoanalysis and the mythological figures of Narcissus, Medusa and Aphrodite.

It is by the displacement of visual perceptions, mechanisms or simple ophthalmic objects that create certain behaviors where my work intends to originate inquiries about inner sight and narcissism, shame and scrutiny tied to a paralyzing self awareness of the Other’s gaze and finally, how this last can create a dialogue of intimacy that can heal these split internal processes to create the elemental principle of interactivity: insight through the Other.

Eye Us, the second book is divided in three sections. The first section sets the historical background for some of the split and integrative processes of acceptance or rejection to otherness in Mexican history and more precisely in Mexican art scene since the Conquest. It sets Otherness as a necessity to develop a common view of the world and the beginning for the acceptance of peculiarities.

The second section is interested in laying out the creative practice behind the projects that are carefully dissected in the third section. Projects that are interested in exploring migrating technologies, resourcefulness, behaviors towards objects and the re-purposing of narratives when identity and cultural resistance pose a nomadic condition to oppose mechanical and mental standardization.

These two projects vary in their relationship with technology which is only a multiple and divergent path for those of us who have decided to engage a Digital + Media art practice.

Clement Valla – Original Copies
Digital technologies are not simply new tools to create and distribute copies of things;  they also enable new social relationships through which people produce multiples. This thesis explores two examples of such digital systems: outsourcing paintings to the Chinese oil paintings industry, and crowdsourcing drawings using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Looking carefully at these socio-technical systems —which are both unique and underexamined in the art world—raises a number of interesting questions about authorship and human/computer relationships. This thesis does not propose to answer these questions, but the projects described are an attempt to explore the implications of these systems in various ways.

This first ever edition of the Digital + Media Student Journal brings together papers from students from the class of 2009 as they complete their final year of the MFA graduate program in Digital+Media at the Rhode Island School of Design. A wide range of topics is covered, reflecting the inter-disciplinarity and breadth of student work in the department. The contributions are grouped along the key themes Form and Material, Digital Aesthetics, Cultural Connections, Site and Performance. They aim to communicate the specificity of the digital to a broader art and media audience, to provide a vivid documentation of the work and the process, and to situate the work in the wider art and media context, including contemporary and historic developments. This Journal is edited by Frauke Behrendt and Teri Rueb and more information about it is available at the Digital+Media website http://dm.risd.edu.

Click here for more information about the journal.

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Congratulations to the entire RISD graduate class of 2009!

D+M students Clement Valla (DM’09) and Colin Williams (DM’10) have been recognized with 2009 Graduate Awards of Excellence. The awards were announced Wednesday, May 13th.

Congratulations Clement and Colin!

Official U.S. News & World Report.

Presented Wed. May 6th at The 2009 University Awards Ceremony held at Brown.

Congratulations Mary!

http://bostoncyberarts.org/events/event_details.php?eventid=453&mode=detail

It is being shown at the Cambridge Arts Council during the week:

http://www.cambridgeartscouncil.org/exhibitions_current.html

April 24 through May 15, 2009
First Mondays @ CAC Gallery
Artist Reception: May 4, 2009, 6-8 pm

Boston Pheonix review–

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/81601-Our-digital-landscape/

The project was also accepted for ISEA 09 as well as a show in Beijing this Summer.

PIXILERATIONS [V.6] (9/24 – 10/11/09) invites artists, musicians and film/video makers to submit work that investigates the current economic collapse which has reset thinking across all sectors of the social and cultural landscape. Tom Friedman, in a recent NY Times op-ed article, spoke of 2008 as the year of “The Great Disruption”, a title coined by Australian environmentalist, Paul Gilding. To combat

the downward spiral of the country, President Obama is working to “stimulate” the economy and through some of his initiatives to develop a new philosophy for the U.S. to live by. We believe the continued ingenuity of artists can encourage us all to envision a future that provides a more sustainable and compassionate outlook for the country and the world.
Though we aren’t asking artists to adhere to this theme, submissions might respond to establishing new directions in politics, the environment and culture. As a new feature of this year’s events we are also looking for work that makes use of mobile technologies and encourage work that crosses physical with digital media in unique ways.

THE SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR WORK IS APRIL 21- MAY 21, 2009.

http://www.pixilerations.org/

http://www.pixilerations.org/call4works/Pixilerations_v6_2009_Call4Works.pdf

The Culture Lab is a unique research environment and facility for interdisciplinary research and practice, at New Castle University, UK. This monday 13th April, three members of the Culture Lab will be visiting Brown and RISD: Atau Tanaka, Jo Kazuhiro and Jamie Allen.
Jo Kazuhiro and Jamie Allen will visit the Mobile Technology Workshop course at RISD’s Digital+Media Department, to show their work and talk with the students. Later that day, they will join Atau Tanaka to give a formal presentation of their work and of the Culture Lab at Brown (more information about the talk soon), and they will all perform at Brown’s Music Department at 8pm (See also http://dm.risd.edu/news/2009/04/atau-tanaka-concert-april-13th-8pm-at-brown/).

More information:

Jo Kazuhiro and Jamie Allen at the Mobile Technology Workshop, Digital+Media Department:
Monday 13th April 9am
Digital+Media, RISD
CIT Mason/Fletcher building, 3rd floor, room 305
169 Weybosset Street
Open to the public

Culture Lab talk at Brown:
Monday 13th April. Time and location TBC
Open to the public

Culture Lab in Concert at Brown:
Monday 13th April, 8pm
Music Department. Brown University
Orwig Music Building, 1 Young Orchard Avenue
Fee TBC

Artist bios:

Atau Tanaka

http://www.sensorband.com/atau/

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/people/profile/atau.tanaka

Atau Tanaka bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and research. Professor Tanaka is Chair of Digital Media and Acting Director of the Culture Lab at the University of Newcastle, UK. He worked at IRCAM, was Artistic Ambassador for Apple France, and was researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, and was an Artistic Co-Director of STEIM in Amsterdam. Atau creates sensor-based musical instruments for performance, and is known for his work with biosignal interfaces. He seeks to harness collective musical creativity in mobile environments, seeking out the continued place of the artist in democratized digital forms. His work has been presented at Ars Electronica, SFMOMA, Eyebeam, V2, ICC, and ZKM and has been mentor at NESTA.
Atau’s Research Interests include Mobile and Locative Media Art, Interactive Performance and Creative practice on Public Displays.
Recent publications include chapters in “Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen” (Springer), and “Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media” (Routledge, in press). He is co-editor with Frauke Behrendt, Lalya Gaye, and Nicolaj Kirisits of “Creative Interactions: The Mobile Music Workshops 2004-2008″ (di:’Angewandte). In his practice, he has recently re-created at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary art, on a commission from the AV Festival 2008, and in collaboration with *zoviet:france*, Matt Wand, and the John Cage Trust, “Variations VII” by John Cage after the historic 1966 Armory performances of E.A.T.’s 9 Evenings.

Jo Kazuhiro

http://jo.swo.jp/

Jo Kazuhiro is a Japanese sound artist and researcher with background in acoustic design and in interaction design. He is currently working as a Visiting Research Fellow at Digital Media, Culture Lab, Newcastle University. He is also a member of The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA , Monalisa , AEO, and a co-organizer of dorkbot Tokyo and Chiptune Marching Band .
He will talk about his current project “inaudible Computing” which use audio input and output as a device for physical computing. He will show some examples of implementations with three different art works: Monalisa “shadow of the sound”, The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA stay amplified, and AEO, and two mobile applications: inaudible Recorder and inaudible Phone.

Jamie Allen

http://heavyside.net/

Jamie Allen makes art and sound with his head and hands. He works with a range of media – whatever most fittingly serves the central idea of works that are intended to be invitational, participatory, and oftentimes  suggest ways of reinventing traditional relationships to art and performance. His work in digital media, music, performance and public art seeks to create physical relationships between people and with media.

We have the great pleasure to announce a concert by Atau Tanaka on Monday, April 13th at 8pm at the Brown Music Department. Please spread the word – it is an amazing opportunity to experience him perform live.

Atau Tanaka in concert
Monday, April 13th, 8pm
Music Department, Brown University
Orwig Music Building, 1 Young Orchard Avenue

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/people/profile/atau.tanaka

Atau Tanaka bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and research. Professor Tanaka is Chair of Digital Media and Acting Director of the Culture Lab at the University of Newcastle, UK. He worked at IRCAM, was Artistic Ambassador for Apple France, and was researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, and was an Artistic Co-Director of STEIM in Amsterdam. Atau creates sensor-based musical instruments for performance, and is known for his work with biosignal interfaces. He seeks to harness collective musical creativity in mobile environments, seeking out the continued place of the artist in democratized digital forms. His work has been presented at Ars Electronica, SFMOMA, Eyebeam, V2, ICC, and ZKM and has been mentor at NESTA.

Atau’s Research Interests include Mobile and Locative Media Art, Interactive Performance and Creative practice on Public Displays.

Recent publications include chapters in “Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen” (Springer), and “Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media” (Routledge, in press). He is co-editor with Frauke Behrendt, Lalya Gaye, and Nicolaj Kirisits of “Creative Interactions: The Mobile Music Workshops 2004-2008″ (di:’Angewandte). In his practice, he has recently re-created at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary art, on a commission from the AV Festival 2008, and in collaboration with *zoviet:france*, Matt Wand, and the John Cage Trust, “Variations VII” by John Cage after the historic 1966 Armory performances of E.A.T.’s 9 Evenings.

Embodiment & Mobility: A Digital+Media Symposium. Friday, April 3, 2009

http://dm.risd.edu/news/2009/03/embodiment-mobility-a-digitalmedia-symposium-on-april-3rd/

Schedule
9:30 – 09:45 Opening remarks, Teri Rueb and Frauke Behrendt
9:45 – 10:20  “Contexts as Moving Targets. Mobile Media Art, Embodiment, and the Shifting Ground of Context-Awareness”, Christiane Paul
10:20 “Boundaries, Connections, Care and the Mobility of Embodiment”, Kelly Dobson
10:40 “Thinking Through the Skin: Art for the Sense of Touch”, Erik Conrad
11:00 “Media Walking as Lefebvrian Rhythmanalysis” Frauke Behrendt
11:40  Mobile discussions – transit to lecture site (RISD library)
12:00 – 1:00 “Embodiment, Subjects and Machines: Some recent projects in performance, installation, sound and architecture.” Chris Salter (in collaboration with Brown Music Department)
1:00 – 2:30 Lunch
2:30 -2:50 “A Feeling for the Environment: Embodiment and Mobility in Design Process”, Teri Rueb
2:50 – 3:10 “Urban Affordances and Creative Interactions”, Lalya Gaye
3:10 – 3:30 “Touching Earth”, Jamie Jewett
3:30 – 4:10 “The Locative Challenge to Modernist Dualisms of Place and Event”, Francisco Ricardo
4:10 – 5:00 Discussion
Transit to tazza / student exhibition (http://www.risties.com/)
6:00 Chris Salter at Brown (“Music and Body” Colloquium)
Attendees to re-join drinks / dinner at tazza (www.tazzacaffe.com) after Chris’ talk

More information about the presentations:

Contexts as Moving Targets. Mobile Media Art, Embodiment, and the Shifting Ground of Context-Awareness
By Christiane Paul
The talk will explore how different forms of locative, site-specific new media art affect our awareness of social and physical contexts of the environment surrounding us. Among the topics discussed will be different approaches to understanding context, as well as different categories of mapping experience, from media annotations of geographical space to the repositioning of cartography.

Boundaries, Connections, Care and the Mobility of Embodiment
By Kelly Dobson
The concept of care is applied lately to too many things. Eldercare robots that look like children or nurses and say “I love you” question the need for authenticity of emotions, affection and care. Does an emotional response need to be earned to be authentic? What does it mean to care? As machines are fit into roles that people previously held, those roles are altered and we may not always immediately notice all of these changes. I design and build machines that interact through functions analogous to human subconscious, autonomic, and visceral behaviors based on social, cultural, political, psychological and physiological research into what else besides information exchange is going on with us when we interact with machines. In this talk I will share some machines that participate in the mobility of embodiment — the fluidity of what is experienced as part of one’s self or separate from one’s self. These projects are part of a larger process of revealing and making workable crucial but often dissimulated elements of being and care.

Thinking Through the Skin: Art for the Sense of Touch
By Erik Conrad

The “mother of all senses” – touch is the sense which became differentiated into the others, and is the most ancient and largest sense organ of the body.  The skin both separates us from our environment and allows us to learn about the environment.  Despite being the largest organ of our body, the skin has been generally neglected by both the fine arts and human-computer interaction.  In this presentation, I will discuss a tactile aesthetics to foster embodied interactions.

Media Walking as Lefebvrian Rhythmanalysis
By Frauke Behrendt
This talk makes Lefebvre’s concept of rhythmanalysis productive for discussing mobile art practices that involve walking. Lefebvre understands rhytmanalysis as a methodological project, where rhythm is a mode, or tool of analysis, not the object of research. While Lefebvre’s understanding of space is largely visual, his rhythmanalysis is concerned with the temporal and has a multi-sensory approach. I suggest that some mobile media artists can be understood as rhythmanalysists in conceptualising their pieces. This concept can be extended to the audience, who by walking the piece can also become rhythmanalysts. In his rhythmanalysis, Lefebvre is longing for “moments of crisis” but feels that as theorist he does not have the right to “provoke an accident”. I argue that this could be the privilege of the artists who can provoke a crisis of the senses with their artworks. This would suggest that walking around the city while participating in a work of mobile (sound) art could question our sensory experience of our media-saturated everyday lives, allowing us to focus on embodied aspects of mobility.

Embodiment, Subjects and Machines: Some recent projects in performance, installation, sound and architecture.
By Chris Salter
This talk will examine recent artistic projects in the areas of new media art, performance and architecture/design that explore the tension between our body’s relationship to dynamic media spaces and how new sensing and computational technologies dramatically transform our concepts of subjectivity and perception. Despite the continued rhetoric that we increasingly inhabit the datasphere and zones of representation (now a move from the VR ecstacy of the 1990s to the seduction of data visualization in the 2000s), I will use several projects to discuss the move towards more dynamic and enactive notions of interaction where perception is seen as action in the world; an active exploration of the environment through our sensory-motor capabilities and a history of interactions taking place among the body, the brain and the environment.

A Feeling for the Environment: Embodiment and Mobility in Design Process
By Teri Rueb

In her biography, “A Feeling for the Organism”, Nobel Prize winning geneticist Barbara McClintock asserts the role of intuition and empathy in the process of scientific discovery.   The recognition that scientific insight is not arrived at entirely through rational, linear and quantitative methods would seem obvious to artists and designers, yet still we find our processes fall easily in step with the inherent methodological biases of digital tools that emerge from techno-scientific paradigms. For over ten years my design process has been starkly divided across direct experience with site – especially through extensive walking – and the extreme abstraction of cartesian representations of space in the realms of GPS, topographical maps, programming environments, etc.   However, with a recent GPS-based sound walk, “Core Sample”, I began to find alternative ways to combine embodied and mobile aspects of spatial representation in the design process which I will share in this talk.

Urban Affordances and Creative Interactions
By Lalya Gaye
Mainly focused on but not restricted to mobile sound and locative media, Lalya’s work explores the poetic integration of digital technology into everyday environments, behaviours, urban space, clothing garments and other everyday artefacts. She designs devices that enable people to interface with the physicality of their everyday settings and engage in new aesthetic and embodied interactions.

Touching Earth
By Jamie Jewett
This presentation explores an interdisciplinary arts practice grounded in the union of contemporary dance and new media practices. The work explores questions of interactivity, embodiment, the use of media to collide site-specific and theatrical spaces, (Il)legibility, liveness, and Buddhist ideas of emptiness. By underscoring the sensory and human elements of inter-media performance, I will explore how creative practice engages awareness through the connections between materiality and technology. This practice privileges non-linear and abstract narratives, and experiential ways of knowing — thereby troubling any reductionist notion that technology is disembodied or inorganic.

The Locative Challenge to Modernist Dualisms of Place and Event
Francisco Ricardo
As a state of continual engagement, one’s way in the world comprises all that happens on the overlay of personal movement across fixed surfaces. This dualism creates two spaces of memory: the immobility of place becoming amenable to chronicling within historicity, and the dynamism of personal mobility becoming patterned within subjective experience. In many fields and particularly in architecture, this spatiotemporal experience, comprising these two lines of “becoming”, has been dually structured along Cartesian subject-object boundaries, a disconnection that is now critically challenged by practices within the locative paradigm.

Alumni Rachelle Beaudoin (DM 07) and Jeanne Jo (DM 08) are featured in Leonardo: Journal for the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2009.

Their collaborative work as Scarlet Electric is in the article and gallery Social Fabrics: Wearable + Media + Interconnectivity.

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/multimedia/2009/03/gallery_instruments?slide=19&slideView=5

He work will be presented in a group show in Denmark, May 16-22.

http://www.re-new.dk

see her site here:

www.hynam.org

Embodiment & Mobility. A Digital+Media Symposium
Friday, April 3rd 2009

This is a small symposium bringing together the work of media artists and researchers who are interested in notions of embodiment and/or mobility and who we have the pleasure to have with us at the Digital + Media Department at this very moment. The schedule for the symposium and the abstracts of the talks are here.

The Symposium Embodiment & Mobility takes place on Friday, April 3rd on the 4th floor of the CIT building (see below). We will have a morning session starting at 9:30, the afternoon session will start after lunch at 2:30 and finish around 5pm. We will then visit a newly-opened D+M student curated exhibition across the road, followed by drinks at Tazza (own expense).

At 6pm Chris Salter will give a talk as part of the “Music and Body” Colloquium at Brown’s Meme program with whom we are glad to co-organize Chris Salter’s contribution and some of you might want to join this event.

We will round off the evening with a dinner at a nearby affordable restaurant (own expense).

This symposium is free and open to the public. However we ask you to reserve your space with Sue Mazzucco at digital@risd.edu. Thank you!

D+M Symposium Embodiment & Mobility speakers:

Keynotes:

Christiane Paul, curator
D+M part-time faculty
Adjunct Curator of New Media, Whitney Museum of American Art

Chris Salter, media artist composer
Associate Professor, Design & Computation Arts, Concordia University

Speakers:

Lalya Gaye, artist / designer
D+M Artist / Designer in Residence

Kelly Dobson, artist
D+M Artist / Designer in Residence

Francisco Ricardo, historian / theorist
D+M  part-time faculty

Erik Conrad, artist
D+M  part-time faculty

Jamie Jewett, artist / dance technology
D+M part-time faculty and Technology Research & Computing Coordinator

Organisers and speakers:

Teri Rueb, artist
D+M Associate Professor & Head of Department

Frauke Behrendt, media theorist
D+M Visiting Assistant Professor

Information

The Digital+Media Department is on the 4th floor of the CIT building at:

169 Weybosset Street
Providence, RI 02903, USA

Details for Chris Salter’s evening talk are here, and the venue is here. This talk is part of the Colloquium ”Music and the Body” at the Department of Music at Brown University.

Monday 16 March to Tuesday 17 March
Nicholas Mosley, the distinguished author of seventeen novels including Accident, Impossible Object, The Hesperides Tree, and the “Catastrophe Practice” series, Catastrophe Practice, Imago Bird, Serpent, Judith, and Hopeful Monsters, will present a reading of his work in Brown’s Contemporary Writers Reading Series. His reading begins on Tuesday, March 17 at 2:30 p.m. in the Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall. Mosley’s reading will be preceded by a Monday, March 16 screening of the 1967 Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter screen adaptation of his novel, Accident, to be held in Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 001 at 8 p.m. A conversation with Mosley will immediately follow the screening.

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Literary_Arts/events.htm

Lalya Gaye who is teaching the “Mobile Technology Workshop” invited Brian House to give a lecture on ”Subversive (Mobile) Storytelling” on Monday 16th March between 11.30am and 1pm, room 413, CIT/Mason building. Please come and join us if you are in the area!

Brian House is a bricoleur interested in art, code, and cognition. Currently, he is Creative Technologist at Local Projects, a design studio in New York working primarily with museums and public spaces. Additionally, he is one-half of Knifeandfork, an art group investigating algorithmic narrative and everyday performance. With Knifeandfork, he is currently doing a residency at LA’s MOCA for the spring of 2009. Some of Brian’s work include Yellow Arrow, a seminal project in locative media that involved cities, stickers, and mobile phones and included participants in over 450 cities in 39 countries.

The lecture, held in conjunction with the Mobile Technology Workshop course, is entitled Subversive (Mobile) Storytelling and consists of a discussion of Brian’s original works; demonstrating narratives strategy, social sculpture, and participatory pedagogy with mobile technology.

Links:
Brian House: http://brianhouse.net/
Knifeandfork: http://knifeandfork.org/
Local Projects: http://localprojects.net/lpV2/projectoverview.php
Yellow Arrow: http://yellowarrow.org/

D+M students and alumni launch new D+M web site – an entirely in-house project!
Lucas Roy (D+M ’08), Project Manager and Director
Kirk Mueller (D+M ’10)
Nate Mueller (D+M ’10)
Mary Choueiter (D+M ’09)
Tayef Ben Messalem (D+M ’09)
Donko Jeliazkov (D+M ’09)
Christopher Robbins (D+M ’07): Queens Museum of Art, NYC. Queens International 4 (2009)

Jeanne Jo (D+M ’08): presenting at College Art Association Conference 2009

Elizabeth Skadden(D+M ’09): curated student show, Fall 2008 “Lapse of Time” at the RISD Gelman Student Gallery, Chace Center

Caleb Larsen (D+M ’09): Solo Exhibition: The Interval Separating, Ester M. Klein Gallery – Philadelphia, PA

Taehee Kim (D+M ’10): Toshiba Studio 2009

http://www.mam.org/act/index.htm

Analog Interactivity, curated by Xtine Burrough, is an exhibition concurrent with The New Media Caucus and part of the College Art Association. The reception is Thursday, February 26, 9:30 pm, at SCI-ARC (The Southern California Institute of Architecture). SCI-Arc is a short (3 miles) cab ride from the Convention Center, near Little Tokyo. The exhibits and panels are in SCI-Arc’s W.M. Keck Lecture Hall, near the center of the building. SCI-Arc is located at 960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013. The building entrance and parking lot are located at 350 Merrick Street, between 4th Street and Traction Avenue.

RISD’s Digital + Media Department offers talented, intellectually engaged graduate students the opportunity to investigate innovative approaches to contemporary theory and practice in the digital arts. Structured to promote thought and work that crosses traditional lines between disciplines, the curriculum challenges students to consider non-standard approaches to the computer as a creative and expressive medium.

D+M is excited to introduce Kelly Dobson and Lalya Gaye as our two D+M Artist / Designer in Residence for the Spring 2009 Semester.

Kelly Dobson

Kelly Dobson grew up in a junkyard. From the age of four she was doing odd jobs such as smashing windows and hauling machine parts from one area of the yard to another. She had machine friends. By six she was holding car funerals and secretly stashing beloved car parts in her own hidden burrow in the far side of the lot. Abandoning the instability of the lot as a teenager in 1990, Dobson began studies in medicine and art, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University’s Department of Architecture, Art and Planning. The studies in medicine and art practice provide background for her interests in alternative forms of therapy. Working in the realms of art, design, engineering, psychology and society, Kelly explores the relationships between people and machines, and has received a Master of Science degree from MIT’s Visual Studies Program and another from the MIT Media Lab. Currently, as a researcher and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, she is developing a method of personal, societal, and psychoanalytical engagement termed Machine Therapy. Machine Therapy is in response to the overwhelmingly pervasive effects of machines in everyday life. Machine Therapy is tangentially about the parapraxis of machine design — what machines do and mean for people other than what we consciously designed them to do and be used for. In her current work Kelly combines research in digital signal processing and machine learning, technology and society studies, and art and therapy. She builds empathic machines such as Blendie (web.media.mit.edu/~monster/Blendie), Wearable Organs such as ScreamBody (web.media.mit.edu/~monster/screambody), and organizes engagements with existing large culturally implicated machines.

URL: http://web.media.mit.edu/~monster

Lalya Gaye

HCI/interaction design freelance researcher with an engineering background who works in multidisciplinary projects at the convergence of art, technology and design. Usually based in Göteborg, Sweden, she is currently at Rhode Island School of Design as a visiting critic and artist in residence at the Digital + Media department.

Lalya received a B.Sc. in Physics at the University of Geneva, a M.Sc.Eng. in Electroacoustics at KTH in Stockholm, worked several years at the Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, and regularly teaches at the Interaction Design programme at the IT-University in Göteborg, while finishing a Ph.D. thesis in Applied Information Technology at the University of Göteborg. In Göteborg, she is part of the local art, design and technolgy collective Dånk!, in which she works on various projects centred around interactivity, urban space and audio experimentations, as well as co-organises the local Dorkbot-GBG meetings. She is also a member of the PLAN network for pervasive and locative arts, a permanent member of the steering committee for the International Workshop Series on Mobile Music Technology, and is actively involved in the NIME research community. She has presented her work at various international conferences, festivals and journals and regularly gives talks, workshops and lectures at universities, institutions and events worldwide.

In her research, she is interested in the relation between people and new technologies, in the context of contemporary culture and society: how to design new technologies that can challenge and inspire people creatively, and what aesthetic activities people come up with when having access to them. This covers a broad range of interests, from mobility and urban space, to aesthetic computer-mediated interactions such as electronic music making or digital photography, to physical interfaces and the integration of technology into everyday environments, artefacts and behaviours, i.e. ubiquitous computing. Her research explores in particular the potentials of mobile and ubiquitous computing for everyday life aesthetic practices and creative behaviours, and builds on mobile music, locative media and physical computing projects. She approaches her research question with a combination of user-centred, body-centric and culturally grounded interaction design, of physical prototyping and of user studies in context.

Her teaching builds on the multidisciplinary nature of interactive media and ubiquitous computing, and aims – just like her research – at building bridges between science and design; art and everyday life; academia and pop cultures; science and design; technology research and aesthetic practices.

Visiting Critic and Artist in Residence, Department of Digital + Media, Rhode Island School of Design:http://dm.risd.edu/~lgaye
Classes at DM http://dm.risd.edu/courses/7032/
PhD Candidate, University of Gothenburg (Sweden): http://www.ait.gu.se/
Dånk! Collective: http://www.daonk.org
Steering Committee Mobile Music Workshop: http://www.mobilemusicworkshop.org

Visiting Critic and Artist in Residence, Department of Digital + Media, Rhode Island School of Design: http://dm.risd.edu/~lgay

Classes at DM http://dm.risd.edu/courses/7032/

PhD Candidate, University of Gothenburg (Sweden): http://www.ait.gu.se/

Dånk! Collective: http://www.daonk.org

Steering Committee Mobile Music Workshop: http://www.mobilemusicworkshop.org

HCI/interaction design freelance researcher with an engineering background who works in multidisciplinary projects at the convergence of art, technology and design. Usually based in Göteborg, Sweden, she is currently at Rhode Island School of Design as a visiting critic and artist in residence at the Digital + Media department.

Lalya received a B.Sc. in Physics at the University of Geneva, a M.Sc.Eng. in Electroacoustics at KTH in Stockholm, worked several years at the Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, and regularly teaches at the Interaction Design programme at the IT-University in Göteborg, while finishing a Ph.D. thesis in Applied Information Technology at the University of Göteborg. In Göteborg, she is part of the local art, design and technolgy collective Dånk!, in which she works on various projects centred around interactivity, urban space and audio experimentations, as well as co-organises the local Dorkbot-GBG meetings. She is also a member of the PLAN network for pervasive and locative arts, a permanent member of the steering committee for the International Workshop Series on Mobile Music Technology, and is actively involved in the NIME research community. She has presented her work at various international conferences, festivals and journals and regularly gives talks, workshops and lectures at universities, institutions and events worldwide.

In her research, she is interested in the relation between people and new technologies, in the context of contemporary culture and society: how to design new technologies that can challenge and inspire people creatively, and what aesthetic activities people come up with when having access to them. This covers a broad range of interests, from mobility and urban space, to aesthetic computer-mediated interactions such as electronic music making or digital photography, to physical interfaces and the integration of technology into everyday environments, artefacts and behaviours, i.e. ubiquitous computing. Her research explores in particular the potentials of mobile and ubiquitous computing for everyday life aesthetic practices and creative behaviours, and builds on mobile music, locative media and physical computing projects. She approaches her research question with a combination of user-centred, body-centric and culturally grounded interaction design, of physical prototyping and of user studies in context.
Her teaching builds on the multidisciplinary nature of interactive media and ubiquitous computing, and aims – just like her research – at building bridges between science and design; art and everyday life; academia and pop cultures; science and design; technology research and aesthetic practices.

The Ecological Imagination: From Land Art to BioArt
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center

Ways of Being in Locative Art’s Metaphysics of Risk
Francisco J. Ricardo Ph.D.

http://www.jocelyneprince.com/

LATEST NEWS — Amsterdam Spin Event (by invitation only) – October 10th, 2008, 17:00 – A performance in which a team of artists feed glass into a spinning centrifuge: through the hand and body of both the “conductor” and “bit-runners” a manual re-interpretation of 3D rapid prototyping interprets the music being spun on a turntables. Instead of a CAD program transforming information into thin cross-sections that guides material deposits, a group of people collaborate to additively build, with the intention of re-creating within these means and as accurately as possible, the feeling or expression of the music.

Core Sample is a GPS data-based audio tour that deals with the history and landscape of Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor. This tiny piece of
land that was degraded to Boston’s garbage dump for almost a century was recently reopened to the public. The island’s past—buried under a thick stratum of clay—is no longer visible, and it’s future is not yet evident either. But Core Sample makes both audible. Visitors can borrow a small computer including an attached set of headphones and, thus equipped, set out on an audio tour of the island. Depending on the visitor’s specific location, he/she has access to a GPS-customized selection from among over 250 sounds. Statements by past and current island residents, workers and scholars augment the acoustic experience. Teri Rueb’s Core Sample is being honored with a 2008 Distinction.

Core Sample: http://www.terirueb.net/core_sample
Ars Electronica: http://www.aec.at/prix_history_en.php?year=2008

http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/foster-prize-08/dignazio/

The often collaborative work of Catherine D’Ignazio, or kanarinka, is based in the belief that small actions can lead to poetic transformation. Her work appears in several formats, including performance and street interactions, online and in galleries. To create her 2007 project entitled It takes 154,000 breaths to evacuate Boston, D’Ignazio ran Boston’s official evacuation route over several months, keeping count of the number of breaths required to run this 100-mile system. Data about her series of runs, which the she calls ”an artistic attempt to measure fear,” was made available through a dedicated website and podcast.

D’Ignazio is creating a new adaptation of 154,000 Breaths for the Foster Prize exhibition, part of which engages with the ICA’s own safety evacuation route. She also presents Exit Strategy, a new video work that shows a variety of images of the artist passing through several exits at the ICA.

D’Ignazio is co-director of the experimental arts organization iKatun, and a founding member of the performance art collaborative The
Institute for Infinitely Small Things. She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Digital + Media Graduate Program. Her artwork has been exhibited at Eyebeam, MASSMoCA, the DeCordova Museum and the Boston Center for the Arts. D’Ignazio received an MFA from the Maine College of Art in 2005. She lives in Waltham.

New Media in the White Cube (University of California Press, 2008)
Digital Art, 2nd Edition (Thames and Hudson, 2008)

This provocative, cutting-edge anthology addresses the challenges of curating, presenting, and preserving new-media art—artworks that use digital technologies as media and emphasize process over object. As an art form that is inherently time based, dynamic, interactive, collaborative, customizable, and variable, new-media art resists objectification. It boldly challenges the traditional art world’s customary methods of presentation and documentation as well as its approach to collection and preservation. Edited and introduced by Christiane Paul and featuring contributions by prominent practitioners—institutional and independent curators, theorists, and conservators—this volume charts developments in an exciting field and addresses the conceptual, philosophical, and practical issues of both curating and presenting new-media art.

Cyberculture and New Media (Rodopi, 2009). In the extension of digital media from optional means to central site of activity, the domains of language, art, learning, play, film, and politics have been subject to radical reconfigurations as mediating structures. This book examines how this changed relationship has in each case shaped a new form of discourse between self and culture and illustrates explicitly the character of mediated agency beyond the formal separateness from lived experience that was once conveniently termed the virtual and which has come to influence common assumptions about creative expression itself.

http://www.rodopi.nl/ntalpha.asp?BookId=ATI%2FPTB+56

Past lectures now available for download… Click here to go to our lecture series.

Congratulations to the Digital + Media class of 2009 and all of their fellow RISD graduates!

Mark Skwarek, Joe Hocking, and Arthur Peters to show at ISEA- @ the Golden Thread Gallery.

2nd year students show work in Mid-term Crits as their thesis process begins.

Congratulations!

“Ghana Think Tank” by DM 07 Christopher Robbins, Carmen Montoya, Matey Odonkor, John Ewing has been shortlisted for the Frieze Foundation Cartier Award 2010

For more info for the work

http://ghanathinktank.blogspot.com/

Two D+M students, DP Boyle and Jason Huff, start a pop-up gallery funded by RISD in downtown Providence.

“A fine arts education is all well and good, but it’s pretty tough to try and teach a course about what happens after you get out into the world. RISD has in effect given the student body a supplementary education in “How to be a Practicing Artist 101” by helping to fund and organize this event. The students of RISD don’t want to wait around to find out what happens after you graduate, instead they decided to take matters into their own hands and seek out an extra-curricular education in what it takes to get your art out to a greater audience.”

-Liz Hall

“I am continually inspired by the work of RISD students, and the Black Sheep Projects exhibition doesn’t disappoint. The students are almost as innovative in creating forums to share their talents as they are in their work itself. The effort brings contemporary art — a culmination of students’ creative thinking and making — into a public space in downtown Providence to engage the greater community.”

-John Maeda

Interview about the idea here.

A pair of graduate speakers — brothers Kirk and Nathaniel Mueller, each wearing large red eyeglasses — recalled how novelist Oscar Wilde once attributed American violence to “ugly wallpaper.” While amusing, the anecdote points to how aesthetically pleasing design and architecture can contribute to a peaceful society, they said. They urged their classmates to “bring beauty into the world.”
— via projo.com : 643 receive degrees at RISD commencement

This years Digital + Media Lecture Series continues with Trevor Paglen in the RISD Auditorium

Wednesday, October 13th at 7pm

TICKETS REQUIRED

www.paglen.com

Congratulations James!

http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/83/nominees.html

UNFINISHED
JAMES FRANCO AND GUS VAN SANT

FEBRUARY 26 – APRIL 9, 2011
DAILY SCREENINGS: 10AM, 12PM, 2PM, 4PM

450 NORTH CAMDEN DRIVE, BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90210
T. 310.271.9400
WWW.GAGOSIAN.COM

Artist Talk: Brian Knep
Museum Galleries
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Join Brian Knep for a conversation about the intersection of art, science and new media in his installation Exempla currently on view. Knep (American, b. 1968) is a Boston-based artist who uses science and technology to create works about the human condition, focusing in particular on the interconnected and impermanent nature of our world. His artworks are interactive—responding to changes in the environment and sensing and reacting to the people around them. In public settings, Knep’s projects bring people, even strangers, into face-to-face contact with each other. Free with museum admission.

http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/2011/mar/2/qr-codes-open-zones-late-night-jimmy-fallon/

http://www.kyuhashim.com/index.php?/risd/open-research–qrcode/

see interview here:

http://roulettenyc.wordpress.com/

Wednesday April 27
Roulette / Location One
in Soho, NYC

My Own Private River
On view July 30, 2011–August 29, 2011
The collaborative film by Gus Van Sant and James Franco, My Own Private River, is comprised of unused footage and dailies from Van Sant’s 1991 film My Own Private Idaho, starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves. My Own Private River focuses on the character Mike, played by Phoenix. The film is more observational and less linear than its original iteration, creating a dreamlike, more associative sensibility.

A new technology allows smartphone users to visualize Korea without its heavily fortified frontier between North and South. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the media artist behind the project, Mark Skwarek.

‘The World’ Interview Here

The Project Website Here