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 <http://swo.jp/>, Monalisa <http://monalisa-au.org/plog/>, AEO, and a co-organizer of dorkbot Tokyo <http://dorkbot.org/dorkbottokyo/> and Chiptune Marching Band <http://chiptunemarchingband.com/>.
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.
