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December 2005
The final gathering for the year was a book release party for Nick’s interactive fiction Book and Volume.
The evening opened with Winston Wolf, who showed how he uses interactive fiction as an education tool in children’s creative writing courses.
During the rest of the evening Nick Montfort discussed the approach that his collaborators and him have taken in working together on projects Read On
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May 2005
The Technical Director of Eyebeam’s R&D Lab, talked and demo’d the projects and processes that started when he joined the Contagious Media Group in the fall of ‘03, prototyping the R&D Fellowship, and described his position as the technical director of R&D Lab.
Michael Frumin began his career in creative technology-based research while working on advanced networking protocols as an undergraduate at Stanford University. Read On
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January 2005
During the studio visit Camille demonstrated three interactive video installations:
Liquid Time (2001), External Measures (2003), and Untitled 5 (2004). In all of these pieces, a large projected image changes in response to human presence, position and movement in the installation space. People’s movements are tracked by an overhead video camera, and the imagery is generated by custom software. Read On
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October 2004
Paul talked about his interest in gaming technology and culture in particular, sprites, video, and optics, as well as networked game worlds as closed systems.
He talked about a few older projection systems and more recent video game pieces.
Paul Johnson is a New York based artist whose expirements with consumer electronics in the early 90’s included video projectors made from orange juice boxes, vacuum cleaners, and magnifying glasses. Read On
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December 2003
Matthias Groebel is one of the very few artists who has gone as far as designing and building his own digital painting devices that perfectly meet his artistic requirements. This gives his work a unique texture and sets him aside from other process-oriented painters.
Matthias Groebel’s newest exhibition called Collective Memories opened on Saturday, November 15 at Universal Concepts Unlimited gallery in New York. All of the paintings originated in the tradition of the danse macabre, where skeletons awake to a grim liveliness. Visually, the paintings demonstrated the quality that can emerge from collaborations between man and machine. Conceptually, they intersected layer after layer theories of memory, social history and social identity. Read On
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October 2003
Marek’s talk was a follow up to the talk Martin Wattenberg and him gave in January 2002.
Continuing to link architecture and new media, Marek Walczak reviewed several collaborative projects. These included the 6 new media works on show at the ICA, London, with Martin Wattenberg; the Dialogtable, a permanent gesture-based installation at the Walker Art Center (2005), with Jakub Segen, Peter Kennard and Michael McAllister; the huge permanent interactive wall at 7 World Trade Center (2005) with Jakub Segen for James Carpenter Design and an upcoming piece called Requiem for 50 computers, with Hal Eager. Read On
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May 2003
Miltos Manetas is a renowned international artist who makes paintings, videoworks, prints and performance about video games, players and computer hardware. He also produces websites as artwork and initiates art actions, claiming that websites are today’s most radical art.
Maciej Wisniewski is the creator of Netomat software as well as founder and Chief Scientist for Netomat, Inc. He is an internationally respected digital artist and programmer whose work focuses on the underlying social impact of technology and networks.
Tamas Banovich is also a founder of Netomat, Inc. and is currently an advisor for the company. He is co-owner of Postmasters, the renowned contemporary art gallery in Manhattan and has been responsible for curating some of the world’s most high-profile digital and multi-media art.
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October 2002
An artist, composer, performer and engineer interested in developing artifacts and experiences which explore supple new modes of reactive expression.
Golan Levin’s work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into the formal language of interactivity, and of non-verbal communications protocols in cybernetic systems. From a background rooted in a study of the intrinsic formal properties of the computational medium, his work has since pushed towards the dissolution of the more contextual subject/object boundaries which lie between the author and authored, user and designer, and sender and recipient in interactive communications.
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November 2001
Cory Arcangel presented and entertained to a most enthusiastic crowd during the November 2001 gathering.
Cory Arcangel divided the tale of his beginnings in music and the digital medium into three parts. Begining with a 10 minute breakdown of his past projects starting with a video animation created with Apple IIGS image writer paper at the age of 9. The audience was then treated to an impromptu display of Cory’s guitar playing skills (with a piece by Bach: Allemande from Suite n. 1 in E minor, BWV 996).
In addition, Cory discussed his work in college with computers, which began with the Commodore 64, the Apple IIGS, the Macintosh 68k LCIII, the Macintosh Beige G3, and then trips to the thrift store to buy things he had as a kid. He reconfigures these obsolete computers to make unique projects not possible with the hardware and software on the market today. Read On
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July 2001
Alex Galloway began his presentation talking about his work as a programmer and senior editor for Rhizome.org and reviewed three collaborative projects he’s been involved with.
The award winning StarryNight, is a collaboration with Martin Wattenberg and Mark Tribe. The project provides an alternative interface to the Rhizome database linking database objects as constellations in a starry night sky. Every Image, is a screensaver that feeds off the Rhizome database to browse through text objects and icons associated with it. This work focuses on the visual effect as a network collage. The third piece was the Rhizome logo that was programmed to respond and alter to IP addresses of visitors to the site. Read On
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