Steina and Woody Vasulka Presentation February 22, 2010
Posted by admin in : Announcements, Interactive , comments closedBournemouth University and SCAN Models of Practice Series
Steina and Woody Vasulka Presentation
Shelley Lecture Theatre
Poole House
Bournemouth University
24th February, 1.15 - 2.45pm
All welcome. FREE
Please arrive early to ensure that you get a seat
Presenting only at two venues in UK in February 2010, Bournemouth University and SCAN (Models of Practice Series) are pleased to host major figures in the history of video art and electronic media, Steina and Woody Vasulka. They will show their work from the 1970s through to their recent interventions in the online platform Second Life. The two artists, who have worked together since the 1960s, have contributed enormously to the development of digital arts through a prolific body of work exploring the manipulation of electronic energy and the interrelation of sound and image.
In 1971, they co-founded The Kitchen, New York with Andreas Mannik and in the same year established the first annual video festival there. Concurrently they were leaders in the development of a video art programme at the Whitney Museum.
Their early collaborative efforts, produced from 1970 - 74, were primarily focussed on explorations that deconstructed the materiality of video and audio signals. In the mid 70s they collaborated with Geoffry Schier to build the first real-time, computer-controlled video processor. Since then, their work has expanded to include video installations with robotic sculptural elements and live interactive performance.
Since 1980, the Vasulkas have lived and worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA), where Steina has continued her work in video, media performance, and video installation, and Woody has continued to produce work in video, three-dimensional computer graphics, and media constructions. In 1992, the Vasulkas organized Eigenwelt der Apparate-Welt: Pioneers of Electronic Art, an exhibition of early electronic tools for Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, with a laserdisc interactive catalogue. The Vasulkas have been artist-in-residence at the National Center for Experiments in television (NCET), at KQED in San Francisco, and at WNET/Thirteen in New York.
The Media Bus February 17, 2010
Posted by admin in : Announcements , comments closedTHE MEDIA BUS
The RELAYS (Regional Educational Legacy for Arts and Youth Sport) project and Widening Participation are looking for 10 AUCB students to work alongside pupils from a local college to assist them in making short films on 25th and 26th March.
The first day will consist of working at the AUCB with a film production lecturer and the young people to devise and shoot their film. The following day will be spent on the brand new Media Bus (www.themediabus.co.uk/ ), working alongside experienced media youth workers and award-winning certified training crew.
You will learn new transferable skills, transfer your own knowledge about film and media production to younger people and experience the creative power of the latest technology inside a state-of-the-art, decked out bus.
Your efforts will be rewarded with a certificate of volunteering for the project and provide you with live experience to add to your CV.
Please respond to Jo Gardner by 12th March.
jgardner@aucb.ac.uk
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot February 8, 2010
Posted by admin in : Interactive, Performance , comments closedI love this performance piece, it’s one of those pieces that is so blindingly simple that you wish you’d thought of it yourself.
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.
For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.
27 February 2010 - 23 May 2010
The Curve, Barbican, London
http://www.barbican.org.uk/thecurve/b…
new perspectives February 3, 2010
Posted by admin in : Uncategorized , comments closedHello. We start at 10am on Friday for the New Perspectives Debate and Discuss sessions - please come equipped with your brain - and if you haven’t talked about your book before, your chosen ‘best book’ from the library - be prepared to tell us WHY you chose the book. The statement that is up for debate and discussion this week is GIRLS ARE RUBBISH AT VIDEOGAMES so those who are arguing FOR and AGAINST please come equipped with your presentation/arguments.
February 2, 2010
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This is a really interesting drawing package, dig out your 3D goggles and have a go.
Touchable Holography February 2, 2010
Posted by admin in : Interactive, New Technology , comments closedTouchable Holography: New projector lets you “touch” 3D objects with your hands (video)
Thanks to Phil Andrews for finding this:
“As if looking at floating images in free space produced by mid-air displays isn’t cool enough, a research team from the University of Tokyo now makes it possible to even touch (kind of) those images with a newly developed projector system.”
Apple’s New iPad February 1, 2010
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Finally after month’s of speculation Apple have revealed their new product iPad. At the moment opinion seems split between the hard core Mac fraternity and the speculative Windows users. There is no doubt though that Apple are going to sell millions of iPads and just like the iPod and iPhone it will make a massive difference to our lives, the way we access the web, view video and still images, read books and manage our lives.
LIke the iPod, iPhone and iMac, MacBook Pro etc it has been designed by English designer Jonathan Ive. Ive’s and Apple’s Steve Jobs attention to detail and functionality is remarkable.
