Renowned musicians in five international locations perform new contemporary music works for peace through the telematic music medium. Telematic music is real-time performance via the internet by musicians in different geographic locations. The performance will take place on high-bandwidth internet connections with JackTrip audio software developed by Chris Chafe and Access Grid video software developed at Argonne National Laboratory. The concert will have local audiences and a world-wide webcast.
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Prospectives.09
International Digital Arts Festival
November 12-14, 2009, University of Nevada, Reno
Featuring UCSD MFA Candidates Elle Mehrmand, Rob Duarte, Stephanie Lie and UCSD Visual Arts Lecturer Micha Cardenas
This event presents a unique opportunity for graduate and phd candidates to share and interact with fellow practitioners and the general public a diversity of approaches to experimental, digital practice in the visual, performing and auditory arts.
This is to invite you to the exhibiton Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface, where we will present MediaWomb, a Cubo Project made in collaboration between Camilo Otiveros, Giacomo Castagnola, Nina Waisman, and Felipe Zuniga.
Los invito a la exhibicion Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface donde estaremos presentando MediaWomb, proyecto creado en colaboracion con Camilo Otiveros, Giacomo Castagnola, Nina Waisman y Felipe Zuniga. [more...]
WHAT: Mixed Relations / Technesexual - Mixed Reality Live Audio Performances and Workshops WHO: Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas WHEN: Oct. 2th, 4th, 15-17th, 2009
Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand will be doing a performance called Technesexual that uses DIY biometric sensors that were made by hand to create live audio which will be heard in real space and virtual space at the same time. It is a Mixed Reality performance exploring relationality between people and between people and technology.
Cardenas and Mehrmand will be performing Technesexual in Tijuana at Entijuanarte, in San Francisco at Arse Elektronika and in Montreal at Artivistic. They will also be doing a 3 day workshop in Montreal, sharing the technology used for the performance with workshop participants including DIY electronics, Second Life and Puredata. [more...]
"ISEA2009, the 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art is a major international event that provides a premier and unprecedented showcase for creativity and innovation at the intersection of art, design, science and technology. Under the theme of Engaged Creativity in Mobile Environments it offers a rich and vibrant platform for debate, display and networking across and between different and diverse disciplines and perspectives."[more...]
HEMI: CRCA lab researcher Micha Cardenas will be
presenting a workshop at this year’s Hemispheric Institute of
Performance and Politics (HEMI) Summer Encuentro in Bogota, Colombia.
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Luis De Jesus is very pleased to announce an exciting, two-part group exhibition titled SOCIAL CLIMBING. The first segment of the exhibition, subtitled PART I: ON THE MOVE will open on August 8 and run through September 26. (Part II will open on October 2 and remain on view through December 5, 2009). You are cordially invited to attend the opening reception for SOCIAL CLIMBING—PART I: ON THE MOVE on Saturday, August 8th, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. [more...]
Music Under the Influence of Computers
an evening of work by composers and artists under the influence...
Saturday, July 11 @ 7pm with a sound installation beginning at 6pm
in the Calit2 Black Box Theater
program:
Duoquadragintapus by Adam Wilson and William Brent
Dovetails by Chris Otto
Lidércfény by Trevor Baca
New Windows on an Old World by Rick Snow
L'écume des jours by Alex Sigman
e80i.3 for Sol Lewitt by Rama Gottfried [more...]
Join us at the Gallery this Saturday for a day of interesting
conversations and art! Invite a friend and enjoy the day. The
evening will pulse with live fractal projections, sound and seismic
installations.
Saturday, June 13, 2009 5:30pm-8:00pm
2nd Saturday ArtWalk [more...]
Please join the graduating class of Interdisciplinary Computing and Arts Majors (ICAM) from the Music and Visual Arts Departments at a week long event showcasing 28 artists at any of four different receptions. Events occur throughout the week of June 8 through 12 in three different locations. View installations, presentations, performances and keynote speakers on 4 different nights. Light snacks and drinks provided at each reception.
For the fifth time, Mérida joins other art centers of the world such as
Venice, Havana, New York, Paris, and Istanbul, to name a few, in hosting
a "Biennale". [more...]
UCSD DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS FESTIVAL MAY 16-23
‘Soundisfaction’ to Take Place in the New Conrad Prebys Music Center
April 27, 2009
Need a sound fix? Come get a heaping dose of cutting edge high-tech, low-tech, and no-tech art music by internationally renowned young performers and composers around UCSD including the new Conrad Prebys Music Center during the UCSD Festival of New Music ‘Soundisfaction’. Taking place May 16-23, this student run festival kicks off with a jam-packed weekend full of world premiere performances, and continues into the week with nightly showcases of work by current UCSD graduate students. All events are free and open to the public.
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7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location/Ubicacion:Calle Jose Maria Larroque 273, 2nd Floor, Int. 6 Colonia Federal Tijuana, Baja California 22300
UPGRADE! Tijuana is a monthly meeting with visual artist, musicians, programmers and involved people interested in the development and promotion of electronic culture.
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Thursday 4/23/2009
12pm - 1pm
Atkinson Hall Rm 2004
Award-winning composer Christine Southworth will give an in-depth look at her creative process and her innovative work with robots and technology. Through her work with robots and automated music systems as co-founder and Director of Ensemble Robot, Christine Southworth is making groundbreaking music based on the interaction between technology and creativity. Compared to Thurston Moore (Boston Phoenix) and Laurie Anderson (Boston Globe), Southworth is introducing a brand new genre of music to Boston, born out of the area’s complex community of scientists and artists. [more...]
Olga Mink will present a Live Cinema Performance "The Nature of Being'
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 4:30 PM in the Atkinson Hall Theater on the UCSD campus.
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Lunchtime @ CRCA: "Sonic Antarctica and Ground Truth" by Andrea Polli
Monday, Feb 23, 2009 @ 12:30pm
Atkinson Hall 5004 (5th Floor, across from elevators) UCSD campus
Media artist, Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program at the University of New Mexico Andrea Polli will describe two projects resulting from her seven-week National Science Foundation residency in Antarctica during the 2007/2008 season. Refreshments will be served.
Three artists will present at CRCA the month of February. The artists, topics and type of presentations all serve to highlight the variety of work which comes through CRCA. This month, visiting media artist Andrea Polli, UCSD Music graduate researcher Rick Snow and visiting artist Michael Century will be providing details of their diverse work. [more...]
will take place in the UC San Diego, Atkinson Hall Auditorium, Tuesday, December 2 at 5:30 p.m.
Artist Sheldon Brown, Calit2’s Artist in Residence and Director of CRCA, will discuss the genesis of the project "Scalable City" and its multiple incarnations. Accompanying him will be writers Geoff Ryman and Kim Stanley Robinson. This creative trio will be seated on stage while the images and progression of "Scalable City" is being projected in 4K video behind them.
The evening will include UK-based Ryman, current Writer in Residence at CRCA, presenting the premiere of his new short story, “Care,” which is set in the world of the Scalable City. Ryman describes Brown's piece as a “breathtakingly visual” artwork. Ryman will also read from his just-published novel, “The King's Last Song.”
Kim Stanley Robinson, a distinguished science-fiction author and graduate of UC San Diego, will be reading from his Orange County trilogy, set before a background of early digital artwork of Sheldon Brown.
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ATLAS in Silico, a collaboration, and Scalable City by Sheldon Brown, are featured installations at the new exhibit 'DIGITALEYES 2008: New Esthetic Dimensions in Computer Visualization Technology' in Los Angeles running from November 6 thru Jan 18, 2009 in the South Gallery.
Scheduled events include a Conversation with the Artists Saturday November 15 at 2pm, December 5 at 7pm, and January 10 at 2pm.
A free family Animation Festival and Workshop is 12/14 from 1 - 4pm.
Additional digital works include a selection from the ACM SIGGRAPH Traveling Art Show from SIGGRAPH 2007. [more...]
Multiplicities: An Inter-Arts Telematic Performance
Date: October 25th, 2008
Time: 8 p.m.
Location: Black Box Theater at the Visual Arts Facility on the UCSD campus, and Auditorium in the CALIT2 builind on the campus of UC Irvine
This multi-art experience will feature original music compositions, live painting and dance collaborations from two locations simultaneously. Five performers will be working in real time using advanced internet technologies to bring their work together.
Featured performers at the two sites, are:
In Irvine: Oguri, dance; Myra Melford, piano; and Michael Dessen, trombone.
In San Diego: Mark Dresser, bass; and Nancy Ostrovsky, painting.
Event is free and open to the public.
The event will be broadcast in Quicktime, live starting at 7pm Oct. 25th. [more...]
Virtual Unreality, Interactive Digital Artworks Using Game Technology. Three Internationally-Known Artists Embrace the Unreality of Virtual Spaces. September 14 through January 7, 2008
Our world is edging more and more towards digital environments. What are the societal and cultural implications? Does it change the way we think? The way we feel? Virtual Unreality, a new interactive exhibition in the Exploratorium’s Seeing Gallery, brings together three digital artworks by internationally-known artists that use game technology to explore the unreality of virtual landscapes. The works are Life Spacies II by Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Scalable Cities by Sheldon Brown, and Oceans (2000-2007) by Dan Torop. Virtual Unreality is open to the public from September 14, 2007-January 7, 2008. [more...]
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