ptz = 'talks';
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// UPCOMING:
Tuesday, March 15th 5PM-6PM: The Pant-Tilt-Zoom exhibition presents ptz=‘talks’; with our third and final guest David Bowen, artist and educator who creates kinetic, robotic and interactive sculptural works.
Using intersections between natural and mechanical systems, David Bowen produces unique relationships within his sculpture and installation. With robotics, custom software, sensors, tele-presence and data, he constructs devices and situations that are set in motion to interface with the physical and virtual world. The devices he constructs often play both the roles of observer and creator, providing limited and mechanical perspectives of dynamic situations and living systems. These devices and situations create a dissonance that leads to an incalculable changeable situation resulting in unpredictable outcomes. The phenomenological outputs are collaborations between the natural form or function, the mechanism and the artist.
Bowen has shown at Laboratoria Art & Science Space, Moscow, The National Art Center, Tokyo, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis; Silver-Echo Gallery, Los Angeles, and Vox Populi, Philadelphia, among many others, and has work in major media art collections such as the ZKM Karlsruhe. He is currently an Associate Professor of Sculpture and Physical Computing at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
Join us Tuesday for an online talk about telematic art and interactive mechanisms, followed by a Q&A at zoom.ptz.live.
A zoom link is posted below and on ats.community. Open to the
public.
Zoom Link: <click here>
Ongoing Exhibition Website: <click here>
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Monday February 28th, 5PM-6PM: A virtual exhibition walkthrough and discussion with Garrett Laroy Johnson, an SAIC Art and Tech Studies faculty
member and PhD candidate in Media Arts and Sciences and Critical Theory at Arizona State University. A selection
of artists will discuss their work with Johnson, talk about the concept of the show, and take general questions.
A zoom link is posted below and on ats.community. Open to the public.
"Johnson works with responsive media environments to probe, condition, engender, and refract relations between
technological determinations and productions of subjectivity. He designs and creates digital-physical systems
activating sound, light, and expressive materials in immersive and quotidian spaces. Johnson's dissertation
deals with the diagram (as instantiated in Guattari and Deleuze) as a conceptual figure for animating
transdisciplinary practice with computational media. Through his own research-creation and digital-physical
sciences, Johnson explores how socially engaged media arts can engage with contemporary subjectivity." (excerpt
from Garrett Laroy Johnon's website)
Monday, March 7th: 5PM-6PM: The Pant-Tilt-Zoom exhibition, presents ptz=‘talks’ with our second guest Olivia Jack (o.jack).
o.jack is an artist and coder who works frequently with open-source software, cartography, live coding, and experimental interfaces.o.jack is the mind behind Hydra, a browser-based platform for live coding visuals. The platform's interface is inspired by analog modular synthesis, in which multiple visual sources (oscillators, cameras, application windows, other connected windows) can be transformed, modulated, and composited via combining sequences of functions.
o.jack's recent projects include media development for the experimental dance performance Nodos: Cuerpos en Expansión, part of the Festival de Danza en La Ciudad in Bogotá, Colombia; as well as the Laboratory of Possibilities, a participatory media installation at the Oakland Museum of California.
Join us Monday for an online talk about live streaming, live coding, followed by a Q&A.
Ongoing Exhibition Website: <click here>