Camille Utterback & Anne Mellor speak at the San Jose Museum of Art!
Dates:
Sat Oct 15, 2005 00:00 - Thu Jul 21, 2005
FLESH & CHIPS: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN
CAMILLE UTTERBACK & ANNE MELLOR
Saturday, October 15, 2005 2pm
“Bride” Camille Utterback and author Anne Mellor discuss the ramifications of virtuality and our increasing relationship with the interfaces and representational systems of our machines.
Utterback is a pioneering artist and programmer in the field of interactive installation. Her works explore our bodies’ relationship to new technology, particularly to the creative potential of our interactions with it. Her interactive mediums provide rich environments to explore the connections between physical bodies and the myriad representational systems possible in the digital realm. Mellor is a Shelley scholar and author of Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. She has edited Shelley’s major writings and specifically addresses Shelley’s relationship to science and technology. Mellor is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ticket Info: SJMA Members $5 each / $15 series; General Public $12 each / $30 series. Purchase tickets online at www.sanjosemuseumofart.org or call 408.291.5386.
BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN is an exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art
of experimental work by a new generation of women artists working with video, electronics, robotics, the Internet, computer games and animation, and other digital and traditional media to animate synthetic creatures with virtual life.
CAMILLE UTTERBACK & ANNE MELLOR
Saturday, October 15, 2005 2pm
“Bride” Camille Utterback and author Anne Mellor discuss the ramifications of virtuality and our increasing relationship with the interfaces and representational systems of our machines.
Utterback is a pioneering artist and programmer in the field of interactive installation. Her works explore our bodies’ relationship to new technology, particularly to the creative potential of our interactions with it. Her interactive mediums provide rich environments to explore the connections between physical bodies and the myriad representational systems possible in the digital realm. Mellor is a Shelley scholar and author of Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. She has edited Shelley’s major writings and specifically addresses Shelley’s relationship to science and technology. Mellor is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ticket Info: SJMA Members $5 each / $15 series; General Public $12 each / $30 series. Purchase tickets online at www.sanjosemuseumofart.org or call 408.291.5386.
BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN is an exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art
of experimental work by a new generation of women artists working with video, electronics, robotics, the Internet, computer games and animation, and other digital and traditional media to animate synthetic creatures with virtual life.
Kristin Lucas performance at the San Jose Museum of Art
Dates:
Fri Sep 16, 2005 00:00 - Thu Jul 21, 2005
IT’S ALIIIVE! A NIGHT OF PERFORMANCE WITH KRISTIN LUCAS
Friday, September 16, 2005 8pm
Members $8 / General Public $15
Buy tickets online at www.sanjosemuseumofart.org or call 408.291.5386
Come enjoy a unique evening of scintillating performance by new media artist KRISTIN LUCAS, recognized as one of the most intriguing and explosive new artists of her generation. She uses video installation, performance and the Web to decipher her complex relationship with new technologies and their psychological effects on personal interactions. This special “one-time-only” event is a rare treat not to be missed.
Kristin Lucas' art work can be seen in the BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art. BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN is an exhibition of experimental work by a new generation of women artists working with video, electronics, robotics, the Internet, computer games and animation, and other digital and traditional media to animate synthetic creatures with virtual life.
Friday, September 16, 2005 8pm
Members $8 / General Public $15
Buy tickets online at www.sanjosemuseumofart.org or call 408.291.5386
Come enjoy a unique evening of scintillating performance by new media artist KRISTIN LUCAS, recognized as one of the most intriguing and explosive new artists of her generation. She uses video installation, performance and the Web to decipher her complex relationship with new technologies and their psychological effects on personal interactions. This special “one-time-only” event is a rare treat not to be missed.
Kristin Lucas' art work can be seen in the BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art. BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN is an exhibition of experimental work by a new generation of women artists working with video, electronics, robotics, the Internet, computer games and animation, and other digital and traditional media to animate synthetic creatures with virtual life.
Andrea Ackerman & Ellen Ullman to speak at the San Jose Museum of Art!
Dates:
Fri Sep 23, 2005 00:00 - Thu Jul 21, 2005
BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN is an exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art of experimental work by a new generation of women artists working with video, electronics, robotics, the Internet, computer games and animation, and other digital and traditional media to animate synthetic creatures with virtual life.
FLESH & CHIPS: Converations with the Brides of Frankenstein
ANDREA ACKERMAN & ELLEN ULLMAN
Friday, September 23, 2005 8pm
“Bride” Andrea Ackerman and author Ellen Ullman explore how digital technology makes us question our notions of what is natural and what is artificial.
ACKERMAN earned an undergraduate degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale and an MD, specializing in neuroscience, from Harvard. After practicing psychiatry for twelve years, she changed focus and began studying 3D computer animation at New York University’s Center for Advanced Digital Applications.
ULLMAN worked as a computer programmer for over twenty years, and is author of both The Bug and the cult-classic Close to the Machine. She currently writes for Harper’s Magazine, Wired Magazine, Salon.com and is a regular guest commentator on NPR.
DON'T MISS THE NEXT IN THE SERIES:
Camille Utterback & Anne Mellor
Saturday, October 15, 2005 2pm
“Bride” Camille Utterback and author Anne Mellor discuss the ramifications of virtuality and our increasing relationship with the interfaces and representational systems of our machines.
Ticket Info: SJMA Members $5 each / $15 series; General Public $12 each / $30 series.
Purchase tickets online at www.sanjosemuseumofart.org or call 408.291.5386.
SPECIAL EVENT!
It's Aliiiive! A Night of Performance with KRISTIN LUCAS
Friday, September 16, 2005 8pm
FLESH & CHIPS: Converations with the Brides of Frankenstein
ANDREA ACKERMAN & ELLEN ULLMAN
Friday, September 23, 2005 8pm
“Bride” Andrea Ackerman and author Ellen Ullman explore how digital technology makes us question our notions of what is natural and what is artificial.
ACKERMAN earned an undergraduate degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale and an MD, specializing in neuroscience, from Harvard. After practicing psychiatry for twelve years, she changed focus and began studying 3D computer animation at New York University’s Center for Advanced Digital Applications.
ULLMAN worked as a computer programmer for over twenty years, and is author of both The Bug and the cult-classic Close to the Machine. She currently writes for Harper’s Magazine, Wired Magazine, Salon.com and is a regular guest commentator on NPR.
DON'T MISS THE NEXT IN THE SERIES:
Camille Utterback & Anne Mellor
Saturday, October 15, 2005 2pm
“Bride” Camille Utterback and author Anne Mellor discuss the ramifications of virtuality and our increasing relationship with the interfaces and representational systems of our machines.
Ticket Info: SJMA Members $5 each / $15 series; General Public $12 each / $30 series.
Purchase tickets online at www.sanjosemuseumofart.org or call 408.291.5386.
SPECIAL EVENT!
It's Aliiiive! A Night of Performance with KRISTIN LUCAS
Friday, September 16, 2005 8pm
Gail Wight & Antoinette LaFarge to speak at San Jose Museum of Art!
Dates:
Sun Aug 07, 2005 00:00 - Thu Jul 21, 2005
BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN, an exhibition opening on August 6th at the San Jose Museum of Art, is a grouping of experimental work by a new generation of women artists working with video, electronics, robotics, the Internet, computer games and animation, and other digital and traditional media to animate synthetic creatures with virtual life.
FLESH & CHIPS: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN
GAIL WIGHT & ANTOINETTE LAFARGE
Sunday, August 7, 2005 2pm
“Bride” Gail Wight and new media professor and artist Antoinette LaFarge will examine the connections between Mary Shelley, her creature, and contemporary biological art. Moderated by guest curator, Marcia Tanner.
WIGHT, assistant professor of new media at Stanford University, currently heads Stanford University Digital Art Center (SUDAC). Her work poetically and often humorously critiques the history of science, the uses of animals in scientific research and the ethics of biotechnology and genetic engineering.
LAFARGE is associate professor of digital media at the University of California, Irvine, in the Studio Art Department. Her research interests include networked performance, mixed-reality performance, hypermedia, role-playing environments, computer games, digital typography, collaborative and performative writing, and fictive art. Recent intermedia and mixed-reality performance works include Demotic (2004), The Roman Forum Project (2003), and Reading Frankenstein (2003). She is the founder of the Plaintext Players, an Internet performance group, and the director of the virtual Museum of Forgery.
DON'T MISS THE NEXT PROGRAMS IN THE SERIES:
Andrea ACKERMAN & Ellen ULLMAN
Friday, September 23, 2005 8pm
“Bride” Andrea Ackerman and author Ellen Ullman explore how digital technology makes us question our notions of what is natural and what is artificial.
Camille UTTERBACK & Anne MELLOR
Saturday, October 15, 2005 2pm
“Bride” Camille Utterback and author Anne Mellor discuss the ramifications of virtuality and our increasing relationship with the interfaces and representational systems of our machines.
SPECIAL EVENT!
It's Aliiive! A Night of Performance with KRISTIN LUCAS
Friday, September 16, 2005 8pm
Visit the Musuem's web site for more details at: www.sanjosemuseumofart.org.
FLESH & CHIPS: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN
GAIL WIGHT & ANTOINETTE LAFARGE
Sunday, August 7, 2005 2pm
“Bride” Gail Wight and new media professor and artist Antoinette LaFarge will examine the connections between Mary Shelley, her creature, and contemporary biological art. Moderated by guest curator, Marcia Tanner.
WIGHT, assistant professor of new media at Stanford University, currently heads Stanford University Digital Art Center (SUDAC). Her work poetically and often humorously critiques the history of science, the uses of animals in scientific research and the ethics of biotechnology and genetic engineering.
LAFARGE is associate professor of digital media at the University of California, Irvine, in the Studio Art Department. Her research interests include networked performance, mixed-reality performance, hypermedia, role-playing environments, computer games, digital typography, collaborative and performative writing, and fictive art. Recent intermedia and mixed-reality performance works include Demotic (2004), The Roman Forum Project (2003), and Reading Frankenstein (2003). She is the founder of the Plaintext Players, an Internet performance group, and the director of the virtual Museum of Forgery.
DON'T MISS THE NEXT PROGRAMS IN THE SERIES:
Andrea ACKERMAN & Ellen ULLMAN
Friday, September 23, 2005 8pm
“Bride” Andrea Ackerman and author Ellen Ullman explore how digital technology makes us question our notions of what is natural and what is artificial.
Camille UTTERBACK & Anne MELLOR
Saturday, October 15, 2005 2pm
“Bride” Camille Utterback and author Anne Mellor discuss the ramifications of virtuality and our increasing relationship with the interfaces and representational systems of our machines.
SPECIAL EVENT!
It's Aliiive! A Night of Performance with KRISTIN LUCAS
Friday, September 16, 2005 8pm
Visit the Musuem's web site for more details at: www.sanjosemuseumofart.org.
