INTERFACE
INTERFACE
INTERFACE
Art and Technology Lecture Series
Sponsored by The Department of Visual Arts, the School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa and DAÏMÕN. Free admission
With
Doug Back (Toronto), Diana Burgoyne (Vancouver), Daniel Jolliffe (Vancouver), Kathy Kennedy (San Francisco), David Rokeby (Toronto)
Schedule
Kathy Kennedy (San Francisco) / In French
October 28, 1999 at 8 PM
Montpetit Hall
Room 203
125 University, Ottawa
From Data to Dada : A Look at the Emerging Medium of Alternative Net Radio
Kathy Kennedy will examine the recent development of internet audio
technology, now known as "streaming". The
relationships between this new media, new forms of creativity, and
potential new economies will also be examined.
Diana Burgoyne (Vancouver) / In English
November 11, 1999 at 8 PM
Montpetit Hall
Room 203
125 University, Ottawa
Talk.......Cross........Talk.
Diana Burgoyne takes the notion of "Handmade" and applies it to technology,
intergrating it into performance, installation and sculpture. She will
show examples of this from her own work.
Doug Back (Toronto) / In English
November 25, 1999 at 8 PM
Pavillon Montpetit Hall
Pièce / Room 203
125 University, Ottawa
Collage and Real E-state
Contemporary collage artists are indebted to the work of Hannah Hock
who, in the 1920's addressed some of the important issues of our
time : cybernetics, eugenics and genetic engineering. Collage today is
preformed with the only "naturally occurring" materials left in our world.
A plethora of artists’ materials: resistors, capacitors, motors, lights,
fans, power supplies are easily "rendered" from VCR's, microwave ovens,
televisions and old computers.
Daniel Jolliffe (Vancouver) / In English
January 13, 2000 at 8 PM
Marion Hall Auditorium
140 Louis-Pasteur, Ottawa
Artists as Subtle Engineers
Electronic technologies have mostly been designed by engineers according
to "best practices", while artists typically approach and absorb
this work as a means to an end. How do the divergent goals of artist and
engineers measure up? Is an artist working with technology a relevant social
force compared with an engineer designing vast data networks?
David Rokeby (Toronto) / In English
February 17, 2000 at 8 pm
Pavillon Marion Hall Auditorium
140 Louis-Pasteur, Ottawa
Transforming Mirrors, Perceptual Filters and Reality Browsers: the Interactive Works of David Rokeby
"Like many large media corporations, I am not that interested in content.
I NEED content, but I don't really care what it is. I deal in systems
of experience, constructed points of view... My works reveal themselves
through their "meta content": the modifications, filtrations and distortions
that they perform on whatever comes along."
Information :
Visual Arts Department
University of Ottawa
100 av. Laurier Ave. E.
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 6N5, Canada
Phone : (613) 562-5868
Fax : (613) 562-5137
E-mail: finearts@uottawa.ca