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Lev Manovich and Brett Stalbaum and Alumni Nina Waisman and Tristan Shone at FILE 2009 - Sao Paulo - July 28-Aug 30 '09
Submitted by yolietorres on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 8:57am.
Announcement | Faculty Show
Lev Manovich and Brett Stalbaum, and Alumni Nina Waisman and Tristan Shone
FILE Exhibition 2009
FILE Labo Workshop Series 2009
July 28 - August 30, 2009
Centro Cultural FIESP, Avenida Paulista, 1313, São Paulo, Brazil 01311-923
FILE 10 NURBS PROTO 4KT is the title of the FILE 09 exhibition, that will be held in São Paulo, Brazil, from July 28 to August 30, 2009. This year, we have the honor to present FILE 10 -- ten years of events accomplished in the city of São Paulo, ten years of discussion on art and technology in Brazil. NURBS (Non Uniform Rational Basis Spline) is a well-known 20th century computer graphic technique for representing smooth surfaces - which according to Lev Manovich, the author of the opening text in the catalog, can become a new tool for cultural theory in the 21 century, along with other computer graphics and visualization tools. Lev Manovich will also take part in FILE Symposium and FILE LABO Workshop. PROTO, from "Protomembrane", title of the performance by the Catalan artist Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca, which will happen during the event opening, at Teatro Popular do Sesi. 4KT, the first transcontinental high-definition broadcasting of a feature film: "While the Night Doesn't Come", by the Brazilian director Beto Souza, among the cities of São Paulo (Brazil), San Diego (United States), and Yokohama (Japan).
For more information please visit: http://www.file.org.br/file2009/press_sp/
Today sciences, business, governments and other agencies rely on computer-based analysis and visualization of large data sets and data flows. They employ statistical data analysis, data mining, information visualization, scientific visualization, visual analytics, and simulation. We believe that it is time that we start applying these techniques to cultural data. The large data sets are already here – the result of the digitization efforts by museums, libraries, and companies over the last ten years (think of book scanning by Google and Amazon) and the explosive growth of newly available cultural content on the web. The workshop will provide the tools for the participants create their own analysis of the data and also to create their own visualization of the collected data.
WORKSHOPS (by UCSD Faculty only. Complete list of artists at http://www.file.org.br/file2009/press_sp/):
LOCATIVE MEDIA: THEORY AND PRACTICE
*Brett Stalbaum* (UCSD) & Cicero Silva (Software Studies)
07/28 | 9am - 1pm
The workshop will introduce basic concepts about locative media art. People will learn how to create content for cell/mobile phones using art & technology ideas and the walkingtools.net project as the feature to deploy the content.
CULTURAL ANALYTICS
*Lev Manovich* (UCSD/Software Studies)
07/30 & 31 | 9am - 1pm
LECTURERS:
Brett Stalbaum: coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and a walking artist. His latest project in locative media is the Walking Tools project at www.walkingtools.net.
Lev Manovich: recognized as one of the leading theorists of new media art and digital culture in the world, Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as many articles which have been published in thirty countries. The Language of New Media has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Latvian, Korean, and Chinese. According to the reviewers, this book offers “the first rigorous and far reaching theorization of the subject” (CAA reviews); “it places [new media] within the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan” (Telepolis). Manovich frequently lectures on new media around the world, having delivered around two hundred in the U.S., South America, Europe and Asia since 1999. His latest book is Software Takes Command (SWS, 2009). Manovich is director of the Software Studies Initiative at CALIT2, UCSD. He has also been a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts, UCLA, Art Center College of Design, University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University, University of Art and Design, Helsinki Cologne University, and a number of other institutions.
INSTALLATIONS (by UCSD Alumni only):
Nina Waisman; with pd programming by Marius Schebella
Between Bodies (Tijuana)
United States
The installation samples everyday work and play sound gestures, recorded throughout the city. These sound gestures are triggered and changed by visitors’ natural movements through the piece. Pitch, speed, volume and layering of sounds are modulated in real time, in relation to a visitor’s actions and proximity to sensors hung in a space.
Author & Punisher (Tristan Shone)
Dub Machines (nextGen de Drone Machines)
United States
“Drone/Dub Machines” are custom made machines fabricated from raw materials and utilizing open source circuitry. The devices draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation, robotics and mechanical tools and devices, focusing on the eroticism of interaction with machine.
Centro Cultural Fiesp
Art Gallery Do SESI
Telephone 3284-3639
Schedule:
Tuesday to saturday from 10:00 to 20:00, sunday from 10:00 to 19:00
Support: Graduate Studies in Education, Art and History of Culture (MFA and Ph.D.), Mackenzie University.