SIGGRAPH Art Performances to be Held at UCSD
Cutting-edge digital art performances and site-specific installations as part of the SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery: Global Eyes program will be presented from Aug. 4-6 at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at the University of California, San Diego.
"This is a wonderful opportunity to bring some of the world's leading performance artists to these state-of-the-art venues for a comprehensive program that will lift the eyebrows of even the most discriminating performance art critics," stated Vibeke Sorensen, SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery chair from the University at Buffalo. "Global Eyes is an exciting forum for showcasing alternative ways to think about nature and art, and how the two interact."
These performances are open to the public, but pre-registration is required at the San Diego Convention Center. Free shuttle buses will be available to the performances.
Digital Performance Schedule:
Saturday, Aug. 4
5:00-7:15 pm
Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, University of California, San Diego
* SUBSTITUTE JUDGMENT
Jeffrey Trevino
This piece explores the synchronization and hybridization of media to create a unified and balanced work of art. Jeffrey Trevino created SUBSTITUTE JUDGMENT as an autonomous solo multi-percussion work, inspired by his readings of philosophical inquiries into the ethics of Alzheimer's Disease patients' legal status as decision makers. Ross Karre created METAL CATALOGUE, a synchronized video response to Trevino's work, from still photographs of decaying metal farm equipment on a 150-year-old ranch (the T-Lazy-7) in Aspen, Colorado.
* E*SCAPES
Mariela Cadiz
Taking live cinema to a new level, the Cadiz/Clelland/Lelong trio performs live electronic music to live remixed footage and vice versa. By combining contemporary dance music structures and sounds with traditional electro-acoustic music techniques, and by deconstructing the common use of nature documentary footage and exploring its cinematic qualities, the trio's live mixing thrives on mesmerizing, forceful and unexpected relationships.
* WALKING INTO A LEONARDO MASTERPIECE
Maurizio Seracini
Seracini has scanned Leonardo da Vinci's "Adoration of the Magi" using infrared, ultraviolet and other imaging techniques, allowing the viewer to see inside the painting to the under-painting where the true genius of da Vinci is revealed in images that have not been seen for 500 years. Working with Seracini, Calit2 researcher Jurgen Schulze has transposed Seracini's work to a virtual-reality system equipped with 3D viewing and a tracking system that allows the visitor to move between the surface of the painting and what's underneath by moving forward and backward in front of the painting-giving the impression that the visitor is literally walking into the masterpiece.
* TAKASHI'S SEASON
Takashi Kawashima
A sequential live shadow-puppet/video performance of interpretations of the four seasons. Working in precarious unison, the shadows of the puppets are synchronized with the animation, creating a unique live-action performance. Animation and sound are composited with shadows in realtime, and the artist produces "motion pictures" via a combination of seasonal sounds, live shadow-puppet manipulation and projection of shadow-like animation sequences.
* AUTOPOIESIS/MIMESIS
Maja Cerar and Luibo Borissov
AUTOPOIESIS is a work that imagines realities and is, in part, a humorous document of the discussions between the two authors about the beginning of the universe. It is followed and complemented by MIMESIS, a more serious exploration of the ancient tension between imperfect reality and ideal form as furthered by art's mimicry.
7:30-8:00 pm
CRCA Studio 1613, Atkinson Hall, University of California, San Diego
* WHAT IF I AM NOT REAL
Kooj Chuhan
Three masked figures on rafts at sea appear in each of three screens arranged as a circular triptych: an official, a migrant parent, and a child. The anxious official denies the parent access to safe land and community while engaging in lucrative military games. The conclusion poses an inevitable consequence of current conflicts.
8:00-10 pm
"This is a wonderful opportunity to bring some of the world's leading performance artists to these state-of-the-art venues for a comprehensive program that will lift the eyebrows of even the most discriminating performance art critics," stated Vibeke Sorensen, SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery chair from the University at Buffalo. "Global Eyes is an exciting forum for showcasing alternative ways to think about nature and art, and how the two interact."
These performances are open to the public, but pre-registration is required at the San Diego Convention Center. Free shuttle buses will be available to the performances.
Digital Performance Schedule:
Saturday, Aug. 4
5:00-7:15 pm
Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, University of California, San Diego
* SUBSTITUTE JUDGMENT
Jeffrey Trevino
This piece explores the synchronization and hybridization of media to create a unified and balanced work of art. Jeffrey Trevino created SUBSTITUTE JUDGMENT as an autonomous solo multi-percussion work, inspired by his readings of philosophical inquiries into the ethics of Alzheimer's Disease patients' legal status as decision makers. Ross Karre created METAL CATALOGUE, a synchronized video response to Trevino's work, from still photographs of decaying metal farm equipment on a 150-year-old ranch (the T-Lazy-7) in Aspen, Colorado.
* E*SCAPES
Mariela Cadiz
Taking live cinema to a new level, the Cadiz/Clelland/Lelong trio performs live electronic music to live remixed footage and vice versa. By combining contemporary dance music structures and sounds with traditional electro-acoustic music techniques, and by deconstructing the common use of nature documentary footage and exploring its cinematic qualities, the trio's live mixing thrives on mesmerizing, forceful and unexpected relationships.
* WALKING INTO A LEONARDO MASTERPIECE
Maurizio Seracini
Seracini has scanned Leonardo da Vinci's "Adoration of the Magi" using infrared, ultraviolet and other imaging techniques, allowing the viewer to see inside the painting to the under-painting where the true genius of da Vinci is revealed in images that have not been seen for 500 years. Working with Seracini, Calit2 researcher Jurgen Schulze has transposed Seracini's work to a virtual-reality system equipped with 3D viewing and a tracking system that allows the visitor to move between the surface of the painting and what's underneath by moving forward and backward in front of the painting-giving the impression that the visitor is literally walking into the masterpiece.
* TAKASHI'S SEASON
Takashi Kawashima
A sequential live shadow-puppet/video performance of interpretations of the four seasons. Working in precarious unison, the shadows of the puppets are synchronized with the animation, creating a unique live-action performance. Animation and sound are composited with shadows in realtime, and the artist produces "motion pictures" via a combination of seasonal sounds, live shadow-puppet manipulation and projection of shadow-like animation sequences.
* AUTOPOIESIS/MIMESIS
Maja Cerar and Luibo Borissov
AUTOPOIESIS is a work that imagines realities and is, in part, a humorous document of the discussions between the two authors about the beginning of the universe. It is followed and complemented by MIMESIS, a more serious exploration of the ancient tension between imperfect reality and ideal form as furthered by art's mimicry.
7:30-8:00 pm
CRCA Studio 1613, Atkinson Hall, University of California, San Diego
* WHAT IF I AM NOT REAL
Kooj Chuhan
Three masked figures on rafts at sea appear in each of three screens arranged as a circular triptych: an official, a migrant parent, and a child. The anxious official denies the parent access to safe land and community while engaging in lucrative military games. The conclusion poses an inevitable consequence of current conflicts.
8:00-10 pm
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