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Acoustic Robots and Electronic Gamelan: Composing for VERY Mixed Media 

Christina Southworth
Evan Ziporyn
MIT

 

14 February 2012, 12 Noon - 1:15 PM
Smith Warehouse
FHI "Garage" (Bay 4, Downstairs, Room C105)
Lunch will be served

"Acoustic Robots and Electronic Gamelan: Composing for VERY Mixed Media" - composers Christine Southworth and Evan Ziporyn (MIT) discuss their compositions for and with Gamelan Galak Tika and Ensemble Robot - work which combines robot technology, DIY instrument building, and an exploration of non-western musical practices to produce unlikely linkages and creative fissures.

 
Christine Southworth is founder of Ensemble Robot.  She has been commissioned by and composed for the Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can, the California EAR Unit, and the Calder Quartet.  Her SuperCollider - for string quartet and electronic gamelan - was featured at 2010 Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors; her hour-long Zap! combined live Van de Graff Generator, Tesla Coils, and live musicians.  She is currently working on a new work for Yo-yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble.

Evan Ziporyn is Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music at MIT, where he directs Gamelan Galak Tika.  A founding member of the Bang on a Can All-stars, he has collaborated with a who's who of contemporary musicians, including Steve Reich, Paul Simon, Brian Eno, Iva Bittova, Don Byron, Wu Man, Glenn Branca, Thurston Moore, and Philip Glass.  His works have been commissioned and performed by the American Composers Orchestra, Gamelan Semara Ratih, the Silk Road Ensemble, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.  His opera A House in Bali highlighted the 2010 BAM Next Wave Festival.  His first solo CD, This is Not A Clarinet, made top-10 lists across the country; his newest CD, Big Grenadilla/Mumbai, will be released on Cantaloupe Music this spring.
 

 

 Mobile Application Development

Matthew Bischoff
Lickability.net

7 December 2011, Noon - 1:30PM
Smith Warehouse
FHI "Garage" (Bay 4, Downstairs, Room C105)
Lunch will be served

 

Please join us for a lunchtime conversation at Noon, Wed, Dec 7 in the FHI Garage  in Smith Warehouse Bay 4 with Mobile App Developer Matt Bischoff of lickability.net.  Matt has been a successful independent developer, and recently got a job with the New York Times to develop mobile apps for the newspaper.  He both has programming chops and a background in graphic arts and UI.  He is a strong proponent of UI and believes this is the key to a successful app.  I'm sure we can all learn a lot from Matt's experience, so hope to see you there! 
 


 

 Alternate | Augmented Reality? 
Constraint-based live events in common space

Sha Xin Wei
Topological Media Lab
Concordia University

31 October 2011,  Noon -1:30PM 
Smith Warehouse
FHI "Garage" (Bay 4, Downstairs, Room C105)
Lunch will be served

Alternate, and Augmented Reality may draw inspiration from pre-modern forms of sited play, including festivals,  pageants, puppetry, street games, and street theatre.  Many of these forms of public make-believe endure, and it may be useful to see why and how they retain their powerful appeal in the face of electric, digital, and network media.  We'll look at contemporary forms of urban play or public game, such as parkour and LARP's.  We'll discuss what opportunities may open up when we combine ancient technologies of  play and public theatre with the emerging generation of instruments for game and play that can be created with the billions of ubiquitous computers now riding in phones, jackets, shoes, and cardboard boxes.

Architectural Optics: Building with Images

Ethan Jackson

March 16, 2011, 12:00 - 1:00PM
Smith Warehouse
FHI "Garage" (Bay 4, Downstairs, Room C105)
Lunch will be served

 'a discussion of the camera obscura, the optical environment, and visual curiosity'

Ethan Jackson is currently in residence at ART342 in Fort Collins, Colorado.  He is a visual artist working in optical installation, photographic media, and interactive video. Light, vision, image and imagination are the basis for projects that range across perceptual, spatial, documentary and experiential territory.  You can view his work here.

Sponsored by Art, Art History and Visual Studies, ISIS and the Visual Studies Initiative

ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesday feature Olivier Perriquet

February 22, 2011, 12:00 -1:00PM
Franklin Humanities Institute "Garage"
Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Room C105
Lunch will be served.

 « Expériences in art and science »

Olivier Perriquet is a Visiting Artist with the Visual Studies Initiative this 
Spring. MD in pure mathematics and PhD in computational biology from the 
university of Lille I, he also graduated from Le Fresnoy, National Studio of 
Contemporary Arts in France. He will present some of his artworks and take 
advantage of his dual position (artist / scientist) to give a sense of the 
difference between artistic and scientific approaches when they address 
scientific productions. The French word « expérience », having the double 
inflexion experience / experiment, will serve as a guideline to suggest that 
each approach has its own specificities, and that none of them is reducible 
nor subordinated to the other. This presentation is aiming neither at 
objectivity nor at truth. A foretaste on his website: http://cesium-133.net/ 

 

FHI Experiencing Virtual Worlds Working Group

Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 430-6pm
East Duke 111

Please join us as we learn more about the work of Florian Wiencek. Florian is visiting Duke for a month from Jacobs University in Bremen, where he is a PhD student in Visual Communication, and a Research Associate for the "Bild-Film-Diskurs" project. At Duke he is working on new concepts of the archive within virtual world environments, and is collaborating with Julian Lombardi and the OpenCobalt team to realize some of his concepts.  he will share his current work and we'll discuss some of the themes that come up in association with constructing virtual archives. All are welcome!

For questions please contact Victoria Szabo, ves4@duke.edu

February 2012

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