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Feb.
18, 2003 |
Rensselaer Arts Chair Heads Media Arts Colloquium
The campus community and the general public are
invited to a series of free presentations hosted by Michael Century,
chair of Rensselaer's arts department. Focused on various themes
in media arts, such as televirtuality, hypermedia, and relational
architecture, the presentations will begin on Wednesday, Feb.
26, at 7 p.m. in West Hall, Room 212.
Each topic will include a demonstration and analysis
of pioneering works of media art. Century will draw on rare audio-visual
documentation.
The series is an opportunity to expand the understanding
of the types of new media that tie in closely with what the new
experimental media and performing arts center (EMPAC), in part,
will offer to students, artists, and the surrounding community.
Feb.26 - Century will discuss "The
Tunnel Under the Atlantic," created in 1995 by artist Maurice
Benayoun. The experimental work was a game-like virtual passageway
that linked users in museums in Paris and Montreal. The work
incorporates televirtuality, which combines three-dimensional
computer graphic animation with ISDN (Integrated Services Digital
Network) lines that transmit voice and images at high speeds
for a high-performance virtual-reality setting. Works by new
media artists Charlotte Davies, Marcos Novac, and panoramic
cinematographer Michael Naimark also will be presented.
March 5 - Century presents three "hypermedia
portraits" of major 20th century artists who created in
many different genres: Michael Snow, Antoni Muntadas, and Glenn
Gould. Hypermedia is the use of online links that allow readers
to navigate through a piece of work at their whim. For example,
hypermedia transforms an e-book of plain text to one composed
of links, which could contain several small stories, interactive
graphics, and music that readers do not have to view in any
particular order.
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