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- Subject: IMAGE SOUND TEXT an Arts and Technology Symposium January - February 1993
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- THE LABORATORY FOR EXTENDED MEDIA
- Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria
- presents
- IMAGE SOUND TEXT
- an Arts and Technology Symposium
- January - February 1993
-
- Recently, the University of Victoria's Faculty of Fine Arts Laboratory
- for Extended Media opened its doors in the newly constructed Fine Arts
- Building. To celebrate its beginnings, the Faculty of Fine Arts is
- organizing an arts and technology symposium. Open to all members of
- the university and the public, the various events will take place over
- a six-week period in January and February of 1993. Visiting lecturers
- and performers will include:
-
- Jaron Lanier--computer scientist, artist and composer, specializing in
- programing language design and virtual reality systems. He is one of the
- founders of the field of Virtual Reality. Founding President of VPL
- Research Inc.
-
- William Gibson--credited with starting the 'cyberpunk movement.' He is
- the highly acclaimed author of Neuromancer, the first novel ever to win the
- Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards. Writer living in Vancouver.
-
- Max Mathews--Computer scientist and composer, Max Mathews created the first
- computer sound-synthesis languages at Bell Laboratories in the 1950's,
- which have become the basis for virtually all further developments in the
- field. Professor of Music at Stanford University.
-
- Tony Brown--a sculptor who builds kinetic works that both use and comment on
- technology. Tony Brown has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally.
- Professor at the University of Ottawa and Ecole de Beaux Arts de Paris.
-
- Vibeke Sorensen--widely known as an innovative artist working with video, film,
- computer graphics and animation systems, and electronic musical instruments.
- She has produced several computer-animated works for the Jet Propulsion
- Laboratory, simulating unmanned space probes to Mars. Professor in the
- School of Film and Video Faculty at California Institute for the Arts.
-
- Marvin Minsky--a pioneer of artificial intelligence, whose contributions as a
- scientist and author have been instrumental in the way we use and think about
- computers and the workings of the human mind. Professor at MIT.
-
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- SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
-
- Jaron Lanier
-
- Lecture Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Wednesday, January 6
-
- Concert Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Thursday, January 7
-
- William Gibson
-
- Reading David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Friday, January 8
-
- Jaron Lanier and William Gibson
-
- Discussion David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 9:30 pm, Friday, January 8
-
- Max Mathews
-
- Lecture Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Wednesday, January 13
-
- Concert Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Thursday, January 14
-
- A concert of new works involving the Mathews Radio Drum. Guest
- composer/performers David Jaffe, Ami Radunskaya, Mari Kimura
- and Andrew Schloss. Including the premiere performance of a
- new work commissioned from David Jaffe in honour of Max Mathews.
-
- Tony Brown
-
- Lecture David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Wednesday, January 20
-
- Vibeke Sorensen
-
- Lecture/Demonstration Room 159 Begbie Bldg.
- 8 pm, Friday, February 5
-
- Marvin Minsky
-
- Lecture David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Monday, February 22
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-
- OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS
-
- David Jaffe--a leading computer music composer and researcher, his
- composition Silicon Valley Breakdown has been performed in over 20 countries
- and has been hailed as a landmark of the medium. Designer of the music software
- for the NeXT computer. Visiting professor of music at Princeton University.
-
- Mari Kimura--New York violinist and composer Mari Kimura has appeared in
- concert the world over. She has been described as an artist of "astonishing
- vitality" (Sankei News), and "a unique contemporary artist to be watched and
- listened to." (San Jose Mercury News).
-
- Ami Radunskaya--mathematician, composer, cellist, specializes in ergodic
- theory of dynamical systems and the mathematics of chaos. She is currently
- working on the MIMI (Mathematically Illuminated Musical Instrument) and is
- on the Mathematics faculty at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
-
- Andrew Schloss--pioneered the implementation of a new musical instrument
- designed at Bell Laboratories by Max Mathews and Bob Boie called the Radio
- Drum. Performs internationally in duos with David Jaffe and with Paris-based
- jazz pianist Jeff Gardner. Currently on the Music faculty at the University
- of Victoria.
-
- Lecture/Demonstration (location TBA) 1:30 pm, Friday, January 15
-
- David Jaffe and Mari Kimura demonstrate and discuss
- new music, techniques and technologies for string
- instruments, including the zeta violin and other innovations.
-
- Mathematics Colloquium Room C110, Clearihue Bldg. 3:30 pm, Thurs, January 14
-
- Ami Radunskaya, Department of Mathematics, Rice University:
- "Detecting Randomness in Nature: Differentiating Between
- Deterministic and Stochastic Chaos."
-
- Composition Seminar Room B008, MacLaurin Bldg. 7:30 pm, Thursday, February 4
-
- Rand Steiger, Department of Music, UC San Diego,
- addresses Dr. Schloss's computer music seminar.
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- CONTACT:
-
- Dr. W. Andrew Schloss (School of Music)
- Lynda Gammon (Department of Visual Arts)
- Faculty of Fine Arts
- University of Victoria
- Victoria BC CANADA V8W 2Y2
- (604) 721-7756
- email: Andy.Schloss@FineArts.uvic.ca
-
- These events form part of the University of Victoria's 90/30
- Anniversary year celebrations.
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