No Class Next Week/ Prep for Cory Arcangel

No Class next week. We will meet the following week (10/9) to discuss Marianne Weems. Artist and videogame hacker Cory Arcangel will be here on 10/16. Here are some places to begin research, but try to fish up some of your own:

Art in America article on Arcangel
you can get this on line through the Library website. We'll get a PDF up on our site soon.
(Sept 2005, Vol. 93, Iss. 8; pg. 146-148)

There is an interview in last December's Believer (not available on line, I'll look into getting this)

Cory's Blog
http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/

A lecture at Columbia
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/soa/dmc/cory_arcangel/

AN interview with CA
http://www.petitemort.org/issue01/02.shtml

Reminder - NEW LOCATION - 105 North Gate

Remember, tonight the ATC Lecture will be in new location, 105 North Gate. It is located on Hearst at Euclid. We will head to the talk together, but let your friends and colleagues know. Our class meeting is still in the regular location in Moffitt Library.

Thanks for all the great questions for Marianne Weems.

Marianne Weems (Artistic Director, The Builders Association, NYC)

Please read the review of The Building Association's SUPER VISION and the interview with Marianne Weems under Supplemental Reading. Then post your questions for Marianne Weems as comments below.

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media Presents:

Mediatic Performance: New Technologies for Old Theater
Marianne Weems (Artistic Director, The Builders Association, New York City)

Monday, Sept 25, 7:30-9pm: UC Berkeley, 105 Northgate Hall
All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public
* 10th Anniversary Season *

The Builders Association is an eclectic group which combines theater practitioners with software designers and new media artists. Under the direction of Marianne Weems, this OBIE award-winning New York-based performance and media company exploits the richness of
contemporary technologies to extend the boundaries of theater. Given the 'liveness' of performance, how can theater be an arena for exploring the frictive relationship between 'live' performance and 'live' technologies? How can one stage the impact of technology on human presence? And how can we use technology to talk about technology's embrace? Through viewing excerpts from past Builders Association productions, we will discuss how technology and its stories can be staged as an instrument of control, transgression, and narrative.

Marianne Weems is artistic director of The Builders Association, and has directed all of their productions. Since 1994, with a growing circle of artists, the company has collaborated on ten large-scale theater projects which have been presented at venues including The Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Singapore Arts Festival, London's Barbican Centre, Romaeuropa Festival, the Festival Iberoamericano de Bogota, and the Melbourne International Arts Festival, among many others. In addition, Marianne is currently at work on a new theater/music event with David Byrne and Fatboy Slim titled Here Lies Love, she also recently completed a multimedia workshop with Disney Creative Entertainment and Walt Disney Imagineering. Marianne serves on the board of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, and Yaddo, she is on the advisory committee of the Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance at UCLA, and is the board president of Art Matters Inc. In the distant past, she also worked as a dramaturg with Susan Sontag, The Wooster Group, and others. She is the co-author of Art Matters: How The Culture Wars Changed America (NYU Press 2001.)

Pamela Z (Performance Artist, SF)

Please post your discussion questions and thoughts about Pamela Z's talk as comments. Talk announcement and abstract is below.

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media Presents:

Making Faces: Theatrical Materiality and Technological Embodiment
Pamela Z, Performance Artist, SF

Monday, Sept 11, 7:30-9pm: UC Berkeley, 160 Kroeber Hall
All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public
* 10th Anniversary Season *

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All artists are influenced by their tools. For contemporary performance artists, digital technologies are evolving so rapidly that their influence on artistic decisions can be greatly magnified. When the artwork, the tools, and the artist fuse into a single inseparable entity, can art maintain its strength and integrity or is it reduced to being a mere product of a culture seduced by new technology?

Pamela Z will explore this question in the context of her extensive experience with tools she considers to be extensions of herself. These include her gesture controllers - which by association make the body itself become the instrument, her two Powerbooks, "Callas" and "Cage", and the vocal instrument - an extremely high-tech tool in and of itself.

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Pamela Z is a composer/performer who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques processed through MAX MSP software, sampled sounds, and MIDI controllers including The BodySynth and various light controllers. She has also composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. She has had audio installation works included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum in Cologne, and the Dakar Biennale in Sénégal. Her work has also been presented at the San Jose Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio in New York, and La Biennale di Venezia in Italy. She has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Japan in concerts and festivals including Bang on a Can, Japan Interlink, and Other Minds. Her multi-media performance works have been presented at Theater Artaud and ODC in San Francisco, and at the Kitchen in New York. Her multi-media opera Wunderkabinet - based on the Museum of Jurassic Technology will be presented at the REDCAT in LA in fall 2006. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship.

http://www.pamelaz.com