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TEXELECTRONICA '06
International Symposium / Exhibition discussing Art,
Music, Technology, Society, and Culture
"SPIN (Society, Persona, Interactivity, &
Networks)"
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What:
The objective of Texelectronica '06 - International Symposium / Exhibition
of Emergent Art, Technology, & Society is to bring together artists,
researchers, scholars, writers, curators, professors and students, working
directly with new emergent technologies, to discuss the effects of this
evolving context on art, music, society, and the evolution of global
perspective. Texelectronica '06 is a three-day
symposium with three exhibition venues, and a list of evening multimedia
performances. These public exhibitions and performances will allow the local
community, galleries, collectors, and art patrons to meet and join in the Texelectronica '06 dialog. Texelectronica
'06 hopes to infuse a new energy into the
Texelectronica '06 is the first installment of the
symposium/exhibition, which is structured as an invited/curated event. Invited
artists and theorists will share a wide range of emergent media art processes
that fit within the 2006 theme. However, future installments of Texelectronica will be combine invitation with a juried open
call, selecting from submissions of artworks and papers in an international
contest.
The Texelectronica
’06 Exhibition and Symposium hopes to attract international, national, and
local attendees ranging in number from 400 to 800.
Theme:
“SPIN: Society, Persona,
Interactivity, and Networks.”
Embedded within our society,
our persona, the dynamics of human interaction, and the structure of our associative
social networks exist characteristics of the SPIN.
The SPIN has the ability to both
attract (ex. Earth) and project (ex. a merry-go-round), to capture (ex.
windmill) and expend (an electric fan), to encode (ex. LP records/CD/hard
drives) and be read (ex. sundials/clocks). SPIN as a force has the energy to
gather together (ex. online networks) and to disperse (ex. mass emails / messages).
SPIN can be found in music
with looping soundtracks and in the way that sound travels within space. SPIN
can be found in dance with the ballet twirl or the back flip.
SPIN can serve to disorient,
where one’s perspective can be distorted or blurred by the bombardment of too
much content too quickly, or by the disruption of movement while attempting to accessing
information.
In some instances SPIN
combines both characteristics of projection and attraction. A tornado draws in
and then propels.
In Fibonacci’s
spiral, the spin can be found as an evolutionary component in nature with the
pine cone or the sea shell. It can be found in human spherical social
structures such as cities, where life congregates around a central hub.
Within the context of human
interaction, SPIN is the emotional, psychological, communicative and strategic
byproducts of the energy of human attraction that builds society. SPIN is the
characteristic latent within the evolution of ideas that helps in forming our aesthetic,
utilitarian, humanistic, educational, unifying, and global ideologies that affect
progress in our world.
In every case, SPIN reflects
the momentum, immersion, connection, disorientation, and the desire to
transcend latent within our culture, industry, and society.
When/Period:
Thursday 10/26/2006 through
Sunday 10/29/2006
Possible Venues for
the Symposium:
The
The
(The
Exhibition Venues:
University of North Texas
Gallery (
University of North Texas
Gallery (
And/Or Gallery (
Southside on
Performances Venues:
And/Or Gallery (
Southside on
University of North Texas
Gallery (
Sub-Themes
-Technology and the
Environment
-Global Communication
-Building Virtual Community/Blogs/the Media Alternative
-Bio-tech – Technological
influence on the Human Body.
-Information Tracking and
the Archive: RFID
-Image Capture,
Representation, Storage, and Legality
-Fix – Antiquated Technology
as Contemporary Aesthetic.
-Understanding Electronic
Media Art Education
-Thinking Architecturally in
the Age of Digital Media
Symposium/Exhibition
Schedule Including Participants:
10/26/06
6:30 PM - Evening (at And/Or Gallery):
Opening at And/Or Gallery
Performance by Treewave (And/Or Gallery)
Performance by Zach
Lieberman (And/Or Gallery)
Performance by Damian Keller
and Andrew May
Symposium Schedule:
10/27/06
9:30-10:00 AM - Introduction
to Texelectronica Symposium (How the day's
presentations are organized around subject)
SESSION 1: “Society”
10:00-10:30 AM – Artist
Presentation (30 min)
10 min break
10:40-11:10 AM - Artist
Presentation (30 min)
10 min break
11:20-11:50 AM - Artist
Presentation (30 min)
10 min break
12:00-12:30 Noon - Session 1
Panel Discussion (30 min)
12:30-2:00 PM - LUNCH
SESSION 2 “Persona”
2:00-2:30 PM - Artist
Presentation (30 min)
10 min break
2:40-3:10 PM - Artist
Presentation (30 min)
10 min break
3:20-3:50 PM - Artist
Presentation (30 min)
10 min break
4:00-4:30 PM - Session 2
Panel Discussion
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----If there is adequate
funding we will begin the symposium earlier, and shorten each presentation and
panel discussion
---- by
5 minutes to accommodate a third session each day.
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4:30-5:00 PM - See the UNT
Art exhibition
5:00-6:30 PM - DINNER
6:30 - Evening at
Southside on Lamar Janet Kennedy Gallery
Janet Kennedy Exhibition
Opening
Multimedia/Music
Performances
10/28/06
9:30-10:00 AM - Welcome Back
to Texelectronica Symposium (How the day's
presentations are organized around subject)
SESSION 3 “Interactivity”
10:00-10:30 AM - Artist
Presentation (30 min)
10 min break
10:40-11:10 AM - Artist
Presentation (30 min)
10 min break
11:20-11:50 AM - Artist
Presentation (30 min)
10 min break
12:00-12:30 Noon - Session 3
Panel Discussion
12:30-2:00 PM - LUNCH
SESSION 4 “Networks”
2:00-2:30 PM - Artist
Presentation (30 min)
10 min break
2:40-3:10 PM - Artist
Presentation (30 min)
10 min break
3:20-3:50 PM - Artist
Presentation (30 min)
10 min break
4:00-4:30 PM - Session 4
Panel Discussion
-------------
----If there is adequate
funding we will begin the symposium earlier, and shorten each presentation and
panel discussion
---- by
5 minutes to accommodate a third session each day.
-------------
4:30-5:00 PM - See the UNT
Art exhibition
5:00-6:30 PM - DINNER
6:30 - Evening at And/Or Gallery
And/Or Gallery Exhibition
Opening
Multimedia/Music Performances
10/29/06
Day:
9:30-10:00 AM Collective
Discussion with all artists regarding
Participating Artists / Theorists (exhibitors/performers/speakers
not limited to the list provided)
LISTING OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Casey Reas:
From 1999-2001, Reas was a graduate student and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. After twenty-eight years of drawing, playing video games, drumming, and designing information systems, his nascent talent for writing software forged these disparate interests into a new path. Building on his professional experience and undergraduate studies in design at the
In August 2001, Reas moved to
After two years in
Janek Schaeffer:
Janek was born in
The context of each idea is central to its development and resolution. His concerts and installations explore the spatial and architectural aspect that sound can evoke and the twisting of technology. Hybrid analogue and digital techniques are used to manipulate field recordings with live modified vinyl and found sound to create evocative and involving environments. His CD 'Above Buildings' [2000] was released on Fat Cat to considerable praise, [The Guardian CD of the week]. He plays in a duo with Philip Jeck ['Songs for Europe' CD] and formed 'Comae' the improvisational electroacoustic duo with Robert Hampson [
Carmin Karasic:
Carmin Karasic is a software engineer and digital artist. She currently works part time as a software quality engineer and web developer. When she's not testing software, she's usually working on some aspect of digital art. She may be creating new art, collaborating on a computer art project, or developing websites. Carmin has collaborated with artists in various Internet projects and has been invited to exhibit her work in virtual galleries in
She received an undergraduate math degree from
Carmin has 18 years experience in information systems application development and in software development. In that time she has worked in the
In 1995, Carmin began studying digital art at Mass College of Art. She returned to Lotus as a member of the Lotus Notes Quality Engineering team. She left Lotus to become the Resident Artist for the DoWhile Studio, in
Kurt Hentschlager:
New York-based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschlager creates large-scale immersive theatrical events and installations. For 10 years he has worked collaboratively with Ulf Langheinrich as a part of the group
Granular-Synthesis. Employing monumental projected images and towering sound environments, their multimedia installations affect the viewer on both physical and emotional levels, pushing the limits of how much sensory
information audiences can absorb.
Garnet Hertz:
Garnet Hertz is a Fulbright Scholar, Research Fellow at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and is a doctoral student at the
(updated 20 January 2006)
HeHe:
HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen) reverse cultural engineers the technological systems that surround us: From transport design to pollution monitoring, from public advertisement to meteorology, from architecture to public lightning. Their work seeks to go back in time, re-work past and as a result, re-phrase the existing into a new critical usage, a social function, with the spectator in its epicentre. At a time of ongoing technological expansion, progress starts to fray on its edges. How can we use and re-use, not only as a semiotic resistance against those who prey on the new, but also to return back to original invention, which have become clouded by recursive innovations. In this way, the work of HeHe is a process of reduction and subtraction until they find a point of departure, from which they can develop a usage with a plain functionality.
HeHe is a collective and a non-profit making organisation for production, founded in
Their installations have been presented at the Centre George Pompidou Centre in Paris, Triennale in
They have published scientific papers and held research positions in informatics laboratories such as: Frauenhofer in
Both Helen and Heiko have taught young artists and designers within both art education and artist-run organisations: including masters students at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, both undergraduate and masters design students at ENSCI/Les Ateliers in
They benefited from two years residency at the prodigious artist factory Mainsd’oeuvres, a multidisciplinary site for cultural projects based in St-Ouen (Northern Paris), as well as the Pixel Ache residency at NIFCA (Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art) and a residency at Makrolab in Scotland with ArtsCatalyst. HeHe Association has been generously supported by DICREAM and CNAP (Ministry of Culture, France).
HeHe association collaborates with a range of companies such as Beauty Prestige International in
Galerie Quang,
Christophe Kihm:
Christophe Kihm is an independent curator, a writer for Art Press, and a professor at Le Fresnoy based in
Li Tan:
Professor Tan has portrayed his inventive and autodidactic energy as an artist, teacher and researcher for three decades while residing in
He has taught art and computer 2D/3D animation graphics for over a decade across all college levels internationally. Currently, he is an assistant professor at
Paul Slocum:
Describes himself as a i'm a geek artist/musician/hacker living in
Slocum has exhibited his interactive and time-based hacks as well as given talks and performances around the world and from the east to west coast. He recently opened a new gallery in
Jonah Brucker Cohen:
Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and Ph.D. candidate in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He also worked as a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe in
(NOTE: A few artists have asked to participate on a charitable basis, requesting that the financial assistance/fee be applied to the needs of the symposium and exhibition.)
Projected Number of Attendees and Gallery Visitors
400 – 800 attendees/gallery-visitors
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