2/17 & 3/3: NEW APPROACHES TO MEDIA PERFORMANCE

Two evenings of lectures and performances by artists Eric Singer, Luis Recoder, and Sandra Gibson. Events are free and open to the public. Seating is limited and first-come first-served.

Hosted by the STUDIO For Creative Inquiry (in conjunction with Melissa Ragona’s seminar on Media Performance)

In this mini-series, internationally renowned artists across the fields of Robotics, Experimental Film, and Computer Programming, will present work that highlights how new technologies have transformed the way we think about live performance. By examining the use of media (analog and digital) across the areas of sound/music, performance art, programming, and installation, the performers in this series will explore how technology has changed the conventions of performative artistic practice.

How have ideas about virtual, parallel worlds changed the way artists think about the “performing body?” If technology once acted as a prosthetic device, increasing an artist’s sensual and perceptual world, what happens to the role and impact of an artist’s work in the seemingly inert realms of programming or the increasingly autonomous areas of Robotic Intelligence?

DAY 1
Wed, February 17 at 6:30-9:30 pm Eric Singer will present/perform

Eric Singer, renowned for his work with LEMUR — a group of artists and technologists who created an orchestra of robotic musical instruments (that most recently accompanied Pat Metheny’s new album) — will present an artist’s lecture presentation (~45-60 minutes), plus a small concert or short demonstration of some of his robotic musical instruments, including the premier of his new Guitarbot.

Eric Singer is a Brooklyn-based musician, artist, engineer and programmer with 20 years of arts and multimedia programming, engineering and performance experience. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon; a Diploma in Music Synthesis (Magna Cum Laude) from Berklee College of Music; and an MS in Computer Science from New York University. He has performed and lectured throughout the world with electronic musical instruments, as well as touring and recording with many bands on tenor, alto, and baritone saxes. He is a founding member of the Brooklyn-based arts collaborative The Madagascar Institute, and he has contributed to many of the group’s spectacular projects in addition to reaching the semi-finals with the MI-originating team “The Brooklyn Benders” on The Learning Channel’s ‘Junkyard Wars’ television show. He is also the founder of LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots), a group of artists and technologists creating robotic musical instruments. In addition to directing LEMUR, he currently works as an independent Arts Engineer and Consultant.

DAY 2
Wed, March 3 @ 6:30-9:30 pm Luis Recoder and Sandra Gibson will present/perform

Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder will lecture on their extensive media-based performance work as well as present a performance for multiple 16mm projectors with live audio. In this collaborative film performance, they will employ simple mechanical means to hypnotically elaborate ends: 16mm loops, spray bottles, colored gels, unfocused lenses and hand-shadows will combine, through rehearsed recipes, into slowly mutating light-sculptures: morphing color-fields, angel-white auras, fusing penumbrae, pulsing vertical lines.

Gibson and Recoder have shown their collaborative film installations and performances at film festivals, museums, galleries, and alternative venues since 2001. They have exhibited their work at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), The Kitchen (NYC), Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (NYC), Mighty Robot (Brooklyn, NY), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts (Buffalo, NY), Images Festival (Toronto, Canada),
PDX (Portland, OR), Berks Filmmakers (Reading, PA), Pittsburgh Filmmakers (PA), Janalyn Hanson White Gallery (Cedar Rapids, IA), Collectif Jeune Cinema (Paris, France), International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Hartware Medien Kunst Verein (Dortmund, Germany), La Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain), Museo do Chiado - National Museum of Contemporary Art (Lisbon, Portugal), Dundee
Contemporary Arts (Dundee, Scotland), Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo, Japan), Image Forum Festival (Yokohama & Kanazawa, Japan).

*APPLY NOW* PGH DATA AWARDS & REGIONAL EXHIBITION - DEADLINE 3/15/10

The Pittsburgh Technology Council’s The 15 Minutes Gallery is currently seeking artists, designers, musicians, filmmakers and roboticists to participate in the 2010 DATA Awards and Regional Art Exhibition. This one-of-a-kind event honors regional excellence in creativity and innovation. Let’s show the world how Pittsburgh is a leader in both of these leading-edge sectors.

Deadline for Submissions: March 15, 2010
Download Entry Form

Complete info here
http://www.pghtech.org/E-mails/100204-Art-Tech-Call/100204-main.html

2/4 & 6: NO CARTOON LEFT BEHIND - LECTURE & WORKSHOP W/ ROB ROGERS

“No Cartoon Left Behind: An Evening with Rob Rogers”
Thursday, Feb. 4, 7:00 PM in Gregg Hall

Rob Rogers, political cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, lectures at CMU about his work, and signs copies of his new book, “No Cartoon Left Behind: The Best of Rob Rogers” after his talk. Books will be on sale outside of Gregg Hall.

Commentary by:
Tim Haggerty, Director, Humanities Scholars Program, Carnegie Mellon, “Those Damned Pictures: Rob Rogers in Historical Perspective”
Patricia Bellan-Gillen, Dorothy L. Stubnitz Professor of Art, School of Art,
Carnegie Mellon, “Thievery: Cartoons and Comics in Contemporary Art”

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Arts in Society and the School of Art.

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Workshop with Rob Rogers: Cartoonist For A Day
Saturday, Feb. 6, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
College of Fine Arts, room 313, to be followed by pizza and soda.

Slide presentation: “How A Cartoonist’s Brain Works”
Students will learn to create an editorial cartoon from start to finish. They will begin by choosing a story from the headlines, roughing out ideas and inking in a finished piece. They will also get to practice the art of caption writing on finished cartoons with the words removed. Bring sketch pads and pencils, some markers for inking provided.

****Space limited; please register by email with Tom Justofin, Office Associate in the School of Art at justofin@cmu.edu

*CALL FOR AMBASSADORS* CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST SPRING 2010

34th Cleveland International Film Festival
Mark your calendars
March 18-28, 2010 Tower City Cinemas

The Cleveland International Film Festival has grown to attract nearly 67,000 people for 11 days to Tower City Center. Over 300 films originating from more 60 countries are showcased during this annual Spring arts tradition.

Sidebars of the CIFF include: , American Independents, Cinema En Español, Documentaries, Eastern European films, Family Films, It’s Easy Being Green (films dealing with environmental issues), Jewish and Israeli Visions, Pacific Pearls, Pan-African Images, Standing Up (films with a conscience), and Women of the World.

If you would like to volunteer to be a college ambassador in exchange for vouchers to attend screenings, please contact: kailyne.waters@yahoo.com or waters@clevelandfilm.org.

For more information about CIFF (2010 festival information still pending):
-Visit our website - http://www.clevelandfilm.org.

And if you are not a member considering joining. Membership has many privileges including early ticket purchase, discounts, and special invites - https://www.clevelandfilm.org/support_membership.php

-Join our social network, and stay connected 24/7 -
http://www.clevelandfilm.org/social

34th Cleveland International Film Festival
March 18-28, 2010
Tower City Cinemas

Let’s Go

*BFA STUDENTS* APPLY NOW FOR ETB GRANTS

STUDENT GRANTS IN ELECTRONIC TIME BASED ART
DEADLINE: 6PM, MARCH 17, 2010

The Fine Foundation has generously granted the ETB area with funds to support student projects.
There will be 6 production grants, in the amount of $500 each, awarded to students as completion funds for Electronic Time Based Art projects.

Proposal guidelines:
- 1 proposal (3 pages max)
- 1 budget (1 page max)
- Sufficient visuals to support you proposal.

All video must be on YouTube or Vimeo with links included in the proposal document. All visual documentation must be linked to a website or included in the 3 page proposal. No DVDs or hard copies of material will be accepted.

Proposals should be emailed to Jim Duesing duesing@cmu.edu by 6PM on March 17, 2010. Late proposals will not be considered.

The students who receive grants will be asked to present their work at the end of the semester at a public event.

In addition to these 6 grants, 2 awards of $500 each will be given to completed Electronic Time Based Art work at the end of the school year. Details for how to compete for these 2 awards will be announced at a later date.