ATC@UCB: Jim Campbell, Monday 7:30pm

ATC@UCB:

Formula Art : Computers as One Dimensional Translators
Jim Campbell, Artist, San Francisco

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Mon, 10 November, 7:30-9:30pm: UC Berkeley,
Location: 160 Kroeber Hall
All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public.

Tracing his work through the last 15 years, Campbell considers
recurring themes in computer mediated art. Starting with
"Interactivity" and ending with "Data Aestheticization", Campbell
argues that computer art is in danger of becoming formulaic.

The media of Campbell's work has gone through a progression from film
to video to interactive installation to electronic sculpture.
Thematically his work has been about human memory and its relationship
to time and movement from both psychological and scientific
perspectives. His earlier interactive works were often in the
structure of a psychological mirror, where the viewer's response to a
work became part of the work itself, as in a feedback system. More
recently he has been exploring perception at the threshold of
recognition of moving images looking for what kinds of meaning can be
expressed with extremely small amounts of information?

Having spent the last 3 years thinking about the "pixel" as the atomic
structure of a digital representation, Campbell will discuss his
conclusion that the pixel as a visual element exists only as a media
and art-based contrivance to give us something to grasp onto (or to
see) as "digital". Campbell will also argue that prevalent "Art by
Number" methods evolved naturally out of the inherent structure of the
computer.

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Jim Campbell was born in Chicago in 1956 and lives in San
Francisco. He received 2 Bachelor of Science Degrees in Mathematics
and Engineering from MIT in 1978. His work has been shown
internationally and throughout North America in institutions such as
the Whitney Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the
Carpenter Center, Harvard University; The International Center for
Photography, New York, and the Intercommunication Center in Tokyo.
His electronic art work is included in the collections of the Whitney
Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the
University Art Museum at Berkeley. In 1992 he created one of the
first permanent public interactive video artworks in the U.S. in
Phoenix, Arizona. He has lectured widely on interactive media art,
including at the Museum of Modern Art in NY. As an engineer he holds
more than a dozen patents in the field of video image processing. For
more info visit: http://www.jimcampbell.tv

Campbell's lecture will be introduced by Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson,
Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
Archive. Jim Campbell's work is on exhibit through Nov 16 at the BAM
as Matrix 208: Memory Array.

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The ATC Colloquium continues our partnership with the Berkeley Art
Museum to present online video of ATC talks, available both in
QuickTime (highlights) or MP3 audio. For links and the full 2003-2004
series schedule, please see:

http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/
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PS: On Sunday, Nov 9 @ 3pm in the BAM Museum Theater: Genetic
Perspective or Bio Art History? Barbara Stafford (Professor of Art
History, University of Chicago) will present a talk on artists whose
work reflects their awareness of evolutionary and developmental
psychology and cognitive science, including Eduardo Kac, Matthew
Barney, Suzanne Anker, Orlan, and Aziz & Cucher. Free with museum
admission (which is free for UC Berkeley students) to "Gene(sis):
Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics," on view through Dec. 7.