FUSE: cadre/montalvo residency lecture series

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 20, 2007

Contact: Kuniko Vroman, Residency Coordinator
FUSE: CADRE-Montalvo Artist Research Residency in collaboration with
ZERO1
Director: Joel Slayton
Telephone: 408.924.4368
Fax Number: 408.924.4326
[email protected]

Third of new artist residency lecture series to take place September
14, at 7pm at San Jose City Hall

San Jose, CA- The third presenter in FUSE: conversation is Sam Gould
of artist collective, Red76. FUSE: conversation is a series of
lectures presented by nominated and commissioned artists as part of
their candidacy for FUSE: collaboration, the residency component of
FUSE, a CADRE/Montalvo artist research residency initiative.

Eddo Stern is an artist and game designer. He was born in Tel Aviv,
Israel and lives in Los Angeles. He works on the disputed borderlands
between fantasy and reality, exploring the uneasy and otherwise
unconscious connections between physical existence and electronic
simulation. His work explores new modes for narrative and
documentary, experimental and multidisciplinary computer game design,
and cross-cultural representation in new media. He works with various
media including software, hardware and game design, live performance,
video, and kinetic sculpture. He is the founder of the now retired
art and technology cooperative C-level. He is currently developing
Darkgame, a sensory deprivation computer game. His work has been
widely exhibited at international venues including The Tate Gallery
Liverpool, Reina Sofia, E3, GDC, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, The ICA, The =

New Museum in NYC, The Rotterdam Film Festival, ICC Tokyo, and The
Art Gallery of Ontario. He has taught production and theory courses
on new media and computer games at USC, UC San Diego, and CalArts.

Revisiting the 1993 Waco, Texas episode, gamers enter the mind and
form of a 'resurrected