Gail Wight & Antoinette LaFarge to speak at San Jose Museum of Art!

BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN, an exhibition opening on August 6th at the San Jose Museum of Art, is a grouping of experimental work by a new generation of women artists working with video, electronics, robotics, the Internet, computer games and animation, and other digital and traditional media to animate synthetic creatures with virtual life.

FLESH & CHIPS: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN

GAIL WIGHT & ANTOINETTE LAFARGE
Sunday, August 7, 2005 2pm
“Bride” Gail Wight and new media professor and artist Antoinette LaFarge will examine the connections between Mary Shelley, her creature, and contemporary biological art. Moderated by guest curator, Marcia Tanner.

WIGHT, assistant professor of new media at Stanford University, currently heads Stanford University Digital Art Center (SUDAC). Her work poetically and often humorously critiques the history of science, the uses of animals in scientific research and the ethics of biotechnology and genetic engineering.
LAFARGE is associate professor of digital media at the University of California, Irvine, in the Studio Art Department. Her research interests include networked performance, mixed-reality performance, hypermedia, role-playing environments, computer games, digital typography, collaborative and performative writing, and fictive art. Recent intermedia and mixed-reality performance works include Demotic (2004), The Roman Forum Project (2003), and Reading Frankenstein (2003). She is the founder of the Plaintext Players, an Internet performance group, and the director of the virtual Museum of Forgery.

DON'T MISS THE NEXT PROGRAMS IN THE SERIES:

Andrea ACKERMAN & Ellen ULLMAN
Friday, September 23, 2005 8pm
“Bride” Andrea Ackerman and author Ellen Ullman explore how digital technology makes us question our notions of what is natural and what is artificial.

Camille UTTERBACK & Anne MELLOR
Saturday, October 15, 2005 2pm
“Bride” Camille Utterback and author Anne Mellor discuss the ramifications of virtuality and our increasing relationship with the interfaces and representational systems of our machines.

SPECIAL EVENT!
It's Aliiive! A Night of Performance with KRISTIN LUCAS
Friday, September 16, 2005 8pm

Visit the Musuem's web site for more details at: www.sanjosemuseumofart.org.