Camille Utterback & Anne Mellor speak at the San Jose Museum of Art!

FLESH & CHIPS: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN

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.

Utterback is a pioneering artist and programmer in the field of interactive installation. Her works explore our bodies’ relationship to new technology, particularly to the creative potential of our interactions with it. Her interactive mediums provide rich environments to explore the connections between physical bodies and the myriad representational systems possible in the digital realm. Mellor is a Shelley scholar and author of Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. She has edited Shelley’s major writings and specifically addresses Shelley’s relationship to science and technology. Mellor is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ticket Info: SJMA Members $5 each / $15 series; General Public $12 each / $30 series. Purchase tickets online at www.sanjosemuseumofart.org or call 408.291.5386.

BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN is an exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art
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.