[ ESC ] : electronic social club / March22 / NYC

\ [ ESC ] : electronic social club
mixer & presentations ///
Thursday, March 22.2007
7 - 10p
Hunter College
695 Park Avenue
Black Box / Hunter North Room 543

/ new media / experimental / video / installations / interactive / sound projects / media art /

Like a social club, [ ESC ] is formed around a common interest, activity or location. We bring together MFA students from across New York City to meet and showcase their graduate art work, and to form a common network around the theme of creating social dialogue through art and media.

Presentations:

freeformed
Catherine Colman, Megan MacMurray, Jadie Oh, Nanna Halinen, Yonatan Kelib (NYU ITP)
A community-centred media sharing service for web and mobile phones.

Document
Karl Mendonca, Marcus Pingel, Charles Earl Love Yust (Parsons Design & Technology)
An interactive installation that records situated history narrated by pedestrians in Washington Square Park.

Interactive performance
Sherrard Bostwick, Ann Adachi, Juliana Cope (Brooklyn PIMA)
Images and sound will be projected into a space sculpted by transparent cloth and clear reflective plastics.

Interactive installation
Fabio Corredor (Hunter College)
A multidisciplinary installation and experiment in augmented reality, centred on an iconic image of a prisoner of war from Abu Ghraib.

Video installation
Pilar Ortiz and Francisca Caporali (Hunter College)
An experimental video on taxi cabs in New York, conceptualised in a master class with internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.

ShiftSpace
Mushon Zer-Aviv, Dan Phiffer (NYU ITP)
ShiftSpace creates a new public space on the Internet by adding an open source layer above any website.


Directions:
take the 6 train to 68 Street
walk North to the entrance on 69th St.
entrance between Park and Lexington
Hunter North Room 543

for information: [email protected]