Edward A. Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. He is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the Media Art History faculty at the Donau University in Krems, Austria. He was formerly Executive Director of the Information Science + Information Studies program at Duke University, and Professor of Art History and Media Theory at Savannah College of Art and Design. Recent and forthcoming publications include essays on art and technology in the 1960s, information aesthetics, interactivity and agency, and the cultural implications of cybernetics, robotics, and biotechnology. He edited Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness (University of California Press, 2003). His second book, Art and Electronic Media was published by Phaidon Press in 2009. Full CV available on my website.
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Need image of Jaron Lanier, “Music From Inside Virtual Reality: The Sound Of One Hand”
I'm searching for an image of Jaron Lanier's 1993 VR performance “Music From Inside Virtual Reality: The Sound Of One Hand." I saw this performance in 1994 at Ars Electronica and was mesmerized. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I would like to include this in my forthcoming book, Art and Electronic Media. Jaron told my editor that he does not have images himself. I also would be interested to learn of other early VR musical performances.
Thanks! Eddie
Thanks! Eddie
Yolande Harris talk at UCLA
Dates:
Mon Apr 28, 2008 00:00 - Mon Apr 14, 2008
Artist Yolande Harris will discuss her new project Sun Run Sun as part of the Art + Activism lecture series at UCLA, sponsored by the Art|Science Center and World Arts and Cultures. Her talk will take place at 12:00 pm on Monday, April 28 at the EDA, Room 1250 (Eli Broad Arts Center). Parking is available in lot 9, off HIlgard, just south of Sunset.
Sun Run Sun charts a path between environmental awareness and technological development, using sound as the medium to enhance both. The project investigates the split between the embodied experience of location and the calculated data of position, exploring the individual experience of current location technologies through a personal experience of sound. It seeks to (re)establish a sense of connectedness to one's environment, and to (re)negotiate this through an investigation into old, new, future and animal navigation using sound.
The project consists of two different parts, a sound installation and a series of portable instruments to take on a walk through the city. In the installation 'Dead Reckoning' Yolande Harris reveals the patterns of orbiting satellites coming in and out of range and inconsistencies in how GPS technology locates the self in a longitude/latitude grid. The mobile 'Satellite Sounders' transform the live satellite data directly into a sonic composition listened to on headphones as one walks through the city. Live signals from satellites in orbit, together with the performer's coordinates on earth, generate a continuously transforming electronic soundscape. Yolande Harris's soundscape questions what is inside and what is outside, what it means to be located and what it means to be lost.
About Yolande Harris:
Understanding the relations between sound, image and space through technologies of communication and navigation, has been the central focus of Yolande's work over the last ten years. She explores the intermediary role of the score, both as practical and conceptual tool, and as an open imaginary situation for communication. Her Score Spaces project employs a spatial approach to composition and has resulted in numerous audio-visual performances and installations, including the Meta-Orchestra, theoretical texts, such as "Inside Out Instrument," and workshops for composers, sound artists, architects and designers. Her most recent works, Taking Soundings and Sun Run Sun, employ intuitive and scientific modes of knowing and join ancient and contemporary navigation and orientation techniques from sextants to GPS, to explore our apparently changing relation to land and sea environments in the age of satellite and mobile technologies.
Yolande has a degree in music from Dartington College of Arts and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in architecture and the moving image. She has been resident researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, artistic fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and artist in residence at STEIM and the Netherlands Institute for Media Arts in Amsterdam. She has taught interaction design at the Technical University of Eindhoven, is guest lecturer at the Rietveld Academy Design Lab, and lectures on her work internationally. Her writings have been published in the Contemporary Music Review and Journal of Organised Sound.
Sun Run Sun charts a path between environmental awareness and technological development, using sound as the medium to enhance both. The project investigates the split between the embodied experience of location and the calculated data of position, exploring the individual experience of current location technologies through a personal experience of sound. It seeks to (re)establish a sense of connectedness to one's environment, and to (re)negotiate this through an investigation into old, new, future and animal navigation using sound.
The project consists of two different parts, a sound installation and a series of portable instruments to take on a walk through the city. In the installation 'Dead Reckoning' Yolande Harris reveals the patterns of orbiting satellites coming in and out of range and inconsistencies in how GPS technology locates the self in a longitude/latitude grid. The mobile 'Satellite Sounders' transform the live satellite data directly into a sonic composition listened to on headphones as one walks through the city. Live signals from satellites in orbit, together with the performer's coordinates on earth, generate a continuously transforming electronic soundscape. Yolande Harris's soundscape questions what is inside and what is outside, what it means to be located and what it means to be lost.
About Yolande Harris:
Understanding the relations between sound, image and space through technologies of communication and navigation, has been the central focus of Yolande's work over the last ten years. She explores the intermediary role of the score, both as practical and conceptual tool, and as an open imaginary situation for communication. Her Score Spaces project employs a spatial approach to composition and has resulted in numerous audio-visual performances and installations, including the Meta-Orchestra, theoretical texts, such as "Inside Out Instrument," and workshops for composers, sound artists, architects and designers. Her most recent works, Taking Soundings and Sun Run Sun, employ intuitive and scientific modes of knowing and join ancient and contemporary navigation and orientation techniques from sextants to GPS, to explore our apparently changing relation to land and sea environments in the age of satellite and mobile technologies.
Yolande has a degree in music from Dartington College of Arts and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in architecture and the moving image. She has been resident researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, artistic fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and artist in residence at STEIM and the Netherlands Institute for Media Arts in Amsterdam. She has taught interaction design at the Technical University of Eindhoven, is guest lecturer at the Rietveld Academy Design Lab, and lectures on her work internationally. Her writings have been published in the Contemporary Music Review and Journal of Organised Sound.
Networks, Surveillance, Culture Jamming
Dates:
Wed Mar 19, 2008 00:00 - Wed Mar 12, 2008
To celebrate the recent paperback reissue of Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness, author Edward Shanken will talk about art using networks, surveillance, and culture jamming. The talk is part of a book-signing event at Philadelphia's oldest and finest independent bookstore.
About Telematic Embrace:
Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term "telematic art" to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. In Telematic Embrace Edward A. Shanken gathers, for the first time, an impressive compilation of more than three decades of Ascott's philosophies on aesthetics, interactivity, and the sense of self and community in the telematic world of cyberspace. This book explores Ascott's ideas on how networked communication has shaped behavior and consciousness within and beyond the realm of what is conventionally defined as art.
See http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8867.php
March 19, 6pm
Robbins Bookstore
108 S. 13th Street (Chestnut/Walnut)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/031908.html
About Telematic Embrace:
Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term "telematic art" to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. In Telematic Embrace Edward A. Shanken gathers, for the first time, an impressive compilation of more than three decades of Ascott's philosophies on aesthetics, interactivity, and the sense of self and community in the telematic world of cyberspace. This book explores Ascott's ideas on how networked communication has shaped behavior and consciousness within and beyond the realm of what is conventionally defined as art.
See http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8867.php
March 19, 6pm
Robbins Bookstore
108 S. 13th Street (Chestnut/Walnut)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/031908.html
Social Fabrics
Dates:
Fri Feb 22, 2008 00:00 - Wed Feb 06, 2008
Location:
United States of America
Exhibition/Performance onsite at CAA
Adam’s Mark Hotel, Remington Room, 4th Floor
Friday, February 22, 2008, 5:30-7:00 PM
Social Fabrics: Wearable + Media + Interconnectivity is a time-based art
exhibition, designed as a modified runway show, of art as wearable media
and technology. Social Fabrics demonstrates convergences between
individual expression and statement making on the one hand, and the
phenomenology of network society on the other. Technological garments or
accessories with social capabilities are presented alongside works that
critique the implications of our digital media-infused and
fashion-driven lifestyles. Artworks are objects, systems,
mini-performances and interactive events.
Curated by Susan Ryan and Patrick Lichty
Presented by the Leonardo Education Forum together with the Center for
Interactive Arts and Engineering, the University of Texas at Dallas, and
the College of Art + Design at Louisiana State University.
Other LEF events at CAA:
Professional Development Roundtable: Education at the Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology
Thursday, February 21, 12:30-2:00 PM
Adam's Mark Hotel, Remington Room, 4th Floor
Led by Edward Shanken, Andrea Polli, and Garnet Hertz
Leonardo Education Forum Business Meeting
Wednesday, February 20, 5:30-7:00 PM
Adam's Mark Hotel, Dallas Ballroom D3, 1st Floor
Adam’s Mark Hotel, Remington Room, 4th Floor
Friday, February 22, 2008, 5:30-7:00 PM
Social Fabrics: Wearable + Media + Interconnectivity is a time-based art
exhibition, designed as a modified runway show, of art as wearable media
and technology. Social Fabrics demonstrates convergences between
individual expression and statement making on the one hand, and the
phenomenology of network society on the other. Technological garments or
accessories with social capabilities are presented alongside works that
critique the implications of our digital media-infused and
fashion-driven lifestyles. Artworks are objects, systems,
mini-performances and interactive events.
Curated by Susan Ryan and Patrick Lichty
Presented by the Leonardo Education Forum together with the Center for
Interactive Arts and Engineering, the University of Texas at Dallas, and
the College of Art + Design at Louisiana State University.
Other LEF events at CAA:
Professional Development Roundtable: Education at the Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology
Thursday, February 21, 12:30-2:00 PM
Adam's Mark Hotel, Remington Room, 4th Floor
Led by Edward Shanken, Andrea Polli, and Garnet Hertz
Leonardo Education Forum Business Meeting
Wednesday, February 20, 5:30-7:00 PM
Adam's Mark Hotel, Dallas Ballroom D3, 1st Floor
