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- Subject: EVENT: New Media Symposium, U of Victoria, BC, Canada, Jan-Feb 93
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 22:19:01 EST
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- V R A S P
-
- is pleased to announce this event created
- by Andy Schloss, drummer extraordinaire.
-
-
- THE LABORATORY FOR EXTENDED MEDIA
- Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria
- presents
-
- IMAGE SOUND TEXT
- an Arts and Technology Symposium
- January - February 1993
-
- Recently, the University of Victoria's Faculty of Fine Arts Laboratory
- for Extended Media opened its doors in the newly constructed Fine Arts
- Building. To celebrate its beginnings, the Faculty of Fine Arts is
- organizing an arts and technology symposium. Open to all members of
- the university and the public, the various events will take place over
- a six-week period in January and February of 1993. Visiting lecturers
- and performers will include:
-
- Jaron Lanier--computer scientist, artist and composer, specializing in
- programing language design and virtual reality systems. He is one of
- the founders of the field of Virtual Reality. Founding President of
- VPL Research Inc.
-
- William Gibson--credited with starting the 'cyberpunk movement.' He
- is the highly acclaimed author of Neuromancer, the first novel ever to
- win the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards. Writer living in
- Vancouver.
-
- Max Mathews--Computer scientist and composer, Max Mathews created the
- first computer sound-synthesis languages at Bell Laboratories in the
- 1950's, which have become the basis for virtually all further
- developments in the field. Professor of Music at Stanford University.
-
- Tony Brown--a sculptor who builds kinetic works that both use and
- comment on technology. Tony Brown has exhibited extensively nationally
- and internationally. Professor at the University of Ottawa and Ecole
- de Beaux Arts de Paris.
-
- Vibeke Sorensen--widely known as an innovative artist working with
- video, film, computer graphics and animation systems, and electronic
- musical instruments. She has produced several computer-animated works
- for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, simulating unmanned space probes to
- Mars. Professor in the School of Film and Video Faculty at California
- Institute for the Arts.
-
- Marvin Minsky--a pioneer of artificial intelligence, whose
- contributions as a scientist and author have been instrumental in the
- way we use and think about computers and the workings of the human
- mind. Professor at MIT.
-
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- SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
-
- Jaron Lanier
-
- Lecture Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Wednesday, January 6
-
- Concert Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Thursday, January 7
-
- William Gibson
-
- Reading David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Friday, January 8
-
- Jaron Lanier and William Gibson
-
- Discussion David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 9:30 pm, Friday, January 8
-
- Max Mathews
-
- Lecture Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Wednesday, January 13
-
- Concert Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Thursday, January 14
-
- A concert of new works involving the Mathews Radio
- Drum. Guest composer/performers David Jaffe, Ami
- Radunskaya, Mari Kimura and Andrew Schloss.
- Including the premiere performance of a new work
- commissioned from David Jaffe in honor of Max
- Mathews.
-
- Tony Brown
-
- Lecture David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Wednesday, January 20
-
- Vibeke Sorensen
-
- Lecture/Demonstration Room 159 Begbie Bldg.
- 8 pm, Friday, February 5
-
- Marvin Minsky
-
- Lecture David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
- 8 pm, Monday, February 22
-
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-
- OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS
-
- David Jaffe--a leading computer music composer and researcher, his
- composition Silicon Valley Breakdown has been performed in over 20
- countries and has been hailed as a landmark of the medium. Designer
- of the music software for the NeXT computer.
-
- Mari Kimura--New York violinist and composer Mari Kimura has appeared
- in concert the world over. She has been described as an artist of
- "astonishing vitality" (Sankei News), and "a unique contemporary
- artist to be watched and listened to." (San Jose Mercury News).
-
- Ami Radunskaya--mathematician, composer, cellist, specializes in
- ergodic theory of dynamical systems and the mathematics of chaos. She
- is currently working on the MIMI (Mathematically Illuminated Musical
- Instrument) and is on the Mathematics faculty at Rice University in
- Houston, Texas.
-
- Andrew Schloss--pioneered the implementation of the Radio Drum, a new
- musical instrument designed at Bell Laboratories by Max Mathews and
- Bob Boie. Performs internationally in duos with David Jaffe and with
- Paris-based jazz pianist Jeff Gardner. Presently on the Music faculty
- at the University of Victoria.
-
- Mathematics Colloquium Room C110, Clearihue Bldg. 3:30 pm, Thurs,
- January 14
-
- Ami Radunskaya, Department of Mathematics, Rice University:
- "Detecting Randomness in Nature: Differentiating Between
- Deterministic and Stochastic Chaos."
-
- Lecture/Demonstration Room A168, MacLaurin Bldg. 1:30 pm, Friday,
- January 15
-
- David Jaffe and Mari Kimura demonstrate and discuss
- new music, techniques and technologies for string
- instruments, including the zeta violin and other innovations.
-
- Composition Seminar Room B008, MacLaurin Bldg. 7:30 pm, Thursday,
- February 4
-
- Rand Steiger, Department of Music, UC San Diego,
- addresses Dr. Schloss's computer music seminar.
-
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- CONTACT:
-
- Dr. W. Andrew Schloss (School of Music)
- Lynda Gammon (Department of Visual Arts)
- Faculty of Fine Arts
- University of Victoria
- Victoria BC CANADA V8W 2Y2
- (604) 721-7756
- email: aschloss@nero.uvic.ca
-
- These events form part of the University of Victoria's 90/30
- Anniversary year celebrations.
-