Art & TechnologyAs of June 1, 2007, this page will no longer be updated. Please visit our new site to access newly added programs. Host Daniel Durning interviews sound and visual artists. |
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Edition #19: Armory Show 2007: Merle Laderman Ukeles - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 2, 2007 Daniel Durning hosts a discussion with Merle Laderman Ukeles at the Armory Show 2007. |
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Edition #18: Alexander Rayna and Marjan Moghaddam - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 10, 2006 Daniel Durning hosts a discussion with two multi disciplinary artists working their multidirectional paths on multi dimensional artwork. Artists Marjan Moghaddam and Alex Reyna speak about their art, influences, and new projects for summer 2006. Marjan Moghaddam is an award-winning, New York City-based computer artist. Her computer art and animation have appeared at numerous galleries, museums, conferences, and festivals worldwide including Siggraph and the New York International Video and New Media festival. She is credited as one of the first artists to create gif89a animation on the Internet and is listed as part of the Internet Pioneer Hall. She will be performing new work at the Opening Event of the Siggraph 2006 Guerrilla Studio in Boston. Alexzander Reyna is an artist working in both traditional and digital media and has exhibited his work in New York at The Scope Art Fair, Hunter College, and ABC No Rio. He has had solo exhibitions of his paintings and computer work in New York and other exhibitions in the United States and overseas. His movies can be seen at his site or by podcast at perpetualartmachine.com. |
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Edition #17: Carla Gannis and Jillian McDonald - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 8, 2006 In this edition of Art and Technology, host Daniel Durning brings into focus the video work and other projects of guests Jillian McDonald and Carla Gannis. Both artists look at contemporary media and culture through the lens of obsessive vision and creative work in video, online and other media. Jillian McDonald is a Canadian born artist, living in New York. Her video project entitled Me and Billy Bob, exhibited at Jack the Pelican in Williamsburg, is an ongoing conceptual project in which the object of her obsession is actor Billy Bob Thornton. She teaches art at Pace University in NYC. Carla Gannis, originally from North Carolina, currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Her video installation, Jezebel, will be shown by Claire Oliver at the LOOP video art fair in Barcelona... She received the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in Computer Arts in 2005. (30 minutes) |
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Edition #16: Discussions with Visual and Sound Artists - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 6, 2006 Host Daniel Durning speaks with digital sculptor Paul Higham who has been working with computer technology for over 20 years. Paul discusses Datasculpture [c] and other projects including tele-manufacturing shared by artists located across the globe. He also speaks about the tragic circumstances surrounding his visit to New York and the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina to his organization and studio at the International Sculpture Works in New Orleans this past September. Paul Higham is A long time new media artist, born in the UK and now living in America, Since the early 70s whilst studying at Goldsmiths College of Art London University, his endeavor has remained consistent to propagate a new form of sculpture based on self organizing theories of artificial life, he remains a pioneering advocate of computers in sculpture and Rapid Prototyping. |
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Edition #15: Digilantes - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 26, 2005 A panel discussion with some of the LA artists featured in the retrospective exhibition SYNAPSE at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. As part of the Digilantes these artists talk about their work and the development of the organization that mounted computer art exhibitions throughout Southern California in the 1990s. Artists Michael Wright, Victor Acevedo and Michael Masucci are interviewed by host Daniel Durning from the floor of the Exhibition Hall at the LA Convention Center, August 3rd, 2005 during ACM/SIGGRAPH 2005 the 32nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Michael Wright is a painter who began to explore Digital Media in the mid 1980s and exhibited his first Digital Prints in 1989 and continues to work in both traditional and electronic mediums. Wright is featured in "Going Digital: The Practice and Vision of Digital Artists" by Joseph Nalven, and JD. Jarvis which appeared on book stands this past summer. Victor Acevedo is an artist, best known for his digital work involving printmaking and photography. He has shown his work in over 80 exhibitions worldwide. He is now based in New York where he teaches at the School of Visual Arts, in the MFA Computer Art program. Michael Masucci is an award-winning video, stage and multimedia producer, director and artist. Throughout his full-time career as an artist, Masucci has also curated and produced hundreds of exhibitions, live performance events, lectures and film and video screenings. He is the Artistic Director of EZTV, Los Angeles' 26 year old media art institution. |
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Edition #14: Trends in Education - Computer Art - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast August 1, 2005 This is the second show surveying trends in education on Art and Technology. Host Daniel Durning discusses the philosophy of teaching Digital Arts with three leading educators and Chairs of the top Computer Art Programs in NYC. Guests are Peter Voci, Professor at New York Institute of Technology and Chairperson, Fine Arts Department; Rick Barry, Professor at Pratt Institute and Interim Chairperson, Computer Graphics and Interactive Media; and Bruce Wands, Chair of the MFA Computer Art Department and the Director of Computer Education at the School of Visual Arts in New York and Director of the New York Digital Salon. |
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Edition #13: Trends in Education - Animation - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 18, 2005 Host Daniel Durning discusses the education of animators with two other educators from colleges in New York City. Guests Anezka Sebek (Parsons School of Design, MFA in Design and Technology) and John McIntosh (Chair of the Computer Art Department, School of Visual Arts) talk about the challenges in educating students who wish to enter the field. This edition intitates a new and ongoing Art and Technology series surveying trends in education. Anezka Sebek has been fulltime faculty with the Parsons School of Design since 1999 where she coordinates the BFA Animation Sequence and teaches Narrative, Motion Research Collaboration and Thesis studios. She has worked in the industry in projects ranging from the film Judge Dredd to Elmo's World. In 2004, she worked with UNESCO to begin development of a Sub-Sahara African animation industry in Nairobi, Kenya. Ms. Sebek serves on the Board of Directors for Dyke TV and is also developing a television show about the Hudson Valley. This summer she is giving a talk at Siggraph 2005 about Parsons' Motion Research Studio. Under John McIntosh's direction, the BFA Computer Art program at SVA offers concentrated studies in computer animation, broadcast design, visual effects, and interactive media and installation arts. McIntosh's credentials include: Associate Director of the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging, Director of Technology Programs and the Associate Director of Education at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He worked for James Cameron at Digital Domain. He has served as a member of the Educational Advisory Committee of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and the Media Habitat Advisory Committee of the Canadian Film Centre. In 2002 he was appointed Chair of the Computer Animation Festival for SIGGRAPH 2002. |
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Edition #12: Bill Buxton - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast June 27, 2005 Bill Buxton was in NYC lecturing on the subject Supporting Creative Analysis at the Information Esthetics Series held at the Chelsea Art Museum. Buxton is a research scientist, interface designer and leading expert in the design of technology. With host Daniel Durning he discusses future technologies and some of the applications that await artists working with computing technologies. Buxton owns his own boutique design and consulting firm, Buxton Design. He is a brilliant lecturer, often speaking about the use of technology to support creative activities such as design, film making and music. Information Esthetics: Lecture Series is presented at The Project Room at Chelsea Art Museum by Nina Colosi, and developed and hosted by W. Bradford Paley. |
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Edition #11: DigiGirls - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 31, 2005 Daniel Durning interviews six members of The Digi Girls, a collective of professional artists, curators, animators and filmmakers. The group ponders the conundrum of digital art and talks about their work, careers, and the transition from traditional materials to computer based technologies. Kathleen Graves is a digital and video artist from a painting and dance background. She makes images, video and 2D video animatio ns and is a digital photographer, combining photography with painting techniques and pixel principles on the computer. Andrea Ackerman is a New York artist who graduated from Harvard Medical School and trained and practiced as a psychiatrist before pursuing a career as an artist. Ackerman believes the synthetic is the new "nature". Jerelyn Hanrahan is an artist, sculptor and installation artist who is working with digital interactive media and video installations. Her work has been exhibited at the Burning Man Festival and she is part of a Digital Print Exhibition showing in Cuba in June, 2005. Perry Bard is an artist who works with electronic media and lives in New York. She has exhibited video and installations internationally including in New York at P.S.1 and the New Museum. Her upcoming exhibitions include an installation using a mobile truck side billboard featuring artifacts stolen from the Baghdad Museum. Lisa Crafts is a self-taught animator and painter. Her work is characterized by richly rendered design and themes concerning aspects of the human condition including sexuality, the role of creativity, and the resilience of the human spirit. Claudia Hart began showing her paintings at Pat Hearn Gallery in New York in the late 80s. She is presently working on Sleeping Beauty, a life-sized interactive touch painting in collaboration with the artist and technologist Michael Ferraro. |
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Edition #10: Armory Show Special - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 18, 2005 Digital Monkey Prints, murder in a miniature small town captured by a dozen dissolving cameras, and a suicidal animatronic sculpture were all things to see at the 2005 Armory Show in New York. But what can you do if you weren't there? Listen to Daniel Durning and Lefferts Brown, co-hosts of Art and Technology as they conduct roaming interviews with artists recorded live from the Armory Show floor. What better way to experience the show than by radio. Listen to the Dewan-a-tron and our interview with Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan from the Pierogi Gallery booth discussing the creation of their electronic music machine. Spend some valuable time with artist Peter Simensky discussing his work "neutral capital". Erin McMonagle of the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art talks about alternative spaces along with artist squatter Filip Noterdaeme consulting collector Janusz Jaworski. Hear Nina Katchadourian decode messages from her Talking Popcorn machine in an interview recorded at the Sarah Meltzer Gallery booth Recorded Live at The Armory Show 2005 on Friday, March 11. |
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Edition #9: Animation as Art or the Art of Animation? - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 21, 2005 Host Daniel Durning speaks with two artists working at the forefront of 3D animation. Jeffrey Lerer is currently working on a 3D animated film, Manuscript Fragments Found at the Gilbert Hotel, based on his novel of a collection of vignettes, written in 26 fragments (a-z) and presented as a series of three dimensional computer animations. Using painterly composition and color, this filmmaker and animator has brought to life the strange characters from his 1950s noir flophouse with the finesse, beauty and camera methodology reminiscent of Hitchcock. Michael Ferraro is a founding father of 3D animation, from work his on Tron-the-first 3D animated feature film-to being one of the original partners of Blue Sky Studios, the Academy Award winning 3D animation house that produced Ice Age and now, Robots. |
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Edition #8: Digital Stone Project - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 14, 2005 The future of stone carving is being revolutionized with both CNC milling and other computer controlled processes. Daniel Durning hosts a discussion with two of the founding members of the Digital Stone Project, Robert Michael Smith and Barry X Ball who will demystify the cybernetic breakthroughs in Digital Sculpture. Robert Michael Smith is a digital sculptor and professor of art and technology at New York Institute of Technology. Smith has been an active pioneer of digital sculpture, 3D visualization/animation, Web design, virtual sculptures for the Web, virtual actors for computer gaming, as well as a significant art and technology educator. Smith is President of the Sculptors Guild, founding board member of the Digital Stone Project. Barry X Ball New York artist sculptor, currently working on portrait sculpture project including a work based on Matthew Barney that presents the head of the artist carved in Mexican onyx, at PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2004. Represented by Salon 94 in New York. Also visit sculpture.org and a-factor-e.com/smith. |
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Edition #7: Manfred Mohr - listen | listen with RealPlayer Geometrically inclined painter Manfred Mohr can easily shift from the world of three-dimensional cubic forms to six-dimensional hyper-cubes. The digital pioneer gives Daniel Durning the algorithmic lowdown on a system of computer-based art. With a computer and his own specially designed programs, the reductive Manfred Mohr paintings. Best known for his geometric abstractions of 3-D and 6-D hyper-cubic constructions, he discusses a practice that came out of his early experience as a jazz musician and inchoate computer artist in Paris during the 1960's. Mohr is currently exhibiting an early edition of his work, "Scratch Code", at bitforms Gallery in Chelsea through January 16, 2005. |
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Edition #6: Linda Lauro-Lazin, Marshall Reese, Daria Dorosh - listen | listen with RealPlayer Exhibitions of digital artists' most innovative work have been a feature of the annual conference of the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Groups Graphics since 1980. Linda Lauro-Lazin is a Fulbright Scholar who is currently on the facultry of the Pratt Institute. She has exhibited her artwork for more than 25 years in the U.S. and Europe, and employing digital media since 1986. She was recently chosen Art Chair for SIGGRAPH 2005, commencing in August, 2005 in Los Angeles. Her work can be found at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria and on Rhizome. Marshall Reese is a video and performance artist with a special focus on the meaning of icons and spectacle in social, political, and religious contexts. He also works in collaboration with Nora Ligorano. Daria Dorosh is a founder of the A.I.R. Gallery -- New York's first gallery devoted to the work of women artists -- and a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She produced and directed the collaborative, "Plays Well with Others", an exhibition that combines sound, light and smell in her "OmniGlobe," was a centerpiece of SIGGRAPH 2004. |
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Edition #5: Grahame Weinbren and Jerelyn Hanrahan - listen | listen with RealPlayer Shake hands with the art works, as host Daniel Durning interviews filmmaking pioneer Grahame Weinbren and installation artist Jerelyn Hanrahan on the subject of interactive storytelling and sculpture. Grahame Weinbren is a pioneer in interactive filmmaking, a field he has been developing since the 1980s. His video with Roberta Friedman, "The Erl King" (1982-85), one of the first-ever works of interactive video art, was most recently exhibited in "Seeing Double", at the Guggenheim Museum in the spring of 2004. Grahame is also one of the featured artists in the Variable Media Program. Jerelyn Hanrahan is an artist, sculptor and installation artist working in interactive media. Her work, "Universal Awe", was exhibited at the Burning Man Festival this summer. She currently has a new work on view in "The Ballot Show" at the Front Room Gallery in Brooklyn, through Nov. 21, 2004. |
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Edition #4: Michael Rees - listen | listen with RealPlayer Sculpture, digital technology and new media all come into play in the work of artist Michael Rees, as host Daniel Durning learns during this discussion. Fresh from his curatorial debut at Bitforms Gallery in New York, Rees speaks of the aesthetics of "Cybernetic Totalists," the evolution of the Sculptural User Interface, and the continuation of his "Monster" series in "Michael Rees: Large and Moving," an exhibition of sculpture and sound art running from September 19 to January 2 at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. |
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Edition #3 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Artist and educator Daniel Durning hosts a convention-season special as guests Randall Packer, secretary of the D.C.-based U.S. Department of Art and Technology (an artist collective) and media artist Andy Deck, speak of their new exhibition at the LUXE gallery, Experimental Party DisInformation Center, and about media manipulation, propaganda and activism. |
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Edition #2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Techies rejoice! Here is part two of Daniel Durning and Lefferts Brown, in-depth interviews with computer artist John F. Simon, Jr. who reveals how he made the work exhibited in the Guggenheim Museum's "Seeing Double" exhibition, and composer Laurie Spiegel, talking about her early experiments with electronics and the instruments that have influenced her music. |
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Edition #1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer In this, the first of an introductory two-part special, 3D animator and Web designer Daniel Durning talks to artist John F. Simon, Jr. about new developments in his computer-based paintings, recently exhibited in the Guggenheim Museum's "Seeing Double" exhibition. Simon also gets into the subject of writing creative computer code and the development of "Emergence" and other systems involved in his work. He is represented by the Sandra Gering Gallery in New York. Durning's cohost, the composer and digital audio expert Lefferts Brown, draws out Laurie Spiegel, on the subject of her early experiments with electronics and music, as well as her work with the video artist Nam Jun Paik. A pioneer in computer-generated music, she is also the person who designed Music Mouse, a program that allows music listeners to become music-makers with their computers at home. |
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In Memory of Lefferts Brown William Lefferts Brown IV, friend, colleague and co-host of Art and Technology, passed away on June 7th as a result of a boating accident on Candlewood Lake in Connecticut. Lefferts was a respected electronic music composer, sound designer and installation artist who had been an active member of the downtown New York art and performance community for over 25 years. |
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