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Art and Technology is a half hour radio program that investigates the relationship of Art and the advances in New Technologies. This 30 minute program focuses on interviewing contemporary visual and audio artists about their work, influences, aesthetics and technical issues they encounter in the creation of their art and their personal comments about the role of new media art in the art-world today.
The shows focus is the discussion with artists working in Interactive, Performance, Screen Based, and Audio and Sound Based media about the role that dynamic technologies play in contemporary art and their own artwork
The show is Produced and Directed by the host Daniel Durning who selects the guests, conducts the interviews for this radio series.
In the latest edition of Art and Technology, Host Daniel Durning records his program outside of the Armory Show with a stylish ride in artist Holly Crawford's Flatland Limo project, a traveling video exhibition space and alternative to the traditional white box viewing experience. Along for the ride was a group of artists, critics and scholars who discussed the work showing on the limo's video screens while traveling down the Westside highway and enjoying the champagne. Holy Crawford, hosted the ride with the Passengers Marjan Moghaddam, Christine Licata, Eli Epstein Dutch, and John Sebaskien.
Holly Crawford is an artist, writer and Art Historian. Her work examines mass media and pop culture and it's relationship to art. And her latest book Attached to the Mouse discusses how Disney, a mass media corporation influences contemporary art. She has exhibited internationally including; Sound Art Limo / Critical Conversations in a Limo were part of Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2007.
Marjan Moghaddam is a NYC based computer artist. Her animations and visual music pieces have been shown internationally and her work Computer 69 was one of the final selections of the Kansas City Filmmaker's Jubilee a collaboration with the American Jazz Museum. She is a recent recipient of a Brooklyn Arts Council grant in multimedia and her work can be seen in the Power of Art Program, May 8th, Spike Lee Screening Room, Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. Moghaddam has exhibited her computer art and animation internationally at numerous galleries and museums including international conferences and festivals such as 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 her new work at the Opening Event of the Siggraph 2006 Guerrilla Studio in Boston.
Perpetual Art Machine is an on line gallery and database of video art and is a community for video artists, curators, writers, theorist, educators, collectors, and enthusiasts.
Lee Wells (Founder,Video Artist, and Curator) is an artist, exhibition organizer and consultant currently living and working New York. He is a co-founder and director of IFAC-arts, an alternative exhibition and installation program for artists and curators. His artwork, projects and exhibitions have been written about by various national and international art and news publications to include: The New York Times, Art Newspaper, The Washington Post, Art in America, and Art Net. Wells is currently a curator at large for Scope Art Fairs and is a site editor emeritus Rhizome
Andrew K. Erdos (Video Artist and Curator) is an artist whose art work combines sculpture, performance, installation, sound and digital media. Erdos has been in exhibitions at Beijing BS1 Contemporary Art Center, Chelsea Art Museum, The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Kathleen Cullen Fine Art (NewYork, NY), and Monkey Town (Brooklyn, NY).
Matthew Schwartz is a well known collector of video art. He is a secondary market maker, of works by the worlds most celebrated and collected video artists. Matt is responsible for all business negotiations involving PAM. He freely consults with PAM members, concerning their career development, salability of their artwork, as well as, sales strategy. Matt assists in matching artists with relevant gallery representation.
Recorded live at the Video Lounge at the SCOPE Art Fair at Lincoln center.
This session of Art and Technology host Daniel Durning discusses the evolution of 8bit music with the Gameboy performer Josh Davis a.k.a. Bit Shifter. Bit Shifter tells of the upcoming Blip Festival he helped organize and talks about the phenomena of the high-energy, low-bit music scene. The Blip Festival is being held Nov. 29th – Dec. 2nd in conjunction with The Tank and the Eyebeam Atelier, 540 W. 21st Street, NY, NY.
This session of Art and Technology host Daniel Durning explores the Immersive Virtual Metaverse with 3 longtime residents of Linden Lab's Second Life. Today's show discusses the social networking phenomina and the various creative experiences with the artists behind the avatars, Jacquelyn Ford Morie, Katherine Milton, Michael Wright. This program was recorded live at the Gourilla Studios at SIGGRAPH 2007 the computer graphics conference held in San Diego, California.
Jacquelyn Ford Morie is known in the computer graphics community as the "grandmother" of Virtual Reality having worked in interactive media and immersive environments for many years. She has worked in both animation and visual effects entertainment (Disney, Rhythm & Hues Studios) as well as with developing virtual environments in government-sponsored research laboratories. Her current project the 'Memory Stairs Project' is an artistic virtual environment installation embodying the tools and techniques developed to create extremely compelling virtual worlds. She is currently Associate Director of Creative Development for the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California.
Katherine Milton is Director of the Aesthetic Technologies Lab at Ohio State University.
She has worked in digital technologies producing interactive media and web design since 1989. She specializes in online learning communities and developing educational media with multi disciplinary artists.
Michael Wright is a painter working in both traditional and electronic mediums. He has exhibited digital and traditional works on a national level. His work appears currently in a new book "The Computer in the Visual Arts" by Anne Morgan Spalter of Brown University, published by Addison Wesley . His digital works are also published in Linda Jacobs' book Cyberarts: Exploring Art & Technology, Wired, Micro Publishing News and Computer Graphics & Applications. He and his work have been featured on Agent X, Television Tokyo. Wright is currently an associate professor in the Digital Media and Liberal Studies Programs at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
This technical discussion is not for the weak of heart. This past summer Art and Technology’s host Daniel Durning indulged in some heavy duty tech talk on Color Management for the artist and designers at the SIGGRAPH 2007 computer graphics conference held in San Diego. Marc Aguilera proclaimed Color Expert at Encompus designs and John Bryson of X-rite corporation discuss in vivid details Color Management and Monitor Calibration. Hopefully our audience will have an enlightening adjustment to their mind, monitors, and print colors as a result of this program.
John Bryson is the Marketing Strategist of X-brite presenting training seminars on the Fundamentals of Color and Appearance throughout the US and Canada. He develops programs and demonstrations on the physics of color and lighting covering the evaluation, measurement and communication of color.
Marc is a visual artist, photographer and color expert. He heads Colorcritical, a consulting firm that provides solutions for a color-managed workflow. As a certified Color Management Trainer he has have presented seminars such as "Color Control Freak" and "Color Without Limits" at various conferences. Recently been honored for his photography as the grand prize winner of the HP On Assignment Photo Contest for 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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
