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Work Zone: Premiere Meeting
NYC ACM SIGGRAPH is excited to announce the premiere of a new monthly series that will showcase digital and multimedia artists. WORK ZONE is an informal, free monthly show-and-tell series in which three to four digital artists will present and discuss recent work or work-in-progress. This series is being hosted by SVA's Computer Art Department.
Tuesday,
October 8, 2002
6:30PM - 8:00 PM
Room
301-C ,
School of
Visual Arts
141
West 21st Street
New York, NY
PRESENTERS:
Ye Won Cho, Animator, and Justine Chen, Composer / Violinist, will discuss their collaboration and screen Cho's "Trilemma."
Lucien Harriot, Animator / Principal Mechanism Digital,
will discuss his visualization of the WTC site. He used Maya and photogrametry to build an accurate digital model of the area to aid in rescue and recovery efforts.
Jeffrey Lerer, Animator, will screen two installments of "Manuscript Fragments from the Gilbert Hotel"
and discuss its genesis and direction.
Don Ritter, Interactive / Network Artist, will present "every-thing.net",
a Web site that determines everything, and other recent projects.
PRESENTER BIOS:
Justine Chen
Native New Yorker Justine Fang Chen has been the recipient of many prestigious awards and commissions, and has had her compositions performed throughout the United States, South America, and Asia. As a composer, violinist, and trained ballet dancer, her keen interest in multimedia collaborations has led to work with directors, choreographers, film-makers, visual artists, and interactive computer media. The New York Times praised her music as a ". . . propulsive, emotionally resonant score that choreographers tend to dream of." Future projects include a commission from Concertante, the New York-based virtuoso string ensemble, and a computer-enhanced chamber opera scheduled for performance in December 2003 at The Juilliard School.
Ye Won Cho
Ye Won Cho is a native of Seoul, Korea. She moved to New York in 1999 to study time-based work and has an MBA in Computer Art from SVA. Her animation was nominated in the 29th Student Academy Awards, was aired in PBS's Reel New York, and was screened and will be screened at a variety of venues including the Hiroshim International Animation Festival, SIGGRAPH 2002 Art Gallery, Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia, the Clark Theater at Lincoln Center, the American Museum of the Moving Image, AnimaMundi 2002 in Rio de Janeiro. She is currently an artist-in-residence for Eyebeam Atelier.
Lucien Harriot
In addition to owning the digital effects and animation studio Mechanism Digital and his work with NYC ACM SIGGRAPH, Lucien Harriot is also CTO Animation & Special Effects for Brainstorm Computer Animated Solutions, LLC. Founded in the aftermath of 9-11, Brainstorm's mission is to make available to the architecture, engineering and construction industries the same high-end computer animation currently standard in the world of advertising and entertainment.
Jeffrey Lerer
My career as a visual artist began with a keen interest in science. I saw science and visual art intertwined. After formal art studies at the University of Iowa, I spent most of the 1970s living and exhibiting in Mexico. When I returned to New York in 1981, my project designs and general concepts revolved around time-based media, gradually incorporating computer technology into my work. Within a few years, 3D animation took over the studio process. I have taught at Pratt and FIT and am currently on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts. My animation work has received funding from the Experimental Television Center, Fund for Innovative TV; NY Foundation for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts and the T.J. Watson Research Center.
Don Ritter
Don Ritter is a New York based Canadian artist whose work has focused on interactive and network based digital art since 1979. His work has been exhibited in 15 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia, including Ars Electronica, Sonambiente Festival (Berlin), SIGGRAPH 99 (Los Angeles), SAM Museum (Osaka), European Media Art Festival, Art Institute of Chicago, New Music America, Metronom (Barcelona), Banff Centre for the Arts and ArtFuture 2000 (Taipei). His interactive sound installation "Intersection" has been experienced by over 500,000 visitors in 7 countries. He is a professor of Computer Graphics and Interactive Media at Pratt Institute.
Admission:
(Please note - You will need to present a photo ID and sign-in to enter the building.)
NYC ACM SIGGRAPH Members (including student members) - Free
Faculty, Students, and Staff of The School of Visual Arts (SVA) - Free
Non-Members - Free
Non-Member Students - Free
