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Through their lectures, these artists provide both students and faculty with new and refreshing ideas. There's something here for everyone—gaming, programming, sound, design and contemporary art. Enjoy, and hope to see you all at the lectures.

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Paul Slocum Ferguson Auditorium in 600 S. Michigan Paul Slocum is a Dallas, TX based artist and director and co-owner of And/Or Gallery in Dallas, TX. He has exhibited at ArtHouse in Austin, TX, CANADA in New York, NY, Dunn and Brown Contemporary in Dallas, TX, iMAL in Brussels, Belgium, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD as well as the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, NY. And/Or Gallery opened in January 2006 and shows emerging and mid-career artists from around the world who work in all mediums, but our emphasis is on new media. We are one of the few spaces in the country that has the equipment and experience to handle the most current new media work. Our exhibitions are covered frequently in local press and in well-known new media news sites such as Rhizome. We have a strong reputation in the art community in Dallas and Texas, and we are known by new media curators and artists throughout the world. EventDate: 10/2/2008 6:30:00 PM Artist Link
Scott Rettberg Ferguson Auditorum in 600 S. Michigan / 6th Floor Scott Rettberg (CV) is a Chicago native who now lives in Norway. He writes, and writes about new media and electronic literature. He is an associate professor of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen. EventDate: 9/25/2008 5:00:00 PM Artist Link
The Exploding, Plastic and Inevitable Redux- Live Visuals performance by Stefan Muller Arisona with special musical guest Steve Gibson Conaway Center, 1104 South Wabash Avenue, First Floor This is a fantastic multi-media event is not to be missed! The four screen interactive VJ performance with live electronic music has already been performed throughout Canada and Europe and is created by two masters of the live visuals phenomenon. Stefan Muller Arisona, aka robot_mixeur (Santa Barbara, CA/Zurich, Switzerland - DJ, Visuals) and Steve Gibson (Victoria, BC, Canada - DJ, Visuals) Stefan Muller Arisona is a post-doctoral research fellow at Media Arts and Technology (MAT) of the University of California, Santa Barbara. His main interests are at the intersections of art and technology. His research focuses on novel real-time multimedia systems and on live composition and performance techniques. Stefan has performed internationally and his art works have appeared at renowned locations such as the Ars Electronica Center (Austria, 2006–2008). Steve Gibson, a Canadian media artist, composer, curator and theorist who now serves as Associate Professor of Digital Media at University of Victoria, Canada. Steve Gibson’s installations and compositions have been performed in such venues as: Ars Electronica; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the North American New Music Festival; the Banff Centre for the Arts; the European Media Arts Festival; ISEA; Interface3, Hamburg; Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg; and 6CyberConf. EventDate: 4/24/2008 7:30:00 PM Artist Link
IAM Visiting Artists Lecture Series Presents Stefan Muller Arisona: Computer-Assisted Content Editing Techniques for Live Multimedia Performance 623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405 Stefan Muller Arisona is a post-doctoral research fellow at Media Arts and Technology (MAT) of the University of California, Santa Barbara. His main interests are at the intersections of art and technology, and his research focuses on novel real-time multimedia systems and on live composition and performance techniques. Stefan received an MSc in Computer Science from Uppsala University (Sweden, 1997) and a MSc in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich (Switzerland, 1998). He was visiting researcher at IRCAM Centre Pompidou (France, 2003) and completed his PhD at the University of Zurich's Multimedia Lab (Switzerland 2004). From 2005 to 2007, Stefan was a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at ETH Zurich's Computer Systems Institute, and he was scientific chair of the Digital Art Weeks, an annual symposium and festival that explores new movements in digital art. Stefan has performed internationally and his art works have appeared at renowned locations such as the Ars Electronica Center (Austria, 2006 - 2008). EventDate: 4/24/2008 5:30:00 PM Artist Link
Reflective Play - Rafael Fajardo - Visiting Artist 623 S. Wabash, Room 405, Chicago, IL Exploring the creation of games and toys to raise consciousness and stimulate thinking. Visiting artist Rafael Fajardo is the founder of SWEAT, a loose collaborative that makes socially conscious video games. Fajardo teaches at the University of Denver where he is an associate professor of Electronic Media Arts Design and Director of Digital Media Studies. EventDate: 4/10/2008 5:30:00 AM Artist Link
LiQin Tan, Digital-Primitive Art 623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405 Professor Tan has portrayed his inventive and autodidactic energy as an artist, teacher and researcher for three decades while residing in China, Canada, Singapore and the U.S.A. His works of art have been exhibited nationally and internationally including SIGGRAPH02-06, iDMAa04-07, Electronics Alive IV, iV04-06, Shanghai DuoLun Museum of Modern Art, National Center for Computer Animation in UK, Centre D’Art Contemporaine in Montreal, Vancouver Art Gallery, Singapore Art Museum, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Noyes Museum of Art, Jiangsu Art Museum and National Art Museum in China. EventDate: 2/18/2008 5:30:00 PM Artist Link
Squirrel Eiserloh, Technical Director, MumboJumbo Games 623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405 Squirrel is a veteran programmer/designer seeking to find ways to help gaming discover its full potential as a medium. His path through game development has spanned a number of games from early online MUDs to action/adventure/role-playing games and shooters. An advocate of education, creative collaboration, and rapid iteration, he is currently helping create casual games at Dallas-based MumboJumbo and serves as the Technical Director there. In his spare time he organizes a group of area developers who conduct 48-hour experimental "game jam" sessions and serves on the board of the local IGDA chapter. Published games include Anachronox, Star Trek: Elite Force II, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike for XBox, 25-To-Life, Quake 4, Medal of Honor: Airborne, and Luxor 3. EventDate: 2/8/2008 5:30:00 PM Artist Link
Wafaa Bilal - Visiting Artist 623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405 Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal, a Professor at the Art Institute of Chicago, has exhibited his art world wide, and traveled and lectured extensively to inform audiences of the situation of the Iraqi people, and the importance of peaceful conflict resolution. Bilal’s latest video installation Domestic Tension placed him on the receiving end of a paintball gun that was accessible online to a worldwide audience, 24 hours a day. The month-long piece spurred online debates and intense conversations, garnering the praise of the Chicago Tribune, which called it “one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time,” and Newsweek’s assessment “breathtaking.” But it is the resulting dialogue that Bilal seeks, as an artist who feels he does not have the privilege to create work that is not political. In the face of a war that stretches on, the 2005 deaths of his brother and father, the violence in his own history, Bilal seeks to imbue his audiences with a sense of empowerment that comes from hope in the enduring potential of humanity. EventDate: 11/15/2007 5:30:00 PM Artist Link
Ric Heitzman (CANCELLED) 623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405 (Cancelled due to transportation issues) Ric Heitzman straddles the fine and commercial art worlds as a designer, director, cartoonist and puppeteer. He has garnered three EMMY awards for Co-production design on Pee wee's Playhouse, the internationally syndicated children's television series. In addition, he has directed music videos, commercials and film. Some of his many clients are: Atlantic Records, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Sprint and Chili's Restaurants. A master of many forms of animation, he brought to life an array of characters in the pilot for the stop-motion animated series, the PJ's, staring Eddie Murphy for FOX-TV. Heitzman also co-wrote and directed Flash animated shorts, interactive games and two series, The Banana Splits and Pink Donkey Goes to Japan all for Cartoon Network. As a 20 year member of the Screen Actors Guild, Ric has supplied voices and puppeteered a number of characters for Cartoon Network, Children's Television Workshop, MTV, CBS-TV and Paramount Pictures. Ric designs from his studio in Los Angeles where he continues to paint, sculpt, write and direct. EventDate: 11/8/2007 5:30:00 PM Artist Link
Viper Vertex - Visiting Artists JoAnn Gillerman & Rob Terry 623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405 VIPER VERTEX is a contemporary electronic media arts company specializing in interactive and innovative multimedia, including exhibit/installation design and production, web design/production and DVD authoring. The two principals, JoAnn Gillerman and Rob Terry, provide a unique blend of digital media, fine arts, video, sound, computers and interface design. Viper Vertex has co-produced many interactive multimedia exhibits, including permanent installations at Chabot Space and Science Center, The Tech Musuem of Innovation, and the Saint Louis Zoo. EventDate: 10/25/2007 5:30:00 PM Artist Link
Scott McCloud Visiting Artist - Comics: A Medium in Transition Film Row Cinema, 1104 South Wabash Ave., 8th Floor. Comics: A Medium in Transition American comics are changing fast. Bolstered by the literary ambitions of the "graphic novel" movement, a flood of international influences and the growing importance of new technologies, the comics landscape shifts regularly in surprising and increasingly unpredictable directions. Author and comics artist Scott McCloud puts all these trends into perspective in a fast-moving visual presentation. Scott McCloud has been writing and drawing comics since 1984. His book Understanding Comics was a New York Times Notable book for 1994 and is available in 16 languages. "Sin City" and "300" creator Frank Miller called him "just about the smartest guy in comics." His new book, Making Comics, explores the art and craft of telling stories visually. This event is part of the Creative Non-Fiction Week and is co-sponsored by the Film and Video, English and Journalism Departments. EventDate: 10/17/2007 7:00:00 PM Artist Link
Shawn Decker - Visiting Artist 623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405 Shawn Decker is a composer and artist who creates sound and electronic media installations and writes music for live performance, film, and video. His work has been frequently performed, seen, and heard in the US and Europe at a wide variety of venues. He frequently collaborates with other artists, including most recently Jan Erik-Andersson and Anne Wilson. Recent exhibitions of both solo and collaborative work have shown at venues such as Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, Klosterruine in Berlin, ISEA2002 in Nagoya, Japan, the 21st Century Museum in Kanazawa, Japan, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, CAM Houston , ISEA2000 Paris, the Waino Aalto museum in Turku, Finland and numerous others. Decker is a Professor in the Art and Technology and Sound departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. EventDate: 9/24/2007 12:00:00 PM Artist Link
Ken Rinaldo Visiting Artist - ARTificial Life, Robotics, & Emergence Columbia College Chicago Ferguson Auditorium, 600 S. Michigan Avenue ARTificial Life, Robotics, and Emergence Ken Rinaldo is an artist and Professor of Art and Technology at Ohio State University. His interdisciplinary media art installations investigate the intersections between natural and technological systems. He integrates organic and electro-mechanical elements to assert a confluence and co-evolution between living and evolving technological material. His talk, featuring a DVD presentation of his installations, will explore theories on living systems, artificial life, interspecies communication and the underlying beauty and pattern inherent in the nature and organization of matter, energy, and information. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Interactive Arts and Media & Science and Mathematics Departments. EventDate: 9/20/2007 5:00:00 PM Artist Link
WORKSHOP: Low Polygon Modeling in Maya Room 605, 624 S. Michigan Ave 3D Imaging has had a profound impact on all aspects of digital media. Animation, illustration, video games have all felt the influence of technologies like Maya and 3D Studio Max. However, when considering 3D technologies, much emphasis is given to the technology and less is given to the ‘art’ of working with these methods. In addition, what role does art have in animation and gaming? For this presentation, Sarit will talk about his work as an artist, animator, and as a production artist in the game industry. Sarit Somasa is a 3D animator and mixed media artist who is an Assistant Professor Mayaq/3D in the Digital Arts program at Bowling Green State University. He has taught 3D at the university level for several years, and preceding he was an artist at Dynamix, where he was a production artist on Tribes I. Originally from Thailand, Sarit has shown his work nationally, including festivals such as SIGGRAPH. EventDate: 5/4/2007 10:00:00 AM Artist Link
In Three Dimensions: Saritdikhun Somasa rm 405 3D Imaging has had a profound impact on all aspects of digital media. Animation, illustration, video games have all felt the influence of technologies like Maya and 3D Studio Max. However, when considering 3D technologies, much emphasis is given to the technology and less is given to the ‘art’ of working with these methods. In addition, what role does art have in animation and gaming? For this presentation, Sarit will talk about his work as an artist, animator, and as a production artist in the game industry. Sarit Somasa is a 3D animator and mixed media artist who is an Assistant Professor Mayaq/3D in the Digital Arts program at Bowling Green State University. He has taught 3D at the university level for several years, and preceding he was an artist at Dynamix, where he was a production artist on Tribes I. Originally from Thailand, Sarit has shown his work nationally, including festivals such as SIGGRAPH. EventDate: 5/3/2007 7:00:00 PM Artist Link
Lecture: Whitney Museum Curator, Christinae Paul 623 South Wabash Ave. room 405 Christiane Paul is a New Media artist and curator in New York. She is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization and information resource dedicated to digital art. She has written extensively on new media arts, including her book Digital Art, published in 2003 by Thames and Hudson. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York and at the Center for New Design at the Parsons School and has lectured internationally on art and technology. She will be speaking on the topic of Digital Art/Public Art: Governance and Agency in the Networked Commons. EventDate: 4/26/2007 7:00:00 PM Artist Link
Visiting Artist Lecture Series:Lincoln Schatz 623 S. Wabash, Room 405 Lincoln Schatz is a Chicago-based artist working in new media and sculpture. Since 2000, he has focused on the experience of place and the meanings produced by the collisions of nonlinear sections of time. Through his custom software, Schatz selectively records and displays video images culled from specific environments. Most recently Schatz has created generative video works that collect, store and display more than eight years of video memory. EventDate: 4/12/2007 7:00:00 PM Artist Link
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: John Craig Freeman 623 S. Wabash, Room 405 Artist and educator John Craig Freeman will lecture about his recent project Imaging Place, as part of the Interactive Arts and Media Department’s Visiting Artists lecture series. Imaging Place is a place-based, virtual reality art project that takes the form of a user navigated, interactive computer program that combines panoramic photography, digital video, and three-dimensional technologies to investigate and document situations where the forces of globalization are impacting the lives of individuals in local communities. The goal of the project is to develop the technologies, the methodology and the content for truly immersive and navigable narrative, based in real places. Most recently, Freeman has been implementing the "Imaging Place" project in Second Life. EventDate: 4/5/2007 7:00:00 PM Artist Link

Paul Slocum
Ferguson Auditorium in 600 S. Michigan

Paul Slocum is a Dallas, TX based artist and director and co-owner of And/Or Gallery in Dallas, TX. He has exhibited at ArtHouse in Austin, TX, CANADA in New York, NY, Dunn and Brown Contemporary in Dallas, TX, iMAL in Brussels, Belgium, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD as well as the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, NY. And/Or Gallery opened in January 2006 and shows emerging and mid-career artists from around the world who work in all mediums, but our emphasis is on new media. We are one of the few spaces in the country that has the equipment and experience to handle the most current new media work. Our exhibitions are covered frequently in local press and in well-known new media news sites such as Rhizome. We have a strong reputation in the art community in Dallas and Texas, and we are known by new media curators and artists throughout the world.

EventDate: 10/2/2008 6:30:00 PM

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Scott Rettberg
Ferguson Auditorum in 600 S. Michigan / 6th Floor

Scott Rettberg (CV) is a Chicago native who now lives in Norway. He writes, and writes about new media and electronic literature. He is an associate professor of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen.

EventDate: 9/25/2008 5:00:00 PM

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The Exploding, Plastic and Inevitable Redux- Live Visuals performance by Stefan Muller Arisona with special musical guest Steve Gibson
Conaway Center, 1104 South Wabash Avenue, First Floor

This is a fantastic multi-media event is not to be missed! The four screen interactive VJ performance with live electronic music has already been performed throughout Canada and Europe and is created by two masters of the live visuals phenomenon. Stefan Muller Arisona, aka robot_mixeur (Santa Barbara, CA/Zurich, Switzerland - DJ, Visuals) and Steve Gibson (Victoria, BC, Canada - DJ, Visuals) Stefan Muller Arisona is a post-doctoral research fellow at Media Arts and Technology (MAT) of the University of California, Santa Barbara. His main interests are at the intersections of art and technology. His research focuses on novel real-time multimedia systems and on live composition and performance techniques. Stefan has performed internationally and his art works have appeared at renowned locations such as the Ars Electronica Center (Austria, 2006–2008). Steve Gibson, a Canadian media artist, composer, curator and theorist who now serves as Associate Professor of Digital Media at University of Victoria, Canada. Steve Gibson’s installations and compositions have been performed in such venues as: Ars Electronica; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the North American New Music Festival; the Banff Centre for the Arts; the European Media Arts Festival; ISEA; Interface3, Hamburg; Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg; and 6CyberConf.

EventDate: 4/24/2008 7:30:00 PM

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IAM Visiting Artists Lecture Series Presents Stefan Muller Arisona: Computer-Assisted Content Editing Techniques for Live Multimedia Performance
623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405

Stefan Muller Arisona is a post-doctoral research fellow at Media Arts and Technology (MAT) of the University of California, Santa Barbara. His main interests are at the intersections of art and technology, and his research focuses on novel real-time multimedia systems and on live composition and performance techniques. Stefan received an MSc in Computer Science from Uppsala University (Sweden, 1997) and a MSc in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich (Switzerland, 1998). He was visiting researcher at IRCAM Centre Pompidou (France, 2003) and completed his PhD at the University of Zurich's Multimedia Lab (Switzerland 2004). From 2005 to 2007, Stefan was a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at ETH Zurich's Computer Systems Institute, and he was scientific chair of the Digital Art Weeks, an annual symposium and festival that explores new movements in digital art. Stefan has performed internationally and his art works have appeared at renowned locations such as the Ars Electronica Center (Austria, 2006 - 2008).

EventDate: 4/24/2008 5:30:00 PM

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Reflective Play - Rafael Fajardo - Visiting Artist
623 S. Wabash, Room 405, Chicago, IL

Exploring the creation of games and toys to raise consciousness and stimulate thinking. Visiting artist Rafael Fajardo is the founder of SWEAT, a loose collaborative that makes socially conscious video games. Fajardo teaches at the University of Denver where he is an associate professor of Electronic Media Arts Design and Director of Digital Media Studies.

EventDate: 4/10/2008 5:30:00 AM

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LiQin Tan, Digital-Primitive Art
623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405

Professor Tan has portrayed his inventive and autodidactic energy as an artist, teacher and researcher for three decades while residing in China, Canada, Singapore and the U.S.A. His works of art have been exhibited nationally and internationally including SIGGRAPH02-06, iDMAa04-07, Electronics Alive IV, iV04-06, Shanghai DuoLun Museum of Modern Art, National Center for Computer Animation in UK, Centre D’Art Contemporaine in Montreal, Vancouver Art Gallery, Singapore Art Museum, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Noyes Museum of Art, Jiangsu Art Museum and National Art Museum in China.

EventDate: 2/18/2008 5:30:00 PM

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Squirrel Eiserloh, Technical Director, MumboJumbo Games
623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405

Squirrel is a veteran programmer/designer seeking to find ways to help gaming discover its full potential as a medium. His path through game development has spanned a number of games from early online MUDs to action/adventure/role-playing games and shooters. An advocate of education, creative collaboration, and rapid iteration, he is currently helping create casual games at Dallas-based MumboJumbo and serves as the Technical Director there. In his spare time he organizes a group of area developers who conduct 48-hour experimental "game jam" sessions and serves on the board of the local IGDA chapter. Published games include Anachronox, Star Trek: Elite Force II, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike for XBox, 25-To-Life, Quake 4, Medal of Honor: Airborne, and Luxor 3.

EventDate: 2/8/2008 5:30:00 PM

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Wafaa Bilal - Visiting Artist
623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405

Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal, a Professor at the Art Institute of Chicago, has exhibited his art world wide, and traveled and lectured extensively to inform audiences of the situation of the Iraqi people, and the importance of peaceful conflict resolution. Bilal’s latest video installation Domestic Tension placed him on the receiving end of a paintball gun that was accessible online to a worldwide audience, 24 hours a day. The month-long piece spurred online debates and intense conversations, garnering the praise of the Chicago Tribune, which called it “one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time,” and Newsweek’s assessment “breathtaking.” But it is the resulting dialogue that Bilal seeks, as an artist who feels he does not have the privilege to create work that is not political. In the face of a war that stretches on, the 2005 deaths of his brother and father, the violence in his own history, Bilal seeks to imbue his audiences with a sense of empowerment that comes from hope in the enduring potential of humanity.

EventDate: 11/15/2007 5:30:00 PM

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Ric Heitzman (CANCELLED)
623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405

(Cancelled due to transportation issues) Ric Heitzman straddles the fine and commercial art worlds as a designer, director, cartoonist and puppeteer. He has garnered three EMMY awards for Co-production design on Pee wee's Playhouse, the internationally syndicated children's television series. In addition, he has directed music videos, commercials and film. Some of his many clients are: Atlantic Records, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Sprint and Chili's Restaurants. A master of many forms of animation, he brought to life an array of characters in the pilot for the stop-motion animated series, the PJ's, staring Eddie Murphy for FOX-TV. Heitzman also co-wrote and directed Flash animated shorts, interactive games and two series, The Banana Splits and Pink Donkey Goes to Japan all for Cartoon Network. As a 20 year member of the Screen Actors Guild, Ric has supplied voices and puppeteered a number of characters for Cartoon Network, Children's Television Workshop, MTV, CBS-TV and Paramount Pictures. Ric designs from his studio in Los Angeles where he continues to paint, sculpt, write and direct.

EventDate: 11/8/2007 5:30:00 PM

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Viper Vertex - Visiting Artists JoAnn Gillerman & Rob Terry
623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405

VIPER VERTEX is a contemporary electronic media arts company specializing in interactive and innovative multimedia, including exhibit/installation design and production, web design/production and DVD authoring. The two principals, JoAnn Gillerman and Rob Terry, provide a unique blend of digital media, fine arts, video, sound, computers and interface design. Viper Vertex has co-produced many interactive multimedia exhibits, including permanent installations at Chabot Space and Science Center, The Tech Musuem of Innovation, and the Saint Louis Zoo.

EventDate: 10/25/2007 5:30:00 PM

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Scott McCloud Visiting Artist - Comics: A Medium in Transition
Film Row Cinema, 1104 South Wabash Ave., 8th Floor.

Comics: A Medium in Transition American comics are changing fast. Bolstered by the literary ambitions of the "graphic novel" movement, a flood of international influences and the growing importance of new technologies, the comics landscape shifts regularly in surprising and increasingly unpredictable directions. Author and comics artist Scott McCloud puts all these trends into perspective in a fast-moving visual presentation. Scott McCloud has been writing and drawing comics since 1984. His book Understanding Comics was a New York Times Notable book for 1994 and is available in 16 languages. "Sin City" and "300" creator Frank Miller called him "just about the smartest guy in comics." His new book, Making Comics, explores the art and craft of telling stories visually. This event is part of the Creative Non-Fiction Week and is co-sponsored by the Film and Video, English and Journalism Departments.

EventDate: 10/17/2007 7:00:00 PM

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Shawn Decker - Visiting Artist
623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405

Shawn Decker is a composer and artist who creates sound and electronic media installations and writes music for live performance, film, and video. His work has been frequently performed, seen, and heard in the US and Europe at a wide variety of venues. He frequently collaborates with other artists, including most recently Jan Erik-Andersson and Anne Wilson. Recent exhibitions of both solo and collaborative work have shown at venues such as Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, Klosterruine in Berlin, ISEA2002 in Nagoya, Japan, the 21st Century Museum in Kanazawa, Japan, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, CAM Houston , ISEA2000 Paris, the Waino Aalto museum in Turku, Finland and numerous others. Decker is a Professor in the Art and Technology and Sound departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

EventDate: 9/24/2007 12:00:00 PM

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Ken Rinaldo Visiting Artist - ARTificial Life, Robotics, & Emergence
Columbia College Chicago Ferguson Auditorium, 600 S. Michigan Avenue

ARTificial Life, Robotics, and Emergence Ken Rinaldo is an artist and Professor of Art and Technology at Ohio State University. His interdisciplinary media art installations investigate the intersections between natural and technological systems. He integrates organic and electro-mechanical elements to assert a confluence and co-evolution between living and evolving technological material. His talk, featuring a DVD presentation of his installations, will explore theories on living systems, artificial life, interspecies communication and the underlying beauty and pattern inherent in the nature and organization of matter, energy, and information. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Interactive Arts and Media & Science and Mathematics Departments.

EventDate: 9/20/2007 5:00:00 PM

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WORKSHOP: Low Polygon Modeling in Maya
Room 605, 624 S. Michigan Ave

3D Imaging has had a profound impact on all aspects of digital media. Animation, illustration, video games have all felt the influence of technologies like Maya and 3D Studio Max. However, when considering 3D technologies, much emphasis is given to the technology and less is given to the ‘art’ of working with these methods. In addition, what role does art have in animation and gaming?
For this presentation, Sarit will talk about his work as an artist, animator, and as a production artist in the game industry.
Sarit Somasa is a 3D animator and mixed media artist who is an Assistant Professor Mayaq/3D in the Digital Arts program at Bowling Green State University. He has taught 3D at the university level for several years, and preceding he was an artist at Dynamix, where he was a production artist on Tribes I. Originally from Thailand, Sarit has shown his work nationally, including festivals such as SIGGRAPH.

EventDate: 5/4/2007 10:00:00 AM

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In Three Dimensions: Saritdikhun Somasa
rm 405

3D Imaging has had a profound impact on all aspects of digital media. Animation, illustration, video games have all felt the influence of technologies like Maya and 3D Studio Max. However, when considering 3D technologies, much emphasis is given to the technology and less is given to the ‘art’ of working with these methods. In addition, what role does art have in animation and gaming?
For this presentation, Sarit will talk about his work as an artist, animator, and as a production artist in the game industry.
Sarit Somasa is a 3D animator and mixed media artist who is an Assistant Professor Mayaq/3D in the Digital Arts program at Bowling Green State University. He has taught 3D at the university level for several years, and preceding he was an artist at Dynamix, where he was a production artist on Tribes I. Originally from Thailand, Sarit has shown his work nationally, including festivals such as SIGGRAPH.

EventDate: 5/3/2007 7:00:00 PM

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Lecture: Whitney Museum Curator, Christinae Paul
623 South Wabash Ave. room 405

Christiane Paul is a New Media artist and curator in New York. She is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization and information resource dedicated to digital art. She has written extensively on new media arts, including her book Digital Art, published in 2003 by Thames and Hudson. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York and at the Center for New Design at the Parsons School and has lectured internationally on art and technology. She will be speaking on the topic of Digital Art/Public Art: Governance and Agency in the Networked Commons.

EventDate: 4/26/2007 7:00:00 PM

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Visiting Artist Lecture Series:Lincoln Schatz
623 S. Wabash, Room 405

Lincoln Schatz is a Chicago-based artist working in new media and sculpture. Since 2000, he has focused on the experience of place and the meanings produced by the collisions of nonlinear sections of time. Through his custom software, Schatz selectively records and displays video images culled from specific environments. Most recently Schatz has created generative video works that collect, store and display more than eight years of video memory.

EventDate: 4/12/2007 7:00:00 PM

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Visiting Artist Lecture Series: John Craig Freeman
623 S. Wabash, Room 405

Artist and educator John Craig Freeman will lecture about his recent project Imaging Place, as part of the Interactive Arts and Media Department’s Visiting Artists lecture series. Imaging Place is a place-based, virtual reality art project that takes the form of a user navigated, interactive computer program that combines panoramic photography, digital video, and three-dimensional technologies to investigate and document situations where the forces of globalization are impacting the lives of individuals in local communities. The goal of the project is to develop the technologies, the methodology and the content for truly immersive and navigable narrative, based in real places. Most recently, Freeman has been implementing the "Imaging Place" project in Second Life.

EventDate: 4/5/2007 7:00:00 PM

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