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Moving Pictures!
Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 at 7.00/7.30 pm
Center on Contemporary
Art, Seattle, WA
Eric McNeill, Untitled: Portrait, Movement -
Rabbit!!!: Seattle-based artist and technologist Eric
McNeill will discuss the design and construction of this
piece from PSDTWEII, and will also give an introduction
to using Rabbit Microprocessors. In addition to simply showing
lo-res video, "Untitled (Portrait/Movement)" is
an example of some of the more advanced things you can do
with a $50 micro like the Rabbit - for example, networking
support to allow the piece to put or fetch media on or from
the Internet. http://smellsnew.com/pdstwe/
W. Scott Trimble, Moving Pictures: Local
machine artist Scott Trimble will talk about his 'Landscape
Generator' series of machines, through which he considers
the contrast between industry, nature, figure and machine,
and his use of vending-machine models to engage the viewer
with a familiar model, to encourage them to interact, and
to contribute to the process of constructing, destroying
or consuming components of the work before them. He'll also
discuss his latest series, 'Moving Pictures', in which he
uses kinetic sculpture to explore the very, very
slow movement of images superimposed over each other, presenting
a constantly, but slowly, changing composite image to the
viewer. http://wstrimble.homestead.com/
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Edward Tang, A Trajectory of a Scholar-Practitioner
in the Technological Arts: Ed Tang, a PhD student at
the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS),
will guide you along the unconventional educational and
artistic trajectory that's led him to the Center and his
current aesthetic and technological research vectors. He'll
include a discussion of his research, and past and present
work. http://www.antiexperience.com/edtang/
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This week, dorkbotsea regular Toby
Paddock will show a short ambient video, and
Eric L. of the Seattle
Outsider Art Project (S.O.A.P) will give a
call for submissions for their Weird
Genius Real Science Fair, to be held at Magnusson
Park in mid-July this year. And as for the rest of
ye… Have an announcement? A project to tell us
about? A request? A new tool or book that you love?
Need collaborators? Materials? Advice? Email dorkbotsea@dorkbot.org,
or just come and find me during the presentations
and I'll find you a spot in front of the mic.
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POWER TOOL DRAG RACES: See most of San Francisco’s
crazed and – er – colourful machine art scene
out and proud of their mutant creations at the anarcho-technological,
petrochemically infernal 2ND ANNUAL POWER TOOL DRAG RACES
(http://www.powertooldragraces.com/).
Starting at 7 pm at this month’s dorkbot and the next,
we’ll be screening a Discovery Channel documentary
created by intrepid New Zealand film makers as they explored
the clanking, cotton-candy-covered underbelly of the strangest
drag race on the planet. They’re starting a league
– any Seattle takers? See this video, and find out
if it’s your calling!
Eric McNeill has long been interested in how technology
can be used to represent and reflect on human emotions and
understanding. Most technology is used simply for control,
but when repurposed for artistic use it can provide insights
similar to and beyond that of other media. For the past
several years Eric has focused on pieces that distill information
into their elemental bits, and this series of LED works
is a study in how we recognize meaning from the barest amount
of information.
W. Scott Trimble: "When I was younger, my parents,
brother and I lived in a small rural town northwest of Yosemite.
My earliest memories were of the expansiveness of the wilderness,
all of its wildlife, and extreme
weather conditions. I was also very influenced by the machines
that humans have developed to move, build, and manipulate
the landscapes in which we lived. Rusted equipment and found
objects were also quite popular in my estimation and stood
in juxtaposition to this wild setting. The world around
me, and how it was assembled and deconstructed was, and
still is, among many of my fascinations.
Some years later our family moved to a more urban, yet sleepy
surf town of Santa Cruz, California. This move exhibited
yet another contrast in my life: rural to urban. A more
mechanized world from that of an organic one, if you will.
My internal desire to constantly draw, design, and build
things with whatever resources were at hand, I began to
forge my creativity by way of painting and sculpture. I
eventually received a BFA in Spatial Arts from San Jose
State University in San Jose, California, and not long after
made my way to Seattle to earn an
MFA in Sculpture at UW. Both institutions are recognized
for their emphasis in the metal arts, as well as providing
opportunity to explore various processes and concepts. Primarily
a metal fabricator, I have also dealt with a wide range
of materials and processes including, metal casting, woodcarving,
digital media, cast materials, mold making, photography
and automated sculpture. In the late 1990's I co-founded,
built and maintained a metal fabrication and bronze-casting
studio in Santa Cruz, California. I have also exhibited
in many selected solo and
group exhibitions throughout the west coast."
Edward Tang is an artist and PhD student at Center
for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University
of Washington. He received his MPS from the Interactive
Telecommunications Program and his BM in Music Technology
at New York University. He is a classical violinist and
has worked as a freelance audio/music editor for broadcast
television and new media in New York City. A native of the
Seattle area, he has exhibited digital works in venues all
over the world, including events in Paris, Glasgow, Warsaw,
New York City, and London. His current research interests
include new forms of hybrid software based works and interfaces
for telematic musical performance.
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