ELECTRONICS ALIVE VII

January 29-February 23, 2013
Gallery Talk – Reception Follows:
Tuesday Jan 29, 7-9 PM


University of Tampa, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery
Bailey Art Studios 310 N Blvd, Tampa, FL 33606

The University of Tampa presents ELECTRONICS ALIVE VII, a biennial invitational exhibition of computer animations, interactive digital work, and virtual spaces from around the world. Some significant computer artists will offer lectures and presentations. Visitors have an opportunity to see animated shorts and experimental films on view continuously and 2-D/3-D digital art that includes work from Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Sweden Taiwan, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the USA.

SPEAKERS & INSTALLATIONS

° Tuesday January 29, 6 PM Gallery Talk - Opening Reception 7-9 PM:
Biopoiesis, DPrime Project Researchers Carlos Castellanos & Steven Barnes from Vancouver BC present an experiment in the relationships between structure, matter, and self-organizations in what might be described as a computational "primordial soup". It is based on the work of cyberneticist Gordon Pask and his research into electrochemical control systems that had the ability to adaptively construct their own
sensitivities to environmental information.

° Thursday Jan 31, 2 PM Gallery Talk
Philipp Engelhardt, Hildapromenade 4
Philipp Engelhardt is a "magician" who had an idea to animate eight Polaroids that he found on the street. The result was an animated photo album narrating a new story in a new context. He combined, reconstructed, and repeated his own graphical material and the collected jetsam of pictures to reveal them in a new context. To the observer, the visible alterations in the picture are not immediately apparent; the manipulation is seen as the reality it superposes. Engelhardt lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany.

• SPECIAL EVENT Thursday, February 7, 7PM
At Hillsborough Community College, Ybor City Campus
Performing Arts Building, Mainstage Theatre, Palm Ave and 15th Street.
The University of Tampa Electronics Alive VII Animation Festival
An evening of innovative films and projects curated by Santiago Echeverry exclusively for Hillsborough Community College coincides with Electronics Alive VII exhibition at the University of Tampa, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery.

° Tuesday Feb 19, 2 PM Gallery Talk
Carmen Gil Vrolijk, When the Screen is the World
This presentation addresses the different approaches of Expanded Cinematics and Expanded Narratives. Tracing an outline that dates back to Wayang Kulit, and reaches contemporary techniques such as Video Mapping, the talk explores different artistic expressions that break the traditional screen an explore the interactions between time, space and the human body. http://laquintadelobo.com/ Carmen is an artist, lecturer, writer, editor and speaker at events on new technologies, art and science in cities of Colombia, Latin America, Asia and Europe.

° Friday Feb 22, 6 PM Gallery Talk - Closing Reception 7-9 PM:
David Andrade, Hollywood and How it is Being Revolutionized.
University of Tampa 2007 alumnus. He's worked on commercials for the NFL, Storyteller Cafe, Rainbow Valley Fire Department, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and Snow White and the Huntsman. In 2011 Andrade released his first short film, Nuts for Pizza through his company, Theory Animation. He's currently working on the films Rest in Peace Department and 300: Rise of an Empire at Rhythm & Hues Studios. Rhythm & Hues, CA
David Andrade www.theoryanimation.com

Artists exhibiting multimedia projects and digital art include:

Santiago Echeverry, Mark Stock, Doug Sutherland, Roger Chamieh, Mark Wright, Steve McCardle, Bruce Wands, Tamiko Thiel, Laura Iancu

NEW shorts and experimental films on continuous view include:

• The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, 2012 Academy Award, Best Animated Short, William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, Moonbot Studios, USA
• Paths of Hate, Damian Nenow, Director, Platige Image, Poland
• Escape of the Gingerbread Man!!!, Tod Polson & the Monk Studios,Taiwan
• The Experience of Fliehkraft, Till Nowak & Framebox, Germany
• Centrifuge Brain Project, Till Nowak, Director Germany
• Mac 'n' Cheese, Tom Hankins, Roy Nieterau, Gijs van Kooten, Guido Puijk, Netherlands
• Rotting Hill, James Cunningham, Media Design School, New Zealand
• The Mighty Hunter, (with Sluggerfilm) Sweden
• Herr Hoppe und der Atommüll, Jan Lachauer, Thorsten Loffler, Filmakademie Baden-Wurtemberg, Germany
• Oh Sheep, Gottfried Mentor, Filmakademie Baden-Wurtemberg, Germany
• Hai Hase, Florian Greth, Julia Reck Filmakademie Baden-Wurtemberg, Germany
• Ryan, Chris Landreth, Canada
• Spine, Chris Landreth, Canada
• The Lost Thing, Andrew Ruehemann, Australia
• The Light, Ihsu Yoon, School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA
• Seasons, Haowei Hu, School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA
• Drawing of Mom, Anila Jaho, School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA
• Embrace, Ashley Pearsall, School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA
• Daydreams of a Restless Mind, Donald Poyntner, School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA
• The Mustard Seed, Go Yook, School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA
• Through Disconnect, Jean Alix, School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA
• Connected, Ying Hsu Lai, School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA
• Release Your Imagination, Stuart Bailey, Alexis Van de Haeghe, UK
• Backwater Gospel, Animation Workshop, Denmark
• Slug Invasion, Animation Workshop, Denmark
• Wing, Animation Workshop, Denmark
• Divine Intervention, Yen-Chi Tseng, National Taiwan U. of Science and Technology, Taiwan
• Dream Giver, Tyler Carter, Brigham young University, USA
• Reflexion, Yoshimichi Tamura, PlanKtoon France
• For the Remainder, Omer Ben David, Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Israel
• Vanitas Libellum, Carmen Gil Vrolijk, Colombia,
• Waterfall, Santiago Echeverry, interactive installation, USA/Colombia
• RoboChrist, Doug Sutherland, USA
• UYUYUI, Steroscopic animation, Santiago Caicedo, Colombia

Reign of Gold - Augmented Reality
Tamiko Thiel, USA/Germany
mission-base.com/tamiko/AR/reign-of-gold.html

Accessing "Reign of Gold" is very easy, as it is meant to be seen around the world. If you have any favorite places of protest for Occupy Wall Street, please go there also send us your screenshots!

You should be able to access it this way:

1) Download and install the FREE Layar Reality Browser from the app store or from www.layar.com

2) In your smartphone web browser type in and go to: m.layar.com/open/reignofgold

3) If Layar tells you "not found" just try again - this is a bug they should have fixed by now.

4) Launch the layer and look around you - it should surround you. If Layar tells you "not found" just try again - this is another bug they should have fixed by now.

With iPhone and iPad it might take a bit for the servers to get a GPS-lock on your position, in which case you will see it off in the distance, or on your smartphone display you will see a white dot behind you or to one side on the "radar" in the upper left corner.

Another alternative is to start Layar, press the "geo-locative" button on the start screen to get to geo-locative layers, then type in "reign of gold" in the search field. Again, if it doesn't find it at first, try again!

The Show - Pictures by Michael Snyder

Gallery Hours are: 10-4 Tues- Fri, 1-4 Sat, Closed National Holidays.

All events are open to the public - there is no charge for admission.

For more information contact
Dorothy Cowden 813-253-6217 / dcowden [at] ut.edu

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