ELECTRONICS ALIVE VI
JANUARY 21-FEBRUARY 24 2011

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

RECEPTION: Friday Jan 21, 7-9 PM

The University of Tampa presents ELECTRONICS ALIVE VI 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, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Taiwan, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the USA.

LIVE PRESENTATIONS

• Jan 20, Thurs 2PM Preview: Alan Price, will discuss his new work on view in the gallery. His research incorporates collaborative activity across multiple disciplines. His independent animation work has received awards and appears in numerous international festivals including Transmediale, Berlin; Black Maria, US; Anima Mundi, Brazil; Festival Arcipelgo, Italy; Clermont-Ferrand, France; Melbourne, Holland, and SIGGRAPH.

• Feb 2, Wed 2PM Rob Rothfarb: Rothfarb is Director of Web Development at Exploratorium, the Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception in San Francisco. He is responsible for web software, user-experience development, media development, collaborative virtual environments, 3D computer graphics, systems administration and writing. He is founder at Hidden Line Media.

• Feb 10, Thurs 2PM Mark Stock, Reseach Code. Stock is an artist, programmer, and scientist working in the space between visualization, science-influenced art, and computation. He will discuss the hidden world of computational physics created with custom software developed over the course of his research. He currently works for a small fluid dynamics research company in California, develops art in his studio in Newton, MA, and organizes an annual artists' retreat.

• Feb 14, Mon 6-7PM: Refractory Tampa, homage to Brion Gyson. A discussion about the experimental art scene in Tampa.

• Feb. 16, Wed 2PM David Andrade: Charting Your Own Way in the Digital World. Considering his past year as both a freelancer and an entrepreneur, Andrade comments that, "the studio and software he is developing with his team is very exciting and provides an advantage of a self reliant, self publishing attitude and ability of the Internet".

• Tues. Feb 22, 2PM: Bradford Blackburn, electronic musician and composer presents Recycled, Repurposed, and Recontextualized for New Musical Expression about the work of experimental musicians who find ways to reuse the artifacts and debris of consumer culture for greater aesthetic purposes. Blackburn is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Tampa.

INSTALLATIONS

Empire of Sleep: The Beach by Alan Price is an interactive virtual installation viewed in stereoscopic 3D on a large rear-projection screen. USA

The Travels of Mariko Horo by Tamiko Thiel is an interactive 3D virtual reality installation, a fantasy virtual environment that users explore at their pleasure and peril. Germany

Oasis by Yunsil Heo and Hyunwoo Bang is an interactive table that is covered by black sand. Moving the sand reveals aquatic life, small guppies that grow into fish and other crazy aquatic creatures. South Korea

Dreamachine by the late artist Brion Gysin is a stroboscopic pillar of moving light using a flicker device originally designed as a table-top meditative device. Curated and preserved by T. Hampton Dohrman, Joe Griffith and Ken Cowart. USA

Artists exhibiting multimedia projects and digital art include:

Corey George, Santiago Echeverry, Lew Harris, Christina Hung, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Joanne Steinhardt, Mark Stock and Doug Sutherland.

NEW shorts and experimental films on continuous view include:

• friends?, Sveinbjorn J Tryggvason, Iceland
• The Incident at Tower 37, Chris Perry, USA
• Project Alpha, Matthias Bjarnason, Denmark
• French Roast, Fabrice O Joubert, France
• Silhouettes of Jazz, Dominik Kaser, Martin-Sebastian Senn, Mario Deuss, Switzerland
• E.T.A, Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen, Denmark
• Insight, Salvador Simo Busom, Denmark
• Unbelievable Four, Sukwon Shin and In Pyo Hong, USA
• Pigeon: Impossible, Lucas Martell, USA
• Poppy, Dir. James Cunningham, New Zealand
• The Wonder Hospital, Dir. Beomsik Shimbe Shim, USA
• The Lost Thing, Dir. Andrew Ruehemann, Australia
• Visualizing Empires Decline, Dir Pedro Miguel Cruz, Portugal
• The Kinematograph, Dir Tomek Baginski, Poland
• Making of Nuit Blanche, Dir Arev Manoukian, Canada
• Upgrades, Dir Anya Belkina, Emerson College, USA
• Soy Colombiano, Carlos Smith, Colombia
• The Guest, Dir Henrik Malmgren, Denmark
• Tele-Vision 3, Dir Matthieu Jorrot, David Tousek, Denmark
• Flyman, Dir Shu-Wei Chan, Taiwan
• The Monk & the Monkey, Dir Brendan Carroll, Francesco Giroldini, USA
• The Bellies, Dir Philippe Grammaticopoulos, France
• Magus Maximus, Dir Emanuel Strixner, Germany
• Maestro Moustache, Dir Florian Girardot, France
• Hey, Guy Ben Shetrit, Anova Music , Israel
• Chicha! Retro Visor, Video: Carmen Gil Vrolijk, Music: Camillo Giraldo Angel & Luis Alfonso Cruz, Colombia
• Amazonas S.O.S., Retro Visor, Video: Carmen Gil Vrolijk, Music: Luis Alfonso Cruz& Camillo Giraldo Angel, Colombia
• Vanitas Clepsidra, Carmen Gil Vrolijk, Colombia
• Revolve Around Me, Andy Hsu, USA
• Safe Keepings, Andy Hsu, USA
• Jugando Solitario, Colectivo Individual, Colombia
• The Spine, Chris Landreth, festivals@nfb.ca Canada
• 4 Black Scenes, Carlos Franklin, music Alberto Posada, France

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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