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Final Wisdom I at SIGGRAPH 2010 in Los Angeles

July 25, 2010 to July 29, 2010.
1201 South Figueroa Street Los Angeles, CA 90015

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Upgrade! Indiana’s John Fillwalk and Jesse Allison are exhibiting an interactive installation at SIGGRAPH 2010 in Los Angeles. Final Wisdom I is an interactive installation engaging viewers in a sensory exploration of temporal and spatialized poetry. Participants manipulate imagery, sound and language through their gesture, touch and proximity. The work is engaged through a framework of cameras and sensors that react to heat, position, and capacitance – presenting a shifting environment of reactive media and haptics. Final Wisdom I is the work of artists Hans Breder and John Fillwalk, poetry by critic Donald Kuspit, music by composers Carlos Cuellar Brown and Jesse Allison. This project is produced through the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts at Ball State University in collaboration with the Institute for Digital Fabrication.   http://idialab.org/projects/36

Conferences Events Exhibitions

Upgrade! Indiana Presents on Virtual Art in Istanbul

May 6, 2010;
Yeditepe Ünv., Istanbul Province, Turkey

BRIDGING WORLDS:
APPROACHES TO HYBRID ART IN PHYSICAL
AND VIRTUAL REALITIES

IDIA’s director, John Fillwalk presented the institutes art and design work in hybrid realities at the 7th Annual International Symposium of Interactive Media Design held at Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey. Fillwalk’s video work was also screened during the conference. http://newmedia.yeditepe.edu.tr/intro.html

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Events

George Fifield Visiting Ball State University


N McKinley Ave. Muncie, IN

Upgrade! Indiana and the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts

At Ball State University

IDIA Presents:

The History of Interactivity in the Fine Arts

A lecture by new media curator George Fifield.

Wednesday, March 17 at 4:00pm

Ball State University

Art and Journalism Building

Atrium Auditorium, AJ 175

George Fifield is a new media arts curator, writer, teacher, artist and the founder of the Boston Cyberarts Festival www.bostoncyberarts.org. The Boston Cyberarts Festival is the first and largest festival of artists working in new technologies in all media in North America, encompassing visual arts, dance, music, electronic literature, web art, and public art. In addition, Fifield has written on a variety of media, technology and art topics for Artbyte, Bomb, Communication Arts, Digital Fine Arts and The Independent Film and Video Monthly among others. More recently he curated Act React: Interactive Installation Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

This lecture will examine the path artists took in the 20th century, which blurs the distinction between the reader/viewer and the author. The interactive artist has voluntarily relinquished a degree of control over the viewer’s experience in a way that the linear artist has not. In digital literature, web art, interactive installations, even in the popular art form of computer gaming, the audience had the ability to control their experience within the work. Visitors to a work of interactive art choose the path they take through it, giving them a hand in determining their own experience. New environments grow from simple and branching hyperlinked structures to become complex dynamic systems, virtual worlds in which people engage with their surroundings and with one another.

Meet George Fifield today between 11:30am and 12:30pm at the Atrium Studio for an informal lunch to sit and talk with the artist.

The Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts

At Ball State University

http://idialab.org

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Events Exhibitions

IDIA invited to exhibit at Techtronix Festival at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai


Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai

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January 22-24: John Fillwalk and Jesse Allison were invited to the Techtronix International Annual Science and Technology Festival in Mumbai, India for an exhibition and performance of their hybrid art. It is the largest festival of its kind in Asia with over 65,000 attendees. IDIA will exhibit Flickr Gettr, an installation that bridges the virtual world to the rich shared image community of Flickr, providing an immersive sonic and visual experience of the collective image resource. Participants in this immersive media installation can surround themselves in an interactive three-dimensional cloud of user-searched images from the Flickr webservice.

http://idiarts.org/projects/33

Events

SIGraDi 2009


R. do Sacramento, 230 - São Bernardo do Campo - SP
El 16, 17 y 18 Noviembre de este año la Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie sera sede del XIII Congreso de la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Grafica Digital, ofreciendo una gran oportunidad de debate internacional respecto a los desafios que nos impone la utilización de la tecnologia digital en la producción de arquitectura, ingeniería, urbanismo, diseño industrial y artes en general.
Conociendo su interés y la calidad de su producción académica, nos gustaría invitarlo a participar de este importante evento enviando un resumen hasta el  15 Abril a el sitio http://www3.mackenzie.br/ocs/index.php/SIGraDi2009/SIGraDi/
El tema de este año es “Del Moderno al Digital: desafíos de una transición”. Buscamos establecer un contrapunto entre estos dos tiempos y sus respectivas visiones de mundo y formas de producción en nuestra área de actuación.

http://sigradi.org/

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UFRJ – Professores da Ball State University ministram palestras no Prourb


Av. Venceslau Brás, 71 - Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 22290-140, Brazil‎

Nesta quinta, dia 12, às 14:30, o Programa de Pós-Graduação em Urbanismo (Prourb) da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/UFRJ) realiza as palestras “Mundos híbridos: estrutura interativa em ambientes virtuais”, ministrada pelo professor norte-americano John Fillwalk, diretor do Instituto de Artes Digitais da Universidade de Ball State, no estado de Indiana, Estados Unidos, e “Explorando efeitos em materiais e o instituto para fabricação digital”, apresentada por Kevin R. Klinger, diretor do Instituto de Fabricação Digital da Ball State.

http://www.planetauniversitario.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10366&Itemid=1

Events

Loud Objects and Lesley Flanigan at Ball State IDIA


2000 W University Ave, Muncie, IN

Loud Objects and Lesley Flanigan at Ball State Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts

Monday, November 9, 2009
4:00PM, Free
Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (IDIA)
Ball State University
Recital Hall (AR 217)
2000 W. University Ave
Muncie, IN 47306

New York electronic noise group the Loud Objects and Lesley Flanigan team up this Fall for a series of unique electronic music performances across the United States. The Loud Objects’ live circuit constructions and Flanigan’s Amplifications (for voice and speaker electronics) explore the viscerality of electronic music. Mixing primitive sounds from their own hand-constructed instruments, each choreographs intersections between acoustic and electric sound.

From art galleries to noise venues, the Loud Objects and Flanigan stage their physical approaches to the construction of sound. Regular staples of the New York City experimental scene, they create music that spans electroacoustic, improvisation and noise.

Artist/vocalist Lesley Flanigan’s tour of Amplifications introduces her first solo album for speaker electronics and voice. Moving among a cluster of wires and microphones, she builds compositional frameworks that grow and break apart. Her speaker instruments, employing a built-in microphone, create pulsing tones through their own feedback, which Flanigan samples and weaves into her own vocal patterns. The result is music that hovers somewhere between noise experiments and lyrical song, resonating with organic transparency.

featuring:
- Loud Objects (http://www.loudobjects.com)
- Lesley Flanigan (http://www.lesleyflanigan.com)

More Information:
- http://tristanperich.com/Event/798
- mail@tristanperich.com
- (917) 690-4991
- map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3301%20Lemp%20Ave,%20St.%20Louis,%20MO%20(Lemp%20Arts)

Events

IDIA Presents at FH Kiel in Germany


Sokratesplatz 1, 24149 Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf, Kiel, Germany
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In SL http://slurl.com/secondlife/FH%20Kiel/2/2/2 | http://www.fh-kiel.de/

Mixed reality event: Art & Education, the university of applied sciences Kiel and the rest of the universe.
Oct 31rd, 4 pm german time, 11 AM EST, 8 AM SLT.
Introduction and field report about SL projects at the university of applied sciences Kiel by Nadja Franz (associate lecturer FH Kiel, fraufranz konzept & dezign).
Exhibition openings at the FH Kiel SIM:
Ulrike Meyer, Dipl. ing. arch. & graduate fine arts, Muthesius Artschool Kiel. Introduction of the artwork by the artist.
John Fillwalk, Director of IDIA gives a presentation on the work of their institute at Ball State University, Indiana.
Hanno Tietgens (Büro X, Hamburg) presents successfull SL projects.
The presentation will take place parallel in the real life Bunker D at the university of applied sciences Kiel and on teh FH Kiel SIM in Second Life:
(http://slurl.com/secondlife/FH%20Kiel/2/2/2).
Broadcasting is planned in both directions. The involved parties will be present virtually and/or in real life as well.
Conferences

International Digital Media and Art Association’s 2009 Conference

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http://www.idmaa.org/idmaa2009/

Leading academics, professionals and artists will gather at Ball State University for the International Digital Media and Art Association’s 7th annual conference to explore the frontiers of digital media and art in research, industry and higher learning. The conference will include pre-conference workshops, keynote and plenary presentations, panels, a lounge environment for ad hoc discussion, evening events and an insider’s look at Ball State’s state-of-the-art digital media facilities.

The Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts [IDIA] at Ball State University is showcasing their work in hybrid artforms and is installing a new unified conference collaboration system employing RFID, Microsoft Surface, Apple iPhone, social network and back channel chat environment.

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Upgrade! Indiana / IDIA at Philips NatLab during Dutch Design Week


High Tech Campus 34, 5656 Eindhoven, Eindhoven (North Brabant), Netherlands‎ - 040 2747918‎

TRAVERSAL FOR EINDHOVEN
during Dutch Design Week
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Collaboration with  Upgrade! Indiana / IDIA Lab and MAD Emergent Art Center

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Jesse Allison and John Fillwalk

MAD Emergent Art Center: Rien Daamen andRéné Paré

October 17-25, 2009 15-21 SLT every day live through the 25th

Virtual location

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ball%20State%20University2/181/128/21

Physical location: Philips NatLab in Eindhoven, Nederlands

http://www.hightechcampus.nl/

‘Traversal for Eindhoven’ is a live performance hybrid reality installation that bridges the physical and virtual worlds. It connects Philips NatLab in Eindhoven to a virtual environment as part of the 2009 Dutch Design Week. Avatars will be able to play a physical synthesizer in the Philips NatLab via an interactive online virtual instrument built by IDIA – located near a 3D model of the Eindoven High Tech Campus. The sound of the live synthesizer will be streamed back into Second Life, so the virtual and physical participants can hear their interactions with the instrument.

DUTCH DESIGN WEEK From October 17 through October 25 2009, Eindhoven presents the 8th edition of Dutch Design Week, the largest design event in the Netherlands. Around 1500 designers from home and abroad will show their work in more than 60 locations all over the city of Eindhoven from design disciplines such as industrial design, concept design, graphic design, textile & fashion, spatial design, fooddesign and design management & trends. Visitors will be given insight into the entire development process from concept to product in various disciplines ranging from industrial design to applied arts. The participants include established bureaus, high-profile designers, talented newcomers, and recently graduated designers, one of the reasons why this Dutch Design Week is the perfect meeting place for designers, companies, and public. http://www.dutchdesignweek.nl/indexmap.php

MAD EMERGENT ART CENTER The Foundation MAD is a platform and workshop for Emergent Art: art that exists in the exiting world between cultural and cutting edge technological developments.MAD emergent art center is laboratory, platform and provider on the intersection of art, science and technology. MAD addresses artists, designers, scientists, public groups, institutions, governments and businesses. This on regional as well as national and international level. http://www.mad.dse.nl/mad.html

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