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Media Artist Talk at Northbank Gallery

WSUV’s Digital Technology & Culture / Northbank Gallery
Thursdays, February 22, March 29, & April 26, 2007

Washington State University Vancouver, the College of Liberal Arts, and Digital Technology and Culture Program along with Vancouver’s Northbank Gallery present The 2007 Spring Media Artist Talk Series.

The series takes place monthly from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. during the months of February, March, and April at Northbank Gallery––located in 1005 Main Street, in downtown Vancouver, just walking distance from Esther Short Park––and features both international and local media artists. Other talks are scheduled for Thursday, March 29th and Thursday, April 26th.

On February 22nd Canadian multimedia artist, Steve Gibson, kicks off the series with “Mapping Spaces: An Introduction to Media Art in Canada in the 21st Century,” a talk that focuses on his recent of work as well as the work of Julie Andreyev, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.

More or less loosely influenced by the Situationists, these artists consider issues of space, the body, public interaction, and mobility. Distinct from American popular media art, but equally engrossed in North American media culture, Andreyev, Lozano-Hemmer, and Gibson present critical but engaged visions of technological art practice for the new millennium.

"Mapping Space(s)" presents Four Wheel Drift (2003-05) by Julie Andreyev, Body Movies (2003) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Virtual DJ (2001-04) by Steve Gibson, and When Ghosts Will Die (2005) by Steve Gibson and Dene Grigar as divergent examples of populist but epic media experiences. Each of these pieces transforms public interaction and posits radically workable solutions to the problem of interactivity that reached a stalemate at the end of the 20th Century. Discarding the artificiality of hypertext and web-based corporate “interactivity” these artists opt for more naturalistic models of interaction based on play, personal subjectivity and aimless wandering.

For more information about this event or any of the upcoming talks, visit the website, or contact Dr. Dene Grigar, Digital Technology and Culture Program, Washington State University Vancouver at 360-546-9487, grigar@vancouver.wsu.edu.

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