Art + Technology Lecture Series
dal 23/2/2004 al 24/2/2004
Segnalato da
23/2/2004
Art + Technology Lecture Series
SFAI Lecture Hall, San Francisco
Greg Niemeyer: Play again, yes or no? Greg Niemeyer will speak about his recent digital media installations and collaborations, including Organum (Chris Chafe and Greg Niemeyer, U.S., 2003). Referencing Bacon's famed treatise about our misreadings of nature, this captivating CGI short orchestrates an allegory about mutation and possibility.
GREG NIEMEYER: PLAY AGAIN, YES OR NO?
Do all chessboards form a continuous surface?
Is playing the way for individuals to get engaged?
Are engagements just a game?
Do animals play better than people?
Do you play alone?
Greg Niemeyer will speak about his recent digital media installations and
collaborations, including Organum (Chris Chafe and Greg Niemeyer, U.S., 2003).
Referencing Bacon's famed treatise about our misreadings of nature, this
captivating CGI short orchestrates an allegory about mutation and possibility.
Yearning for love, fanciful creatures spun from human anatomical parts scamper
about a cavernous world. It's as if humanity's aspirations remain long after
resemblance has disappeared. Music by Chris Chafe. (12 mins, Color, Video, From
the artist)
Greg Niemeyer is an assistant professor for Digital Media at UC Berkeley, where
he teach and pursues his creative research in the area of digital media
installations and collaborations. Supported by the prestigious Intel Art and
Technology Research Grant, he completed several digital media installations,
which explore novel experiences with computing. Niemeyer also recently organized
two media conferences, 020202: Social Technologies and 030303: Collective Play,
and participated in the core group which is developing the UC Berkeley New Media
Initiative.
Tuesday | February 24 | 7:30 pm | Lecture Hall | Free!
A frame from the short animated film, Organum, by Greg Niemeyer, Chris Chafe, and Christine Liu.
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