HOME | ebulletin | SEARCH | JOIN | EVENTS | ArtSci INDEX | members log in · About · Contact ASCI M E M B E R S M E E T I N G - NYC, email: · ASCI Info Flyer M A R C H 1 ST, 2004 Password: · services W I T H P RESENTATIONS BY C H E R Y L S A F R E N · site map A N D D E B R A S WACK log in · FAQ This ASCI meeting was enlivened by not only the · mission presentations but the spirited discussions surrounding · ASCI history them. And everyone enjoyed the opportunity to network, · ASCI Reports · list of ASCI Board catch-up and develop new (& renew old) acquaintances. members · partners, supporters, "WARGAMES " funders · Join/Support Debra Swack's presentation was immersed in a great · Renew ASCI Membership deal of discussion as the group tried to understand the · join ASCI technological specifics of her projects and philosophy. · support ASCI Her "95 Variable Chimes" sound project/installation will (tax deductible) be altered in size to relate to the environment, and it · join mailing list continues her interest in the shapes of sound. The · Members · featured members concept of the interplay of sound and vibration as archive material form also functions metaphorically in her · Members News Archive aesthetic for the string theory set forth by Brian Greene · members homepages (Layman's Note: The essence of string theory, as Green · ASCI members meetings records in his book The Elegant Universe, is that · bulletin board vibrations replace particles at the subatomic level as the · Projects Archive building process, rather than building block, of matter · Fishes Feed Us and as these tiny one-dimensional filaments vibrate · public panels differently, they shape matter differently.) But the initial · symposia variables in the sound work will also be gathered · exhibitions/ digitally and edited since Swack's aesthetic includes the competitions concept of composition. Her project titled Playing Cards · public projects matched cross-grids of words with grids of digital · collaborative events drawings to explore the subliminal associations of · reviews gender bias she finds encoded in not only words but in · spotlight archive structures. Her interests are focused on the · ASCI Products interrelationships between systems & their · the ArtSci INDEX recombinations: word/image, sound/structure, · ASCI ebulletin archive pattern/form, etc., and frequently with their social · ebulletin subscription consequences. Her Digital Zoos video projected the · classified advertising protective camouflage patterns from animals (created · TEKmart through software algorithms) into environments to remind us of the system inversion of fashion: We are attracted to their camouflage patterns, kill them, then published by wear their patterns for display. Her Toy Soldiers video fastpublish CMS used stop action positioning (5,000 frames and a month of editing using After Effect) to have them dance to an up-tempo love song to interfere with our normal social patterns that use and accept toys to imbed hatred. The group felt her best work used not prepublished pop music but newly created music, such as her father's chamber music composition used in relation to her video edits of carousel horses. We discovered that the word carousel means "little wars" and those cute wooden animals were initially warlike. Her use of music initiated an impassioned group conversation over the need to obtain copyright permissions for the use of music, especially since Swack's carousel piece was shown publicly at Banff. Her use of video of tree limbs manipulated through After Effects and Premiere was a study in branching systems which for Swack worked as visual correlates to a proposed biological explanation of love that argues people need other people to develop and close their nervous systems. - please find images by Cheryl Safren at the bottom of this page Rich Leslie Visiting Assistant Professor Art History & Criticism SUNY-Stony Brook; Graduate Faculty (Theory & Criticsm) School of Visual Arts; critic, author and curator; [email protected]. These summaries are composed from notes and any errors and misunderstandings are accepted by the author!______________________ three images by Debra Swack: digitalmazes carousel armymen © 1995-2008 Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI). All rights reserved. Home The Zine Newsletter Search Contact Advertise About Links Feeds Openings Today Next 7 Days All Future Debra Swack, Summertime USA White Box Chelsea 525 West 26th Street, 212-714-2347 August 14 - August 30, 2008 Web Site Deborah Swack. Courtesy of White Box. Curated by Ryan Finn at White Box Gallery opening August 14th "Little Wars; the Carousel Project" is an animation video based on the history of carousels (“little wars” in Italian). War games such as jousting later developed into carousels which currently exist for us as rides and perhaps in the future as virtual reality.In addition to horses, menagerie animals represented desirable characteristics needed for battle. All photographs were taken of actual rides on New York’s upper west side from 70- 110th street. “Four Burlesques for Flute and Bb Clarinet”, written by Dr. Irwin Swack is reminiscent of medieval masque plays. His archives are in the Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library. “Carousel” was created under a co-production grant at Banff Center for the Arts in 2002 and then exhibited at the Beecher Center for Arts and Technology in 2003/2004. It will also be shown Sept.9th - Dec 6th 2008 at the Binghamton University Art Museum. Debra Swack is a new media artist whose projects have been internationally exhibited at many institutions including Rhizome/The New Museum, Princeton University, the Banff Center for the Arts, the New York Hall of Science curated by Anne Barlow of the New Museum, the Arts and Genomics Centers in both Amsterdam and Vancouver, Xerox's Palo Alto Lab, Real Art Ways ("Works from the Sol LeWitt Collection") and the Beecher Center for Arts and Technology. She recently collaborated with Interactivos at Eyebeam in “Double Take” on view through August 9th. Her work is mentioned in Xerox Parc’s “Art and Innovation” and Stephen Wilson’s “Information Arts” published by MIT and also in PhotoReview selected by Philip Brockman, Senior New Media Curator at the Corcoran. Collections include the New Museum, MOMA, the New York Public Library, the Beecher Center for Arts and Technology, Princeton University, Banff Center for the Arts, Xerox and Sol LeWitt. ShaVis | Visual's Art News About us | Advertise | Mobile | Privacy *** OUR NEWSLETTER REACH WEEKLY 40860 READERS *** last news | week calendar | by tag | by location | by kind | by date | RSS | newsletter | collaborate | contact DEBORAH SWACK, SUMMERTIME USA Curated by Ryan Finn. 'Little Wars; the Carousel Project' is an animation video based on the history of carousels (little wars in Italian). War games such as jousting later developed into carousels which currently exist for us as rides and perhaps in the future as virtual reality. In addition to horses, menagerie animals represented desirable characteristics needed for battle. All photographs were taken of actual rides on New York's upper west side from 70- 110th street. Four Burlesques for Flute and Bb Clarinet, written by Dr. Irwin Swack is reminiscent of medieval masque plays. His archives are in the Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library. Carousel was created under a co-production grant at Banff Center for the Arts in 2002 and then exhibited at the Beecher Center for Arts and Technology in 2003/2004. It will also be shown Sept.9th - Dec 6th 2008 at the Binghamton University Art Museum. Debra Swack is a new media artist whose projects have been internationally exhibited at many institutions including Rhizome/The New Museum, Princeton University, the Banff Center for the Arts, the New York Hall of Science curated by Anne Barlow of the New Museum, the Arts and Genomics Centers in both Amsterdam and Vancouver, Xerox's Palo Alto Lab, Real Art Ways ('Works from the Sol LeWitt Collection') and the Beecher Center for Arts and Technology. She recently collaborated with Interactivos at Eyebeam in Double Take on view through August 9th. Her work is mentioned in Xerox Parc's Art and Innovation and Stephen Wilson's Information Arts published by MIT and also in PhotoReview selected by Philip Brockman, Senior New Media Curator at the Corcoran. Collections include the New Museum, MOMA, the New York Public Library, the Beecher Center for Arts and Technology, Princeton University, Banff Center for the Arts, Xerox and Sol LeWitt. White Box Chelsea 525 West 26th Street, NYC Web: www.whiteboxny.org (Open in new window | Open without leave this page) Visual's PDF magazines Opening: 2008-08-14 | Deadline: 2008-08-30 suggested by ShaVis: Area: United States | Tag: Video | Kind: Exhibit *** Add a comment to this news *** No comment about this news. http://www.shavis.com/onefeed.php?feed=7567 (1 of 2)8/18/2008 1:14:28 PM Beecher Center Exhibition Through 2004 Digital Artists: Recent Works This exhibition features works by artists who utilize computer technology. The works currently on display are by Flame Schon (Santa Fe, NM), Martha Jane Bradford (Brookline, MA), Japi Honoo (Venice, Italy), Debra Swack (New York, NY), Mick Brady (Santa Barbara, CA),and Harry W. Yeatts, Jr.(Blacksburg, VA). Continuing on View BILL THOMPSON: Altered Flats This site specific installation, commissioned by the Butler Institute, features wall sculpture in monochromatic colors. These unique works were fabricated utilizing space-age materials‹acrylic urethane paint on polyurethane block‹and applied with a complex spray technique devised by the artist. September 28 - A Veiling: An Installation by Ed Hallahan with Jacki Mountan This site-specific installation juxtaposes technology with traditional art media, creating an inventive environmental statement that includes fiber, wood, video, light and sound. May - September 19, 2004 Air-hunger: Mary Magamen & Stephan Hillerbrand The project, "air-hunger" explores ideas about communication and trust in relationships through the metaphor of what is traditionally seen as a children¹s activity, chewing bubble gum.