NEWS & EVENTS

October 15, 3pm, 2008
Visiting Artist, Caterina Verde, speaks on her ongoing curatorial project, Strange Positioning Systems (SPS). A play on GPS tracking technology, SPS examines the aesthetic, cultural and psychological peculiarities of positioning the self and collective enterprises in a fluid, electronically dislocated environment. Former performance curator for The Kitchen, NYC, and artist-in-residence with the American Center in Paris, Verde has recently launched SPS at ArtSPACE in New Haven, CT. For more information: StrangePositioningSystems.org

October 27, 6:30pm, 2008
Professor Ebon Fisher speaks at a panel discussion, The Skeptics, at the New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4th Street (between 2nd Ave & Bowery/3rd Ave. in the East Village, New York. More information: 212-780-9037, www.nytw.org.

RECENT EVENTS

September 25, 2008
Art & Technology professor, Ebon Fisher, presented his media rituals and Zoacodes at ArtSPACE in New Haven, CT. This was presented in connection with Caterina Verde's series on "Strange Positioning Systems." For more information: StrangePositioningSystems.org

April 4 + 5, 2008
The National Endowment for the Arts sponsored the Art & Technology symposium, "Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) Revisited" which took place, at Stevens. Organized by Art & Technology director, Julie Harrison, this symposium, film screening, and exhibition examined E.A.T.’s historic work and explored its influences on contemporary art and technology. E.A.T. was founded in 1966 by engineers Billy Klüver (from Bell Labs) and Fred Waldhauer, and artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman, to provide artists with access to new technology and to promote collaborations between artists and engineers.

February 12 – March 10, 2008
The exhibition "Digital'07: Pattern-Finding," challenged artists, scientists and technologists to submit digital prints that explored structure and pattern in the universe, whether visible or invisible to the naked eye. The exhibition shed light on current investigations in systems science, chaos and string theory, fractals, nanoscience, genetics, mathematical data-sets, software programs, and the biological sciences. The project was. initiated by ASCII (Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.).

November 8, 2007
Professors Ebon Fisher from the Department of Art, Music, and Technology and H. Quynh Ding from the Department of Computer Science have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) exploratory research grant of $150K over two years for their proposal entitled, "A Transmedia Search Engine for Creative Analogy Generation in Mixed-Media Design."

For more information please contact:

Julie Harrison
Program Director, Art & Technology
Morton, Room 204
College of Arts & Letters
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Hoboken, NJ 07030

Phone: 201.216.8583
Fax: 201.216.8245

jharriso@stevens.edu