EVENTS

2009 BFA Graduation Program

Friends and family are invited to join the DXARTS class of 2009 in celebration of the culmination of their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

The program will include comments by Director Shawn Brixey, Assistant Professor James Coupe, two undergraduate students as well as presentation of the graduates.

Light refreshments to follow.

The BFA exhibition will be available for viewing before and after the program.

2009 DXARTS BFA Thesis Exhibition | Opening

The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media is pleased to present a unique exhibition by graduating BFA students. Pieces included in the exhibition explore themes of memory, fractured temporality, perception, and the intersection of phenomena and materiality. Works of light, sound, immersive installations, and experimental film transform the space, fusing contemporary artistic practice with emerging technologies toward the creation of new experimental art forms.

The exhibition marks the students' completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with DXARTS, a production-based fine arts program that focuses on the advancement of contemporary art through new and experimental technology.

The Oddfellows building, located in the heart of Fremont, is a distinct and one-time-only exhibition space that lends itself to site-specific artworks and custom installations, reflecting and embodying the ambitious and experimental nature of the artworks and artists. This week-long exhibition will be on view at the Oddfellows Building in Fremont June 11th –17th, 2009.

Hours:
Weekedays: Noon - 7 p.m.
Weekends: 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Students presenting work:
Alexis Eggertsen . Cale Schupman . Mollie Fabric . Andrew Franks . Daren Keck
Anna Czoski . Amber Rosario Manuguid . Daphne Chu . Erik Parr
Michael McCrea . Toby McKes . Mi-Jong Jang . Ryan Irilli . Allison Urban

Admission: Free

WEBSITE: HERE

DXARTS Video Screening

DXARTS SCREENING
Saturday, May 30, 2 PM
Henry Auditorium
Henry Members, current students, staff and faculty FREE

DXARTS presents a special screening of video shorts created by students in the course "Experiments in Digital Video: The Architecture of Time." These works are final projects from this intensive, year-long sequence that explores the ideas and methods from the beginnings of the moving image up to contemporary digital cinema and video art. These emerging filmmakers have honed their skills in all areas of the production process including cinematography, sound, and lighting to non-linear editing, compositing, and effects presented in a diverse array of short features. This program contains a short series of 3D (stereoscopic) experiments as well as mini-narrative featurettes.

DXARTS Spring Concert

Live Digital Music performances featuring clarinetist Matt Ingalls and Surround Sound Works celebrating composer Jonathan Harvey's 70th anniversary, presented by the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), University of Washington.

Program:

Joanthan Harvey, "Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco" and "Ritual Melodies" for multichannel tape.

Denis Smalley, "Clarinet Threads", for clarinet and tape.

Steve Reich, "Reed Phase", for clarinet and tape

Matt Ingalls, "CrusT", for clarinet and electronics and "Improvisation for Solo Clarinet"

Tickets: $10 general, $5 student / senior
Advance purchase: HERE or 206.543.4880

An evening of new music with electronics and video

An evening of new music with electronics and video by Joshua Parmenter, Don Craig, Stelios Manousakis and Stephanie Pan.

Monday, April 27th at 8pm

Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center

4649 Sunnyside Ave.

Seattle, WA

$5 - $15 sliding scale donation at the door.

Program:

“Theta (IV-Ritardando)” for viola and real-time electronics by Joshua Parmenter*

Melia Watras - viola

“Symphony of Visual Music” for computer realized sound and visuals by Donald Craig*

Improvisation-based compositions by Stelios Manousakis, performed by Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis.

DXARTS Concert at the Chapel Performance Space

Concert at The Chapel Performance Space
Electronic and electroacoustic music by DXARTS composers Donald Graig, Wyatt Fletcher, Stelios Manousakis, Doug Niemela, and Hugo Solis

Good Shepherd Center

4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle, WA
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 8:00 pm
5-15 dollars donation

Donald Craig

Assonaglyph - for quadraphonic tape

[2001]

Stelios Manousakis

Do Digital Monkeys Inhabit Virtual Trees? - for stereo tape

[2006]

Stelios Manousakis

Undercover Harpsichord Agents Terrorize The Court - for stereo tape

[2006]

Wyatt Fletcher

Wrought - for quadraphonic tape

[2004]

Hugo Solis

Improvisation - for piano and electronics

[2009]

Doug Niemela

Kolme - for quadraphonic tape

[2006]


Doug Niemela

Theonity - for quadraphonic tape

[2005]

911 Seattle Media Arts Center presents new work by Tivon Rice

Tivon Rice, DXARTS PhD student, opens his solo exhibition entitled "Between Here and a Kind of Fleshlessness" at 911 Media Arts Center with a reception and artist's talk at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, February 6.

In this installation of new works, Rice invites the viewer to explore presence, distance, and the senses through form and imagery. Using video projections, real-time text, and viewer-initiated perceptual loops, RIce confronts the viewer, creating moments where he "...orders, and undermines, seduces and repels", according to art critic Regina Hackett.

Rice's work is represented by the Lawrimore Porject.

The exhibition runs through March 14th. Gallery hours are 12 pm to 6 pm, Tuesday through Saturday.

DXARTS Autumn Concert

An evening of new and experimental music in surround sound featuring violist Garth Knox, presented by the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington, Seattle. Monday, October. 20th, 2008 at 7:30 at Meany Hall at the University of Washington.

Program includes:

Prologue for viola and virtual resonators by Gérard Grisey
3 Notturni Brillanti for solo viola by Salvatore Sciarrino
Solo/Tutti: Variations on an Irrational Number - for amplified viola and real-time computer processing by Richard Karpen
La Legende d’Eer [Diatope] for 7 channel tape by Iannis Xenakis

Tickets available at UW Arts Ticket Office: http://www.meany.org/
General $10/Student $5/Senior $5

Don't You F***IN’ Look At Me!
Surveillance in the 21st Century

Gary Hill, Manu Luksch, and James Coupe
curated by Misha Neininger
911 Media Arts Gallery
September 12 - October 31, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday Sept 12, 6:00 - 10:00 pm

http://www.911media.org/

featuring work by DXARTS professor James Coupe:

(re)collector (2008)
four-channel video installation

Julio Cortazar’s short story Las Babas del Diablo involves a photographer who witnesses a young man and a woman together in a park. It explores the way in which the camera selectively interprets reality: people become characters, places become locations, and everyday objects become storytelling devices. (re)collector is a public art installation, installed in Cambridge in April 2007, that generates films by using Cortazar’s story as a template. A network of cameras is installed around the city, programmed to recognize ‘cinematic behaviors’ corresponding to sequences in Blow-Up, Antonioni’s film adaptation of Cortazar’s story. Each day, computer vision software analyzes the captured footage from the cameras. The software then reorganizes it into a narrative sequence, based upon similarities to lines from Cortazar’s original text. These films, generated according to the story’s logic, were then projected back into the city center.

At 911 Media Center, a four-channel gallery version of the project will be exhibited. Each channel shows a unique ‘possible’ film generated from a specific day: over time the story mutates, becoming retold each day, and altering the context of people’s actions. As the films play through, juxtapositions and similarities can be detected between footage, creating a meta-narrative across the four channels. Some video persists and some is replaced, as the story gains greater resolution. Each cycle of the four short films generates a new batch of narrative sequences, creating a new version of the day’s events with each loop.

http://www.recollector.net