[4eyes] FW: [faculty] This THURSDAY : ucDARNet : ScalableRelations at UCSB

[Matthew Turk]

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From: faculty-bounces at mat.ucsb.edu [mailto:faculty-bounces at mat.ucsb.edu] On
Behalf Of marcos
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:18 AM
To: MAT Faculty; students at mat.ucsb.edu; Staff MAT
Subject: [faculty] This THURSDAY : ucDARNet : ScalableRelations at UCSB

 

Hello all, 

 

As many of you may already know, MAT will be hosting the UCSB portion of the
SCALABLE RELATIONS exhibitions, featuring works by ucDARNet (University of
California Digital Arts Research Network) faculty. The show was curated by
Christiane Paul, of the Whitney Museum.  Additional information is included
below. 

 

The opening reception for the show will take place this Thursday, February
12, from 5-8pm, on the second floor of Elings Hall. 

 

We hope you can make it. 

 

With best regards, 

 

Marcos

 

 






 

 

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Digital Art Exhibition at UC Santa Barbara

Artists Marcos Novak and Ruth West featured at UCSB venue

 

Scalable Relations is a UC-wide series of exhibitions that explore digital
media's capability of representing vast amounts of data in constantly
evolving relations. Organized by Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New
Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Scalable Relations
features media artworks by the faculty of the distinguished UC Digital Arts
Research Network (DARnet).

The projects in Scalable Relations illustrate the complexities and shifting
contexts of today's information society. A distinctive feature of the
digital medium is its capacity to establish relations between large
quantities of data through filtering and processing according to different
criteria. These constantly evolving "scalable relations" affect both the
production of meaning and a traditional understanding of aesthetics. These
relations become subject to computational logic-the instructions given by
algorithms-and a constant reconfiguration of contexts. Indeed, the format of
the exhibition itself, distributed across four UC campuses-Santa Barbara,
Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Diego-mirrors the relational theme of the
exhibition and the inherent connectivity of the digital medium.

At UC Santa Barbara, Scalable Relations features Marcos Novak's Turbulent
Topologies: Excerpts and Ruth West's ATLAS in silico. Addressing complex
behaviors and transmodalities, the works investigate the geometries of the
invisible connections in our lives and our environment and the multi-scale,
multi-modal experience of revealing internal structures within genomics
data. Together, the works in the networked exhibition provide a sketch of
the multiple forms and themes existing within the field of new media art and
illustrate the relational qualities of the digital medium.

 

UC Santa Barbara Venue

 

Opening reception: February 12, 2009. 5-8pm

Exhibition remains on view through March 13, 2009

Elings Hall, 2nd floor

transLAB 2615, Experimental Visualization Lab 2611

Hours: M 12-5; TThF 11-1, 2-5. Closes Wednesday and Weekends

Paid parking available in Lot 10

 

Related Exhibition Venues

 

BEALL Center for Art + Technology, UC Irvine: January 9 - March 14, 2009.
http://beallcenter.uci.edu/

California NanoSystems Institute CN(S)I, UCLA: January 14 - March 20,
2009.http://artsci.ucla.edu/?q=node/253

gallery at CalIT2, UCSD: January 23 - March 15

 

The works featured at the BEALL Center explore patterns, complexity, and
generative algorithmic process with regard to nature, organic processes, and
urban development, as well as representations of online communication and
sharing. gallery at CalIT2 exhibits three pieces that use the framework of
computer gaming for exploring social and belief systems and expand the
usually confined simulated world of a game to the "real world." Taking
various forms, ranging from sound installation to new media documentary, the
works at the CN(S)I examine issues surrounding science, ethics, public
health and social conditions the projects in this category deal with the
social and political implications of science or the impact of poverty,
alienation, and addiction.

 

Participating Artists

 

Sheldon Brown

Beatriz da Costa

Sharon Daniel

Ricardo Dominguez / particle group

Antoinette LaFarge and Robert Allen

George Legrady and Angus Forbes

Rebeca Mendez

Robert Nideffer

Greg Niemeyer

Marcos Novak

C.E.B. Reas

Warren Sack

Ruth West

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