Eon and the Art of Emulation
Shawn Brixey
Center for Digital Arts and Experimental
Media
University of Washington, Seattle
Date:
Friday, November 5, 2004
Place: Engineering Sciences Building, Room 2001
Time: 2:00 pm — 3:00 pm (Refreshments
served at 1:30 pm)
Abstract:
Brixey will speak on his research in the emerging area of emulation art,
and on the creation of advanced experimental and computational art forms
which seek to synthesize physics, astronomy, cosmology, and biotechnology.
He will also discuss The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media's
(DXARTS) new research center and degree-granting program unique to the
University of Washington. The first of its kind in the world, the program
establishes the UW as a leading institution for the creation and study
of new and experimental genres of digital art and culture. DXARTS offers
both BFA and PhD degrees, with concentrations ranging from digital cinema,
computer animation, and sonic arts to robotics, telematics and mechatronics.
Designed around a revolutionary new model of creative practice, research,
and discovery at the frontier of the arts, DXARTS supports the emergence
of a new generation of hybrid artists by fostering the invention of new
forms of art through expanded studio research which synthesize pioneering
advances in digital computing, information technologies, science, and
engineering.
SHAWN BRIXEY is Associate
Director of the University of Washington's, newly established research
center and PhD. program in Digital Arts and Experimental Media. Previously,
he was founder of the Digital Media Program at the University of California
Berkeley, and Director of their Center for Digital Art
and New Media Research Program. A graduate of MIT's, CAVS/Media Lab, Brixey
has exhibited art and technology works internationally, including Documenta,
the Deutscher Kunstlerbund, Karlsruhe, The Cranbrook Art Museum, The MIT
Museum, The Contemporary Art Center of Cincinnati, The Chicago Art Institute,
The 1998 Winter Olympics, The first American Design and Architecture Triennial
at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, The Henry Art Gallery, University
of Washington, and the Berkeley Art Museum. He has received all levels
of major grants and awards to support his research including: The Boxlight
Corporation, The National Institute of Health, The Intel Corporation,
Silicon Graphics, Newport/Klinger Research Corporation, Apple Computer,
IBM GmbH, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, Leica and Hughes Aircraft. In 2003 he was honored with a
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for New Media, past fellows include
Bill Viola and Gary Hill. In 2004 he and his team of doctoral students
won the "Editors Choice Award" in Popular Science Magazine's
"World Design Challenge". He lectures widely in the U.S and
Europe on new and emerging media art forms. Critical writing and reviews
of his work have been featured in diverse sources, including The New
York Times, The Seattle Times, Popular Science, The San Francisco Chronicle,
The Stranger, Wired Magazine, Surface Magazine, The Cincinnati Inquirer,
The Boston Globe, Art News, WolkenKratzer Magazine (Germany), Smithsonian
World Television, and KQED/MSNBC Radio. Significant review of his work
is included in Thames and Hudson's 1992 book release, Art of the Electronic
Age, Leonardo/The Journal of Art, Science and Technology 2001, and a major
new book release from MIT Press, Information Arts, the Intersection of
Art, Science and Technology by Dr. Stephen Wilson 2002.
For more information, visit http://dxarts.washington.edu/shawnx
Host: Professor George Legrady, Departments
of Art Studio and Media Arts & Technology
