The Eyes of the Skin, Art and Senses: SOUND

The Eyes of the Skin, Art and Senses: SOUND
February 11th through May 22nd
@ Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222

Featuring work by Mark Shepard, J.T. Rinker and Alexandra Spaulding
Curated by Stefani Bardin

Sunday, February 13th at 3pm
Live performance of Mark Shepard’s Hertzian Rain featured in this show.
Hertzian Rain is an interactive and sonorific sound performance.

About the Exhibition:
The Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa wrote a book entitled The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses in which he argued against the isolating ocular-centric paradigm in western culture and its impact on phenomenology in favor of a more holistic model of multi-sensory architecture of integration. The series of exhibitions at The Burchfield
Penney Art Center The Eyes of the Skin: Art and the Senses shifts the focus from visually based art toward work that is grounded in a sensorium of sound, smell, taste and touch.

Work from each individual sense will occupy the for a period of months so the public can focus on each of the four senses separately and over a period of time in order to experience the environment within a different
phenomenological model. After each of the four exhibitions, there will be a comprehensive group show in 2012 throughout the museum, of all the work from each of the four senses (plus some new artists and some new
pieces) that will allow the public to be immersed in this holistic and re-envisioned sensorium of perception.

The first exhibition, Sound, will be an investigation into what Marshall McLuhan calls the re-casting of technology with which to understand and act on the world. The three artists: Mark Shepard, J.T. Rinker and Alexandra Spaulding utilize different aural modalities but also different lenses through which to cultivate and express acoustical
information.

For more information, please visit: http://www.burchfieldpenney.org/?select=exhibitions&data=upcoming

SERENDIPITOR by Mark Shepard Nominated for TRANSMEDIALE AWARD 2011

transmediale is an annual festival for art and digital culture, held in Berlin, Germany.  During the summer of 2010, transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) received submissions for the transmediale Award 2011.  Out of over 1000 submissions, Serendipitor by Mark Shepard was nominated as one of seven finalists who showed innovative art works that contributed to the technical society.  The winner will be announced on February 6, 2011 at the Awards Ceremony.

About Serendipitor
Serendipitor is part of the Sentient City Survival Kit (a collection of artifacts for survival in the near-future sentient city).  Serendipitor is an alternative navigation app for the iPhone that helps you find something by looking for something else.  It combines computer generated walking directions for movement and action in attempt to produce short detours and small slippages within an otherwise optimal and efficient route directing movement through the city.

For more information on Serendipitor, please visit: http://survival.sentientcity.net/serendipitor/

BEYOND/IN WESTERN NY 2010 starts TONIGHT!

A curatorial collaboration of twelve regional museums and galleries, Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents is a contemporary, multi-venue arts exhibition. It will present the work of outstanding artists from Western New York and Southern Ontario, Northeastern Ohio and Northwestern Pennsylvania and for the first time, feature the work of artists from outside the region, blurring the local with the global and challenging the assumptions of what these distinctions mean today, when all artists are both.

Beyond/In kicks off this evening, Thursday, September 23, 2010 with a high-wire walk at the Liberty Building by reknown French tight-rope walker, Didier Pasquette.

Featuring the participation of many artists affiliated with the Department of Media Study including: Josephine Anstey, Jordan Dalton, Elyse Harzynski, Barbara Lattanzi, Carl Lee, Luke Noonan, Dave Pape, Cayden Mak, Brian Milbrand, Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, Anna Scime, Mark Shepard, Jessica Thompson, members of virocode and more.

http://beyondinwny.org/

MARK SHEPARD on "Networked Publics: Place" panel 3/25/2010

The Network Architecture Lab continues “Discussions on Networked Publics,” a series of panels examining how technology and social changes are transforming the public realm, held at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation’s [GSAPP's] Studio-X Soho Facility, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610, New York City.

The second panel, on “place” will occur on March 25 at 6:30 pm.

The panelists are:

Amanda McDonald Crowley (Executive Director of Eyebeam Art + Technology Center)

Douglas Gauthier (GSAPP faculty, architect and principal of Gauthier Associates)

Christina Ray (artist, curator, co-founder of Conflux Festival)

Mark Shepard (University at Buffalo faculty, architect, artist, curator)

Kevin Slavin (game designer, co-founder Area/Code)

Tim Ventimiglia (architect and museum designer, associate at Ralph Applebaum Associates)

Kazys Varnelis, director of GSAPP’s Network Architecture Lab will moderate.

“Discussions on Networked Publics” extends the analysis of contemporary culture in the book Networked Publics, published in 2008 by the MIT Press and edited by Netlab Director Kazys Varnelis. More on the book at networkedpublics.org. Copies of the book will be for sale at the event.

The event will be broadcast live worldwide via ustream.tv at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/discussions-on-network-publics

Viewers who can’t make it in person are encouraged to submit questions and comments live during the show to @Columbia_Netlab on Twitter.

Video from the event will be archived on Vimeo and iTunes.

more info….

MEDIA ARCHITECTURE COLLOQUIUM

MEDIA ARCHITECTURE COLLOQUIUM
2-5pm, Wednesday, March 17, 2010
301 Crosby Hall, South Campus
University at Buffalo

This half-day event brings together artists, architects and researchers to examine the evolving overlaps, intersections, and exchanges between the fields of Architecture and Media Art in the 21st century. As media, communication and information systems become embedded in and distributed throughout the material fabric of our daily lives, new opportunities (and dilemmas) emerge for the design and construction of the built environment. At the same time, these pervasive transformations in how we access, consume and produce contemporary media and information challenge traditional models for how we conceive, perceive and interact within physical space. Bringing together faculty from the departments of Architecture and Media Study at the University at Buffalo with faculty from the Media Architecture program at the Bauhaus–Universität, Weimar, Germany, this international gathering aims to highlight emerging transdisciplinary practices that integrate architectonic and medial space in the creation and construction of these emerging hybrid environments.

The program consists of a six presentations and pair of panel discussions accompanied by a live, networked event/performance involving students from both Buffalo and Weimar.

REMARKS BY:
Dean Brian Carter, College of Architecture and Planning and Senior Associate Dean Charles Stinger, College of Arts and Sciences

PRESENTATIONS BY:
“Micro Public Places”
Marc Böhlen, Associate Professor, Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo

“Current Projects in Interface Design”
Jens Geelhaar, Professor, Faculty of Media, Bauhaus–Universität, Weimar

“Cosmopolli / An Atmospheric Commons”
Jordan Geiger, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo

“The Blind Screen”
Omar Khan, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo

“Wandering Line: performing sites through sound”
Teri Rueb, Professor, Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo

“MediaArchitecture at the Bauhaus”
Sabine Zierold, Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Bauhaus–Universität, Weimar

Organized and moderated by:
Mark Shepard, Assistant Professor, Departments of Architecture and Media Study, University at Buffalo

DIGITAL ARTS & CULTURE 2009: Marc Böhlen, Mark Shepard & Brian Clark present

Starts: Saturday, Dec 12 2009 (evening)
Ends: Tuesday, Dec 15 2009

Media Study faculty Marc Böhlen and Mark Shepard and MFA Candidate Brian Clark will present their research at the Digital Arts and Culture 2009 conference at the University of California Irvine Dec. 12-15, 2009.

The DAC ’09 is the 8th in an international series of conferences begun in 1998. DAC is recognized as an interdisciplinary event of high intellectual caliber.

This iteration of DAC will dwell on the specificities of embodiment and cultural, social and physical location with respect to digital technologies and networked communications.

DAC09 is structured around themes, each theme being composed of panels. DAC09 will be held in the Arts Plaza of the University of California Irvine.
Simon Penny is director of DAC09.

Toward the Sentient City on the BBC

Toward the Sentient City, an exhibit curated by Professor Mark Shepard, featured on the BBC’s “Digital Planet.” Listen here.

Toward the Sentient City

Opening Reception: September 17, 6-9pm

On view through Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 9:00pm
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue, New York, NY

Organized around five newly commissioned projects distributed throughout the city, Toward the Sentient City aims to catalyze public discussion on the design and inhabitation of near-future urban environments.

http://www.sentientcity.net

With projects by:

JooYoun Paek and David Jimison

The Living Architecture Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Directors David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang) and xdesign Environmental Health Clinic at New York University (Director Natalie Jeremijenko)

Haque Design+Research (Usman Haque, Creative Director; Nitipak ‘Dot’ Samsen, Ai Hasegawa, Cesar Harada, Barbara Jasinowicz)

SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT (Carlo Ratti, Director; Kristian Kloeckl, Project Leader)

Anthony Townsend and the BREAKOUT! team

Curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League of New York

Toward the Sentient City was made possible by the J. Clawson Mills Fund of the Architectural League and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Additional support has been provided by the Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning and the Department of Media Study, College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo

Exhibition Credits
Curator: Mark Shepard
Project Director: Gregory Wessner, Exhibitions Director, Architectural League of New York
Design schema: Thumb (Luke Bulman, Jessica Young) http://www.thumbprojects.com
Project Assistant: Sarah Snider