From: Gary.Duncan@engr.UVic.CA (Gary  Duncan)
Subject: IMAGE SOUND TEXT an Arts and Technology Symposium January - February 1993
Keywords: artist composer computers virtual reality cyberpunk kinetic scupltor graphics
Reply-To: Andy.Schloss@FineArts.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Distribution: bc
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 22:12:58 GMT



	      THE LABORATORY FOR EXTENDED MEDIA
	Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria
			presents
		    IMAGE SOUND TEXT
	    an Arts and Technology Symposium
		January - February 1993

Recently, the University of Victoria's Faculty of Fine Arts Laboratory
for Extended Media opened its doors in the newly constructed Fine Arts
Building. To celebrate its beginnings, the Faculty of Fine Arts is
organizing an arts and technology symposium.  Open to all members of
the university and the public, the various events will take place over
a six-week period in January and February of 1993. Visiting lecturers
and performers will include:

Jaron Lanier--computer scientist, artist and composer, specializing in 
programing language design and virtual reality systems. He is one of the 
founders of the field of Virtual Reality. Founding President of VPL 
Research Inc.

William Gibson--credited with starting the 'cyberpunk movement.'  He is 
the highly acclaimed author of Neuromancer, the first novel ever to win the 
Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards. Writer living in Vancouver.

Max Mathews--Computer scientist and composer, Max Mathews created the first 
computer sound-synthesis languages at Bell Laboratories in the 1950's, 
which have become the basis for virtually all further developments in the 
field.  Professor of Music at Stanford University.

Tony Brown--a sculptor who builds kinetic works that both use and comment on 
technology. Tony Brown has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally.
Professor at the University of Ottawa and Ecole de Beaux Arts de Paris.

Vibeke Sorensen--widely known as an innovative artist working with video, film, 
computer graphics and animation systems, and electronic musical instruments. 
She has produced several computer-animated works for the Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory, simulating unmanned space probes to Mars.  Professor in the 
School of Film and Video Faculty at California Institute for the Arts.

Marvin Minsky--a pioneer of artificial intelligence, whose contributions as a 
scientist and author have been instrumental in the way we use and think about 
computers and the workings of the human mind. Professor at MIT.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Jaron Lanier	

	Lecture  Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Bldg.
	8 pm, Wednesday, January 6 

	Concert  Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Bldg.
	8 pm, Thursday, January 7

William Gibson	

	Reading  David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
	8 pm, Friday, January 8

Jaron Lanier and William Gibson

	Discussion  David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
	9:30 pm, Friday, January 8

Max Mathews	

	Lecture  Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Bldg.
	8 pm, Wednesday, January 13

	Concert  Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Bldg.	
	8 pm, Thursday, January 14

	A concert of new works involving the Mathews Radio Drum.  Guest
	composer/performers David Jaffe, Ami Radunskaya, Mari Kimura
	and Andrew Schloss.  Including the premiere performance of a
	new work commissioned from David Jaffe in honour of Max Mathews.

Tony Brown	

	Lecture  David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
	8 pm, Wednesday, January 20

Vibeke Sorensen	

	Lecture/Demonstration  Room 159 Begbie Bldg.			
	8 pm, Friday, February 5

Marvin Minsky

	Lecture  David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
	8 pm, Monday, February 22

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OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS

David Jaffe--a leading computer music composer and researcher, his 
composition Silicon Valley Breakdown has been performed in over 20 countries 
and has been hailed as a landmark of the medium.  Designer of the music software
for the NeXT computer.  Visiting professor of music at Princeton University.

Mari Kimura--New York violinist and composer Mari Kimura has appeared in 
concert the world over.  She has been described as an artist of "astonishing 
vitality" (Sankei News), and "a unique contemporary artist to be watched and 
listened to." (San Jose Mercury News).

Ami Radunskaya--mathematician, composer, cellist, specializes in  ergodic 
theory of dynamical systems and the mathematics of chaos.  She is currently 
working on the MIMI (Mathematically Illuminated Musical Instrument) and is 
on the Mathematics faculty at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Andrew Schloss--pioneered the implementation of a new musical instrument 
designed at Bell Laboratories by Max Mathews and Bob Boie called the Radio 
Drum.  Performs internationally in duos with David Jaffe and with Paris-based 
jazz pianist Jeff Gardner.  Currently on the Music faculty at the University 
of Victoria.

Lecture/Demonstration  (location TBA) 1:30 pm, Friday, January 15

	David Jaffe and Mari Kimura demonstrate and discuss 
	new music, techniques and technologies for string 
	instruments, including the zeta violin and other innovations.

Mathematics Colloquium  Room C110, Clearihue Bldg. 3:30 pm, Thurs, January 14

 	Ami Radunskaya, Department of Mathematics, Rice University: 
	"Detecting Randomness in Nature:  Differentiating Between 
	Deterministic and Stochastic Chaos."
	
Composition Seminar  Room B008, MacLaurin Bldg.  7:30 pm, Thursday, February 4

	Rand Steiger, Department of Music, UC San Diego, 
	addresses Dr. Schloss's computer music seminar.

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CONTACT:

Dr. W. Andrew Schloss (School of Music) 
Lynda Gammon (Department of Visual Arts) 
Faculty of Fine Arts
University of Victoria
Victoria BC CANADA V8W 2Y2
(604) 721-7756
email: Andy.Schloss@FineArts.uvic.ca

	These events form part of the University of Victoria's 90/30 
			Anniversary year celebrations.



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