From: kaugust@caip.rutgers.edu (karin august)
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Subject: EVENT: New Media Symposium, U of Victoria, BC, Canada, Jan-Feb 93
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 22:19:01 EST
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                        V  R  A  S  P

            is pleased to announce this event created
                  by Andy Schloss, drummer extraordinaire.

 
THE LABORATORY FOR EXTENDED MEDIA
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria
presents

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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 honor 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.
 
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 the Radio Drum, a new
musical instrument designed at Bell Laboratories by Max Mathews and
Bob Boie.  Performs internationally in duos with David Jaffe and with
Paris-based jazz pianist Jeff Gardner.  Presently on the Music faculty
at the University of Victoria.
 
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."
 
Lecture/Demonstration Room A168, MacLaurin Bldg. 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.
 
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: aschloss@nero.uvic.ca
 
        These events form part of the University of Victoria's 90/30 
                        Anniversary year celebrations.