[FRIAM] Fwd: sfComplex Event: Vasulka Concludes Conversation with the Machine

[Don Begley]

Woody's first presentation was most enjoyable. He'll move toward his  
vision of art and present-day computer technology on Sept. 3.

-d-

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> From: Don Begley <don at sfcomplex.org>
> Date: August 29, 2008 10:35:10 AM MDT
> To: don at sfcomplex.org
> Subject: sfComplex Event: Vasulka Concludes Conversation with the  
> Machine
> Reply-To: don at sfcomplex.org
>
> 	
> Woody Vasulka concludes 2-part talk September 3
>
> Dialogue with
> the Machine
>
> Wednesday, September 3 · 6:00 - 8:00 pm
> Santa Fe Complex · 632 Agua Fria · Parking via Romero St.
> Admission is free. Donations welcome
>
> For more information, contact Don Begley at 505/216.7562 or visit  
> sfcomplex.org
>
>
>
> Woody Vasulka concludes his conversations on the changing  
> relationship between art and technology next Wednesday, September 3  
> at 6:00 pm at Santa Fe Complex, 632 Agua Fria St.
>
> Each of those decades represents a distinct phase in the evolution  
> of that relationship, says Vasulka. "It has been a dialogue with the  
> machine that began in the political environment of the 60s with a  
> time of continual interaction within an art community," he explains.  
> He explains, "We were looking for images that were not derived from  
> the world in this earlier work. It was a generation of continual  
> interaction between technology and art where we were learning,  
> demonstrating, and building in a community of with a network of  
> interests."
>
> That almost communal time of social and artisitc experimentation  
> faded as computer-generated graphics overwhelmed art with  
> hyhperrealistic images and an emphasis on the technical rather than  
> the artistic elements of creativity.
>
> As "the idea of realism slowly came to dominate art in the digital  
> era," Woody says, "the image itself took the dominant function and  
> the contextual information lost its importance." As a result, art  
> became dominated by computer needs like resolution and color spaces  
> rather than the artist's vision.
>
> The irrepressible artist believes the hyperrealistic phase is  
> fading. He offers his "Dialogue with the Machine," which is how  
> Vasulka refers to his coming talks at Santa Fe Complex, as a return  
> to a more collaborative and experimental community.
>
> In fact, he says that technology will expand the artist's horizons.  
> Asking "is it the tool that limits you?," Vasulka calls the computer  
> a variation machine that will let artists leap beyond historic  
> constraints. In the 70s, he says, artists asked, "What happens  
> between the frames?" and "Why 24 frames per second and not 1000?"  
> Today, with the variation machine, they can begin to answer those  
> questions and more.
>
> Thw process has begun, according to Woody. Santa Fe artists like  
> Corey Metcalf and David Stout, he says, are heirs to the Vasulka  
> traditions. They show that modern digital processes, once again,  
> allow a reinterpretation of sound and sight.
>
>
> Woody pioneered video art in the late 1960s. Born in Brno, now in  
> the Czech Republic, he trained as an engineer before studying  
> television and film production at the Academy of Performing Arts in  
> Prague. He met his wife, Steina Vasulka, in the early 1960s and  
> moved to New York City in 1965, where he worked as a multiscreen  
> film editor, experimenting with electronic sounds and stroboscopic  
> lights while pioneering the showing of video art at the Whitney  
> Museum. Woody collaborated with Don MacArthur and Jeffrey Schier in  
> 1976 to build a computer controlled personal imaging facility called  
> The Digital Image Articulator. The Vasulkas have been based in Santa  
> Fe since 1980. More information is available at http://vasulka.org/index.html
> Come Visit Us
>
> Santa Fe Complex is located next to the Railyard Art District and  
> within walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the  
> plaza downtown. We're housed in two facilities, the conference area  
> at 624 Agua Fria and the project space at 632 Agua Fria.
>
> The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short- 
> term use associated with on-going complex projects. The project  
> space houses the great room, where we hold events and offer working  
> facilities for laptop users, coffee lounge and work carrels.
>
> While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking  
> lot is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is  
> an old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway.  
> Follow it until it opens up to two lanes and turn hard right into  
> the parking lot for 632.
>
> Here's a map to our location, a representative shot showing the  
> Railyard District and a sketchup drawing of the facility at 632. For  
> more information, call 505/216.7562 or click here.
>
> Don Begley
> Managing Director
> Santa Fe Complex
> 624 Agua Fria St
> Santa Fe, NM 87501
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