Refraction Project // Brochore

T E C H N O L O G Y+ A R T 2 015 FOR T M A S ON DEC 0 5 - 0 6

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[noun] Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.

This winter, Fort Mason in San Francisco plays host to Technology Art Conference 2015, a conference that explores the impact of technology on art over the past four decades. It’s a show high on visuals and low on exposition, aiming to entertain children more than enlighten adults.

The conference begins with a talk given

by Chris Milk who is a master in playing with new media art. Also other speakers such as Joachim Sauter and John Maede would like to share their sense of combination of digital media and design sense.

With the history of “technology changing art” established, the conference then showcases a number of new works from

It is a new art forms, not just new art. contemporary artists and entertainers, culminating in a spectacular interactive laser exhibit from Umbrellium. Included in the exhibit is a new collaboration between Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki and will.i.am, four interactive pieces from Google’s DevArt project, and a small area showing indie games.

“The show is really artist-led, but also looks at technology, and the technology stories that are very important to the show as it progresses,” curator Conrad Bodman tells. “It’s the first show of its kind in the UK that explores the idea of digital creativity quite holistically.”

DAY 01 //DEC 05

10:00

Opening: Technology + Art =?

11:00

Play technology with the masses

12:00

13:00

Lunch & Rest

Social Soul: Social medias are art as themselves.

14:00

Engageing Design

15:00

Moment Factory: Light Up the Architecture

16:00

Old media in new form

Yihan Hsia

Building B

Chris Milk

Building C

@Herbst Pavilion

Kyle McDonald

Building B

Theodore Watson

Building C

Moment Factory

Building A

Joachim Sauter

Building E

DAY 02 //DEC 06

10:00

Graffiti shines in dark

11:00

Sculptures that’d be at home in the deep sea

12:00

13:00

Lunch & Rest

Visualization: Help people think collectively

14:00

A little dream: Tech art for kids

15:00

Decode in the coding generation

16:00

How art, technology and design inform creative leaders

James Powderly

Building B

Shih Chieh Huang

Building C

@ Herbst Pavilion

Fernanda ViĂŠgas &

Building B

Martin Wattenberg

Chris O’Shea

Building C

Karsten Schmidt

Building A

John Maeda

Building E

TECHNOLOG E V ERY W HE THE PEOPLE CRE ATE IT A CRE ATE W IT A RE , A ND A H AV E BEEN A RTIS T S.

GY IS RE , A ND E TH AT A ND TH IT A LWAYS N,

Featured Speakers

The Treachery of Sanctuary, The Creators Project: San Francisco 2012

Chris Milk Beginning

his

career

in

music

videos

and photography, Chris Milk’s work has expanded beyond the traditional: his art straddles experimental genres and unfamiliar mediums, turning new technologies, web browsers, ephemeral events and even physical gestures into new found canvasses.

Milk first gained recognition as a music video director, working with Arcade Fire, U2, Kanye West, Green Day, Johnny Cash, Gnarls Barkley, Chemical Brothers, John Mellencamp, Courtney Love, and Modest Mouse. He has been honored with the top industry awards for his music video and commercial work, including the Grand Prix Cannes Lion, the D&AD Black Pencil, the Grand Clio, and SXSW’s ‘Best of Show’, as well as multiple Grammy® nominations, MTV Moon Men, and the UK’s MVA Innovation Award.

His short film Last Day Dream

played at film festivals around the world, and he directed the second unit of A Mother’s Promise, the film that introduced Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-

Hewitt National Design Awards recognized his work in design and art in 2011.

Kyle McDonald Kyle McDonald is an artist who works in the open with code. He is a contributor to arts-engineering toolkits like openFrameworks, and spends a significant amount of time building tools that allow artists to use new algorithms in creative ways. His work is very process-oriented, and he has made a habit of sharing ideas and projects in public before they’re completed. He enjoys creatively subverting networked communication and computation, exploring glitch and embedded biases, and extending these concepts to reversal of everything from personal identity to work habits. Kyle is a member of F.A.T. Lab, community manager for openFrameworks, adjunct professor at ITP, and has been a resident at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon, as well as YCAM in Japan. His work is commissioned by and shown at exhibitions and festivals around the world, including: Ars Electronica, Sonar/OFFF, Eyebeam, Anyang Public Art Project, Cinekid, CLICK Festival, NODE Festival, FITC, and many others. He frequently leads workshops exploring computer vision and interaction.

Light Leaks, CLICK Festival 2013 in Helsingør, Denmark

James Powderly Powderly studied music composition at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

After college, he received a Masters Degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

James

worked

at

Honeybee

Robotics and was part of the team that worked on the Mars Exploration Rovers Rock Abrasion Tool. As the collaborative team Robot Clothes, Powderly and artist Michelle Kempner,

received

an

artist

residency

at Eyebeam for their project, Automated Biography. The project used small robots to tell the “personal story about a sick person and their partner.”

In 2005, James became a Research and Development

Fellow

at

the

Eyebeam

OpenLab where he began collaborating with Evan Roth. Working as the Graffiti Research Lab, Roth and Powderly developed open source tools for graffiti writers and activists, such as LED Throwies and L.A.S.E.R. Tag. Together they also founded the Free Art and Technology Lab a.k.a. F.A.T. Lab. Most recently James has won several awards for his work on the EyeWriter project, including the 2009 Design of the Year in Interactive Art from Design Museum, London, the 2010 Prix Ars Electronica,the 2010 FutureEverything Awardand featured on NPR and TED.

L.A.S.E.R. Tag, a computer vision system paired with a projector that enables one to write on walls using a high-power laser pointer.

Synthetic Seduction, 2013 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Shih Chieh Huang Powderly studied music composition at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

After college, he received a Masters Degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

James

worked

at

Honeybee

Robotics and was part of the team that worked on the Mars Exploration Rovers Rock Abrasion Tool. As the collaborative team Robot Clothes, Powderly and artist Michelle Kempner,

received

an

artist

residency

at Eyebeam for their project, Automated Biography. The project used small robots to tell the “personal story about a sick person and their partner.”

In 2005, James became a Research and Development

Fellow

at

the

Eyebeam

OpenLab where he began collaborating with Evan Roth. Working as the Graffiti Research Lab, Roth and Powderly developed open source tools for graffiti writers and activists, such as LED Throwies and L.A.S.E.R. Tag. Together they also founded the Free Art and Technology Lab a.k.a. F.A.T. Lab. Most recently James has won several awards for his work on the EyeWriter project, including the 2009 Design of the Year in Interactive Art from Design Museum, London, the 2010 Prix Ars Electronica,the 2010 FutureEverything Awardand featured on NPR and TED.

To find more speakers’ information, visit www.techart.org/refraction2015 or download the TechART APP.

Fort Mason Center, located on Marina Boulevard at Buchanan Street, along the northern waterfront between Aquatic Park and the Marina Green, is within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Minimum Hours The Fort Mason Center office is staffed everyday from 9 am to 8 pm except for the following observed holidays: New Years Day, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Presidents’ Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and the day after, and Christmas Day. Lost and Found Please call the Main Office at (415) 345-7500 Parking All funds generated from parking revenue are allocated for the preservation and restoration of this National Historic Landmark. The Fort Mason Center parking lot is for people visiting or working on the campus. Vehicles can enter the lot at any time, however overnight parking is not permitted.

Weekend Rates (Sat&Sun) 0-1 hour

$2.00

1-2 hours

$5.00

2-3 hours

$7.00

3-4 hours

$10.00

More than 4 hours

$12.00

Bike Racks Bike racks are located throughout the campus with the generous support of REI. At this time there are no indoor racks.

Box Office The box office opens 60 minutes prior to each performance for will-call and ticket purchase. Phone calls or emails will be returned promptly if no one is available to immediately answer your question during regular business hours.

(415) 345-7575 boxoffice@fortmason.org