Presented at
The Last HOPE (2008),
July 19, 2008, 2 p.m.
(60 minutes).
In an effort to continue the knitting together of the art scene and the tech scene, Daravinne has gathered local artists to create art installations in the lobby and mezzanine spaces of the conference. Four artists are being showcased, each with their own unique spin on tech art. Albert Hwang has created a 3D Wiremap, Randy Polumbo has some electrified flowers, Erik Sanner wants us to play chess, and Sean Montgomery's biofeedback wearables will tell you how you're feeling.
Presenters:
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Daravinne
Daravinne is a designer, hacker, and artist who has been a member of the 2600 community since 2002. She resides in New York City.
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Albert Hwang
Albert Hwang (Phedhex) is an information artist with a background in theatrical design and performance. Stemming from his discrete yet complimentary interests in theater and computers, his work culminates in systems where virtual 3d and actual 3d cut into one another. The Wiremap is an example of such a system, displaying a virtual 3d object in an actual 3d environment.
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Randy Polumbo
Randy Polumbo is an artist, builder, and musician who lives and works in New York City and Joshua Tree, California. He came to New York in 1982 to study art at Cooper Union and started making strange electronic assemblages out of found objects from the trash and homemade parts. Today, much work is made of cast glass and metal elements fabricated in his downtown studio, along with electronics, solar panels, and sex toys of various sorts. Recent saucy yet environmental work has led to the first year ever of multiple police and Secret Service actions against his product. Polumbo is working on a monumental installation first for Burning Man, which will later be permanently installed in downtown Joshua Tree. It is a "Grotto" of erotic and troubling flowers framing a video installation inside of an old Military semi trailer command office surrounded by a field of dildo and butt plug flowers.
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Erik Sanner
Erik Sanner uses new media to create "moving paintings" - dynamic installations in which computers compose montages which are projected onto prepared surfaces such as oil paintings. He has been exhibiting visual art for over a decade in galleries and museums in Tokyo and New York. Erik enjoys collaborating with human and machine artists and lay-entities.
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Sean Montgomery
Sean Montgomery is presently finishing his PhD in neuroscience and looking to a future at the interface of art, science, technology and entrepreneurship. His recent work includes the development of biofeedback apparel that detects and displays the electrical signals generated by the body in order to open design and fashion to dynamic new forms of self awareness, personal expression and interpersonal communication.
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