[UCI-CalIT2] SCREEN SERIES at The Beall Center for Art and Technology Nov 12-Dec 14

Eileen J. ALGAZE EALGAZE@uci.edu
Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:50:52 -0800


CLAIRE TREVOR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
The Beall Center for Art and Technology
presents

SCREEN SERIES
By Scott Snibbe, research artist and computer scientist

Nov. 12-Dec. 14
Hours: Mon.-Thur. and Sat., noon-5 pm; Fri., noon-8 pm

The Beall Center for Art and Technology

Admission is free

Information: (949) 824-4339 or visit http://beallcenter.uci.edu

Opening reception: Nov. 12, 6-9 pm

A stunning meditation on light and shadow, "Screen Series" functions
on a number of levels, introducing the audience to the history and
technique of the earliest cinematic cameras as well as allowing
viewers to create cinema directly with their bodies.  Six rectangles
of pure white light react to visitors as they move between projector
and screen, physically interrupting the beams of projected light.

In "Screen Series," Snibbe has developed a work that belies its
technical complexity and brings the process of the earliest moving
image photography into the 21st century. The work reintegrates the
functions of image capture, development and projection by combining
camera, projector and computer into a single light sensing and
emitting apparatus.

Snibbe is an award-winning San Francisco research artist and computer
scientist who explores direct physical perception and the nature of
the self through the use of electronic media.  He has exhibited at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen, Eyebeam, the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tokyo Intercommunications Center,
London's Institute of Contemporary Art, Ars Electronica and other
institutions in the U.S., Europe and Asia. You can visit his website
at http://www.snibbe.com.


Contact:
Celia Pearce
Arts Research Manager/
Associate Director, Game Culture & Technology Lab
Cal-(IT)2
University of California, Irvine
celiap@uci.edu
www.calit2.net, www.ucgamelab.net