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