Glitch, Hack, and Play: Lecture & Interactive Digital Workshop

The University of Toledo’s Department of Art is hosting “Glitch, Hack, Play,” a New Media lecture and workshop series to inspire and instruct for the Spring of 2012. The three visiting artists, working with a range of new media including 3-D & experimental video, reworking electronics, sound generation, and building custom games will speak about their work and will lead hands-on workshops illustrating aspects of their artistic process the following day.

The first lecture will be lead by Rick Silva at 2pm on Monday, February 20th at UT’s Center for Visual Art in the Haigh Auditorium, located in the basement of The CVA.  Sliva is a new media artist whose recent works explore “landscape, remix, and glitch.”  One of his projects include a performance at Houston's Software Cinema Festival in 2006 using Google Earth software like a DJ or VJ would use turntables or a video mixer to manipulate “streaming landscapes and glitch satellite imagery into live multimedia mixes and installations”.

Rick’s art has been shown nationally and internationally and has been supported by Turbulence.org, Rhizome.org, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.  Media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian UK, Liberation, El Pais, and The CBS Evening News have all recognized his work. Rick was born in Brazil and lives in Calgary, Canada.

The accompanying workshop, “Create Experimental Digital Art Using Video Game Engines in Three Easy Steps,” will highlight technical demos and examples of video art using video game engines.  The workshop will be held Tuesday, February 21st on UT’s main campus at The Carlson Library’s Computer Lab starting at 6pm.  Attendees should bring their own computer to follow along (Mac or PC). In this workshop Rick will show you how to make your own experimental art game spaces full of “glitched-out” landscapes, imported models, and polygon particle bursts.

More information on presenter Rick Silva is available at his website: http://ricksilva.net/
To help navigate yourself to the Carlson Library, a map of The University of Toledo’s Campus is available here: http://www.utoledo.edu/campus/directions/pdfs/MainCampusMap.pdf

Still hungry for more info? Visit http://turbulence.org/ and http://rhizome.org/ to learn about the internet sites that support Rick Silva’s projects.
Published: 02/14/2012 7:00 am

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