INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA with LIZ PHILLIPS January 14-25, 2008
The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and select faculty who represent the departments of Art, MAT, Music, Dance, and the College of Creative Studies, is proud to welcome Liz Phillips to UCSB for her residency through the IHC's Visiting Artist Program.
We invite UCSB faculty, grads, undergrads, staff, and interested community members to attend the following events*:
INSTALLATION + WORKSHOPS
* All events will take place in the Art Department's Sculpture Atrium
(0641) *
INSTALATION
For her residency, Phillips will create a small-scale interactive multisensory installation environment. This installation will allow participants to interact with space through sounds and images. All are welcome to come and experience the sights and sounds of interactivity.
Location: Sculpture Atrium (room 0641), Art Department Exhibition Schedule: Tuesday January 22nd - Thursday January 24th, 11am - 5pm daily
DEMONSTRATIONS
Phillips would also like to expose both faculty and students to the possibilities of multi-media interactivity. Using her installation as a workspace, she will hold several demonstrations that deal with the audio/visual manifestation of presence, stillness, and movement. We invite UCSB faculty, grads, undergrads, staff, and interested community members to attend the following events*:
1) Tuning Space / Sound in Space ============== Tuesday, January 22, 5pm
Phillips will team up with composers Curtis Roads and Earl Howard to talk about placing sounds in particular spatial environments.
-Tuning Space: Using her installation as an example, Phillips will demonstrate the technique of "tuning" space. For a sound installation to come alive, one must coordinate the sounds of the work with the characteristics of the existing spatial/aural environment in a way that compliments and enhances both. Participants will learn the hows and whys of this invaluable process.
-Sound in Space: In this demonstration, Phillips, Roads, and Howard will reveal some of their finest techniques for the creation and manipulation of sounds in a specific architectural environment. This will include directional sound projection and Phillips' recent development of "spinning" binaural sounds in space.
2) Audio/Visual Aspects of Interactivity ======== Wednesday, January 23, 5pm
For Phillips, sound, space, and the visual are inseparable components in a multifaceted perceptive act. In this demonstration, she will explain her unique vision of how sound and image can be carefully coordinated into and interactive art form. This will include a "paper workshop" and her recent work with 3D projections on weather balloons.
3) Capacitance Fields ====================== Thursday, January 24, 5pm
Phillips is a pioneer in the use of capacitance fields for interactivity with sonic space. In this participatory demonstration, she will show performers, artists, dancers, and composers how to create and perform inside an aural architecture.
* All events will take place in the Art Department's Sculpture Atrium
(0641) *
New York-based artist Liz Phillips has been making interactive multimedia installations for the past 30 years, which combine audio and visual art forms with new technologies to create a fascinating interactive experience. She is among the first to use sound as a primary medium in artistic contexts, and is one of the few to consistently incorporate sounds, images, space, film, sculpture, public/alternative spaces, architecture, and interactivity into compelling multi-sensory environments. Few artists have so successfully demonstrated the fact that each act of perception is contingent upon the information being processed by all the other senses. For each participant who experiences her art, the work becomes a mode of being rather than an act of passive spectatorship.
Please email VAP event coordinator Cory Mathews
(cmathews@umail.ucsb.edu) if you wish to participate in one or more of these events. Please state which event(s) you'd like to attend and give your name, department, rank (faculty, grad, undergrad, staff, community member), and contact info (phone or email). Because of occupancy restrictions for certain spaces, there is limited availability for all demonstrations. Priority will be given to faculty and students.