Topological Media Lab Open Studio & Roundtables
Concordia University
November 15 & 16, 2006
Engineering-Visual Arts Building, BlackBox (B2-845), 1515 St. Catherine West
Wednesday 15 November 2006
Open Rehearsal
2:30 - 4:00
Students and faculty are welcome to come to an open rehearsal of the TML working with movement and responsive media. There will be no presentations, but you're invited to witness some work-in-process with dance, calligraphic video, responsive soundscapes, and media choreography.
Thursday 16 November 2006
Roundtables on Movement and Architecture
5:00 - 8:00
5:00 Refreshments, Demonstrations
6:00 Roundtable 1: Movement and Responsive Spaces, Michael Montanaro, Harry Smoak, and Respondent Erin Manning
7:00 Roundtable 2: Responsive Environments and Poetic Architectures, Sha Xin Wei and Respondents Patrick Harrop, Brian Massumi
The Topological Media Lab offers an Open Studio featuring experiments in dance and installation art, and fresh work with responsive environments and real-time media. The informal conversations will be an occasion to publicly share and discuss the atelier-laboratory's new research oriented toward movement and the built environment.
Choreographer and Chair of the Dance department, Michael Montanaro, will present work with Harry Smoak, and Kirsten Wild featuring structured "conversations" between dancers and dynamic fields of light and video.
Sha Xin Wei, Associate Professor in Computer Science and Design / Computation Arts, and Director of the TML, will present work in calligraphic video and gestural sound with Louis-Andre Fortin, Jean-Sebastien Rousseau, Tim Sutton, Emmanuel Thivierge, as well as prospective work of the TML's poetic spaces and soft architecture research group.
Professors Patrick Harrop (Architecture, University of Manitoba), Erin Manning (Film and Studio Arts), and Brian Massumi (Communications, Université de Montréal) will join the conversations as Respondents.
The two Roundtables continue a public conversation with artists, scholars, and technologists about the TML's emerging research programs in movement arts and in architecture.
The event is free and open to the public.
Supported by Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University; Hexagram; the Topological Media Lab, and the Canada Research Chair in Media Arts and Sciences.
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