Subtle Technologies-SUBTLE BROADCAST (fwd)

[Neil Wiernik <neil@xxxxxxxxx>]

just passing on some info that might interest most of you I guess...
(also a little self promotion at the same time)
 ;)
read below...

Neil....

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4th Annual Subtle Technologies Conference on Science, Art & Technology
May 17th-20th, 2001 www.subtletechnologies.com
NEW TICKET PRICES:
1-day, AM & PM program passes now available at the door!

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Opening Night- Thursday, May 17th, 8pm-10pm
'SUBTLE BROADCAST' - $10
An evening of video art, talk, and live electronic performance!
Full Program details at: www.subtletechnologies.com/video.html
Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto Campus
2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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'Subtle Broadcast' will kick off this year's conference with a Video
Screening, Presentation & Live Performance of Electronic Art:

With Videos by:
°°°Michael Bielicky, Esther Valiquette, Michael Gitlin, Yan Breuleux &
Alain Thibault, Gordon Monahan, Laiwan, Tom Sherman, Tasman Richardson,
Charles Biname, Christine Gorbach & Gary Lee Nelson°°°

Talk & Presentation of Electronic Art with:

°°Eric Rosenzveig (NYC) - ‘The Appearance Machine’ °°°

Willy Le Maitre and Eric Rosenzveig’s 'The Appearance Machine'
physically transforms detritus into a live audio/video stream which is
unicast directly to the festival or gallery viewer from its permanent
location in New York City. An industrial entertainment complex for the
continual transformation of the input of locally generated refuse to
output as global media, it is an autonomous synaesthetic system that
perpetually constructs a cinematic aural/visual space.

°°Andrea Polli (Chicago) - ‘Inside the Mask’ °°
A Live Audio/Video Performance with eye-tracking software. Featuring
audio artist & minimal techno producer Neil Wiernik aka naw!

Accompanied by Toronto-based audio artist & minimal techno producer Neil
Wiernik, Polli's performance will create a composition in movement, image
and sound, using custom-made eye and motion tracking devices that feed
live to the venue's theatre screen.

Andrea Polli is a digital media installation and performance artist
living in Chicago, Illinois; She is currently Assistant Professor of
Computing at Columbia College Chicago and an adjunct faculty member of
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Polli has presented her
performance work with eye and motion tracking devices in France, Brazil,
the UK, and the US.

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Tickets are now available for individual days and programs!
Thursday Night Opening: $10, Friday Evening: $15
Sat & Sun: Am- Program: $25, Pm-Program: $35, Day Pass: $55
4-day Conference Pass: $125

Students and InterAccess members can receive a sliding scale pass for $80
Now available by phone! To purchase conference passes call:
416-872-1212 or toll free 1-800-461-3333.
The Phone Box Office is open Monday to Saturday 9am-8pm and Sundays 10:30am-4pm.

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°°°Subtle Technologies Speaker Schedule °°°
Please visit our website at www.subtletechnologies.com for speaker bios,
abstracts and the full conference schedule:

FRIDAY, MAY 18th, 8pm-10pm -$15

°Gary Lee Nelson: "Sonomorphs: An Application of Genetic Algorithms To
the Growth and Development of Musical Organisms", Oberlin College, USA

°Maja Kuzmanovic & David Tonnesen: "Particle Systems for Artistic
Expression", FoAM, Belgium

SATURDAY, MAY 19th, 9am-5pm-$25-Am, $35-Pm & $55-Day

°George Magalios: "Unconcealment of the Ground Palette: An Alternative
Paleontological Investigation of a Subtle Technique", Carnegie Mellon
University, USA

°Johannes Birringer:"New Environments for Dance: Ecologies of Networks",
Ohio State University, USA

°Evan Harris Walker: "Polygons, Neural Nets, Quantum States, and
Rainbows", Walker Cancer Research Institute,USA

°Nina Sobell & Stacey Pershall (Parkbench):"Thinking of You", NYU, USA

°Bill Marks: "A Scientific Approach to Consciousness and the Infinite",
National Institute of Health, USA

°Kathleen Rogers: "The Imagination of Matter" Surrey Institute of Art
and Design, England

°Phillip Beesley:"Dissociated Membranes", University of Waterloo, Canada

SUNDAY, MAY 20th, 9am-5pm-$25-Am, $35-Pm & $55-Day

°Jane Krakower:"Space-Time Matrix", University of Southern Florida, USA

°Som Naimpally:"Topology and Applications", University of Toronto, Canada

°Ted Lumley & Jacques Rainville:"Inclusionality: an immersive philosophy
of environmental relationships", Canada

°Sageev Oore:"The Space Between Music and Science", University of
Toronto, Canada

°Adam Zaretsky:"Posthuman Temptation, Eros and Mutagenesis", MIT, USA

°Dale Thomas:"The Evolution of Morphogenetic Art Forms ", University of
Zurich, Switzerland

°Josh Bongard:"Biological Growth and the Automatic Design of Robots",
University of Zurich, Switzerland

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SATURDAY, MAY 19th, 4-8Pm opening for  'Mid-Air'
An exhibition of interactive artworks that explore air as a medium of
sound, vision, and an elemental life force. Featuring artworks by Andrea
Polli, Ken Gregory, and Tegan Smith.

Presented in conjunction with InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre,
401 Richmond St. W. Suite #444. Running from May 19th-June 9th, 2001

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The Subtle Technologies Conference is a 4-day multidisciplinary event
that explores the strands and patterns of thought, feeling and culture,
that connect and resonate in the space between art and science.
Established in 1998, Subtle Technologies is a not-for-profit arts
organization, dedicated to investigating the relationships between art,
science and technology.

We hope to provide an immersive conference environment, which encourages
the discussion and development of new concepts and areas of research in
both the arts and sciences, fusing topics that range from quantum
physics to dance.

Some of the many other topics that will be explored during each 50
minute presentation include: artificial intelligence, topology (a field
of mathematics), genetic algorithms for creating music, consciousness,
interactivity, ancient cave inscriptions, brainwaves, sociology, and
alternative computer interfaces.

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The Subtle Technologies Conference would like to acknowledge the support
of this year's sponsors: Toronto Arts Council, Science for Peace,
InterAccess Media Arts Centre, VTape, Year01 and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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