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| Brooke A. Knight John (Craig) Freeman Jo-Anne Green Helen Thorington |
Wednesday, March 30 7:00 p.m. Bill Bordy Theatre, 216 Tremont St. Free and open to the public.
Pete Gomes is a freelance Director and digital film lecturer at the Architectural Association, London. He held a Gulbenkian New Technologies Research Post at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London from 1996-98, where he formulated ideas and strategies that helped establish the ICA New Media Centre. Gomes was a supporter and consistent presence within the now 'legendary London net lounge' Backspace. He has collaborated on numerous digital film, art, and technology projects across the UK and Europe many of which fuse elements of new technologies and film; while rooted in the language of film, celluloid, and experimental cinema, Gomes operates within the landscape of the internet, wireless technologies, databases, computer editing, portable computers and GPS. Recent works include "TG 030303," a 60 minute video installation of a performance by Throbbing Gristle; "[h]Interland," a new dance film commission for Shobana Jeyasingh which was shot in India and premiered in London as part of Dance Umbrella 2002; and a collaboration with Michael Nyman stemming from a film he made for painter Anthoni Malinowski. His films have been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Vienna; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Leeds; International Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona; Gallery Entropia, Poland; and the Kiev International Media Festival, amongst many other venues. Jeff Knowlton and Naomi Spellman Jeff Knowlton has worked professionally as an artist, musician, lecturer, programmer, and museum preparator. His art has been included in AIM IV, Imagine 2001, and Siggraph 2000. He is a recipient of a New Forms Initiative Grant funded by the NEA and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2000, Jeff designed an interactive text environment for an international conference on aging sponsored by The Centre for Global Dialogue in Reuschlikon Switzerland. He has created interactive solutions for clients such as Mattel and Union Bank of California. avant guard jazz musician He currently teaches Interactive Narrative in the Interdisciplinary Computing Arts Program at the University of California, San Diego. Naomi Spellman is a transmedia artist and educator. Her work includes networked art, video, interactive computer-based works, and graphic prints. Spellman has exhibited nationally and abroad, including ASCII Digital 2000, The Harvard Map Collection, and the DART IV Symposium on Digital Arts and Culture. She currently teaches a seminar on Mobile Wireless Applications, as well as Senior Thesis Project Development in the Interdisciplinary Computing Arts Program at the University of California, San Diego. |