Fall 2007
Announced in class 10/9: no project will be accepted if it is more than two weeks late
3 paragraphs describing three different ideas/approaches and examples (written/described, not necessarily actual files) of sounds that might be used in each case.
October 25th, 5:00 PM 623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405 VIPER VERTEX is a contemporary electronic media arts company specializing in interactive and innovative multimedia, including exhibit/installation design and production, web design/production and DVD authoring. The two principals, JoAnn Gillerman and Rob Terry, provide a unique blend of digital media, fine arts, video, sound, computers and interface design. Viper Vertex has co-produced many interactive multimedia exhibits, including permanent installations at Chabot Space and Science Center, The Tech Musuem of Innovation, and the Saint Louis Zoo.
623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405 Ric Heitzman straddles the fine and commercial art worlds as a designer, director, cartoonist and puppeteer. He has garnered threeEMMY awards for Co-production design on Pee wee's Playhouse, theinternationally syndicated children's television series. In addition,he has directed music videos, commercials and film. Some of his many clients are: Atlantic Records, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Sprint and Chili's Restaurants. A master of many forms of animation, he brought to life an array of characters in the pilot for the stop-motion animated series, the PJ's, staring Eddie Murphy for FOX-TV. Heitzman also co-wrote and directed Flash animated shorts, interactive games and two series, The Banana Splits and Pink Donkey Goes to Japan all for Cartoon Network. As a 20 year member of the Screen Actors Guild, Ric has supplied voices and puppeteered a number of characters for Cartoon Network, Children's Television Workshop, MTV, CBS-TV and Paramount Pictures. Ric designs from his studio in Los Angeles where he continues to paint, sculpt, write and direct.
November 15th, 5:30 PM 623 South Wabash Avenue, Room 405 Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal, a Instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago, has exhibited his art world wide, and traveled and lectured extensively to inform audiences of the situation of the Iraqi people, and the importance of peaceful conflict resolution. Bilal's latest video installation Domestic Tension placed him on the receiving end of a paintball gun that was accessible online to a worldwide audience, 24 hours a day. The month-long piece spurred online debates and intense conversations, garnering the praise of the Chicago Tribune, which called it "one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time," and Newsweek's assessment "breathtaking." But it is the resulting dialogue that Bilal seeks, as an artist who feels he does not have the privilege to create work that is not political. In the face of a war that stretches on, the 2005 deaths of his brother and father, the violence in his own history, Bilal seeks to imbue his audiences with a sense of empowerment that comes from hope in the enduring potential of humanity.
November 16th
Artist: Kapil Arora
Virtual Spiritualism is a narrative virtual environment with artwork inspired by Hindu mythology and tradition. It is an introspective meditation exercise set in virtual reality where one may explore mysticism. This piece has a universal touch of numinosity that reveals the significance of self-realization and purity.
Opening Reception Friday, November 16th 6-8 PM Exhibition Saturday, November 17th 2-5 PM
Venue: Center of Virtual Reality and Arts(CVRA) Art and Architecture Building University of Illinois Chicago Room # 3304 845 W. Harrison St. Chicago IL-60607
start date: 11/16/2007 end date: 11/17/2007
contact: kapilarora @ gmail.com
link to info: http://www.evl.uic.edu/core.php?mod=4&type=4&indi=531
