** Today Oct 13 12:30p at sfComplex ** Title: Surveillance and the unmasking of Transparency Marie Sester <http://www.sester.net/>
Title: Demonstration of recent works Maria Mendez <http://www.mariafmendez.com/> Where: Santa Fe Complex 632 Agua Fria, 12:30p Oct 13 -- Marie Sester is a media artist currently based in Los Angeles. Born in France, she began her career as an architect. Her interest, however, shifted from how to build structures to how place, cultural values, and political ideas are intertwined and affect our understanding of the world. Her work particularly questions the societal perspective of the West. In her work she intends to reveal the ambiguity of the cultural representation dedicated to the new technologies/entertainment/information/ consumables/politics, and the values and cultural codes that underlie them. The work is concerned with issues of surveillance and subjection, but it's not making a statement about surveillance and subjection or manipulation, it intentionally stays on the edges between playful and scary to reveal the underlying perversion. Her installation work has exhibited internationally. She had recently residencies at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Japan; Eyebeam, New York, and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and has received grants including from the Creative Capital Foundation, New York; New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA), LEF Foundation, and Franklin Furnace Fund. Her work is mentioned in several academic books and more to come in 2008. ------ Maria Mendez is a Colombian interactive artist and designer living in New York. Her work explores how audiovisual technology can be used to transform, expand, amplify and interpret physical spaces. Since the early 2000s, her work has involved computational design tools and interactivity. After having explored during her undergraduate the potentialities of video, experimental animation and video installations, she started exploring interactivity as a new element in her creative work through the study of topics such as web development, information design, and programming. This was the start point of her interest in information visualization and in how large sets of data can be used as part of the rules that govern generative design processes. Maria recently graduated from Interactive Telecommunications Program, ITP at NYU, Urban interventions and media in public space, mapping and recontextualizing information and the embedding of interactive information in physical places are central to her work. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
