The Thursday Club on February 24th in collaboration with ISEA2011 Istanbul and with the Leonardo Electronic Almanac invites you to a conversation on contemporary digital identities.
Christiane Paul (Curator), Frieder Nake (artist) in conversation with Lanfranco Aceti, conference Chair, ISEA Istanbul 2011. Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent (http://www.intelligentagent.com). Currently she also teaches in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has lectured internationally on art and technology. Frieder Nake belongs to the founding fathers of (digital) computer art. He produced his first works in 1963. Frieder Nake is Professor for Compter Graphics and Interactive Systems at the University of Bremen, Germany, and has had a long involvement with digital art. Primarily a mathematician, Nake’s colored computer drawings in 1967, for example, explored the visual expression of series of matrix multiplications, imagery that has an undeniable artistic intention. He has contributed to all major exhibitions of computer art, including Cybernetic Serendipity in London (1968), tendencies 4 in Zagreb (1968), and the long lasting Goethe Institute show during the 1970s. Lanfranco Aceti works as an academic, artist and curator. He is Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths College, department of Art and Computing, London; teaches Contemporary Art and Digital Culture at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul; and is Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (the MIT Press, Leonardo journal and ISAST). Currently he is the Artistic Director and Conference Chair for ISEA2011 Istanbul. The event will be followed by a one day conference, Digital Portraits of Transculturalism – London, at the Centre for Creative Collaboration, University of London http://www.creativecollaboration.org.uk. Location: 3/4, Ben Pimlott Building Cost: Free to all Department: Computing http://www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/entry/the_thursday_club_event/ Time: 24 February 2011, 18:00 – 20:00 Please visit the current exhibition of Leonardo Electronic Almanac: Facebook: http://ow.ly/3pAjd Flickr: http://ow.ly/3pAKp Twitter: http://ow.ly/3pALO For more information contact: Ozden Sahin, ozden.sa...@leoalmanac.org Leonardo is a registered trademark of Leonardo/ISAST. ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre