From: kpa@sympatico.ca <kpa@sympatico.ca>
Date: Nov 27, 2005 10:38 AM
Subject: please post David Rokeby webcast
To: marisa@rhizome.org


WHAT: Kodak Lecture Series: DAVID ROKEBY
WHEN: Friday, December 2, 2005 @ 7:30 pm EST

LECTURES ARE WEBCAST LIVE & ARCIVED AT:
http://www.ryersonlectures.ca

The Kodak Lecture Series is pleased to announce that Toronto artist David
Rokeby will present a talk about his work on Friday, December 2, at 7:30
pm at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.

David Rokeby has won acclaim in both artistic and technical fields for his
new media artworks. A pioneer in interactive art and an acknowledged
innovator in interactive technologies, Rokeby has achieved international
recognition as an artist and seen the technologies which he develops for
his work given unique applications by a broad range of arts practitioners
and medical scientists.

Born in Tillsonburg, Ontario in 1960, Rokeby studied at the Ontario
College of Art where he began to use technology to make pieces that
directly engage the human body, or that involve artificial perception
systems. His best known work, Very Nervous System (1986-90), premiered at
the Venice Biennale in 1996, won the first Petro-Canada Award for Media
Arts (1988) and is permanently installed in several museums around the
world. Rokeby has twice been honored with Austria's Prix Ars Electronica
Award of Distinction (1991 and 1997). He has been an invited speaker at
events around the world, and has published two papers that are required
reading in the new media arts faculties of many universities. He received
a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2002.

For more information about David Rokeby:
http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/home.html

For more information about the Kodak Lecture Series program visit
http://www.ryersonlectures.ca.