Rhizome.LA: Dinner with George Legrady, Bill Seaman, and Tamiko Thiel
Please join George Legrady, Bill Seaman, and Tamiko Thiel at the next
Rhizome.LA. They will each give a talk about their recent and upcoming
interactive environment/installation projects. Please come early and
enjoy some dinner before the presentations start.
Date: March 24, 2002
Time: 6pm - catered dinner
7pm - presentations
Location: Rocco
6320 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, California
323.462.8500
No need to RSVP, but a $5-10 sliding-scale cover will be charged at the
door.
Dinner will be $10 per person (charged separately).
Questions? Email Beverly Tang at beverly@rhizome.org
Website: http://rhizome.org/LA
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Tamiko Thiel
http://mission.base.com/tamiko/
Tamiko Thiel has shown her virtual reality and video artwork in Europe,
the USA and Japan, in venues such as SIGGRAPH, the Tokyo Metropolitan
Museum of Photography and the ICA/London. Her project Starbright World,
done in collaboration with Starbright Foundation's chairman Steven
Spielberg, has won numerous awards for innovative use of new technology.
In the early 1980s she designed the physical form for Danny Hillis'
revolutionary supercomputers, the Connection Machines CM-1 and CM-2,
which are preserved in various museums including the Smithsonian
National Museum of American History. She has taught Design at Carnegie
Mellon and is currently teaching virtual reality art at UC/San Diego.
PC-based VR can go far beyond the shooting game to create spaces of
meaningful cultural, political and artistic value. Tamiko Thiel will
talk about her projects "Beyond Manzanar," a 3D interactive virtual
reality installation that investigates parallels between discrimination
against Japanese Americans during WWII and Iranian Americans during the
Iranian Hostage Crisis, and "Starbright World," a 3D multi-user virtual
playspace (MUD) for seriously ill children.
Bill Seaman
http://www.cda.ucla.edu/faculty/seaman/
Bill Seaman received a PH.D. from CAiiA, the Centre for Advanced Inquiry
In The Interactive Arts, University of Wales, Newport, 1999. He holds a
Master of Science in Visual Studies degree from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1985. His work explores text, image and sound
relationships through technological installation, virtual environments,
linear video, computer controlled laserdisc and other computer-based
media, photography, and studio based audio compositions. He is self-
taught as a composer and musician. His works have been in numerous
international festivals and Museum shows where he has been awarded
prizes such as the Prix Ars Electronica in Interactive Art (1992 &1995,
Linz, Austria); International Video Art Prize, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany;
Bonn Videonale prize; First Prize, Berlin Film / Video Festival, for
Multimedia in 1995; and the Awards in the Visual Arts Prize. Selected
exhibitions include 1996, MEDIASCAPE GUGGENHEIM, New York; the premiere
exhibition in 1997 of the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany; 1997, Barbican
Centre (London); 1997, C3 - Center for Culture & Communication,
Budapest, Hungary ; in 1998, PORTABLE SACRED GROUNDS, NTT-ICC Tokyo;
BODY MECHANIQUE, The Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, 1999. Seaman
contributed a video set for the production of SLEEPERS GUTS by William
Forsythe and Ballet Frankfurt. He collaborated with the dancer Regina
Van Berkel on the installation entitled "Exchange Fields" which was
commissioned by Vision Ruhr exhibition, Dortmund, Germany. He was also
commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada for the interactive work
"Red Dice / D
