The Art Technology & Culture Colloquium at UCSC has been established as a partner to the ATC at UC Berkeley, an internationally known forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about technology and culture. The ATC at UCSC will presents artists, writers, curators, and scholars who consider contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history, from a critical perspective.
ATC@UCSC lectures, Winter and Spring 2009
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ATC@UCSC joins the Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), and DANM Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program in hosting a series of special lectures and workshops.
All spring series lectures will be announced. Check this web site for updates to the schedule and location.
March 11th, 2009
Erdem Helvacioglum
Musical Recital Hall, 7-8:30 pm.
UCSC Classical Guitar Ensemble presents a special program of guitar works:
"Carnavalito" traditional Andean, "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" by Tchaikovsky,
"Divertissement" by Olivier Bensa, "
Story of a River" by Carl Atilano, Jive Jazz Jack" by Peter Curtis,
"Concerto Grosso" by Bryan Johanson, "Rumeli Türküsü" by Mesut Özgen
"Acerca del cielo, el aire y la sonrisa" (The Sky, the Air, and a Smile) by Leo Brouwer,
Mountain Mission by Adam Cotton
and the world premiere of "Peace Trilogy" by the Turkish composer Erdem Helvacioglu
Erdem Helvacioglu (b. 1975) is one of the most renowned new music composers of his generation in Turkey. He has received numerous international awards. His music has been performed at prestigious festivals and broadcast all around the world. He has collaborated with Mick Karn, Kevin Moore, John Wilson, Kazuya Ishigami, Luo Chao-yun, Ros Bandt, Craig Green, Jacob Young, Elliott Sharp, Bill Walker, Nathan Larson and Saadet Türköz. He has received commissions from artists and organizations such as the 2006 World Soccer Championship, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Todd Reynolds, Kinan Azmeh, Margaret Lancaster, Mesut Özgen, and Cem Duruöz. He is also actively involved in composing for films, multimedia productions, contemporary dance and theatre. His sound installations have been included at such galleries as Los Angeles Track 16, Indonesia Soemardja, Köln Museum für Angewandte Kunst, London Menier and the 10th International Istanbul Biennial. His film music has been heard at Cannes, Sarajevo, Locarno, Seoul, Sao Paulo, and Sydney film festivals and he received the “Best Original Soundtrack” award in the 2006 Mostramundo Film Festival. His solo album “Altered Realities” has been included in the “Best 20 albums of 2007” list in All About Jazz, Textura, and Cyclic Defrost magazines. http://www.erdemhelvacioglu.com/
The first movement of the "Peace Trilogy," written for Mesut Ozgen, is based on the Phrygian mode, a scale that is used extensively in the traditional musics throughout the Middle East, as well as flamenco music in Spain. The combination of this mode's melancholic sound, the use of various extended techniques on guitar (slide, bow, striking the strings behind the nut and behind the bridge, etc) and the sophisticated sound processing algorithms take the audience to a sound world where violence and wisdom coexist together. A complex patch has been created within the software Audiomulch for the live electronics aspect of the composition. This patch includes digital signal processing techniques like filtering, granular synthesis, looping, pitch shifting and such. Without the use of any previously recorded guitar part, the timbre of the classical guitar is transformed in real-time to many different, surprising shapes that create a virtual ensemble and amaze the listener. The composer himself will be controlling the surround sound mix via six built-in speakers in the Music Center Recital Hall, which will provide an exciting live performance experience for the audience.
April 29th, 2009
Amy Balkin
Media Theater, 7-8:45 pm.
EAmy Balkin Amy Balkin’s projects consider how we occupy the social and material landscapes we inhabit. Her projects include Public Smog, This is the Public Domain, and Invisible-5. Public Smog (2004+) is a public park in the atmosphere that fluctuates in location and scale, constructed through a series of economic and political activities and gestures. This is the Public Domain (2001+) is an ongoing effort to create a permanent international commons, free to all in perpetuity, through the legal transfer of 2.634 acres of land near Tehachapi, California, to the global public. Invisible-5 (2006) is a self-guided environmental justice audio tour of California’s Interstate-5 highway corridor, made in collaboration with artists Tim Halbur and Kim Stringfellow, and organizations Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, and Pond: Art, Activism, and Ideas. The project investigates the stories of people and communities fighting for environmental justice along the I-5 freeway, through oral histories, field recordings, found sound, recorded music, and archival audio documents. It also traces natural, social, and economic histories along the route. Her recent works include the video Reading ‘Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers’ (2008), and Sell Us Your Liberty, Or We’ll Subcontract Your Death (2008), a series of sign rubbings of Bay Area entities implicated in the local, everyday production of war. She has received grants from the Creative Work Fund and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and in 2007 she travelled to Greenland with Cape Farewell, a project to bring artists and scientists to the Arctic. She lives in San Francisco.
These lectures and workshops are free and open to the Public.
Parking:
Enter the Main Entrance to campus. Proceed directly to the parking kiosk on the right. Purchase a day permit. Ask for directions to the Music Recital Hall or Media Theater near the Performing and Studio Arts complex closest to the West campus entrance. Map: UCSC campus: http://maps.ucsc.edu/