Speaker: Simon Penny, Professor of Arts and Engineering, UCI
Time: Wednesday, February 10, 6-8 pm
Location: USC’s Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC)
Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)
Designing Embodied Interaction: Aesthetic, Technical and Theoretical Issues
Please join us for a talk by Professor Simon Penny, who is an artist, engineer, and designer of mixed reality installations. For more than two decades, Penny has pursued the simultaneous development of Interactive Artworks and the design and construction of technologies for Embodied Interaction, utilising Machine Vision and Robotics technologies. This work involves fundamental technical R+D directed by a radically Interdisciplinary negotiation of Artistic goals and sensibilities with Engineering realities, informed by emerging Cognitive Science research and a Phenomenological critique. The talk will take video documentation of three major works (Petit Mal, 1993-5, Traces, 1997-9, and Fugitive II, 2000-2004) as starting points for the discussion.