After a spectacular performance Friday night, artist, designer and engineer Toby Harris of the VJ collective D-Fuse will talk about his research and artwork related to “liveness” in this semester’s final Digital Studies Symposium presentation tonight at 7:00 p.m. “In the 1970s, cinema was expanded,” he explains, referencing Gene Youngblood’s seminal exploration of avant-garde film in the book Expanded Cinema. “In the 1990s, it met ‘new media’ as soft cinema. In 2010, the technological landscape is ripe to combine these, placing cinema in a live performance context.” Harris will talk about the growing body of work that combines the live mixing and production of sound and images, asking in particular about the value of “the live” in live cinema. The talk begins at 7:00 in SCA 112 and is free and open to students, faculty, and the general public.
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