April 18, 2005
IM Forum Speaker on 4/20/05 - Naomi Spellman
Interpretive Site Specific Media: Considering the experience of places, the interpretation of places, and the reframing of places through digital tools and media.
Location: USC Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, Room 201
3131 South Figueroa Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90089-7756
Time: 6:00pm-8pm, 4/20/2005
Naomi Spellman is a transmedia artist and educator. Exhibited work includes networked art, video, computer-based interactive works, and graphic prints. Her work has been exhibited nationally and abroad. Venues have included Futuresonic <04>, the LA Freewaves Festival, the Art in Motion Festival, ASCII Digital 2000, The Harvard Map Collection, and the DART IV Symposium on Digital Arts and Culture. She has lectured on her work and on the use of locative media for interpretative content at the Joint Ventures Conference for the Stewardship of America's National Parks (Los Angeles, 2003), at the YLEM Forum at the Exploratorium (San Francisco, 2004), and will be a featured artist at the second annual Floating Points speaker series at Emerson College in March 2005. (http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/). Naomi also has over 20 years experience in commercial work, including art direction, graphic design, photography, illustration, and internet content development. Naomi teaches in the Interdisciplinary Computing Arts Program at University of California, San Diego and in the Design and Media Arts Program at the Orange Coast Community College in Costa Mesa. She was a Visiting Artist at The Evergreen State College in Washington in 2003, and has taught in the Design|Media Arts program at the University of California Los Angeles and at Parsons School of Design in New York. This past summer Jeff and Naomi were the Digital Research Unit Artists in Residence at the Media Center in Huddersfield, UK, where they developed the interpretive engine, which was shown at Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City a three-day event in Lower Manhattan in October 2004.
Comments
Her sort of map paintings and satellite picture like paintings were impressive works. I realized again that the new form of arts arrises when we're changing the way of thinking a little bit differently. Games are one of the key area this kind of innovation is needed most.
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at April 27, 2005 12:24 PM
I really appreciated the overlay of a pseudo-past audio reality on top of current visual reality. It's interesting how the fidelity of audio recreation today can trick our minds far better than today's high-tech visuals. I wonder, with the 34 North project, how things would be if the participants weren't holding a tablet PC and if their headphones were so light and enclosing as to be completely unfelt while they blocked the outside world perfectly...
...Davidson's Ears, I guess?
Posted by: vincent at April 27, 2005 03:53 PM
Yeah - the interfaces on some of these projects seem clunky. That's low-hanging fruit in terms of critique, of course. It's difficult, pioneering stuff to overlay the virtual on the "real." And so it was engaging to see her influences drrew from pseudo-past, as you said, Vince, and also from things more like Crop Circles which are also pseudo-past but also more pranksterish. Spellman had an earnest quality to her that didn't have much evident contempt for authority; but I think there's a ton of potential for tweaking established powers when you start talking about annotating the world.
Posted by: Justin Hall at April 27, 2005 04:17 PM
If Naomi's Body/Contour-Line is more called an artistic approach, her larger work of Space/Narriative has practical value - think if it could be adapted into a mobile design and market it. Her works just remind me of that fact that today's lab work/artistic endeavor has its way to be the succesful product, depending on how the experiments are carried out. View from a certian angle for example, Speilburg does commercials, say, 10 on average in exchange with doing a artistic film only for himself e.g. not so artistically succesful work Schindler's List and The Color Purpple. Sad to see the "New Hollywood Movement" pioneers' artistic sink though, it's the real life.
Posted by: yuechuan at April 27, 2005 05:56 PM
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