IS THAT A TRIGGER IN YOUR POCKET...OR A SENSOR?
Interactive media, art, and audiences.
A Live Arts incubator studio.
1:30 – 5:30 Sunday May 25th at ICU – 1 Halford St. Castlemaine
Thanks to Daniel Armstrong on Punctum’s Peer Squad, Arts Victoria, and Workspace Australia, we’re joyfully throwing open the ICU doors for our first Live Arts professional development studio. Is That a Trigger...? is a full afternoon media studio/workshop with Ernesto Rios and Tony Falla investigating the use of interactive trigger mechanisms in art.
This Live Arts studio is open to all artists across all art forms who wish to advance their practice and thinking in audience interaction and media.
Cost: $20. To guarantee you place e-mail hq@punctum.com.au or call:
04 39 319 307
Ernesto Rios is a Mexican visual artist usually based in New York, but currently in residence as a sessional teacher within the Media Faculty at Deakin University.
Ernesto Rios has a background in fine art and photography and also works with new technologies and multimedia. He holds a Masters degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University and has been working with a diverse palette of tools developing his work in drawing, photography, video, animation, interactive art and virtual reality for many years.
Ernesto has shown his work at distinguished galleries and museums in Mexico, Cuba, England and the U.S.A. He has also taught video and animation at acclaimed institutions.
Ernesto will also be presenting work at ICU as part of Undue Noise on Saturday May 24th at 8pm and in the meantime you can see some of Ernesto’s beautiful works via his website:
www.ernestorios.com
Tony Falla trained as an engineer with the BBC. After working as Managing Technician in the Psychology Department at the University of Nottingham until 1981, he migrated to Australia. In 1982 Tony worked for Channel 9 special projects and until 1995 was Technical Manager of the School of Arts and Media at La Trobe University.
In 1995 Tony was Technical Manager for Optusvision and established a TV studio for community access to Localvision - a cable television. He now works freelance, is a Macintosh Trainer and support person, a sessional teacher in Music, Media and Multimedia at University level and has worked with younger students in multimedia and animation.
Is That A Trigger? - PROGRAM
Ernesto Rios - 90 minutes
Examples of Ernesto’s work and experience shared with the group
PLUS technical information about interesting software and devices and examples shown through presentation of his work
Discussion:
Question time – Inspirations and challenges
BREAK - 30 minutes (with a possibility of trying out some
interactive devices) -
Tony Falla: 60 minutes
The gadgets - sensors and triggers and low-tech, low cost examples of how they can be used.
"And so yeah..." (5:00 - 5:30pm)
Show and Tell:
Workshop open forum/round table of questions and answers regarding everyone’s ideas and projects.