Free Lecture by Will Bauer
The Fine Art program would like to invite the public to join us for a free lecture and presentation by Will Bauer on Feb. 9th at the Centre for the Arts and Communications campus.
Electronic Media
Will Bauer is a media artist, engineer, inventor and theorist. He works with electronic media to produce interactive artworks where the whole of the ‘integrated media’ is greater than the sum of the individual media parts.
‘Gesamtkunstwerk’
He is the inventor of the Gesture and Media System (GAMS), a 3D interactive media control system, and hold patents in a number of distinct areas of technology. His long-time passion with this modern day version of ‘gesamtkunstwerk’ (total artwork) has resulted in a body of groundbreaking works, which have won some of the world’s top prizes for interactive media art.
‘Data portraiture’
Bauer’s recent artistic direction explores what he terms ‘data portraiture’- public, interactive, media-art works that use rich-media interactivity to multi-dimensionally represent complex social organizations such as corporations or communities.
In addition to being ‘living’ artworks per se, these pieces also function as non-linear societal tools, which both respond to and help build the very communities or organizations that are their subject matter.
This presentation is brought to you in part by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Join us to hear Will Bauer’s lecture as well as view his current work.
Event Details
| Date | Thu, Feb 9 2012 |
| Start Time | 12:00 pm |
| End Time | 1:00 pm |
| Location |
Room 203 10045 -156 Street Centre for the Arts & Communications |
| Faculty/Department | Centre for the Arts and Communications |
| Event Type | Lecture/speaker/presentation |
| Contact Person | Alana Broomfiled |
| Contact Phone | (780) 497-4408 |
| Contact Email | broomfielda@macewan.ca |
