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Date: Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:01 AM
Subject: atc @ ucb: leo villareal, mon march 15, 7:30pm
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Teen Age: You Just Don't Understand:
Last call for new media art proposals, due 15 March:
http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/teen-age/
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The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of the
Berkeley Center for New Media and the San Jose
Museum of Art present:
Complex Simplicity: Investigating the Medium of Light
Leo Villareal, Artist, NY
Monday, March 15, 7:30 - 9 pm
Location: 160 Kroeber Hall
Free and open to the public.
-------------------------------------------------
Leo Villareal is considered one of the most
imporant light sculptors of his generation. Leo
will describe the journey that has taken him from
a childhood in West Texas, to Frankensteinean
experiments in the industrial wastelands of late
80's New Haven, to work in Virtual Reality at
NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. In
1994, Villareal took an internship at Interval
Research in Palo Alto and met pioneers in the
fields of technology and art. Experiences in the
Black Rock Desert further shifted his perspective,
revealing the power and potency of small amounts
of information and introducing him to his primary
medium: sequenced light. Villareal continues to
bring the inanimate to life and find beauty in
simple things. In this talk, Villareal questions
the race toward higher resolution, asking: Is more
better? What strategies can be used to repurpose
media technologies? What happens when you add
computation to minimalism and abstraction?
-------------------------------------------------
Leo Villareal's light sculpture and installations
have been presented at museums and institutions in
the United States and abroad. His work was
included in Visual Music, an important historical
survey exhibition organized by the Hirshorn Museum
in Washington DC and the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles. Villareal's work is part of the
permanent collection of major museums, including
the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the
Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. Villareal
has exhibited in London, Madrid, Istanbul, Seoul,
Kagawa and Taipei. He has created large scale,
site-specific installations with architects such
as Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and in I. M. Pei's
East Building of the National Gallery of Art,
Washington DC. He has been commissioned by both
Federal and State agencies to create public works
in locations such as a courthouse in El Paso,
Texas and a New York City subway station. The San
Jose Museum of Art is organizing a catalog and
traveling survey exhibition to open in August
2010.
http://www.villareal.net/
(special thanks to Joanne Northrup of the San Jose
Museum of Art)
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ATC Director: Ken Goldberg
ATC Assoc. Director: Greg Niemeyer
BCNM Assoc. Director: Susan Miller
Curated with: ATC Advisory Board
Primary Sponsors:
* Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM)
* Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor
and Provost
* Center for Information Technology in the
Interest of Society (CITRIS)
Selected events co-presented with:
* Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
* Cal Performances
* SF Museum of Modern Art
* Contemporary Jewish Museum
* SJ Museum of Art
* Townsend Center for the Humanities
Contact: bc...@berkeley.edu, 510-495-3505
For updated information, and to join the
atc mailing list: http://atc.berkeley.edu/
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From: ken goldberg <ken_go...@mail.vresp.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:01 AM
Subject: atc @ ucb: leo villareal, mon march 15, 7:30pm
To: kwan....@gmail.com
Teen Age: You Just Don't Understand:
Last call for new media art proposals, due 15 March:
http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/teen-age/
-------------------------------------------------
The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of the
Berkeley Center for New Media and the San Jose
Museum of Art present:
Complex Simplicity: Investigating the Medium of Light
Leo Villareal, Artist, NY
Monday, March 15, 7:30 - 9 pm
Location: 160 Kroeber Hall
Free and open to the public.
-------------------------------------------------
Leo Villareal is considered one of the most
imporant light sculptors of his generation. Leo
will describe the journey that has taken him from
a childhood in West Texas, to Frankensteinean
experiments in the industrial wastelands of late
80's New Haven, to work in Virtual Reality at
NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. In
1994, Villareal took an internship at Interval
Research in Palo Alto and met pioneers in the
fields of technology and art. Experiences in the
Black Rock Desert further shifted his perspective,
revealing the power and potency of small amounts
of information and introducing him to his primary
medium: sequenced light. Villareal continues to
bring the inanimate to life and find beauty in
simple things. In this talk, Villareal questions
the race toward higher resolution, asking: Is more
better? What strategies can be used to repurpose
media technologies? What happens when you add
computation to minimalism and abstraction?
-------------------------------------------------
Leo Villareal's light sculpture and installations
have been presented at museums and institutions in
the United States and abroad. His work was
included in Visual Music, an important historical
survey exhibition organized by the Hirshorn Museum
in Washington DC and the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles. Villareal's work is part of the
permanent collection of major museums, including
the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the
Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. Villareal
has exhibited in London, Madrid, Istanbul, Seoul,
Kagawa and Taipei. He has created large scale,
site-specific installations with architects such
as Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and in I. M. Pei's
East Building of the National Gallery of Art,
Washington DC. He has been commissioned by both
Federal and State agencies to create public works
in locations such as a courthouse in El Paso,
Texas and a New York City subway station. The San
Jose Museum of Art is organizing a catalog and
traveling survey exhibition to open in August
2010.
http://www.villareal.net/
(special thanks to Joanne Northrup of the San Jose
Museum of Art)
-------------------------------------------------
ATC Director: Ken Goldberg
ATC Assoc. Director: Greg Niemeyer
BCNM Assoc. Director: Susan Miller
Curated with: ATC Advisory Board
Primary Sponsors:
* Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM)
* Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor
and Provost
* Center for Information Technology in the
Interest of Society (CITRIS)
Selected events co-presented with:
* Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
* Cal Performances
* SF Museum of Modern Art
* Contemporary Jewish Museum
* SJ Museum of Art
* Townsend Center for the Humanities
Contact: bc...@berkeley.edu, 510-495-3505
For updated information, and to join the
atc mailing list: http://atc.berkeley.edu/
-------------------------------------------------
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