Woody Vasulk'a program should be interesting. Come by next Wednesday.
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Don Begley
Managing Director
Santa Fe Complex
a community studio creating connections across science, technology and
art
624 Agua Fria
Santa Fe, NM 87501
www.sfcomplex.org
505/216.7562
505/670.9432 (cell)
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Date: August 22, 2008 3:07:56 PM MDT
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Woody Vasulka Hosts Doubleheader August 27 & September 3
Dialogue with the Machine
Santa Fe Complex · 632 Agua Fria · Parking via Romero St.
For more information, contact Don Begley at 505/216.7562 or visit
sfcomplex.org
Next Wednesday, August, 27, pioneering digital artist Woody Vasulka
opens a two-part conversation at Santa Fe Complex on the changing
relationship between art and technology over his four-decade career.
Each of those decades represents a distinct phase in the evolution of
that relationship, says Vasulka. "It has been a dialogue with the
machine that began in the political environment of the 60s with a time
of continual interaction within an art community," he explains. He
explains, "We were looking for images that were not derived from the
world in this earlier work. It was a generation of continual
interaction between technology and art where we were learning,
demonstrating, and building in a community of with a network of
interests."
That almost communal time of social and artisitc experimentation faded
as computer-generated graphics overwhelmed art with hyhperrealistic
images and an emphasis on the technical rather than the artistic
elements of creativity.
As "the idea of realism slowly came to dominate art in the digital
era," Woody says, "the image itself took the dominant function and the
contextual information lost its importance." As a result, art became
dominated by computer needs like resolution and color spaces rather
than the artist's vision.
The irrepressible artist believes the hyperrealistic phase is fading.
He offers his "Dialogue with the Machine," which is how Vasulka refers
to his coming talks at Santa Fe Complex, as a return to a more
collaborative and experimental community.
In fact, he says that technology will expand the artist's horizons.
Asking "is it the tool that limits you?," Vasulka calls the computer a
variation machine that will let artists leap beyond historic
constraints. In the 70s, he says, artists asked, "What happens between
the frames?" and "Why 24 frames per second and not 1000?" Today, with
the variation machine, they can begin to answer those questions and
more.
Thw process has begun, according to Woody. Santa Fe artists like Corey
Metcalf and David Stout, he says, are heirs to the Vasulka traditions.
They show that modern digital processes, once again, allow a
reinterpretation of sound and sight.
Woody pioneered video art in the late 1960s. Born in Brno, now in the
Czech Republic, he trained as an engineer before studying television
and film production at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He
met his wife, Steina Vasulka, in the early 1960s and moved to New York
City in 1965, where he worked as a multiscreen film editor,
experimenting with electronic sounds and stroboscopic lights while
pioneering the showing of video art at the Whitney Museum. Woody
collaborated with Don MacArthur and Jeffrey Schier in 1976 to build a
computer controlled personal imaging facility called The Digital Image
Articulator. The Vasulkas have been based in Santa Fe since 1980. More
information is available at http://vasulka.org/index.html
Don Begley
Managing Director
Santa Fe Complex
624 Agua Fria St
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Come Visit Us
Santa Fe Complex is located next to the Railyard Art District and
within walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the
plaza downtown. We're housed in two facilities, the conference area at
624 Agua Fria and the project space at 632 Agua Fria.
The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short-
term use associated with on-going complex projects. The project space
houses the great room, where we hold events and offer working
facilities for laptop users, coffee lounge and work carrels.
While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking lot
is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is an
old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway. Follow
it until it opens up to two lanes and turn hard right into the parking
lot for 632.
Here's a map to our location, a representative shot showing the
Railyard District and a sketchup drawing of the facility at 632. For
more information, call 505/216.7562 or click here.
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