Woody's first presentation was most enjoyable. He'll move toward his
vision of art and present-day computer technology on Sept. 3.
-d-
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Date: August 29, 2008 10:35:10 AM MDT
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Subject: sfComplex Event: Vasulka Concludes Conversation with the
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Woody Vasulka concludes 2-part talk September 3
Dialogue with
the Machine
Wednesday, September 3 · 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Santa Fe Complex · 632 Agua Fria · Parking via Romero St.
Admission is free. Donations welcome
For more information, contact Don Begley at 505/216.7562 or visit
sfcomplex.org
Woody Vasulka concludes his conversations on the changing
relationship between art and technology next Wednesday, September 3
at 6:00 pm at Santa Fe Complex, 632 Agua Fria St.
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
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.
Don Begley
Managing Director
Santa Fe Complex
624 Agua Fria St
Santa Fe, NM 87501
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