Digital Design Drop-in at V&A: Stanza. Stanza
Wednesday 13 July 2011 13.00 - 16.00 Free, drop-in. No booking required Digital Studio, Sackler Centre V&A www.vam.ac.uk We are delighted to present internationally acclaimed artist Stanza as part of the Digital Design Drop-in programme in the Sackler Centre Digital Studio. Stanza is a London based British artist who specializes in interactive art, networked spaces, installations and performances. Stanza's artworks explore artistic and technical opportunities to enable new aesthetic perspectives, experiences and perceptions within context of architecture, data spaces and online environments. His work has centered on the idea of the building as a new display system and various projects have been made using live data, the use of live data in architectural space, and how it can be made into meaningful representations - see 'Publicity', 'Robotica', 'Sensity', as well as a whole series of work manipulating real time CCTV data to making artworks with them e.g. 'Velocity', 'Authenticity', 'Urban Generation'. These works reform the data, work with the idea of bringing data from outside into the inside, and then present it back out again in open ended systems where the public is often engaged in or directly embedded in the artwork. Stanza's work crosses borders between artistic, technological and scientific sectors. He creates participatory digital artworks that invite viewers to guide data flows or to simply observe self-generating compositions. His digital paintings shift through abstract and iconic patterns, which people can explore akin to virtual environments. Interactive and visually appealing, his style also maintains the substantive power through multi-facetted content. In the first part of the session Stanza will introduce his work and in the second part visitors will be invited to ask questions in interaction with a screen presentation of his online works displayed in the room. Stanza's work has been shown at The Venice Biennale, Tate Britain, The Victoria and Albert Museum. He was a recipient of Nesta Dreamtime Award, AHRC creative fellowship and has received over ten international arts prizes. All his artworks can be found at www.stanza.co.uk Other events coming up soon at the V&A: Web Weekend An exciting weekend of free, fun and interactive events to celebrate the V&A's new website. Explore how the web connects people, places and ideas, encourages communication, enables collaboration and creates communities. For the programme please visit: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/w/web-weekend/ Patrick Tresset & Nick Lambert Digital Drop-in: Wednesday 24 August 2011 13.00 - 16.00 (www.aikon-gold.com and www.technocultures.org) And... Threads and Yarns an intergenerational textile project exploring personal accounts of health and well-being over the past 75 years since the founding of the Wellcome Trust. Specialist talks and craft workshops will take place during the day. http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/event/1206/threads-and-yarns-presentations-2213/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
