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Digital Art @ Google Artist Talks

Google Launches exhibition program with the Project Room for New Media

Artist Talks Schedule (all events: doors open at 5:30pm, presentation at 6:00)

  • Thursday, July 29: Mark Napier and John F. Simon, Jr.
  • Thursday, August 5: R. Luke Dubois and Scott Draves
  • Thursday, August 12: W. Bradford Paley and Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viega

Location:

Google, Inc.

75 Ninth Ave, 2nd Floor 

New York, NY

 

Google and The Project Room for New Media at Chelsea Art Museum (CAM) in New York have launched an exhibition program, Digital Art @Google NYC, which will engage Googlers with the art world and promote creativity with digital technology. Data Poetics, opened June 11 with works by well-known international digital artists, ScottDraves, R. Luke DuBois, Aaron Koblin, Mark Napier, W. Bradford Paley, Lincoln Schatz, John F.Simon, Jr., Thomson and Craighead, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas.The exhibitions and artist talks take place at Google and are open to guests at times announced above.

Mark Napier

Mark Napier is recognized as one of the first the explore the potential of the Internet as a space for public art by questioning fexed designs of web navigation and dissolving information into abstract expressionism.

John F. Simon, Jr. 

Best known for his software and screen based artworks, John F. Simon,Jr. uses the unique properties of digital media to create time-basedpaintings whose compositions never repeat.

R. Luke DuBois

R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores thetemporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural ephemera. Stemmingfrom his investigations of "time-lapse phonography," his recent workis a sonic and encyclopedic relative to time-lapse photography.

Scott Draves

Draves is a software artist best known as the creator of the Electric Sheep(1999), a continually evolving abstract animation with 350,000 activemonthly participants.He created the original Flame algorithm in 1991 and the Bombinteractive visual-musical instrument in 1995. Draves' softwareartworks are released as open source and have been used for two decadesby many other artists and designers in their own work.

W. Bardford Paley

Bradford Paley is a designer who often uses computers to transcribe formsout of information. It is central to his practice that the resultingworks are readable: that they can support discourse about the subject of the work as readily, or more readily, than about the form of the work.

 

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