Media Tech Tonic #4: Technology as a tool for artists and designers, September 24, 2008
For our next meeting, Mike Golembewski will discuss the potential of technology as a powerful tool for artists and designers. Too often the use of creative technologies becomes centered around the use of commercial software and hardware packages designed for workflow efficiency, rather than for free exploration. Mike will discuss how emerging technologies can become tools for the expression of high concept and real emotion, rather than just tools for creative production.
He will present some contemporary projects that he feels makes excellent use of technology as an expressive medium, and use this presentation to begin an open discussion of the roles that technology might play in creative practice. Mike will be showing work from artists, scientists, and researchers at Yale, Goldsmiths University, Imperial College, the Royal College of Art, Troika UK, and his own scanner photography project.
Mike Golembewski is a practicing artist and interaction designer and currently visiting faculty with the Dynamic Media Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work explores the ways in which artists use emerging technologies, and has been widely published and exhibited internationally.
Join us for this very exciting meeting. We would appreciate an RSVP using our contact form so we have an idea on how many people to expect, but RSVP is not required.
Location: Alumni Room, 11th Floor Tower Building, Massaschusetts College of Art & Design (driving directions | T directions | campus map PDF)
Date: Wednesday, September 24th. Please note that this month we’re meeting on the fourth Wednesday instead of the third Wednesday.
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm or so
Note to drivers: parking will be available to attendees who drive in the Ward Street lot if you enter the lot between 5:45pm and 6:45pm.
If you’re traveling west on Huntington Avenue, as you pass the main campus on your right, take a left at the light onto Longwood Avenue, crossing over the trolley tracks. Go straight to the stop sign and turn left, then immediately turn right onto Ward Street. MassArt’s parking lot is short distance ahead on the left.
If you’re traveling east on Huntington Avenue, right at the light onto Longwood Avenue, then a quick left and right and you’re on Ward Street. MassArt’s parking lot is short distance ahead on the left.