9.7 Institutional Presentations
Tracks
Track 7
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 |
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Plaza P11 |
Speaker
Ms Alison Rajah
Director
Surrey Art Gallery
IP: Learning Through Digital & Interactive Art about the Land at Surrey Art Gallery: Towards Deepening Responsibilities, Relationships, and Commitments
3:30 PM - 3:45 PMAbstract
Since the late 1990s, Surrey Art Gallery has been a leading public art museum in Canada with a commitment to the production and presentation of digital art, and to working with local, national, and international Indigenous artists through this stream, more broadly within other media, and art education. The Gallery collaborates with artists to proactively respond to new developments in art and provide communities where situated with opportunities to learn about and experience contemporary art using technology. Moving toward its 50th anniversary in 2025, the Gallery readies for its transition into the Interactive Art Museum, a new facility at three times its current size in Surrey City Centre. This is informed by working with extraordinary local and international artists and community stakeholders through 20 years of operating its TechLab, a purpose-built facility supporting the production and presentation of digital art, followed by 6 years an experimental art lab pilot; 21 years of its Media Gallery, an interactive screen installation space; 20 years of its Open Sound, an ongoing program of commissioning, presenting, and discussing digital audio art and related symposia; and over 10 years of its UrbanScreen, an offsite projection venue presenting leading edge digital and interactive art.
Biography
Alison Rajah was appointed Surrey Art Gallery’s Director in 2019. Rajah has been a member of the Gallery’s staff since 2009 and has contributed to all areas of its operations, including as Curator of Education and Engagement. Her curatorial leadership with digital art exhibitions and programs at UrbanScreen, and in the Gallery’s Indigenous contemporary art education programming, has been recognized nationally. She studied in the Critical and Curatorial Studies graduate program at the University of British Columbia (UBC), completed a Master’s degree in Museum Education at
UBC in 2022, and has taught in UBC’s Faculty of Arts Hu-manities 101 program since 2008.
Mr Cheng-Yu Pan
Assistant Professor
National Tsing Hua University
IP: Institutional presentations: ”Quantum Art Bridge: Superposition and Entanglement of Quantum Physics and TechArt” of NTHU
3:45 PM - 4:00 PMAbstract
Quantum Mechanics and Tech-Art are two distinct frontier fields. The former continually expands the boundaries of human knowledge, while the latter delves into the intrinsic structure of technology and its cultural effects, as well as probing the boundaries of human perception. Unlike most creations or curations that symbolically or metaphorically reference the characteristics of quantum mechanics, this project involves collaboration among three laboratories at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU): the Quantum Optics Laboratory of the Institute of Photonics Technologies, the Art in Action Lab, and the LumiSound XR Lab of the Graduate Institute of Art & Technology. The aim is to establish Taiwan's first practical field that combines Tech-Art with quantum experiments. As a highly experimental initiative, our primary focus is exploring potential cross-domain collaborative solutions. A key task is the creation of what we call a 'bridge' – an artistic initiative that includes both practical and theoretical methodologies for bridging these two fields.
Biography
Cheng-Yu PAN is an artist, researcher, and assistant professor of the Graduate Institute of Art and Technology at NTHU. He holds a PhD in Arts Plastiques, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, his research and artworks are around (post) Internet phenomenon, maps and GIS, Art and quantum physics, and cyber mythology that crosses the realms of science and transcendence.
Dr Rebecca Caines
York University
IP: Resonant Pedagogy and Practice in “The Everywhen”: New Directions at AMPD, Toronto, Canada
4:00 PM - 4:15 PMAbstract
Teaching electronic arts in art schools and universities has always involved temporal experimentation, as educators seek ways to evoke interrelated histories of technologies, genres, disciplines, movements, subcultures, and communities of practice that are constantly remediated, rediscovered, and reborn. This temporal experimentation is further intensified as electronic artist/teachers reach outside the classroom, to partner with communities on pedagogical explorations that also engage with radically different local understandings of history, time, and place, through “resonant” approaches to ecology, environment, and cultures in change. At the School of Art, Media, Performance, and Design, at York University, Toronto, Canada, the past five years have been marked by new kinds of partnered learning and research experiences in electronic arts, taking place across our fine arts departments, and shaping our brand-new Creative Technologies program (launching in September 2024). This institutional presentation shares new initiatives at AMPD and invites ISEA delegates and their local partners to imagine new kinds of connections between our programs and their own work. The institutional presentation showcases electronic arts work from our resource sharing, pedagogical partnering, and technology management, and shares some of our current global community-based partnerships.
Biography
Rebecca Caines) is an interdisciplinary community-engaged artist, scholar, and curator, who works in contemporary per-formance, sound art, and installation, and new media art. She is currently a Project Lead for the new Creative Technologies program, at York University, in Toronto. Caines has staged large-scale community-based art projects in Australia, North-ern Ireland, Canada, China, and the Netherlands. She research-es (along with her community partners) the role of art and technology in social justice, contemporary understandings of community, and the fragile promise of ethical connection through improvisation and new ways of listening. Together with a team of artists and partners across Canada, she has just completed a project called multiPLAY supporting improvis-ing, social-engagement, and digital arts, with a focus on im-mersive practices.
Dr Michael Darroch
Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Arts
York University
Co-presenter
Biography
Michael Darroch is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University, and served as Associate Dean, Academic from 2020-2023. He previously served as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Windsor, where he taught courses in media art histories, visual culture, and urban ecologies in the School of Creative Arts. He has held a Visiting Fellowship at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (University of London, 2015), a Humanities Research Group Fellowship (University of Windsor, 2016-17), and a McLuhan Centenary Fellowship (iSchool, University of Toronto, 2016-18). He is Co-Director of the research-creation hub IN/TERMINUS focused on participatory art interventions and exhibition curation in the Windsor-Detroit urban borderlands. He co-edited Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban (MQUP 2014), an interdisciplinary collection that situates different historical and methodological currents in urban media studies.
Dr Marissa Largo
Assistant Professor, Creative Technologies
York University
Co-presenter
Biography
Marissa Largo (she/her) is an assistant professor of Creative Technologies in the School of Art, Media, Performance & Design of York University. Her research/research-creation focuses on the intersections of community engagement, race, gender and Asian diasporic cultural production. She earned her PhD in Social Justice Education from OISE, University of Toronto (2018). Her forthcoming book, Unsettling Imaginaries: Filipinx Contemporary Artists in Canada (University of Washington Press) examines the work and oral histories of artists who imagine Filipinx subjectivity beyond colonial logics. Her projects have been presented in venues and events across Canada, such as the A Space Gallery (2017 & 2012), Open Gallery of OCAD University (2015), Royal Ontario Museum (2015), WorldPride Toronto (2014), The Robert Langen Art Gallery (2013), Nuit Blanche in Toronto (2019, 2018, 2012 and 2009), and MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) (2007). She also collaborates with community organizations that connect policy engagement with creative/ social practice.
Mr Hector Centeno Garcia
Assistant Professor, Creative Technologies
York University
Co-presenter
Biography
Hector Centeno Garcia. As an artist, Hector’s focus is on the aesthetic potential of immersive digital sound, visual and interactive experiences that seek to engage the audience into a reflection of existence, place relationship and the phenomenology of place. Among his artistic activities are national and international presentations of multi-channel sound art, interactive installation art, live sound and video performances, virtual reality experiences, virtual cinematography (virtual production), and virtual photography. As a software and interactive system developer and designer, he has worked on virtual and augmented reality interactive experiences, video game mechanics and simulation systems, hardware sensors and micro-controller interactive systems for art installations, and spatial audio software tools. The organizations he has been involved with include New Adventures in Sound Art, Impossible Things, and for multiple independent interactive media artists. Hector teaches in the School of Cinema, and Media Arts and is part of the new Creative Technologies program.
Session chair
Neil Dodgson
Victoria University of Wellington
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