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Visual Arts
Artists Using Technology
Scanning Electron
Graphic designer turned artist uses
Micrograph (Susumu
electron microscope to delve deep into the
Nishinaga)
fabric of petal, leaves and pollen.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/galle
ry/2013/may/19/invisible-beauty-flowersin-pictures

Aaron Koblin, digital

artist, various projects
including (light
echos)

Light Echos= traces of light are broadcast

onto landscapes by a laser aboard a moving
train. Space and time are collapsed into
images which document the historical
pulses of data in the form of light reflecting
off earth and matter.
http://www.lightecho.es/
http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work.html

Neil Harbisson
(Sonochromatic Artist)

Rafael LozanoHemmer, visual artist,

various projects
including open air.

Born unable to see

color, Neil HArbisson
wears a prosthetic
devise
(eyeborg) that
allows him to hear
the spectrum, even
those colors beyond
the range of human
sight. Created Sound
Portraits series.
http://www.ted.com
/speakers/neil_harbi
sson
Open Air: Philadelphia, 2012 Twenty four
powerful searchlights created unique, dynamic
light formations in the sky which reacted to
voice messages sent by participants using a free
mobile app
http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/open_air.php

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Distribution (Museums)
Los Angeles County
Museum of Art
(LACMA) Is the First
Museum to Join
Snapchat

LACMA joined social media platform

Snapchat in August 2014. Snapchat is a
photo messaging app that allows users
to send and receive photos and up to
10 second videos, that, after viewed,
dissapear.
http://hyperallergic.com/144822/lacm
a-is-the-first-museum-to-joinsnapchat/

Google Maps Street

View Art Project

Google maps street view, but within

30+ Museums.
https://www.google.com/maps/views/
streetview/art-project?gl=us

Cleveland Museum of
Art Gallery
One/ArtLens

10 Interactive (Collection Wall, Studio

Play, ArtLens)
Sculpture Lens
Lions Lens
Stories Lens
Art Lens (hold ipad up to work, iPad
tracks points, pinpoints info on work)
MANY MANY iPad and station-based
tech features to enhance museum
experience.
Cleveland[s interactive tech program]
is unprecedented
Theres only so much info you can put
on a wall, and no one walks ardound
with catalogs anymore
Jake Barton (Local Projects- design
firm for museums and public spaces.)

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http://localprojects.net/about/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/
arts/artsspecial/at-cleveland-museumof-art-the-ipadenhances.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/
2012-10/26/jake-barton-local-projects
The (Cultural Heritage
Experiences through
Socio-personal
interactions and
Storytelling) CHESS
project (Funded by
EU)

Helps plan museums visits. Museumgoer visits CHESS website, answers

questions, abd CHESS creates museum
visiting plan for a mobile device.

Scientists 'virtually
restore' 16th century
tapestry at Hampton
Court Palace.

And now they have completed a

ground-breaking 'virtual restoration' of
the work, which uses tiny beams of
specially-calibrated light to show the
fine wool and silk threads in their
original colours.

http://www.chessexperience.eu/v2/pr
oject/concept.html

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover
/news/article/?id=4568

Washington Ballets
Alice (in
Wonderland)
2012/2015

Fantastical computer-deisgned,
custom-printed and laser-cut
costumes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ente
rtainment/theater_dance/choreograph
y-andcomputers/2013/03/14/dc34686489cd-11e2-98d93012c1cd8d1e_story.html

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Performing Arts
Artists Using Technology (Opera/Theater)
Timothy Bird,
Bird is introducing the latest tech for
Knifedge
theatre. Video-designer Many
projects, including 2007s Sunday in
the Park with George

Robert Lepage, Ex
Machina

Director, playwright, actor, film

drector. Digital pioneer. Many projects,
including The Tepest, 2012, Festival
dopera de Quebec/ NY Met Opera.
http://lacaserne.net/index2.php/opera
/

Tod Machovers
Death and the
Powers

opera robots take the stage to sing

about the search for immortality and
how our humanity is transformed by
tech. Prepared w/in MIT Media Lab

Opera of the Future

http://opera.media.mit.edu/projects/d
eathandthepowers/

Opera Parallle (San

Fransisco), Ainadamar

The Gurs Cycle (The

Gurs Zyklus), Trimpin,
2011, Stanford

Synopsis
http://dallasopera.org/season/20132014/death-and-the-powers/
bringing the story to life with the creative use of new technologylibretto
will be enhanced by the use of dramatically integrated videoBreakthroughs
in video mapping make it possible to project images on any surface or shape.
https://operaparallele.org/ainadamar/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/operaparallele/ainadamarreinventing-opera-through-technology
Sound sculptures, projections, fire organ.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/05/opera-reviewtrimpins-the-gurs-zyklus-has-its-premiere-at-stanford-university.html

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Artists Using Technology (Dance)

TroikaRanch,
Troika Rance is an arts organization
Portland-based
that creates contemporary, hybrid
performance group.
artworks through an ongoing
Mark Coniglio, Dawn
examination of the moving body and its
Stoppiello.
relationship to technology. (f.1994)
Mark Coniglio also
http://www.troikaranch.org/vidcreated Isadora, a
loopDiver.html
flexible media
manipulation tool that
provides interactive
control over digital
video and sound. He
also recently created a
camera system for
Judith Jamison for
aperformance by
AAADT.
Dissolving Self:
Wearable technology
+ Contemporary
Dance (MAzier
Ghaderi)

iLuminate

Dissolving Self employs metaphoric

data visualization, motion capture and
wearable technology to harness the
subtle movements of a contemporary
dancer
Gyroscope and radio module (Xbee)
worn by the dancer measure and
transmit speed of rotation and the
Microsoft Kinect captures lateral
mocement.
http://vimeo.com/65470870
Off-Broadway dance show that
combines LED & Electroluminescent
wire tech and dance. Third place on
2011 season of Americas Got Talent.
http://iluminate.com/artist-of-light/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq
5xFHB1bl8

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Glow, Gideon
Obarzanek (German
software artist)/
Frieder Weiss
(choreographer)

27-minute duet for body and

technology, an essay on the
relationship of dance and cutting-edge
software technology Projections react
to the dancers moving body,
graphically illuminating and extending
it. By Chunky Move
http://www.friederweiss.de/works/all/Glow.php
Australian contemporary dance
company. F.1995. Diverse work that
includes stage, new-media, installation
works.
http://chunkymove.com.au/

6 Breaths, Sydney
Dance Company

Asphalte, Compagnie
Dernire Minute

Biped, Merce
Cunningham, 2001
Cunningham has used
Lifeforms software as
a compositional tool
for many pieces.
Vivisector, Klaus
Obermaier, Chris
Haring
Interland, Shobana
Jeyasingh

Technology incorporates
opening/closing video-art
projectionmonochrome projection
consists of fragment that move like a
flock of birds or leaves.. form a giant 3d
sculptured torso.
Central bock of light which frames
each piece, creating panels of a comic
bookCapable of providing a solid
background, becoming translucent for
the bodies behind it, and providing a
kaleidoscope of strobe-lighting
shadows. (Asphalte, 2009)

Motion-caputre animations of the

dancers movements, projecting them
onto a translucent scrim in front of the
stage.

Video projections have been made to

stay within the outlines of the dancers
bodies, casting no shadow on the
backcloth.
Action played out on different
levelsmultiple screens including
looped video footage and a lice
webcast from Bangaloremultidimensional collage.

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Miral Kotb, Software
engineer/dancer.
Assoc. w/ iLuminate.

Distribution (Opera)
Metropolitan Opera
Simulcasts
Distribution (General)
LiveStream
iRocke
Vevo

Distribution (Dance)
Dance
companies/museums
on Instagram

Kotbs unprecedented technology,

programming, and artistic direction
have catapulted iLuminate into a
phenomenon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Opera_Live_in_HD

Live video broadcasting for events.

http://new.livestream.com/watch
Live video broadcasting for concerts.
http://www.irocke.com/
Music video distribution
http://www.vevo.com/

@RoyalOperaHouse
@Miamicityballet
@marthagrahamdance
@themuseumofmodernart
@metmuseum

Art+Tech Labs/Centers/ Events

LACMAs Art and
Technology Lab

The Lab provides grants, in-kind

support, and facilities at the museum
to develop prototype projects
Inspired by the spirit of LACMA's
original Art and Technology program
(1967-1971), which paired artists with
technology companies in Southern
California, the Art + Technology Lab at
LACMA supports artist experiments
with emerging technology
http://www.lacma.org/lab

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Arts Management and
Technology
Laboratory, Carnegie
Mellon University

content ranges from case studies to

radio shows, reviews to research-based
publications. Its a research outlet for
those working and learning in the arts
management and technology sector.
http://amt-lab.org/

Pittsburg Art +
Technology

Initiative in 2008 in an effort to unite/

cultivate creative/ technology
communities in Pittzburgh.
http://pittsburghartandtech.org/

Zero1 Biennial, Silicon

Valley

ZERO1 is where art meets technology

to shape the future. As a 21st century
arts nonprofit, ZERO1 works with some
of the worlds most fertile and creative
minds from the fields of art, science,
design, architecture, and technology to
produce the ZERO1 Biennial, an
international showcase of work at the
nexus of art and technology.

http://2012.zero1biennial.org/content/
2012-zero1-biennial
EyeBeam, Brooklyn

Eyebeam is the leading not-for-profit art

and technology center in the United
States.... Offers fellowships,
residencies, education programs,
artists professional development
community outreach, public programs.
http://eyebeam.org/about

34 35th St., Unit 26, Brooklyn, NY, 11232

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