Last night I visited the opening of the 2009 Annual Art + Technology Exhibition and The BurghBot Project at the
15 Minutes Gallery . The show featured more than fifty works in various media by Pittsburgh regional artists. These kinds of synergistic exhibits that involve art using technology as a way to express contemporary themes are very refreshing. The exhibition will open at the 15 Minutes Gallery on June 18, 2009 and run through September 1, 2009.
I was most intrigued by an artist,
Elizabeth Perry, who wore a jacket that had LEDs, a AA battery and conductive thread and fabric sewn into it. It lit up when she pressed on the interactive fabric. I was compelled to talk with her and discovered that she is both a writer and new media artist. On a
blog site she started in 2002, she maintains a daily online
sketchbook. After researching her
work I also discovered she is a fellow at the
STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and founding editor of the Pittsburgh Signs Project, an
online public art project documenting the visual landscape of Western Pennsylvania. She also works at The Ellis School, in Pittsburgh, PA, where she helps teachers integrate technology into a PK-12 curriculum.
The exhibit also featured work from the BurghBot Project. This work showcased the work of the robotic artwork of ten East coast artists (Aurelia Friedman, Andrew Hosmer, Anneka Herre, Chin-Chiang Tseng, Elizabeth Perry, Jessica Jade Jacob, Keary Rosen, Laura Tabakman, Sandy Kessler Kaminski and Wes Huang) exploring the intersections of art and technology. Each artist had created an interactive, artistic adaptation of
CREATE Lab's robotic frameworks.
Also interesting was a presentation by
T. Foley on designing
ringtones. I particularly enjoyed learning how the
students at Dilworth have also been involved in this project creating musical ringtones.
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Last night I visited the opening of the 2009 Annual Art + Technology Exhibition and The BurghBot Project at the 15 Minutes Gallery . The show featured more than fifty works in various media by Pittsburgh regional artists. These kinds of synergistic exhibits that involve art using technology as a way to express contemporary themes are very refreshing. The exhibition will open at the 15 Minutes Gallery on June 18, 2009 and run through September 1, 2009.
I was most intrigued by an artist, Elizabeth Perry, who wore a jacket that had LEDs, a AA battery and conductive thread and fabric sewn into it. It lit up when she pressed on the interactive fabric. I was compelled to talk with her and discovered that she is both a writer and new media artist. On a blog site she started in 2002, she maintains a daily online sketchbook. After researching her work I also discovered she is a fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and founding editor of the Pittsburgh Signs Project, an online public art project documenting the visual landscape of Western Pennsylvania. She also works at The Ellis School, in Pittsburgh, PA, where she helps teachers integrate technology into a PK-12 curriculum.
The exhibit also featured work from the BurghBot Project. This work showcased the work of the robotic artwork of ten East coast artists (Aurelia Friedman, Andrew Hosmer, Anneka Herre, Chin-Chiang Tseng, Elizabeth Perry, Jessica Jade Jacob, Keary Rosen, Laura Tabakman, Sandy Kessler Kaminski and Wes Huang) exploring the intersections of art and technology. Each artist had created an interactive, artistic adaptation of CREATE Lab's robotic frameworks.
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