Dispatch from Vancouver – ISEA2015 Part 1
I’m a bit at a loss for words, but wanted to share a little bit as everything starts to take off here in Vancouver for ISEA2015. If you’re around, you should try to catch up with me, but I know it’s probably next to impossible with all the great things going on. Thanks so much to Simon Frasier University and just about all of Vancouver for the welcome and good vibez!
As I write this dispatch, I’m sitting at the venue waiting, excitedly for the Hakanaï performance to begin. I’ve heard a lot of great things about their work and am eagerly anticipating the show. Hakanaï are part of the Movement in Computing Workshop (MOCO) programming during the first few days at the symposium. This is of particular interest to me, as a MOCO participant, because of the combination of live realtime, audio/visual performance and installation. There is a lot happening in these vectors : the crossovers/intersections of the Arts and Technology.
But this is really just the tip of the digital media practices in the proverbial cross-pollinating theory/practice oceans of contemporary technological experience. In the next several days there will be artists and scholars from across our planet aligning in Vancouver and mixing it all up. I’ll be in and out of panels, papers, demos, posters, performances, screenings, and just about as much as I can handle. I promise to write a little more during and after it all. Maybe we’ll cross paths – or if you want to cross paths and we didn’t yet – I’ll be at the Vancouver Art Gallery Opening for FUSE/DISRUPTION for sure (I’ve got something to show there) – hope to catch up with you!!!¡¡¡
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