The fall 2014 Media Arts Luncheon Speaker Series at the Brakhage Center for Media Arts is pleased to announce that it will feature Michelle Ellsworth (Monday, October 20th) and Alicia Gibb (Tuesday, November 4th).
The presentations will take place from 12-1pm in the ATLAS building, room 311. The events are FREE! Everyone is welcome! Bring your lunch!
Michelle Ellsworth-Monday, October 20th, 2014
Michelle Ellsworth makes solo performance/video work, websites, and drawings. She is a 2013 Creative Capital and New England Foundation for the Arts’ NDP Grantee and a 2011 United States Artists Knight Fellow. Ellsworth’s work has been commissioned by: On The Boards, Danspace Project, the National Performance Network, Diverseworks, and Dance Theater Workshop. She has performed and taught at Brown University, Columbia College, The University of Costa Rica, and in Ireland. Her drawings and spreadsheets have been published in CHAIN and her screen dances have been seen around Europe and throughout the U.S. The New York Times has described Ellsworth’s solo work as “virtuosic,” and “completely winning.”
Ellsworth will discuss her work Clytigation: State of Exception.
In a 4’X4’X7’ faux sod-covered box, Ellsworth demonstrates her “over-the-counter counter-terrorism” protocols for avoiding surveillance, interpersonal drama, and death. Using an ancient text and modern technology, “Clytigation” investigates the impact of wars on bodies and legal protocols while examining the gap between emotional intention and physical execution. A mobile-device-friendly website and a choreography-generating exercise bike both accompany the performance, and help technologize and outsource this embodied experiment.
Alicia Gibb-Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
Alicia Gibb is an advocate for open hardware, researcher, and a hardware hacker. Alicia has worked within the open source hardware community since 2008. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA), an organization to educate and promote building and using open source hardware. She directs the BTU Lab at CU Boulder, where she teaches in the areas of physical computing and information technology. Previous to serving OSHWA, Alicia was a researcher and prototyper at Bug Labs where she ran the academic research program and the Test Kitchen, an open R&D Lab. She was awarded a National Science Foundation SBIR grant for her sensor-based data collection module while at Bug Labs. She is a member of NYCResistor, where she has curated two international art shows, founded and co-chaired two Open Hardware Summits, and sits on the board of the Ada Initiative. Her electronics work has appeared in Wired magazine, IEEE Spectrum, Hackaday and the New York Times. When Alicia is not researching at the crossroads of open technology and innovation she is prototyping work that twitches, blinks, and might even be tasty to eat.