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Woody's first presentation was most enjoyable. He'll move toward his vision of art and present-day computer technology on Sept. 3.
-d- Begin forwarded message: Date: August 29, 2008 10:35:10 AM MDT Subject: sfComplex Event: Vasulka Concludes Conversation with the Machine
 | Woody Vasulka concludes 2-part talk September 3 Dialogue with
the Machine | Wednesday, September 3 · 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Santa Fe Complex · 632 Agua Fria · Parking via Romero St.
Admission is free. Donations welcome | For more information, contact Don Begley at 505/216.7562 or visit sfcomplex.org | |
|  Woody Vasulka concludes his conversations on the changing relationship between art and technology next Wednesday, September 3 at 6:00 pm at Santa Fe Complex, 632 Agua Fria St.
Each of those decades represents a distinct phase in the evolution of that relationship, says Vasulka. "It has been a dialogue with the machine that began in the political environment of the 60s with a time of continual interaction within an art community," he explains. He explains, "We were looking for images that were not derived from the world in this earlier work. It was a generation of continual interaction between technology and art where we were learning, demonstrating, and building in a community of with a network of interests."
That almost communal time of social and artisitc experimentation faded as computer-generated graphics overwhelmed art with hyhperrealistic images and an emphasis on the technical rather than the artistic elements of creativity.
As "the idea of realism slowly came to dominate art in the digital era," Woody says, "the image itself took the dominant function and the contextual information lost its importance." As a result, art became dominated by computer needs like resolution and color spaces rather than the artist's vision.
The irrepressible artist believes the hyperrealistic phase is fading. He offers his "Dialogue with the Machine," which is how Vasulka refers to his coming talks at Santa Fe Complex, as a return to a more collaborative and experimental community.
In fact, he says that technology will expand the artist's horizons. Asking "is it the tool that limits you?," Vasulka calls the computer a variation machine that will let artists leap beyond historic constraints. In the 70s, he says, artists asked, "What happens between the frames?" and "Why 24 frames per second and not 1000?" Today, with the variation machine, they can begin to answer those questions and more.
Thw process has begun, according to Woody. Santa Fe artists like Corey Metcalf and David Stout, he says, are heirs to the Vasulka traditions. They show that modern digital processes, once again, allow a reinterpretation of sound and sight.
Woody pioneered video art in the late 1960s. Born in Brno, now in the Czech Republic, he trained as an engineer before studying television and film production at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He met his wife, Steina Vasulka, in the early 1960s and moved to New York City in 1965, where he worked as a multiscreen film editor, experimenting with electronic sounds and stroboscopic lights while pioneering the showing of video art at the Whitney Museum. Woody collaborated with Don MacArthur and Jeffrey Schier in 1976 to build a computer controlled personal imaging facility called The Digital Image Articulator. The Vasulkas have been based in Santa Fe since 1980. More information is available at http://vasulka.org/index.html | Come Visit Us
|  Santa Fe Complex is located next to the Railyard Art District and within walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the plaza downtown. We're housed in two facilities, the conference area at 624 Agua Fria and the project space at 632 Agua Fria. The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short-term use associated with on-going complex projects. The project space houses the great room, where we hold events and offer working facilities for laptop users, coffee lounge and work carrels. While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking lot is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is an old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway. Follow it until it opens up to two lanes and turn hard right into the parking lot for 632. Here's a map to our location, a representative shot showing the Railyard District and a sketchup drawing of the facility at 632. For more information, call 505/216.7562 or click here. | Don Begley
Managing Director
Santa Fe Complex
624 Agua Fria St
Santa Fe, NM 87501
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