Shawn Brixey
The UT School of Art is pleased to announce a public lecture by Shawn
Brixey, Co-Founder and former Director of the University of Washington's
research center and Ph.D. program in Digital Arts and Experimental Media
(DXARTS). The lecture entitled "From Simulation to Emulation: Pioneering
Telematic Arts in the 21st Century" will take place on Thursday October 1st
at 7pm in Art and Architecture room 109. It is free and open to the public.
Shawn Brixey's work is interdisciplinary and multidimensional. He has
received all levels of major grants and awards to support his research
including: The Rockefeller Foundation, Apple Computer, The Intel
Corporation, Silicon Graphics, IBM GmbH and The National Endowment for the
Arts, among others. Critical writing and reviews of his work have been
featured in diverse sources, including, but not limited to, The New York
Times, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Stranger, The
Guardian, Wired Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Art News,
WolkenKratzer Magazine (Germany), Smithsonian World Television, and NPR. In
2003 he was honored with a prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for
New Media. In 2004, he was winner of the Editors Choice Award, in Popular
Science Magazine's, "World Design Challenge." The winning
entry was awarded for novel feed-forward ultrasound technology used to
produce wide-field active noise cancellation in underwater environments
developed specifically to protect endangered marine mammals. Most recently,
he appeared on the award winning documentary television series, "Secrets of
the Sequence," by Cronkite-Ward which focuses on revolutionary models of
research being undertaken around the Human Genome Project.
A web site about his work is:
http://www.washington.edu/dxarts/profile_home.php?who=brixey
His visit is sponsored by the School of Art and the Haines-Morris Endowment
in the College of Arts and Sciences.
For more information contact Professor Deb Shmerler: 865-974- 3203,
dshmerle@utk.edu
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