UCI?s New Media Arts Layer Leader Simon Penny Presents Latest Project at International Symposium in France
By Anna Lynn Spitzer
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3.16.04 -- UCI professor of arts and engineering, Simon Penny, is presenting his latest work on embodied interactive digital video and visualization at the International Symposium organized by Centre de Recherches d’Esthétique du Cinéma et des Arts Audiovisuels (CRECA) located at Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne.
The two day symposium, March 19 – 20, is titled “Art Oriented Programming: Decoding and Criticism.” The symposium brings together artists and theoreticians from around the world to discuss the latest trends in the artistic computing research field. This year’s conference focuses on the term “software art,” a term developed in the late 1990s to describe the artistic tendency of programming as art.
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Penny, who is also the director of UCI’s Arts Computation and Engineering graduate program, is presenting his paper “Making Culture Machines” which is based on his recent embodied interactive installation “FugitiveII.” The installation was commissioned by the Australian Center for the Moving Image and has been showing there since early January.
FugitiveII is a 30 foot diameter circular room and includes a linux based, custom infra-red, multi-camera volumetric machine-vision system, custom digital video management and a custom motion control rig. The installation is one of a series of projects developed by Penny that utilizes custom multi-camera machine vision to facilitate unencumbered embodied interaction.
Further details about the International Symposium are located at www.creca.org.