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New Eventworks production team
Posted Aug. 4, 2010 2:27pm
A new team of producers have taken over the reins for this years' Eventworks Festival: Darby Ruggeri, Dyllan Nguyen, Aly Stosz, Brendan Antonelli and Scott Hadley. Talk to them to find out how to be a part of the festival this year.
Announcing Fall 2010 SIM Visiting Artists/Scientists!
Posted Aug. 1, 2010 5:53am
We are pleased to announce that this fall, John Storyk, acoustics expert, and Margaret Livingstone, neurobiologist, will be visiting SIM.
John Storyk, registered architect and acoustician, is a founding partner of the Walters-Storyk Design Group, a worldwide, full-service acoustics and audio/video design firm specializing in critical listening and viewing environments.
John and WSDG have provided design, construction and consulting services for professional audio/video facilities, multi-media presentation rooms, residential home theaters, performance and entertainment spaces, houses of worship, industrial acoustical applications, transportation facilities and sports venues for over 40 years, since the 1969 completion of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios in New York City.
John completed his architectural studies at Princeton and Columbia Universities. As an independent designer and principal designer of WSDG he has been responsible for over 2500 world-class audio video production facilities, including studios, radio stations, video suites, entertainment clubs and theaters. His work includes private studios for Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, Ace Frehley, Russ Freeman, Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, as well as educational and performance facilities, including Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York City.
He is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Audio Engineering Society (AES) and a frequent contributor to AES convention papers and professional industry periodicals. John is a frequent lecturer at schools throughout the nation. He has established courses in acoustics at Full Sail and Ex'pression College for Digital Arts. He is an adjunct professor of Acoustics and Studio Design at Berklee College of Music, University of Colorado Denver and Stevens Institute of Technology.
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Margaret S. Livingstone, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School - http://neuro.med.harvard.edu/faculty/livingstone.html
Margaret will discuss:
What Art can tell us about the Brain
Artists have been doing experiments on vision longer than neurobiologists. Some major works of art have provided insights as to how we see; some of these insights are so fundamental that they can be understood in terms of the underlying neurobiology. For example, artists have long realized that color and luminance can play independent roles in visual perception. Picasso said, "Colors are only symbols. Reality is to be found in luminance alone." This observation has a parallel in the functional subdivision of our visual systems, where color and luminance are processed by the newer, primate-specific What system, and the older, colorblind, Where (or How) system. Many techniques developed over the centuries by artists can be understood in terms of the parallel organization of our visual systems. I will explore how the segregation of color and luminance processing are the basis for why some Impressionist paintings seem to shimmer, why some op art paintings seem to move, some principles of Matisse's use of color, and how the Impressionists painted "air". Central and peripheral vision are distinct, and I will show how the differences in resolution across our visual field make the Mona Lisa's smile elusive, and produce a dynamic illusion in Pointillist paintings, Chuck Close paintings, and photomosaics. I will explore how artists have intuited important features about how our brains extract relevant information about faces and objects, and I will discuss why learning disabilities may be associated with artistic talent.
John and WSDG have provided design, construction and consulting services for professional audio/video facilities, multi-media presentation rooms, residential home theaters, performance and entertainment spaces, houses of worship, industrial acoustical applications, transportation facilities and sports venues for over 40 years, since the 1969 completion of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios in New York City.
John completed his architectural studies at Princeton and Columbia Universities. As an independent designer and principal designer of WSDG he has been responsible for over 2500 world-class audio video production facilities, including studios, radio stations, video suites, entertainment clubs and theaters. His work includes private studios for Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, Ace Frehley, Russ Freeman, Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, as well as educational and performance facilities, including Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York City.
He is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Audio Engineering Society (AES) and a frequent contributor to AES convention papers and professional industry periodicals. John is a frequent lecturer at schools throughout the nation. He has established courses in acoustics at Full Sail and Ex'pression College for Digital Arts. He is an adjunct professor of Acoustics and Studio Design at Berklee College of Music, University of Colorado Denver and Stevens Institute of Technology.
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Margaret S. Livingstone, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School - http://neuro.med.harvard.edu/faculty/livingstone.html
Margaret will discuss:
What Art can tell us about the Brain
Artists have been doing experiments on vision longer than neurobiologists. Some major works of art have provided insights as to how we see; some of these insights are so fundamental that they can be understood in terms of the underlying neurobiology. For example, artists have long realized that color and luminance can play independent roles in visual perception. Picasso said, "Colors are only symbols. Reality is to be found in luminance alone." This observation has a parallel in the functional subdivision of our visual systems, where color and luminance are processed by the newer, primate-specific What system, and the older, colorblind, Where (or How) system. Many techniques developed over the centuries by artists can be understood in terms of the parallel organization of our visual systems. I will explore how the segregation of color and luminance processing are the basis for why some Impressionist paintings seem to shimmer, why some op art paintings seem to move, some principles of Matisse's use of color, and how the Impressionists painted "air". Central and peripheral vision are distinct, and I will show how the differences in resolution across our visual field make the Mona Lisa's smile elusive, and produce a dynamic illusion in Pointillist paintings, Chuck Close paintings, and photomosaics. I will explore how artists have intuited important features about how our brains extract relevant information about faces and objects, and I will discuss why learning disabilities may be associated with artistic talent.
SIM Alum Tucker Stilley profiled in PRX Humankind radio show
Posted Apr. 26, 2010 11:17am
A SIM alum is featured in this documentary that tells the moving story of Tucker Stilley, a remarkable spirit who, as a professional media artist in his early forties, was diagnosed with ALS (known as Lou Gehrig's disease),
a degenerative condition that leads to paralysis and frequently claims the patient's life. The second half-hour explores the experience of chronic pain, a condition that medical science today can help only to manage, not cure.
go to http://www.prx.org/pieces/45538-humankind-tucker-stilley-managing-pain to listen to show.
Tucker is still making art and inspiring everyone around him. See more of his work at http://newjackrasputin.blogspot.com/ and http://www.tuckerstilley.com/ and join his community at http://thepermanentrecord.ning.com/
go to http://www.prx.org/pieces/45538-humankind-tucker-stilley-managing-pain to listen to show.
Tucker is still making art and inspiring everyone around him. See more of his work at http://newjackrasputin.blogspot.com/ and http://www.tuckerstilley.com/ and join his community at http://thepermanentrecord.ning.com/