Michael Rees and the International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture magazine, are excited to present Ad Hoc, a virtual talk series. Join Michael Rees as he talks with special guests who work in art, technology, and sculpture. These conversations will focus on making and the artists role in the current era. Join us every other week for more episodes! Make sure you like and subscribe to get updates on the International Sculpture Center.
In this episode, Michael is joined by artist Claudia Hart, who took part in the exhibition and was featured in the book, Synthetic Cells. In this conversation they talk about Claudia’s work and her interest in the intersection of art and technology. Buy the book here: Claudia Hart emerged as part of a generation of 90s intermedia artists examining issues of identity, now focusing on how technology affects that, along with issues of the body, perception, and nature collapsing into it and then back again. Hart was an early adopter of virtual imaging, using 3D animation to make media installations and projections, and later as they were invented, other forms of VR, AR and objects using computer-driven production machines. At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she developed a pedagogic program based on this concept - Experimental 3D - the first dedicated solely to teaching simulations technologies in an art context. She lives in New York, is represented in the US by bitforms galleries, and is married to the media artist Kurt Hentschlager. https://claudiahart.com/ https://www.chamberofdreams.net/ https://vimeo.com/claudiahart https://www.instagram.com/claudhart
https://sculpture.org/store/viewprodu... Michael Rees is a pioneer working with sculpture, technology, and interactivity exploring the dynamic between physical objects and virtual spaces. His invented sculptural platforms are made of robot assisted carvings, automatic dimensional prints, augmented reality, and photography. He is a professor and runs a one of a kind robot lab as the Director of the Center for New Art at William Paterson University developing one of the first experimental curriculum in sculpture and new media. He lives in North Bergen, New Jersey on the Palisade overlooking Manhattan with his wife the painter Mary Ann Strandell. https://michaelrees.org/ https://www.instagram.com/xmichaelrees/ https://www.facebook.com/michael.rees... https://twitter.com/xsculpt?lang=en
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