Visualization
CoLab wishes to invite you to attend this presentation by:
Jack Ox
Date: Tuesday 20th April
Time: 12 noon
Venue: Auckland University of Technology room: WT 705
Entitled Visualization and the Art of Metaphoric Mapping in Science and Art this seminar will address Kurt Schwitters Ursonate, as described by Ox, including her 800 Square foot visualization based on a phonetic analysis.
For the mind to grasp its significance, numerical data must be converted into visual constructions or even musical constructions. It must be made into a thing, reified. One reifies in order to conceptualize. The process by which we attribute structure and meaning to data can be described as a species of mapping, similar to metaphor. As in rhetoric, the range of representations conditions our understanding of the domain of data. The presenter examines intermedia and metaphor as methodologies of representation, and shows how the problematic area of data representation has reunited art and science in fruitful ways. Through examples of computer-aided visualization, she discusses the philosophical implications of models and taxonomies of representation. Ox speculates on ways to train artists to work between domains, helping to create languages of multi-modal representation that facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration.
Jack Ox has been engaged in the practice of music visualization for over 30 years, with a distinguished history of international exhibitions. During the 90s she worked on Kurt Schwitters Ursonate, making a presentation at the Centre Georges Pompidou during the Kurt Schwitters retrospective in Paris in 1994 and showing the complete Ursonate at the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland in 2004. Ox was an independent artist for most of those years, but is now a Research Assistant Professor at the U. of New Mexico, working on the Gridjam a real-time, geographically distributed, networked multimedia event, using the new high speed international LambdaRail network. She has been on the Editorial Board of Leonardo Journal, and now is also on the Board of the Journal of Visual Arts Practice.
For more information on Visualisation/Ursonate and Jack Ox visit her website link
http://www.jackox.net/pages/Ursonate/ur_MAINindex.html
Auckland University of Technology room: WT 705
To register your attendance for this presentation please contact CoLab Manager dawn.hutchesson@aut.ac.nz or (09) 921 9566
Member Profile
CoLabCoLab is an interdisciplinary creative technology centre. It aims to facilitate and promote creative practices, research and development, knowledge sharing, innovation and collaboration. CoLab is based on a partnership between AUT University, MIC Toi Rerehiko and arts organizations, practitioners, educational institutions, commercial enterprises, technology developers, industry bodies and communities. It supports the development and public dissemination of hybrid ideas, research and creative practices through converging technologies, innovative formats, modes and networks. In so doing, it forms a community of enquiry and a physical meeting-ground for creative expression, new media industries and trans-disciplinary educators. CoLab is working to build a strong social network of partners and associated organisations.
.jpg)
