<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Congratulations Ben!<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Julie Andreyev</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><a href="http://www.animallover.ca">www.animallover.ca</a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><div>(mobile)<div><br></div></div></div></div><div><br>On Apr 11, 2018, at 1:53 PM, B. Bogart <<a href="mailto:ben@ekran.org">ben@ekran.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span>*Information about images and interviews is located below the PSA.*</span><br><span></span><br><span>*cid:image001.png@01D3B082.C26E4540***</span><br><span></span><br><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span>For release: April 6, 2018</span><br><span></span><br><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span>*Computers watch sci-fi films in Surrey Art Gallery’s TechLab *</span><br><span></span><br><span>* *</span><br><span></span><br><span>*Ben Bogart: Watching and Dreaming</span><br><span>April 14**−June 10**, 2018 | Opening Reception: April 14 | 6:30−9pm</span><br><span>Artists Conversation: June 2 | 2:30−4pm*</span><br><span></span><br><span>Visit Surrey Art Gallery’s newest TechLab exhibit to see what a machine</span><br><span>sees when it goes to the movies. In /Watching and Dreaming/, media</span><br><span>artist Ben Bogart programs computers to “watch” classic sci-fi films by</span><br><span>breaking them apart and reconstructing them. Theresulting cinematic</span><br><span>experience challenges viewers to consider the role science fiction plays</span><br><span>in how we think about artificial intelligence and the constructed nature</span><br><span>of our own perceptions. /Ben Bogart: Watching and Dreaming/ launches</span><br><span>April 14 and runs until June 10 as part of Surrey Art Gallery’s spring</span><br><span>2018 programming. The exhibition is presented as part of the Capture</span><br><span>Photography Festival. Admission to Surrey Art Gallery is free.</span><br><span></span><br><span>As an artist and programmer, Bogart bridges the fields of art and</span><br><span>science. Using complex software algorithms, his machines break the</span><br><span>frames and sounds from three popular science fiction films into millions</span><br><span>of image and audio fragments: Stanley Kubrick’s /2001: A Space Odyssey/</span><br><span>(1968), Ridley Scott’s/Blade Runner /(1982), and Steven Lisberger’s</span><br><span>/TRON/ (1982). The computers group the fragments according to</span><br><span>similarities in size and colour to reconstruct a resemblance of the</span><br><span>original using this data. The results are abstract tapestries or</span><br><span>collages where the viewer may be able to pick out familiar forms,</span><br><span>characters, and props from the films such as the silhouette of a figure</span><br><span>walking through a darkened streetscape or sitting on a bright red couch.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Dialogue, music, and sound effects blend together into shifting and</span><br><span>halting soundscapes that parallel the mesmerizing imagery. Bogart says,</span><br><span>“The images and sounds are just at the threshold of readability. The</span><br><span>viewer constantly attempts to read the work as cinema, searching for</span><br><span>narrative and structure. At some point, this search becomes overwhelming</span><br><span>as the image ebbs and flows between readability and chaotic abstraction.”</span><br><span></span><br><span>The exhibition, comprised of three projected videos and three light</span><br><span>boxes, provides a thought-provoking meditation on the increasingly</span><br><span>blurry boundaries between humans and machines, the limits of cinema, and</span><br><span>the future of art. Through his multisensory art, Bogart invites the</span><br><span>gallery visitor to consider how machines can be a mirror through which</span><br><span>to reflect on what it means to be human.</span><br><span></span><br><span>*ABOUT THE ARTIST*</span><br><span></span><br><span>* *</span><br><span></span><br><span>Ben Bogart <<a href="http://www.ekran.org/ben/wp/">http://www.ekran.org/ben/wp/</a>> is a Vancouver-based</span><br><span>interdisciplinary artist working with generative computational processes</span><br><span>including physical modelling, chaos, feedback systems, evolutionary</span><br><span>computation, computer vision, and machine learning. His work has been</span><br><span>inspired by the natural sciences, such as quantum physics and cognitive</span><br><span>neuroscience. Bogart has produced processes, artifacts, texts, images</span><br><span>and performances that have been presented at galleries, art festivals,</span><br><span>and academic conferences around the world. He has been an</span><br><span>artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre (Canada), the New Forms Festival</span><br><span>(Canada), and at Videotage (Hong Kong). Ben holds both master’s and</span><br><span>doctorate degrees from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at</span><br><span>Simon Fraser University.</span><br><span></span><br><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span>*RELATED EVENTS *(admission is free)</span><br><span></span><br><span>* *</span><br><span></span><br><span>*Opening Reception*</span><br><span></span><br><span>*Saturday, April 14 | 6:30**−**9pm*</span><br><span></span><br><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span>Celebrate the opening of /Ben Bogart: Watching and Dreaming/, along with</span><br><span>our other spring exhibitions /Flow: From the Movement of People to the</span><br><span>Circulation of Information /and /Elizabeth Hollick: Body Politic/. A</span><br><span>talk with exhibiting artist Elizabeth Hollick will start at 6:30pm. The</span><br><span>reception at 7:30pm will include a performance by Chun Hua Catherine</span><br><span>Dong in partnership with local collective AgentC Projects called</span><br><span>“Undocumented”.Dong’s performance evokes the experience of migration,</span><br><span>the regulation of borders, and aesthetics of administration.</span><br><span></span><br><span>* *</span><br><span></span><br><span>*Artists Conversation</span><br><span>Saturday, June 2 | 2:30−4pm*</span><br><span></span><br><span>* *</span><br><span></span><br><span>Exhibiting artists Ben Bogart and Jim Bizzocchi will talk about their</span><br><span>practices in a conversation facilitated by Surrey Art Gallery curator</span><br><span>Jordan Strom. They’ll discuss the role of computer programming and image</span><br><span>choices, generative art, ambient video, and the histories of abstraction</span><br><span>in art and film.</span><br><span></span><br><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span>Surrey Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of</span><br><span>the City of Surrey, Province of BC through BC Arts Council, Canada</span><br><span>Council for the Arts, and the Surrey Art Gallery Association.</span><br><span></span><br><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span>Surrey Art Gallery is located at 13750-88 Avenue, Surrey, BC, Canada.</span><br><span>604-501-5566 | <a href="http://surrey.ca/artgallery">surrey.ca/artgallery</a> <<a href="http://www.surrey.ca/artgallery">http://www.surrey.ca/artgallery</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span>HOURS: Tues-Thur 9am-9pm | Fri 9am-5pm | Sat 10am-5pm | Sun 12-5pm |</span><br><span>Closed Mondays and holidays.</span><br><span></span><br><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span>-END-</span><br><span></span><br><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span>*NOTE*</span><br><span></span><br><span>If you are linking to Surrey Art Gallery’s website, please use our</span><br><span>vanity URL: <a href="http://surrey.ca/artgallery">surrey.ca/artgallery</a> <<a href="http://www.surrey.ca/artgallery">http://www.surrey.ca/artgallery</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span>*IMAGES*</span><br><span></span><br><span>This is the link to images and a photo of the artist:</span><br><span><a href="https://mft.surrey.ca/?ShareToken=41F8B436AAAF479F7B1A297B4F99CE51BFC19B5A">https://mft.surrey.ca/?ShareToken=41F8B436AAAF479F7B1A297B4F99CE51BFC19B5A</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Note the link expires June 30, 2018.</span><br><span></span><br><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span>If you choose to use any of the artwork images:</span><br><span></span><br><span>· You’ll find the credits in a pdf document.</span><br><span></span><br><span>· You’ll find the Digital Image Use Requirements in the folder.</span><br><span>Use of images of artworks assumes that you’ve read and will follow these</span><br><span>requirements.</span><br><span></span><br><span> </span><br><span></span><br><span>*INTERVIEWS*</span><br><span></span><br><span>Ben Bogart is available for interviews. 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