From info at processingvancouver.ca  Wed Sep  5 21:30:36 2012
From: info at processingvancouver.ca (P5Van)
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 19:30:36 -0700
Subject: [x] Processing Workshop - September
Message-ID: <8082423D-0005-4369-A8E5-B2BA55EC64BB@processingvancouver.ca>

Processing (P5)
September 10, 12, 17 and 19. All sessions run 7-10pm

Processing (P5) is an open source programming language and development environment for people who want to create images, animations and interactions.

Initially developed to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, P5 also has evolved into a tool for generating finished professional work. Today, there are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use P5 for learning, prototyping, and production.

This course is aimed at giving a rapid introduction to programming using P5, creating dynamic and reactive content in a project-driven environment. By making onscreen visuals from the very first minute, this hands-on workshop practices learning-by-doing. 

Session I
Learning the IDE. Programming basics - variables, functions, conditionals. Order of operation. Creating Classes. Dissecting examples.

Session II
Extending Processing with Libraries. Interaction with Mouse, Keyboard, Cameras, Microphones, Controllers, Network, Arduino. Audio-video playback. Animation. Web and Android modes.

Session III
Directed projects in P5: VJ apps, data visualization, computer vision, interactive websites, Android applications, etc.

Session IV
Directed projects continued...

                
Prerequisites: Participants need not have any previous experience with P5 or programming, though this is an asset. 
Participants can bring their own laptop if they wish, with the latest version of P5 downloaded and installed. 
Processing is available on any OS, and is free of charge:  http://processing.org/download/
                
Duration: 4 sessions: total 12 hours
         
Cost: $220 or $175 with VIVO Producer Membership (Extended)
                
 
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From jim at vispo.com  Fri Sep  7 22:37:38 2012
From: jim at vispo.com (Jim Andrews)
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 20:37:38 -0700
Subject: [x] Andrews in group show at Surrey Art Gallery Sat Sept 15,
	7:30-9:30
Message-ID: <EE5F762BCB894A169D6F6CD15F5F174F@OwnerPC>

I have a couple of new videos I made with dbCinema, the graphic synthesizer 
and langu(im)age processor I wrote. These were commissioned by the Surrey 
Art Gallery for their group show on self-portraiture called 'Scenes of 
Selves, Occasions for Ruses' which opens on Saturday September 15 from 
7:30-9:30pm (13750-88 Ave, Surrey, BC). The show runs from September 15 to 
December 16 if you're an asynchronous type of individual.

Here's the card: 
http://www.surrey.ca/files/Fall_exhibitions2012_invitation_final.pdf

Brace yourself. These videos contain a lot of images of me. In fact, nothing 
but. The two videos use about 53 images of me from the day I was born to my 
current grizzled state at age 53.

The curator, Jordan Strom, saw my dbCinema piece The Club ( 
http://vispo.com/dbcinema/theclub3/pics.htm?n=1 ) at the show on generative 
art at the Audain Gallery earlier in the summer, and thought it might be 
interesting if I tried a self-portrait using dbCinema. If you look at The 
Club you see that a self-portrait made with dbCinema like The Club could be 
rather problematical. A kind of Frankenstein or The Fly problem.

The approach I took was to use images from babyhood to 53rdness and 
video-collage them helter skelter. In the main, the mang does not cohere. No 
coherent person emerges from this process of forcibly 
joining/collaging/synthesizing/remixing these 53 photos of me. It doesn't 
magically tell me who I have always been. Or does it? Or if not, what *does* 
it suggest? In any case, it's a rather unusual self-portrait; the whole show 
is concerned with self-portraiture, mainly.

There are two videos. One of them uses two dbCinema brushes. One of the 
brushes 'paints' text (the text is simply my name, one letter per 
brushstroke) and the other brush paints circles. Each brush (usually) paints 
a different image of me, so the result is two brushes simultaneously 
painting a different picture of me. Each brush moves on to paint a different 
picture every five seconds or so.

The second video uses only one brush and is more 'painterly'. This video is 
in a dark room by itself projected to fill the wall.

So there you have it. Hope to see you Sat Sept 15 from 7:30-9:30 at the 
Surrey Art Gallery.

ja
http://vispo.com 




From bbogart at sfu.ca  Fri Sep  7 23:49:57 2012
From: bbogart at sfu.ca (B. Bogart)
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:49:57 -0700
Subject: [x] Fwd: Thursday, September 13, 577 Great Northern Way
In-Reply-To: <d8f36d8dab836db092157bda934c050d2df.20120906172000@mail126.us2.mcsv.net>
References: <d8f36d8dab836db092157bda934c050d2df.20120906172000@mail126.us2.mcsv.net>
Message-ID: <504ACE75.8090104@sfu.ca>

Hello all,

I'll be showing work-in-progress on aspects of the "dreaming machine" at
NFF this year...


Thursday, September 13, 577 Great Northern Way
The NFF12 Exhibition opens Thursday, September 13th. The Launch will
take place from 6-11 pm at 577 Great Northern Way.
	
Greetings from the New Forms Festival,


You are cordially invited to the Opening Gala for New Forms Festival 12.
The event will take place from 6 - 11 pm on Thursday September 13th, at
the former MDM Building (577 Great Northern Way).

The NFF 12 exhibition is comprised of works that challenge traditional
notions of the artist, audience and space. The works examine different
thematics around the renouncing and questioning of the technical vs
human responses to interaction.

Merging works through sculpture, projection, sound art, robotics, 3d,
architectural facades and generative computational aesthetics, the
installations themselves speak to the current cross-pollination of
contemporary art.

Through hallways, corridors, classrooms, exterior facades and the main
hangar spaces, audiences will be enveloped by stimulation throughout,
challenging notions of interventionist technology.

The exhibition as whole, in turn acts as a singular installation with
numerous moving part, asking the audience to consider its role within
the environment, both as spectator and participant.

The exhibition features works by Amir Aziz, Andres Wanner, Asuman
Gencol, AUDiNT, Ben Bogart, Dan Royer, Elisa Ferrari + Paolo Pennuti,
Jesse Scott + Mirae Rosner, Jeff Little, Jonathan Tippett, Leo
Stefansson, Lief Hall, Nicolas Sassoon + Sara Ludy + Sylvain Sailly,
Patrick Cruz + Tyler Fedchuk, Peter Hagge + Tanner Matt, Rafael Puyana
and Sean Arden.

To attend please RSVP to info at newformsfestival.com
Full Schedule available here: http://2012.newformsfestival.com/schedule/



	

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From jimbiz at sfu.ca  Sun Sep  9 17:59:14 2012
From: jimbiz at sfu.ca (Jim Bizzocchi)
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 15:59:14 -0700
Subject: [x] Andrews in group show at Surrey Art Gallery Sat Sept 15,
 7:30-9:30
In-Reply-To: <EE5F762BCB894A169D6F6CD15F5F174F@OwnerPC>
References: <EE5F762BCB894A169D6F6CD15F5F174F@OwnerPC>
Message-ID: <p0624080ccc72cfb8e282@[192.168.1.131]>

Cool!
Jim

>I have a couple of new videos I made with dbCinema, the graphic 
>synthesizer and langu(im)age processor I wrote. These were 
>commissioned by the Surrey Art Gallery for their group show on 
>self-portraiture called 'Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses' 
>which opens on Saturday September 15 from 7:30-9:30pm (13750-88 Ave, 
>Surrey, BC). The show runs from September 15 to December 16 if 
>you're an asynchronous type of individual.
>
>Here's the card: 
>http://www.surrey.ca/files/Fall_exhibitions2012_invitation_final.pdf
>
>Brace yourself. These videos contain a lot of images of me. In fact, 
>nothing but. The two videos use about 53 images of me from the day I 
>was born to my current grizzled state at age 53.
>
>The curator, Jordan Strom, saw my dbCinema piece The Club ( 
>http://vispo.com/dbcinema/theclub3/pics.htm?n=1 ) at the show on 
>generative art at the Audain Gallery earlier in the summer, and 
>thought it might be interesting if I tried a self-portrait using 
>dbCinema. If you look at The Club you see that a self-portrait made 
>with dbCinema like The Club could be rather problematical. A kind of 
>Frankenstein or The Fly problem.
>
>The approach I took was to use images from babyhood to 53rdness and 
>video-collage them helter skelter. In the main, the mang does not 
>cohere. No coherent person emerges from this process of forcibly 
>joining/collaging/synthesizing/remixing these 53 photos of me. It 
>doesn't magically tell me who I have always been. Or does it? Or if 
>not, what *does* it suggest? In any case, it's a rather unusual 
>self-portrait; the whole show is concerned with self-portraiture, 
>mainly.
>
>There are two videos. One of them uses two dbCinema brushes. One of 
>the brushes 'paints' text (the text is simply my name, one letter 
>per brushstroke) and the other brush paints circles. Each brush 
>(usually) paints a different image of me, so the result is two 
>brushes simultaneously painting a different picture of me. Each 
>brush moves on to paint a different picture every five seconds or so.
>
>The second video uses only one brush and is more 'painterly'. This 
>video is in a dark room by itself projected to fill the wall.
>
>So there you have it. Hope to see you Sat Sept 15 from 7:30-9:30 at 
>the Surrey Art Gallery.
>
>ja
>http://vispo.com
>
>_______________________________________________
>x mailing list
>x at vispo.com
>http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com


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From jimbiz at sfu.ca  Sun Sep  9 17:59:33 2012
From: jimbiz at sfu.ca (Jim Bizzocchi)
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 15:59:33 -0700
Subject: [x] Fwd: Thursday, September 13, 577 Great Northern Way
In-Reply-To: <504ACE75.8090104@sfu.ca>
References: <d8f36d8dab836db092157bda934c050d2df.20120906172000@mail126.us2.mcsv.net>
	<504ACE75.8090104@sfu.ca>
Message-ID: <p0624080dcc72cfcce73b@[192.168.1.131]>

Cool!
best
Jim

>Hello all,
>
>I'll be showing work-in-progress on aspects of the "dreaming machine" at
>NFF this year...
>
>
>Thursday, September 13, 577 Great Northern Way
>The NFF12 Exhibition opens Thursday, September 13th. The Launch will
>take place from 6-11 pm at 577 Great Northern Way.
>
>Greetings from the New Forms Festival,
>
>
>You are cordially invited to the Opening Gala for New Forms Festival 12.
>The event will take place from 6 - 11 pm on Thursday September 13th, at
>the former MDM Building (577 Great Northern Way).
>
>The NFF 12 exhibition is comprised of works that challenge traditional
>notions of the artist, audience and space. The works examine different
>thematics around the renouncing and questioning of the technical vs
>human responses to interaction.
>
>Merging works through sculpture, projection, sound art, robotics, 3d,
>architectural facades and generative computational aesthetics, the
>installations themselves speak to the current cross-pollination of
>contemporary art.
>
>Through hallways, corridors, classrooms, exterior facades and the main
>hangar spaces, audiences will be enveloped by stimulation throughout,
>challenging notions of interventionist technology.
>
>The exhibition as whole, in turn acts as a singular installation with
>numerous moving part, asking the audience to consider its role within
>the environment, both as spectator and participant.
>
>The exhibition features works by Amir Aziz, Andres Wanner, Asuman
>Gencol, AUDiNT, Ben Bogart, Dan Royer, Elisa Ferrari + Paolo Pennuti,
>Jesse Scott + Mirae Rosner, Jeff Little, Jonathan Tippett, Leo
>Stefansson, Lief Hall, Nicolas Sassoon + Sara Ludy + Sylvain Sailly,
>Patrick Cruz + Tyler Fedchuk, Peter Hagge + Tanner Matt, Rafael Puyana
>and Sean Arden.
>
>To attend please RSVP to info at newformsfestival.com
>Full Schedule available here: http://2012.newformsfestival.com/schedule/
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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From jim at vispo.com  Wed Sep 12 13:38:49 2012
From: jim at vispo.com (Jim Andrews)
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:38:49 -0700
Subject: [x] Fri Sept 28, 7pm: Dom Lopes: "A Philosophy of Computer Art"
Message-ID: <02C43B3DA9A74A5FAF0A35AAEB75B52D@OwnerPC>

Dominic Lopes, author of A Philosophy of Computer Art (Routledge, 2009),
will talk about his book to the group of x on Friday September 28. Doors
open at 7pm and Dom starts 7:30-7:45pm. Discussion will take place after his
talk.

Dom teaches philosophy at UBC.

Dom's book is the first by a professional philosopher on the subject of
computer art. One could say--quite loosely--that there are several books,
such as Manovitch's The Language of New Media, which seek to develop a
philosophy of computer art, where computer art is art in which the computer
is crucial as medium. How do such approaches differ from what a philosopher
might consider to be a philosophy of computer art? What is a 'philosophy of
computer art?' Pick up Dom's book before the event and find out.

RELEVANT LINKS

A Philosophy of Computer Art: http://apoca.mentalpaint.net
A review by Jim Andrews:
http://netpoetic.com/2009/11/reviewed-a-philosophy-of-computer-art-by-dominic-mciver-lopes
A video interview: http://vispo.com/lopes
Dom's site: http://lopes.mentalpaint.net

DOMINIC LOPES BIO

Dominic Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the
Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He works
mainly in aesthetics and is a member of the UBC aesthetics group. His
research focusses on pictorial representation and perception; the aesthetic
and epistemic value of pictures, including scientific images; theories of
art and its value; the ontology of art; and computer art and new art forms.
He is working on a pair of books entitled Beyond Art and Four Arts of
Photography and has just co-edited (with Diarmuid Costello) a special issue
of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism on the media of photography.

Paloma Atencia-Linares recently interviewed him on the topic of "Pictures,
Bytes and Values" for the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics.

Lopes is Vice-President of the American Society for Aesthetics (and will be
president in 2013-15). He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the
British Society of Aesthetics, Secretary-Treasurer of the American
Philosophical Association Pacific Division, a member of the Editorial Board
of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and co-editor (with Berys
Gaut) of Wiley-Blackwell's New Directions in Aesthetics book series. He
served for three years as an Associate Dean in the UBC Faculty of Arts.

LOCATION

Dom's talk will be the first at our new location for group of x
get-togethers, thanks to Arne Eigenfeldt: at SFU downtown in the Goldcorp
Centre for the Arts at 149 West Hastings street in room 3420, the third
floor electroacoustic studio. There's great tech available here and more
space than in my apartment. But food and drink are not permitted in the
studio. After Dom's talk and the discussion, let's head over to Charles Bar
(or wherever we figure would be good).




From jim at vispo.com  Wed Sep 12 13:53:47 2012
From: jim at vispo.com (Jim Andrews)
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:53:47 -0700
Subject: [x] Fri Nov 30, 7pm: Miles Thorogood
Message-ID: <F015D64B7BA34D83BE323BFC08900AB9@OwnerPC>

Miles Thorogood will show and talk about some of his work Friday November 30 
at 7pm to the group of x.

Miles will present his research, artistic works, and collaborative projects 
spanning several domains. This show-and-tell will include soundscape 
compositions, soundsculpture works, and large scale interactive 
installations.

RELEVANT LINKS

Miles's web site: http://greenmeat.net

MILES THOROGOOD BIO

Miles Thorogood is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in the design and 
development of adaptive and interactive artwork systems. Employing 
generative algorithms in the creation of sound and graphics, along with 
electronics and traditional media, these systems explore convergences 
between the body, environments and technology.

His current research interests include artificial intelligence and semantic 
representations of media in the broader context of understanding creativity. 
As a PhD student at SFU School of Interactive Art and Technology, his 
research is concentrating toward the development of creative computational 
systems for exploring soundscapes. Specifically, Miles is investigating 
system design for autonomous management of online soundscape archives with 
natural language processing, and models for representation of environmental 
sound. His research interests include abstracted representations of creative 
processes, systems design, and the creative application of artificial 
intelligence systems.

LOCATION

SFU downtown in the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at 149 West Hastings street 
in room 3420, the third floor electroacoustic studio. There's great tech 
available here and more space than in my apartment. But food and drink are 
not permitted in the studio. After Miles's talk and the discussion, let's 
head out to a nearby place.






From noiseart at gmail.com  Thu Sep 13 16:19:50 2012
From: noiseart at gmail.com (Peter Courtemanche)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:19:50 -0700
Subject: [x] Silent Speaker installation at Lucky's
Message-ID: <CA+OKGPZCyjB=31sXHx_c9-wCHgSdPdm_FNozZ=mSqhG_iXC9Wg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Folks,

If you are interested in ancient radio technology and interactive
sound works then drop by Lucky's gallery at Main and 24th. My
installation "The Silent Speaker" is running until September 30th. And
we are having a "middling" event on Friday the 21st at 7pm.

more info can be found here: http://anaudiogallery.tumblr.com/

Lucky's is also a great place to find rare and odd books!

all the best
Peter Courtemanche

-- 
http://absolutevalueofnoise.ca
http://www.secondsitecollective.net



From jim at vispo.com  Thu Sep 13 16:56:42 2012
From: jim at vispo.com (Jim Andrews)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:56:42 -0700
Subject: [x] trailers
Message-ID: <164F7706D55B42298211DFFF550F7B68@OwnerPC>

I put up a couple of 'trailers' to the videos I did for the Surrey Gallery 
show on self-portraiture that opens on Saturday the 15th at 7:30pm--hope to 
see you there.

http://vispo.com/dbcinema/selfportrait2/index.htm?n=1
http://vispo.com/dbcinema/selfportrait3/index.htm?n=1

ja 




From malcolm at newformsfestival.com  Tue Sep 18 11:35:12 2012
From: malcolm at newformsfestival.com (Malcolm Levy)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:35:12 -0700
Subject: [x] trailers
In-Reply-To: <164F7706D55B42298211DFFF550F7B68@OwnerPC>
References: <164F7706D55B42298211DFFF550F7B68@OwnerPC>
Message-ID: <C15D5EAC-DA7E-4F3A-A8AA-D6B6A112E4F7@newformsfestival.com>

Great work Jim!

M

On 2012-09-13, at 2:56 PM, Jim Andrews wrote:

> I put up a couple of 'trailers' to the videos I did for the Surrey Gallery show on self-portraiture that opens on Saturday the 15th at 7:30pm--hope to see you there.
> 
> http://vispo.com/dbcinema/selfportrait2/index.htm?n=1
> http://vispo.com/dbcinema/selfportrait3/index.htm?n=1
> 
> ja 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> x mailing list
> x at vispo.com
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From wah at ucalgary.ca  Tue Sep 18 11:40:36 2012
From: wah at ucalgary.ca (Fred Wah)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:40:36 -0700
Subject: [x] trailers
In-Reply-To: <C15D5EAC-DA7E-4F3A-A8AA-D6B6A112E4F7@newformsfestival.com>
References: <164F7706D55B42298211DFFF550F7B68@OwnerPC>
	<C15D5EAC-DA7E-4F3A-A8AA-D6B6A112E4F7@newformsfestival.com>
Message-ID: <5149AE05-AA25-4923-BE10-10E92F9858F2@ucalgary.ca>

Wonderful work!!


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wah at ucalgary.ca | http:www.fredwah.org

On 2012-09-18, at 9:35 AM, Malcolm Levy <malcolm at newformsfestival.com> wrote:

> Great work Jim!
> 
> M
> 
> On 2012-09-13, at 2:56 PM, Jim Andrews wrote:
> 
>> I put up a couple of 'trailers' to the videos I did for the Surrey Gallery show on self-portraiture that opens on Saturday the 15th at 7:30pm--hope to see you there.
>> 
>> http://vispo.com/dbcinema/selfportrait2/index.htm?n=1
>> http://vispo.com/dbcinema/selfportrait3/index.htm?n=1
>> 
>> ja 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
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>> x at vispo.com
>> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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From jim at vispo.com  Wed Sep 19 20:54:50 2012
From: jim at vispo.com (Jim Andrews)
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:54:50 -0700
Subject: [x] Ben Bogart at x, Fri Oct 26, 7pm
Message-ID: <3B4B3283D0A24774AE18A0255BCCFDDF@OwnerPC>

Ben Bogart will talk to the group of x on Friday October 26, doors at 7pm, 
about his programmerly visual art that triangulates amid conceptual, 
generative, and site-specific art. Ben's a Ph.D. candidate at SFU's School 
of Interactive Arts and Technology. Before coming to Vancouver, he lived in 
Toronto where he worked with David Rokeby. Ben had a terrific piece in the 
recent New Forms Festival you undoubtedly saw if you attended that festival.

LINKS:

Ben's site: http://ekran.org
Concerns/work: http://vispo.com/temp/bbogart-Context-Machines.pdf

BIO:

Ben Bogart is an artist working in installation, audio-visual improvisation 
and software development. His installations create content live in response 
to their sensed environment. He works in an Open Source context and makes 
all the software he develops, that is of general use, available under the 
GPL. Physical modelling, chaos, feedback systems, evolutionary algorithms 
and artificial intelligence have been used to inform and engage in his 
creative process. Ben holds a Masters of Science in Interactive Arts and 
Technology from Simon Fraser University. His current work deals with 
computational implementations of embodied creativity, memory and dreaming.

LOCATION:

SFU downtown in the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at 149 West Hastings street 
in room 3420, the third floor electroacoustic studio. There's great tech 
available here and more space than in my apartment. But food and drink are 
not permitted in the studio. After Miles's talk and the discussion, let's 
head out to a nearby place.

UPCOMING X EVENTS:

Dominic Lopes, Friday September 28, 7pm, SFU room 3420
Miles Thorogood, Friday November 30, 7pm, SFU room 3420





From bbogart at sfu.ca  Thu Sep 20 10:37:27 2012
From: bbogart at sfu.ca (B. Bogart)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:37:27 -0700
Subject: [x] Ben Bogart at x, Fri Oct 26, 7pm
In-Reply-To: <3B4B3283D0A24774AE18A0255BCCFDDF@OwnerPC>
References: <3B4B3283D0A24774AE18A0255BCCFDDF@OwnerPC>
Message-ID: <505B3837.2050603@sfu.ca>

Small clarification.

I never worked on a piece with David, only assisted in a few
installations. I consider him a mentor and we correspond somewhat regularly.

B.

On 12-09-19 06:54 PM, Jim Andrews wrote:
> Ben Bogart will talk to the group of x on Friday October 26, doors at
> 7pm, about his programmerly visual art that triangulates amid
> conceptual, generative, and site-specific art. Ben's a Ph.D. candidate
> at SFU's School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Before coming to
> Vancouver, he lived in Toronto where he worked with David Rokeby. Ben
> had a terrific piece in the recent New Forms Festival you undoubtedly
> saw if you attended that festival.
> 
> LINKS:
> 
> Ben's site: http://ekran.org
> Concerns/work: http://vispo.com/temp/bbogart-Context-Machines.pdf
> 
> BIO:
> 
> Ben Bogart is an artist working in installation, audio-visual
> improvisation and software development. His installations create content
> live in response to their sensed environment. He works in an Open Source
> context and makes all the software he develops, that is of general use,
> available under the GPL. Physical modelling, chaos, feedback systems,
> evolutionary algorithms and artificial intelligence have been used to
> inform and engage in his creative process. Ben holds a Masters of
> Science in Interactive Arts and Technology from Simon Fraser University.
> His current work deals with computational implementations of embodied
> creativity, memory and dreaming.
> 
> LOCATION:
> 
> SFU downtown in the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at 149 West Hastings
> street in room 3420, the third floor electroacoustic studio. There's
> great tech available here and more space than in my apartment. But food
> and drink are not permitted in the studio. After Miles's talk and the
> discussion, let's head out to a nearby place.
> 
> UPCOMING X EVENTS:
> 
> Dominic Lopes, Friday September 28, 7pm, SFU room 3420
> Miles Thorogood, Friday November 30, 7pm, SFU room 3420
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> x mailing list
> x at vispo.com
> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
> 



From jim at vispo.com  Fri Sep 21 03:27:11 2012
From: jim at vispo.com (Jim Andrews)
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:27:11 -0700
Subject: [x] Peter Courtemanche at Luckys, today at 7pm
Message-ID: <D8F677E3F37547209F9F407F238838AE@OwnerPC>

There's an event at Lucky's today (Friday) at 7pm concerning an interactive 
audio piece by Peter Courtemanche called The Silent Speaker.

It's part of the Olio Festival ( 
http://www.oliofestival.com/portfolio/peter-courtemanche ).

Lucky's is at 3972 Main Street. It's a funky book store ( 
http://luckys.ca/ ).

I hope to see you there.

ja 




From jim at vispo.com  Sun Sep 23 12:56:11 2012
From: jim at vispo.com (Jim Andrews)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:56:11 -0700
Subject: [x] Fri Sept 28, 7pm: Dom Lopes: "A Philosophy of Computer Art"
Message-ID: <6A1CAD3A78E049978F593A3C89B48B49@OwnerPC>

Dominic Lopes, author of A Philosophy of Computer Art (Routledge, 2009),
will talk about his book to the group of x on Friday September 28. Doors
open at 7pm and Dom starts 7:30-7:45pm. Discussion will take place after his
talk.

Dom teaches philosophy at UBC.

Dom's book is the first by a professional philosopher on the subject of
computer art. One could say--quite loosely--that there are several books,
such as Manovitch's The Language of New Media, which seek to develop a
philosophy of computer art, where computer art is art in which the computer
is crucial as medium. How do such approaches differ from what a philosopher
might consider to be a philosophy of computer art? What is a 'philosophy of
computer art?' Pick up Dom's book before the event and find out.

RELEVANT LINKS

A Philosophy of Computer Art: http://apoca.mentalpaint.net
A review by Jim Andrews:
http://netpoetic.com/2009/11/reviewed-a-philosophy-of-computer-art-by-dominic-mciver-lopes
A video interview: http://vispo.com/lopes
Dom's site: http://lopes.mentalpaint.net

DOMINIC LOPES BIO

Dominic Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the
Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He works
mainly in aesthetics and is a member of the UBC aesthetics group. His
research focusses on pictorial representation and perception; the aesthetic
and epistemic value of pictures, including scientific images; theories of
art and its value; the ontology of art; and computer art and new art forms.
He is working on a pair of books entitled Beyond Art and Four Arts of
Photography and has just co-edited (with Diarmuid Costello) a special issue
of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism on the media of photography.

Paloma Atencia-Linares recently interviewed him on the topic of "Pictures,
Bytes and Values" for the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics.

Lopes is Vice-President of the American Society for Aesthetics (and will be
president in 2013-15). He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the
British Society of Aesthetics, Secretary-Treasurer of the American
Philosophical Association Pacific Division, a member of the Editorial Board
of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and co-editor (with Berys
Gaut) of Wiley-Blackwell's New Directions in Aesthetics book series. He
served for three years as an Associate Dean in the UBC Faculty of Arts.

LOCATION

Dom's talk will be the first at our new location for group of x
get-togethers, thanks to Arne Eigenfeldt: at SFU downtown in the Goldcorp
Centre for the Arts at 149 West Hastings street in room 3420, the third
floor electroacoustic studio. There's great tech available here and more
space than in my apartment. But food and drink are not permitted in the
studio. After Dom's talk and the discussion, let's head over to Charles Bar
(or wherever we figure would be good).




From info at processingvancouver.ca  Mon Sep 24 11:58:59 2012
From: info at processingvancouver.ca (P5Van)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:58:59 -0700
Subject: [x] Processing Vancouver Meetup - Tonight!
Message-ID: <DCBB151A-D618-4C36-83C5-8687C7B48C90@processingvancouver.ca>

Processing Vancouver meetup 2nite @vivomediaarts | 7pm | 1965 Main St | 

Please join us for the September session of Processing Vancouver, hosted by VIVO Media Arts.

Topics include : 
 * The recent release of Processing 2.0 beta 
 * OpenGL Shaders in Processing
 *  Android Development in Processing
 *  Graffiti Markup Language

Other presentations TBA. 

Libations will be provided, discussions will ensue...  

#P5Van
Sep 24th, 7-10pm
@ VIVO Media Arts
1965 Main St
www.vivomediaarts.com

Processing Vancouver

processingvancouver.ca
P5Van
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part of the global Processing Cities network
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From jim at vispo.com  Thu Sep 27 15:29:57 2012
From: jim at vispo.com (Jim Andrews)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:29:57 -0700
Subject: [x] Friday, Sept 28,
	7pm at x: Dom Lopes: A Philosophy of Computer Art
Message-ID: <3BC9C1B721A341D6A3CE82DA508AA719@OwnerPC>

Dominic Lopes, author of A Philosophy of Computer Art (Routledge, 2009),
will talk about his book to the group of x on Friday September 28. Doors
open at 7pm and Dom starts 7:30-7:45pm. Discussion will take place after his
talk.

Dom teaches philosophy at UBC.

Dom's book is the first by a professional philosopher on the subject of
computer art. One could say--quite loosely--that there are several books,
such as Manovitch's The Language of New Media, which seek to develop a
philosophy of computer art, where computer art is art in which the computer
is crucial as medium. How do such approaches differ from what a philosopher
might consider to be a philosophy of computer art? What is a 'philosophy of
computer art?' Pick up Dom's book before the event and find out.

RELEVANT LINKS

A Philosophy of Computer Art: http://apoca.mentalpaint.net
A review by Jim Andrews:
http://netpoetic.com/2009/11/reviewed-a-philosophy-of-computer-art-by-dominic-mciver-lopes
A video interview: http://vispo.com/lopes
Dom's site: http://lopes.mentalpaint.net

DOMINIC LOPES BIO

Dominic Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the
Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He works
mainly in aesthetics and is a member of the UBC aesthetics group. His
research focusses on pictorial representation and perception; the aesthetic
and epistemic value of pictures, including scientific images; theories of
art and its value; the ontology of art; and computer art and new art forms.
He is working on a pair of books entitled Beyond Art and Four Arts of
Photography and has just co-edited (with Diarmuid Costello) a special issue
of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism on the media of photography.

Paloma Atencia-Linares recently interviewed him on the topic of "Pictures,
Bytes and Values" for the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics.

Lopes is Vice-President of the American Society for Aesthetics (and will be
president in 2013-15). He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the
British Society of Aesthetics, Secretary-Treasurer of the American
Philosophical Association Pacific Division, a member of the Editorial Board
of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and co-editor (with Berys
Gaut) of Wiley-Blackwell's New Directions in Aesthetics book series. He
served for three years as an Associate Dean in the UBC Faculty of Arts.

LOCATION

Dom's talk will be the first at our new location for group of x
get-togethers, thanks to Arne Eigenfeldt: at SFU downtown in the Goldcorp
Centre for the Arts at 149 West Hastings street in room 3420, the third
floor electroacoustic studio. There's great tech available here and more
space than in my apartment. But food and drink are not permitted in the
studio. After Dom's talk and the discussion, let's head over to Charles Bar
(or wherever we figure would be good).

UPCOMING X EVENTS:

Dominic Lopes, Friday September 28, 7pm, SFU room 3420
Joe Keppler, Friday October 12, 7pm, #1502, 811 Helmcken St
Ben Bogart, Friday October 26, 7pm, SFU room 3420
Miles Thorogood, Friday November 30, 7pm, SFU room 3420





From josephfkeppler at yahoo.com  Thu Sep 27 18:38:32 2012
From: josephfkeppler at yahoo.com (poets.painters.composers....)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:38:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [x] Friday, Sept 28,
	7pm at x: Dom Lopes: A Philosophy of Computer Art
In-Reply-To: <3BC9C1B721A341D6A3CE82DA508AA719@OwnerPC>
References: <3BC9C1B721A341D6A3CE82DA508AA719@OwnerPC>
Message-ID: <1348789112.12332.YahooMailNeo@web142603.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Thanks, Jim, I wish I were in Vancouver for this for he seems to offer much to think about as your review indicates. Let me know, if you get a chance, what you think of his talk tomorrow night.



________________________________
From: Jim Andrews <jim at vispo.com>
To: x <x at vispo.com> 
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 1:29 PM
Subject: [x] Friday, Sept 28, 7pm at x: Dom Lopes: A Philosophy of Computer Art

Dominic Lopes, author of A Philosophy of Computer Art (Routledge, 2009),
will talk about his book to the group of x on Friday September 28. Doors
open at 7pm and Dom starts 7:30-7:45pm. Discussion will take place after his
talk.

Dom teaches philosophy at UBC.

Dom's book is the first by a professional philosopher on the subject of
computer art. One could say--quite loosely--that there are several books,
such as Manovitch's The Language of New Media, which seek to develop a
philosophy of computer art, where computer art is art in which the computer
is crucial as medium. How do such approaches differ from what a philosopher
might consider to be a philosophy of computer art? What is a 'philosophy of
computer art?' Pick up Dom's book before the event and find out.

RELEVANT LINKS

A Philosophy of Computer Art: http://apoca.mentalpaint.net
A review by Jim Andrews:
http://netpoetic.com/2009/11/reviewed-a-philosophy-of-computer-art-by-dominic-mciver-lopes
A video interview: http://vispo.com/lopes
Dom's site: http://lopes.mentalpaint.net

DOMINIC LOPES BIO

Dominic Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the
Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He works
mainly in aesthetics and is a member of the UBC aesthetics group. His
research focusses on pictorial representation and perception; the aesthetic
and epistemic value of pictures, including scientific images; theories of
art and its value; the ontology of art; and computer art and new art forms.
He is working on a pair of books entitled Beyond Art and Four Arts of
Photography and has just co-edited (with Diarmuid Costello) a special issue
of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism on the media of photography.

Paloma Atencia-Linares recently interviewed him on the topic of "Pictures,
Bytes and Values" for the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics.

Lopes is Vice-President of the American Society for Aesthetics (and will be
president in 2013-15). He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the
British Society of Aesthetics, Secretary-Treasurer of the American
Philosophical Association Pacific Division, a member of the Editorial Board
of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and co-editor (with Berys
Gaut) of Wiley-Blackwell's New Directions in Aesthetics book series. He
served for three years as an Associate Dean in the UBC Faculty of Arts.

LOCATION

Dom's talk will be the first at our new location for group of x
get-togethers, thanks to Arne Eigenfeldt: at SFU downtown in the Goldcorp
Centre for the Arts at 149 West Hastings street in room 3420, the third
floor electroacoustic studio. There's great tech available here and more
space than in my apartment. But food and drink are not permitted in the
studio. After Dom's talk and the discussion, let's head over to Charles Bar
(or wherever we figure would be good).

UPCOMING X EVENTS:

Dominic Lopes, Friday September 28, 7pm, SFU room 3420
Joe Keppler, Friday October 12, 7pm, #1502, 811 Helmcken St
Ben Bogart, Friday October 26, 7pm, SFU room 3420
Miles Thorogood, Friday November 30, 7pm, SFU room 3420



_______________________________________________
x mailing list
x at vispo.com
http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
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From lioneljkearns at gmail.com  Fri Sep 28 17:54:04 2012
From: lioneljkearns at gmail.com (Lionel Kearns)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:54:04 -0700
Subject: [x] Friday, Sept 28,
	7pm at x: Dom Lopes: A Philosophy of Computer Art
In-Reply-To: <3BC9C1B721A341D6A3CE82DA508AA719@OwnerPC>
References: <3BC9C1B721A341D6A3CE82DA508AA719@OwnerPC>
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Hi Jim,

This really looks interesting, but I am not going to be able to make it. 

May it go well.

Lionel

-----Original Message-----
From: x-bounces at vispo.com [mailto:x-bounces at vispo.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Andrews
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 1:30 PM
To: x
Subject: [x] Friday, Sept 28, 7pm at x: Dom Lopes: A Philosophy of Computer
Art

Dominic Lopes, author of A Philosophy of Computer Art (Routledge, 2009),
will talk about his book to the group of x on Friday September 28. Doors
open at 7pm and Dom starts 7:30-7:45pm. Discussion will take place after his
talk.

Dom teaches philosophy at UBC.

Dom's book is the first by a professional philosopher on the subject of
computer art. One could say--quite loosely--that there are several books,
such as Manovitch's The Language of New Media, which seek to develop a
philosophy of computer art, where computer art is art in which the computer
is crucial as medium. How do such approaches differ from what a philosopher
might consider to be a philosophy of computer art? What is a 'philosophy of
computer art?' Pick up Dom's book before the event and find out.

RELEVANT LINKS

A Philosophy of Computer Art: http://apoca.mentalpaint.net A review by Jim
Andrews:
http://netpoetic.com/2009/11/reviewed-a-philosophy-of-computer-art-by-domini
c-mciver-lopes
A video interview: http://vispo.com/lopes Dom's site:
http://lopes.mentalpaint.net

DOMINIC LOPES BIO

Dominic Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the
Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He works
mainly in aesthetics and is a member of the UBC aesthetics group. His
research focusses on pictorial representation and perception; the aesthetic
and epistemic value of pictures, including scientific images; theories of
art and its value; the ontology of art; and computer art and new art forms.
He is working on a pair of books entitled Beyond Art and Four Arts of
Photography and has just co-edited (with Diarmuid Costello) a special issue
of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism on the media of photography.

Paloma Atencia-Linares recently interviewed him on the topic of "Pictures,
Bytes and Values" for the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics.

Lopes is Vice-President of the American Society for Aesthetics (and will be
president in 2013-15). He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the
British Society of Aesthetics, Secretary-Treasurer of the American
Philosophical Association Pacific Division, a member of the Editorial Board
of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and co-editor (with Berys
Gaut) of Wiley-Blackwell's New Directions in Aesthetics book series. He
served for three years as an Associate Dean in the UBC Faculty of Arts.

LOCATION

Dom's talk will be the first at our new location for group of x
get-togethers, thanks to Arne Eigenfeldt: at SFU downtown in the Goldcorp
Centre for the Arts at 149 West Hastings street in room 3420, the third
floor electroacoustic studio. There's great tech available here and more
space than in my apartment. But food and drink are not permitted in the
studio. After Dom's talk and the discussion, let's head over to Charles Bar
(or wherever we figure would be good).

UPCOMING X EVENTS:

Dominic Lopes, Friday September 28, 7pm, SFU room 3420 Joe Keppler, Friday
October 12, 7pm, #1502, 811 Helmcken St Ben Bogart, Friday October 26, 7pm,
SFU room 3420 Miles Thorogood, Friday November 30, 7pm, SFU room 3420



_______________________________________________
x mailing list
x at vispo.com
http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com




From miles.thorogood at gmail.com  Fri Sep 28 18:49:30 2012
From: miles.thorogood at gmail.com (MIles Thorogood)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:49:30 -0700
Subject: [x] Fri Sept 28, 7pm: Dom Lopes: "A Philosophy of Computer Art"
In-Reply-To: <6A1CAD3A78E049978F593A3C89B48B49@OwnerPC>
References: <6A1CAD3A78E049978F593A3C89B48B49@OwnerPC>
Message-ID: <E0E59D6F-4096-4AE5-8D64-4445082DA32A@gmail.com>

Rats, I'll be unable to attend tonights most intriguing talk.

best,
Miles


On 2012-09-23, at 10:56 AM, Jim Andrews wrote:

> Dominic Lopes, author of A Philosophy of Computer Art (Routledge, 2009),
> will talk about his book to the group of x on Friday September 28. Doors
> open at 7pm and Dom starts 7:30-7:45pm. Discussion will take place after his
> talk.
> 
> Dom teaches philosophy at UBC.
> 
> Dom's book is the first by a professional philosopher on the subject of
> computer art. One could say--quite loosely--that there are several books,
> such as Manovitch's The Language of New Media, which seek to develop a
> philosophy of computer art, where computer art is art in which the computer
> is crucial as medium. How do such approaches differ from what a philosopher
> might consider to be a philosophy of computer art? What is a 'philosophy of
> computer art?' Pick up Dom's book before the event and find out.
> 
> RELEVANT LINKS
> 
> A Philosophy of Computer Art: http://apoca.mentalpaint.net
> A review by Jim Andrews:
> http://netpoetic.com/2009/11/reviewed-a-philosophy-of-computer-art-by-dominic-mciver-lopes
> A video interview: http://vispo.com/lopes
> Dom's site: http://lopes.mentalpaint.net
> 
> DOMINIC LOPES BIO
> 
> Dominic Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the
> Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He works
> mainly in aesthetics and is a member of the UBC aesthetics group. His
> research focusses on pictorial representation and perception; the aesthetic
> and epistemic value of pictures, including scientific images; theories of
> art and its value; the ontology of art; and computer art and new art forms.
> He is working on a pair of books entitled Beyond Art and Four Arts of
> Photography and has just co-edited (with Diarmuid Costello) a special issue
> of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism on the media of photography.
> 
> Paloma Atencia-Linares recently interviewed him on the topic of "Pictures,
> Bytes and Values" for the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics.
> 
> Lopes is Vice-President of the American Society for Aesthetics (and will be
> president in 2013-15). He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the
> British Society of Aesthetics, Secretary-Treasurer of the American
> Philosophical Association Pacific Division, a member of the Editorial Board
> of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and co-editor (with Berys
> Gaut) of Wiley-Blackwell's New Directions in Aesthetics book series. He
> served for three years as an Associate Dean in the UBC Faculty of Arts.
> 
> LOCATION
> 
> Dom's talk will be the first at our new location for group of x
> get-togethers, thanks to Arne Eigenfeldt: at SFU downtown in the Goldcorp
> Centre for the Arts at 149 West Hastings street in room 3420, the third
> floor electroacoustic studio. There's great tech available here and more
> space than in my apartment. But food and drink are not permitted in the
> studio. After Dom's talk and the discussion, let's head over to Charles Bar
> (or wherever we figure would be good).
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> x mailing list
> x at vispo.com
> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com




From jim at vispo.com  Sat Sep 29 12:03:45 2012
From: jim at vispo.com (Jim Andrews)
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:03:45 -0700
Subject: [x] Friday Oct 12, 7pm at x: Joseph F. Keppler
Message-ID: <98E9A94F02F24D468B7CE8CF28AFF919@OwnerPC>

Seattle's Joe Keppler is a poet, sculptor, photographer, audio guy, and
critic. I met Joe in 1987 and produced a couple of radio shows about his
poetry and his magazine Poets.Painters.Composers. (one of which is at 
http://vispo.com/audio ). He was and is seriously engaged in multiple arts 
and media (sometimes in the same work), a polyartist, and was and is an 
intellectually voracious thinker and critic about art and politics. Joe's 
work and his exciting engagement with critical thought continue to be an 
inspiration to me and many people in Seattle and the northwest. I hope 
you'll join us at my place Friday Oct 12 at 7pm for a presentation by Joe to 
the group of x and discussion with him.

*******************************
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION
*******************************

Comparing words, images, ideas, and things with one another, Joseph F.
Keppler is presenting a conversation on Friday evening October 12th about
The Mallarm? Project, his text-and-visual essay (
http://eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/pdfs/Mallarme_Project.pdf ), which
examines a yearlong series of art exhibits and critical reviews in Seattle.
He is also showing a few images of recent sculptural work and bringing
several small "pocket" sculptures for the discussion. Images of four
sculptures from him are at http://vispo.com/guests/keppler/4sculptures.pdf .

Keppler intends to argue that contemporary art and criticism no longer
cohere; yet both are believed in with minimal attachment. He calls for a new
thinking about art, one that starts by drawing the trivium of grammar,
logic, and rhetoric into contemporary texts and art. Since the Renaissance
the trivium has gradually become a classical pedagogy to cure what ails
modern education, but it has profound applications for aesthetics and
politics. To ask, for example, what are the grammar, logic, and rhetoric of
a sculpture by Serra or Kapoor, or of a visual poem by Finlay or Nichol or
Andrews, or of common films or videos or news reports is, he feels, to begin
to apply thinking about the trivium to the critiquing and making of art; and
by doing so initiate a future for contemporary moves in politics. Using his
sculptures and his essay's verbal and visual contents, he addresses how
aesthetics and politics can and must change.

****
BIO
****

These Latin words, curriculum vitae, translate into English as course of
life, and a plural life has been my course ever since my mother and father
conceived me. My parents still are within me as are the intense fear and
love I experienced in my childhood and the tragedy and blessing of my early
education in the schools and streets of North Philadelphia. There seems no
singular agent in the course of my life, but as it were a collection of
people and spirits, acts and events that form this artist.

Although early in life I excelled at mathematics, at Temple University I
remember wondering about the purpose of my learning and wanting to study
liberal arts especially continental philosophy and being told by a
remarkable professor, who wrote on Structuralism, that the philosophy
department at Temple and most North American universities did not offer much
philosophy besides the sequelae of logical positivism and I should study
world literature and art instead. His advice I take even now and hungrily
study contemporary thinkers and artists.

To be a conscientious artist in American society I live quietly, thinking
and practicing art so as for art to be alive within me and yet to provide
for my wife, Jane, and our four children. With no regrets I make art and
also a living, the latter at a complicated, computer-oriented occupation
like many of my contemporaries.

My major work is sculpture, and our house and garden are punctuated with my
steel work. Before currently exhibiting sculptures at the SAM Gallery, my
favorite shows have been a two-person, Autumn 2011 exhibition at the
Rock/DeMent gallery in Pioneer Square and a Fall 2007 solo show at Form
Space Light Gallery in Fremont, for which I wrote a catalog essay entitled
Looking, Thinking, Reading, Writing, and Doing. My exhibition history as a
sculptor also includes smaller shows throughout Seattle and Portland and
several exhibitions dedicated to my deceased younger brother, Robert, and
his influence on me and our work together. Deep emotions resurge whenever I
think of him and our collaborations so fatefully cutoff by his accidental
drowning.

Drawing and painting are crucial to my sculpture and nourish my thoughts and
vision. I draw daily. Even now while going over this CV on a train ride
across the continent from Seattle to Montreal I draw the passing scenes to
study how differently landscape is perceived from a moving rather than a
stationary perspective. [The landscape seems to be the audience and the
train the film.] Correspondance (a sketchbook), a 2009 book of drawings
about other artists drawn solely using my laptop's word-processing software
can be viewed at: http://eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/pdfs/Correspondance.pdf

Writing is also something I do everyday. My history as a writer includes
years as a book reviewer for the Seattle Times, an audiobook reviewer for
the American Library Association, and a free lance critic for small art and
literary publications. My best poetry book is All the While a Child Counting
on Counting the Moon in Flight, published by nine muses books in 2003.
Currently I am a contributing editor for Eratio, an internet arts journal in
NYC. In the 2012 issue is my Mallarm? Project, an examination of a yearlong
series of art exhibits and writing projects prompted by St?phane Mallarm?'s
A Throw of the Dice and viewable at
http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/pdfs/Mallarme_Project.pdf .

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LINKS
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Mallarm? Project:
http://eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/pdfs/Mallarme_Project.pdf
Radio Profile: Border Crossing: http://vispo.com/audio
Four Sculptures: http://vispo.com/guests/keppler/4sculptures.pdf
Correspondence: http://eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/pdfs/Correspondance.pdf
Visual poems: http://vispo.com/guests/keppler
>From 'The Longest Days': http://speakeasy.org/~subtext/poetry/keppler

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LOCATION
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This event is at my place: #1502, 811 Helmcken street. I'm in The Imperial
Tower (!) at the corner of Howe and Helmcken. Buzz 247 to get in. If you are
coming by car, there is underground parking. If you are coming from
Granville street along Helmcken, you turn right into the alley between Howe
and Hornby. And go right at the first opportunity down into the basement.
Buzz 247 to get in. And then buzz 247 again when you are by the elevator to
get up to the 15th floor.

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UPCOMING X EVENTS
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Joseph F. Keppler, Fri Oct 12, 7pm, #1502, 811 Helmcken St
Ben Bogart, Fri Oct 26 7pm, 149 W Hastings rm 3420
Miles Thorogood, Fri Nov 30 7pm, 149 W Hastings rm 3420




