From ben at ekran.org  Wed Apr 11 15:53:45 2018
From: ben at ekran.org (B. Bogart)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:53:45 -0700
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*Information about images and interviews is located below the PSA.*

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For release: April 6, 2018

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*Computers watch sci-fi films in Surrey Art Gallery?s TechLab *

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*Ben Bogart: Watching and Dreaming
April 14**?June 10**, 2018 | Opening Reception: April 14 | 6:30?9pm
Artists Conversation: June 2 | 2:30?4pm*

Visit Surrey Art Gallery?s newest TechLab exhibit to see what a machine
sees when it goes to the movies. In /Watching and Dreaming/, media
artist Ben Bogart programs computers to ?watch? classic sci-fi films by
breaking them apart and reconstructing them. Theresulting cinematic
experience challenges viewers to consider the role science fiction plays
in how we think about artificial intelligence and the constructed nature
of our own perceptions. /Ben Bogart: Watching and Dreaming/ launches
April 14 and runs until June 10 as part of Surrey Art Gallery?s spring
2018 programming. The exhibition is presented as part of the Capture
Photography Festival. Admission to Surrey Art Gallery is free.

As an artist and programmer, Bogart bridges the fields of art and
science. Using complex software algorithms, his machines break the
frames and sounds from three popular science fiction films into millions
of image and audio fragments: Stanley Kubrick?s /2001: A Space Odyssey/
(1968), Ridley Scott?s/Blade Runner /(1982), and Steven Lisberger?s
/TRON/ (1982). The computers group the fragments according to
similarities in size and colour to reconstruct a resemblance of the
original using this data. The results are abstract tapestries or
collages where the viewer may be able to pick out familiar forms,
characters, and props from the films such as the silhouette of a figure
walking through a darkened streetscape or sitting on a bright red couch.

Dialogue, music, and sound effects blend together into shifting and
halting soundscapes that parallel the mesmerizing imagery. Bogart says,
?The images and sounds are just at the threshold of readability. The
viewer constantly attempts to read the work as cinema, searching for
narrative and structure. At some point, this search becomes overwhelming
as the image ebbs and flows between readability and chaotic abstraction.?

The exhibition, comprised of three projected videos and three light
boxes, provides a thought-provoking meditation on the increasingly
blurry boundaries between humans and machines, the limits of cinema, and
the future of art. Through his multisensory art, Bogart invites the
gallery visitor to consider how machines can be a mirror through which
to reflect on what it means to be human.

*ABOUT THE ARTIST*

*?*

Ben Bogart <http://www.ekran.org/ben/wp/> is a Vancouver-based
interdisciplinary artist working with generative computational processes
including physical modelling, chaos, feedback systems, evolutionary
computation, computer vision, and machine learning. His work has been
inspired by the natural sciences, such as quantum physics and cognitive
neuroscience. Bogart has produced processes, artifacts, texts, images
and performances that have been presented at galleries, art festivals,
and academic conferences around the world. He has been an
artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre (Canada), the New Forms Festival
(Canada), and at Videotage (Hong Kong). Ben holds both master?s and
doctorate degrees from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at
Simon Fraser University.

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*RELATED EVENTS *(admission is free)

*?*

*Opening Reception*

*Saturday, April 14 | 6:30**?**9pm*

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Celebrate the opening of /Ben Bogart: Watching and Dreaming/, along with
our other spring exhibitions /Flow: From the Movement of People to the
Circulation of Information /and /Elizabeth Hollick: Body Politic/. A
talk with exhibiting artist Elizabeth Hollick will start at 6:30pm. The
reception at 7:30pm will include a performance by Chun Hua Catherine
Dong in partnership with local collective AgentC Projects called
?Undocumented?.Dong?s performance evokes the experience of migration,
the regulation of borders, and aesthetics of administration.

*?*

*Artists Conversation
Saturday, June 2 | 2:30?4pm*

*?*

Exhibiting artists Ben Bogart and Jim Bizzocchi will talk about their
practices in a conversation facilitated by Surrey Art Gallery curator
Jordan Strom. They?ll discuss the role of computer programming and image
choices, generative art, ambient video, and the histories of abstraction
in art and film.

?

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Surrey Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of
the City of Surrey, Province of BC through BC Arts Council, Canada
Council for the Arts, and the Surrey Art Gallery Association.

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Surrey Art Gallery is located at 13750-88 Avenue, Surrey, BC, Canada.
604-501-5566 |?surrey.ca/artgallery <http://www.surrey.ca/artgallery>

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HOURS: Tues-Thur 9am-9pm | Fri 9am-5pm | Sat 10am-5pm | Sun 12-5pm |
Closed Mondays and holidays.

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-END-

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*NOTE*

If you are linking to Surrey Art Gallery?s website, please use our
vanity URL:?surrey.ca/artgallery <http://www.surrey.ca/artgallery>

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*IMAGES*

This is the link to images and a photo of the artist:
https://mft.surrey.ca/?ShareToken=41F8B436AAAF479F7B1A297B4F99CE51BFC19B5A

Note the link expires June 30, 2018.

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If you choose to use any of the artwork images:

????????? You?ll find the credits in a pdf document.

????????? You?ll find the?Digital Image Use Requirements in the folder.
Use of images of artworks assumes that you?ve read and will follow these
requirements.

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*INTERVIEWS*

Ben Bogart is available for interviews. He can be reached at
604-677-3450 or ben at ekran.org <mailto:ben at ekran.org>

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CHARLENE BACK | COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR

*CITY OF SURREY*

Surrey Art Gallery & Surrey Public Art

13750 - 88 Ave, Surrey, BC, Canada V3W 3L1

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From lic at telus.net  Thu Apr 12 08:54:34 2018
From: lic at telus.net (Julie Andreyev)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 06:54:34 -0700
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Congratulations Ben!

Julie Andreyev
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> On Apr 11, 2018, at 1:53 PM, B. Bogart <ben at ekran.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> 
> *Information about images and interviews is located below the PSA.*
> 
> *cid:image001.png at 01D3B082.C26E4540***
> 
>  
> 
> For release: April 6, 2018
> 
>  
> 
> *Computers watch sci-fi films in Surrey Art Gallery?s TechLab *
> 
> * *
> 
> *Ben Bogart: Watching and Dreaming
> April 14**?June 10**, 2018 | Opening Reception: April 14 | 6:30?9pm
> Artists Conversation: June 2 | 2:30?4pm*
> 
> Visit Surrey Art Gallery?s newest TechLab exhibit to see what a machine
> sees when it goes to the movies. In /Watching and Dreaming/, media
> artist Ben Bogart programs computers to ?watch? classic sci-fi films by
> breaking them apart and reconstructing them. Theresulting cinematic
> experience challenges viewers to consider the role science fiction plays
> in how we think about artificial intelligence and the constructed nature
> of our own perceptions. /Ben Bogart: Watching and Dreaming/ launches
> April 14 and runs until June 10 as part of Surrey Art Gallery?s spring
> 2018 programming. The exhibition is presented as part of the Capture
> Photography Festival. Admission to Surrey Art Gallery is free.
> 
> As an artist and programmer, Bogart bridges the fields of art and
> science. Using complex software algorithms, his machines break the
> frames and sounds from three popular science fiction films into millions
> of image and audio fragments: Stanley Kubrick?s /2001: A Space Odyssey/
> (1968), Ridley Scott?s/Blade Runner /(1982), and Steven Lisberger?s
> /TRON/ (1982). The computers group the fragments according to
> similarities in size and colour to reconstruct a resemblance of the
> original using this data. The results are abstract tapestries or
> collages where the viewer may be able to pick out familiar forms,
> characters, and props from the films such as the silhouette of a figure
> walking through a darkened streetscape or sitting on a bright red couch.
> 
> Dialogue, music, and sound effects blend together into shifting and
> halting soundscapes that parallel the mesmerizing imagery. Bogart says,
> ?The images and sounds are just at the threshold of readability. The
> viewer constantly attempts to read the work as cinema, searching for
> narrative and structure. At some point, this search becomes overwhelming
> as the image ebbs and flows between readability and chaotic abstraction.?
> 
> The exhibition, comprised of three projected videos and three light
> boxes, provides a thought-provoking meditation on the increasingly
> blurry boundaries between humans and machines, the limits of cinema, and
> the future of art. Through his multisensory art, Bogart invites the
> gallery visitor to consider how machines can be a mirror through which
> to reflect on what it means to be human.
> 
> *ABOUT THE ARTIST*
> 
> * *
> 
> Ben Bogart <http://www.ekran.org/ben/wp/> is a Vancouver-based
> interdisciplinary artist working with generative computational processes
> including physical modelling, chaos, feedback systems, evolutionary
> computation, computer vision, and machine learning. His work has been
> inspired by the natural sciences, such as quantum physics and cognitive
> neuroscience. Bogart has produced processes, artifacts, texts, images
> and performances that have been presented at galleries, art festivals,
> and academic conferences around the world. He has been an
> artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre (Canada), the New Forms Festival
> (Canada), and at Videotage (Hong Kong). Ben holds both master?s and
> doctorate degrees from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at
> Simon Fraser University.
> 
>  
> 
> *RELATED EVENTS *(admission is free)
> 
> * *
> 
> *Opening Reception*
> 
> *Saturday, April 14 | 6:30**?**9pm*
> 
>  
> 
> Celebrate the opening of /Ben Bogart: Watching and Dreaming/, along with
> our other spring exhibitions /Flow: From the Movement of People to the
> Circulation of Information /and /Elizabeth Hollick: Body Politic/. A
> talk with exhibiting artist Elizabeth Hollick will start at 6:30pm. The
> reception at 7:30pm will include a performance by Chun Hua Catherine
> Dong in partnership with local collective AgentC Projects called
> ?Undocumented?.Dong?s performance evokes the experience of migration,
> the regulation of borders, and aesthetics of administration.
> 
> * *
> 
> *Artists Conversation
> Saturday, June 2 | 2:30?4pm*
> 
> * *
> 
> Exhibiting artists Ben Bogart and Jim Bizzocchi will talk about their
> practices in a conversation facilitated by Surrey Art Gallery curator
> Jordan Strom. They?ll discuss the role of computer programming and image
> choices, generative art, ambient video, and the histories of abstraction
> in art and film.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Surrey Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of
> the City of Surrey, Province of BC through BC Arts Council, Canada
> Council for the Arts, and the Surrey Art Gallery Association.
> 
>  
> 
> Surrey Art Gallery is located at 13750-88 Avenue, Surrey, BC, Canada.
> 604-501-5566 | surrey.ca/artgallery <http://www.surrey.ca/artgallery>
> 
>  
> 
> HOURS: Tues-Thur 9am-9pm | Fri 9am-5pm | Sat 10am-5pm | Sun 12-5pm |
> Closed Mondays and holidays.
> 
>  
> 
> -END-
> 
>  
> 
> *NOTE*
> 
> If you are linking to Surrey Art Gallery?s website, please use our
> vanity URL: surrey.ca/artgallery <http://www.surrey.ca/artgallery>
> 
>  
> 
> *IMAGES*
> 
> This is the link to images and a photo of the artist:
> https://mft.surrey.ca/?ShareToken=41F8B436AAAF479F7B1A297B4F99CE51BFC19B5A
> 
> Note the link expires June 30, 2018.
> 
>  
> 
> If you choose to use any of the artwork images:
> 
> ?         You?ll find the credits in a pdf document.
> 
> ?         You?ll find the Digital Image Use Requirements in the folder.
> Use of images of artworks assumes that you?ve read and will follow these
> requirements.
> 
>  
> 
> *INTERVIEWS*
> 
> Ben Bogart is available for interviews. He can be reached at
> 604-677-3450 or ben at ekran.org <mailto:ben at ekran.org>
> 
>  
> 
> CHARLENE BACK | COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
> 
> *CITY OF SURREY*
> 
> Surrey Art Gallery & Surrey Public Art
> 
> 13750 - 88 Ave, Surrey, BC, Canada V3W 3L1
> 
> T 604.591.4205 | _www.surrey.ca/artgallery
> <http://www.surrey.ca/artgallery> _ 
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