[x] PSA: Computers watch sci-fi films in Surrey Art Gallery’s TechLab (Apr 14, Surrey Art Gallery)

Thu Apr 12 08:54:34 CDT 2018

Congratulations Ben!

Julie Andreyev
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> On Apr 11, 2018, at 1:53 PM, B. Bogart <ben at ekran.org> wrote:
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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*
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.”
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> 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.
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> *ABOUT THE ARTIST*
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> 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)
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> *Opening Reception*
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> *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.
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> *Artists Conversation
> Saturday, June 2 | 2:30−4pm*
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> 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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> *IMAGES*
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> This is the link to images and a photo of the artist:
> https://mft.surrey.ca/?ShareToken=41F8B436AAAF479F7B1A297B4F99CE51BFC19B5A
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> Note the link expires June 30, 2018.
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> If you choose to use any of the artwork images:
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> ·         You’ll find the credits in a pdf document.
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> ·         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*
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> 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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