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INVITED
PRESENTERS
ArtSci 2001, Nov. 2-4,
2001
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Adrianne Wortzel
(artist)
Carl Weiman
(scientist)
Marcin Balicki
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A magic carpet flies and is so incredible that it is, in fact, difficult to believe. A true story, however, is harder to get off the ground.
Kiru, Wizard, Librarian and Master of Juxtapositions
- Camouflage Town
Camouflage Town was a theatrical telerobotic installation which lived in the Whitney Museum of American Art for the tenure of the exhibition Data Dynamics (March 20-June 10, 2001). Kiru, the robot, interacted both with visitors in the Whitney space and visitors on the web. The robot walked and talked autonomously, except when it was remotely controlled by visitors through the world wide web. Kiru played the role of a "cultural curmudgeon," interacting with visitors and contextualizing the exhibition through its comments on issues of "mapping" physical and virtual space and physical/virtual identity.
This work was commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and developed at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art with a grant from the National Science Foundation grant (Grant No.DUE 9980873) and support from the NSF Gateway Engineering Education Coalition at Cooper Union. The principals in this grant were Carl Weiman (scientist), Stan Wei (engineer) and Adrianne Wortzel (artist). In addition, Carl, Stan and Adrianne are principals in the development of the Robotic Renaissance Theater, a telerobotic theater space they are building at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
www.camouflagetown.tv
Adrianne Wortzel -
is an artist working with new technologies as web works, robotic installations and performance productions. Her full theatrical performance, Sayonara Diorama, was a performance production with robots, live performers and responsive remote performances via videoconferencing, produced via an Artist-in-Residence Grant at Lehman College Art Gallery in New York funded by the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts in 1998. She has also produced international performative webcasts, and was co-host and content provider for "Art Dirt" a weekly live video-streamed interview format webcast originating from Pseudo TV in New York. She is an Associate Professor of Advertising Design and Graphic Arts at New York City Technical College of the City University of New York and an Adjunct Professor at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her works are documented at
http://artnetweb.com/wortzel/
Adrianne Wortzel
19 East 7th Street, #5
New York, New York 10003
Phone: 212 477-1288
Fax: 212 477-0702
email: sphinx@camouflagetown.tv
http://artnetweb.com/wortzel/
Carl Weiman -
is currently Visiting Professor at Cooper Union where he team teaches an art-science collaboration course in Robotic Theater with Professor Adrianne Wortzel. His prior experience includes 11 years as Director of Research for HelpMate Robotics which manufactures mobile robots used in hospital transport throughout the U.S. In that capacity he was awarded nine patents and won $2M worth of grants from NASA and NSF for robot
vision systems.
His prior experience includes university teaching and curriculum development in Computer Science following his Ph.D. at Ohio State, Systems Engineer in Advanced Technology at flight simulation, and consulting in terrain models for flight training and demographic databases.
Dr. Weiman's current activities focus on art-science collaborations, Java, kayaking, guitar, and reading chaos theory.
Carl Weiman, Ph.D.
1 Brightfield Lane
Westport, CT 06880
Voice: (203) 221-7480
Fax: (203) 221-1138
http://carl_weiman.tripod.com
cweiman@optonline.net
Marcin Balicki -
Balicki received a BS in Interdisciplinary Engineering from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2001. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering there. His interests lie in multimedia installations and interactive robotics. He is currently involved in developing the Robotic Renaissance Project, a multi-agent robotics theater based at Cooper Union.
Marcin Balicki
87 Dobbin Street, Apt. 210
Brooklyn, New York 11222
646 621-6526
balick@cooper.edu
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