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Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - Arts & Events
Digital Artists-in-Residence Perform Live at WSU Vancouver
CONTACT:
- Dene Grigar, Digital Technology and Culture, 360-546-9487, grigar@vancouver.wsu
- Sheri Byrd, Office of Marketing and Communications, 360/546-9602, byrds@vancouver.wsu.edu
VANCOUVER, Wash. - The Digital Technology and Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver presents mmultimedia artists Julie Andreyev and Simon Lysander Overstall, talking about VJ Fleet, an interactive sound and video installation involving a fleet of customized cars. Their performance will be 5 p.m. Nov. 22 in front of the WSU Vancouver Administration Building. This event is free and open to the public.
VJ Fleet is a collaboration between the pair of artists in residence and students in the D TC program at WSU Vancouver. Video and audio representation of site, space and location in the city are interwoven with aspects of audiovisual representation that take their motivation from popular culture, specifically car culture and club culture.
VJ Fleet has technology that allows cars to record information from the city streets as they drive from WSU Vancouver to Grand Central and finally to North Bank Artists Gallery. Images and sounds produced by viewers at each of these sites are also incorporated.
Students in the class are also posting a daily dairy describing the development of the project at http://www.vjfleet.org.
More information about the WSU Vancouver Digital Technology and Culture program is available at http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/dtc.
WSU Vancouver is located at 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave., east of the 134th Street exit from either I-5 or I-205, or via C-Tran bus service. We offer 16 bachelor's degrees, nine master's degrees, one doctorate degree and more than 36 fields of study. Visit us on the Web at www.vancouver.wsu.edu.
Photo: VJ Fleet custumized performance digital art cars. Click thumbnail for high resolution image.
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