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Andy Holtin : How to Fit as Many Steps as Possible Into Ideas that Started Out Really Simple

Working on his new project "Glance" allowed Andy to explore and employ a surprisingly wide variety of processes, both artistically and technically. He'll be sharing his obstacles and the solutions they generated.

Atau Tanaka : Current research

Atau will talk about his current research in Mobile and Locative Media Art, Interactive Performance, and Creative practice on Public Displays.

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Andy Holtin : How to Fit as Many Steps as Possible Into Ideas that Started Out Really Simple

Working on his new project "Glance" allowed Andy to explore and employ a surprisingly wide variety of processes, both artistically and technically. He'll be sharing his obstacles and the solutions they generated.

Andy Holtin is a master builder, professor of art and a sculptor working with computer and microcontroller based performative sculpture whose work was recently featured on the Make Blog. He received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Sculpture and Exended Media program. His work uses technological systems to create perfomative objects and interactive installations, incorporating an exploratory range of materials and processes. Holtin currently works as half of the collaborative duo CausalityLabs, pursuing projects that explore mechanism as metaphor for human experience and perception.

His work has been exhibited internationally at locations including Galerie35, Berlin, Germany; Vienna's Museums Quartier; Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo, Ecuador; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; Planetario Alfa Science and Culture Museum, Mexico; and nationally at museums, galleries, and universities from New York to Portland to Florida. Holtin is currently Assistant Professor of Sculpture and coordinator of the Sculpture area at American University, addressing traditional media as well as installation formats, kinetic and interactive systems, and digital audio and video.

Atau Tanaka : Current research

Atau will talk about his current research in Mobile and Locative Media Art, Interactive Performance, and Creative practice on Public Displays

Atau bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and research. He worked at IRCAM, was Artistic Ambassador for Apple France, and was researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, and was an Artistic Co-Director of STEIM in Amsterdam. Atau creates sensor-based musical instruments for performance, and is known for his work with biosignal interfaces. He seeks to harness collective musical creativity in mobile environments, seeking out the continued place of the artist in democratized digital forms. His work has been presented at Ars Electronica, SFMOMA, Eyebeam, V2, ICC, and ZKM and has been mentor at NESTA.

Recent publications include chapters in "Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen" (Springer), and "Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media" (Routledge). He is co-editor with Frauke Behrendt, Lalya Gaye, and Nicolaj Kirisits of "Creative Interactions: The Mobile Music Workshops 2004-2008" (di:'Angewandte). In his practice, he has recently re-created at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary art, on a commission from the AV Festival 2008, and in collaboration with *zoviet:france*, Matt Wand, and the John Cage Trust, "Variations VII" by John Cage after the historic 1966 Armory performances of E.A.T.'s 9 Evenings.