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Exhibition at OCMA opens this Thursday -> 2007-05-13 | 16:20
I've got a piece in an exhibition that opens this week. It will be up all summer through August, so if you can't make the opening stop by some other time.
Art at a mall in the OC!!! Can't beat it...
Eric Kabisch
Sonic Panoramas, 2005
Enter a 360° photographic panorama, immersed in scenes of California landscape. As you move through the space your body is a musical instrument, translating the image into rhythms, melodies and harmonies with those around you. Your musical movements are accompanied by visual traces, highlighting the relationship between physical landscape, image landscape, and sonic landscape.
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Imaging the City workshop at CHI 2007 -> 2007-02-02 | 02:11
I received word that my position paper to the Imaging the City workshop was accepted. Looks like it should be a really interesting workshop and it will take me to the lovely city of San Jose (CA unfortunately, not Chile). http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/cdisalvo/chi2007workshop/ |
Thesis! Graduation! -> 2006-09-12 | 03:06
Yesterday I successfully defended my master's thesis and today I filed it with the library. I am officially graduated! A MFA (master of the f'ing arts).
You can find the document here:
Landscape Denatured: Digitizing the Wild
http://e.fluxt.com/thesis/ |
datascape -> 2006-05-22 | 05:14
Here's an image of the first installation of my new work, datascape.
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Thesis Exhibition, Thursday May 18! -> 2006-05-08 | 22:34
My MFA thesis exhibition opens next week. Ahhh! Hopefullly my installation goes OK.
Umweltforshöw
Arts, Computation and Engineering thesis exhibition
http://ace.uci.edu/umwelt/
May 18-27, 2006
Opening reception: Thursday May 18, 6-9 pm
Beall Center for Arts and Technology, UC Irvine
Directions and hours:
http://beallcenter.uci.edu/contact/directions.php
Datascape
- Eric Kabisch
Datascape is concerned with the ways in which digital geospatial technologies and associated datasets come to define space, geography and culture. A persicope-like input and display device provides a rotating view into an alternate 3D representation of the physical world. The overtly digital view into the data world reveals not the physical world as built, but the underlying datasets which control how we understand, represent and come to build the world. Datascape is particularly interested in demographic marketing segmentation and how consumer profile generalizations come to define cultural and behavioral practices. This installation simulates the system's use in a moving vehicle. As users travel through space, they are presented with a moveable window into the surrounding data world. Terrain visualization provides grounding in the physical world, while other non-physical data are experienced as an overlaid environment of sonic and visual structures. |
Talk at UCLA -> 2006-04-22 | 00:12
I'll be giving a brief talk on my latest project Datascape at UCLA Kinross building on Friday April 28. There is an all-day conference for the UC Digital Arts Research Network graduate student exchange. My talk is scheduled for 11:30... more info here: |
Soundwalk 2005 -> 2005-08-02 | 17:55
I will be participating in Soundwalk 2005 in Long Beach, CA. My sonic landscapes piece will be at Koo's Gallery for the opening and will be displayed for a month through September 7 or so.
LONG BEACH, CA- On August 20th, 2005, the Long Beach artist group, FLOOD presents SoundWalk2005, the second annual SoundWalk event with 60 contributing artists from Southern California, Germany, Italy, UK, and New Zealand. The art follows the concept of a one-night audible/visual experience of sound installations in a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces throughout the East Village Arts District in Downtown Long Beach. Furthermore, performances will be scheduled throughout the month of August for sound artists with exhibited work in this year’s event. The artwork includes a wide variety of combinations with visual and audible components. There will be sculptures, environments, installations, and performances. It is the variety of work that makes the event memorable for all who visit.
Independent from our organized events, some of the local galleries will also feature sound related art in August.
WHAT: Sound Art Event "SoundWalk2005", a one-night event of sound installations by over 50 local and international sound artists. Select works will be on exhibit from August 13th thru September 7th.
WHERE: Throughout the area encompassed by Broadway, Atlantic Avenue, Ocean Boulevard, and Elm Street in the East Village Arts District of Downtown Long Beach. The art is exhibited in a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces.
WHEN: Saturday, August 20th, 2005 from 5 - 10 pm
Opening Reception, 5-6pm at Koo's, 540 E. Broadway
Closing Reception, 10pm at Basement Lounge, 149 Linden Ave. (B-100)
ADMISSION: Free
PARKING: Metered parking is available on the street, Free parking is available in the SST parking lot at the SW corner of 4th Street and Linden Ave.
SoundWalk2005
SoundWalk is an annual art event produced by the Long Beach artist group, FLOOD
as a variation on the "ArtWalk" events that happen every 2nd Saturday in the Arts
District. Last years inaugural program, SoundWalk2004 with 30 participating artists, was enthusiastically embraced by artists and viewers alike. Close to a thousand visitors had joined us for the evening. Many of the visitors had no prior encounter with sound art as sound installations and their responses to the event were overwhelmingly excited.
This year, we offer another environmental experience with new and returning artists participating in the alteration of this familiar urban space. The outdoor sound installations add a layer to and perform in concert with the sounds of the city, thus altering and intermingling with the ambience of their locations. Unlikely combinations of the ordinary and the extraordinary become chance encounters for the attending public. Galleries and stores within the Arts District will accommodate a variety of indoor installations in uncommon intersections of art and commerce. The evening of sound installations will not only be an exciting moment of transformed perception, but a chance to rethink our sensory engagement with the spaces in which we function. ! |
Brasilia -> 2005-07-19 | 13:02
We just packed our bags and checked out of our hotel in Brasilia, ready for the trip to Rio. Brasilia is quite possibly the strangest city either of us has seen... a young city built in just four years, planned and designed to be a hub of brasilian diplomatic and cultural activity, but is a city that just didn´t quite happen. Interesting architecture and expansive "green" spaces which were envisioned to be bustling parks and common areas, but have actually just become sprawling fields of red dirt that make it a lot more tedious to get from place to place. The Brasilians however are wonderful and kind, as everyone had told us. They all seem to really appreciate the little amount of Portuguese we actually do speak... it´s amazing that most tourists do not even make an attempt.
We had a quite long journey to get here but it was actually so bad. We had the chance for a brief visit in Miami (during our six hour layover) with Liz´s dad who very graciously took us for cuban food and a tour of coconut grove and south beach. then to sao paulo then brasilia. our first day we had a very interesting trip to brasilia national park where we got pee-ed at by capuchun monkeys... said to be the most intelligent next to chimps. Our voyage was not without incident as we had a rough time figuring out the rodovario (bus station). We met some very cool brasilians on the way back who were also going to the conference.
We´ve spent time since then bouncing between the society for conservation biology conference and the various related parties they are throwing. Also have hit some local joints for cervejas e caiparinias. I also met with some great faculty and students at the universidade de brasilia in the arts department as well as meeting some excellent new friends and contacts at the conference.
Much more to tell but no more time to write. Will update again as soon as possible!
xoxo
Eric and Liz
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Cal(IT)2 building opening -> 2004-11-24 | 22:38
A harried start toward the interactive sound environment concept I've been working on for a while was debuted at the California Institue of Telecommunications and Information Technology grand opening. The project was a collaboration with Amanda Williams with support from Paul Dourish. It turned out pretty well and puts me in the direction I would like to head with the concepts that many of you have seen in my previous demos. I will be posting further documentation soon, but for the meantime here's a guy who wrote some of the visual effects software for the original Star Wars playing with our light saber! And here's Amanda and me. |
I are a college student -> 2004-10-24 | 21:55
School has begun and I've gotten my class schedule narrowed. Taking the following classes:
Machine Art and the Aesthetics of Behavior
Ubiquitous Computing
Emotion: Performance Theory
Seminar in Information Visualization
Capoeira (gotta stay connected to the ground somehow!)
I've also added a page where I will outline and update my academic endeavors. |
Unexpected Cargo -> 2004-05-07 | 00:54
we were out to santa cruz island last weekend. it was a fantastic time. though, unbeknownst to me i carted a deer mouse back to the mainland in my backpack. by the time i found out it was dead, rotting, and maggot-infested. as i was unloading my backpack i was taking these huge breaths of air trying to figure out what the smell was. i did not have time to gag however upon finding the carcass because another thought hit me immediately... the prevalance of hauntavirus in channel island deer mice! so i had a little freak out, sanitized everything i owned, etc. so far no respiratory failure... |
Lama says UCI (I'm gonna UCI) -> 2004-04-22 | 15:02
Not being proficient in the art of decision-making, I was engaged in deep deliberations when facing the deadline last week for accepting admission offers into graduate school. With the beads of sweat staining my headband, insomnia-filled nights, decisions made then decisions changed. Then Saturday morning as Liz and I were discussing the decision over crepes and coffee, the answer came on the front page of the LA Times. There on the front page is a picture of the Dalai Lama wearing a UC Irvine visor. I had asked for a sign from god and it came from the 14th incarnation of Bhudda! This in syncronicity with my past connection with his holiness through Bloomington connections. |
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