Focus Group: Pure Data Workshop, Tuesday, 6/9, 4-6pm

Interested in the fusion of art, culture, and technology? Want to learn what pd can do for you and how you can create amazing projects, either on your own or with others? Then join our next PureData workshop to see innovative examples in the field and help you on your way.

PureData is a visual programming environment for handling media in realtime that was designed by Miller Puckette of the University of California San Diego. The third workshop in our focus group series will be lead by Amy Khoshbin and Christian Cerrito, protégés of Hans Christoph Steiner, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Interactive Telecommunications, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Amy Khoshbin is a Brooklyn based multimedia artist from Texas. Her visual work explores perceptions on both micro and macro levels. Amy's videos, sculptural objects, and wearable technologies question how we create meaning through memories, the senses, and unexpected narratives. A current work in progress, “You’re not brown, just tan,” investigates perceptions of cultural heritage through exploring childhood memories, family legacy, and media imagery. The project proposes new forms of hybridity via Iranian memory objects and videos created out of the material of the Texan suburbs where Amy grew up.

Amy has presented work at Exit Art, Participant Gallery, Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, South by Southwest, Blanton Art Museum and CinemaTexas International Film Festival, winning an Audience Award. Amy holds a masters’ degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, and received a BS with honors from The University of Texas in Film and Convergent Media. For Amy’s website please see: www.tinyscissors.com.

Christian Cerrito, who “likes to make stuff and build things,” has a background in drawing, jewelry design, animation, construction, and physical computing. He is interested in “social interactions” between simple machines, as well as cooperative human-machine art making. His work has been featured at DUMBO: Art Under the Bridge Festival (Brooklyn); The Pulse (Savannah); and CHI2009 (Boston). Cerrito completed his masters at New York University in Interactive Telecommunications and he has a BA in Sociology fro Tufts and a BFA in Studio Art from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. For Christian’s website see: http://www.artdesignwhatever.com/ArtDesignWhatever/Home.html.

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Gottesman Libraries and New Blankets, a non profit organization spear-headed by Joseph Deken of the University of California San Diego to develop new technologies and collaborative projects. You may bring your own laptop and headphones, or use equipment provided by the Gottesman Libraries. If you are interested in attending, please e-mail library@tc.edu in advance. Seating is limited fifteen persons.

Where: 305 Russell