[spectre] Dougls Davis at SCCA-Ljubljana

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WORLD OF ART 2001/2002 (educational program on contemporary arts)
Series of lectures Strategies of Presentation 2



                          A LECTURE OF DOUGLAS DAVIS


SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana is continuing with a series of
lectures within the World of Art program. Opening lecture of a new series
entitled Strategies of Presentation 2 was performed by Viktor Misiano,
Moscow based curator and critic.

Second lecture will be delivered by american artist and theoretitian Douglas
Davis. Lecture "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction or
moralpornography.com - part two" will take place on Thursday, 31st of
January at 7 pm in Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana.

Douglas Davis is a pioneer of video and new media art, theorist, educator,
performer, and consultant in digital media strategies. As an artist, he
specializes in making new media turn inside out--that is, do what it's not
supposed  to do (he makes video touch you, prints speak, the InterNet lie
down in your lap like a puppy).  In 1994 he created one of the first works
of WebArt to which both the general and the specialized public responded.
Since the 70's Davis has utitilized both advanced and traditional
technology, including interactive websites, intercontinental  performances
linking "real" and "virtual" sources, high-density volumetric imagery,
video-casting/installations, printmaking, drawing, and photography, as well
as post-minimal "objects" and installations. He pioneered the use of the
live satellite to create "long-distance art" in the Houston Astrodome in
1976. One year later, with Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik he helped to
create the first live global broadcast of video performance art in 1977, for
Documenta 6.

He has taught advanced media at more then 25 universities and art colleges
and published numerous books and texts on relation between art and
technology.

The lecture will present his life work and Davis promises to be very
interactive and also to cuddle with the audience!

THE LECTURE IS FREE OF CHARGE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC!

Kindly invited,

Sasa Glavan
director of the World of Art program