[spectre] October on -Empyre- Anamorph/Semiomorph:Playspace/Playlife

[Michael Arnold Mages]

Anamorphosis. from Greek, from anamorphoun to transform, from morphe form,
shape]


aB      an image or drawing distorted in such a way that it becomes
       recognizable only when viewed in a specified manner or through
       a special device
bB      the process by which such images or drawings are produced
2B      the evolution of one type of organism from another by a series of
       gradual changes


Two artists  play through the possibilities in the next discussion on
Empyre.



Please join Eugenie Shinkle (CA/UK) and Troy Innocent (AU)


[ http://www.subtle.net/empyre ] beginning October 1


Empyre is pleased to host Eugenie and Troy in connection with Plaything
Symposium, Sydney, October 10-12, 2003  http://www.dlux.org.au/  presented
in partnership with, Sydney College of the Arts and the Media and
Communications Faculty at the University of Sydney.


Eugenie ponders affect and anamorphic in the rave-like world of touch
based computer games where Cartesian space loses ground to special devices
of touch and vision; and imagines an entranced VR that takes on the
materiality of the technology of vision, and the affectivity of looking.'



Troy explores 'semiotic morphism, a "systematic translation between sign
systems" in which signified messages can be mapped onto various
signifiers, multiplying and mutating instances of semiosis. The term
captures the shape-shifting plasticity of relationships between sound,
image, text, and users in virtual worlds; the interactions through which
meaning is made, transformed and remade dynamically and synaesthetically
in real time.'


Troy Innocent has been exploring new aesthetics enabled by computers since
1989.  Trained as a designer and practising as an artist,Innocent is
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Multimedia & Digital Arts at Monash
University, Melbourne. He is currently producing lifeSigns, an eco-system
of signs and symbols. Other recent works include Semiomorph (ISEA02,
Nagoya, Japan) and Iconica; trans'forms (Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne,
Australia)



Eugenie Shinkle, PhD lectures on in photographic theory and criticism in
the School of Media, Arts and Design at Westminster University, London,
UK.  A former civil engineer, Eugenie worked as a waterflow control
systems designer before dedicating herself to art practice and scholarship
in photography and video a photographer and video artist since 1991.


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