akron film presents: the artists guide to useful technology

Sunday, October 7th, 1:30-4:30pm
Akron Film is bringing Hans Tammen and Adam Rokhar, from the NYC-based media arts center Harvestworks, to the Akron Art Museum to present a free overview of the incredible creative possibilities of Max/MSP/Jitter and other visual programming languages.

This is for musicians, visual artists, installation artists, performers, programmers and people who like to mesh art and technology.

Adam Rokhsar is a multimedia artist with degrees in psychology from Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Music Information Retrieval Laboratory, and the head coordinator of NYU’s Music Technology student research groups. Adam designs sound for interactive installations, teaches computer music and video programming, and is working on a Master’s thesis on machine-learning algorithms. His sound design work can currently be heard in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, and his video work was displayed in the Jakopic Gallery as part of multimedia project Senza Televisione.

Hans Tammen is currently Deputy Director at Harvestworks, and is responsible for the oversight of all projects related to Max/MSP/Jitter and Physical Computing, as well as managing the education program and the studios. In this position he encounters the projects of approx. 250 clients, students and Artist In Residence per year. After an initial degree in Adult Education in 1988 he taught as an adjunct at Kassel University, and as part of his works as a union technology consultant from 1992 to 2000 he held about 120 one to five-day seminars using modern seminar techniques like metaplan, role-plays, and others. As a composer/guitarist he is best known for his “Endangered Guitar” works, interfacing his guitar with Max/MSP. Signal To Noise called his works “…a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage”, All Music Guide recommended him: “…clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s.”

“Sincerely, P.V. Reese” Makes Vimeo Short List

“Sincerely, P.V. Reese” by Philip B. Swift made the Vimeo Awards Short List and will be screening the opening night of the Akron Film Festival followed by Q&A with Philip Swift, Steve Bishop, Ted Mallison, Dan Van Auken, Gabe Schray, Dave Rich, and Beth Swift, all of whom are featured in the film.

Focusing on the hour long epic of a film “Dear Mothman,” created by a group of friends (in Akron) in 1998, “Sincerely, P.V. Reese” is a documentary about loss and immortality through films never meant to carry the weight they do in the aftermath of life.

Film Festival Schedule – Hot Sheet

Wanna know what’s when right now? And see some trailers! See the Akron Film Schedule At a Glance!

When Mums Are Lost:

I have a book called:
“When Mums Are Lost, Babies Still Follow”.
It’s a small book of artwork, photos and stories.

When Mums are Lost, Babies Still Follow by Kendra Minadeo

a quote on conceptual righteousness

This is a concept I have struggled with probably all my life:
The concept that there is no right or wrong.
I struggle with this because I want to be right all the time.
This quote helped me define a little bit about what that is.

“When I hear you, something buried deep in me is activated. I’m reminded of what’s possible. With that, I become reticent to continue living by the distinction good as opposed to the distinction evil. They’re both conceptual, they’re both merely interpretations. They’re useful, to a certain degree, for creating a context for living, for creating a certain moral framework at least. Yet moral frameworks bring in another set of distinctions: the distinction right as opposed to the distinction wrong, both of which are also conceptual, both of which are also merely interpretations.”

read full essay here.