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From: "Govan, Jennifer" Govan@exchange.tc.columbia.edu Date: June 1, 2009 2:45:00 PM EDT Subject: Invitation: Pure Data Workshop, with Amy Khoshbin &
Christian Cerrito, Tuesday, 6/9, 4-6pmThe Gottesman Libraries invites you to attend a
PureData Workshop
Conducted by
Amy Khoshbin & Christian Cerrito
Tuesday, June 9, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
The Gottesman Libraries Room 305 Teachers College, Columbia University 525 West 120th Street
RSVP by Thursday, June 4 to library@tc.edu
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 (Bosto).
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 ofFine 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.
Please note that seating is limited to fifteen persons.Individuals with disabilities are invited to request reasonable
accommodations, including, but not limited to sign language
interpretation, Braille or large print materials, and a campus map
of accessible features. Address these requests to the Office of
Access and Services for Individuals with Disabilities at (212)
678-3689, keller@tc.edu, or Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at
(212) 678-3853 VTTY, jaech@tc.edu.
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an
idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps
it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into
the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself
of it. - Thomas Jefferson
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