Research Colloquium at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology in Surrey presents

Maia Engeli

September 26, 2007 at 2:30 pm

SFU Surrey Campus, Room 5380 (5th Floor Galleria)

Title: ARS ELECTRONICA 2007 REVIEW

Abstract:

ARS ELECTRONICA is a major yearly festival addressing many aspects of "electronic art" held in Linz, Germany. This year's theme was "Goodbye Privacy". SIAT Assistant Professor Maia Engeli, just back from the festival, will present an overview of the various symposia and exhibitions of this year's event including images and videos of selected art works. Quoting from the website: “A new culture of everyday life is now upon us, bracketed by the angst-inducing scenarios of seamless surveillance and the zest we bring to staging our public personas via digital media. One in which everything seems to be public and nothing’s private anymore. Panopticon or consummate individual freedom of expression? At symposia, exhibitions, performances and interventions, the 2007 Ars Electronica Festival will delve into what the public and private spheres have come to mean and the interrelationship that now exists between them.”

http://www.aec.at/en/festival2007/

Bio:

Maia Engeli works in the area of telematic architectures for collaborative productive processes, learning, and entertainment and teaches in the areas of interactive media design, immersive environments and computer games. She is Assistant Professor at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at SFU. Until 2002 she was Assistant Professor and acting head of the chair for Architecture and CAAD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. In 2001 she published the book "bits and spaces" and in 2000 the book "Digital Stories - The Poetics of Communication".

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