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Greg Garvey:
Artist Talk & Presentation
Thursday 04 March 2010
6.30pm: Doors & Bar
7.00pm: Artist Talk
At: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington St, Brighton BN1 4AJ
Entry: FREE
 
Join us at Lighthouse for an inspiring evening of discussion and presentation with Professor Greg Garvey, American artist and esteemed academic whose interactive digital art installations have been exhibited across the US and Europe. During February and March 2010, Garvey will be staying in Brighton where he will be pursuing research as artist in residence at the University of Sussex’s Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR). Garvey’s creative production ranges from digital prints, interactive installations, and published articles all of which explore the intersections between the real and the virtual.
In his presentation at Lighthouse, Garvey will show examples of early installation projects such as “Labyrinthos” at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, the widely exhibited “Automatic Confession Machine: A Catholic Turing Test”, “Anita und Clarence in der Hölle; An Opera for Split Brains in Modular Parts” and more recent work that employ touch sensitive interfaces such as “Touching the Sacred and the Profane,” where a viewer can interactively switch from religious images to “Bollywood” music videos creating a mash-up of aesthetic intentions. He will end his presentation with a discussion of his recent research into the psychiatric effects of immersion in virtual worlds such as Second Life.
Greg Garvey’s research interests have taken him to the UK, India, Japan, China, Australia, Russia, Austria and elsewhere. He has exhibited interactive digital art installations in the US, Canada and Europe. His work has been written about in publications as varied as Wired Magazine and the National Geographic Magazine. His academic responsibilities are diverse as his research, teaching courses in introductory digital design, web site design, sound design, 2D motion graphics, 3D computer animation and he supervises students using the university’s unique Motion Analysis Motion Capture lab for computer animation.
Previously at Quinnipiac University he was the Visiting Fellow in the Arts and also was an Associate Artist of the Digital Media Center for the Arts at Yale University. Prior to joining Quinnipiac University he was Chair of the Department of Design Art at Concordia University in Montreal and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Montreal Design Institute. He received a Masters of Science in Visual Studies degree from MIT and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT from 1983-85. He also has a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He was born in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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