You are invited to Lectures & Workshops by 2018-19 CSB Sterling Visiting Artist, Joel Slayton, on Art Think!
Lectures and Workshops schedule:
1st Lecture: Monday, March 18, 2019, Munzer Auditorium, 2-4 pm
2nd Lecture: Thursday, March 21, 2019 , Munzer Auditorium, 2-4 pm
1st Workshop: Tuesday, March 19, 2019, CCSR room 4205, 8 am to 5 pm
2nd Workshop: Wednesday, March 20, 2019, CCSR room 4205, 8 am to 5 pm
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Lecture 1: Art Think
The problems that keep you up at night aren’t the easy ones. In fact, what keeps you up at night might well be hidden, intangible or unexpressed. Problems that require drawing on one’s best creative sensibility. Often the most significant discoveries are those that emerge from thinking outside the box. Not as easy as it sounds.
This lecture unpeels the nature of ArtThink via survey of both personal and curated works at the intersection of art and technology that illuminate the relationship between creativity and innovation.
Lecture 2: Expanding Vision
This lecture explores innovative artworks that challenge us to think about the importance of ‘being creative’ in all that we do, the role of being trans-disciplinary, and the need for directed play. Outcomes from the workshops will be presented.
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Workshops
Day one and two are sequential in terms of building on a process. It is recommended that participants enjoy both.
Workshop 1: You Don’t See What You Don’t See
Being deeply creative requires letting go of assumptions so as to encourage a shift in awareness and perspective.
Three facilitated exercises will introduce how expectation often influence what is perceived (sight and sound) and how creativity opens the mind to new possibilities. A surprisingly fun technology that requires interpretation as to function is introduced to challenge the imagination, encourage play, and experimentation setting the stage for Day 2 Workshop.
Workshop 2: What is it?
This workshop is focused on thinking outside the box and being creative for creativities sake. Participants will make an original highly personalized sculpture as nest or cradle for the technology introduced in Workshop produced from a vast array of electronic components, misc. hardware, lab supplies, and natural materials. The goal is to emphasize what open-ended creativity looks like. No electronic experience is necessary.
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Biography
Joel Slayton is a pioneering artist and curator. His professional activities explore contemporary culture and emerging media technologies. Slayton is Professor Emeritus at San Jose State University where he founded the CADRE Laboratory for New Media in 1984, one of the earliest new media laboratories in the US. Professor Slayton is on the Board of Directors of LEONARDO/International Society for Art, Science and Technology and is a Senior Fellow at the Silicon Valley American Leadership Forum.
Slayton’s artwork has been featured in more than 100 exhibitions around the world including Berlin, Linz, Buenos Aires, Auckland, and New York. Slayton is recipient of numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Arts, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State, and the inaugural Silicon Valley Nexus Award for Art and Technology sponsored by Adobe and awarded by SVCreates.
From 2008-2016 he served as Executive Director of ZERO1, a Silicon Valley-based arts organization host for 4 international art biennials that featured more than 600 artists from 45 countries. In 2018 Joel Slayton curated the LAST Festival (Life, Art, Science, and Technology) hosted at the SLAC National Accelerator and sponsored by Stanford University. His recent initiative, CitizenSticks, was featured at the 50thConvening of Leonardo/ISASt (International Society of Art, Science and Technology).