Playground Series II -  "High" Tech

Anyways Here's the Thing is a New York based creative agency specialized in interactive installations and new media arts.

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Anyways, Here's the Thing and Discourse are glad to present Playground Series II -  ”High” Tech
“High tech” would seem, at first glance, to be simply a matter of more technology. However, Martin Heidegger, a great Continental philosopher once discovered that in the Greek root of technology, techne — is generally translated as “art,” “skill,” or “craft”.  The relationship between art and technology, so visible in the Greek techne, has always been basic to technology, to its “essence”. “Blinded” by the industrial revolution and capitalism movement, modern technology has been concerned solely with functionality, mechanical reproduction, controlling and being controlled. Today, we start to see that once again, technology is being exposed to matters of representation, aesthetics, and style. The essence of technology becomes a matter of ongoing change or movement that is about “unsecuring”, “revealing” ,“unleashing” and “dismantling”. It's indeterministic, permeable, open-ended in nature, just like the Greek Techne - Art
We are excited to have <A HREF="http://www.studioamelia.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Amelia Winger-Bearskin</A>, <A HREF="http://www.cosmicharding.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jesse Harding</A> and <A HREF="http://www.caoyuxi.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Yuxi Cao</A> to join us for the night. They will share with us their experiments on “bewitching” modern technology, and bestowing “Low” tech with the enchanted aura of the aesthetic realm where it once belonged - “High” tech.
 
Speakers:
<A HREF="http://www.studioamelia.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Amelia Winger-Bearskin</A>
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ITP Alum. Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an accomplished artist and creative technologist. She is currently the director of New Rochelle New York’s art and technology initiative SIM: Shifting Imaginative Media. Amelia is also part of Facebook’s Oculus Launchpad, and co-founder of Stupid Hackathon, which now holds events around the world.
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<A HREF="http://www.cosmicharding.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jesse Harding</A> 
Artist, craftsman, and part-time lecturer in the Design & Technology program at Parsons.
Current projects: Unpainting, vertigo mirror, foam printer
 
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<A HREF="http://www.caoyuxi.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Yuxi Cao</A>
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Cao Yuxi (James), Founder of AxiStudio, Associate Artist based in 3LD Art&Technology, CAFA & SVA Alum. His works are usually generated into the spectrum of sound-visualization performance, programming & computing media, Interactive Art and most especially where those area meets.
 
Door opens at 7:30PM. Talk starts at 8PM.
This event is held and curated by Anyways, Here's the Thing and Discourse

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