Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:54 PM CST
Computer-interactive exhibition premieres at Tarble Arts Center
By the JG/T-C
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CHARLESTON — A computer-based interactive art exhibition by international artist Pat Badani premieres Thursday at the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University.
A reception for the artist will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Badani will talk about her work starting at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and the public is invited.
Titled [in time time], this electronic media interactive installation by Badani will be on exhibition Jan. 18-Feb. 24 in the Tarble’s eGallery. This premiere was made possible by support from the Tarble Arts Center Fund of the EIU Foundation. It is one of two original works commissioned as part of this year’s Contemporary Currents series and to commemorate the Tarble Arts Center’s 25th anniversary.
The Contemporary Currents series events are co-sponsored with the EIU Art Department and funded in part by Tarble membership contributions, and by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Badani is an Argentinean-Canadian artist now living in Chicago. She works across several visual art media (video, digital, computer) to examine personal and collective territorial boundaries, and aspects of globalization such as migration, nomadism, translocal identities and language convergence. Badani studied at the University of Alberta (Canada) and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a full-time educator, researcher and lecturer.
[in time time] involves two new media time-based works — a video titled [8 bits] and an interactive computer animation titled [ping-pong-flow]. Rather than having a static image, as in a painting or a still photograph, time-based artworks have moving images, such as video, can involve performance or interaction, and often also incorporates sound.
[8 bits] is a documentary narrative based on interviews Badani had with her ailing 86-year-old father in Argentina. The video explores the relationship of memory to consciousness, and the essence of memory versus the accuracy of memory. The video is presented as a split-screen loop with sound on a monitor.
[ping-pong-flow] is a large-scale, projected, interactive animation. Visitors in the gallery interact with the computer-controlled, seemingly “thinking image” — an image that appears to have consciousness. It references a work with a similar title by performance video artist Valie Export.
The Tarble Arts Center, a division of the EIU College of Arts and Humanities, is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
The center is located on Ninth Street at Cleveland Avenue on the EIU campus in Charleston.
Open hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday. The Tarble is closed Mondays and Feb. 15.
For information call 581-ARTS (-2787), e-mail tarble@eiu.edu, or visit the Web site www.eiu.edu/~tarble.
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