Sound and Vision
Reva Stone
Reva Stone
Laurel Point Inn
1pm, Sunday, January 29
Reva Stone is a Canadian artist well known for her work with digital technologies. She has worked with video, net.art, interactive installations, robotics, responsive 3D environments, and currently is working with voice and face recognition technologies. For more than 10 years Reva Stone has been investigating western culture’s drive to model, simulate, engineer and manipulate biological life. Living matter is being revealed as increasingly mutable, she says, “I have responded to the technologization of living matter by creating works that seem to mutate, evolve and respond with a life of their own. I situate my work at the increasingly blurred boundary between what is born and what is manufactured, what is animate and what is inanimate.” Reva Stone has exhibited her work internationally and is also active as a curator, a writer, an educator and a mentor to artists through MAWA, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art. Although she is based in Winnipeg, she has relocated to BC for three months during her tenure as an artist in residence at the TechLab at the Surrey Art Gallery.
Website: http://www.revastone.ca
Media example
View Quicktime movie: Imaginal Expression
For her presentation, Reva Stone will provide an overview of her practice, including documentation of her recent work, Imaginal Expression, currently on exhibit at the Surrey Art Gallery until April 2. This viewer activated, computer-generated, real-time animated, 3D environment uses 3D imagery based on protein molecules, wrapped with scanned imagery from the human body - flesh, hair, blood vessels, bruises and scars. As people are sensed in the Gallery, the molecular components begin to animate to form a molecule, to mutate, and follow the movement of the visitor. When the visitor leaves, the molecule begins to degenerate. The artwork utilizes two computers joined with a router, two ATI Radeon 9700 Pro cards, a computer visioning system, and four video projectors.
Reva Stone will also provide an introduction to the project she is currently developing while working as an Artist in Residence in the TechLab. Exchange combines voice and face recognition software, video capture and graphics to create a work that appears to have sentience.
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