ART AND TECHNOLOGY EXHIBIT

May 22, 1995

STANFORD ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE ANNOUNCES FIRST PUBLIC EXHIBIT

Presented in conjunction with the Department of Drama's production of Laura Farabough's Real Original Theater, the exhibit will be open one hour before and after the performance. Admission to the exhibit is free of charge; tickets to Real Original Thinker may be purchased by calling 725-ARTS or at the door.

Works in the SATI exhibit include:

• A video compilation of robot choreography explorations by several designers and dance choreographers from 1978-1985, including Brenda Way's Invisible Cities, the full-scale dance performance piece integrating human dancers and robots, complete with computer music score. Invisible Cities was developed as a collaboration between Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), the dance company ODC/San Francisco, and the Department of Veteran Affairs Rehabilitation R&D Center. This SATI exhibit project is coordinated by Gayle Curtis of Stanford's Mechanical Engineering Design Division based on the vision of Professor Larry Leifer. It lends insight into the pioneering arts and technology work happening at Stanford in the 1970s and 1980s.

• R.J. Fleck of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) will contribute a documentation of Ephemeral Ceremony/Essential Epiphanies, a sonic installation integrating computer-generated music, voice, movement and physical environment. Ephemeral Ceremony/Essential Epiphanies, created by Fleck and fellow graduate student Stephanie Felton-Priestner of Product Design, was presented on Memorial Auditorium stage, May 16- 18.

• Barbara Hayes-Roth, a Senior Research Scientist in Computer Science, will exhibit "Animated Puppets," a live interactive system in which people can direct the improvisational behavior of animated characters in real time to create short stories. "Animated Puppets" was created to allow two children to work side by side, directing the movements and voices of two puppets so that together they improvise a story. However, instead of using their hands to physically move the puppets and their voices to speak for the puppets, the children make choices from a graphical user interface to direct the physical and verbal behavior of graphical puppets in an animated world. The puppets do the rest.

• Mark Scheef of Stanford's Mechanical Engineering Design Division will show his sculpture "25 columns", a 1/20 scale fully-functional model of a computer controlled public sculpture. The full-scale columns are designed to rise and fall over a month-long period, inviting both pedestrian participation and visual appeal.

• Artist and poet Edith Smith will create a multimedia space, "Goddess Continuum," where viewers stimulate motion sensors which activate images, synthetic and processed sounds.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A PREVIEW RECEPTION, TUESDAY, MAY 30 at 12 NOON IN THE NITERY THEATER AT THE OLD UNION ON THE STANFORD CAMPUS.