Steve DiPaola came to the Upgrade to talk about Digital Portraiture in the Age of Virtuality. DiPaola demonstrated his authoring process and final still, installation and performance works centered around finding a new meaning for abstract portraiture in a new media context. From his 1988 Kraftwerk art
video work, to new works that use AI to extract emotion from music, that
drive spherically projected portrait installations, or that evolve a family tree
of portrait painting programs, Steve's work delves into human-ness versus
artifact in new media portraiture. He will also talk to art-research
practice and mixing new media art with communication and education systems.
Steve DiPaola
As both an active artist and scientist, Steve DiPaola delves into the concepts
of the virtual and the social by creating virtual human and community
systems both in his research and art work. An Associate Professor at Simon
Fraser University, Steve directs the I-Viz Lab (ivizlab.sfu.ca) which
strives to make computer systems bend more to the human experience. He came
to SFU from Stanford University and before that spent 10 years as a senior
researcher at NYIT Computer Graphics Lab, an early pioneering lab in
high-end 3D techniques. He has held senior positions at Electronic Arts and
Saatchi & Saatchi Innovation and has consulted for HP, Kodak, Macromedia and
the Institute for the Future. His art work has been exhibited international
including the AIR and Tibor de Nagy galleries in NYC as well as the Whitney
Museum of Art, and the IBM Gallery of Science and Art. With his wife, he
co-curated the first computer art show in a major NYC gallery in 1988.
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