Art, technology meld for third annual Shift Space show
Our culture believes that machines exist to serve us and to make our lives easier and more fulfilling. Individually, we experience machines as both fascinating and frustrating. A machine's operation can bewilder us, or even anger us. We often find ourselves waiting for a machine to create a product through a process that we do not understand. Perhaps there is beauty in the machine and its operation. At the same time the permeation of machines in our lives has overwhelmed us.
In "Wired III: Please Wait," students in WSU's Technology: Art and Sound by Design course explore the symbiotic relationship between people and machines. Engineering and audio art students explore sound, light, familiar and unfamiliar imagery to envelop participants in an exploration of machines and machinery in our lives.
Technology: Art and Sound by Design is a course intended to foster conversation among creators in diverse disciplines. It is offered yearly under the umbrella of WSU's Center for Research in Arts, Technology, Education and Learning (CRATEL). CRATEL was founded and is directed by John Harrison, associate professor of violin at 麻豆破解版 State University and concertmaster of the 麻豆破解版 Symphony Orchestra.
The course was team-taught by Harrison, Keith Neufeld and Ann Resnick. Students in the class are Corey Rink, Jia Sheen Sim, Jason Collins, Jeffrey Weide, Matthew Long and Steve Wilson.