April 17, 2008
6:00 pm	to	10:00 pm

Aerostatic and Forward Motion Theater

an evening of music, art, dance, and performance at Real Art Ways, Hartford CT

Real Art Ways presents their monthly
CREATIVE COCKTAIL HOUR
Third Thursday of every month,
6-10 PM. $10 Cover / $5 for Members
(FREE to Members who joined before 9/20/07).

This event features two new choreoworks by FMT with scores by Aerostatic and an Aerostatic concert with visuals by FMT. To round out the evening, guests are invited to take to the dance floor to enjoy a set by DJ ActivePhaze.

Real Art Ways is one of the United States’ leading innovative contemporary arts organizations, with programs in Visual Arts (commissioned public projects, curated exhibitions, education), Live Arts (innovative musics of all kinds, performance, spoken word) and Film and Video (feature films and artists’ videos). About 500 people each month make the sojourn to the Real Art Ways Creative Cocktail Party held on the third Thursday of each month, where people meet to see the art, listen to live music, dance, and just have fun.

Real Art Ways
56 Arbor St
Hartford, CT

Explore the latest trends in museum studies in the context of the new museum at the second biennial Savannah College of Art and Design Art History Symposium in Savannah, Ga. The three-day symposium includes a series of sessions and events centered on exhibition, education, technology and cultural heritage.

Art History Symposium 2008
Savannah College of Art and Design
Friday, April 4th
Session IV
River Club, 2:15–3:45 p.m

Forward Motion Theater are participating via teleconference.

Architecture of Participation
Session chair: Christoph Klütsch, Ph.D.

The cultural landscape surrounding museums continues to go through dramatic changes. One of the most challenging tasks today is the integration of the audience—a core element of the cultural landscape—into the museum institution museum. The rise of specialized museums is evidence of a competitive cultural industry, which forces contemporary museology to investigate the multiple relations between artist, object, visitor, participant, curator, economy and technology. A central notion has appeared in recent years: participation. Investigate the way relationship between participating elements could be re-interpreted to meet the cultural needs of the global society through the lens of pilot projects in the European Union, which will be compared and contrasted with experiences of global artistic collaboration to stimulate a discussion about the “Architectures of Participation.”

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This job was a part of our working relationship with Tal Yarden and Eyemag Media. For the launch of the Smart Car in the US, we were asked to help design and build two seamless screens for rear projection at 140 ft long and 12 ft high. The event was held on the top floor of World Trade Center 7, and the view was amazing.

view a video clip of the Smart Car launch

Watch a video in QuickTime: FMT at MoMA 2008

I am a live-video artist. I create interactive installations and video entertainment for events, concerts, parties. Each construction is unique because the audience gets involved to create the art. This is a recent even I did at the MoMA in New York City. On February 2nd, the museum was closed to the general public and those with family memberships were invited to bring their children and expose them to the greatest art collection of the 20th century.

My installation was set up in the main atrium of the museum. We created a dance floor for children to get moving, I captured them on camera and manipulated their images in real-time to look like oil paintings, chalk drawings, and geometric shapes. The kids quickly discover that the art changes as they move, and they get excited to participate in an art work that pays attention to them, even plays with them!

For Old Navy’s event at Eyebeam during Fashion Week, FMT put a new twist on the Step and Repeat cam. As celebrity guests walked the red carpet, their live image was projected and remixed in the lounge area, giving party guests a fun psychedelic glimpse of the models and fashonistas arriving on the scene.
Watch a video sample (QT)

Once the party was in full swing, FMT’s subtle cameras captured fashion artists making sketches of the crowd. We remixed and effected the art as it emerged from the page, allowing the whole lounge to indulge in the focused attention.
Watch a video sample (QT)