About DMS | A:D:A:P:T | August 08 2008

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A:D:A:P:T is devoted to advancing digital arts, performance, and theory. WIth the generous support of the Marsico Initiative and the Digital Media Studies Program, A:D:A:P:T offers the DU community opportunities to explore a unique thread of contemporary digital culture throughout a given academic year. A:D:A:P:T provides a sequence of encounters with visiting scholars and artists that offer critical, technical, and artistic frameworks for digital experience. Each iteration of the series will be built around a different theme.

Our pilot series of the 2005-2006 academic year has focused on the theme of live digital cinema, with programming including lectures and special seminar sessions with DU undergraduates, graduates, and faculty. The series also hosts visiting artists to perform and conduct software demos as well as extended media programming workshops.

On tap for Fall 2005 was Gene Youngblood, whose contributions established a foundation of historical and critical content around the evolution of the moving image in new media. With a pair of 2hr+ public lectures and visits to five different classes in DMS and eMAD, Gene Youngblood established the critical foundation for the series. He presented the history of expanded cinema, an expansive term that embraces video, personal cinema, performance films and live cinema, and computer-based cinema. He then tracked this phenomena into contemporary experiences of personal media, web commerce, the media democracy movement, and more. Gene screened samples of numerous artists' work, and provided us with an extensive bibliography and media list for further study. Gene’s second talk focused exclusively on the media democracy movement, again providing historical and autobiographical accounts as well as a survey of contemporary practice in forms such as Free Speech TV.

more on Gene Youngblood: http://dms.du.edu/docs/adapt-1_youngblood.pdf [+]


Next, A:D:A:P:T teamed up with the Lunar Lodge crew to host Safety Scissors and Ben Nevile for a night of live music and VJ sets. Before their evening performance, these artists introduced Cycling `74’s media programming environment, “Max/MSP/Jitter.” Both work in this environment as performers and composers of digital music, while also programming software for Cycling `74. Their presentation approached their work with this software from both angles, and it suggested some new digital career-models for DMS and eMAD students. As the second stage of this year's A:D:A:P:T programme, these artists exemplify many of the issues and contexts touched on by Gene. Students engaged the implications of software companies underwriting modes of creative expression. The performance itself situated live cinema practice within the context of DJ/VJ performance culture, a mixing-ground taking shape in clubs, at raves, as part of programming for media art festivals and galleries, and increasingly, over broadband Internet services.

photos from the show: http://dms.du.edu/news/safety-scissors.cfm [+]


We cap off the fall/winter cycle by hosting Sara Kolster and Derek Holzer from Holland to perform their original live cinema piece, “resonanCity.” ‘ResonanCITY’ has been performed in Holland, Brasil, the Baltic States and at the Transmediale 05 in Berlin. ‘resonanCITY’ also took the Second Prize at the 11th International WRO Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland in May 2005.

Over the course of February 14-23, Sara and Derek will also conduct their intensive, four-session workshop in live cinema production. This workshop will provide instruction in media programming in the Pure Data environment. Also, by working in an open source platform, the workshop will also raise questions about contrasting models to software ownership, intellectual property, authorship, and personal media.

more on the performance: http://dms.du.edu/news/resonancity.cfm [+]
more on the workshops: http://dms.du.edu/news/pd-workshop.cfm [+]


Spring curriculum continuing the discussions and production models explored throughout this year's A:D:A:P:T series include Trace Reddell's "Digital Cinema Theory and Practice" and Timothy Weaver's "Introduction to Interactive Art & Design."


The A:D:A:P:T series will conclude this year with the announcement of a new DMS research group devoted to digital cinema, as well as a contest for best new video production. The winner will get their own Resolume VJ package!


Held on May 15, 2003, the A:D:A:P:T Festival was Denver's first annual digital media festival, graciously hosted at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. The event featured several hours of live audio and visual performances, as well as installations and computer kiosks. Around the theme, "Music and Media for Ruins", the digital exhiibit featured new interactive pieces from students of Trace Reddell's "Advanced Digital Audio Production" class, as well as more than twenty web-based works from artists working in Canada, Norway, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, France, Portugal, Brazil, the UK, and the US.