Exhibitions & Presentations Echo Leahy
Center for Lake ChamplainECHO Innovation Playground Radical Preservation and Aquatic Survival:
experiential transmission through art by becoming water, snorkeling with
plankton, and traveling through deep time, by Kathleen Ruiz, invited guest speaker
for New Perspectives: Innovations by women intersecting science, media and
sonic arts, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, AWMAT
2018 Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Technology, February 8-10, 2018 AWMAT Art
Exhibition: The World of Plankton touchscreen, curated by Lena Mathew
& Kathy Rae Huffman at University of California, Santa Barbara February,
2018 World
of Plankton is featured in The ACM SIGGRAPH on-line exhibition,
Science of the Unseen: Digital Art Perspectives http://science-unseen.siggraph.org/
2016- currently on exhibit Curatorial
statement: Artworks in Science of the Unseen: Digital Art Perspectives think
creatively about questions of scale and how unseen processes animate larger
effects. By using digital tools and computational programs, we see with new
eyes as we view visual material from the microscopic cell to the cosmic
universe. Technology increasingly alters the senses and our experience of the
biological, astrological, and geological landscape. From our new ways of
seeing, questions emerge such as: how does nano-technology
mirror and magnify the art of nature? How does visualizing insect burrows in
trees allow us to interpret a larger ecosystem? Or we can ask what still
remains unseen: how do organisms form new imperceptible habits in response to
technology? Art can be
both inspired by and resistant to accepted scientific practices for
visualizing the world. Artworks in Science of the Unseen: Digital Art
Perspectives experiment with innovative research methods that also critically
examine what drives the disciplines of art and science. In this exhibition,
artistic interpretation of the unseen emphasizes the political dynamic of
both the human public and nonhuman ecologies. How does art represent and
empower the relationships between micro and macro, unseen and seen, situated
and global that would otherwise be invisible? What can art see that science
cannot see alone? World
of Plankton presented at the HASS Humanities Roundtable: Developing a
Digital Infrastructure for Humanities Research and Collaboration at Rensselaer,
Sage 3205, 12-2PM, November 11, 2016 World
of Plankton presented to Kirk Schell, an RPI alumn
and senior VP of Commercial Client Solutions for Dell, Alumni House, 9:30-
11:30AM, November 11, 2016 World
of Plankton presented by Kathleen Ruiz at meeting with Kirk Johnson,
Ph.D., Sant Director of the Smithsonian National
Museum of National History, Washington D.C., with Deepak Vashishth,
PhD., Director, Center for Biotechnology & Interdisciplinary Studies,
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Prabhat Hajela Ph.D., Provost,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and Mimi Katz, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, CIBIS
September 1, 2016 World
of Plankton presented by Kathleen Ruiz, Ian Stead and Christina Chiusano at the Margaret A. and David M. Darrin 40 Fresh
Water Institute Open House, Saturday, August 20, 2016 World
of Plankton presented at the Revolutionary Learning 2016 Conference,
by Kathleen Ruiz, Evan Gonzalez, and Jerry Huang, Grand Ballroom, Roosevelt
Hotel, 45 East 45th Street, N.Y.C., August 18, 2016 World
of Plankton presented at the international ACM SIGGRAPH conference,
Anaheim, California, July 24 - July 28, 2016. World
of Plankton presented by Kathleen Ruiz at the NYSCA Electronic
Media/Film & Visual Art (New York State Council on the Arts) and G4C
(Games for Change) Match Up, at Parson School of Design, Sheila C. Johnson
Design Center, Parsons School of Design, 2 West 13th Street, NYC. June 22,
2016 World
of Plankton prototype presented at Gamefest,
at Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and
Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute April 29
30, 2016 World
of Plankton prototype was presented by Ben Chang at the international
Game Developers Conference (GDC), Moscone Center,
San Francisco, California March 14-18, 2016 World
of Plankton research was presented by Kathleen Ruiz, Justin Cirigliano, Leo Antelyes,
Christiana Chiusano, and Domenic Cristaldi at the Jefferson Project meeting at Lake George
Feb. 3, 2016 World
of Plankton, presented by Kathleen Ruiz in Professor Jefferson Kielwagans sculpture class to inspire the creation of 4
to 5 physical hanging sculptural zooplankton paper prototype models for the
World of Plankton installation, Feb., 2016 World
of Plankton prototype presented by Kathleen Ruiz at TVGScog (Tech Valley Game Space Center of Gravity), Troy,
N.Y. Feb., 2016 |