When:
Friday, January 16, 2015
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: 1902 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Jeff Cernucan
(847) 467-2770
Group: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Buffett Center Faculty & Fellows Colloquium
Pushing the Boundaries of Media: Creating New Meaning Making Strategies
Ozge Samanci, Radio/TV/Film
Ozge will present selected digital interactive art installations from her portfolio. Her installations exemplify design process that takes into account the affordances and limitations of various media such as comics and computer vision/tracking technologies.
Ozge Samanci has an extensive background in comics and media arts and is a published comics artist. Her interactive-digital media installations and other collaborative works have been exhibited in numerous venues internationally including SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE), Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI), Tech Museum at San Jose, WRO Media Art Biennial, Athens International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media, Eyedrum Gallery, Evanston Art Center. Her analog installations and images have been exhibited at University of California Botanical Gardens, Art House Coop, Sycamore Place Gallery, Gallery KG52 in Stockholm, Armory Center for Arts, Worth Ryder Art Gallery and Arcade Gallery. Her areas of interest include interactive art, interactive narrative, interaction design, full-body interaction, comics and graphic novels, digital-interactive media theory, and location-based art. She authored the book Animasyonun Onlenemez Yukselisi (The Irresistible Rise of Animation), published by Istanbul Bilgi University Publications. Currently, she is working on her autobiographical graphic novel, Dare to Disappoint, under contract with Farrar Straus and Giroux.