Steve Boyer @ Upgrade! Seattle 3.8.07

Steve Boyer is the 'real deal'. Countless artists claim to cross disciplines, bridging the gap between art and commerce, finding new connections amidst the constantly shifting landscape of technology, culture, entertainment and communication. Boyer is one of the few with the chops to make that claim legitamately. He's developed computer games, arcade games and toys. He's worked as a software engineer, an audio producer and an art director. He holds two patents. All this while continuing his art practice, showing at SIGGRAPH, MoCA Chicago, Santa Barbara Museum of Art and many others.

Be sure to check him out next week:

"Humanity is undergoing an Evolution of Abstraction. The physical forms and social and economic structures that have previously defined human identity are disintegrating, often being replaced by their symbolic representations. As these new modes of being replace the old we are faced with a Crisis of Identity in that assumptions about what it means to be human are challenged by new technologies, social narratives and biological realities. But every crisis presents an opportunity and at this critical turning point in human history we have a unique opportunity to rewrite the narrative codes that allow societies to self-organize and prosper. and to re-synthesize what it means to be human.

In this presentation connections will be drawn between medieval trompe l’oeil painting, cellular biology, insect robots and reality television in an attempt to elucidate some of the opportunities (and risks) that are posed by electronic and bio-technologies and to examine the role of electronic media in both the writing and re-writing of narrative codes.

Upgrade! Seattle: CODE - The Evolution of Abstraction and the Crisis of Human Identity by steve boyer :: 7pm Thursday March 8, 2007 :: 911 Media Arts Center • 402 9th Ave N • Seattle, WA.