Anderson Series Lecture by New Media Artist Nina Czegledy
February 15, 2007
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA – Nina Czegledy, a Knowledge Media Design Institute fellow, will give a lecture on the Aurora Project at 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, February 20, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art. The lecture is sponsored by the Penn State School of Visual Arts’ John M. Anderson Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series and is free to the public.
The Aurora Project is a partnership of specialists working within the arts and sciences to study the Aurora Borealis. The project partners and contributors include artists interested in addressing mythological, aesthetic and cosmological readings of the aurora, scientific researchers measuring electro-magnetic frequencies and the social and psychological effects of spectacle, and computer scientists exploring how amorphous information is represented.
Czegledy is an independent media artist, curator and writer. Over the last ten years she has programmed and curated more than 20 international media art/video programs and touring exhibitions that were presented in 28 countries. Together with Iliyana Nedkova she has organized Crossing Over, a workshop/media residency project for producing and presenting video shorts, which has been realized in Sofia, Bulgaria (1996 and 1997), Novi Sad, Serbia (1998), Ljubljana, Slovenia (1999), Colombus, Ohio (2000), and Liverpool, England (2001). One of her most recent works is Digitazed Bodies, an interdisciplinary project exploring the ways in which rapidly developing technologies affect the perception of our bodies.
Contact: Sarah Schwartz, ses32@psu.edu