Michael Wright aka. Mrags Writer presenting at SIGGRAPH 08.
SIGGRAPH 2008
E V O L V E · SIGGRAPH 2008 LOS ANGELES CONVENTION CENTER ·
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA · USA
Wed Aug 13, 2008, 5:30pm SpaceTime Exhibition:
Otis Gallery, Otis Island (241, 172, 24)
All NMC members are invited to attend the opening of the SpaceTime Gallery on Wednesday, 13 August. This exhibition captures the state of creative computer-based student work and acts as an annual slice of the computer graphics continuum. The opening will include a demonstration of a virtual online SpaceTime Student Gallery in Second Life hosted by Otis College of Art and Design, and presented by Otis Digital Media Professor Michael Wright.
Otis gallery, Otis Island (241, 172, 24)
Friday Aug 15, 9:15 - 10:15 am Studio Presentation Area
Art and Art Education in Virtual Worlds: One year later, The Projects.
Michael Wright
One year ago in San Diego on the first day of the conference, SIGGRAPH Studio Resident Artist and Otis College of Art and Design professor, Michael Wright kicked off the virtual Otis Island in Second Life. In his presentation at the Studio, Wright discussed possibilities of art creation and curriculum development in a virtual environment. One year later Wright returns to show case his virtual world project which involved 55 Otis Digital Media sophomore students who developed and created content based on a class-developed themes and an exploration of his personal projects which focus on creation and movement of art between reality and virtual reality.
Michael Wright is a painter who began to explore Digital Media in the mid 1980s on an Amiga computer. He exhibited his first Digital Prints in 1989. He has exhibited digital and traditional works on a national & international level over the past 38 years. He is currently exploring art and art education in virtual reality. Wright is also currently exhibiting work in “Omage: The Artists, Designers, and Writers of Otis College of Art and Design” at Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica thru Saturday August 30, and is featured in a one person exhibition on the LearningTimes Squirrel Island in the virtual world Second Life opening Aug 1 2008. The exhibit which will remain up for several months consists of real life works that have been upload to the virtual environment and displayed in two different galleries on the island. Dome West 15,166,22 and Tail Gallery. Wright is also exhibiting work as part of “Digital Art.LA International New Media Expo” at the Los Angeles Center For Digital Art in Downtown Los Angeles. The exhibit will go throu Sept 6.
http://www.track16.com
http://www.lacda.com/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Squirrel%20Island/15/166/22
Wright is a professor in the Digital Media and Liberal Studies Programs at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. He is a member of SIGGRAPH, Ylem, ASCI, ACM and the Los Angeles Printmaking Society. He is the recipient of the Otis Award of Excellence in Arts Education and served as Art Gallery Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 in San Diego California. He was a guest artist at the SIGGRAPH 2004 & 2005 conferences in Los Angeles where he created the “Portrait Virus” at the SIGGRAPH Guerilla Studio. Wright was one of six resident artists invited to SIGGRAPH’S first Artists in Residence Program at SIGGRAPH 2007, in San Diego. Wright as also curated into the SIGGRAPH international exhibition “Global Eyes”.
