http://daniel-sauter.com Daniel Sauter is an artist who creates interactive installations and site-specific interventions dealing with the cultural and social implications of emergent technologies. His current projects focus on mobile interventions exploring the phenomenon of projection in urban spaces. en-us http://processingandroid.org 01 Oct 2010: Keynote Presentation and Workshop at the symposium Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation UIC Innovation Center 1240 W Harrison St, Chicago, Illinois 60607 October 1st-3rd, 2010 Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation brings together internationally recognized innovators from the open source software community, Chicago based startup companies, and students and academics from the areas of Art and Design, Computer Science, and Information Sciences. Keynote speakers Ben Fry and Casey Reas present the latest edition of Processing targeting Android devices, designed to simplify and streamline prototyping and development for mobile platforms. Processing is used by tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. Join us for the first public summit to hold Processing.Android workshops, presentations, and panel discussions. The event is free and open to the public. Workshops require prior registration. http://audospace.org 10 Sep 2010: AUDO is an unconventional festival that invites practitioners and theoreticians from a broad range of sound-related disciplines to discuss new strategies for the creation, production, distribution and cultural analysis of sound and music-based work. Activities in AUDO 2010 will include: sound walks, concerts, creation of interactive sound networks, exhibits that translate hand drawn images or body movements into sounds and many other exciting examples of contemporary sound art… AUDO 2010 is comprised of 2 linked components: a three-day series of discussion forums, performances and workshops (festival component) leading to an exhibition of resulting outcomes in an exhibition component immediately following the festival. The goal of this exhibition is to showcase results of creative interactions between festival participants during the first three days of the event: videos, sounds, interactive systems, objects, texts that have been created collaboratively highlighting the word “DO” in the festival’s title. Organized by: Esteban Garcia (PhD student, Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue); Shannon McMullen (Assistant Professor, Electronic and Time-Based Art, Purdue); Juan Obando (Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Elon University, NC); Fabian Winkler (Assistant Professor, Electronic and Time-Based Art, Purdue) http://acreresidency.wordpress.com/ 05 Aug 2010: Studio visits with ACRE residents, an artist presentation, and a workshop (LED Color Lab: Using professional-grade LED lighting gear, this workshop introduces DMX communication for dynamic color, temperature, and timing) are on the agenda for the 4-day visit at the ACRE site in rural Southwest Wisconsin. http://www.siggraph.org/s2010/for_attendees/art_gallery 25 Jul 2010: A collaboration between Sauter and Fabian Winkler, In the Line of Sight is a light installation that uses 100 computer-controlled tactical flashlights to project low-resolution video footage of moving persons into the exhibition space. Each flashlight projects a light spot - similar to a pixel - on the wall. All flashlights combined create 10 x 10 pixel representations of the source footage. The SIGGRAPH 2010 juried art gallery showcases work by artists who physically engage technology in their creative process. Beyond the sense of sight, TouchPoint brings together creative works that investigate, celebrate, and critique the polysensory nature of human experience in a digitally enhanced environment. It investigates the permeable membrane of the digital interface, where we use an array of tools to materialize and visualize future artifacts of creative expression. The work integrates human haptic connections in computer-based artwork, involving the "viewer" and/or the artist through a unique physical interface. Now in its 37th year, the SIGGRAPH conference is the premier international event on computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2010 is expected to draw an estimated 25,000 professionals from five continents to Los Angeles, California. The SIGGRAPH conference and exhibition is a five-day interdisciplinary educational experience including a three-day commercial exhibition that attracts hundreds of exhibitors from around the world. SIGGRAPH is widely recognized as the most prestigious forum for the publication of computer graphics research. In addition to SIGGRAPH http://www.thegalleryproject.com/ 07 May 2010: May 5 - June 13 Opening Reception: Friday, May 7, from 6-9pm. Gallery Project presents Imaging the Future, a multimedia exhibit in 26 artists, architects, engineers, scientists, and fashion designers attempt to visualize what life in the future will be like. The exhibit, which opens on Wednesday, May 5 and runs through Sunday, June 13, is the first of Gallery Project’s new cycle of exhibits. The opening reception is Friday, May 7 from 6-9. Questions about the future abound: “What is going to happen to my town, to Michigan, to my country, my world? What’s ahead for the environment, global warming, the energy crisis, and green technology? What’s next for Wall Street, Main Street, the housing market, the world financial system, my job? How will technological advances impact communication, transportation, housing, food, clothing, weaponry, play, and identity? Will we have colonies in space or on distant planets and moons, and will we be encouraged to travel there? What will become of our species and other species as we evolve? Depending on one’s vision and vantage point, such questions may activate anxiety, fear, cynicism and dark visions. Or they may mobilize a sense of hope and promise, idealism and utopian imaginings. This exhibition challenges each artist to pose a question about the future and to image a response. The exhibit is curated by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro. http://three-walls.org/ 20 Apr 2010: Salon 7 pm at Threewalls, 119 N. Peoria #2D Chicago, il 60607 25 Feb 2010: The lecture as part of the Art and Tech seminar/colloquium, taught by Jeff Carter Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design. It will take place at 1 pm at DePaul in Lincoln Park. http://www.digital.udk-berlin.de/ 05 Jan 2010: 12-1 pm, room 116 Universität der Künste University of the Arts Grunewaldstr. 2-5 http://www.amazon.com/Light-Attack-Moving-Moving-Intervention-Public/dp/3639214587/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261557372&sr=1-2 11 Dec 2009: Light Attack: Media Art and the Moving-Moving Image as Intervention in Public Spaces (VDM Publishing House, ISBN-10: 3639214587, Dec. 11, 2009) Light Attack is a media art performance, as well as a social experiment, performed in public urban spaces. While driving through the city, an animated virtual character is projected from a moving vehicle onto the cityscape exploring places "to go" and "not to go" in urban centers such as Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Mexico City. The book provides the conceptual framework for Light Attack. It follows the history of electric light as medium and symbol for cultural grandeur. It discusses media architecture and projection-based media art in relation to a contemporary site-specific public art practice. The book should be especially useful to students and professionals in the field of Media Arts, Art History, and Communications. [ project page ] http://www.aec.at/prix_history_en.php?year=2009 03 Sep 2009: Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for everyone who uses the computer as a universal medium for implementing and designing their creative projects at the interface of art, technology and society. The event calls for entries in eight categories, including a youth competition. And since internationally renowned artists from over 70 countries also participate in the Prix Ars Electronica, it has established itself as a barometer for trends in contemporary media art. With over 40.617 entries since 1987 and prize money in 2009 totalling 122,500 euros, the competition offers the largest cash purse for cyberarts worldwide. Each year, six Golden Nicas, twelve Awards of Distinction and approximately 70 Honorary Mentions as well as a grant for the category [the next idea] and the Media.Art.Research Award are presented to participants. Since media art is such a highly dynamic field, criteria for the categories have to be constantly modified and adjusted to societal and technological developments, and so updated to meet new demands. http://burnhamplan100.uchicago.edu/events/id/1252 08 Jul 2009: Talks with the Team is a series of free informal tours of, and talks about the Burnham Pavilions featuring the staff and professionals who were involved with the project. This series gives the public the opportunity to learn directly from the insiders about the planning, design, construction, techniques, artistry and technology involved in making the Burnham Pavilions a reality. Meet at north end of the South Chase Promenade near the UNStudio Pavilion http://www.hydeparkart.org/ 25 Jun 2009: Moderated by Nathan Mason, Curator of Special Events for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Panelists: Hamza Walker, Director of Education for The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago Tiffany Holmes, Artist and Associate Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Daniel Sauter, Installation artist and Assistant Professor, School of Art+Design at UIC http://burnhamplan100.uchicago.edu/history_future/burnham_pavilions/unstudio_pavilion 19 Jun 2009: The sculptural UNStudio pavilion is highly accessible and functions as an urban activator. Framed by Lake Michigan on one side and Michigan Avenue on the other, it relates to diverse city-contexts and scales. The edges of the roof are parallel, but toward the center there is more complexity in the form.

At night, UNStudio’s pavilion becomes a responsive architecture with LED lights that change color and pattern. These lights will be in constant flux as the number of visitors to the pavilion changes. Programmatically the pavilion invites people to gather, walk around and through the space—to explore and observe. It’s sculptural form and reactive lights will spark curiosity and wonder in its visitors.
The Burnham Pavilions will be open and free to the public in Millennium Park from June 19 through October 31, 2009. http://www.aec.at/prix_history_en.php?year=2009 28 May 2009: Daniel Sauter, Assistant Professor of Electronic Visualization and Fabian Winkler, Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University, have been awarded a Honorary Mention at the 2009 Prix Ars Electronica for their work “In the Line of Sight” (2009). Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for creative projects at the interface of art, technology and society. In 2009, a total of 5,029 participants from 68 countries entered the competition. http://www.art.wayne.edu/jacob_gallery.php 30 Jan 2009: Elaine L. Jacob Gallery 480 W. Hancock St. Detroit, MI 48202 313 993 7813 Gallery Hours: Tuesdays – Thursdays 10am – 6pm Fridays 10am – 7pm Artist Talk: Thursday April 2, 2009 at 7pm DeRoy Auditorium, 5203 Cass, Detroit, MI, 48235 http://emergenceproject.org/blog/?page_id=298 11 Jan 2009: As part of the Proceedings for the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, a conference held on November 1–3, 2008 at the University of Chicago, the paper The Emergence Project:
 A machine of expression reflects on the conceptual and technological context surrounding the Emergence Project. http://www.gloweindhoven.nl/ 07 Nov 2008: The third edition of the international Light Festival of the Netherlands takes place at Eindhoven. From the 7th until the 16th of November the artworks can be seen in the centre of Eindhoven. Artists & Designers - Modularbeat - Kurt Laurenz Theinert & Axel Hanfreich - Mischa Kuball - Lia Michalany Chaia - Thomas Bakker - Ingo Bracke - LEAD - Nuno Maya & Carole Prunelle - Cecilia Nordegg & Jonathan Berkh - Daniel Sauter - Nadine Rennert - Tatzu Oozu - Uršula Berlot - Charly Nijensohn - Raumlabor - Buthayna Ali & Bayan Al-Sheikh - Gudrun Barenbrock - Stefan Hofmann - Kader Attia - Panirama - Öff Öff Productions http://emergenceproject.org 11 Oct 2008: Artists Daniel Sauter and Mark Hereld work together to create a digital artwork based on the ideas produced from the 2008 Chicago Humanities Festival. The contents of the day’s presentations, performances and panel discussions will be captured, analyzed and processed into a dynamic visualization that evolves from minute to minute to express “big ideas.” This innovative, real-time art installation will explore how complex systems and patterns arise out of simple interactions. The Emergence Project is an art installation that will explore how complex patterns arise out of a multiplicity of simple interactions, a phenomenon known as “emergence”. Focusing on the actual discourse emanating from the Chicago Humanities Festival’s October 11 day of programs hosted in several venues in the Hyde Park area, the contents of the presentations, performances, and panel discussions are captured, analyzed, and processed into a multidimensional image that evolves from minute to minute. The piece will use simple morphological rules to excavate emerging word clusters and expressed “big ideas,” representing them on the Hyde Park Art Center’s digital façade. http://www.isea2008singapore.org/abstract/d-h/p298.html 27 Jul 2008: Media Art and the ‘moving moving’ image as an intervention in public spaces, July 27, 2008, Singapore Management University http://audo2008.org/home/?page_id=27 15 May 2008: AUDO is an unconventional public event that invites practitioners and theoreticians from a broad range of sound-related disciplines to discuss new strategies for the creation, production, distribution and   cultural analysis of sound and music-based work. In a three-day series of discussion forums, performances and workshops, AUDO will address the following four interrelated aspects of contemporary artistic practices in sound. http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/ats_mfa/index.html 17 Mar 2008: Work presentation and and student critique as part of the Electronic Media Colloquium, taught by Tiffany Holmes (Associate Prof., Chair, Art and Technology Studies, SAIC) http://www.computerspace.org/ 26 Oct 2007: Work review screening of selected works 2004-2007 http://www.azc.uam.mx/ 26 Oct 2007: Friday, October 26 - 1:00 pm: Keynote Lecture “Media Art and the “moving moving” image as an intervention in public spaces” (1,5 hour) Place: Auditorio “Incalli Ixcahuicopa”- UAM Azcapotzalco Friday, October 26 - 2:30 pm: Workshop “The camera as Computer Interface” Place: Sala de Cómputo (2-2,5 hour) http://www.azc.uam.mx/ 24 Oct 2007: http://purdueexponent.com/index.php/module/Issue/action/Article/article_id/printView/index.php?story_id=3950 01 Feb 2007: Purdue University, 7 pm, KRAN G016. Light Attack, Media Art and the `Moving Moving` Image as Intervention in Public Spaces. http://www.nabi.or.kr/connected 07 Dec 2006: Light Attack will be performed in the city of Seoul on Dec. 4-5 2006 in the areas Gwanghwa- mun, Samchung-dong, Insa-dong, Jongro 3ga , T tower, Duksugyung , Ewha Women’s University, Shinchon station, Yonsei University, Hong-ik University, Banpo, Shinsa-dong. Footage of the performance will be exhibited as part of CONNECTED at Art Center Nabi from Dec. 7-30 2006. 14 Nov 2006: The exhinition has been curated by Silvia Rigon http://www.microwavefest.net/performance/ 13 Nov 2006: Daniel Sauter will be performing his work ’Light Attack’ at ‘Animatronica’, Microwave International Media Arts Festival 2006 from Nov. 8-13 2006, in the urban and rural spaces around the city of Hong Kong. The artist questions the notion of public and private spaces, social engagement, intrusion and the element of surprise in the seemingly imposed interaction.
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Sauter will also speak at the conference ‘Strategies of Interactivities in Media Arts & Visual Culture’ at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in discussion with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
http://www.microwavefest.net/conference/ http://www.siggraph.org/s2006/main.php?f=conference&p=art&s=performance 30 Jul 2006: The SIGGRAPH 2006 Art Gallery: Intersections examines the merging of creativity, concept, and technique. Over the past 40 years, innovations in digital technology have enabled the integration of technical accomplishment with artistic and conceptual expression, fostering art endeavors that explore new territories and cross traditional boundaries. http://newmediabeijing.org/md2006/index.php 22 Jul 2006: The new millennium has witnessed the growing vitality throughout the world of new media art, an art mediated via digital means, often with the internet as its platform. This emerging art, originating from an increasingly technologically dependent society, not only challenges traditional creative media, and ways of thinking, but also posits to artists and cultural workers new questions concerning all realms of contemporary life. Under the auspices of Millennium Dialogue, the First and Second Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium successfully mounted two ground-breaking exhibitions and symposia in 2004 and 2005 respectively at the China Millennium Museum in Beijing. Enlisting a number of key players in the realm of media art throughout the world as partners, "Millennium Dialogue" aims at establishing a global, constructive platform for dialogue and exchange with the most current discourse in new media arts production and theorization to advance and promote digital arts and education in China. At the helm of the project are three prominent institutions, with Tsinghua University as host, one of the most acclaimed research and educational institutions of China, joined by ZKM | Center for Art and Media of Karlsruhe, Germany, the World http://www.mixedmedia.it/eng/newmedia/index.html 25 May 2006: Observing many of the artistic experiences of the last five years tied to the new media, we seem to foresee a growing consolidation of the abused Mcluhanian Assumption of Coincidence between medium and message. The role of new technologies in the creative contemporary journey seems to defer more often from a merely instrumental function and instead seems to find itself more frequently in a research in which they assume various shapes and forms, becoming subject, object and the space of the process itself. An entity tightly correlated in a system of indissoluble relationships with the creative idea itself becoming a project and therefore a construction. [Excerpt from a curatorial text by Paolo Rigamonti, Gianluca Milesi, Marco Mancuso] http://www.wdw.nl/project.php?id=116 26 Jan 2006: From January 26 through March 26, 2006, Witte de With, center for contemporary art, is presenting Satellite of Love, in association with the TENT. Center for Visual Arts and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). During the festival (January 25 - February 5, 2006), Satellite of Love will be the nerve center for the Exploding Television section of the IFFR's program. As in previous years, this section of the festival, organized by Edwin Carels, focuses on recent developments in digital technology that influence or perhaps even result in radical shifts within visual and audiovisual culture. Satellite of Love will become the headquarters of a veritable TV commune, a utopian project. Furthermore, in association with the VPRO, Exploding Television will be manifesting itself online via the Internet. Opening Thursday January 26, 2006, 6 p.m. http://www.beyondmedia.it 01 Dec 2005: The eighth edition of BEYOND MEDIA, scheduled to take place in Florence December 1st-11th, 2005, will focus the national and international attention on very up-to-date topics, that will be the occasion for developing a series of significant occasions for a public exchange of ideas. The venues of the event are Brunelleschi\'s Ospedale degli Innocenti and the Stazione Leopolda. The festival will once again promote a dialogue between the world of architectural production and the larger universe of communication. It will do so with a rich program of meetings, projections and exhibitions which will present the most significant contemporary researches in a way that will be interesting both for specialists and the public at large. The theme for the 8th edition of BEYOND MEDIA is "SCRIPT". How can architecture today talk about itself? Which narrative forms are linked to the idea of the project, of its external expressions, of its publicity? How does design structure its languages and how does it express the culture of our times by means of a contemporary way of writing? Which paths do emerging creatives follow in order to approach the new modes of expression which are made possible by the digital tools and by the new media? "SCRIPT" will offer an opportunity for thinking about a wide range of topics that are at the center of the design culture today. http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/communication/ 04 Nov 2005: You are cordially invited to attend a public lecture by media artist Daniel Sauter: Light Attack: Media Art and the Moving-Moving Image as Intervention in Public Spaces Daniel Sauter, Assistant Professor School of Art and Design University of Illinois at Chicago Friday, November 4th @ noon Harrelson Hall, Room 107 North Carolina State University http://www.nabi.or.kr/unesco_award 11 Oct 2005: Creating the conditions of people-centred sustainable urban development within an increasingly urbanized world is more and more accentuated across the globe. Cities are subject to innumerable pressures that affect their inhabitants, but can also bring about change, social progress, and cultural diversity through imaginative and creative initiatives. Cities could truly be centres for expression of cultural diversity and places of vitality where creators working in different fields of arts act as catalysts in mobilizing impetus from unique realities and experiences within urban environment. Facing the growing presence of information and communication technology within every aspect of our lives, digital technology and communication media have brought new perceptions and socio-cultural interactions in the urban environment, transforming the way in which we experience our cities. The concepts of space, time, and social relationship from every sphere of the urban life experience are put in flux via communication technologies such as internet, mobile phones, wireless network, and locative media. Therefore, at the intersections of art, design, technology, and socio-cultural conditions, young artists around the world are invited to participate in the UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2005 to reflect on how urban spaces and city environments could be transformed into creative outlets cultivating artistic innovation and new forms of expression. http://www.printmag.com 21 Jul 2005: Out of about 100 nominations from leaders in the design field, the magazine will select 20 designers to include in the March/April issue 2006. http://climax.digiarts.org.tw/ 02 Jul 2005: The piece will be shown in the exhibition "Climax: The High Light of Ars Electronica", from July 2nd to August 24th, at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, Taiwan. http://createfixate.com/deluxe05.html 21 May 2005: Create Fixate at HDButtercup presents: Deluxe on Saturday : May 21st, 2005 : 7pm -2am, Gallery Preview 4-7pm. http://www.armoryarts.org/ 26 Feb 2005: Opening reception: Saturday, February 26 6 pm at the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena. An Exhibition Presented by the USC School of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Armory Center for the Arts February 27- May 29, 2005. Opening Reception, Saturday, February 26, 7-9 p.m. at the Armory, 145 N. Raymond Ave., Old Pasadena. AIM VI: Technological Pervasions is part of the sixth annual international festival of time- based media presented by the University of Southern California School of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Armory Center for the Arts. The exhibition at the Armory will include Internet based projects; wireless technology; hardware design; video, digital video and animation; and interactive installations. The show will include works by Deborah Aschheim, Launa Bacon, Paul Chilkov, Dean Mermell, Dennis H. Miller, Henry Reichhold, Daniel Sauter, Marcos Westkamp and Ellen Wetmore. AIM VI: Technological Pervasions will be on view at the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 North Raymond Avenue, Old Pasadena. The exhibition runs from February 27 through May 29, 2005. There will be a public opening reception on Saturday, February 26, 7 - 9 pm. http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/about/index.html 25 Feb 2005: Febrary 25 - March 6, 2005 at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. From the website: Japan Media Arts Festival. It is a "Contest" in which we praise creative media art works utilizing the latest expression technology. Also it is a "Festival" in which we support creative activity and broadly present various art works. At the same time, we are promoting the development of media arts in Japan by providing the opportunities of appreciation, such as Exhibitions and Sanctioned Events. http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/sakuhin/suisen/index.html 26 Dec 2004: http://www.soundcommons.org/Members/KadetKuhne/crazyspace/view 10 Dec 2004: Opening reception Friday Dec. 10, 8 - 10 pm. http://www2.artcenter.edu/mdp/ 01 Dec 2004: The Fusion of Architecture and Media http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsocal/ 20 Nov 2004: Light Attack is a media artwork, as well as a social experiment, which takes place the urban sphere of Los Angeles. While driving through the city, an animated virtual character is projected onto the cityscape of L.A. exploring three places "to go" and three places "not to go", according to the popular Lonely Planet travel guide. Light Attack elaborates the concept of the "moving moving" image in the stereotyped neighborhoods of Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Downtown, Watts, and Compton. The virtual character, projected from a moving vehicle onto the city facades, reacts to the architectural context, and interacts with passers-by while "walking" through the city. The character's actions are condensed in a gallery installation, reflecting projection as an emergent ubiquitous medium. The piece raises questions about property and privacy. How public is public space? How projection, as a medium, changing the environment in which we live? More information at http://daniel-sauter.com/light_attack http://www.aec.at/en/festival/programm/list_exhibitions_2004.asp?iProjectID=12584 02 Sep 2004: Each single frame of a TV program is compressed down to the size of one pixel, resulting in flowing patterns of color that get their structure from the content of the images and the rhythm of the editing of the TV program. News produces horizontal colorations; cuts are projected as vertical lines, zooms as curves; commercials turn into vibrating color patterns. By changing channels, the user can experiment with the relationship between program and sound and the corresponding projection. Prix Ars Electronica 2004, Honorary Mention Interactive Art http://idca.org 29 Jul 2004: