Downtown Projection August 7 & 8

[Jenn MacSporran]

The UW community is invited to participate in a critical/digital art  
project that will be installed in downtown Kitchener on August 7 & 8.

"CYCLE OF DREAD I: Bridge of Infernal Methods"
is an interactive projection piece developed in the Critical Media  
Lab by Professor Marcel O'Gorman (English), in collaboration with  
Pouya Emami and Corrine Toracchio (UW students). This piece involves  
a penny-farthing bicycle hardwired to a computer so that a pedalist's  
speed and heart rate control a large-scale projection. The bicycle is  
mounted on a pedestrian walkway over King Street in downtown  
Kitchener between GoodLife Fitness and Delta Hotel. The imagery  
projected onto the walkway was inspired by the Romantic poet/artist,  
William Blake. This site-specific piece, following O'Gorman's  
"Dreadmill" project, is at once whimsical and existentially dreadful.  
The project is sponsored by the City of Kitchener.

THIS IS A PARTICIPATORY PROJECT. ALL ARE WELCOME.
The cycle is open for pedaling form 8-11 pm on Friday, August 7 and  
Saturday, August 8.
Enter via the GoodLife entrance on King Street.
Note that this event takes place during the Blues Festival downtown,  
which provides another good reason to make the trip.

There will be a project reception on Saturday, August 8 from 7-9 pm  
in the Critical Media Lab (191 King West).

The Critical Media Lab is a research/creation unit at UW founded in  
the Department of English and currently housed in the Public  
Utilities Building at 191 King Street West in Kitchener. The CML,  
recently funded by a CFI grant, supports new media projects that  
explore the impact of technology on society and the human condition.  
For details, visit: http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca .

Click the following link to view the project postcard: http:// 
criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca/cycle_postcard_all.pdf

-- 
Professor Marcel O'Gorman, PhD
Department of English Language and Literature
University of Waterloo
Hagey Hall of Humanities Building
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: 519 888 4567 x32946
Fax: 519 746 5788
http://marcelogorman.net