Stevens presents lecture on "Electronic, Kinetic and Interactive Art and the Nature of Light" on February 22

Stevens Institute of Technology’s Department of Humanities & Social Science will present a lecture on "Electronic, Kinetic and Interactive Art and the Nature of Light," by Michael Ward von Uchtrup, Feb. 22, at 7:00 p.m. in Room 203 of the Morton Building, located on the corner of River and Sixth Streets, on the university’s Hoboken campus.

Ward von Uchtrup, a curator, writer, lecturer and arts consultant, will give this address during a slide show featuring artwork incorporating sound, light, motion, or viewer interactivity. The presentation will include works by artists from many countries and some of the field’s pioneers who have invented unique new ways of making art.

The second half of the lecture will be devoted to works created by modifying, substituting, or eliminating one or more of the basic elements of conventional photography: visible light, a camera with lens, photosensitive emulsions, film and paper. This includes pinhole photos, camera obscure imagery, photograms, X-rays, micrographs, infrared and ultraviolet photos, laser-exposed photograms, holograms, lenticular photos and lumiagrams.

Some of the techniques date back to the early years of photography, while others have been adapted by artists from science or medicine, or are simply the result of pure inventiveness.

WHAT: Stevens Institute of Technology Lecture On "Electronic, Kinetic and Interactive Art and the Nature of Light" By Michael Ward von Uchtrup

WHEN: Feb. 22, 1999, 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: Stevens Institute of Technology, Morton Building, Room 203, River and Sixth Streets, Hoboken, N.J . (Minutes north of the Hoboken PATH station and across the Hudson River from midtown Manhattan)

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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