SPEAKERS

BAL, Alex
BARDINI, Thierry
CHATONSKY, Grégory
CONESA, Jean-Claude
COTE, Mario
CZEGLEDY, Nina
DANIELS, Steve
DUBOIS, Jean
ELDER, R. Bruce
EPOQUE, Martine
FISCHER, Hervé
FLEISCHER, Alain
GARDNER, Paula
JOOSSE, Angela
LaBELLE, Guillaume
LANGILL, Caroline
MATHIEU, Marie-Christine
NOLAN, Jason
OUELLET, Pierre
PALMIERI, Christine
PAPON, Frédéric
POISSANT, Louise
POULIN, Denis
PRUSKA-OLDENHOF, Izabella
RODIONOFF, Anolga
SLOPEK, Edward
SNYDER, Don
TREMBLAY, Pierre
VAN ALSTYNE, Greg

Steve Daniels
Ryerson University, School of Image Arts, Program Director New Media

- Conference Video

Steve Daniels uses electronics and communication technologies to create kinetic sculptures, ubiquitous spaces and networked events.  He is currently interested in the non-utilitarian possibilities of DIY social devices.  Through his practice he juxtaposes disparate knowledge systems and experiences in an effort to reveal their underlying structures and assumptions. Steve’s has recently presented his work at Nuit Blanche (Toronto, guerrilla intervention), DigiFest and Mobile Nation.  He holds an MSc from the University of Manitoba and is a graduate of the Integrated Media program at OCAD (Toronto).  He is currently an assistant professor and Program Director of the New Media option in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University (Toronto) where he teaches courses in Physical Computing, Telepresence and Networked Objects.

A SPACE BETWEEN

Since the Spring of 2005, I have produced several distributed and telematic events in collaboration with faculty and students at several Universities. I initiated these events believing that collapsing space with communication networks would be sufficient to create telepresent experiences. While this proved true in some technical sense, it has become clear that space does not simply collapse. Telepresent audiences are not in one unified space, they are simultaneously in one and multiple spaces. Generating contiguous space through real-time networks merges creative communities, juxtaposes users’ bodies, and transforms space into a distinct hybrid reality. Using the events I have produced and historical examples as guides I will reflect on the embodied consequences of these layered, hybrid spaces. In particular, I will discuss the unique non-optical, yet spatial, properties of telematic experiences; the haptic space which forms topologically over the physical sites (nodes) of a telematic work and the way they reflect a fractured intimacy. An intimacy as hybrid as the spaces created.