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| The flyer for the lecture, a sneak peak at Sean Clute's work |
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| Sean Clute and I
Weaving Media:
Interdisciplinary Experiments in New Media Art by Sean Clute
Sacramento State
University, 6000 J St. Sacramento, CA. 95819
KDM 145, Wed March 11,
20015, 3pm-4pm
The first potential new candidate for full-time hire at
Sacramento State University had flown in all the way from Vermont, Sean Clute’s
discipline is New Media. I was eager to attend this lecture since it would be
my very first artist lecture experience. Clute experiments with New Media and
Performance Art. He also works with video and sound. The subject of his work
includes the human body and movement. One of Clute’s work’s called Mythos is an animation of ancient Greek
Mythology characters the Olympic runners from an ancient Greek vase. Out of all
of Clute’s work this one was my favorite. Here Clute uses the Olympic runners
in a modern way by creating New Media design using drawings and video to make
animation. He also uses Greek music in the background. He said he started with
a concept, researched, took images, and put them into a system and used
software to organize the information. From there he developed tools and a
system and then “played with it”. Specifically Clute took images of the Olympic
runners and put them in illustrator and converted the pixels into vectors which are scalable and easy
to manipulate. He then uses puppet pins to turn the Olympic runners into
movable puppets. He then uses a software and uses a “digital language”. Clute
also showed various other works of his including a piece called Double Vision in which he incorporated
sound, video, dancers and music. Another of his works he discussed was called Evolutionary Patterns and the Lonely Owl
which was a hands on interactive installation which involved video games, dancers,
digital imagery, lights, music and sound. This piece was a lot like the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Double Vision
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