Upgrade! Boston: Bill Seaman :: February 26, 2008; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: North 181 - entrance on Evans Way [map], Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston. [Follow the signs posted on the outside of the Tower Building (black glass) [Green Line "E"].

Bill Seaman explores Recombinant Poetics through installations, virtual reality, video, computer controlled laserdisc, and other computer-based media. Major new works include the Hybrid Invention Generator, an exploration of machinic genetics with collaborator Gideon May; two site specific works, Epiphany / Zjavenie, Trnava, Slovakia; and a piece for P0es1s: Aesthetics of Digital Poetry, Berlin, Germany. He is currently working on The Thoughtbody Environment with scientist Otto Rössler, and developing new digital works with David Durand and Daniel Howe.

Seaman’s works have been in numerous international festivals and museum shows. He was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica in Interactive Art (1992 & 1995), Linz, Austria; International Video Art Prize, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Bonn Videonale prize; First Prize, Berlin Film / Video Festival, for Multimedia in 1995; and the Visual Arts Prize. He won the Leonardo Award for Excellence in 2002 for his article OULIPO | vs | Recombinant Poetics.

Seaman received a PH.D. from the Centre for Advanced Inquiry In The Interactive Arts (CAiiA), University of Wales, Newport. He holds a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a self-taught composer and musician. Seaman is Chair of the Graduate Digital+Media Department at Rhode Island School of Design where he is exploring issues related to the continuum between physical and virtual/media space.

Upgrade! Boston is curated by Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org in partnership with the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. It is one of 27 nodes currently active in Upgrade! International, an emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. If you would like to present your work or get involved, please email jo at turbulence dot org.