AIM 6: Technological Pervasions

Opening this Saturday!
AIM 6: Technological Pervasions
An Exhibition Presented by the USC School of Fine Arts
in collaboration with the Armory Center for the Arts
February 27– May 29, 2005
Opening Reception, Saturday, February 26, 7-9 p.m.
at the Armory, 145 N. Raymond Ave., Old Pasadena
AIM 6: Technological Pervasions is part of the sixth annual international festival of time-based media presented by the University of Southern California School of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Armory Center for the Arts.
The exhibition at the Armory will include Internet based projects; wireless technology; hardware design; video, digital video and animation; and interactive installations. The show will include works by Deborah Aschheim, Launa Bacon, Paul Chilkov, Dean Mermell, Dennis H. Miller, Henry Reichhold, Daniel Sauter, Marcos Westkamp and Ellen Wetmore. AIM 6: Technological Pervasions will be on view at the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 North Raymond Avenue, Old Pasadena. The exhibition runs from February 27 through May 29, 2005. There will be a public opening reception on Saturday, February 26, 7 – 9 pm.
AIM 6: Technological Pervasions received hundreds of entries from around the world. Approximately a dozen of the submitted works will be included in the AIM VI exhibition. Comprising an exhibition of selected entries, satellite lectures and events throughout Los Angeles, AIM 6 explores the ubiquity of surveillance technologies in our everyday lives and explores its impact on privacy, human behavior, and the nature of perception. Exhibited works have been screened by the AIM 6 Screening Committee. The recipients of the Bernay Kurland Grayson Award for Creative Excellence and the AIM Student Award will be announced on the night of the opening.
Showing along with AIM VI is Deborah Aschheim’s interactive installation Neural Architecture no. 5. Aschheim’s series Neural Architecture consists of nervous systems for buildings that articulate the blurring of biology and technology. Neural Architecture no. 5 is made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division.
Now in its sixth year, Art In Motion is the USC School of Fine Arts’ international festival of time-based media. To date, AIM has hosted over 30 exhibitions of outstanding new media work, screenings, lectures, and symposia in locations throughout the United States as well as in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Lima, Peru. AIM is one of only a handful of festivals or programs worldwide that exhibits and offers continual development opportunities for international new media art.
Support for this exhibition provided by USC School of Fine Arts, USC School of Fine Arts’ Intermedia Program, USC School of Engineering, USC Integrated Media Systems Center, USC Marshall School of Business: CIBEAR, Armory Center for the Arts, Amauta Technologies, City of Pasadena, Cultural Affairs Division, City of West Hollywood, the Apple Store, Pasadena, Bernay Kurland Grayson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, James Irvine Foundation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems Company, Pasadena Art Alliance, Pasadena Arts Commission, and the Wallace Foundation.
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