Member Charles Glassmire will speak on

"The Painter and the Photograph"

Digital Imagers Meeting

Sunday October 5, 2008 at 1:15, Pitt Scaife Hall, Room 1102

Description

The evolution of the new science of Computational Photography, and new devices such as the Gigapan, are making staggering changes in the electrical equipment and capabilities of image making apparatii. The pixels in the image are becoming a kind of paint, spurred by new devices which offer precise control over color and shape. New tools allow us to see the real as the painter sees, and, as photography loses its powerful reputation as some kind of recorder of "truth" (e.g. "the camera never lies...") new ways of seeing, spurred by technology transcending the boundaries of what we saw as the real, allow us to peer over the event horizon, changing how we see and fundamentally, what we are.

"Is this on?", asked the child, staring at the ballpoint pen in his hand.

Biography:

Charles Glassmire, Artist and Scientist, served for 11 years as a Nuclear Engineer with the Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory working on the NERVA nuclear powered rocket engine for a NASA manned Mars mission. There he did nuclear fuel irradiation studies and published in the classified nuclear literature. Subsequently he received the Master of Fine Arts Degree in Film from Columbia University in the City of New York. He has taught Photography, Filmmaking, and Digital Arts on the faculty of five Colleges and Universities, and at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. His digital films and photographs have been exhibited nationally.