ARTIST TALKS + OPENING RECEPTION
MASTER
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Artist Talk - Anvil Theatre
Scott Billings (Canada)
Free - All Welcome
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Exhibition Opening
Free - All Welcome
Celebrating the opening of MASTER, our Tenth Anniversary exhibition, New Media Gallery is pleased to host a 30 minute Keynote Artist Talk by Scott Billings. Daniele Puppi will share the podium (see Daniele Puppi Event). MASTER is curated by New Media Gallery. Scott's work in this exhibition is entitled Übermensch (2018). The work consists of a miniature 3D printed film set held, turned and surveilled by industrial robot arms (manipulators) and film cameras. The rehearsal consists of a scene from Hitchcock’s, Rope (1948), a film based on the true story of Leopold and Loeb who killed a 14-year-old boy just for the thrill of it. Hitchcock described the single-duration film as a cinematographical stunt driven by the technical pursuit of the never-ending long take. Übermensch revisits ethical and moral debates of Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch in the age of artificial intelligence and post humanism.
About Scott Billings
Scott Billings is a visual artist and designer based in Vancouver. His art practice centres on issues of animality, mobility, and cinematic spectatorship. Billings’s sculptures and video installations examine the ways in which the apparatus itself reveals the mechanisms of causality and its own dormant animality. Billings holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and a BASc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. His art practice looks at the mimetic relationship between the apparatus of cinema and the language of movement it articulates. Centering on issues of animality, roboethics, and spectatorship, his sculptures and video installations mix the spatial spectacle of long takes with the materiality of kineticism. Scott Billings also works as a mechanical engineer and industrial designer in Vancouver, focusing on wearable exoskeletons and custom camera rigs. He has participated in multiple residencies, has been awarded Public Art Projects and maintains a teaching practice. His work has been presented in Canada, USA, Europe and China ; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, Burrard Arts Foundation to name a few.
WEBSITE
CV
MASTER
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Artist Talk - Anvil Theatre
Scott Billings (Canada)
Free - All Welcome
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Exhibition Opening
Free - All Welcome
Celebrating the opening of MASTER, our Tenth Anniversary exhibition, New Media Gallery is pleased to host a 30 minute Keynote Artist Talk by Scott Billings. Daniele Puppi will share the podium (see Daniele Puppi Event). MASTER is curated by New Media Gallery. Scott's work in this exhibition is entitled Übermensch (2018). The work consists of a miniature 3D printed film set held, turned and surveilled by industrial robot arms (manipulators) and film cameras. The rehearsal consists of a scene from Hitchcock’s, Rope (1948), a film based on the true story of Leopold and Loeb who killed a 14-year-old boy just for the thrill of it. Hitchcock described the single-duration film as a cinematographical stunt driven by the technical pursuit of the never-ending long take. Übermensch revisits ethical and moral debates of Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch in the age of artificial intelligence and post humanism.
About Scott Billings
Scott Billings is a visual artist and designer based in Vancouver. His art practice centres on issues of animality, mobility, and cinematic spectatorship. Billings’s sculptures and video installations examine the ways in which the apparatus itself reveals the mechanisms of causality and its own dormant animality. Billings holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and a BASc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. His art practice looks at the mimetic relationship between the apparatus of cinema and the language of movement it articulates. Centering on issues of animality, roboethics, and spectatorship, his sculptures and video installations mix the spatial spectacle of long takes with the materiality of kineticism. Scott Billings also works as a mechanical engineer and industrial designer in Vancouver, focusing on wearable exoskeletons and custom camera rigs. He has participated in multiple residencies, has been awarded Public Art Projects and maintains a teaching practice. His work has been presented in Canada, USA, Europe and China ; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, Burrard Arts Foundation to name a few.
WEBSITE
CV