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| Thomas David Porett: Creator |
| Synopsis/Description |
The ScapeLines video has been derived from still images of garlic scapes that have been altered to forms that go beyond simple plant forms. New shapes have been derived and re-combined and have been transformed into video sequences. These sequences have then been composited into a time based work in.... More
The ScapeLines video has been derived from still images of garlic scapes that have been altered to forms that go beyond simple plant forms. New shapes have been derived and re-combined and have been transformed into video sequences. These sequences have then been composited into a time based work intended to be viewed on large scale screens or projections ideally as continuous installation. The accompanying soundtrack is an original composition created with Ableton Live, software synthesizer. The edit was realized using Final Cut Pro X. Close
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| Biography |
Occupation:
Professor, Director of Electronic Media, Coordinator of Digital Fine Arts,
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
Video Works:
Harmonizing: Harmonizing is a 26 minute documentary of the doo wop group "The Emeralds"
that originally formed in the mid-1960s. Electronic Po.... More
Occupation:
Professor, Director of Electronic Media, Coordinator of Digital Fine Arts,
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
Video Works:
Harmonizing: Harmonizing is a 26 minute documentary of the doo wop group "The Emeralds"
that originally formed in the mid-1960s. Electronic Poems a DVD consisting of nine visual/music works created from a complex panoply
of multiple imagery and digital music. Five of these were selected to run on the Moov art channel
of the Voom high definition satellite network.
FightNight, a twelve minute documentary of an evening of prize fights held in Philadelphia
TATTOO 2, thirty minute documentary of the Second Annual NYC Tattoo Convention sponsored by the
NYC Hell’s Angels.
TATTOO 3 a twenty five minute piece on the Third Annual Convention NYC Tattoo Convention
COWBOY ACTION SHOOTING, a sixteen minute documentary of this odd sport growing in popularity
among older retired
individuals that combines guns and nostalgia for the “Old West.”
Photographic /Digital Exhibitions:
Created Pre-emptive D'gustation
a mixed media instalation as part of the Operatioin Rapid American Withdrawal 1970 - 2005 exhibiton
"Taken by Design" Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, San Francisco Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Image included in the catalog/book from show.
Ninth New York Digital Salon, NYC,
IMAGINE 2001, Gävle, Sweden, Photo 2001 & 2002,
Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC,
Eighth New York Digital Salon, NYC; Digital Landscape, Silicon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY;
Siggraph 2000 Art Show, New Orleans, LA;
Intersections, Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia;
CrossWaves Festival, Annenberg Center, Philadelphia;
Digital Vision-Digital Voice, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia
(inter)Active: electronic art channels, Trenton State College;
Philadelphia Art Now: Artists Choose Artists, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia;
ARTIFICES, Paris; Digital Image - Digital Photography, Dallas;
SIGGRAPH Art Show, 1982, '83, '85, '86, '87, '91, '99; International Painting Interactive 1992;
Art-in-Science V, University City Science Center, Philadelphia;
New Spirit of Photography, Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC;
Digital Visions, IBM Gallery, NYC;
Electra Exhibition, Musée d' Art Moderne, Paris; PIXIM, Paris
Awards:
Guggenheim Fellowship - Photography 1971, UICA research grant, UArts Faculty Grants 1983, 1985, 1993, 1995, 2003
WYBE Philadelphia Stories 5 2005
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| Artist Statement |
Thomas Porett has been a practicing media artist for 38 years in the field of photography, film, multi-image, sound composition and video. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 in the field of photography. Professor Porett has taught at The University of the Arts since 1966 and is currently.... More
Thomas Porett has been a practicing media artist for 38 years in the field of photography, film, multi-image, sound composition and video. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 in the field of photography. Professor Porett has taught at The University of the Arts since 1966 and is currently Director of Electronic Media. He started computer based education at that institution in 1982 and has been deeply involved in the full gamut of creative digital process.
For the past six years he has been deeply involved in creating documentary video pieces that range from New York City Tattoo Convention (1999 &2001), a prize fight piece, a piece on cowboy action shooting and most recently a documentary of a Philadelphia based doo wop group. Beyond the documentary work, he has produced a series of nine experimental high definition video pieces five of which were broadcast by the Moov channel of the Voom high definition satellite network.
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Thomas David Porett
