{"id":24923,"date":"2023-01-13T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=24923"},"modified":"2023-01-13T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:08:28","slug":"marshall-faculty-member-presents-at-generative-art-conference-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2023\/01\/marshall-faculty-member-presents-at-generative-art-conference-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall faculty member presents at Generative Art Conference in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Dr. Mark Zanter (pictured), interim director of Marshall University\u2019s School of Art and Design, was invited to Rome, Italy, last month to present a paper at the 25th Generative Art Conference. His paper, titled \u201cThe Use of Markov Chains in \u2018Ex Machina\u2019 (2022),\u201d addresses how probability matrices generate music in several sections of the work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEx Machina\u201d is a multi-disciplinary work combining composed and algorithmically generated music, processed video and modern dance. It\u2019s a concert-length performance, featuring sound, light and movement inspired by themes in novels by Philip K. Dick, William Gibson and others. The ensemble performance is integrated with computer-generated music, video and dance, generating interplay between real and virtual worlds, between grittiness\/immediacy of daily life and cyber fantasy, Zanter said. The musical, visual experience embraces technology while celebrating performance.<\/p>\n<p>The Generative Art Conference, hosted annually by Celestino Soddu and Enrica Colabella, of the Generative Art and Design Lab ARGENIA Association, is a multi-disciplinary conference attended by artists, composers, designers, architects, choreographers, filmmakers, and more, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a tremendous venue to meet and network with a wide variety of creatives from all over the globe,\u201d Zanter said. \u201cI\u2019ve presented at Generative Art over the past few years and am honored to be invited to participate this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A premiere of the work is slated for March of 2023.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mark Zanter, interim director of Marshall University\u2019s School of Art and Design, was invited to Rome, Italy, last month to present a paper at the 25th Generative Art Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":24925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,45,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cam","category-featured","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24926,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24923\/revisions\/24926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}