{"id":8059,"date":"2019-03-18T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=8059"},"modified":"2025-01-09T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T16:17:21","slug":"march-21-evan-meaney-we-will-love-you-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2019\/03\/18\/march-21-evan-meaney-we-will-love-you-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"March 21 – Evan Meaney: We Will Love You Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evan Meaney in person<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Evan Meaney, image from ++ We Will Love You For Ever, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and SAIC’s Video Data Bank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mixing humor and pathos, the work of new media artist and game designer Evan Meaney meditates on the transience of human experience and its representation in digital media. Meaney often uses corrupted and failing data as source material, exploring human efforts to collect and preserve in the face of entropy. He presents a selection of work from the past decade, including the video essay\u00a0Big\u00ad_Sleep\u2122<\/em> (2015), which juxtaposes the expansive yet deteriorating 20th-century archive of newsreel cameraman William Birch with Meaney and Amy Szczepanski\u2019s Big\u00ad_Sleep\u2122 Media Encoder<\/em>\u2014a program that conserves digital material, but makes it permanently inaccessible–and the virtual reality artwork\u00a0<\/span>++We Will Love You Forever<\/span><\/i> (2017), which reflects on the creative impulse and efforts to create archives of human code\u2014digital and DNA\u2014on the moon. <\/span><\/p>\n

Evan Meaney, 2007\u201317, USA, multiple formats, ca 60 minutes plus discussion<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Presented in collaboration with SAIC\u2019s Video Data Bank<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Evan Meaney<\/strong><\/span> is an artist, game designer, and researcher who teaches new media practices at the University of South Carolina where he serves as head of the Media Arts program. Meaney has been an artist in residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Experimental Television Center, a founding member of GLI.TC\/H, a super juror for IndieCade, a researcher at Oak Ridge National Lab, and a contributor to the <\/span>Atlantic<\/span><\/i>. His creative works have found audiences all over the world, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro, and the US Library of Congress. Currently, Meaney is developing a number of personal projects while collaborating with a team of engineers on virtual reality applications for predictive maintenance. His time-based artworks are available through SAIC\u2019s Video Data Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evan Meaney in person Mixing humor and pathos, the work of new media artist and game designer Evan Meaney meditates on the transience of human experience and its representation in digital media. Meaney often uses corrupted and failing data as source material, exploring human efforts to collect and preserve in the face of entropy. He […]<\/p>\n

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