The Kodak Lectures is an ongoing international lecture series programmed by the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Now in its 28th year, this unique program has featured over 200 photo-based artists, filmmakers, curators, writers and theorists discussing their work in front of an audience made up of the city's cultural community. Since 1975 all of the lectures have been audio taped and are held in the collections of The Mira Godard Study Centre for student reference. The last five years of the lectures have also been videotaped. The purpose of this website is to share information about the series and the speakers through a searchable database offering information in the form of text, images and audio clips. This site was conceived and executed by students and faculty of Ryerson's School of Image Arts. JANIETA EYRE Friday, November 12th @ 7:30pm WALID RA'AD November 26 2004 MICHAEL AWAD February 11 2005 HARMONY KORINE April 01 2005 Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is an electronic artist who work explores the intersections between new technologies, urban spaces, active participation, and what he calls "alien memory". In his most famous piece, Vectorial Elevation, eighteen tele-robotic searchlights were placed on the rooftops of buildings surrounding Zocalo Plaza, the public square of Mexico City. By using a web-accessible interface that provided control of the searchlights, members of the general public were provide the means to design immense outdoor light sculptures. Initially commissioned as part of Mexico's celebration of the arrival of the new millennium, subsequent versions of the project have been presented in Dublin and Lyon. Other works by Lozano-Hemmer include 1000 Platitudes, a project involving the projection of 70 meter high images onto public housing projects, shopping malls, government buildings, corporate headquarters and industrial wastelands and Frequency and Volume a piece which visualizes the public airwaves and allows participants to scan the radio spectrum of the city with their bodies. Lozano-Hemmer's approach to interface design takes into account intuitive understanding and the knowledge that users bring to the project from their everyday experience. His aim is to avoid telling people how to participate with his installations which are intended to allow room for spontaneity and creative adaptation. Although often large in scale, Lozano-Hemmer's installations are designed to create intimate anti-monuments in public spaces. Lozano-Hemmer is currently the recipient of a Canada Council-National Research Council fellowship which will allow him to employ new industrial materials in his interactive installations. Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City and grew up in Montreal where he completed a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry at Concordia University. His work has been show in two dozen countries and has been included in important exhibitions at Art Basel Unlimited, the Liverpool Biennial , the Istanbul Biennial, and the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media. Lozano-Hemmer has given numerous workshops and conference presentations most recently at the MIT Media Lab, the Guggenheim Museum, the Netherlands Architecture Institute, the British National Museum of Photography, and the Art Institute of Chicago and has been honoured with awards from the IDMA ("Best Installation"), I.D. Magazine ("Design Review Gold Award") and Wired Magazine ("Artist/performer of the year").