This week!  Renowned Maine interactive installation artist, Amy Stacey Curtis, will be featured presenter for a night of interactive discussion and fun -- with MaineUX!

Come have a drink, mingle, learn, discuss, explore!

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6:00-8:00pm
Location: Ri-Ra
Portland ME
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What:  Interaction in art and design: from passive recipients to active participants

Who: Amy Stacey Curtis & MaineUX*

When: Wednesday June 11 - 6 to 8pm
           6:00-6:30 snax and drinx
           6:30-8:00 presentation, slides, discussion

Where: Ri-RA (upstairs - back room)
72 Commercial Street
Portland ME

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"Without your participation, my work is incomplete" -- Amy Stacey Curtis

Amy Stacey Curtis is known for her interactive installations, which she believes only come into being fully when the audience interacts with them.

The talk will focus on her collaborative interactive artworks as well as her recent "emerging artist" exhibition at Colby College. That exhibition featured a series of colored circles (sorted and arranged according to a series of algorithms) which she had museum "participants" rearrange and re-sort the colors in other patterns. With masters' both in art and psychology Amy says her "preoccupation is with the balance of order, chaos, and repetition."

Amy's MaineUX talk will delve into into her interesting perspective on the artist/designer and their interaction with viewers/users, who she prefers to engage with as "participants."  Her work stands on its own, but she's of particular interest to MaineUXers in terms re-thinking the relationship between designer and "recipients" or "users" of our designs--instead: being active participants in our design thinking, processes, and products.

In addition to the installation at Colby, Amy is known for large interactive biennial exhibitions usually held in abandoned warehouses and mills. Her next biennial is this October, and called Light.  Among other things, Curtis
says, "Light" will involve creating a giant platform of pony beads that participants will handle. Colby's Museum director has remarked on how she was moved she is by "the way Amy Stacey Curtis gives her pieces over to her audience...this notion of being an artist who can actually hand over an artwork to an audience and really let go of it was something revolutionary!"

Note:
If you can't make the event, but want to be involved in the future, email!


Also: RSVP = good.


*What's MaineUX? MaineUX is a growing community reflecting the “big-tent” of UX, usability, information architecture, design of many stripes-—visual, interaction, UI, web, games, software, intranets, industrial—stretching across the frontiers of social networking, new media, collaborativeand creative tech, web 2.0, user-centric IT, search, findability, information design, creative content strategizy, SEO/SEM, online marketing, agile and nimble programming, library & information science, elearning, and more! MaineUX welcomes everyone designing dynamic, memorable, and meaningful user experiences in Maine!
 
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