Marcia Lyons
www.critical-mas.tv
www.artcritical.com/studiovisit/SWLyons.htm
www.mediartspace.cornell.edu

Marcia Lyons is an experimental media-maker interested in developing a synthesis between traditional media and digital processes. She is the former head of Digital Media Fine Arts at Cornell University and producer and CEO of CRITICAL+MAS. TV, an online multimedia art showcase of multimedia art.

Lyons uses computer programming to create DVD paintings that are shown on plasma screens. One such work, Liquid Fiction (2002-2003), generates self-propagating growth forms.

A recipient of the Rome Prize and National Endowment of the Arts awards, Lyons has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. She served as director of MEDIAARTSPACE, a live broadcast curatorial crossing of media arts projects from the MFA program at Cornell. Alexandre de Folin Gallery in New York, where a series of seeded bodies was recently shown, represents her. She currently divides her time between her lab in Ithaca, New York and her studio in New York City.

Lecture:
DOING THE MATH: Skinning a Space
Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 12:30 p.m. in Langford C105

Lyons will explore the use of multi-media, video, animation and motion graphics to generate, develop, refine and represent vibe interiors, the impulse that is the locus of her work. Creating what she calls rejuvenative treatments, or surface treatments for interiors, Lyons said she is drawn to the
concept of a feeling space. By combining painting
concepts with cinema experience for projection on architectural surfaces the artist said she could choose a background to her foreground.

"I believe that light, tone and color have effects on our well being in contemporary life, said Lyons. More choice allows the viewer to experience more, a new alternative living style."

Workshop:
Feeling a Space: Future Inhabitable Walls

Lyons workshop will allow participating artists to become more aware of their own sensibilities through new media through the projection of what Lyons calls life size visual essentials. The artists will combine images and sound with software and video/camera notations, then integrate these components into visually cued wall surfaces.

The workshop will also consider counterintuitive form by examining the relationship between surface experience and inner sensation. Students work will be broadcast as a curatorial project on CRITICAL+MAS.TV.