Geoffrey Alan Rhodes
Assistant Professor
Department of Visual Communication Design
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Biography
Geoffrey Alan Rhodes is an Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. He works across disciplines to create experiences that challenge the borders between the real and the imaginary, documentary and narrative, the actual and the fictional.
Abstract
This will be a presentation about Augmented Reality in the form of Augmented Reality. Geoffrey Alan Rhodes has been presenting a series of mediated lectures on the subject at the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Chicago, the Society of Literature and Science and the Arts, and other venues. Each is a unique production and performance in which a pre-‐recorded performance of the lecture and its figures are performed live as a ‘card trick’ of AR markers. An example presentation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago can be viewed here.
In this specific, original iteration, the performer will explore and discuss the relationship of narrative and its new forms in relationship to the concept of temporal montage in cinema and its new manifestations in the digital age, especially the combination of Virtual and Real in ARt and the spatial/conceptual montages it engenders. This is an ‘After-Cinema’ presentation which seeks to deconstruct the landscape of contemporary media by presenting it within its own form.