SPECIAL GUEST: STEFANO CAGOL

Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto

March 16 1998, 7.30 - 9.30 p.m
 
 

Brief introduction by Stefano Cagol
 

Good evening, my name is Stefano Cagol. Firstly, I would like to thank you for this Opportunity, and your time. This is the brief introduction to some of my ideas about Art and New Media.

I'm interested in the exploration of technological Systems. More so the elaboration, to verify within the report for new possibilities in expression of technology within society.

Generically, the artist experiments with the media empirically. He trusts and relies upon his sensibility. The Artist introduces himself in relation to society through a common filter. 

For the Artist the dialog with the technician (intimate composition, and fabrication of the hardware) is really significant.

The art explores function of the human condition. This condition is profoundly mutated by the new technology.

It is necessary to transcend the creativity, meaning, to apply the artistic research not only at the closed System of Art, but have more interaction with the real world, and I think that is possible only through the new media in which the Technological Human Universe is presently undergoing.

Now I present to you one of my diversions.

The Title: ENTROPIA - In Theory of Information, Measured To The Degree of Scarcely Distributed Information within Signal.
 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND PARTICIPATION AT THIS TIME, AND I WOULD ESPECIALLY LIKE TO THANK DR. LISS JEFFREY, M. JAMES MERCER AND THE McLUHAN PROGRAM IN CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY OF TORONTO.