Erin Gee (artist)

Erin Gee
Born Erin Marie Gee
Nationality Canadian
Education University of Regina, Concordia University
Known for composition, new media art
Notable work Orpheux Larynx
Website http://www.eringee.net/

Erin Gee (artist) is a Canadian artist based in Montreal. She is known for new media artworks and electroacoustic music composition and her art is inspired by technology and emotions, for example creating music and moving machinery inspired by recordings of heart rate and anxiety.[1][2][3] Her works have been shown and performed internationally. Gee is currently an Assistant Professor at Concordia University where she teaches in the Department of Communications.[4]

Career

Gee's art includes works for performance, interactive installation, multichannel audio, robotics, video, print media, and interactive sculpture.[1]

As part of her work, Gee has become a self-taught robotics specialist, measuring "actors’ sweat production, heart rate, blood flow and breathing — all indicators of heightened emotions — to create the data for a computer program that transfers the data into musical notes and triggers a performance from her tubular bell-outfitted robots."[5] This informs her work titled Swarming Emotional Pianos, which includes a video of two actors responding to vocal commands of fear, anger, joy.[5] This work was created in collaboration with Vaughan Macefield, an Australian neurophysiologist and presented on December 13, 2014 as part of the Innovations en Concert series in Montreal, QC.[6] The work titled Orpheux Larynx was created in collaboration with Stelarc as a vocal performance for three choral robots and human soprano singer.

Education

Gee graduated from the University of Regina with a Bachelor of Music Education degree in 2006 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2009. She graduated from Concordia University in 2014 with an Master of Fine Arts degree.

Exhibitions and Performances

Year Title Gallery / Event Location Notes
2016 Vocales Digitales Hamilton Artists' Inc Hamilton, ON Solo exhibition
2015 Larynx Series Dunlop Art Gallery Regina, SK
2015 What Can a Vocaloid Do? Trinity Square Video Toronto, ON
2015 Flesh of the World Musée d’art Contemporain de Montreal (MACM) Montreal, QC
2014 Swarming Emotional Pianos v1.0 Innovations en Concert at Eastern Bloc Montreal, QC
2014 7 Nights of Unspeakable Truth Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts +15 Calgary, AB
2014 Erin Gee and Kelly Andres Cirque du Soleil Headquarters Montreal, QC
2013 Et si les robots mangaient les pommes Maison des Arts de Laval Laval, QC
2013 Practice Practice Toronto Nuit Blanche Toronto, ON
2013 Seven Nights of Unspeakable Truth Espace[IM]Média Festival Sherbrooke, QC
2012 Interactions Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery Montreal, QC
2012 Digital Interdisciplinations Tin Sheds Gallery Sydney, Australia
2012 Larynx Nuit Blanche, Art Souterrain Montreal, QC
2012 Voice of Echo Gallerywest Toronto, ON
2011 Uncanny Sound TACTIC Cork, Ireland
2011 Orpheux Larynx Powerhouse Museum Sydney, Australia
2011 Live/Afterlives La Centrale Montreal, QC
2011 Gen@Next Art Gallery of Regina Regina, SK
2010 Post-Human//Future Tense Arcade Gallery Columbia College, Chicago
2010 Lucide Neutral Ground Art Gallery Regina, SK
2010 Combine Harbourfront Centre Toronto, ON
2009 uCuE presents Strictement Multivoie: hear and there, then and now Oscar Peterson Concert Hall Montreal, QC
2009 Mind the Gap! Dunlop Art Gallery Regina, SK
2009 SoundLAB VI FILE Electric Language International Festival Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009 Trivial Pursuits: Mass Distraction Interaccess Toronto, ON

References

  1. 1 2 Oyler, Lauren (December 16, 2014). "Erin Gee Makes Feminist Robots That Respond to Human Emotion". Vice Magazine. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  2. "Bridging the gap between body and technology". Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. February 23, 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  3. Ojiaku, Princess (December 14, 2014). "Science with Moxie - Erin Gee blends emotions, science, music, and robotic pianos". Scientific American (archived). Archived from the original on December 15, 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  4. "Faculty". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  5. 1 2 "Erin Gee makes biological art with Swarming Emotional Pianos". www.cbc.ca. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  6. Arts, Rocketday. "Innovations en concert :: Erin Gee: Swarming Emotional Pianos". Innovations en concert. Retrieved 2016-03-13.

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