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05.17.2011

BYOB – Redline Gallery

I will be performing my visual Instrument at Redline gallery tonight from 7-9PM for the Denver BYOB (Bring your own Beamer) event. Tyler Kellog will also be performing a new projected work as we share our projector.

category: Exhibitions (selected)
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04.25.2011

The artificially natural art of Bryan Leister blurs borders – The Denver Post

The Denver Post’s Kyle MacMillan review of my show at Ironton : The artificially natural art of Bryan Leister blurs borders – The Denver Post. Quoting from the review:

In his tech-driven, boundary- blurring art, Bryan Leister creates hermetic, contemplative worlds which draw inspiration from nature yet, ironically, are manufactured and artificial.
In his tech-driven, boundary- blurring art, Bryan Leister creates hermetic, contemplative worlds which draw inspiration from nature yet, ironically, are manufactured and artificial.
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In the most attention-grabbing of the seven offerings, “intervention [0],” he uses video- game technology to create an interactive work in which a pair of pincers, hovering above a kind of petri dish, shift according to the movements of viewers in front of it.

Read the entire interview at the The Denver Post.

category: Reviews and Interviews
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03.13.2011

Uncategorized

Uncategorized will be Bryan Leister’s first solo exhibition in Denver since relocating here from the Washington DC area. The exhibit will be at Ironton Gallery April 8 – May 15. The installation will include in transit, an interactive installation exhibited at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2010 which includes sensor-driven video, drawings on paper, digitally created sculptures and a new figurative painting. Large-scale prints and a new interactive work (screen shot above) created for this exhibition will explore the topic of perception and our relationship to digitally created forms.

Leister’s work covers a broad range of media, reflecting his background in design and digital art. “Uncategorized” explores organic structures and questions the classification of the organic/manufactured through procedurally generated forms and user interactions. Ernst Haeckel, in Art Forms of Nature, implied that a designed aesthetic was at work in living organisms. Many of the forms in “Uncategorized” are generated through systems of mathematics and repetition, with the resulting form becoming living and manufactured simultaneously.

When: April 8th thru May 14th, 2011

Opening Reception: Friday, April 8th , 6-10 pm
Open First Friday May 6th, 7-10 pm

Where: Ironton Studios and Gallery
3636 Chestnut
Denver, Co 80216
irontonstudios.com

category: new work, realtime, Solo Exhibitions
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02.12.2011

Mouse of Amherst

A game-driven visual that I designed will be part of Jane Franklin’s dance performance this Wednesday at the Kennedy Center Millenium Stage. You can view the performance in person or through the Kennedy Center live feed at 6PM EST. My animations are stylized Black and White children’s book looking artwork originally created for the Mouse of Amherst.

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12.04.2010

Mouse of Amherst

The Mouse of Amherst
adapted from the book by Elizabeth Spires
A performance for children
Theatre on the Run, Arlington
Dec 4 at 11:00 am and 1:00 pm, Dec 5 at 1:00 pm

From the Jane Franklin Dance Company:

After a successful premier weekend in October, the show repeats featuring Bryan Leister?s gaming technology projections and original music by Paul Musso, Mark Sylvester and Steve Rogers. An unlikely friendship develops between Emily Dickinson and a lively mouse. Children learn that everyone can write about their feelings and even a mouse can create poetry. Adapted from the book by Elizabeth Spires, this engaging new work will the spark imagination and delight children and adults.

category: Performances, realtime
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11.13.2010

Out of Sorts: Typography and Print Culture

A pop-up children’s book that I illustrated with Nancy Willard is mentioned in a new book by Joseph A. Dane – Out of Sorts: Typography and Print Culture about the history and assumptions about typography that is illustrated in my children’s book.

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10.21.2010

Mouse of Amherst

A piece that I recently completed for the Jane Franklin Dance company. Click on the image for a web version of the game with instructions for navigating through the piece. Using game engine technology I have created set animations and scenes, commonly referred to as ‘cut-scenes’. These are not pre-recorded animations, but are real-time motions where the outcome will never be the same twice.

I chose a stylized visual approach to blend with the dancers motions. A video is available from a recent Kennedy Center Millenium Stage performance.

category: Performances, realtime
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09.13.2010

Toltec Totem

An augmented reality game for the iPhone/iPad played by moving through the Denver Botanical Gardens Moore exhibition. To play you will move around the gardens and position yourself near the artwork, triggering events in the game world. The game connected users to a GoogleMap which had the locations of the Henry Moore Sculptures entered in as GPS coordinates. As the player moved through the gardens, the relative location of their body would trigger and animate the totems located within the application.

category: Juried Art Exhibitions
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07.26.2010

Festival Animator 2010

My film, P.R. was invited to be screened at the Festival Animator 2010 in Poznan, Poland as part of the Black Maria compilation reel.

“Since the first Animator we have tried to present animated film in all of its diversity, neither neglecting narratives nor “ballets of light”, nor anything in between. Lovers of large productions based on verbal stories will find in this year’s program, among other works, the beautiful fable by Michael Ocelota “Azur and Asmar”. From the other end of the spectrum we will view the latest works of American independent artists – including George Griffin, Joanna Priestley and Emy Kravitz—who often experiment with methods of narration and means of expression. …”

Marcin Gizycki
Artistic Director of the festival”

category: Juried Film Exhibitions
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05.30.2010

Skating Still at 60X60 Dance!

Skating Still presented at Order of Magnitude 60X60 DANCE! at FoFA Gallery, Concordia University Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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