“Collections” will be showing at Redline Gallery in Denver as part of the “Notes on Feeling” exhibition.
Notes on Feeling
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University of Denver Continuing Education Lecture
On Wednesday I will present as part of DU Olli class lecture series led by Christine Obermeier.
Creativity As A Tool for Social Progress Presentation
Tonight I will be presenting at the Master of Humanities/ Master of Social Sciences Program spring 2012 symposium – Creativity As A Tool for Social Progress at Redline Gallery.
Colorado Creative Fair Workshop
Join me for a 75 minute workshop presentation on 3D interactive design at the Colorado Creative Festival. I will go over creating 3D assets for gaming and then bringing the assets into a video game engine.
Download the lesson files here : WorkshopFiles.zip
Pierre L’Enfant exhibition
My portrait of Pierre L’Enfant will be in an exhibition called “Someday in the Park with George: The National Ideas Competition for the Washington Monument Grounds.”
The exhibition will be April 12-June 24, 2012 at the Virginia Center for Architecture and is being curated and produced by a team of Museum Studies students from George Washington University.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.