Don Ritter (artist)

Don Ritter (1959) is a Canadian artist known for his interactive electronic installation works.[1]

For the American politician, see Donald L. Ritter.
Don Ritter
Born1959 (age 61–62)
Camrose, Alberta
NationalityCanadian
Known forinteractive installation,
electronic art
Notable work
Orpheus, Intersection
Websiteaesthetic-machinery.com

Life

Don Ritter was born in 1959 in Camrose, Alberta.[1] He was a professor in the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.[2] Ritter studied electronics engineering at The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, fine arts and psychology at the University of Waterloo, and visual studies at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the MIT Media Lab.

Work

Ritter's work brings together computers, sensors, and the human body to create interactive experiences for audiences.[3] Ritter has said that "the experience of interactive art should be an aesthetically pleasing experience not only for the mind but also for the body".[4] His software Orpheus (1987), which enabled an improvising musician to control the narrative projection of video, is an early example of an interactive video installation.[5] In his 1993 interactive installation Intersection, viewers cross a virtual highway in a large darkroom . The highway is represented by the computer-controlled sound of cars passing and coming to a screeching halt.[6][7][8][9]

Ritter has collaborated with the American trombonist George Lewis.[10]

References
  1. "Artist/Maker Name "Ritter, Don"". Canadian Heritage Information Network. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  2. "Faculty: Don Ritter, Professor". School of Creative Media. City University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  3. Art Inquiry: Recherches Sur Les Arts. Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe. 2003.
  4. Dominic Lopes (10 September 2009). A Philosophy of Computer Art. Routledge. pp. 98–. ISBN 978-1-135-27743-7.
  5. Roger Dean (2003). Hyperimprovisation: Computer-interactive Sound Improvisation. A-R Editions, Inc. pp. 107–. ISBN 978-0-89579-508-3.
  6. Karen Collins; Bill Kapralos; Holly Tessler (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio. Oxford University Press. pp. 266–. ISBN 978-0-19-979722-6.
  7. Arthur Kroker (2004). The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche and Marx. University of Toronto Press. pp. 196–. ISBN 978-0-8020-8573-3.
  8. Robert Rowe (January 2004). Machine Musicianship. MIT Press. pp. 359–. ISBN 978-0-262-68149-0.
  9. Hans-Joachim Braun; International Committee for the History of Technology (2000). Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 217–. ISBN 978-0-8018-6885-6.
  10. "George Lewis CS/EP". UC San Diego. Retrieved 29 May 2016.


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