James Seawright, Tech Director of CMC, 1936-2022

Sunday, April 10, 2022 - 5:00pm

On Feb.12, 2022 James Seawright passed away.  Alice Shields writes:

In addition to being one of the foremost technological artists since the late 1960s with works in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum, and professor and director of visual arts at Princeton until his retirement in 2009, Jim was Technical Supervisor at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center from 1963 to 1969, which is where I met him.  

Through his creativity in both engineering and the arts, his intelligence, kindness, humor and imagination, Jim was an important influence on the technical and artistic quality of the Center under the direction of Vladimir Ussachevsky, in addition to the superb work of engineer Virgilio de Carvalho and founding engineer Peter Mauzey.  I and Pril Smiley were instructors and associate directors of the Center.  Jim was a delight to work with and is fondly remembered. 

There will be a memorial celebration for James Seawright, with videos of his artworks:

Sunday April 10, 2022 at 5 p.m.
219 West 19th St., NYC
New York Live Arts (between 7th and 8th Avenues)

 

If you would like to attend, please email mimigarrard [at] gmail.com

Please note: Attendance will be limited to 100 persons.