Please join us for the Spring MFA Studio Critic Lecture and Critiques series! There are many lectures and critiques open to the public. See schedule below or website at: uiucmfastudiocritiques.pbworks.com
About MFA Critiques:
Each semester, MFA Studio Graduate Students in the School of Art and Design are invited to present and discuss their current work in the MFA Studio Critiques. Almost all of these critiques are open to the public and specifically include a guest critic, graduate faculty, and other graduate students. These conversations are designed to provide critical and constructive feedback, assist in the development of participants studio research and practice, and support the sustainable production of ideas and things among the MFA Studio community.
Schedule and Critics:
APRIL 12/13: CHRISTIANE PAUL, Curator/Critic
Lecture: Thursday, April 12 5:30pm [A+D 107]
Public + Individual Studio Critiques: Friday, April 13
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ABOUT:
Christiane Paul is the Director of Media Studies Graduate Programs and
Associate Prof. of Media Studies at The New School, NY, and Adjunct
Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She
has written extensively on new media arts and lectured internationally
on art and technology. Her recent books are Context Providers –
Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (Intellect, 2011), co-edited with
Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna; New Media in the White Cube and
Beyond (UC Press, 2008); and Digital Art (Thames and Hudson 2003;
expanded new edition 2008). At the Whitney Museum, she curated the
shows “Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools” (May 2011), “Profiling” (2007), and
“Data Dynamics” (2001); the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney
Biennial; the online exhibition “CODeDOC” (2002) for artport, the
Whitney Museum’s online portal to Internet art for which she is
responsible; as well as “Follow Through” by Scott Paterson and
Jennifer Crowe (2005). Other recent curatorial work includes “Eduardo
Kac: Biotopes, Lagoglyphs and Transgenic Works” (Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, 2010); Biennale Quadrilaterale (Rijeka, Croatia, 2009-10);
“Feedforward – The Angel of History” (co-curated with Steve Dietz;
Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Asturias,
Spain, 2009-2010) and INDAF Digital Art Festival (Incheon, Korea, Aug.
2009). Dr. Paul has previously taught in the MFA computer arts
department at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1999-2008); the
Digital+Media Department of the Rhode Island School of Design
(2005-08); the San Francisco Art Institute and the Center of New Media
at the University of California at Berkeley (2008).
APRIL 19/20: PEDRO VELEZ, Artist/Critic
Lecture: Thursday, April 19, 5:30pm [A+D 107]
Public MFA Studio Critiques: Friday, April 20
About:
Pedro Veléz (b. Puerto Rico, 1971) Obtained his M.F.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his B.A. in Communications at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico. His work adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, incorporating art criticism, painting, large scale wall collages, web-based works and sculpture. Since 1999 Pedro Vélez has channeled moral coercion and political corruption by producing fake exhibition announcements, developing on-going fictional narratives, publishing art journals and creating itinerant presentations with the group FGA (a.k.a Fucking Good Art).
Recent solo shows include The Day of the Corrupt at Western Exhibitions, Chicago (2009); Epilepsy and Pegatina and Adult Porn, Plush Gallery in Dallas (2007); Godfuck at Galeria Comercial, San Juan (2006). Special projects for Art Fairs include: Hell in LAMB UC for NADA Art Fair (2005) and Art LA (2007). He’s been included in group shows at Magnan Metz Gallery, Museo del Barrio, and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in NYC; Locust Projects in Miami; The Soap Factory in Minneapolis. His work has been discussed in Frieze, Art Lies, The Chicago Tribune, New City, Miami Herald among many other publications.
APRIL 26/27: LIZ COHEN, Artist
Lecture: Thursday, April 26, 5:30pm A+D 107
Public MFA Studio Critiques: Friday, April 27
about:
Liz Cohen is a visual artist whose work has been shown throughout the United States and Europe, including solo exhibitions at Salon 94 (New York), the University of Arizona (Tucson), the University of Texas (El Paso), Galerie Laurent Godin (Paris), and Fargfabriken (Stockholm). Recently, she was included in Autobody (Ballroom Marfa), Car Fetish. I Drive Therefore I Am (Museum Tinguely, Basel), and Femme Objet/Femme Sujet (Centre de Art Contemporain, Maymac). Cohen is represented by Salon 94, and Galerie Laurent Godin, and currently is an artist-in-residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art.
