Paul Shortt Featured in Interlife Crisis at Fictilis in Seattle

artgradstudentorg — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:29:37 +0000

Paul Shortt’s work ROFL CON, which is a hand-cut carpet that says roll on the floor laughing will be included in Interlife Crisis at Fictilis in Seattle.

Here is more info on the show:

Interlife Crisis

Opening reception Thursday April 5th 6-9pm. Closing reception Friday April 27th 6-9pm.

Featuring work by:

Liat Berdugo
Gregory Chatonsky
Tom Estes
Anthony Fader
Timothy Furstnau
Ollie Glatzer
Gabriel Harp
Lori Hepner
Faith Holland
Antoinette Lafarge
Rebecca Nagle
Jody Oesterreicher
Liz Rodda
Paul Shortt
Joel Swanson
Daniel Temkin
Julia Vallera
Heather Warren-Crow

An infinite loop of questions from Yahoo Answers randomly paired and spoken by a computer as rhyming couplets. Dozens of girls doing the splits to the accompaniment of Billy Joel’s “Just The Way You Are” performed by a man who is definitely not Billy Joel. A woman creating a Photoshopped version of her own face as a mask, and then wearing it around. Dots per inch writ large. “Hypernatural Airffiti”. An artist who will do whatever the internet tells her to do for fifteen minutes. Lady Gaga’s live Twitter feed translated into Morse code and beamed out to Pioneer Square. Tweets tagged “confession” broadcast out into the street. Abstract portraits created by translating Twitter posts into binary code that controls the output of a spinning LED. Drawings of photographs from the OkCupid profiles of people who have looked at the artist’s OkCupid profile which are then photographed being held by the artist while imitating the person’s facial expression and then emailed to the OkCupid member who posted the original photograph. The roles of World of Warcraft avatar and real-world player, switched. A woman on a screen whose mood is controlled by live CNN headlines. Elongated silk stoles consisting of four different-colored threads representing the nucleotides A,U,C, and G, woven in sequence to exhibit the full human mitochondrial genome. A printed directory of every internet domain beginning with the word “serious”. (Seriously.) A large, hand-cut carpet which reads “Rolling On the Floor Laughing”….

MFA Open Studios as part of Boneyard Arts Festival

artgradstudentorg — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:59:52 +0000

Boneyard Arts Festival is this weekend!!!
Thursday: U of I Campus
Friday: Champaign
Saturday: Urban
Sunday: Out & About
for more info go to http://www.40north.org/events/festival.html

On Sunday come down to South Studios for UIUC MFA students’ OPEN STUDIO EVENT 1-5pm located at 2116 S Griffith Dr. We will be putting up an inflatable dome from the workshop with visiting artist Olivia Robinson from last fall.

Link to Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/350105431705591/

MFA show 2012 public events

artgradstudentorg — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:50:25 +0000

The 2012 Master of Fine Arts exhibition is currently on view in the Krannert Art Museum and features the work of Will Arnold, Justin Farkas, Daniel Krueger, Erica Leohner, Brian Liang, Maria Lux, Nicholas Mullins, Eric Suh, Nicki Werner, Sarah Beth Woods, and Michael Woody. In addition to the opening reception, the graduate office is organizing a short series of public events for the purpose of highlighting MFA research and practice. Please join us!

MFA SHOW 2012: PUBLIC EVENTS!

Wednesday, April 25, 12-1:30pm KAM East Gallery
MFA Artist Gallery Talks with: Nick Mullins, Erica Leohner, Sarah Beth Woods, Will Arnold, Dan Krueger, Michael Woody

Thursday, April 26, 12-1:30pm KAM East Gallery
MFA Artist Presentations with: Nicki Werner, Maria Lux, Justin Farkas
http://www.uiucmfa2012.info/

UIUC SCHOOL OF ART + DESIGN MFA EXHIBITION 2012

artgradstudentorg — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:38:29 +0000

Will Arnold, Untitled (from Whistling in the Dark), Archival Inkjet Print, 30"x40", 2012

Dan Krueger "Egg Slicer"

Maria Lux, Predator Project Installation view
Oil on paper, stereoscopic images and viewers, monoprint, wood, wall text
2012

Join us for the opening of the annual MFA Thesis Exhibition!

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF ART + DESIGN MFA 2012

KRANNERT ART MUSEUM
500 E. PEABODY DR., CHAMPAIGN, IL 61820
APRIL 14–29, 10A–6P

MFA EXHIBITION 2012
OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday April 14, 2012, 5–7P at the Krannert Art Museum
located at 500 E. Peabody Dr. Champaign IL.

Featuring works by Will Arnold, Justin Farkas, Daniel Krueger, Erica Leohner,
Brian Liang, Maria Lux, Nicholas Mullins, Eric Suh,
Nicki Werner, Sarah Beth Woods, Michael Woody

exhibition website:
http://uiucmfa2012.info/

Facebook event link

n to Watch: Xinran Yuan | Pine, Cedar, etc. Facing North

artgradstudentorg — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:02:49 +0000

Join us for the opening of :

PINE, CEDAR, ETC. FACING NORTH

featuring new work by Xinran Yuan

as part of the “n to Watch series” at Figure One Gallery
RECEPTION — Friday, April 13th, 6-9pm
Exhibition will be on view April 6th-18th.
Gallery Hours:
Wed: 12pm – 4pm
Thu – Sat: 5pm – 9 pm

Xinran Yuan was born in 1987 in Tianjin, China. She received her B.A. degree in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 2010. Yuan’s artistic inquiry is rooted in her investigation of architectural space and poetic language. Her sculptures often acknowledge raw materials and their capacity of meaning. Having spent most of her time living by the ocean, these days her work addresses issues of dislocation and navigation, madness and disappearances at sea.

www.xinranyuan.com

Gallery Website Link

Facebook event Link

Spring MFA Studio Critic Lecture and Critiques series

artgradstudentorg — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:21:41 +0000

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

Facebook event link

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.

“You, I, You, See” exhibition update

artgradstudentorg — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:07:20 +0000

The art studio graduate students would like to thank everyone who came out to our exhibition “You, I, You, See” and also thanks to everyone who helped make it possible!

exhibition website: youiyousee.com

photos by Will Arnold

Visiting Artist/Scholar: Matthew Fuller

artgradstudentorg — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:32:27 +0000

Artist, scholar, and programmer Matthew Fuller, from Goldsmiths College in London, will be visiting campus to share from his exciting work as critic, artist and educator, delivering two talks: one about his work as an artist and one from his scholarship on software and computing studies.

Matthew Fuller and I/O/D: The Web Stalker

Talk No.1 / VISITING ARTIST LECTURE
https://www.facebook.com/events/110053502458484/

Wednesday March 28, 4pm
Art and Design Building 107
408 E Peabody Drive, Champaign

This talk will run through Fuller’s work as part of groups such as I/O/D and Mongrel in which software and the internet become contexts, to more recent projects such as Digger Barley and Requiem for Cod, in which ecological interests come to the fore, as too the question of the possibility of art for non-human animals. Alongside such projects the talk will discuss the relation of art practice to different forms of theory and to fiction, through a discussion of books such as Elephant and Castle and projects such as Moving Forest.

Talk No.2 / KNOTTY PROBLEMS IN THE FABLES OF COMPUTING
https://www.facebook.com/events/202275393209882/

Thursday March 29, 4pm
126 LIS Building
501 E. Daniel St, Champaign

Computer Science has a number of classic problems, such as the Travelling Salesman’s Problem and the Dining Philosophers Problem that have been developed over time as abstract versions of real engineering conditions in which resource allocation, of memory, of bandwidth, and so on, must be made. Such knotty problems are part of the iteration of one of the central problems in computing, that of speed and intractability as it unfolds in relation to computing applications. In themselves these problems are profound and fascinating micro-worlds that work in the “timeless” worlds of fables, but they also have significant conceptual and practical spill-over involving spatial, social and aesthetic dimensions. This talk will attempt to draw out some of their implications for politics and art.

Biography
Matthew Fuller is author of various books including ‘Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and technoculture’, (MIT) ‘Behind the Blip, essays on the culture of software’ and ‘Elephant & Castle’. (both Autonomedia) With Usman Haque, he is co-author of ‘Urban Versioning System v1.0′ (ALNY) and with Andrew Goffey, co-author of the forthcoming ‘Evil Media’. (MIT) Editor of ‘Software Studies, a lexicon’, (MIT) and co-editor of the new Software Studies series from MIT Press and of the journal Computational Culture, he is involved in a number of projects in art, media and software and is a Reader at the Centre for Cultural Studies Goldsmiths, University of London.

Sponsors
SORF
GSLIS
HASTAC@Illinois
Center for People and Infrastructures

You, I, You, See

artgradstudentorg — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:55:20 +0000

download PDF of press release here

Exhibition website: youiyousee.com

Gallery website: http://coprosperity.org/

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/191658054276127/

Grosser Wins Creative Divergents Award

artgradstudentorg — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:39:18 +0000

Ben Grosser's Interactive Robotic Painting Machine (2011)

Ben Grosser has won the Winter 2011 Creative Divergents Award for his 2011 work Interactive Robotic Painting Machine. The competition was juried by Nick Rodrigues, Flounder Lee, Lin Zhang, and Dawn Graham. In addition to the jury, the competition included a public component where anyone could vote on and comment about the entries. The award includes a $1000 cash prize.