CADVC News / Eventstag:www.umbc.edu,2014:/blogs/cadvc//492014-09-16T21:23:38ZMovable Type 3.34VISIBILITY MACHINES: HARUN FAROCKI AND TREVOR PAGLEN Presented at VERTIGO OF REALITYtag:www.umbc.edu,2014:/blogs/cadvc//49.176482014-09-16T21:09:50Z2014-09-16T21:23:38Z Akademie der Künste, Berlin September 16 – December 14, 2014 Opening: September 16, 2014, 7pm http://www.schwindelderwirklichkeit.de/ How does today’s art alter reality? How do aesthetic production and political, social space interact with each other? With VERTIGO OF REALITY, the...Alexandra Macchi
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
September 16 – December 14, 2014
Opening: September 16, 2014, 7pm
http://www.schwindelderwirklichkeit.de/
How does today’s art alter reality? How do aesthetic production and political, social space interact with each other? With VERTIGO OF REALITY, the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, examines the construction and deconstruction of reality in the arts. The profound changes in artistic practice as a result of new media, in particular digitalization, have resulted in a stream of new strategies tackling how to construct or deconstruct reality in and with art, attempting to make a contribution to enlightenment and resistance through critical appraisal. The project seeks answers to the question of the beholder’s repositioning between artwork and reality, highlights key concepts such as participation and interactivity, and fathoms changes to our self-determination which affect all areas of modern life.
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VERTIGO OF REALITY includes an extensive exhibition, the Metabolic Office for the Repair of Reality, and a packed program of events with more than 40 lectures, performances, conferences, concerts, workshops and guided tours. The exhibition presents artistic strategies and methods of working which focus on the viewer’s perception. The artwork materializes only in and through the viewers themselves.
Presented within this framework, VISIBILITY MACHINES explores the unique roles Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen play as meticulous observers of the global military industrial complex. Investigating forms of surveillance, espionage, war-making, and weaponry, Farocki and Paglen each examine the deceptive and clandestine ways in which military projects have deeply transformed, and politicized, our relationship to images and the realities they seem to represent. The exhibition initiates critical questions about the crucial part images play in revealing essential but largely concealed information affecting civilian life, and places the oeuvres of Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen within the broader cultural and historical developments of the media they are creatively working with, namely photography, film, and new media.
VISIBILITY MACHINES: HARUN FAROCKI AND TREVOR PAGLEN is curated by Niels Van Tomme and organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at UMBC, Baltimore. The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Harun Farocki, 1944-2014.
Public program: Wednesday September 17, 2014:
6pm: Niels Van Tomme in conversation with Johannes Odenthal
7pm: Trevor Paglen in conversation with Niels Van Tomme
8pm: Screening – ‘Erkennen und Verfolgen’ (War at a Distance), Harun Farocki, 2003
Akademie der Künste
Hanseatenweg 10
10557 Berlin
Germany
+49 (0)30200572000
Tom Scott, Retrospectivetag:www.umbc.edu,2014:/blogs/cadvc//49.176422014-09-06T21:01:52Z2014-09-06T21:15:21Z Thursday, October 9 – Saturday, December 13 A free opening reception will be held for this exhibition in the CADVC on Thursday October 9 from 5 until 7 p.m. Tom Scott’s career as an artist spanned more than 60...Alexandra Macchi
Thursday, October 9 – Saturday, December 13
A free opening reception will be held for this exhibition in the CADVC on Thursday October 9 from 5 until 7 p.m.
Tom Scott’s career as an artist spanned more than 60 years, from the early 1950s through the first decade of this century. His output is remarkable not only for its temporal span but for its quantity and qualities, amounting to over 3,000 by his death at age 85 in March 2013. It is also remarkable for the particular span of time it covers: a unique time that saw the ascendancy of American art on the world stage for the first time and an extraordinarily fertile period of general artistic invention worldwide that included the creation and maturing of important sub-movements of modernism, and simultaneously the beginning of post modern tendencies in art.
But the welter of trends and movements largely left Scott unaffected after his work in abstract expressionism in the 1950s, as he resolutely marched to his own drummer, even while well aware of the flux around him. We sense in his work something apart from the mainstream and major movements, yet not at all reactionary or retrogressive. As an inveterate experimenter, his work has a complexity that defies easy categorization. ]]>
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Foreign Ad Agency “Pops-Up” in Highlandtowntag:www.umbc.edu,2014:/blogs/cadvc//49.175982014-05-30T16:55:27Z2014-05-30T17:21:00ZEver wonder what it is like to suddenly experience a new culture and not understand the language, customs, products, or food? Artist and CADVC graduate research assistant, Victor Torres, invites you to his mock design agency, where products are developed...Sandra Abbotthttp://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/
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Hours and Location:
Saturday, May 31st
3-5pm
3320 Eastern Ave., Baltimore, MD 21224
(Located on the northwest corner of Highland and Eastern Avenues in the former Horton’s House of Tuxedos location.)
Victor F. de M. Torres
Victor F. de M. Torres is an interdisciplinary, multimedia, performance artist born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is currently a research assistant and MFA candidate at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Victor Torres has a bachelor’s of arts in Socio-cultural Anthropology. His work is concerned with the construction of ‘common sense’ and parameters of the ‘foreign,’ focusing primarily on the derivation, creation, and dissemination of meaning prior to social agreement. He is an organizer of Glitter Thighs among other projects such as Rooms Fall Apart and Transmodern.
UMBC’s Center for Arts Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)
CADVC is a non-profit organization dedicated to organizing comprehensive exhibitions, the publication of catalogs, CDs, DVDs, and books on the arts, and educational and community outreach projects. The Center's programs serve as a forum for exploring the social and aesthetic issues of the day. The Center is committed to rethinking the relationship between art institutions and the public, offering extensive educational outreach initiatives and public programs, often in partnership with a variety of educational and cultural institutions.
HIGHLANDTOWN A&E DISTRICT (ha!):
ha! is the largest Arts & Entertainment District in the state, ha! encompasses Highlandtown, Patterson Park, and portions of Canton and Greektown. ha! offers artists the opportunity to live and work in one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the city. ha! boasts Southeast’s largest collection of retail and industrial spaces, along with affordable housing and a convenient location, easily accessible from I-95, I- 895, Fells Point and Downtown. ha! is home of the Creative Alliance at The Patterson, the Southeast Anchor Library, several galleries, artist studios, and retail shops with a variety of activities happening year round including the Halloween Lantern Parade, the Highlandtown Farmer's Market, Annual Artist Studio Tours, Sculpture in the Park, the Highlandtown Wine Festival, and the Highlandtown Basement Bar Tour.
Southeast Community Development Corporation (SECDC):
SECDC is the oldest community development corporation in Baltimore City operating a premier housing counseling program and a unique combination of private and public programs that focus on the revitalization of Southeast Baltimore. SECDC stimulates investment, improves public spaces, promotes homeownership and improves quality of life in select neighborhoods. Southeast CDC is the coordinator of Highlandtown Main Street and Highlandtown Arts & Entertainment District.
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SENIOR EXIT EXHIBITIONtag:www.umbc.edu,2014:/blogs/cadvc//49.175862014-05-15T19:38:12Z2014-05-15T19:49:51ZMay 20 — June 14, 2014 The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the 2014 Senior Exit Exhibition. This exhibition reflects the interdisciplinary orientation and the technological focus of the Department of Visual Arts and provides the opportunity...Alexandra Macchi
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the 2014 Senior Exit Exhibition. This exhibition reflects the interdisciplinary orientation and the technological focus of the Department of Visual Arts and provides the opportunity for undergraduate seniors to exhibit within a professional setting prior to exiting the university.
Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Commencement Breakfast Reception: Thursday, May 22, 2014, 9:00 a.m. - 11 a.m
Admission to the exhibition is free. The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts Building. For more information call 410-455-3188. ]]>
Admission to the exhibition is free. The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts Building. For more information call 410-455-3188.
MFA THESIS EXHIBITION 2014 tag:www.umbc.edu,2014:/blogs/cadvc//49.175562014-03-29T20:21:49Z2014-03-29T21:10:05Z Imaging and Digital Arts at University of Maryland, Baltimore County MFA THESIS EXHIBITION 2014 Michael FARLEY Charlotte KENISTON Lexie MOUNTAIN Shana PALMER Carrie RENNOLDS Dominique ZELTZMAN Opening Reception Thursday April 3, 2014. 5 - 7pm. 5:15pm "Fred Worden Cuts...Alexandra Macchi
Imaging and Digital Arts at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
MFA THESIS EXHIBITION 2014
Michael FARLEY
Charlotte KENISTON
Lexie MOUNTAIN
Shana PALMER
Carrie RENNOLDS
Dominique ZELTZMAN
Opening Reception Thursday April 3, 2014. 5 - 7pm.
5:15pm "Fred Worden Cuts A Couch In Half With A Chainsaw" (Performance by Lexie Mountain)
The Center for Arts, Design, and Visual Culture is proud to host the annual MFA Thesis Exhibition for Imaging and Digital Arts at UMBC from April 3 - 25, 2014.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
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Michael Anthony Farley's GOTH BRUNCH, a site-specific series of events and in-progress, changing installation elements, re-conceived Gallery CA as a hybrid studio, performance venue, and site for the production of documentation. Informed by (but not necessarily about) the logic of social media, GOTH BRUNCH is a semi-autobiographical exploration of constructed identity as represented through design objects, curation, and performance.
Charlotte Keniston's A Full Plate is the culmination of 18 workshops throughout Baltimore City in which participants painted ceramic dinner plates and discussed their food histories and their roles in the food system. The 300+ plates will be installed in the CADVC and all of the workshop participants will be invited back to view the project and share a meal together.
With Death or Higher Resolution, Lexie Mountain uses markers of performance such as prints, mass-produced custom canvases, anonymous digital paintings and video documentation to explore art history's objectification of the female form and the ways in which meaning is replicated through ideas of "realism" and digital technology.
2014 MFA Candidate Shana Palmer presents an interactive environment that summons the essence of the uncanny. A door that seems to open on it's own plays videos within it's frame, a convex lens displays her Moving Mountains animation and viewers watch another video projected into a sink basin. Her installation and videos blur the boundaries of dichotomies like natural/artificial while she weaves together autobiographical and fictional narratives into a tapestry of performance, photography, video, and installation.
Carrie Ann Rennolds is a visual artist who focuses primarily on problems and failures in modern society. SOMETIMES I WANT TO SHAKE THE BRANCHES OF MY FAMILY TREE AND SEE WHAT FALLS OUT (2014) is an installation piece focusing on the personal archive and its mercurial capacity.
Dominique Zeltzman is a performance and video installation artist. After a fifteen year dance and performance career in San Francisco, she is now finishing her MFA in Imaging and Digital Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Radical Home (2014) is her study of the container as a societal construct. In the four-walled installation, life size female figures creep, crawl, and drag themselves across backdrops of banal domestic scenes and abstractions of New York Times photographs.]]>
Film Program in association with Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen presented by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at UMBC and the Center for Advanced Media at Johns Hopkins Universitytag:www.umbc.edu,2014:/blogs/cadvc//49.175052014-01-29T17:32:04Z2014-01-29T18:04:56Z February 5, 2014, 6pm Harun Farocki selects: Overlord (Stuart Cooper, 1975, United Kingdom, b&w, 95 minutes, 35mm) Inextuinguishable Fire (Harun Farocki, 1969, b&w, 21 mins, digital transfer of 16mm) Shriver Hall, Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles Street Baltimore,...Alexandra MacchiFebruary 5, 2014, 6pm
Harun Farocki selects:Overlord (Stuart Cooper, 1975, United Kingdom, b&w, 95 minutes, 35mm)
Inextuinguishable Fire (Harun Farocki, 1969, b&w, 21 mins, digital transfer of 16mm)
Shriver Hall, Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
February 11, 2014, 6pm
Trevor Paglen selects:Ten Skies (James Benning, 2004, United States, color, 109 minutes, 16mm)
Drone Vision (Trevor Paglen, 2010, United States, b&w, 5 minutes, video)
AV Center, Milton S Eisenhower Library
JHU Homewood Campus
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
For more information, please contact:
Center for Art Design and Visual Culture
T 410.455.3188
http://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County presents a two-night film program curated by Sonja Simonyi in conjunction with the exhibition Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen.
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Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen
The exhibition explores the unique roles Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen play as meticulous observers of the global military industrial complex. Investigating forms of military surveillance, espionage, war-making, and weaponry, the artists each examine the deceptive and clandestine ways in which military projects have deeply transformed, and politicized, our relationship to images and the realities they seem to represent.
On view at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture from October 24, 2013 until February 22, 2014. For more information visit http://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/exhibitions/VisibilityMachines.php.
Admission to the film program and exhibition is free. Supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, the Goethe-Institut Washington, DC, the Baltimore County Commission on Art and Sciences, and the Maryland State Arts Council.
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CADVC January Hours tag:www.umbc.edu,2014:/blogs/cadvc//49.174962014-01-05T20:54:00Z2014-01-05T20:55:39ZStarting January 7th through January 25th, 2014, the Center for Art Design and Visual Culture will be open the following days: Tuesdays through Thursdays: Open by appointment (visitors can call on a phone outside the gallery and be let in)...Alexandra Macchi
Starting January 7th through January 25th, 2014, the Center for Art Design and Visual Culture will be open the following days:
Tuesdays through Thursdays: Open by appointment (visitors can call on a phone outside the gallery and be let in)
Fridays and Saturdays: Open to the public
Curator Niels Van Tomme at DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER)tag:www.umbc.edu,2013:/blogs/cadvc//49.174952013-12-24T20:50:53Z2013-12-24T21:02:28Z On Thursday, November 14, 2013, The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences co-presented a DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) exploring...Alexandra Macchi
On Thursday, November 14, 2013, The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences co-presented a DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) exploring the topic of drones. This special event is organized in conjunction with the exhibition "Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen," on view at the CADVC Oct. 24, 2013 through Feb. 22, 2014.
Video courtesy Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences.
This event took place Thursday, November 14, 2013 at Keck Center, 500 Fifth St., N.W., Room 100, Washington, DC.
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DASER is co-sponsored by Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) and Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology. DASER foster community and discussion around the intersection of art and science. The thoughts and opinions expressed in the DASER events are those of the panelists and speakers and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the National Academy of Sciences nor of Leonardo.
DASER was moderated by JD Talasek, Director, Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences, with:
- Missy Cummings, Visiting Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, the Duke Institute of Brain Sciences, and Director, Humans and Autonomy Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, NC
- Marko Peljhan, Artist, Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Director Systemics lab, MAT/ART, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Peter W. Singer, Director, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Opening remarks by Niels Van Tomme, visiting curator, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore.
Franklin Furnace: The Art of Performance Documentation with Martha Wilson in Persontag:www.umbc.edu,2013:/blogs/cadvc//49.174712013-11-13T17:17:56Z2013-11-13T17:24:01Z Franklin Furnace: The Art of Performance Documentation Martha Wilson in person Thursday, December 12 at 7:00 p.m., Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, UMBC Martha Wilson is an artist and the founding director of Franklin Furnace. Wilson’s own work in...Alexandra MacchiFranklin Furnace: The Art of Performance Documentation
Martha Wilson in person
Thursday, December 12 at 7:00 p.m., Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, UMBC
Martha Wilson is an artist and the founding director of Franklin Furnace. Wilson’s own work in photography, performance, and video art explores female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformations, and “invasions” of other people’s personas. She was also a member of DISBAND, an all-female performance group; it is in this context that she developed the character of Alexander M. Plague, Jr., one of several personas (both fictional and real; including that of Barbara Bush) that she has adopted over the years.
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Project Director, Dr. Maurice Berger and Revolution of the Eye Receive Planning Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanitiestag:www.umbc.edu,2013:/blogs/cadvc//49.173812013-09-04T20:05:31Z2013-09-04T20:14:50ZRevolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television, a forthcoming project from the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC and its Project Director, Dr. Maurice Berger are the recipient of a 2013 Planning Grant...Alexandra Macchi
Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television, a forthcoming project from the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC and its Project Director, Dr. Maurice Berger are the recipient of a 2013 Planning Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The $40,000 grant, awarded under the Endowment's America's Historical & Cultural Organizations Grant program, will assist in the planning of an exhibition, book, and website. Revolution of the Eye represents the first collaborative institutional effort between the CADVC and the Jewish Museum in New York, where Dr. Berger holds the title of Consulting Curator. He is Research Professor and Chief Curator at CADVC. The grant will be administered through the Jewish Museum.
This is the third NEH grant awarded to Dr. Berger since 2008 in his capacity as project director at CADVC. An earlier project, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights received planning ($40,000) and Implementation ($400,000) grants from the NEH in 2008 and 2009. Additionally, For All the World to See was selected by the Endowment as the eleventh exhibition of the NEH on the Road initiative. NEH on the Road is designed to create wider national access to the ideas, themes, and stories explored in major grant-funded NEH exhibitions. Under Dr. Berger's direction, the initiative adapted the exhibition in a smaller, lower security version and will travel it to 25 additional venues, mostly smaller and mid-size institutions across the country over a five year period from 2012 to 2017.
About Revolution of the Eye:
"Revolution of the Eye is the first exhibition to comprehensively examine the influence of modern art on television in its formative years, from the late-1940s to the early-1970s. The project looks at the dynamic new visual medium, and the ways its risk-taking and aesthetic experimentation paralleled the cutting-edge nature of modern art. Revolution of the Eye also examines the incisive and sophisticated commentary about television delivered in turn by avant-garde artists who explored and interrogated the new medium and its increasingly powerful role in American culture and society. More than just a compelling and entertaining story, the exhibition, catalog, and website will captivate the mind, eye and ear through a dynamic and bold installation and book and web design inspired by the visual revolution ushered in by American television and modernist art and design of the 1950s and 1960s."
CADVC Welcomes Guest Curator Joanna Raczynskatag:www.umbc.edu,2013:/blogs/cadvc//49.173542013-08-01T00:43:41Z2013-11-13T17:12:19ZCADVC welcomes guest curator Joanna Raczynska for her 2013 / 2014 film series, Jump Over Time: Using Documentation Video. Jump Over Time: Using Documentation Video presents a series of films and videos that utilize the subjective as well as mediated...Alexandra Macchi
Joanna Raczynska for her 2013 / 2014 film series, Jump Over Time: Using Documentation Video.
Jump Over Time: Using Documentation Video presents a series of films and videos that utilize the subjective as well as mediated experiences of performance, exploring some of the many uses of video, film and audio documentation by artists, organizations, and collectives since the late 60s. The film and video presentations will contextualize questions regarding the concept of live performances and subjective experience; actions by Activist-Artists; histories of artist-run experimental media spaces and happenings; “professional” and “amateur” documentation and their purposes; copyright, archives, access and video format migration; and the experiences of projectionists, media arts curators and artists performing multiple roles in the making of meaning and history, among other concepts. The series will also work towards provoking a more active participation in the documentation of current artistic practices, organizations, and events.
Jump Over Time looks at some creative uses of video documentation as an idiom and form used by media artists. When does the video documentation of an event shift from witness to evidence? If a performance is designed for the camera is the urgency, the live-ness, of the performance obliterated? When the video maker’s intent is to re-present a specific historic period, action, or happening, can reenactments be considered documentation? Selected works as well as visiting artists and archivists will speak to the many ways archives—brimming with mediated experiences—are critical to cultural determination, memory, and practice.]]>
Playing Un-Documented UtopiasWednesday, November 6 at 4:00 p.m., CADVC, UMBC
The first program presents an overview of the series with excerpts of recent videos as well as the presentation of two recent works:: People to be Resembling (Otolith Group, UK/India, 2012, 22 minutes), “a five sided portrait of the methodologies of the postfree jazz, pre-world music trio Codona. People to be Resembling returns to 1978 in order to redream the recording process at Tonstudio Bauer as a meditation upon the relations between visual anthropology, anti-colonial choreography, nuclear annihilation and Weltmusik;” and Walk Through (Redmond Entwistle, USA/UK, 2013, 17 minutes), “an exploration of the site, design and philosophy of the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, as a starting point for posing wider questions about contemporary pedagogical models and their relationship to new forms of social, political and economic exchange that have emerged since the 1970s.”
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Franklin Furnace: The Art of Performance Documentation
Martha Wilson in person
Thursday, December 12 at 7:00 p.m., Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, UMBC
Martha Wilson is an artist and the founding director of Franklin Furnace. Wilson’s own work in photography, performance, and video art explores female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformations, and “invasions” of other people’s personas. She was also a member of DISBAND, an all-female performance group; it is in this context that she developed the character of Alexander M. Plague, Jr., one of several personas (both fictional and real; including that of Barbara Bush) that she has adopted over the years.
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Hallwalls Archive: Golden YearsCarolyn Tenant, media arts director, Hallwalls; Tony Conrad, artist, professor, University of Buffalo Center for Advanced Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 1:30 p.m., Center for Advanced Media Studies, JHU
Hallwalls was founded on Buffalo's West Side in late 1974 by a group of young visual artists, some of them still students at the time. Since its founding, numerous national and international artists have visited Hallwalls for performances, screenings, readings, panel discussions, and exhibitions. As early as 1977, Hallwalls received support from the New York State Council on the Arts to document its multidisciplinary activities using video. Early performances by Karen Finley, Ann Magnuson, Rachel Rosenthal, and Mike Kelley (among many others) are accessible now thanks to Hallwalls’ conservation efforts.
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We’re All VideoFreex!Skip Blumberg, artist and Videofreex member; Tom Colley, collections manager, Video Data Bank
Sunday, March 9, 2014 at 4:00 p.m., National Gallery of Art
Skip Blumberg, Videofreex member and artist
Parry Teasdale, Videofreex co-founder and editor, The Columbia Paper
Tom Colley, collections manager, Video Data Bank
In the late 60s, the recording of image and sound with instantaneous playback signaled the dawn of a new media—video—that was more accessible and more discreet than film had ever been. With video cameras known as portapaks in hand, the co-founders of the Videofreex collective (1969-1978) were pioneers in the development of community television, founders of the country’s first pirate TV station, as well as mentors and instructors to countless individuals interested in making and sharing an open system of production. A selection of videos produced by the Freex and archived at Video Data Bank in Chicago features an interview with Fred Hampton of the Black Panthers, a discussion with organizer Abbey Hoffman, and excerpts from other early video recordings.
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Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall StreetJem Cohen in person
April 2014 TBD, UMBC
12 short observations about Occupy Wall Street (2011/2012), New York City.
“In regards to Occupy Wall Street, when friends asked me where the newsreels were, I decided to plunge in and make some myself. We knew there’d eventually be many documentaries made about the phenomenon and that there were already short advocacy pieces in support of the movement (as well as YouTube slams against it). My own interest lay elsewhere: in a kind of reporting based on direct observation that expresses solidarity without propaganda, while leaving room for experimentation and lyricism.” – J.C.
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The Just PastMay 2014 TBD, UMBC
Final event in the series is a program of short videos including work by Redmond Entwistle, Gordon Matta-Clark, Elisabeth Subrin, Wendelien van Oldenborgh and others. Presented by Joanna Raczynska.
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Joanna Raczynska is the Assistant Head of Film Programs in the Department of Film Programs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. She earned her master’s degree in documentary by practice from Royal Holloway College, University of London in 2001. She first started making non-fiction films ands videos in 1996, while a student at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Her works have screened internationally and across the United States, most recently at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. She has previously worked for a variety of non-profit organizations including Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY (where she served as Media Arts Director from 2002 – 2006), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Baltimore Museum of Art. ]]>
Sandra Abbott, CADVC, Appointed to Baltimore City Public Art Commissiontag:www.umbc.edu,2013:/blogs/cadvc//49.173382013-06-27T23:16:48Z2013-08-20T21:28:46ZBaltimore community arts activist and UMBC’s curator of collections and outreach for the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Sandra Abbott, was sworn in to the board of the Baltimore City Public Art Commission on Monday, June 10, 2013...Sandra Abbotthttp://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/
Baltimore community arts activist and UMBC’s curator of collections and outreach for the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Sandra Abbott, was sworn in to the board of the Baltimore City Public Art Commission on Monday, June 10, 2013 by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
As a member of the board of the Public Art Commission, Abbott juries public art projects along with eight other members under the City’s 1% for Art Program. The program enhances the cityscape, quality of life, and artistic and creative climate in Baltimore. The 1%-for-Art Ordinance requires at least one percent of the City's capital construction project's eligible funds be used for the selection, acquisition, commissioning, fabrication, placement, installation, display, and maintenance of public fine artwork. The program is administered through the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA).]]>
Highlandtown Arts and Entertainment District since 2008, Abbott will be well-positioned to work with BOPA and the other city arts districts on the recent $200K ArtPlace America grant for the City’s three arts districts in partnership with the European Union. The Grant will fund Transit, a project that brings together European and Baltimore artists, arts organizations, city planners, and transportation officials to strategically transform transit environments within the city’s A&E districts. The project was chosen from more than 1,200 applications as an exceptional example of creative placemaking.
Abbott is co-author of the chapter on museum internships in A Life in Museums (American Alliance of Museums, 2012), and serves as the Maryland representative to the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries. She often speaks at national conferences and most recently won the Collegetown Network’s Staff Award for outstanding service at the 6th annual Service-Learning and & Civic Engagement Conference.]]>
UMBC’s Department of Education and Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture Partner on Exhibit Highlighting Outreach to Area Schoolstag:www.umbc.edu,2013:/blogs/cadvc//49.172252013-04-05T20:27:03Z2013-04-06T04:12:31Z UMBC’s Department of Education joins the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) to celebrate their year long K-12 educational outreach collaboration with an art exhibition by students from their partnership schools. The exhibition is featured at the...Sandra Abbotthttp://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/
UMBC’s Department of Education joins the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) to celebrate their year long K-12 educational outreach collaboration with an art exhibition by students from their partnership schools.
The exhibition is featured at the UMBC Commons Mezzanine Gallery beginning with an artist’s reception Thursday, April 11, 6 – 8 pm.
The installation features original artwork by three Baltimore City schools (Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School, Baltimore City College High School, and Digital Harbor High School), Mt. Hebron High School in Howard County, and Hugh M. Cummings High School in North Carolina. Baltimore City College High School, Digital Harbor High School, and Mt. Hebron High School are Professional Development School partners with UMBC’s Department of Education. After experiencing the CADVC gallery and/or virtual exhibition, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, the students were invited to create visual artwork, poetry, or prose for display at UMBC as well. Their work, a creative interpretation of the interaction between visual culture and social justice, will be on display to the public through May 23, 2013.]]>
The Galleries at the Commons, UMBC are free and open to the public. For parking directions or maps, visit about.umbc.edu/visitors-guide.
Project supporters include USM Redesign of Teacher Education Grant Program, UMBC’s commonvision, and Maryland State Arts Council.
The exhibition has been touring the US since 2010 when it opened in NY. Both the exhibition and the book, by the same title, have won many accolades, including a tour through the <ahref=
Berger Featured in New York Time's Lens Blogtag:www.umbc.edu,2013:/blogs/cadvc//49.170952013-01-03T20:27:55Z2013-01-03T20:43:29ZMaurice Berger, Chief Curator of the CADVC, has written his third essay for “Race Stories,” an ongoing series for the New York Times Lens Blog. The essay focuses on Ken Gonzales-Day’s important "Lynchings in the West Project." Read the full...Sandra Abbotthttp://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/
New York Times Lens Blog. The essay focuses on Ken Gonzales-Day’s important "Lynchings in the West Project."
Read the full article here:
"Lynchings in the West, Erased From History and Photos"
The previous two entries in the “Race Stories” series are also available on the Lens Blog:
"A Radically Prosaic Approach to Civil Rights Images""Malcolm X as a Visual Strategist"
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Command Z Featured as Top Ten Art Show of 2012 by City Papertag:www.umbc.edu,2013:/blogs/cadvc//49.170942013-01-03T20:07:01Z2013-01-03T20:27:09ZCommand Z: Artists Working with Phenomena and Technology curated by Lisa Moren, presented by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture last spring was featured today as one of the top ten art exhibitions of 2012 by City Paper....Sandra Abbotthttp://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/
Command Z: Artists Working with Phenomena and Technology curated by Lisa Moren, presented by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture last spring was featured today as one of the top ten art exhibitions of 2012 by City Paper.
The show, described as one that “reawakened our sense of wonder and possibility,” was alongside exhibitions presented by the Contemporary Museum, Open Space, Nudashank and others. Command Z also made the top ten list of Baker award-winning artist, Gary Kachadourian.
See the list here: “2012 Top Ten Art Shows.”
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