UMBC’s Department of Education and Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture Partner on Exhibit Highlighting Outreach to Area Schools

2013-04-05T20:27:03Z

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

Berger Featured in New York Time's Lens Blog

2013-01-03T20:27:55Z

Maurice 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 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"

Command Z Featured as Top Ten Art Show of 2012 by City Paper

2013-01-03T20:07:01Z

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.”

Berger Awarded $50K from Warhol Foundation for Exhibit & Publication

2012-12-14T15:17:59Z

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded CADVC Research Professor and Chief Curator Maurice Berger a $50,000 curatorial research fellowship award for his forthcoming curatorial project Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television. This exhibition and publication project represents the first collaborative institutional effort between the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture and the Jewish Museum in New York, where Dr. Berger holds the title of Consulting Curator. The grant will be administered through the Jewish Museum. From the early-1940s through the mid-1960s, a dynamic new visual medium emerged in the United States that, in its risk-taking and aesthetic experimentation, paralleled the cutting-edge nature of modern art: television. The revolutionary and uncharted medium attracted younger television executives, writers, producers, and directors. Scores of socially and culturally progressive and predominantly Jewish network executives, producers, directors, art directors, and writers—figures such as Paddy Chayefsky, William Golden, Leonard Goldenson, Robert Kintner, Ernie Kovacs, Dan Melnick, William S. Paley, David Sarnoff, Frank Stanton, David Susskind, and Rod Serling—mined the aesthetic, stylistic, and conceptual possibilities of a new and powerful technology. These innovators worked in a cultural milieu far less constricted by the competition for box office revenue and the censorious production codes then preoccupying the motion picture industry. As the geographic focus of the networks shifted from the Hollywood movie studios to a television industry initially centered in New York, the proximity of these innovators to the city's dynamic artistic and cultural community—particularly the avant-garde art and philosophies of the New York School, an artistic milieu also with a significant Jewish presence—would result in a powerful conceptual and stylistic synergy between modern art and early television. American television and avant-garde art capitalized on the “modernist visual revolution,” Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television is currently scheduled to be presented at the Jewish Museum during the spring of 2016 and follows up at the CADVC / UMBC in 2017.

Warhol Foundation Awards CADVC $50K for Exhibit & Publication

2012-12-14T15:12:23Z

The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts has awarded the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture $50,000 for the upcoming project, Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki & Trevor Paglen. The project, headed by Visiting Curator to the CADVC, Niels Van Tomme, is a traveling exhibition and publication project which 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, 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 governmental information, 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 is scheduled to be presented next fall, mid-October through December, 2013.

"For All the World to See" Comes to UMBC

2012-10-10T21:29:31Z

The fall issue of UMBC Magazine features a three part feature on For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights. The text, written by CADVC research professor and chief curator Maurice Berger, analyzes a selection of objects in the exhibition. There is also a profile of and an interview with Dr. Berger, but the interview appears only in the online version. 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 NEH on the Road initiative, which travels sponsored exhibitions nation wide. More info is available--as well as a virtual exhibition version of the project--on our website at foralltheworldtosee.org. As UMBC anticipates the exhibition finally coming "home" to CADVC this November 15, 2012 through Mar. 10, 2013, we have planned a number of related programs throughout the coming months. For more information on our related oral history program, For All the World to Hear: Stories from the Struggle for Civil Rights, see foralltheworldtohear.org. There you will read about CADVC's outreach project with the Baltimore senior citizen community. We have also posted a schedule of live theatre presentations, at which attendees will witness live, first-person accounts of the amazing stories we have collected from those active in the civil rights movement. UMBC's Humanities Forum will also be presenting several lectures and panel discussions on the civil rights movement, including a discussion between Julian Bond and Freeman Hrabowski, among others. For more details see this link.

CADVC exhibition opens in New Orleans this weekend

2012-10-05T20:31:34Z

CADVC's traveling exhibition, "Migrate," opens this weekend at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. Learn more about the installation and events there on CAC's exhibition page or local station WBOK's site. Where Do We Migrate To?, curated by CADVC guest curator Niels Van Tomme, explores contemporary issues of migration and experiences of displacement and exile. The exhibition features work in diverse media by 19 internationally recognized artists and collectives including Acconci Studio, Svetlana Boym, Blane De St. Croix, Lara Dhondt, Brendan Fernandes, Claire Fontaine, Nicole Franchy, Andrea Geyer, Isola and Norzi, Kimsooja, Pedro Lasch, Adrian Piper, Raqs Media Collective, Société Réaliste, Julika Rudelius, Xaviera Simmons, Fereshteh Toosi, Philippe Vandenberg, and Eric Van Hove. The award-winning scholarly catalogue can be purchased through D.A.P. Image: Xaviera Simmons, (detail) Superunknown, (Alive In The), 2010, C-prints mounted on Sintra, dimensions/size of installation variable, first produced for Greater New York 2010 MoMA/PS1 This project was made possible, in part, with the support of the Flemish Government through Flanders House.

2012-13 UMBC Humanities Forum Events

2012-09-21T02:15:34Z

The 2012-13 UMBC Humanities Forum Lecture Series will feature several events in conjunction with CADVC's exhibit, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 15 Nov. 2012 to 10 March 2013]]> 28 Nov. 2012 4 p.m. Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Collecting, Preserving, and Interpreting African American History and Culture Panelists: Kinshasha Holman Conwill, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland, Moira Hinderer, Afro American Newspaper Archive, Moderator: Denise Meringolo, UMBC ----------- 5 Dec. 2012 4 p.m. Proscenium Theater The Civil Rights Movement from the Ground Up --------- 13 February 2013 4 p.m. Library Gallery Panel Discussion: Race and the Civil Rights Movement in Music and the Media Derek Musgrove, UMBC’s History Department, Michelle Scott, UMBC’s History Department, David Zurawik (Baltimore Sun and WYPR) ------------- 27 February 2013 7 p.m. Proscenium Theater, Performing Arts & Humanities Building Thulani Davis: Blackface Imagery and Its Answers: Stereotyping from the Early Civil Rights Era to the Obama Era For more info see the Humanities Forum Lecture Series site

CADVC Welcomes Guest Curators

2012-09-13T01:05:03Z

CADVC welcomes guest curators Heiferman & Van Tomme for their future projects, Sciences, Photography and Visual Culture and Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki & Trevor Paglen, respectively. Dates will soon be announced.]]> Sciences, Photography and Visual Culture is a project designed to explore that relationship and engage members of the UMBC community in an innovative and interdisciplinary dialog about how photographic images work across the sciences, arts, and humanities. In Visual Practices Across the University (2007) Dr. James Elkins--Chair of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago-- noted that “it turns out that images are being made and discussed in dozens of fields, throughout the university and well beyond the humanities. Some fields, such as biochemistry and astronomy, are image-obsessed; others think and work through images.” While Elkins wrote about imagery produced in all media, this UMBC project focuses specifically on photographic imaging, and although one might suspect that most images created in university settings are produced within art programs, the reality is that photographic images are more often the goal or by-products of scientific inquiry on campus. Marvin Heiferman is an American curator and writer, who originates projects about the impact of photographic images on art and visual culture for museums, art galleries, publishers and corporations. As Assistant Director of LIGHT Gallery, New York (1971-1974), Director of Castelli Graphics and Photographs, New York (1975-1982), an artist representative (1982-1988) and an independent curator (1989-present), Heiferman has organized influential thematic exhibitions and worked with a wide range of artists and photographers including Eve Arnold, Garry Winogrand, Robert Mapplethorpe, Stephen Shore, Lewis Baltz, William Eggleston, Robert Adams (photographer), Nan Goldin, John Waters, and Richard Prince. Heiferman has conceived of and produced major exhibitions and online content for clients including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum, International Center for Photography, P.S. 1 Museum, the Smithsonian Photography Initiative and the Smithsonian Institution Archives.[2] His most recent book, Photography Changes Everything (2012), which features approximately 80 interdisciplinary texts on photography’s active role in shaping memory, history, and experience was based on an encyclopedic online project (2008-2011) he organized for the Smithsonian. A contributing editor to Art in America, Heiferman has also written for publications including Artforum, Bomb Magazine, Bookforum, "Photoworks", and ArtNews. He is a core faculty member in the International Center of Photography/Bard College MFA Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, and teaches in the School of Visual Art’s MFA Program in Photography, Video and Related Media. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Organized by visiting curator, Niels Van Tomme, Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki & Trevor Paglen instigates a thought-provoking dialogue between two major artistic oeuvres. Establishing the military industrial complex as the arena that forcefully represents the collapse of the public sphere, the project zooms in on how these artists make visible the political implications of seeing with machines. Its intention is to emphasize the unique role both Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen play as meticulous observers of the military apparatus. In exploring the complex artistic strategies Farocki and Paglen use, the project initiates critical discourse about the crucial part images play in revealing essential but largely concealed governmental information. Additionally, the exhibition places the oeuvres of these two influential artists within the broader cultural and historical developments of the media they are creatively working with, namely photography, film, and new media. Niels Van Tomme is a New York based curator, researcher and art critic. He has organized numerous exhibitions in partnership with institutions such as the Lambent Foundation (New York), American University Museum (Washington, DC), the Czech Center (New York) and the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (Baltimore). He has also organized the presentation of video screenings and public art projects at Old Embassy (Tokyo), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver). He is a co-curator of VIVA Festival, an ongoing traveling video exhibition, which has been shown at the Hara Museum (Tokyo), Reina Sofia (Madrid) and MoCA (Shanghai). As a contributor to various journals, magazines and exhibition catalogues, including Art Papers, Afterimage, EXTRA, and hART, he investigates the sociopolitical aspects of contemporary culture. Van Tomme has served as a Lecturer and Visiting Professor at Denison University (Granville), and HISK (Ghent). He is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Prof. Abraham Wins Design Awards for CADVC Publication

2012-09-12T22:44:17Z

Category: Scholarly journals Title: Visual Culture and Evolution: An Online Symposium Designed by: Guenet Abraham The University and College Designers Association's 42nd Annual UCDA Design Competition has awarded Professor Abraham two awards for her design of the CADVC's Visual Culture and Evolution book. Visual Culture and Evolution will be on display at the UCDA's Annual Design Conference, October 13th through 16th in Montreal, Canada. She received Awards for Excellence in the following categories: Research Publication & Book - Complete Unit Congratulations Professor Abraham!

CADVC Wins Two Publication Design Awards

2012-04-19T02:12:26Z

CADVC was selected as a winner of the 2012 AAM Museum Publications Design Competition. Within the category of institutions with budgets less than $750,000, judges awarded the following: Category: Scholarly journals Title: Visual Culture and Evolution: An Online Symposium Designed by: Guenet Abraham Award: Second Prize Category: Exhibition catalogues Title: Where Do We Migrate To? Designed by: Kelley Bell Award: First Prize A complete list of winners will be available soon on the association’s website (www.aam-us.org) and the competition will be featured in a special section in the November/December issue of Museum. We also will display the grand prize winner, along with selected first prize winners, at the convention center during the 2012 AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo™ in Minneapolis Saint Paul, April 29-May 2.

CADVC Gallery Closed to Public

2012-04-11T00:54:10Z

The CADVC suffered extensive damage due to a water main break. The gallery will reopen to the public in November with For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Please check back for updates or call 410-455-3188.

Command Z article featured in the City Paper!

2012-04-04T17:33:03Z

"A UMBC exhibition uses modern technology to make magic..." Published April 4th, 2012 in the City paper. Read the article here!

Concert at the CADVC Gallery!

2012-04-04T17:26:29Z

NOTICE: this performance is postponed due to water main break, new date/time TBA

For All The World To See featured in the Kansas City Star!

2012-04-02T17:46:12Z

Here is an excellent article on the road version of For All the World to See--the cover story in yesterday's Sunday Magazine of the Kansas City Star. Read the article here...

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