Tactical Robotics Symposium: Oct 1

Performing Embodiment by Paula Gaetano Adi

New Media Senior Show

Just sending a quick note to advise that the New Media Seniors are having their exhibition reception in the Lightwell Gallery today between 5pm – 7:30 pm. This means that there may be some sound associated with the artworks and traveling through the Lightwell.

Also, I would like to advise that we will have two performances, one is a durational piece that would last the entire reception, and the other will go sometime between 6:30 to 7:15pm. This second performance contains bad language, and it can be hard to see for some people, there is no nudity, but it is a strong public disclosure/speech about LGBT and race issues.

You are very welcome to join us, and thank you for your patience this week about the sound. I appreciate your collaboration.

I will make sure after the reception tonight everything get back to normal.
Thank you,

Paula Gaetano-Adi

Assistant Professor in New Media Arts + Area Coordinator
Studio Art Department | College of Visual Art + Design | University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle #355100 | Denton, Texas 76203
www.paulagaetanoadi.com | paula.gaetanoadi@unt.edu

Cora Stafford Gallery: FREE PUPPIES (adverbial form implied)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The UNT Cora Stafford Gallery
is proud to announce the group exhibition, FREE PUPPIES (adverbial form implied)

Exhibition Dates:
Tuesday, April 16th through Friday, April 19th

Closing Reception:
Thursday, April 18th from 5 p.m to 7p.m with refreshments provided

FREE ADMISSION

Location:
UNT Cora Stafford Gallery
1120 West Oak Street
Denton, TX 76201

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Gallery Hours:
Tuesday through Friday 10a.m. - 2p.m.

FREE PUPPIES (adverbial form implied) is a group show presenting the diverse work of MFA candidates in Studio Art at the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design. Free from imposed limitations on media, the exhibition features sculpture, installation, watercolor, photography, new media, ceramics, metals and jewelry, and printmaking. The exhibiting artists have honed their individual talents over the course of their graduate work and have come together under one woof for a limited time

Exhibiting Artists: Jessie Back, Martin Back, Zan Barnes, Bill Bridges, Chance Dunlap, Hetty Estes, Michael Furrh, David Lee, Marseille Moon, Adam Neese, Cassie Phan, Derek Rankins, Linda Santana, Liana Tomchesson, Christopher Wallace, and Caleb Zouhary

For More Info:
Please contact Cassie Phan by email at cassiephan21 @ gmail . com.

Thank you,

Adam Neese
Public Information Committee co-chair

MFA Andrew Blanton lecturing at Goss-Michael Foundation TONIGHT

The Dallas Observer has published an interview with MFA student Andrew Blanton. Blanton is giving a workshop 7 to 8:30 tonight at the Goss-Michael Foundation, 1405 Turtle Creek Boulevard, Dallas, TX.

From the article:

The Goss-Michael Foundation wants you to bring your laptop and cell phone and set up shop at their gallery tonight. And while you're at it, use both to create some art. 

Read more at the Dallas Observer.

2013 Texas Biennial Announces 5th Roundup of Texas Artists: Submit Now!

The organizers of the 2013 Texas Biennial invite all artists living and working in Texas to submit their stuff from now until February 28 for possible inclusion in the latest edition of the sprawling, multi-city showcase. The Texas Biennial will take place September 5 – November 9, with exhibitions in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Marfa. The central open-call survey show will be presented at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, with selected performances during the run of the exhibition at CentralTrak in Dallas.

Additionally, a specially commissioned Biennial artist project will be presented by Ballroom Marfa, Lawndale Art Center in Houston, and Big Medium in Austin will also host exhibitions of current work by selected past Biennial artists from August 23 – September 28.

Preparing for an Academic Job Interview in the Arts, Design and the Humanities

Subtitle: How NOT to Blow Your Art, Design, or Humanities Academic Job Interview

Friday, October 19
3:00 pm–4:15 pm
Curry Hall, room 315

This free lecture by UNT CVAD Department of Design Professor Michael Gibson has been designed to help recent, soon-to-be recent, and eventual recipients of MFAs and PhDs in the following disciplines effectively prepare to do well during the academic job interview process.

Studio Arts
Design
Art Education
Art History
Literature
English
Anthropology
Sociology
Psychology
Merchandising & Hospitality Management
History
Performing Arts
Communication Studies
Political Science
Cultural Studies

Hey, hey, It is Faculty Appreciation Week!

Mew Media Faculty featured in NYArts Magazine

Jenny Vogel, Assistant Professor in New Media Art, is listed as one of 30 artists to watch this year by NYARTS online magazine. Click Here to see the full article.

INVASIONEN / INVASIONS featuring Professor Jenny Vogel

INVASIONEN / INVASIONS

Kommentare zum Thema
Kuratiert von Reinhold Engberding
2 December 2011 - 28 January 2012


Willie Baronet (USA), Claus Becker (D), Cassandra Emswiler (USA), Reinhold Engberding (D), B. C. Epker (NL), Heyd Fontenot (USA), Sakir Gökcebag (TR/ D), Marjolein de Groen (NL), Martin Kasper (D), Annebarbe Kau (D), Gerhard Lang (D/UK), Gabriele Langendorf (D), Dane Larsen (USA), Qiang Li (CHN), Greg L. Metz (USA), Jan Mladovsky (UK), Stefan Moos (D), Holger B. Nidden- Grien, Tobias Regensburger (D), Armin Rohr (D), Roland Schimmel (NL), Katrin Schmidbauer (D), Ludwig Schwarz (USA), Veronika Veit (D), Adam Veikkanen (AUS), Jenny M. Vogel (USA), Ulrich Wellmann (D), Wiedemann/Mettler (CH)

Wir laden Sie und Ihre Freunde herzlich ein zur Ausstellungseröffnung am Donnerstag, den 1. Dezember 2011, 19 Uhr. Begrüßung: Reinhold Engberding und Carolyn Heinz.
(Reinhold Engberding and Carolyn Heinz cordially invite you and your friends to attend this opening and reception on Thursday, December 1, 2011, at 7:00pm.)

galerie carolyn heinz
im Galeriehaus Hamburg
Klosterwall 13
D-20095 Hamburg
+49.40.2878 2919
www.galeriecarolynheinz.de
Monday-Frriday 12p-7p, Sat 12p-4p

Socially Engaged Practice in Art and Curating

The New Media Art Program presents

Visiting Curator
Leah Abir

will speak about:
Socially Engaged Practice in Art and Curating

Thursday Nov. 3rd, 2011 @ 5:30 pm

Leah Abir is the inaugural Artis Curatorial Fellow at Creative Time, working in the Programming Department on the exhibition LivingAs Form (September 24 to October 16, 2011). A curator and writer in the field of contemporary art, she completed her B.A. in Art History and postgraduate studies in Museology at Tel Aviv University and is currently writing her M.A. thesis in the Modern Art department at Haifa University. Over the past 3 years, Abir worked as the Associate Curator and Director of Programming for MoBY - Museums of Bat Yam, and has independently curated exhibitions at various galleries and museums throughout Israel. She has written extensively on contemporary art for various international publications and exhibition catalogs, and has taught courses on the history of curating and modern and contemporary art in academic and private institutions.

Ft Worth Modern Art Museum: Modern Graduate Series 2011–2012

Jenny Vogel speaks at the Modern on Wednesday, September 28, at 5 pm.

Jenny Vogel is a new media artist, working in photography, video, and performance art. Her work explores the world as viewed through the lenses of contemporary communication technology, the media, and historical preconceptions. She received her MFA from Hunter College, New York City (2003), and is currently an assistant professor of New Media Art in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas. For Modern Graduate Series, Vogel discusses her influences and the underlying themes of her studio practice, such as self-induced voyeurism and the curious history of webcams, the dark beauty of a mediated planet, the failure of capturing the experience of history, and humanity in a prefabricated world.

Attendees receive complimentary admission to the Modern the afternoon of each lecture. Light bites and a cash bar are featured for an hour-long reception immediately following each lecture.

Derivatives: Origins In Geometry Through October 2, 2011

Adela Andea, graduate student in the New Media Art concentration in the MFA in Studio Art program at UNT, was awarded first prize in the Derivatives: Origins In Geometry group show at the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, Dallas, Texas, for her artwork Crystalline Structure.

The show, curated by Drawing & Painting professor Vincent Falsetta, runs through October 2011.

Picture of the artist with the winning artwork and the three winners with the curator (Photos courtesy of Martha Falsetta)

"Over There Is Over Here" Tour

Morehshin Allahyari, new media M.F.A student will be one of the speakers of this year's TEDx conference. "TEDxDU 2011 celebrates Radical Collaboration with a bold mix of humor, science, history, technology, music and more. It's where ideas and passion unite in new and unimagined ways. Where cooperation is redefined and inspiration is fueled by unlikely sources. Where collective will can cultivate change and you’re challenged to rethink what you think you know. Coming May 13, 2011."

Morehshin's recent video called Over There Is Over Here has also been screened at the following international festivals:

• The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Over There Is Over Here, Berlin, Germany (2011).
• Arad art museum, Over There Is Over Here, Cologne Off 2011, Romania(2011).
• CologneOFF 2011, Over There Is Over Here, Juried and curated by Alysse Stepanian.

Upcoming Shows:

• The Athens International Film and Video Festival, Saturday, April 23 (2011), 2:15 PM, Athena Cinema.
• Currents 2011 Festival, June 10-19, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Over There Is Over Here will be traveling as part of CologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea (Nordic Tour around the sea):

• CologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea, 12-14 May 2011, Szczecin, Poland
• 14 May - Saturday 15h-20h screenings @ Galleria Rajatila, Tampere, Finland

(CologneoFF 2011 Tampere is collaboration between Cologne International Videoart Festival, artvideoKOELN; Le Musee di-visioniste - the new museum of networked art - and Arteles & Galleria Rajatila - Tampere).

"Edge of Life" at UNT

Edge of Life

Please join us for Edge of Life, a traveling exhibit originating at Stephen F. Austin State University and now showing at UNT's Eagle Exhibit Hall in the Environmental Education, Science and Technology (EESAT) building. The Edge of Life collaboration brings together the fields of forest pathology and art, exploring the place they meet. The exhibition features sixteen artists from Stephen F. Austin State University’s School of Art and fifteen ecological artists from across the nation. The goals are to share science’s ability to inspire culture through art, to present a wide range of innovative approaches to making art, and to educate about the field of forest pathology.

Curators' Presentation:
Wednesday, April 20th from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. in EESAT 110 followed by gallery talk in Eagle Exhibit Hall
Michelle Rozic, exhibition curator and assistant professor, College of Fine Arts, SFASU
Dr. David Kulhavy, assistant curator / forest pathology specialist and professor, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, SFASU

Exhibiting Artists:
Peter Andrew, Marsha Blount, Elaine Bradford, Amy Chan, Neal Cox, Chad Curtis, Dornith Doherty, Chad Erpelding, Piero Fenci, Lari Gibbons, Maki Hajikano, Charles Jones, Corinne Jones, Kira Kalondy, Robert Kinsell, Aloma Marquis, Lauren McAdams, Gary Parker, Marguerite Perret, Joseph Philips, Amy Ross, Michelle Rozic, Scott Runnels, Jeff Schumki, Joshua Smith, Jim Snyder, Matthew Sutherlin, Christopher Talbot, Jennifer Trask, Joni Youkins-Herzog, and Keith Yurdana.

Organizers:
Michelle Rozic, exhibition curator and assistant professor, College of Fine Arts, SFASU
Dr. David Kulhavy, assistant curator / forest pathology specialist and professor, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, SFASU
Brian Wheeler, assistant director, Elm Fork Education Center and Natural Heritage Museum, SFASU
Lari R. Gibbons, associate professor, College of Visual Arts and Design, UNT
Dr. James H. Kennedy, director, Elm Fork Education Center and Natural Heritage Museum and professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, UNT

Sponsors:
College of Fine Arts, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, and Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at Stephen F. Austin State University. This exhibition and related events also sponsored by University of North Texas' Elm Fork Education Center and the Natural Heritage Museum, the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Studio in the College of Visual Arts and Design. Additional support is provided by the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Earth Day at UNT

Photo: eARTh day 2009 by Emily Penn

eARTh day

On Wednesday, April 20th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Environmental Education Science and Technology (EESAT) building at UNT, we will celebrate the third annual eARTh day: a celebration of environmental music, writing, art and film.

Visual Arts

Fibers Artists:
Material Environment: Contemporary Consumption, featuring installation works from CVAD students in professor Lesli Robertson's Alternative Processes Fibers course.

Edge of Life Curators' Presentation:
Wednesday, April 20th from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. in EESAT 130 followed by gallery talk in Eagle Exhibit Hall
Michelle Rozic, exhibition curator and assistant professor, College of Fine Arts, Stephen F. Austin State University
Dr. David Kulhavy, assistant curator / forest pathology specialist and professor, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, Stephen F. Austin State University

Edge of Life Artists:
Edge of Life artists include Peter Andrew, Marsha Blount, Elaine Bradford, Amy Chan, Neal Cox, Chad Curtis, Dornith Doherty, Chad Erpelding, Piero Fenci, Lari Gibbons, Maki Hajikano, Charles Jones, Corinne Jones, Kira Kalondy, Robert Kinsell, Aloma Marquis, Lauren McAdams, Gary Parker, Marguerite Perret, Joseph Philips, Amy Ross, Michelle Rozic, Scott Runnels, Jeff Schumki, Joshua Smith, Jim Snyder, Matthew Sutherlin, Christopher Talbot, Jennifer Trask, Joni Youkins-Herzog, and Keith Yurdana.

Music:
Katrina Elsnick
Natalie Lorch
Rachel Yoder
Jorge Crus
Angela Winter
Sarah Page Summar
Michael Morgan

Creative Writing:
Nate Logan
Nicole Miears
Mary Bush
Kellie Smith
Carlos Fiol

Sponsors:
Elm Fork Education Center
College of Arts & Sciences
College of Music
College of Visual Arts
Institute of Applied Sciences
Department of Biology
Department of English
Creative Writing
Department of Radio, Television, and Film
Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity

New Media Grad Student featured at MAC

Adela Andea, graduate student in the New Media program in the Department of Studio Art, is featured in the Starry, Starry Nights: Five Light-Filled Installations group show at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas. She will be sharing the large gallery with Susie Rosmarin. The show is curated by June Mattingly.

The opening reception is Saturday, April 23rd from 5 pm to 7 pm at the MAC, 3120 McKinney Ave. Dallas, TX 75204. Additional information about the show is available here.

From the press release:

Adela Andea’s fluorescent tube wall sculptures will radiate in light the largest gallery on the longest wall. Andea’s light sculptures powered exclusively by manmade electronics will submerge one wall in the biggest space into an ambiguous and mystifying landscape. Her “futuristic eco-systems” use intricately weaved circuits of LED and CFL lights, computer hardware and manufactured building materials, consumer electronics and mass produced objects to embody both a physical presence as well as ethereal sensibility. These free-form, exuberant sculptures with jutting bolts of lights and organic explosion of electrical parts and whirring fans make the visitor wish to celebrate.

These dazzling light displays take the legacy of Flavin’s eloquent minimalism and are “reminiscent of an Eastern European disco.” Romanian-born, Adela lives and works in Denton and teaches at the University of North Texas while completing an MFA in New Media. In 2011 she had a solo show at Anya Tish’s prestigious gallery in Houston who represents her and she is represented in Dallas by Cris Worley’s gallery.

Adela Andea (MFA) featured at Dallas Art Fair

Adela Andea, graduate student at the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design in the Studio Art program concentrating in New Media Art is featured in Dallas Art Fair by Cris Worley Fine Arts.

The artworks featured here, Blue Alchemy and Neutrino Star, are illustrative of Adela’s latest series of works, incorporating flex neon, cold cathode lights, LED fans, computer sources and Plexiglas. The pieces are exhibited in Booth F-18, located on the 1st floor.

Dallas Art Fair
Friday, April 8 through Sunday, April 10, 2011
Preview Gala: Thursday, April 7, 2011
1807 Ross Avenue, Suite 250
Dallas, Texas 75201
214.220.1278

Fair Hours: Friday and Saturday 11a – 7p, Sunday 11a – 5p

ASTU 5450 Now Offered Fall 2011

We are proud to offer our first Graduate New Media Art Studio this fall.
Priority will be given to MFA candidates, though grads from all disciplines are welcome. Direct students to Shane Mecklenburger for enrollment codes.

COLLABORATING WITH THE ENEMY
ASTU 5450: Graduate New Media Studio, Fall 2011
Instructor: Shane Mecklenburger, Assistant Professor of New Media Art

This combination seminar/studio course explores strategies of "COLLABORATING WITH THE ENEMY" as a broadly and collectively defined conceptual lens. Through discussion, art making and research by course participants, we will critically examine, articulate and re-imagine contemporary art practices and histories. Special attention will be given to interdisciplinary concerns between the arts and sciences.

Among topics addressed:

• The nature, limits and potential definitions of COLLABORATION;
• Potential constructions of THE ENEMY in art practices and cultures;
• The usefulness of BARRIERS || the BARRIER as an art material;
• Concurrent developments in the histories of ART & WAR;
• Concurrent developments in WAR & SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGIES;
• TECHNOLOGIES as manifestations of material power;
• NETWORKS as manifestations of material power;
• Effects of PERCEIVED VALUE on ART & SCIENCE;
• Effects of PERCEIVED PURPOSE on ART & SCIENCE;
• The limits of INTERDISCIPLINARITY;
• CONFLICTS inherent in art activities;
• COLLECTIVE MEMORY;
• Strategies of INTERVENTION;
• Notions of SECURITY;

Best Regards,

Shane Mecklenburger
Assistant Professor of New Media Art

"Moebius" logo contest hosted by iArta

The iARTA Research Cluster is sponsoring a $300 Logo Contest for Moebius, a new journal of the convergence of practice and theory in the electronic arts.

Win $300!

The iARTA research cluster (Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts) is founding a new journal at UNT—Moebius. We are announcing a prize of $300 for the design of a logo that will appear on the journal.

We are looking for a visual representation of a Moebius strip (Google this for some crude examples) in addition to the text “a journal of the convergence of theory and practice in the electronic arts.”

Please send submissions as electronic attachments to an email message to dschwarz@music.unt.edu; please write CONTEST in the subject heading; the judges will be UNT faculty members Jenny Vogel, Shane Mecklenberger, David Stout, and David Schwarz.

Submissions must be received by April 15, 2011.
Winners will be notified by May 1, 2011.

The Moebius strip is the founding premise of the journal, representing the convergence of the practice on one side and theory on the other: composition and discourse, making and reflecting.

Moebius is an effort of iARTA - the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts. More information at http://iarta.unt.edu/moebius.html

Shane Mecklenburger
Assistant Professor of New Media Art
University of North Texas