Monday, November 9, 2009

the end of fall -- and it's packed




Tues., Nov. 10

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Film Screening
Tuesday, Nov. 10
7 pm
Aitken Auditorium CIA
The Public is Invited

“The powerful story of the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, as told through the lives of five very diverse individuals.”
* sponsored by Metro Hospital and CIA’s Fiber & Material Studies Department in conjunction with the display of the names project at Metro Health Nov. 30 – Dec. 7.

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Wed., Nov. 11

IME VISITING ARTIST LECTURE
The Benjamin Kinsley ¾ Variety Hour
with free cider & donuts
Wednesday, November 11th
3:30p in the JMC TIME Shooting Space

Free and open to all CIA students
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Also on Nov. 11

Living with HIV
Wed., Nov. 11
CIA – Gund RM 214
7 pm

Please join us for a discussion featuring several young Clevelanders living with HIV/AIDs to hear their stories, talk to them about what it’s like to live with HIV and learn how to protect yourself from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. This lecture is in conjuntion with the screening of “Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt” on Tues., Nov. 10, at 7 pm.

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Thurs., Nov. 12
Lucy Kim
OBA
6:30 pm

Painter, artist – 2007 MFA graduate from Yale. Kim will speak on her work, the graduate school experience and applying for graduate school. She has an extensive exhibition record having shown frequently in New York. Check her out online at:
http://lucykim.com/

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Fri., Nov. 13

NEXT

9:35 a.m. Panel Discussion: "Professionals like you "
Five panelists answer pre-submitted audience questions about school and career paths. The panelists include:
Brian Peterson, Automotive Interior Designer, Chrysler
Lizzy Lee, Art Director / Partner, Rini Uva Lee design firm (www.riniuvalee.com )
Sarah Kabot, (www.sarahkabot.com ) Assistant Professor of Drawing, The Cleveland Institute of Art
Emily Embrescia, Teacher, John Hay High School; Jewelry Designer
Benjamin Rodriguez, MFA Film Student, New York University

1:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker Michael Bierut, partner of top New York design firm Pentagram: "Self Discovery and Leading a Creative Life"

• The events listed are open to CIA students and faculty
• Further information is available at: http://www.cia.edu/next/index.html
The Gund Building. Inside the Gund Building, our program starts in Aitken Auditorium 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106

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Thurs., Nov. 19

Mary Magsamen
7 pm
OBA

Artist/curator’s talk

Mary Magsamen has been working for many years with her husband and artistic partner Stephen Hillerbrand after the pair first met at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Undoubtedly influenced by this she recently curated “Co-Existing and Co-Llaborating” featuring film and video by collaborative teams of artists and currently on view at spaces gallery here in Cleveland.

Mary Magsamen’s past exhibitions include shows at Momenta Art, Anna Kustera Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, and White Columns. In addition, she has been awarded a residency from the Longwood Cyber Residency Program and a Finishing Fund from the Experimental Television Center. Mary is currently the curator at the Aurora Picture Show.
• This talk is generously sponsored (always say thank you!) by CIA’s Photography Department – it is free and open to the public.
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Fri., Nov. 20

Sarah Rich
LOF
OBA – 12:15

Sarah Rich
Sarah Rich is a writer and editor working where sustainability intersects with design, architecture, art, food, urbanism, branding and consumer culture. She is an editor at Dwell magazine and the editor of Dwell Digital. Previously Sarah was the managing editor of Worldchanging and co-authored the book by the same name. She launched and edited the Slow Food Nation blog in 2008 and co-founded the site that emerged from that event, CivilEats.com. She lives in San Francisco.
Free and Open.
http://www.inhabitat.com/author/sarah/

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Also on Fri., Nov. 20

INVADING SPACES

Friday Nov 20th / 6-9pm
SPACES (3rd Floor Loft)
2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, Oh, 44113

A one-night only extravaganza featuring temporary, site-responsive works created inside, outside, and all around the 3rd floor of SPACES gallery. This project is a collaboration between students in two T.I.M.E. - Digital Arts classes at the Cleveland Institute of Art: "Creative Coding, Hacks and Space" and "Media Installation". The event is facilitated by artist Ben Kinsley, who has worked with the students for 6 weeks through workshops and studio consultations.

Ben Kinsley is a multidisciplinary artist who creates site-specific responses to particular situations, often through collaboration and playful exchange with local residents. His projects have ranged from conducting an orchestra of screaming humans, directing a maritime-themed play for boaters on a lake in Maine, organizing a shadow play in the middle of the California High Desert, and choreographing a neighborhood intervention into Google Street View.




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Fri., Dec. 4

“The Making & Discovery of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION”
12:15 – 1:30 pm
Aitken
Pizza –
Free and open to the public.

The co-creators of what Harry Knowles (Aint It Cool News) describes as “the best damn fan film ever” – RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION – give a presentation and discussion, revealing how it was that their film was made against great odds – and equally incredibly, how it came to be discovered and shown all over the world, engendering the praise of Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, and ultimately Steven Spielberg himself. This talk is the perfect primer / preview of the film itself, which screens in the evening at

guided by charles tucker -- cia's sculpture students take a bite of the apple






The Cleveland Institute of Art's Sculpture students made a run on New York City while their studios were getting new windows. Students made the run on the Chelsea Galleries, not to mention the Half King.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

The Cleveland Institute of Art ... LOF and some wednesdays...




CIA is rockin' ... all term long.

We've got some amazing Lunch on Fridays talks coming up and we're busy at work for the spring. Put it on your calendars and be there. Also make note... Wednesdays are starting to crank as well with "Some Wednesdays" now providing additional opportunities to hear people talk about the things you love. And... of course... there's Cinematheque. John Ewing and Tim Harry keep us entertained when no one else can. (Did you see the NY Times Travel section on Cleveland. So True.) Check out Cinematheque.

To kick off the Wednesdays... This Wednesday, September 30, 5 pm ... Cuban Contemporary Art Specialist Helmo Hernandez will be speaking in Aitken. This is a great chance to really see some edgy work and there will be a reception to follow. This amazing event is being made possible by The Cleveland Foundation. If you're at all interested in Cuban OR Contemporary Art you should definitely come.

One of our focuses for the fall LOF talks has been the professional activities of Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty. Royden Watson speaks tomorrow and he's shown all over the place including Berlin... and then on October 2 we will have the opportunity to hear Photography Head Barry Underwood speak. Both artists are amazing and Underwood has been instrumental in blazing the residency trail. He has had a number of residencies, including one at The Banff Centre, and more recently at the Headlands in California. I personally find his work intriguing and beautiful and am looking forward to his talk.

As many of you may know Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker were the organizers of The Banff Centre's Spring Residency "Analogous Fields." A perfect artist fit for this investigatory look into the overlaps between art and science was the Institute's own Amanda Almon. As a residency participant she spent the spring in the Canadian Rockies pursuing her own work. Almon, the Head of CIA's remarkable Biomedical Arts program, works in an overlap of her own exploring the intersects of studio art through the skills and knowledge of her applied field. The results of her explorations are currently on view as part of CIA's faculty exhibit and the public can hear her speak about her work on Friday, October 9.

LOF, October 16 – Matthew Beckwith -- Industrial Design's up and coming young faculty member is one of Cleveland's hottest talents. He is also notable for his abilities in connecting with his students and his outreach work ... including his current engagement with the students of Design Lab, located at Jane Addams High School.


LOF, October 23 – Megan Ehrhart

Like her colleague Amanda Almon, Ehrhart is another young and exciting artist crossing boundaries in her digital media-based work. Over the course of the summer she lived and worked in the remote French countryside while an Artist in Residence at Camac Centre D'Art in Marnay-Sur-Seine. While there she generated the piece, "Echoes of Abandonment", a facet of a larger media installation entitled "Grounded."

While in France, Ehrhart has said the remote location forced her to slow down and look to innovation and self-reflection to generate her work. Consequently, while there, her worked thrived. Another talk I'm really looking forward to...

Really one of my favorite things about being in Cleveland is getting to meet so many truly interesting people who are as into what they do as I am.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty residents take center stage at Lunch on Fridays




“Lunch on Fridays” happens Fridays at 12:15 in CIA’s Gund Building. It runs from August 28 to November 20 in the Fall and from January 15 to April 16 in the Spring. It is an ongoing series that is free and open to the public. The series is jointly sponsored by the Liberal Arts and Foundation Environments with additional support coming from other Cleveland Institute of Art Environments.

Speakers and Events are subject to change – please check the Institute Website for updates.
All events take place in Ohio Bell Auditorium, located in the Gund Building unless otherwise specified.
All the listings below are part of Lunch on Fridays unless otherwise specified.
CIA Faculty Exhibition

Thursday, September 4, 6:30 pm
Reinberger Galleries (next door to Cinematheque)
Cleveland Institute of Art – Gund Building

And then…

EMIT, Student Film Festival:
Thursday, September 4, 8 pm
Aitken Auditorium
Cleveland Institute of Art – Gund Building

Free and Open to the public – EMIT is the premier showcase for the film, video and animation creations of CIA students. It will screen in the same auditorium as Cinematheque taking full advantage of the silver screen.


LOF, September 4 – Heather Lemonedes and Caroline Goeser from CMA

On Friday, September 4th, as part of the Friday Lunch Lecture Series, students and the CIA community will be introduced to the "CIA Students: Cleveland 2009" exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In short, CIA students have been invited to mount an exhibition in the CMA cafe gallery, juried through a proposal process in conjunction with the CMA "Paul Gauguin: Paris 1889" exhibition.

Heather Lemonedes, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Drawings from the CMA will speak about the influence of this Volpini Exhibition on the art career of Paul Gauguin, and Caroline Goeser, Associate Director for Interpretation, CMA, will speak to the assembly about the Café Exhibition at the conclusion of the lecture. Time will be given for a Question & Answer session from the students.

LOF, September 11 – Lizzy Lee

Title of Talk: Anonymous (Graphic Designer) Nobody

After receiving her BFA in communication design from Parsons School of Design in 1998, Lizzy has been a graphic designer and art director in the fields of design, advertising, and branding for such clients as The New York Times, Martha Stewart, Jean-Georges Vongrichten, and The Gap/Banana Republic with agencies including Doyle Partners, Number Seventeen, Gyro Advertising, and Desgrippes Gobé. In 2006, she moved from NYC to Cleveland, where she worked as the Exhibition Graphic Designer for the Cleveland Museum of Art designing special exhibitions, wayfinding, and environmental graphics. Early in 2009, she and Danielle Rini Uva, a fellow graphic designer and educator created a collaborative design partnership, Rini Uva Lee. RUL happily works long hours for their clients, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Public Art, and the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland.


LOF, September 18 – Barbara Stanczak

Barbara Stanczak pillar of the Cleveland Art Community and influential and revered Professor at CIA discusses her travels and her life as an artist.
“I take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. My sculptures are an expression of gratitude, a search for parallel, tangible, formal experiences that can be shared with others.”

http://barbarastanczak.com/

LOF, September 25 – Royden Watson

Internationally exhibited artist Royden Watson has shown in cities including Berlin and New York and was MOCA Cleveland’s 2002 featured Pulse artist. Watson was born in Cleveland and received his undergraduate degree from Pratt with an MFA from Kent State.

He is noted for his conceptually cutting works which transform wooden studs and gallons of milk into the subjects of trompe l’oeil works. Watson will discuss his artistic practice and the choices he’s made to achieve his goals. Audience members will have the rare opportunity to see an overview of his rich career.

He is currently teaching for the Institute in the Drawing Major and in the Foundation Environment.

LOF, October 2 – Barry Underwood

Internationally exhibited photographer and head of the Institute’s Photography program, Underwood will discuss his summer at the Headlands Residency outside San Francisco. He will also provide an overview of his intriguing, ephemeral and beautiful imagery.

“Appearing as intrusions and interventions within the landscape, these photographs explore issues of illusion, imagination, narrative, and the potential of the ordinary… transformed into the extraordinary through light and composition…”

http://www.barryunderwood.com/

Barry Underwood’s work is housed in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; TIAA-CREFF, New York; Speak Magazine, San Francisco; as well as many numerous private collections across the country.

LOF, October 9 – Amanda Almon

Head of the Biomedical Arts Program at CIA, Almon works in the professional arena doing state of the art 3D animations of scientific subjects and in the Visual Arts exploring the intersect between the observed scientific and existing social issues. In her talk Almon will give an overview of her integrated professional practice with particular attention given to her six-week summer residency at the Banff Centre located in Alberta, Canada.

http://bioartmedia.com/home.html


LOF, October 16 – Matthew Beckwith

A young and vibrant talent, Beckwith works in the professional and educational realms as an Industrial Designer. He is particularly noted for his ability to work collaboratively and lead. He is currently acting as a volunteer consultant with the Design Lab program located at Jane Addams High School as well as teaching her at the Institute.

LOF, October 23 – Meghan Ehrhardt

Discusses her French Summer residency.

LOF, October 30 – Special Halloween Event!!!!

LOF, November 6 – Richard Martel

Special Friday presentation, November 13 – NEXT

LOF, November 20 – (TBD)

Thursday, May 21, 2009

2009 BFAs at CIA rocked...




BFA week is always my favorite time of year at school. I love walking around to all the exhibits, seeing and hearing what students have been working on and having frankly interesting conversations with my colleagues about my favorite topics... art, philosophy, etc.

It's interesting to me to see as well how students grapple, really for the first time, with those issues which confront us throughout our careers as artists...

What are we doing?
How should we do it?
Who are we doing it for?
How do I get an audience (without being a complete and total ass or maybe how do I become a complete and total ass so I don't have to worry about this part any more?)
How do I talk about my work?

I sometimes find student work particularly interesting because students (not always) but sometimes are less self-conscious about the work itself. Some, unfortunately, can't turn the voices off and end up making or defending work for some imagined, mental Frankenstein of another... Oh well... that's a creature I know as well.

I think the BFA defense is an incredible experience for these young artists. What a confidence builder to be able to take on your faculty and remain aware. It's a thrill to see them accomplish this.

The images are from Matthew Palmer's BFA defense.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

julie's talk...


I'll post more later... for now.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

CIA BFAs - May 4 through May 9 - Party May 8!

Thomas Zummer gave the last “Lunch on Fridays” talk of the spring semester. The turnout was excellent and the pizza was delicious as always. A wonderfully witty and deeply intelligent man we’re looking forward to having him with us as a visiting artist for the Fall semester.

Coming up this week are of course BFAs. It’s always an exciting week that gives the CIA community an opportunity to see what all the seniors have been working on and engage in the always scintillating exchanges that go along with the defenses. While not open to the public during the day, in the evenings and especially on Friday night when there’s a huge party the public’s invited in to take a look around. It’s my favorite week of the school year.

The Cleveland Institute of Art
BFA Thesis Show
JMC – the Factory
11610 Eculid Ave
Cleveland

Public Hours –
Monday, May 4 to Thursday, May 7
7 pm to 9 pm
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Saturday, May 9
10 am to 5 pm
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Friday, May 8
BFA Reception and Party
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
7 pm to 11 pm

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Thomas Zummer -- the last "Lunch on Fridays" for this season




I'm really looking forward to this talk. I think it's going to be interesting.

Friday, April 27
12:15
Ohio Bell Auditorium - CIA - Gund

Static, Fragments, Afterimages: Problematics of the Image
a talk by - Thomas Zummer

An investigation into the technics and mediation of images, from drawing to digital.

Professor Zummer will discuss some of the practical, and philosophical, aspects of the disposition of images in relation to the technologies, theories and practices of contemporary art-making. He will also present a selection of his own works.

Whether they are used in a primary, secondary, or subsidiary capacity, digital technologies are both ubiquitous and unavoidable for artists and academics. Even the Göttingen Manual, a medieval ‘recipe book’ for the admixture of pigments, or the archives of the Maison du companionage (preserving ancient texts on methods of ironwork, stonework, carpentry, stained glass and tapestry) are available in a digital format. It is also the case that contemporary artists have recourse to remarkable technologies for research and investigation; digital technologies that shape and constrain—and preserve—other media, in a process of remediation. While this process may be masked, or foregrounded (depending upon notions of affect, purity or truth to materials) in primary artworks, it is to be found in almost every subsidiary aspect of a professional career: in the technical reproduction of images, in preliminary compositions, in books, portfolios, curriculae vitae, reviews, promotional materials, and historical archives.

Mr. Zummer will be teaching a sculpture class for the Visual Arts and Technology Environment – “Rhetorical Object (Conceptual Constructions)”

As always “Lunch on Fridays” is free and open to the public. It is sponsored jointly by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments. Mr. Zummer appears through the courtesy of the Visual Arts and Technology Environment.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Sarah Kabot and Coventry Creations




Remember -- Tonight Sarah Kabot 5:30 opening (that's right I had the time wrong!) and 6:30 artist talk at the Sculpture Center here in Cleveland, Ohio.

Also tonight -- "Animal Talk Back" as part of Coventry Creations -- 6 pm.
and opening also at 6 pm in the same space, "Imagining a Sustainable Life" opens (curator - Will Laughlin) both are at 1854 Coventry Road. (Charles Tucker will be in a Turkey suit.)

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

CIA Tax Week Events!






This Week – There is no “lunch on Fridays” – but there’s so much going on you won’t miss it this once. Check out the whole list so you don’t miss anything.
And remember… do folks a favor… let them know when something interesting is going on.
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hella hybrid brought to you by T.I.M.E. - Digital Arts
ICE CREAM SOCIAL CLOSING PARTY WITH IAN CHARNAS
wednesday april 15th @ 3:30pm
KULAS auditorium JMC
MAKE YOUR OWN SUNDAE @ 3:30 - LECTURE @ 4:00
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
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Wednesday, April 15 –
The Glass Department presents:
Marc Petrovic
10 am Artist Talk in Kulas – 3rd flr JMC (The Factory - Euclid)
2 pm Glass Hot Shop Demo
7 pm Potluck in the 4th flr Gallery/Crit Space in the JMC

If you can, check this out. The glass department always puts on a good show and are warm hospitable people. They’re wonderful to hang out with.
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Thursday, April 16 –
Liberal Arts (Visual Culture Emphasis) in collaboration with Biomedical Arts presents:
Robert D. Hicks, Ph.D – Director of the Mutter Museum
Exquisite Corpses
7 pm Ohio Bell Auditorium – The Gund (East Blvd)

(There will be Pizza!)

Images of post mortem human remains are fascinating and disquieting. They amuse children at Halloween and disturb adults when on display at museums. Today’s omnipresent imagery of people doing everything at all times has not accustomed us to depictions of human mortality. The dead are speedily removed from view, and our direct contact with the dead is limited and controlled. Although mortal images can arouse empathy and may develop tolerance for a spectrum of human physical variation, other cultural voices argue for proscription and censure. In this presentation, Robert Hicks explores our dialogue with post mortem human imagery by examining its relationship to politics and ownership of the dead. He incorporates perspectives drawn from anthropology, art criticism, history, museum curatorship, and criminal justice.
This should prove to be a fascinating discussion and definitely worth the trip.
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Run from Coventry to the Sculpture Center! Because Sarah Kabot, Head of Drawing and artist extraordinaire is having an opening!
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Friday, April 17
Sarah Kabot – “Enough” Opening
Artist Talk at 6:15
7 pm
The Sculpture Center

Sarah Kabot's site-specific installation, Enough, is a full scale, three-dimensional, gray and white paper line drawing of the Main Gallery's architecture. The physical elements of the gallery, meticulously and sparingly recreated, are shifted by one foot towards the center of the room. These bland, mundane architectural elements - the most basic, apparently unalterable materiality of the space and the parts that usually recede in the mind's eye of the viewer - are brought to the fore to spark considerations of the nature of reality. With the insistent emphasis upon the physical parts of the space, their particular spatial locations, and their transformation by reproduction and relocation, Kabot's work challenges the viewer's daily perceptions and comprehension of any object's possible structure, location, and meaning. Her work presents the positivist likelihood of endless other possibilities.

http://www.sarahkabot.com/

http://www.sculpturecenter.org/

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This Weekend, VATe, the Sculpture Department, the Kacalieff Visiting Artist Series, and the Coventry Village Special Improvement District comet together to present Coventry Creations – basically it’s an art party meant to raise awareness of the animals that live among us. Come out and play!

Friday, 6 pm 1854 Coventry Rd
Animal Talk Back, a performance piece in which artists take on the garb and personas of local animals and speak from their points of view. This should be a hoot with Biomedical Arts Head Amanda Almon and Sculpture Head Charles Tucker participating. (Tucker will be wearing a special Turkey suit of his own creation!)
Also on Friday, 6 pm to 9 pm, another in Will Laughlin’s curatorial successes “Imagining a Sustainable Life” will be opening also in 1854 Coventry Rd

Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm all over Coventry Rd
Animals roam free on the street, children will parade, music will play (local bands), and real animals with Harvey Webster from the Cleveland Natural History Museum will be there for humans to visit with. (The Animal show is 12 noon to 12:30 – sorry so short but the animals have schedules to keep).

Sunday, 7 to 9 pm 1854 Coventry Rd
Fritz Haeg will speak and be present for a reception. Fritz Haeg is an internationally known artist working with issues of environment. He appears as part of the Kacalieff Series.

http://www.fritzhaeg.com/

http://coventrycreations.blogspot.com

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Remember to check out CIA's blog for more and different kinds of Cleveland Institute of Art Information.

All of these events are part of the Cleveland Institute of Art's Programming and are Free and open to the public. Also, please be sure to check out Cinematheque's Screenings. These cost but they're inexpensive and worth every penny.

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Sunday, April 12, 2009

images of april at CIA







Top two images: Students from the Don Kimes Visiting Artist Talk.

Don Kimes is the Artistic Director at the Chautauqua School of Art as well as being an internationally known painter in his own right. check the link for more info.

Kathe Widen at Will Laughlin's Collected Fictions.

Will's been curating for the Coffeehouse Gallery and doing an amazing job. His Collected Fictions was an intriguing look at what some of CIA's younger artists are doing.

Students with Toby Devan Lewis and Julie Langsam following their Report from New Orleans.

Ms. Langsam's painting students did a great job relating their experiences from the Prospect 1 Biennial. Tales such as meeting Mel Chin and seeing first hand the devastation of the 9th Ward, as well as their reflections on the works they saw made for one of the seasons most interesting talks. Thanks to Julie for setting this up. It was great!

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Cleveland Institute of Art - March 27 and more... New Orleans Biennial



(*Please note that Wednesday, March 25's Hella Hybrid Series talk with Andrew Lynn has been cancelled. TIME's Hella Hybrid will return Wednesday, April 1, 3:30 pm in Kulas with Jesse Stiles -- see below for further details.)

This Friday - Lunch on Fridays Presents -
Report from New Orleans: the Prospect 1 Biennial

Friday, March 27
12:15 pm
Aitken Auditorium - Gund (*NOTE - Location Change)
11141 East Blvd
Cleveland, OH

Students sponsored by money from the Motto Chair Award (given to painting head Julie Langsam) visited the historic Biennial and give their report. There should be lots of images and lots of witty banter to go along with the presentation. If you weren't able to actually go to New Orleans in November, or if you just want a refresher, this is definitely the talk for you.

http://www.prospectneworleans.org/

Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.

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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME-Digital Arts
Jesse Stiles
Wednesday, April 1
3:30 PM
Kulas Auditorium

Jesse Stiles (a.k.a. The Jesse Stiles 3000, a.k.a. jts3k, a.k.a. Face Removal Services) is a musician and digital artist living in upstate New York.

Stiles was born in 1978 in Boston, MA and adopted the computer as his primary compositional/performance instrument at the age of 12. By the age of 17 Stiles had begun doing computer-based performances before large crowds as well as televised audiences and national conferences. Stiles received a B.A.from Vassar College in Cognitive Science, writing his thesis on Music Perception. Upon graduating from Vassar in 2000, Stiles was awarded a Fellowship from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation to travel around the world for one year while creating electronic music. This fellowship culminated in a “backpack record” by The Jesse Stiles 3000 (Stiles beat-oriented performance/recording project), titled “Watson Songs”.

Free and Open to the Public!

CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106

Saturday, March 21, 2009

a great week - Steve Kurtz; Benjy Davies and Jenny Mendes




This past week The Cleveland Institute of Art played host to a ceramicist, Jenny Mendes; a printmaker, Benjy Davies; and the Bickford Visiting Artist, Steve Kurtz. In addition Cinematheque screened the film “Strange Culture” and the Painting Department conducted a panel featuring the artists from “Light of Day” – an exhibition currently on view at William Busta Gallery here in Cleveland.

(Weeks like this remind me what an amazing environment I have the privilege to work and teach in. There is such an abundance of energy and so many creative minds.)

All of these events received high marks from those in attendance. Steve Kurtz gave a particularly powerful talk. With great wit, he spoke about his career and the difficulties his encountered through the course of his work.

Kurtz, for those of you who weren’t able to attend, is, along with his late wife Hope, a founding member of the “tactical media” protest and performance artist collective, the Critical Art Ensemble. The group’s work has dealt with, among other subjects, issues of biotechnology. The Ensemble has authored several books including “Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media” and “Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas.” The groups’ work has been presented at such prestigious venues as The Whitney Museum, The New Museum in New York, The Corcoran, The ICA in London, the MCA in Chicago, the Musee d’art de la Ville de Paris and the London Museum of Natural History.

As detailed in the film “Strange Culture” by Lynn Hershman Leeson, from 2004 to 2008, Kurtz had hanging over him the threat of a 20 year prison sentence. These charges came about as the result of an investigation relating to the death of his wife Hope due to heart failure and were the product of a gross and rather sinister misinterpretation of the work he and his wife were doing. Over the course of those four years, and in the shadow of his tragic personal loss, Kurtz has persevered in the defense of his own civil liberties and by extension in defense of the rights of all other artists and free thinkers. It has only been since late May of 2008 that the Buffalo Prosecutor’s Office declined to reopen the case which had been dismissed. Steve Kurtz is now free.

** Special thanks to Sarah Paul for acting as liaison with Steve Kurtz.

http://www.critical-art.net

http://www.critical-art.net/biotech/sra/SRAweb/index.html

http://www.strangeculture.net/

http://www.cia.edu/academicResources/cinematheque/filmSchedule.php?action=upcoming

Sunday, March 15, 2009

March 19 and 20 - CIA welcomes Bickford Visiting Artist Steve Kurtz!



Wednesday, March 4th was Brett Kashmere's Hella Hybrid talk, and although mid-terms and the coming spring break kept some away -- the talk was well worth hearing and seeing. Brett has made some interesting work and took on issues that have to do with copyright in really creative ways. Check out Brett's blogs and his website... and go see him whenever you get the chance to hear him speak or see his work first hand.

This week Bickford Visiting Artist Steve Kurtz.

Thursday, March 19 at 5 pm. Cinematheque Screening of Strange Culture.

Friday, March 20 at 2:30, Bickford Visiting Artist Talk by Steve Kurtz, the subject of the film Strange Culture.

Both events are in Aitken.

See below for further details.

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Also this week Printmaking Visiting Artist Benjy Davies.

Printmaking Department (VATe) Visiting Artist:
Benjy Davies
Wednesday, March 18
10 am
G209 (Gund)
Presentation of Work and Demonstration beginning at 10 am and continuing through the day

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Thursday, March 19
Food arrives at 4:15
Starting at 5 pm – Aitken Auditorium

Cinematheque SCREENING of
Strange Culture
Followed by a Q + A with Artist Steve Kurtz

Free to CIA and Case ID holders and $5 to general public.
(Proceeds benefit Cinematheque.)

The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members dealt with genetically modified food and other issues of science and public policy. After his wife, Hope, died of heart failure, paramedics arrived and became suspicious when they noticed petri dishes and other scientific equipment related to Kurtz's art in his home. They summoned the FBI, who detained Kurtz within hours on suspicion of bioterrorism.

As Kurtz could not legally talk about the case, the film uses actors to interpret the story, as well as interviews with Kurtz and other figures involved in the case. Through a combination of dramatic reenactment, news footage, animation, and testimonials, the film scrutinizes post-9/11 paranoia and suggests that Kurtz was targeted because his work questions government policies. At the film's close, Kurtz and his long-time collaborator Dr. Robert Ferrell, former chair of the Genetics Department at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, await a trial date.


(update) As of late May 2008, the Buffalo Prosecutor has declined to reopen the case within the 30 day window in which he was allowed to do so. So, Steve Kurtz is free.
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Friday, March 20 - 2:30 pm
Aitken Auditorium
Food Arrives at 2:00 pm
Bickford Visiting Artist’s Talk
Steve Kurtz
Free and Open to the Public!

This lecture is a brief overview of the points where applied life sciences, politics, economy, and cultural representations begin to intersect. On the one hand, it will examine the economic and political pressures that push life science research in one direction at the expense of another, and the rhetorics used to justify these trajectories of research. On the other hand, it will also consider the release of derivative products into the public sphere, and how the public is socialized to accept them. These two moments, in which the cultural context for research initiatives or biotechnological products is in the first stage of construction, are the points of intervention where cultural activists can have the greatest impact. This presentation will be illustrated by participatory theater projects by Critical Art Ensemble.

Reception to Follow at Mi Pueblo.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

You Shouda Been There - Report: the Cleveland Institute of Art Recent Artist's Talks



Last Friday, February 27, CIA’s Lunch on Friday’s Series presented Chadd Lacy a local but noted glass artist (http://www.chaddlacyglass.com/). The series has been lucky to have the support of the glass department this semester with Brent Kee Young (http://www.jsauergallery.com/sagemoon/artistPages/bky_lg.html), the head of the glass program, speaking on February 13. The Cleveland Institute of Art is noted for its glass program, as well as its many other craft-based disciplines. These two artists (Lacy works as the department’s Technical Assistant) make it abundantly clear why the school maintains such a strong reputation.

Young spoke to a full house and gave a talk that allowed rare access into the creative process of a committed glass artist. Through video and still images he step by step revealed the source of his nature-based and fossil inspired forms as well as his technical process for realizing these works. An affable speaker, his generosity of spirit was made clear in his willingness to openly share his methods for achieving the stunning visual effects of his work.

The evening of February 27th also saw Nina Katchadourian speak as Foundation’s Visiting Artist. Nina is a wonderful artist and we were lucky to get her. If you didn’t get to go her talk you should definitely check out her website - http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/

Katchadourian is diverse in her approaches to making working work using installation, photography, video and sound. She has shown internationally including such prestigious venues as PS1/MoMa, Artists Space, and the Palais de Tokyo. In 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs presented a 10-year survey of her work and published a monograph titled “All Forms of Attraction.” She is currently represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.

On February 20, 2009 Charles Tucker (www.charlestuckerart.com and http://theaestheticcompass.blogspot.com/) and Saul Ostrow took the stage in CIA’s Aitken Auditorium to present “The Rehetorical Model and the Aesthetic Compass: Systems of Research.” This talk was a presentation of their collaborative work begun spring 2008 during their joint residency at the Banff Centre located in Alberta Canada. Well attended, the talk made clear the depth of their own researches. While still in progress, what they have produced are conceptual devices that allow for systems of analysis helping to locate the position a given work is attempting to advance. In other words the device attempts to clarify points of articulation (things one can talk about) in relation to a work and to test the validity of what is said about that work. These systems seek to reconcile qualitative and quantative information.

Ostrow and Tucker will be returning to Banff this spring as organizers of the Analgous Fields residency.

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Watch this space and become friends through facebook with Vac Lane and Lane Cooper for other updates.

Thanks to -- Anna Cottos; Tom Hamilton and Marc Tomko as well as speakers for their assistance with the Lunch on Fridays Lecture Series...

March 4, 6, 19th and 20th -- CIA Events!




*** These events are open to the public.

Hella Hybrid Series
TIME- Digital Arts
Brett Kashmere
Wednesday, March 4
7:00 PM
Aitken Auditorium - CIA Gund - 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland

Brett Kashmere is a Pittsburgh- based filmmaker, curator, and casual cultural historian. His work combines traditional research methods with hybrid interfaces, handmade equipment, and materialist aesthetics. Through intricate experimental documentaries and unadorned camera movies, Kashmere explores the intersection of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, and the politics of representation. His films, videos, scholarship, and curated programs have been presented at festivals, conferences and venues internationally and used in university curricula. The film scholar Thomas Waugh writes that Kashmere’s essay-film Valery’s Ankle “may well give momentum (and integrity) to the discourses of sports, masculinity, and nationalism in Canadian cinemas.” Kashmere currently teaches in the Cinema Studies Program at Oberlin College in Ohio and is the founding editor of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics.

http://www.brettkashmere.com

http://www.incite-online.net

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Lunch on Fridays and Key Foundation Diversity Visiting Artist:
Jason Pierce
Friday, March 6
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium - CIA Gund Building - 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland

A 2005 graduate from The Cleveland Institute of Art's TIME program, Jason
Pierce has worked as an Art Director with Wunderman Team Detroit since 2006.
Jason works in Brand Development and assists in envisioning advertising names
for some of the biggest firms in the country.

Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.

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Bickford Visiting Artist Program in conjunction with Cinematheque
Screening of Strange Culture
A film by native Clevelander Lynn Hershman Leeson – the subject of the film is a visiting artist Steve Kurtz (speaking on Friday at 2 pm)
Thursday, March 19
5 pm
Aitken Auditorium

This showing of the film will be free for all CIA and Case community members and $5.00 to the general public. The viewing time has been set at 4 pm to allow time for those who wish to attend the Cleveland Film Festival. All proceeds benefit Cinematheque.

CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH

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** Outside the Institute and also on March 19 opening reception for “The Way We Live Now” at the Cleveland Foundation’s Hanna Building, 1422 Euclid Ave, Suite 1300, featuring students from the Institute – 5 to 7 pm.
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Bickford Visiting Artist
Steve Kurtz
Friday, March 20
2:15 pm (Talk starts at 2:30 pm)
Aitken Auditorium

Kurtz is the subject of Leeson’s documentary Strange Culture.
Steve Kurtz is a noted artist and founding member of the participatory theater group Critical Art Ensemble. He currently teaches at the University of Buffalo, The State University of New York, and is a former professor with Carnegie Mellon. Kurtz came to national and international attention when, in 2004, on reporting the death of his wife, Hope Kurtz, he was subsequently arrested on suspicion of bioterrorism. Strange Culture tells the bizarre tale of how an artist, in possession of recognizably benign bacteria used in museum and gallery exhibits, became the target of a criminal investigation driven by the U.S. Patriot Act.

CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH

Monday, February 9, 2009

let's talk -- events at the Cleveland Institute of Art



There's a lot going on at the Cleveland Institute of Art for the remainder of the Spring semester. Not the least of which is the talk by Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker concerning their Banff research -- That's Friday, Feb. 20 in case you haven't marked your calendar.

Other events...

Glass Department Visiting Artist
Ross Richmond
Wednesday, Feb. 11
7 pm
Kulas Auditorium
Ross resides in Seattle, Washington. He creates blown and sculpted glass art objects.
Ross has been working with glass for the past 16 years. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Glass, and a minor in Metals. He has studied and worked at both the Penland School of Crafts and the Pilchuck Glass School. In 1997 Ross began working as an apprentice to William Morris, becoming a member of his team in 1999. Ross' pieces are typically narrative, working mainly with figurative elements and symbolic objects. His work currently shows at a number of galleries around the country, and he teaches in the U.S. and Canada.
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Lunch on Fridays:
Brent Kee Young
Friday, February 13
12:15 PM
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Bio: Brent has conducted workshops all over the U.S. and Japan as well. His work has most recently been seen in the The Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Museum in Tokyo, the Telfair Museum in Savannah, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of Art among many other notable places.
Education: M.F.A., State University of New York, College of Ceramics at Alfred University; B.A., Ceramic Art/Glass concentration from San Jose State University
CIA Gund Building 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Drawing Under the Radar
Closing Reception
Friday, February 13
6-10 PM
The Student Coffeehouse Gallery
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106

Sponsored by Prizm and Cuyahoga Arts and Culture
S.I.E. 63
Student Independent Exhibition
Opening Reception
Friday, February 13
6- 9 PM
The Reinberger Galleries
CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH
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TIME - Digital Arts Presents
hella hybrid lecture series
Julie Perini
Film-maker, photographer, installation and video artist. See flyer for further details.
Monday, Feb. 16, 3:30 pm
Kulas Auditorium, JMD-The Factory
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Lunch on Fridays:
Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker
“The Rhetorical Model and the Aesthetic Compass: as Systems of Research”
Friday, Feb. 20
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Extending from their collaborative work, this talk will introduce concepts which Ostrow and Tucker began developing in their Banff residency Spring 2009 and which they have continued to work on since that date.
Spring 2008 will see the pair back in Banff as invited organizers of the “Analogous Fields” residency which will seek to explore the overlaps between art and science. (See below for further information or visit the Banff website: http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=84
Saul Ostrow is a noted critique and author. In addition to serving as the Institute’s E-chair
Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Lunch on Fridays:
Chadd Lacy – Noted Local Glass Artist
Friday, February, 27
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Chadd Lacy received his BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pa and is currently the technical assistant in the glass department at CIA. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and was recently included in the exhibition “Young Glass” at the Glasmuseet, in Ebeltoft, Denmark. He was awarded a research grant to study abroad with various artists in the Dutch glass industry, in both technical glass equipment building shops, and glass studios, and continues t o exhibit his work in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Locally Chadd’s work can be found at the Thomas R. Riley gallery in Beachwood.

Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Dinner on Friday:
Nina Katchadourian
Foundation’s Visiting Artist
Friday, Feb. 27
5 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, the Serpentine Gallery, New Langton Arts, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, and the Palais de Tokyo. In January 2006 the Turku Art Museum in Turku, Finland featured a solo show of works made in Finland, and in June 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled "All Forms of Attraction." The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a solo show of recent video installation works in July 2008. Katchadourian is represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.
Sponsored by the Foundation Environment, This event is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME- Digital Arts
Brett Kashmere
Wednesday, March 4
7:00 PM
Kulas Auditorium
Brett Kashmere is a Pittsburgh- based filmmaker, curator, and casual cultural historian. His work combines traditional research methods with hybrid interfaces, handmade equipment, and materialist aesthetics. Through intricate experimental documentaries and unadorned camera movies, Kashmere explores the intersection of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, and the politics of representation. His films, videos, scholarship, and curated programs have been presented at festivals, conferences and venues internationally and used in university curricula. The film scholar Thomas Waugh writes that Kashmere’s essay-film Valery’s Ankle “may well give momentum (and integrity) to the discourses of sports, masculinity, and nationalism in Canadian cinemas.” Kashmere currently teaches in the Cinema Studies Program at Oberlin College in Ohio and is the founding editor of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics.
http://www.brettkashmere.com
http://www.incite-online.net
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Lunch on Fridays - sponsored by Key Diversity Grant Initiative:
Jason Pierce
Friday, March 6
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
A 2005 graduate from The Cleveland Institute of Art's TIME program, Jason
Pierce has worked as an Art Director with Wunderman Team Detroit since 2006.
Jason works in Brand Development and assists in envisioning advertising names
for some of the biggest firms in the country.

Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Lunch on Fridays:
Joe Nanashe
Friday, April 10
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Joe Nanashe was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. He began his studies at the University of Akron as a painter,
but soon moved on to sculpture, performance and video. The post-industrial landscape of Akron and its emphasis on
manual labor became a major influence on the repetitive task driven nature of his work.
Joe received his BFA from the University of Akron in 2003, and began attending Rutgers University that fall.
During his graduate studies, he further blended performance, video and installation into works that confront the viewer
with issues of violence, control and question the nature of perception. He received his M.F.A. in Visual Arts and the
Paul Robeson Emerging Artist Award in the spring of 2005.
His work has shown at the New York Underground Film Festival, the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, and
the Chicago Underground Film Festival. He has exhibited internationally in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands,
Russia, Canada, and Argentina. Currently, Joe lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Bickford Visiting Artist Event
Screening of Strange Culture
by native Clevelander
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Thursday, March 19
4 pm
Aitken Auditorium
This showing of the film will be free for all CIA and Case community members and $5.00 to the general public. The viewing time has been set at 4 pm to allow time for those who wish to attend the Cleveland Film Festival.
CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH
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Bickford Visiting Artist
Steve Kurtz
Friday, March 20
2:15 pm (Talk starts at 2:30 pm)
Aitken Auditorium
Kurtz is the subject of Leeson’s documentary Strange Culture.
Steve Kurtz is a noted artist and founding member of the participatory theater group Critical Art Ensemble. He currently teaches at the University of Buffalo, The State University of New York, and is a former professor with Carnegie Mellon. Kurtz came to national and international attention when, in 2004, on reporting the death of his wife, Hope Kurtz, he was subsequently arrested on suspicion of bioterrorism. Strange Culture tells the bizarre tale of how an artist, in possession of recognizably benign bacteria used in museum and gallery exhibits, became the target of a criminal investigation driven by the U.S. Patriot Act.
CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH
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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME-Digital Arts
Andrew Lynn
Wednesday, March 25
3:30 PM
Kulas Auditorium
Andrew Lynn is a media worker living in Troy, NY. He received an MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002, and has been working as a community artist and educator since. Most notably, he is the creator of the Whirl-Mart not-shopping intervention, a director of the activist- bicycle documentary, Still We Ride, and the founder of the Troy Bike Rescue. Currently he teaches at Hudson Valley Community College, in addition to being a coordinator with the The Sanctuary for Independent Media. From 2004- 2007, Andrew was the Youth Education Coordinator at Manhattan Neighborhood Network- a public access television station- where he helped to initiate the Youth Video Exchange Network and facilitated numerous youth-lead productions. Andrew’s own documentary, animation, and short video work has played in festivals, bars, and basements around the world. Andrew is an advocate of open source coding, thinking, and doing.
http://breathingplanet.net
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Lunch on Fridays
Report from New Orleans: the Prospect 1 Biennial
(Panel discussion with students)
Friday, March 27
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME-Digital Arts
Jesse Stiles
Wednesday, April 1
3:30 PM
Kulas Auditorium
Jesse Stiles (a.k.a. The Jesse Stiles 3000, a.k.a. jts3k, a.k.a. Face Removal Services) is a musician and digital artist living in upstate New York.
Stiles was born in 1978 in Boston, MA and adopted the computer as his primary compositional/performance instrument at the age of 12. By the age of 17 Stiles had begun doing computer-based performances before large crowds as well as televised audiences and national conferences.
Stiles received a B.A.from Vassar College in Cognitive Science, writing his thesis on Music Perception. Upon graduating from Vassar in 2000, Stiles was awarded a Fellowship from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation to travel around the world for one year while creating electronic music. This fellowship culminated in a “backpack record” by The Jesse Stiles 3000 (Stiles beat-oriented performance/recording project), titled “Watson Songs”.
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME-Digital Arts
Julia Christensen
Wednesday, April 8
7:00 PM
Kulas Auditorium
Julia Christensen is an artist and writer currently based in Oberlin, Ohio, whose work treads the fine line between art and research. She is the author of Big Box Reuse, recently published by the MIT Press. This book is a product of her ongoing investigation into how communities are renovating and reusing abandoned big box buildings.
Christensen’s writing has been published in magazines such as Slate, Print, Orion, and Architect.
A solo exhibition of Christensen’s photographs and large-scale architectural installation work was on display this fall at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University (Your Town Inc., August 29- November 23, 2008, curated by Astria Sparak). She currently has a solo show of photographs at the Gallery at the Green Building in Louisville, KY (December 5- January 30). Christensen’s photographs are also on display at the Carnegie Museum of Fine Arts as a part of the show “Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes” (October 4-January 18); this exhibition will travel to the Yale School of Architecture Galleries in the spring (Feb. 16-May 18, 2009). Christensen recently completed two commissions for net art through Turbulence.org. Her new media, video and installation work has also shown at the Lincoln Center in NY, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the DUMBO Art Center in Brooklyn, among other venues. Christensen also lectures widely.
She has performed as a musician in such locations as 21 Grand and the Acme Observatory in Oakland, CA. She is also the director of the up and coming Women’s New Music Performance Ensemble, at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Christensen holds the chair of Luce Visiting Professor of the Emerging Arts at Oberlin College and Conservatory, where she teaches in the Studio Arts and TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) Departments. She has also taught at Stanford University and the California College of the Arts, among other universities.
http://juliachristensen.com/
http://www.bigboxreuse.com
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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TBD (hopefully Astria Superak)
Wednesday, April 15
3:30 PM
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Residency Opportunity
May 11, 2009 - June 19, 2009
Analogous Fields Residency at Banff Centre Alberta, Canada – Organized by Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker
For over 70 years The Banff Centre has provided working and career opportunities in the arts. Located in the Mountains of Western Canada, its breathtaking views, committed staff and vibrant creative community has made the Banff Centre a dynamic environment in which artists are inspired to challenge assumptions that go beyond their own expectations.
This Spring Banff is offering another in its series of renowned thematic Residencies. Following on the heels of last year’s “Making Artistic Inquiry Visible,” this year’s “Analogous Fields” deals with the intersect between art and science. Organized by collaborators Charles Tucker, sculptor and artist/researcher, and noted critic and author, Saul Ostrow, the pair participated in last year’s program, Tucker and Ostrow have set for the goal for the 2009 program as the development of new knowledge and the creation of original work extending from the exploration of this convergence. This residency is specifically designed to foster collaborations and exchanges between individuals working in art and science disciplines. Artists, scientists, researchers, scholars, writers as well as collaborative teams are all encouraged to apply. The residency organizers are looking for creative thinking and innovative approaches.
04 Thematic Residency: Analogous Fields: Art and Science
Program dates: May 11, 2009 - June 19, 2009
Application deadline: February 13, 2009
For Further information view the following links:
About the Banff Centre - http://www.banffcentre.ca/about/
Further information on the Analogous Fields Residency and how to apply - http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=84
saul ostrow
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=845&facId=3630&p=member
charles tucker
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=845&facId=3631&p=member
www.charlestuckerart.com
Other dates, information and artis

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Charles Tucker, and Saul Ostrow give a talk and then go to Banff, again, this spring...



May 11, 2009 - June 19, 2009
Analogous Fields Residency at Banff Centre Alberta, Canada – Organized by Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker
For over 70 years The Banff Centre has provided working and career opportunities in the arts. Located in the Mountains of Western Canada, its breathtaking views, committed staff and vibrant creative community has made the Banff Centre a dynamic environment in which artists are inspired to challenge assumptions that go beyond their own expectations.

This Spring Banff is offering another in its series of renowned thematic Residencies. Following on the heels of last year’s “Making Artistic Inquiry Visible,” this year’s “Analogous Fields” deals with the intersect between art and science. Organized by collaborators Charles Tucker, sculptor and artist/researcher, and noted critic and author, Saul Ostrow, the pair participated in last year’s program, Tucker and Ostrow have set for the goal for the 2009 program as the development of new knowledge and the creation of original work extending from the exploration of this convergence. This residency is specifically designed to foster collaborations and exchanges between individuals working in art and science disciplines. Artists, scientists, researchers, scholars, writers as well as collaborative teams are all encouraged to apply. The residency organizers are looking for creative thinking and innovative approaches.

04 Thematic Residency: Analogous Fields: Art and Science
Program dates: May 11, 2009 - June 19, 2009
Application deadline: February 13, 2009

For Further information view the following links:
About the Banff Centre - http://www.banffcentre.ca/about/
Further information on the Analogous Fields Residency and how to apply - http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=84

saul ostrow
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=845&facId=3630&p=member

charles tucker
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=845&facId=3631&p=member
www.charletuckerart.com