PHOTO + MEDIA ART

LECTURE

2010-11-18T06:30:00.000-08:00

Today, Thursday, November 18, at 5:30 pm in the UTC Fine Arts Center, room 356: guest curator Patricia Karetzky, Asian art scholar (Bard College, NY) and curator of contemporary Chinese art, will present about China's contemporary art scene: influences, context, art and artists with an emphasis upon the work and the artists currently in the Cress:

"Le Deluge, apres Mao" An Exhibition of Work by Significant Contemporary Chinese Artists

A reception will follow.

Open to the public and free of charge.

Patricia Karetzky appears as part of "Focus on China" programming at UTC, and her lecture and visit is sponsored by the UTC College of Arts and Sciences.

Visiting Artist - Chris Scarborough

2010-03-27T06:03:00.001-07:00

Artist's Lecture: April 1, 2010 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Student Interaction: March 31, 2010 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Utilizing diverse elements ranging from Japanese pop culture and art historical references, to science fiction, Chinese propaganda posters, and real life experiences, Scarborough creates a pluralistic body of work that examines the effects of what happens when the boundaries of culture and context cross paths and erode. Working fluently in both photography and drawing, Scarborough is known for his meticulously constructed and detailed images of people and objects that have been fastidiously manipulated to reveal and deconstruct preconceived cultural concepts of beauty and perfection.

Chris Scarborough currently resides in Nashville. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. His work has been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, D.C., Atlanta, New Orleans and Nashville. He received his BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and has been featured in Art Papers, Alarm Magazine, Hi-Fructose Magazine, NY Magazine and New American paintings.

Both events are free and open to the public.

UTC Fine Arts Center, Room 356
MUSE Lecture Series
In partnership with AVA

http://www.scarboy.net/

Visiting Artist - Rocky Horton

2010-03-27T06:00:00.000-07:00

Lecture/Interaction: April 1 10:50 AM - 1:30 PM
Fine Arts Center, Room 340

Artist's Statment
In my most recent studio practice, I have begun developing a body of work that addresses the precarious relationship of painting to photography. These two practices have long been in contention: photography has proclaimed the death of painting; yet painting continues to redefine itself beyond the realm of photography. Regarding this history, I am creating a series of “photo paintings”, using different dilutions of chemical photo developer painted onto exposed photographs to create a synthesis of both photographic and painting practices. These current works create a dialogue between what has for so long seemed like disparate artistic practices. They act as a conduit between painting practice and photographic processes. The work creates a conceptual discrepancy between facture and picture or, more broadly, fact and fiction. Thus, they exist in a sate of suspension between a perception and objectification- a liminal existence.

http://rockyhorton.com

ATLANTA FEB 23-24

2010-02-22T11:57:00.000-08:00

JOHAN GRIMONPREZ
SCREENING /
Grimonprez's DOUBLE TAKE
Tuesday, February 23, 7 pm
Hill Auditorium, High Museum of Art, Atlanta

ARTIST'S TALK /
Wednesday, February 24, 8 pm
Hill Auditorium, High Museum of Art, Atlanta

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Visiting Artist - Julie Lequin

2010-02-07T06:40:00.000-08:00

The UTC Department of Art welcomes Visiting Artist Julie Lequin! Artist's Lecture+Performance+Interactions Feb 18-20, 2010. Lequin's work materializes in a variety of combined forms including video, performance, photography, drawing, book, costume, language... Join us at the UTC Fine Arts Center.

Lecture + Performance: Thursday Feb 18, 4:30pm Video Art Screening: Friday Feb 19, 1:30pm

www.julielequin.com

Caroline Allison / A Common Place

2010-01-31T04:19:00.000-08:00

February 19 – April 11, 2010
Caroline Allison:
A COMMON PLACE

Artist’s talk and reception: Friday, February 19, 2010 – 4:30 pm
Gallery closed for Spring Break March 11-22

Location and Hours
The Gallery is located on Georgia Avenue between Convocation Hall and Guerry Hall. Click for map

The hours are:
Tuesday – Friday 10am to 5pm
Saturday – Sunday Noon to 4pm
The Gallery is closed during the summer and for all academic breaks.

The University Art Gallery
University of the South
735 University Ave.
Sewanee, Tennessee 37383
Phone: 931.598.1223
Fax: 931.598.3335

Staff: Shelley MacLaren, Gallery Director
sjmaclar@sewanee.edu

If you would like to be added to our mailing list to receive announcements for upcoming shows, please call or e-mail us with your information.

*Caroline Allison Website*

Visiting Artists - Kahn & Selesnick

2010-01-28T17:27:00.000-08:00

the Marek Visiting Artists Series presents an exhibition, lecture and week-long events with the collaborative duo of Kahn & Selesnick. The exhibition will include Performative photography, video, and sculptural installation at the UTC Cress Gallery: Feb 2 - Mar 16.

Artists Lecture: Tues, Feb. 2, 5:30pm UTC Fine Arts Center

Gallery Opening Reception: immediately following lecture

Kahn & Selesnick will be working with both the color photography and interdisciplinary research classes within the PMA curriculum as well as connecting with the UTC and Chattanooga communities.

www.utc.edu/cressgallery
www.kahnselesnick.com

xpace.info: Student and Emerging Web-based Art

2010-01-26T12:30:00.000-08:00

http://xpace.info/

Deadline:

March 25, 2010
XPACE Cultural Centre is looking for web-based art from student and emerging artists to feature on its website. Submissions can be in any form as long as they can be linked to from our website. Please include a brief bio and artist statement with your URL.

Email all entries to matthew@xpace.info by March 25, 2010

XPACE Cultural Centre is a non-profit organization dedicated to emerging art and design. Our goal is to bridge students with their established counterparts through experimental programming that cultivates public dialogue. This allows for a dynamic art space that questions

Artist's Lecture - Baldwin Lee

2010-01-21T10:51:00.000-08:00

“On Photographing in the South”
Public lecture by Baldwin Lee, Professor of Art,University of Tennessee, Knoxville

http://www.baldwinlee.com

Artist's Lecture - free and open to public

2010-01-19T08:19:00.000-08:00

Patrick DeGuira
Wednesday, Jan 20, 5:30pm
Fine Arts Center, Room 356

DeGuira uses a variety of media including, photography, text, sculpture and works on paper to create re-envisioned family histories and dark comedies. Fusing a strong sense of craft and conceptual approaches, his process is both haunting and fascinating presenting relics from his mental excavation.

Deguira was the recent juror for the UTC student exhibition. He has worked for several museums and currently runs his own business in art handling, archiving and installation.

He has had solo exhibitions at Medicine Factory (Memphis), Fredric Snitzer Gallery (Miami), Zeitgeist Gallery (Nashville), Second Floor Contemporary (Memphis), and Cheekwood Museum of Art (Nashville). His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at Hunter Museum of Art (Chattanooga), Brooks Museum (Memphis), The Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville), Mason Murer Fine Art (Atlanta), Steel Pond Gallery (Portland) and Honey Space (NYC).
His work has been featured in articles from Art Papers, Art Daily, Nashville Scene, and Number Magazine.

Plausible Artworlds snapshots, The Library Of Radiant Optimism For Let's Remake The World

2010-01-12T22:11:00.000-08:00

Plausible Artworlds at UTC / January 12 - April 13, 2010 / as part of PMA Topics, expanded/collaborative practice

2010-01-07T10:59:00.000-08:00

Plausible Artworlds at UTC, you are invited

Please join us for Plausible Artworlds 2010 gatherings in Chattanooga, or on the internet, every Tuesday night through April, 6PM to 8PM. If you cannot attend in person, Plausible Artworlds will be available on the internet via Skype. Plausible Artworlds is a project to collect and share knowledge about alternative models of creative practice. From alternative economies to open source culture and other social experiments, Plausible Artworlds is a platform for research and participation with artworlds that present a distinct alternative to mainstream culture.

UTC Assistant Professor Jessica Westbrook and Adjunct Professor Adam Trowbridge, as part of the Philadelphia-based group Basekamp, are collaborating in Plausible Artworlds to extend the educational outreach. In this, they are facilitating a UTC course that will intersect with the Plausible Artworlds presentations and enable students to experiment in collaborative art practice. We are inviting the community to join the class every Tuesday night in the University of Tennessee Art Department, Room 340 in the Fine Arts Center located at the corner of Vine and Palmetto.

For more information, contact: Adam Trowbridge, atrowbri@gmail.com or jessicawestbrook@utc.edu

January Schedule

Week 1 – Jan 5:
The Public School and AAAARG.org [No class or event @ UTC]

Week 2 – Jan 12:
The Library Of Radiant Optimism For Let’s Remake The World

Week 3 – Jan 19:
House Magic: The European squatted social centers movement

Week 4 – Jan 26:
Continental Drift through the Midwest Radical Cultural Corridor

Stay tuned for an upcoming monthly schedule which will be posted here on the UTC PMA blog.

About Plausible Artworlds 2010

Plausible Artworlds is a project to collect and share knowledge about alternative models of creative practice. From alternative economies to open source culture and other social experiments, Plausible Artworlds is a platform for research and participation with artworlds that present a distinct alternative to mainstream culture. On January 5th Basekamp will kick off a year of “Plausible Artworlds” potluck events happening every Tuesday night in 2010 from 6-8PM EST – both online over Skype as well as in-person at the Basekamp space in Philadelphia and at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga.
The discussions will be started each week by the invited guests whose collective practice exemplify “artworlds” that in some substantial way differ from a prevailing and more broadly accepted “Artworld”. Corresponding projects will be exhibited at Basekamp in support of these weekly discussions along with a publication to be compiled at the end of the year.

We invite artists, educators and community members to join us every Tuesday night – in person, or on Skype, skypename: ‘basekamp’.

“Plausible Artworlds” is a project organized by Basekamp and Stephen Wright, and has been funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative.

To learn more about Plausible Artworlds please visit: www.PlausibleArtworlds.org

Wind/Rewind/Weave in Knoxville

2010-01-07T10:51:00.000-08:00

The Knoxville Museum of Art is delighted to present Wind/Rewind/Weave, a major exhibition of work by visual artist Anne Wilson. For three decades, Wilson has been regarded as an innovative and remarkable voice in the visual arts. Her work rests at the forefront of artwork connecting conceptualism and handiwork, activism and aesthetics. Through a diverse range of source materials and production methods, Wilson's practice extends the relational in terms of labor, collaboration, and identity construction.

Wind/Rewind/Weave investigates the global crisis of production and skill based textile labor through three major works: Rewinds, a new sculpture created entirely in glass; video documentation of Wind-Up: Walking the Warp, a 2008 performance in Chicago; and a large site-specific project, Local Industry, that takes the form of an active weaving/winding factory set up in the museum space.

Exhibition, Members Opening: January 21, 5:30pm

Meet the Artist for a public discussion, January 23, 3:00pm

Anne Wilson is a Chicago based visual artist who creates sculpture, drawing, video animations and installations that explore themes of time, loss, private and social rituals. She uses diverse source materials that are familiar and rich with cultural meanings.

For more information, view the exhibition web site: http://www.windrewindweave.com

Knoxville Museum of Art
1050 World's Fair Park
Knoxville, Tennessee 37916
Ph: +1 865 525 6101
http://www.knoxart.org

TEH Plot / Boston

2009-12-20T11:40:00.000-08:00

TEH is a common typographical error and refers to a collaborative art and technology group with interests in research, displaced communication, simulation, nature/culture, and geography. TEH is currently examining weather as a shared experience/vocabulary, and presents this research through
installation and technologically mediated experience.

TEH plot is a Summer Scene in Boston and includes: cicadas, fresh cut grass, Meatballs, and responsive lighting... amongst other components.

December 18 - January 22
Phillip Andrew Lewis, Adam Trowbridge, and Jessica Westbrook

Artists' Reception / Talk : December 19 / 5:30 to 8:00pm

FPAC Gallery
300 Summer Street M1
Boston, MA 02210
Hours: Mondays - Wednesdays 9AM-3:30PM, Thursdays-Fridays 9AM-10PM, Saturdays 5PM-10PM.

2009-12-12T06:38:00.000-08:00

On December 15, 2009 at 10:30 pm EST, Upgrade Tennessee! will present an online vj performance by Alessandro Imperato entitled "Body Politik" This is a live video stream!
Find a link to the live stream at www.TERMINALapsu.org.
Alessandro Imperato is an English born digital artist and theorist in the social history of art and media theory. His imagery draws heavily on Brechtian strategies of ‘making strange’ settled meanings and narratives by jarring juxtaposition of potent signs. His work is particularly concerned with international military conflict in the post-Cold War and the increasing political contexts of cultural repression and regulation.
Alessandro’s practice as a cultural producer can be described as being digital media montage. The artwork is intended to make sense of the mediations between reality and its representations. He aims to contribute towards a strategy of critically re-coding the post-war dualism between abstraction and figuration.
He regards art to be an important aspect of political and ideological struggle, in which realism and art’s critical relationship towards society involves an adequate re-description of present lived conditions. One of his aims is to contribute towards a Critical Realist aesthetic and to develop an adequate signifying practice that can take account of the various changing areas of political and cultural struggles. Revealing the social conflicts inherent in art and the media can expose the construction of myths of artistic autonomy and reveal artifacts as sites of political struggle. Alessandro is not interested in the invention of a private language, but in using the signs, forms and images of society to subvert and transform their meanings in order to reveal the myths and ideological distortions of cultural representations.
Alessandro is a founder member of the Medeology Collective.
www.alessandroimperato.com

READING DAY

2009-12-01T05:28:00.000-08:00

If you don't have anything to do on Reading Day...your portfolios are finished, final projects all done, already have your exams in the bag, and straight A's all around............. Then here's a great book to read.

Potluck Chat: Jorge Rojas, Myspace(s) and Low Lives

2009-11-23T06:04:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,

This week Basekamp will be talking with Jorge Rojas about his work that connects online worlds and people in real space.

Jorge Rojas: My space(s) and Low Lives

My Space project:
http://www.jorgerojasart.com/ (Works > Projects)

Low Lives project:
http://labotanica.org/blog/?page_id=782

Jorge Rojas’s “My space” project series creates environments where communicative and social encounters can occur. “My space” is an ongoing project in which the public is invited to participate in a series of interactive, community building projects. The projects incorporate new media, installation, mixed media and performative action to explore the intersection of technology-based communication, artistic interaction and daily life.

“My space: Guadalajara” took place in a storefront window of an art museum in Guadalajara, Mexico and involved over 800 visitors collaborating on paintings.

“My space: Politico” was featured at the Five Myles Gallery in Brooklyn, NY in September through November, 2008. Visitors were interviewed regarding their political views about the elections.

“My space: Bronx” was a twelve hour collaborative painting that encompassed the entire surface of the Blue Bedroom art space.

“My space: West Chicago” was a weeklong community-building project at the West Chicago City Museum and involved new media, installation and several community murals.

“My space: Miami” was a weeklong interactive performance in which the artist built a large cardboard box inside a gallery where he lived, worked, slept and ate for a week, interacting with the public at the gallery during regular hours and online through a 24/7 live video broadcast.

Jorge recently curated “Low Lives” a one-night exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at three venues in the U.S.: FiveMyles, Brooklyn; Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami; and labotanica, Houston in partnership with Project Row Houses. Low Lives examines works that explore the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks, though seldom utilized for performance art, provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting and viewing performances. Low Lives embraces works with a lo-fi aesthetic such as low pixel image and sound quality, contributing to a raw, DIY and sometimes voyeuristic quality in the transmission and reception of the work. The artists and artist collectives participating in this exhibition transmitted their performances from countries including Argentina, Austria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Macedonia, Mexico, United States, Vietnam and Wales.

Biography:
Jorge Rojas is a multidisciplinary artist, artist educator and curator whose work centers on the creation and processes involved in artistic production. Rojas uses both traditional and new media as well as performative elements to investigate communication systems and the effect of technology on artistic production, social structures and communities. He studied Art at the University of Utah and at Bellas Artes- El Nigromante in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where his primary focus was on painting and sculpture. Rojas’ works have been exhibited across the United States, Mexico and India, and are included in numerous private and public collections including The Mexican Museum in San Francisco and Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA) in Long Beach, California. Rojas currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in Morelos, Mexico.

Exhibition Opportunity

2009-11-18T16:50:00.000-08:00

New Horizons 2010, an annual student/emergent show at "the Ned", The Ned McWherter Cultural Arts Center, in Jackson, TN.
Exhibition: Jan 5-Feb 28
No entry fee
Deadline for entry: Dec 10
Email: cnorman@jscc.edu
(include jpegs, titles, medium and dimensions of work you would like to be considered)

Feminism: Activist or Academic? Today 5:30PM University Center-Chattanooga Room

2009-11-16T07:42:00.000-08:00

The UTC Women's Studies Colloquium: Explore, Connect, and Empower Lecture

Series will continue on Monday, November 16, 5:30 p.m. in the University

Center-Chattanooga Room with the second lecture in the Women's Studies

Colloquium.

Heather Palmer and Rebecca Jones, both Assistant Professors in English and Women's Studies, will present “Feminism: Activist or Academic?”

Following the history of feminism as a grassroots, activist, and academic enterprise, Palmer and Jones discuss its place both within the ivory tower

and outside its walls, seeking to interrogate the perceived divide between what feminists do at the university and what they do in the streets.

For many, feminism is a way of life, an activity, a social movement, an academic discipline, a theoretical concept, and a critical methodology.

Anti-feminists see it as a dangerously radical ideology that negatively influences familial and social structures-both from within the university

setting and as a trend permeating popular culture.

As a theoretical discipline, feminism now has a specific space in a university.  However, the activist roots of feminism constantly push against

disciplinary boundaries of a university setting. 

The presentation will look at current perceptions of feminism from across the cultural landscape, in order to answer the following questions: Is there

a place for political and social activism in the university classroom?

Conversely, is there a place for academic and theoretical feminism within social and political activism? How might we vision feminism as a project that transcends the divide between academia and activism?

Students are encouraged to bring their own experiences with feminism to the presentation to add to a lively discussion after the presentation.

November 19 at 7 pm, Upgrade! Tennessee will welcome Aaron Doenges to the Austin Peay Downtown Gallery for a performance and discussion

2009-11-13T08:03:00.000-08:00

On November 19 at 7 pm, Upgrade! Tennessee will welcome Aaron Doenges to the Austin Peay Downtown Gallery for a performance and discussion. The new Austin Peay Downtown Gallery is housed in a small, two-story building, tucked away in downtown Clarksville at 116 Strawberry Alley.

Aaron’s Bio:
There was an earthquake in Ohio on the day Aaron was born. And things haven’t stopped shaking since…

Sitting on the bench in front of an abbreviated spinet, composer/arranger/sound artist Aaron Hoke Doenges started down his musical path before his feet could reach the piano pedals. As a six-year-old in small town Ohio, he passed the time and began his aural explorations mimicking his sisters’ practice and picking out songs by ear. His parents, recognizing the potential he had, arranged further study and under the guidance and support of local church-lady-piano-teachers, he soon progressed, giving his first public recital at the age of 7, performing his first original arrangement at fourteen, and wining several local and regional piano competitions during his high school years. He continued his piano study up until college where he began his formal composition education with Dr. Geri Rosser. Since then, he has continued his musical studies at The Contemporary Music Center on Martha’s Vineyard, Universität Potsdam, Germany, and Belmont University in Nashville where he received his Masters in Music Composition under the instruction of Dr. Bryan Clark and Dr. Paul Godwin. Now, Doenges continues to explore through listening, writing and musical experimentation, searching the world around him for thoughts, sounds and melodies that can be pieced together in ways to provoke attention, thought and perhaps dialog.

While influences ranging from J.S. Bach and Arnold Schoenberg to John Cage, Edgard Varese’, Jonty Harrison, Radiohead and Sigur Ros are present in Doenges’ approach to music, he blends his unique electro-acoustic style through a collage of aural pictures. He searches his surroundings for sounds and samples, pieces them together like a puzzle, and waits to see what the picture looks like. When asked how he describes his music, Doenges says, “I never try to define my music too much…definition seems to eliminate possibilities for me. Instead, I like to take whatever influences, motivates, or provokes me, find its sound and bring it together with other sounds and influences, perhaps by trying to tell a story, seeing what happens. Sometimes the result surprises me. It almost always makes me think.”

Stereophonic Confit Festival

2009-11-13T06:44:00.000-08:00

Monday night::::Nov 16::::8pm
Winder Binder Gallery::::40 Frazier Ave
CHATTANOOGA::::
shaking ray levi society presents live sound performances by
Eugene Chadbourne (US)
Tatsuya Nakatani (Japan)
Joel Grip (Sweden)
Evan Lipson (US)
Ernest Paik (US)
SRL (US)

Lewis, Trowbridge, Westbrook - TEH plot / December 18, 2009-January 22, 2010 / FPAC Boston

2009-11-12T18:42:00.000-08:00

TEH: plot, at the FPAC

TEH is a common typographical error and refers to a collaborative art and technology group with interests in research, displaced communication, simulation, nature/culture, and geography. TEH involves Phillip Andrew Lewis, Adam Trowbridge, and Jessica Westbrook. TEH projects are built using semantic visual cues (iconic and charged, often sculptural and/or video components), and interactive pieces that expand upon ideas through sensory/participatory elements. Beyond the internal negotiations of collaboration, the process often incorporates site-sentive research, so that the work is made in direct response to the place in which it will live. TEH is currently examining weather as a shared experience/vocabulary, and presents this research through installation and technologically mediated experience.

Exhibition Opportunity

2009-11-11T06:33:00.000-08:00

Apply Here...

PMA Society Launch Party

2009-11-04T09:06:00.000-08:00

Come join the newest student organization at UTC!

WEDNESDAY // NOVEMBER 4

7:00 PM // ROOM 356

Chat with Roy Ascott, Tuesday November 10, 6PM-8PM

2009-11-04T05:12:00.000-08:00

Roy Ascott November 10, 2009 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

This coming week through Basekamp - Trowbridge and Westbrook will be talking with Roy Ascott about being an "artist with a technoetic, telematic, syncretic sense of being."

Currently Roy is the Director of Technoetic Arts Limited, an International art and technology consultancy situated in Bristol, United Kingdom. He is also Founding President of the Planetary Collegium at the University of Plymouth, an international research organization involved with telematic, technoetic and syncretic art practice and theory. The Planetary Collegium has a hub at Plymouth, with nodes in Milan and Zurich and is involved with doctoral and post doc research in new media arts and emergent fields.

From www.plymouthartscentre.org:
Long before email and the internet, Roy Ascott started using online computer networks as an art medium and coined the term telematic art. Since the 1960s he has been a pioneer of art, which brought together the science of cybernetics with elements of Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus and Pop Art. Parallel to his artwork, RoyAscott is a highly acclaimed teacher and theorist of art pedagogy. Roy Ascott sees telematic art as the transformation of the viewer into an active participant in creating the artwork, which remains in process throughout its duration. In the 1960s Roy Ascott was the head of Groundcourse at Ealing College of Art and developed one of the most influential and unorthodox approaches to teaching foundation studies in art. The basis of the course was developed around cybernetic theories of systems of communication: the flow of information, interactive exchange, feedback, participation and systemic relationship.

From www.medienkunstnetz.de:
He is founding editor of the international journal Technoetic Arts, and member of the editorial boards of Leonardo, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Convergence, Digital Creativity, and the Chinese language online journal Tom.Com.

A few links:
http://www.plymouthartscentre.org/art/royascott.html
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/ascott/biography/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ascott 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Collegium
http://www.frieze.com/issue/print_article/degree_zero/
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/dynamic.asp?page=staffdetails&id=rascott
http://alien.mur.at/rax/UBIQUA/index.html 

Join us every Tuesday night – in person, or on Skype, skypename: ‘basekamp’ If you come to the potluck in person, be sure to bring a dish... (basekamp space: 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia usa)

re:FLOSS Tonight Upgrade! NY: Free as in What? streaming/chat 7-9PM

2009-10-29T11:47:00.000-07:00

October 29: Upgrade! NY: Free as in What? Broadcast from Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC Cost: Free http://upgrade.eyebeam.org/2009/10/free-as-in-what/ 

What do we mean by ‘freedom’? Should Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) necessarily be powered by radical politics of ownership and collaboration? Or is the latching of “Free Software” ideological baggage limiting the full transformative power of “Open Source”. How are these questions informed by licenses? Are some licenses more open than others? More ethical than others? This emotional debate has been in the heart of FLOSS from its early days and has created camps and animosities within the community. Upgrade! NY continues its program series on open source as it relates to activism and creative practice. Join us for a discussion and debate on what constitutes freedom within the Open Source and Free Culture movements. We will examine the strong ideological differences through a provocative panel discussion with Gabriella Coleman and Zachary Lieberman. Live streaming and live chat will be available during the panel discussion. http://www.livestream.com/eyebeam

The Tennessee Node of Upgrade! is hosted by our friends up at APSU. Ask Phillip, Adam, or Jessica how to get involved. http://www.upgrade.artapsu.com/

History of Time-Based Media, explores curation as creative practice. Please join us on Friday November 6 at the AVA Media Center located at 30 Frazier Ave Chattanooga, TN 37405 / 5:30PM. Free and Open to all.

2009-10-28T05:55:00.000-07:00

AVA is located at 30 Frazier Avenue, Chattanooga TN 37405. This event is free and accessible to all.

Processing Workshop, introduction to basic programming concepts, Oct 30

2009-10-22T14:57:00.000-07:00

Processing Workshop
Photo & Media Art Program (PMA)
UTC Art Department
Adam Trowbridge, Adjunct Professor

Friday, October 30
5pm – 6:30pm
location: UTC FAC, room tbd

This workshop will be an introduction to basic programming concepts using Processing.
To register, please email: atrowbri@gmail.com and put “processing workshop” in the subject line

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool.

Processing is free to download and available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

http://processing.org/

Please indicate whether you have a laptop you will use or if you need a lab computer.

Space is limited, priority will be given to students in ART420005.
Please register only if you are sure you will attend.

Open to faculty or students.

Questions? Ask Jessica, Phillip, or Adam.

click and drag in window below...

DJK7 lecture - demo - performance

2009-10-14T21:42:00.000-07:00

THANK YOU DJK7
for your time & knowledge!!!

http://soundcloud.com/djk7

Teh Nowcasting Now Open at Sewanee University Gallery

2009-10-13T17:46:00.000-07:00

http://news.sewanee.edu/events/2009/10/23/nowcasting-at-the-university-gallery-artists-talk-oct-23.362
Nowcasting" at the University Gallery, artists' talk Oct. 23

Sewanee’s University Art Gallery presents Nowcasting, an installation created by the collaborative group TEH, from Oct. 9 through Nov. 22. An artists’ talk in Convocation Hall at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, will be followed by a reception.

Visitors to Nowcasting will experience the building of a digitized storm in the confines of the gallery. Like TEH’s other works, this installation is intended to “challenge the senses through the use of simulation, and present weather/environment through mediated, virtual and physical processes.” Entering a gallery space transformed by sound, visitors will question the reality of what their senses tell them about the surrounding environment.

TEH includes the artists Phillip Andrew Lewis, Adam Trowbridge, and Jessica Westbrook. They named their collaboration TEH after a mistake commonly made when using a keyboard—typing “teh” instead of “the.” This name represents the group’s interest in how an actively participating audience can be a factor in the meaning of an artwork. Individuals have unintended and surprising effects on the messages they create and receive. This name also represents the group’s interest in the difficulties of communication. Messages are often scrambled, or mean different things to different people. Representations intended to simulate reality can never be exactly the same thing. The group’s current focus is on the intersection of technology with weather and specific physical sites.

Phillip Andrew Lewis often explores the viewer’s navigation of mental and physical environments in his work. He received his MFA from the Memphis College of Art. In 2005 Lewis established Medicine Factory, a contemporary art space in downtown Memphis, and he has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Adam Trowbridge uses a variety of approaches and media, including performance, video and computer-driven installations, to explore the connections, and the gaps, between what we experience and what we understand. Trowbridge received his MFA in Electronic Visualization / Responsive Art from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his work has been featured nationally and internationally.

Jessica Westbrook works with photography, video, language, and information design. In her work she explores subjective and often contradictory responses to anything from cultural artifacts to extreme situations. Westbrook received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art. In 2005 she established the artist’s collective SEED in Chattanooga, and has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Sewanee’s University Art Gallery is located on Georgia Avenue on the campus of the University of the South. The gallery is free, accessible, and open to the public. Hours are 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon – 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Call 931.598.1223 for more information, or visit the gallery Web site.

PMA Field Trip To Atlanta Contemporary Thursday Oct 15

2009-10-13T17:36:00.000-07:00

Intro to Processing

2009-10-13T11:46:00.000-07:00

DJk7 talking to History of Time-Based Media Weds Oct 14, 3pm, all are invited

2009-10-13T06:42:00.000-07:00

WHEN: Weds Oct 14, 3pm

WHERE: FAC 340 (PMA studio)

WHO: Phillip Allen is coming to talk/demo what is involved in mixing sound. We can figure out how this creative practice rooted in sound, relates to graphic design, art, performance... All are invited. If you have schedule conflicts feel free to slip in and out.

WHAT: Listen to his work here. He will tell us what makes him tick. http://soundcloud.com/djk7

FIELD TRIP - Thursday

2009-10-13T05:34:00.000-07:00

Counterpoint series, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

MEET 9:45am, FINE ARTS CENTER (palmetto street side)
VANS LEAVE at 10am

A Midterm Diversion

2009-10-08T17:21:00.000-07:00

nerd boyfriend
an obsessive archive:
photo
film
clothing
props

UTC Biennial Faculty Exhibit

2009-09-23T06:58:00.001-07:00

PMA Faculty have work in the Cress Gallery 2. Each work explores individual research/motivations and integrates some form of media and/or technology.

Lewis' work "Skylight (nonfiction)"  acts  as  an  architectural  feature  and  extension  of  the gallery. Utilizing  a  live  video  feed  from  a  camera  placed  on  the  roof  of  the  gallery,  this  work  contains  a  digitized  experience  of  the  natural  sky  in  real time.  The  screen  contents  continue  to  evolve  with  the  sky;  providing  a  mediated  view  of  what  is  beyond  the  gallery. Through  our  connection  to  digital  and  natural  environments,  along  with  the  relationship  between  the  actual  and  representational,  our  awareness  of  each  is  questioned. 

Trowbridge's Arduino controlled work, A Message Never Received, transmits the words "A Message Never Received," letter by letter, in American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) code, represented in 7-bit binary with an additional bit to represent the end of each message. The message is transmitted via eight laser diodes across space and onto a front-surface mirror that reflects it. The piece occurs at an intersection of giving up on all communication and becoming open to the possibilities that surrender might offer. Is it possible to form a community during the extinction of a civilization? As one stands against intersubjectivity, shared cognition, or any collective basis for meaning, purpose and communication, it is not a given that one must stand alone. Whatever happens... HOW TO FIND EACH OTHER?

Westbrook's project "Product Placements," is an interactive wiimote controlled moving image sequence intersecting non-nutritional food habits with drive-by natural worlds. It is a formula for delightful nothingness, and presents a spectacle of branded presence that communicates using text and visual language, but has nothing to say.

TEH: NOWCASTING at University Art Gallery, Sewanee October 9-November 22, 2009

2009-09-22T20:09:00.000-07:00

TEH: NOWCASTING  

University Art Gallery, The University of the South, 735 University Ave., Sewanee, TN 37383

installation dates: October 9 – November 22, 2009

artist talk: October 23 (details soon)

TEH is a common typographical error and refers to a collaborative art and technology group with interests in displaced communication and simulation. TEH is currently considering conditions of weather/atmosphere and how this relates to the site/history of space/geography/culture. Our research involves visual and interactive simulation and uses portable climate control (air flow/fans), television/radio forecasts (audio/visual), game technologies, processing based interactive video projection, and other media. The pieces used in our projects/installations challenge the senses through the use of technology, and present weather/environment through mediated, virtual and physical processes.

TEH involves Phillip Andrew Lewis, Adam Trowbridge, and Jessica Westbrook.

Westbrook selected for Experimental Media Series, The Phillips Collection, MICA, Hirshhorn Museum Smithsonian Institute

2009-09-22T20:04:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON, DC, September 16, 2009-Washington Project for the Arts is pleased to announce the participating artists for the fifth annual Experimental Media Series, a multi-evening screening of innovative international video and sound art selected by Kelly Gordon, Associate Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution.

Since 2006, the Experimental Media Series has showcased the talents of artists working in sound and video art. Choosing to jury this year's program without an overlying theme, Gordon says, "This selection is robustly diverse in style, approach, use of medium, age of artists, geographic area represented, and experience level. They are linked only by my definition of quality." The most compelling entries, as selected by the juror and based on overall quality and innovation, will be awarded the Kraft Prize for New Media and the WPA Experimental Art Prize, two cash prizes of $750 each, to be presented on October 1 at The Phillips Collection.

Kelly Gordon,who specializes in time-based art, organizes the museum's Black Box program and recently co-curated the exhibition The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, which debuted at the Hirshhorn in 2008 and will travel to Spain in 2010.
To see a full program schedule, please visit http://wpadc.org/events/evnts_current.html

VENUE SCHEDULE:
September 24 and October 1, 2009, 6:30-8:15 pm
The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20009

October 13 and 14, 2009, 7:00-9:00 pm
Maryland Institute College of Art, Falvey Hall, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD 21217

October 15, 2009, 8:00-9:30 pm at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 7th Street and Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20013

UPGRADE! Tennessee

2009-09-22T19:03:00.000-07:00

UTC PMA Faculty Lewis, Trowbridge, and Westbrook have joined forces with Media artists all over Tennessee to launch a node of UPGRADE!, an international network of gatherings concerning art, technology, culture. "My hope to to have a rotating series of media/art projects and programs, as well as the sort of discourse that UPGRADE! will generate regarding teaching in these rapidly expanding disciplines. I also want to thank Barry and Kell at APSU for doing all the work!" says Westbrook.

http://www.theupgrade.net/

http://www.upgrade.artapsu.com/

2009-09-22T05:12:00.000-07:00

Ceal Floyer
Overgrowth
medium format slide & medium format slide projector

FIELD TRIP - Thursday, OCT 15th (date changed)

2009-09-02T17:18:00.001-07:00

Atlanta Celebrates Photography
&
Gregory Crewdson Artist Lecture
&
High Museum of Art - Alec Soth Exhibition +more

Sign-up Sheet on door FAC351a (next to elevator)
Only zero spots left!!! - if you're too late and still interested, email Professor Lewis

FALL 2009

2009-08-16T16:10:00.000-07:00

Exhibition Opportunity

2009-04-21T11:48:00.000-07:00

Your Photographs in China?
Click image below to learn more...

EXHIBITION

2009-04-18T10:17:00.000-07:00

UTC Senior Show 2009 (group two)
CRESS GALLERY

left: Jessica Langston, mixed media: paint/xerographs
right: McKinley Bryson, drawings on vellum

photographs provided by Robert Parker (click here for more)

LECTURE

2009-04-02T13:14:00.000-07:00

Muse Lecture Series
Amy Pleasant
5:30, Fine Arts Center
Tonight!

EXHIBITION

2009-04-01T06:22:00.000-07:00

UTC Senior Show 2009 (group one)
CRESS GALLERY
lots of great work! here's a taste...

left: alyssa fryar: two channel video---self portrait with sound
right: stephen bush: live web program-retrieving & projecting random combinations of twitter text & flickr imagery
photographs by jessi taylor
and MORE photos here: click

VIDEO EXHIBITION

2009-03-24T13:56:00.000-07:00

THURSDAY NIGHT at the HUNTER MUSEUM of AMERICAN ART
6pm

*link to polymer site*

POLYMER 2009
Video Exhibition & Sound Performance

Featured Video Artists:

Sean Capone
Michael Paulus
Will Rogan
Anna Campbell
John D. Fryer
Keith Sullivan
Shana Moulton
Megan Berner
Paul Nudd
Liz Rodda
Erin Marie Dunn
Catherine Ross
Molly Schwartz
Celeste Fichter
Michael Greathouse
Andrea Ackerman
Peter HappelChristian
Jon Brumit
Jack Ryan

Outdoor Sound Performance:

BLUFF/POSEIDON
Greg Pond, Patrick DeGuira, & Jason Lee Wilson

Video Performance

2009-02-26T20:03:00.001-08:00

Kell Black and Barry Jones at Green|Spaces
Live Video Performance of “Sonor et Visio”
Thursday March 5, 2009 / 7-8pm

location:
Green|Spaces Chattanooga
63 e Main Street Chattanooga, TN 37408
free and open to the public. please join us!

+Other March Events: polymer2009.wordpress.com

LECTURE

2009-02-18T11:38:00.000-08:00

Art Speak Lecture Series presents:

The Anxious Object: Art in Place in the 21st Century
Featured Speaker: Jeff Morton, MFA

This discussion will explore the notion of art and its place in the 21st century and how art has progressed in recent history.
Feb 18, 5:30-7:00pm
Free and open to the public

EXHIBITION

2009-02-11T13:15:00.000-08:00

Aperture 2009
Opening Reception:
Friday, Feb 20 5:30-8pm

EXHIBITION

2009-02-01T14:11:00.000-08:00

RECEPTION:
Friday, February 6th 5:30-8pm
AVA Gallery

Participating Collectives include:
Basekamp (Philadelphia), BLW, Common Places Project (Tampa), DeadTech (Chicago), Fugitive Projects (Nashville), Graffiti Research Lab (New York), Guerrilla Girls, InCUBATE-Chicago (Chicago), Mess Hall (Chicago), Paintallica (Washington), RTmark, TEAM LUMP (Raleigh), Temporary Services (Chicago), 6+ , and The Yes Men.

ORGANIZED by SEED

LECTURE

2009-01-27T19:25:00.000-08:00

Art Speak/ Shifting Motivations: Art Practice as Relation, Network and System

Featured Speaker: Jessica Westbrook
This talk will focus on artists working collectively to take advantage of the creative potential of group action. This talk is in conjunction with the Seed exhibition in AVA’s Main Gallery.
Wednesday, January 28/ 5:30-7:00pm
Free and open to the public at AVA

ARTIST LECTURE

2008-11-25T16:34:00.000-08:00

On November 20 we were treated to a lecture by artist James Powderly and the Graffiti Research Lab.

Thank you James!

Indivisible Cities Exhibition - Part One

2008-11-18T18:47:00.000-08:00

Right Now at AVA Gallery. Click here for directions.

This is an exhibition by ART381 -Photo II. It is a collaboration with a Youngstown State University (Ohio) class. This exhibition is a conversation about the cities of Youngstown and Chattanooga. Part One is about Chattanooga. Only up for a few more weeks, then Part Two will take its place. Check it out now.

INdiVISble CITieS

2008-10-26T17:47:00.000-07:00

click the word: link

Cress Gallery Exhibition & Artists' Talk

2008-10-13T04:53:00.000-07:00

Oct 14 - Nov 26 2008
reception & talk Oct 14, 5:30-7pm

Sarah Wagner: Nuclear Family
Jade Townsend: Born Between

2008-08-27T09:57:00.000-07:00

CRESS GALLERY
exhibition of recent acquisitions:

ANDY WARHOL: polaroids & silver gelatin prints
ROSALIND SOLOMON: silver gelatin prints
WEIMER PURSELL: litho, posters, mixed media

August 28 - October 2, 2008

Fine Arts Center
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

gallery hours: MW 9:30-5, TuThF 9:30-7

above: polaroid by Andy Warhol

2008-08-14T17:40:00.000-07:00

University of Tennessee
Chattanooga
Photography Photographic Arts Photo
Video Art Sound
Bachelor of Fine Arts BFA
Installation Art Performance Art
Chattanooga Art
Studio Arts New Media
Darkroom Digital Art Art Department