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Announcement
Amy Alexander Alexander’s essay, “About Sven... and about Software, Surveillance, Scariness and Subjectivity, published
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 10:11am. Announcement | Faculty Project
Associate Professor Amy Alexander
Amy Alexander’s essay, “About Sven... and about Software, Surveillance, Scariness and Subjectivity, has been published in the volume, Transdisciplinary Digital Art: Sound, Vision and the New Screen, edited by Randy Adams, Steve Gibson and Stefan Muller Arisona, and published by Springer. The book, Sexing Code: Subversion, Theory and Representation, by Claudia Herbst, includes an interview with Alexander. Both books were published in May. Alexander has also co-authored a chapter with Nick Collins on historical and contemporary audiovisual performance in The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, which was published earlier this year.
Barbara Kruger's 'Another' Piece for Stuart Collection on Price Center Atrium
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 7:54am. AnnouncementUCSD News Top Stories
(http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/)
Another Piece for Stuart Collection
(http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/thisweek/2008/05/05_stuart_collection.asp)
By Inga Kiderra for UCSD News | May 5, 2008
“The meaning of life is that it stops,” Franz Kafka once said. And artist Barbara Kruger will have him saying it over and over again for as long there is a floor to the atrium of the newly expanded Price Center at UCSD.
The Kafka quotation and 32 others from prominent thinkers are part of a wall-and-floor installation entitled “Another” — the seventeenth work in the university’s Stuart Collection.
The quotes, from Charlotte Bronte to Malcolm X, are embedded in colored terrazzo rectangles in the floor. On the wall will be a 40-by-80-foot mural of two clock faces, punctuated by rectangular units with two-word phrases starting with the word “another”: “Another day,” for example, and “another night,” “another sweater,” “another love,” “another life.”
Along the bottom and middle of the image will be two running LED texts showing live current news feed from Reuters.
Another was commissioned by the Stuart Collection, an ongoing program of site-specific sculpture by leading artists of our time. It will be sited at UCSD’s newly expanded Price Center — which was built to be a lively student hub and features an atrium with open architecture and a 350-seat dining space on the ground floor. The installation will be visible from all interior levels of the four-story structure.
Arts Festival 2008
Submitted by yolietorres on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 12:36pm. Announcement | Undergraduate EventsThe Council of Provosts, the Department of Music, the Department of Theatre and Dance, and the Department of Visual Arts, in cooperation with the University Events Office are proud to present this year's Undergraduate Arts Festival that will feature the collaborative works from students across each of the disciplines
Arts Festival 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
6:30pm Pre-Show Reception with DJ Michael K.
7:30pm Performance
FREE and open to the general public.
Price Center East Ballroom, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
This year's festival is a performance based on cross-disciplinary collaborations from students in the departments of Theatre & Dance, Music and Visual Art.
Visual Arts Students: 'Think, Play, and Create,' a Collaboration with the New Children's Museum 'Teen Studio'
Submitted by yolietorres on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 8:24am. Announcement | Student Project | Undergraduate Events
Undergraduate and MFA Graduate Students Collaborate
Think, Play, and Create
Opening Festivities on Sunday, May 4, 2008 | Noon–4pm
Watch the Grand Opening Kids Parade at 1pm!
Free and open to the public.
New Children's Museum, 200 West Island Avenue, Downtown San Diego
The New Children’s Museum opens its doors! Enjoy entertainment, activities and giveaways, and live performances featuring Eveoke Dance Theatre, Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater and San Diego Youth Symphony. Tour the innovative new green building and opening exhibition, childsplay.
New Children's Museum
200 West Island Avenue
Downtown San Diego
Corner of Front Street and West Island Avenue
http://www.thinkplaycreate.org
Documentary Films and Discussion
Submitted by rtejada on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 6:30pm. AnnouncementC I N E M A N I A A N T H R O P O I D E A
presents
A Series of Documentary Films and Discussion
BABOON TALES (1998)
Thursday, 10 April, 7 – 9 pm, Center Hall 216
Baboon Tales is the story from birth through the first year of life in the almost decade-long journey to baboon adulthood. Olive baboons are intensely social animals, weaving a shifting web of relationships with family, friends, and enemies. Based on the real life experiences of five infants, the film follows these characters through their triumphs and tragedies amidst East Africa’s worst drought in over a decade. Narrated by Glenn Close, this film is based on the long-term research of UCSD Primatologist Shirley Strum, who will be present to discuss the documentary. This evening's event also includes the screening of a 6-minute experimental two-track video installation based on documentary footage of olive baboon sexual negotiations and a human enactment of the same materials filmed in black-and-white film noir style, a project by Rachel Mayeri (Media Studies Professor at Harvey Mudd College) and Deborah Forster (Primatologist and Doctoral Candidate in Cognitive Science at UCSD).
Rubén Ortiz-Torres: Latin American Art
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 8:35am. Announcement | ReviewSouthwest Art Magazine, February 2008
Latin American Art
The Exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) beginning April 6, is the first major consideration of the legacy of Chicano art in almost two decades. Unlike most exhibitions of Chicano art that have preceded it, Phantom Sightings moves away from efforts to define a distinct identity or style and instead focuses attention on conceptual strategies that artists use to intervene in public spaces or debates. Phantom Sightings traces these tendencies to the late 1960s, adding a new dimension to our understanding of Chicano art history and notions of ethnic identity, cultural politics, and artistic practice.
New Seminar: Collective Art Practice - VIS 198 - Directed Group Study
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 8:27am. AnnouncementCollective Art Practice
Vis 198 - Directed Group Study
Collective Art Practice - Performative and Networked Approaches to Challenging Power
If you have questions or are interested in registering for this class, email Micha Cárdenas at mcardenas@ucsd.edu.
This class has three main focus:
- to introduce students to collective practices
- to facilitate student understanding of social issues embodied in the San Diego / Tijuana borderlands
- to explore online space as public space, its limitations and possibilities
Throughout the class, students will meet art and activist collectives from the San Diego/Tijuana border region and discuss their approaches to collective practice and their motivations for using it. Two of these collective presentations will take place in Tijuana, in order to facilitate collaboration with students at the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) in Tijuana. The presenting groups may include: Groundwork Books at UCSD, The Boredom Patrol of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, Grrrl Zines A Go-Go, Bulbo.tv, Lui Velazquez, San Diego Indymedia, Colectivo Zapatista and Sharing Is Sexy.org.
J Paul Getty Museum | Graciela Iturbide, "The Goat's Dance"
Submitted by rtejada on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 10:54am. AnnouncementThis exhibition loosely surveys more than 30 years of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide's international career by highlighting major series produced in Mexico and the United States. The breadth and depth of the selection has been made possible through the generosity of the artist, who opened her personal archive, and the magnanimity of Brentwood collectors Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. They have followed Iturbide's work for more than 10 years and assembled a wide-ranging collection of her images, including many of the pictures created in the remote southern Mexican city of Juchitán, Oaxaca during the 1980s. Reflecting the extensive and discriminating Greenberg-Steinhauser collection, this important series, central to Iturbide's body of work, is a primary component of this exhibition. Link: http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/iturbide
THINKING GENDER 2008
Submitted by rtejada on Mon, 10/22/2007 - 1:32pm. AnnouncementCall for Papers
UCLA Center for the Study of Women in conjunction with USC Center for Feminist Research
announce
THINKING GENDER 2008
18th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality, and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels. We especially welcome feminist research on women of color, the pre-modern, queerness, and the sciences.
For individual papers, please submit an abstract (250 words), a CV (2 pages maximum), and a brief bibliography (1 page maximum). For panels, please submit a 250-word description of the panel topic in addition to the materials required for the individual paper submissions.
Clockshop | Table Talk | Trevor Paglen
Submitted by rtejada on Mon, 10/22/2007 - 9:33am. AnnouncementTable Talk #1
"The Heavens Above" with Trevor Paglen
Friday October 26th, 8 pm
Clearwater Studios, 2806 Clearwater Street, LA, CA 9003
http://www.clockshop.org/tabletalk.php
Table talk is a semi-regular program involving food and conversation with cultural practioners—artists, writers, and civic leaders—who present projects, research, and ideas both finished and in incubation. Table Talk is hosted by Clockshop, a non-profit organization in Los Angeles.
RSVP here: http://www.clockshop.org/tabletalk.php
A $15 donation is suggested
Trevor Paglen will present work from his most current project, "The Heavens Above", a series of meditations on the night sky, the sublime, classical empiricism, and democracy. Paglen explores these questions through narratives, photographs, and observations of 187 American reconnaissance satellites that he has been tracking using observational data from a global network of amateur "satellite observers." For this Table Talk event, Paglen will tell the story of AFP-731, a "stealth" satellite deployed from the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1990.
