Faculty Project

Steve Fagin - The Surfing Memory Syndrome at UC Irvine

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Major works of Art Series
Steve Fagin - The Surfing Memory Syndrome

Opening Reception on January 8, 2009 | 6–9PM

Exhibition runs January 8 through February 7, 2009

Irvine University Art Gallery, UC, Irvine, 712 Arts Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697-2775

Professor Steve Fagin and Alumni Davina Semo, Shannon Spanhake, and Joel Swanson: The Last Book

Faculty Project

Professor Steve Fagin and Alumni Davina Semo, Shannon Spanhake, and Joel Swanson

The HaundenschildGarage, SPARE PARTS presents

The Last Book

An illuminated manuscript for the 21st century by Steve Fagin

October 2008

Text: Mary Gaitskill
Moving Images: Leslie Thornton
Music: Greg Landau
Electronics: Shannon Spanhake and William Brent
Graphic Design: Joel Swanson
Illustrations: Davina Semo

'The Last Book,' directed by Steve Fagin, resurrects the medieval illuminated manuscript through the invocation of our current alchemy, new technologies. To conjure a future as the past in reverse, a one of a kind book, including handwritten text, moving images, and sound, will be produced. As in ancient cultures, the meaning of the book will only be fully available as a performative entity. In other circumstance it will be available to be looked at, but never to be touched, or read from by the community at large. The text will be provided by Mary Gaitskill and the moving images courtesy of Leslie Thornton.

Kyong Park invites you to the arrival of '24260: The Fugitive House'

Faculty Project

You are invited to join Kyong Park in the arrival of

24260: The Fugitive House

Wednesday June 11th, 9AM-till its unloaded from a 40 feet container,
and properly stored in an empty lot of 2635 Logan Ave, San Diego, CA 92113.

An empty house from Detroit was 'stolen' by me, Kyong Park, together with a group of students and faculty members of University of Detroit Mercy, back in the late winter/spring of 2001, and was taken to Orlean, France. Known as '24260: The Fugitive House,' it has since been traveling in Europe through more than 10 cities, pretending to be a work of art, presenting itself in different exhibitions, including in "Shrinking Cities" project. Its real purpose was to find a 'kinder and gentler" city than Detroit, where it could find a new home. But Europe is becoming just as neo-liberal and neo-con as here in the USA, so it is coming to San Diego, the "America's Finest City," and will give a shot at settling down here. Fittingly, it will be stored in Barrio Logan, a place where all the 'unwanted' are tossed away. The dream is that 24260 would be re-united with me (Kyong Park), in the opulence of Southern California, perhaps 'face-lifted' to become a functional abode, an appropriate ending for the nomadic life we both have shared, but separately, in Europe for 5-7 years.

You are welcome to celebrate or help for whatever time you have.

For more information, please contact Kyong Park at kdpark@ucsd.edu

Michael Trigilio: NPR Project

Faculty Project


Michael Trigilio

NPR Project

May 24, 2008 | 1-3pm

Lui Velazquez, Calle José Maria Larroque #273 / 2do Piso, Int. 6, Colonia Federal, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

Founded 2004 in Oakland, California
http://www.neighborhoodpublicradio.org

Neighborhood Public Radio is a guerilla radio broadcast group who share their moniker, NPR, with the station they critique through community-based, noncommercial programming. Setting up temporary booths to stream content onto the internet, or using low-power portable FM transmitters, NPR's nomadic team—anchored by artists Linda Arnejo, Whiz Biddlecombe, Jon Brumit, Lee Montgomery, Katina Papson, and Michael Trigilio — broadcasts live shows from galleries, residences, and neighborhood points of interest. Parodying National Public Radio in particular, Neighborhood Public Radio believes corporate sponsorship of ostensibly public stations compromises freedom of speech and isolates communities through cultural homogenization.

Amy Alexander Alexander’s essay, “About Sven... and about Software, Surveillance, Scariness and Subjectivity, published

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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.

Yoshua Okon at the 2008 SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space

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Yoshua Okon

2008 SCAPE
Christchurch Biennial
of Art in Public Space

September 19 through November 2, 2008

Chirstchurch, New Zealand

The SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space is New Zealand’s only international biennial dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art in public space. It is organised and managed by the Art & Industry Biennial Trust.

Wolfgang Hastert: someone like this

Faculty Project

Wolfgang Hastert

someone like this

A girl comes alive in this shimmering story as her father films

Super-8 portraits of women to recall the memory of his lost daughter.

written by Wolfang Hastert & Tony Zaccaro,
featuring Tony Zaccaro, introducing India Witte,
Heather Feemster, Vanja James, Jude Morgan,
Nadine Nagamatsu, Michelle Paskin,
editor Carol Martori
music Gerhard Daum
editing consultant Franzine Banzali
camera & sound assistance Troy Page
directed & produced by Wolfgang Hastert

Natalie Jeremijenko -- Projects

Faculty Project

Revolutionary Minds

The aesthetic activist gives a tour of her pigeon paradise.
by Jacob Klein • Posted December 20, 2006 05:35 PM
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/12/revolutionary_minds_natalie_je_1.php

Inspiration Festival

The aesthetic activist on altering participation in scientific discourse.
by Jesse Thomas • Posted December 19, 2006 07:06 PM

Veronika Week 7 response

Faculty Project | VIS70 -- Taught by Wolfgang Hastert
dont know whether or not if this is the correct format, or if there is already another one, but here it is anyways. Nicholas Rombes says that “Today, the real has become the new avant-garde” (200). This idea of avant-garde realism refers to the fact that now reality itself has become an experimental art form that filmmakers today are taking advantage of. Reality is something that everyone is exposed to and experiences; therefore, the audience that is experiencing this experimental reality can empathize and truly relate to it. However, another aspect of cinema is to set the audience in an experience that is outside the norm of their everyday lives.
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