In Modernity, the Flâneur, while strolling around his streets, participated in the depiction of the changing city, playing a simultaneously active and detached role. The Flaneur and his city maintained a symbiotic relationship, where one helped (re) define the other. In view of current trends in globalization, immigration and technology (i.e., Web 2.0), one’s positioning to one location is more fluid than ever before. With such mobility, one must experience any given place as both a tourist and potential resident. With all this in mind, what role do the contemporary Flâneur and Flâneuse play? How do they reconfigure/reinscribe their urban experiences? How does flânerie in art relate to GPS systems, virtual reality, surveillance, mapping, MMPORGs, and social networking? This exhibition seeks works in all media (traditional and new), with special focus on video and computer-based art.
Contemporary Flânerie: Reconfiguring Cities will take place from March 07 to April 12, 2009. A full color catalogue and website, featuring all participating artists, will accompany this event. Pending funding, artists’ presentations will be schedule during the run of this exhibition. The Oakland University Art Gallery will insure all works exhibited and pay for return shipping (we are in the process of procuring funds for having all shipping costs covered by the gallery). Please visit http://www.oakland.edu/org/tergloba/ to see previous project by the curator.
Deadline: March 31, 2008 (postmarked)
Please send:
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[*]Current resume
[*]Artist statement/project description (two pages maximum)*
[*]CD/DVD with work samples (previous and/or proposed for show)*
[*]Work sample description list (title, dimensions, media, year, equipment provided/needed for pieces to be shown)
[*]Estimate of shipping costs
[*]SASE if you wish to have your materials returned[/list]
*preference will be given to works already completed, or close to completion. Proposed projects must be finished by September 2008.
Mail above items to:
Oakland University
Department of Art and Art History
Att: Vagner M. Whitehead (Flânerie exhibition)
307 Wilson Hall
Rochester, MI 48309-4401
About the curator:
Brazilian artist, educator and curator Vagner Mendonça Whitehead works with time-based media. His work employs original and researched texts that reframe trans-cultural experiences and their connections to mass media and communications technology. Vagner has exhibited his work throughout the United States, abroad and online, in solo and group exhibitions and in video and film festivals. In addition to teaching and exhibiting his work, Vagner is also a contributor for the Barcelona-based magazine Art Signal. For more, please visit http://www.vagnerwhitehead.com
Link:
http://www.oakland.edu/org/tergloba/
Detroit metro-based Brazilian artist and educator Vagner Mendonça Whitehead works with time-based and traditional media. His work employs original, appropriated and researched multilingual texts, found and created photo-based imagery, their translations and his interpretations as allegorical devices that reframe trans-cultural experiences vis-à-vis mass media and communication technologies.
Vagner has exhibited his work throughout the United States (AZ, CA, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM, NY, OH, OR, TX, VA, VT, WI), abroad (Argentina, Austria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Germany, India, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Switzerland) and online, in solo and group exhibitions and in video and film festivals.
Since Summer 2008 Vagner has been a member of the Detroit-based Changing Cities collective. He was an artist in residence at the Ragdale Foundation in 2002 and a fellow at the Center for Photography at Woodstock in 2006. In Summer 2010 he completed an artist residency at Residencia Corazon in La Plata, Argentina. In addition to presenting his works in regional and national conferences and meetings, Vagner has been a visiting artist at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Lawrence, KS (2004); University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI (2005); San Jose State University, San Jose, CA (2006); Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL (2008); State University of New York-Cortland, Cortland, NY(2010); and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Carbondale, IL (2010).
Recent publications of his artwork include Photography Quarterly (#97, Fall 2008) and Nueva Luz (11:1, Summer 2006); Vagner is also a regular contributor at Barcelona-based Art Signal Contemporary Art Magazine. An interview with the artist was featured on Media-N Journal of the New Media caucus in Spring 2009 (link below).
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/journal/issues.php?f=papers&time=2009_spring&page=mendoza
Recent curatorial projects, featuring artists from around the world, include TERGLOBA and Contemporary Flânerie: Reconfiguring Cities at the Oakland University Art Gallery in Rochester, MI, in 2007 and 2009 respectively (catalogues available), and @ at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, CA in 2009 (video program curator and exhibition co-curator).
Vagner earned a BFA (photography) from The Savannah College of Art and Design in 1995 and an MFA (creative photography and electronic inter-media) from the University of Florida - Gainesville in 2000. He is an Associate Professor of Art at Oakland University, where he heads its New Media specialization. He previously held an Assistant Professor of Photography position at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale. Alongside his teaching and art-making, Vagner maintains two blogs, ART-SIGHT (exhibitions and current events) and E-TERVIEW (interviews).
Michael Connor