atc @ ucb: tom marioni, wed 7:30pm

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media Presents:

Digital Sound as Sculpture Material
Tom Marioni, Sculptor and Conceptual Artist, SF

*Wed*, 2 Nov, 7:30-9pm: UC Berkeley, 160 Kroeber Hall
All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public.

** speaking of digital sound, podcasts of atc talks are now
** available: see atc.berkeley.edu
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Pioneering West Coast artist Tom Marioni will formulate a definition
of conceptual art in the context of California schools of video art in
the 1970's and describe how these approaches relate to painting and sculpture.
Marioni will use DVD's to present sound works from 1976-1985 and
describe their relation to performance and music, emphasizing how the
physics underlying sound is produced from physical actions. Marioni
will also outline tensions he's discovered between performance and
theater and video art. Finally, Marioni will describe how he views
digital sound as a sculptural material and his recent experience
designing and organizing a website to present his work:
http://www.tommarioni.com

Sculptor and conceptual artist Tom Marioni was born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, studied art at the Cincinnati Art Academy, moved to San
Francisco in 1959, and has lived there ever since. He painted murals
in the army in Ulm, Germany in '61 and '62. In the '60s, in San
Francisco, he worked as a graphic designer, performed in a nightclub
drawing a nude model, exhibited his sculpture, and in 1968 became
curator of the Richmond Art Center. In 1970 Marioni founded the Museum
of Conceptual Art (MOCA) in San Francisco, the first alternative art
space in the U.S. The first show in MOCA was titled Sound Sculpture
As. For Marioni that exhibition was the beginning of a series of sound
works, radio shows on KPFA in Berkeley, and performances in Europe and
Japan. Also in 1970 he made an exhibition in the Oakland Museum called
The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art. He
has re-created this work in many places worldwide over the years. In
1973 Marioni founded the MOCA Ensemble, a free jazz group that
performed in the Edinburgh Festival. In 1997 he organized The Art
Orchestra and the group performed at the Legion of Honor Museum in San
Francisco. From 1975-81 he edited VISION, a magazine/art journal. He
received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981 and three NEA grants in the
'70s. Marioni wrote Beer, Art and Philosophy, a memoir, in 2004, and
in 2005 produced A Motion Picture, a video movie with eighteen San
Francisco sculptors and painters. The movie will be premiered at the
new de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park on November 18, 2005.

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ATC Primary Sponsors: UC Berkeley Center for New Media (CNM) and
Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)

Additional ATC Sponsors: Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and
Provost, College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Studies Program,
Consortium for the Arts, BAM/PFA, and the Townsend Center for the
Humanities.

ATC Director: Ken Goldberg
ATC Associate Director: Greg Niemeyer
ATC Graduate Assistant: Irene Chien
Curated with ATC Advisory Board

For updated information, please see: http://atc.berkeley.edu/




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