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

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

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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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

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 

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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)

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.”

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)

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.

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Come join the newest student organization at UTC!

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)