Events of interest to the Critical Art + Design community at UC Irvine include the following:
“WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon” Forum
Winifred Smith Hall, UCI Arts Plaza
October 1, 4 pm to 6 pm
Winifred Smith Hall, UCI Arts Plaza
The forum includes artists featured in the Laguna Art Museum’s current exhibition “WOW: Emergent Media Phenomenon,”including CAD faculty members Antoinette LaFarge and Robert Nideffer, as well as local media artist Eddo Stern and Blizzard Entertainment’s cinematics project lead, Jeff Chamberlain. It will be moderated by David Familian, associate director of the Beall Center. For information about the show (which is up until mid Octobeer, check out the Laguna Museum website
Contemporary New Media Arts Lecture Series: David Ross
October 8, 6:30 pm
Winifred Smith Hall, UCI Arts Plaza
The Beall Center is proud to present a lecture by David Ross, in conjunction with the Beall Center’s fall exhibit “Media Alchemy of Nam June Paik”. Ross is a leading expert on the work of Paik and will greatly enhance audience understanding of Paik’s groundbreaking work.
Contemporary New Media Arts Lecture Series: Bill Viola
November 12, 7:30 pm
Orange County Museum of Art
Bill Viola is considered a pioneer in the medium of video art and is internationally recognized as one of today’s leading artists. He has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a vital form of contemporary art, and in so doing has helped to greatly expand its scope in terms of technology, content and historical reach.
Studio Art faculty member Antoinette LaFarge is taking part in the 090909 UpStage Festival of online performance as a performer-artist for “Salvation” by Marlena Corcoran. The schedule is a little odd for the California time zone since the times are optimized for New Zealand, where the festival hosted:
7 a.m. Sept. 9
11:30 a.m. Sept. 9
Go here to view the performances through your browser (stages will be live only during the festival)
Lots more information on the “Salvation” website.
The shows are also visible at various RL nodes, including Norsk Telemuseum (Oslo), Eclectic Tech Carnival (Istanbul), Muffatwerk Cafe (Munich); MAD art center (Eindhoven, Netherlands); for a full list of nodes and local times, check this webpage.
Two Studio Art faculty members—Antoinette LaFarge and Robert Nideffer—are taking part in the exhibition “WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon” at the Laguna Art Museum. Focusing thematically on the popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft, the show opens to the public June 14 and runs through October 4th of this year. Both Antoinette and Robert are premiering new artworks, about which they will be giving talks at the museum later in the year (Robert will be speaking on Aug. 14 @ 1 pm, Antoinette on Sept. 13 @ 1 pm). Curated by Grace Kook-Anderson, this is a truly international show.
Three Studio Art faculty are presently exhibiting work in the “Scalable Relations” exhibition taking place on three UC campuses (UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and UCLA). Curated by Whitney Museum adjunct curator of new media Christiane Paul, “Scalable Relations” presents works that “explore digital media’s capability of representing a growing amount of data in constantly evolving relations.”
Antoinette LaFarge is showing Playing the Rapture (Point of View), an installation version of her 2008 performance work on computer games and the Christian Rapture, featuring extensive use of machinima video.(Site: UC San Diego)
Robert Nideffer is showing WTF?, his side-scroller take-off on the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft. (Site: UC San Diego)
Beatriz da Costa is showing Invisible Earthlings, an investigation into our relationship with those nearly invisible social actors we know as microbes. (Site: UCLA)
For more information, check out the “Scalable Relations” website. The show runs January 23—March 20, 2009.
This website focuses on courses, faculty, students, and events relating to Critical Art+Design at UC Irvine’s Department of Studio Art. Inaugurated in 2008, it is intended both to reflect what we’re doing in CAD and point to where we hope to go over the next few years. We’re building it out as fast as we can.