That was the question being addressed in the school’s recent panel entitled “The Legal Side of Art Collaboration”. Taking place on May 10th, it inaugurated the Colloquium Room in the school’s new Contemporary Art Center with a survey of the legal traps that lie in wait for artists who collaborate on making new work.
At the outset, the ‘rules of the road’ were laid out by Tony Reese, a faculty member at the UCI Law School, Jonathan Pink, a media lawyer with the firm of Bryan Cave, and UCI campus counsel Kyhm Penfil. Following this, a lively discussion of various difficulties encountered by working artists was inaugurated by Studio Art faculty member Antoinette LaFarge and members of the audience.
The symposium was so well attended and received such enthusiastic responses that there is a plan for a sequel in 2011-12 that will address the even more vexed legal issues surrounding appropriation in art.
Photo: From left to right: CTSA dean Joseph E. Lewis III, Studio Art faculty member Antoinette LaFarge, UCI campus counsel Kyhm Penfil, Bryan Cave lawyer Jonathan Pink, and UCI Law School faculty member Tony Reese.
SHIFT-CTRL as installed in the Beall Center
event: Experimental Media Art Festival
where: CTSA Arts Plaza + Beall Center
date: Sunday, Oct. 10th, 2010, 1-8 p.m., free
UCI’s Beall Center for Art + Technology opened exactly 10 years ago, with a ground-breaking show on computer games and art entitled “SHIFT-CTRL” that was co-curated by faculty members Robert Nideffer and Antoinette LaFarge. The Beall Center was one of the first centers to focus on new media art in the United States, and it has programmed a remarkable range of telematic performance, interactive installations, techno-art, bio-art, and other leading-edge kinds of work in the decade since it opened.
The 10th anniversary is being celebrated with an Experimental Media Art Festival on 10-10-10 that is designed to be a very informal, hands-on experience. Everyone interested in new media, digital media, and experimental forms of artmaking should check it out!
Meanwhile, stop in to the Beall and see their current show of interactive work by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
June 8, 2010
4-6 p.m. only
ACT #2224
Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UC Irvine
Students in Antoinette LaFarge’s spring 2006 Graphic Novel course are presenting the school’s first Graphic Novel Exhibition. They created their original graphic novellas in just 8 weeks of intensive effort, from concept through writing and artwork to print publication. Tired of superheros in tights and bored by swamp monsters? Take a break during exam week and come see something completely different. One afternoon only!
If you can’t make it to the mini-exhibition, here is a page devoted to their wonderful projects.
still from "Hangmen Also Die"
OSCENE 2010
Laguna Museum of Art
Feb. 20—May 16, 2010
Studio Art faculty member Antoinette LaFarge is premiering a new project in the OSCENE 2010 exhibition at the Laguna Museum of Art. Hangmen Also Die, created in collaboration with director Robert Allen, is a performance-video-installation programmed in Max/MSP/Jitter that models the problematic nature of collective memory as a bulwark against ideological corruption. In the installation, video clips of an actor’s monologue are montaged with other visual elements in a semi-randomized way. Over the course of a 70-minute cycle, the piece is programmed to gradually break up and degrade, triggering successive attempts to salvage meaning by re-interpolating material.
The monologue used in this piece is a poetic text LaFarge wrote, incorporating text fragments by Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Müller, Arthur Koestler, and others. The title comes from a 1943 movie directed by Fritz Lang and written by Brecht, Lang, and John Wexley. The main videography is by Amy Kaczur.
There are associated live performances taking place on the opening and closing days of the installation. The second of these is scheduled to take place at noon on Sunday, May 16 (it will take no more than half an hour). There is an admission fee to the museum itself, but apart from that the performance itself is free to all museum-goers.
The international Digital Arts and Cultures conference is being held at UC Irvine this year, Dec. 12-19. Subtitled “after media: embodiment and context” it looks like being an exciting event. It’s directed by Simon Penny, a faculty member in the Studio Art and EECS departments, and it features dozens of high-profile speakers. There is an associated exhibition at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, as well as a concert. Come one, come all…
