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Artist Lecture Series ART 498 / 700 Pasha Rafat
Artist InformationSeptember 4 Rosemarie Fiorie
I created paintings using my hot rod lawn mower. Fiberglass inserts which fit between the blade and the frame of the machine captured bits of grass, paint and books as I ran over 50 self help books and whoopie cushions filled with house paint. A video camera, which was secured to the side of the mower at ground level, recorded the event. A video was created in conjunction with this project. This work was funded by Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. Links: September 11Harrell Fletcher
Harrell Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects for over a decade. His work has been shown at SF MoMA, the de Young Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Sculpture Center, The Wrong Gallery, and Smackmellon in NYC, DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture show in Houston, TX, PICA in Portland, OR, CoCA and The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, Signal in Malmo, Sweden, Domain de Kerguehennec in France, and The Royal College of Art in London. Fletcher exhibits in San Francisco and Los Angeles with Jack Hanley Gallery, in NYC with Christine Burgin Gallery, in London with Laura Bartlett Gallery, and Paris with Gallery In Situ. He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. In 2002 Fletcher started Learning To Love You More, an ongoing participatory web site with Miranda July. A book version of the project will be published in 2007 by Prestel. He is the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. His current traveling exhibition The American War originated in 2005 at ArtPace in San Antonio, TX, and traveled in 2006 to Solvent Space in Richmond, VA, White Columns in NYC, The Center For Advanced Visual Studies MIT in Boston, MA, and PICA in Portland, OR. Fletcher is a Professor of Art at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Links: http://www.harrellfletcher.com September 18 Akira Hasegawa
Links Artist, Akira Hasegawa, was born in Komatsu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1947. Since 1973, he has worked on over 4,000 film, television commercial, video, cyber graphic design and computer art projects as an art & creative director, producer and director. These projects include: logo creation and title images for CCTV (China Central Television), NHK TV Japan National Broadcasting Network, Award winning opening title sequences for “Dragon Spirit”, Atlanta Olympics; conceptual videos for EXPO 2005 Aichi; cyber graphics for Israeli musician, Ofra Haza’s IMAX music video “I Want to Fly”. For his efforts, he has received numerous awards and prizes, including the prestigious, top award from the TVCM section of NAB Japan (The National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan) and The 2007 Public Art Year in Review (a Recognition Award, the only one of its kind given in America for public art programs), for his D-K Live installation on San Jose City Hall’s glass dome, last August during “ZeroOne San Jose: A Festival of Art on the Edge”, his first show in the United States. Hasegawa is also a lecturer on high-tech arts, the concept of time in cyberspace, intellectual technology and other subjects related to science and technology, speaking at such institutions as the Japanese Ministry of Culture, Science & Technology and many universities. He is a consultant to the Tokyo University of Technology, NHK (Japan National Broadcasting) Computer Graphics Centre, advisor to the Japan-China Project and Art Director/Producer for the International Internet-Robotics Society. He is also well known for inventing a new type of art called Digital Kakejiku, as well as, a new machine which he describes as a “sensitizing instrument” which lights up a large area (architectural or natural surroundings) with random sequences of abstract images which are constantly changing at a very slow pace...D-K Live. At a glance it appears to be still, but turn away for a minute…and the image is totally transformed. Kakejiku, which refers to the traditional “hanging scroll” found on the walls of homes in Japan that are changed regularly to relate to the season, holiday, mood or to honor a particular guest. It is in its sense, as a constantly changing art form, that Hasegawa has updated it for 21st Century life. Because D-K produces an infinite variety of images, it has also had wide commercial applications, such as billboards at the Nagano Winter Olympics, credit cards for Mitsubishi Bank and fabric patterns for Issey Miyake. However, it is D-K’s outdoor nighttime transformation of monuments, buildings and nature that has transfixed audiences around the world by a magical connection with nature, the rhythms of life and to the Universe itself. Since developing D-K, Akira Hasegawa has used his installations as a platform to explain human inter-connectedness, on a subconscious level, to all living things and to the Universe.. Hasegawa’s firm, CPM studio inc., with its state of the art, computer generated cyber graphics laboratory, is located in the scenic mountain city of Komatsu, in Ishikawa Prefecture. A city with a long cultural and artistic tradition, Komatsu today is a center of machinery, equipment and technology manufacturing, with ten universities, many specializing in high technology research. He resides there, the city of his birth, with his family. http://d-k-nippon.blogspot.com/ http://www.shinei-net.co.jp/hst/archis/htm http://wanowa.com/bi/b0506b.htm http://www.dnp.co.jp/artscape/eng/focus/0609_02.html http://www3.toshiba.co.jp/pc/museum/insight/001/index_j.htm September 25 Samuel Nigro
Samuel Nigro is a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow. He is a New York-based artist, who has shown nationally and internationally, and who has benefited from numerous awards, among them residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and The Vermont Studio Center; and grants from Artist’s Space, The Sculpture Center and Socrates Sculpture Park. The Washington Post says that his “determination … mesmerizes” and The New York Times describes his work as “ingenious.” Sculpture has the potential to create its own place, contribute to a practiced place or be used as a tactical place. Samuel Nigro’s motivation is to make sculpture that exists within the interaction of all three; that asks how the space outside us and the space within us create what's in between, and vice versa; and that, in turn, generates a new thought on stone and, by extension, ourselves. October 2 Andrea Fraser
Andrea Fraser (sometimes known by her performance name, Jane Castleton) is a New York-based performance artist, mainly known for her work as an institutional critique artist. Fraser was born in 1965 in Billings, Montana, USA. Links: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=andrea+fraser&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 http://home.att.net/~artarchives/frasertexts.html http://www.petzel.com/af/af.html http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10453 October 9 Jean Lowe
Jean Lowe is a San Diego-based artist whose installation works replicate European Parlor rooms while simultaneously inserting a contemporary point of view. Lowe often paints her imagery directly on the walls and makes objects from papier mache. Her installations have a purposely low-tech aesthetic and are readily accessible, but she makes a deeper political and social statement about consumerism and the impact of development on the natural landscape. For this new installation Empire Style, she transforms the front gallery space into a parlor-like setting. Painted directly on the gallery walls, wrapping around the perimeter are large-scale works mimicking 18th century French landscape painting. The lush landscape and idyllic setting serves as the backdrop for Lowe’s intervention. Alongside depictions of sublime skies enveloping the Alps and greenery surrounding classical structures, Lowe inserts Kentucky Fried Chicken, Starbucks and Bed Bath and Beyond, corporate icons prevalent in the contemporary landscape. Stand in the center of the space, and you’ll feel like you’re in the paintings. Lowe positions us in the parking lot and we immediately identify with the parked cars and familiar mini-mall décor. Yet even as she presents this contemporary landscape she surrounds it with furniture and artifacts from the Napoleonic era. links: http://www.mckenziefineart.com http://visarts.ucsd.edu/node/view/491/132 October 16 Nic Nicosia
Since the early 1980s, Nic Nicosia has exhibited elaborately staged photographs, utilizing studio sets and a cast of performer/models. By manipulating the human figure, action, and setting, Nicosia creates a feeling of unreality that disturbs the viewer’s expectation that photography will document "real-life" situations. For example, the images from the series Sex Acts represent a sexually inspired performance under a glaring spotlight; however, the "performers" faces are either completely obscured with cloth or replaced by new features painted on the cloth. In subsequent series, Nicosia abandoned color photography for black and white, and began to paint thin layers of color over his increasingly enigmatic images. In Love and Lust, he has added a thin layer of paint to the images reminiscent of film stills. His more recent film and video work has received great acclaim, and he is represented in the biennial exhibition with the film On Acting America (2001), a contemporary parody of 1950s television sitcoms. links: http://www.google.com/search?q=nic+nicosia&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&start=10&sa=N October23 Christa Erickson
Christa Erickson is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who investigates the politics, pleasures, and pains of spaces mediated by electronic technologies. She weaves together combinations of video, tactile materials, programming, physical cinematic devices, performance, and the Internet in installations. She is currently developing an interactive installation of absurd personalized devices, which reference cultural obsessions with youth, wealth, health, sexuality, and beauty. She is also still working on the genetic body-memory installation titled Dis-ease. http://www.burlingtoncityarts.com/firehousegallery/20071027/ http://www.indiana.edu/~sofa/human_nature/hn.php October 30 Amir Naderi
Born in Abadan, Iran, Mr. Naderi first came into the international spotlight with films that are now known as cinema classics, The Runner (1985), and Water, Wind, Dust (1989). The Runner is considered by many critics to be one of the most influential films of the past quarter century. After a number of his films were banned by the government, Mr. Naderi left Iran to begin a new chapter in his career. Expatriating to New York, Mr. Naderi has continued to make films that have premiered at The Film Society of Lincoln Center/MOMA’s annual New Films New Directors series, and the Venice, Cannes, Sundance, and Tribeca Film Festivals. His last film, Sound Barrier (2005), won the prestigious Roberto Rossellini Prize at the Rome Film Festival.
Mr. Naderi’s films and photography are the subject of retrospectives at major festivals and museums throughout the world. Lincoln Center in New York, the city that has been his home for the past 20 years, offered a complete retrospective of his work in 2001, as did the International Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy in 2006. Mr. Naderi has served as a jury member of international film festivals for almost a decade. He is currently in post-production of an original story set in Las Vegas. Links: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Amir+Naderi&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 November 6 Stephen Frailey Chair, Photography Department, Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program, School of Visual Arts; fine art photographer November 13 Joseph Del Pesco with Scott Oliver
Joseph del Pesco works as a curator for Artists Space (New York) where his exhibition "On Being An Exhibition" will open in October. He has also organized independent curatorial projects for the Galerie Analix in Geneva, Switzerland; Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre, Canada; the De Young Art Center in San Francisco; and the Rooseum in Malmö, Sweden. In the Fall of 2005 del Pesco initiated the Shotgun Review, a critical web-journal reviewing exhibitions and events in the San Francisco Bay Area, with collaborator Scott Oliver. In April of 2007 he launched The Collective Foundation, an exhibition in the form of an arts organization, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. This Fall he will lead a class on artist-initiated schools at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Links: http://www.collectivefoundation.org/ November 20 Jack Sullivan
Links http://www.hitchcocksmusic.com/biography/ November 27 Charles Long
Born 1958, Long Branch, NJ Resides Los Angeles, CA Education B.F.A., University of the Arts, Phila, PA; Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY; M.F.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT Links: http://erikwaynepatterson.net/writing/charles_long.html http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Charles+long+sculpture&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 December 4 BFA presentation
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Jack Sullivan grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina. He remembers watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents shortly after his parents bought a television set in the 50s and being riveted by the music in Vertigo, North By Northwest, and Psycho. He received his BA from Furman University, where he studied English literature and music. In 1969, he moved to New York, where he earned a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. In 1974, while teaching at the New School, he took Donald Spoto's class on Hitchcock, which inspired him to become a Hitchcock scholar. In the 1970s and early 80s he hosted an author interview show on NPR and began writing on books for the New York Times, Newsday, and The Washington Post. Elegant Nightmares, his first book, was widely praised as a groundbreaking study of the English ghost story and was listed in the "New and Noteworthy" list of the New York Times. His Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural was chosen by the American Library Association as one of the best books of 1986. Since the late 80s, he has written widely on music, both classical and jazz, for Opera, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The American Record Guide, Musical America, The Hitchcock Annual, and the New Grove Dictionary. His 1990 anthology Words on Music was "Noted With Pleasure" by the New York Times and chosen as a radio broadcast gift book by the Metropolitan Opera. He has contributed program annotations for the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the 92 Street Y, Carnegie Hall Stagebill, the New Jersey Symphony, and Spoleto USA. His most recent book, New World Symphonies, was covered in publications ranging from the New York Times to Billboard. Director of American Studies and Professor of English at Rider University, he teaches a wide range of classes, including courses on Hitchcock, Spielberg, and New Orleans jazz.
