Hasan Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of surveillance, simulated time, transport systems, borders and frontiers. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions at venues such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Sundance Film Festival, Kassel Kulturbahnhof, The Hermitage, and at the Venice Biennale. Elahi recently was invited to speak about his work at the Tate Modern, Einstein Forum, and at the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. His awards include grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, a Ford Foundation/Phillip Morris National Fellowship, and an artist grant from the Asociacion Artetik Berrikuntzara in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. His work is frequently in the media and has been covered by The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, Al Jazeera, and has appeared on The Colbert Report. He is an assistant professor at San Jose State University. He is also 2009 Resident Faculty and Nancy G. MacGrath Endowed Chair at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Elahi will be presenting work at SITE, Sata Fe opening this coming Thursday, February 6th in One on One: A suite of solo shows by Terry Allen, Hasan Elahi, McCallum & Tarry, and Kaari Upson.
From SITE's show description:
The American artist Hasan Elahi, falsely accused by a misinformed neighbor of involvement in the 9/11 terrorists plots, has meticulously documented his life since then and presented his documents on the internet for all to see, seeking an elusive anonymity in the ocean of information he puts forth. Although Elahi is not investigating another individual, he is obsessively using technology to track himself, as an exposé of modern life, particularly in a post-9/11 world of surveillance, homeland security, and the Patriot Act.
the second of two installations of diverse work by local artists
The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History
EXHIBITION DATES
January 24 through April 18, 2010
Several Art Studio faculty are in this show including Michael Cook, Patrick
Nagatani, Mary Tsiongas, in addition some of our current and ex graduate students.
Master of Music Degree Recital. With Tzufeng Liu, piano. Music by Morten Lauridsen, Antonin Dvorak, Francis Poulenc and Manuel de Falla. Keller Hall, Free.
The Department of Cinematic Arts is proud to present our Student
Showcase! We have searched out the preeminent films of our current
students in narrative, experimental, music video, and documentary
styles. Lucky to have multi-talented filmic artists, we are inviting
Boombox Monkey & The Chuppers to open and close the event with invited
scholars to discuss their experiences of film school abroad, graduate
school and to present their historical and theoretical contributions to
film studies.
With a few years rest, our showcase is back and as stunning as ever!
We invite everyone—students, parents, faculty, staff, community
members, local artists and Hollywood locals—to join us in previewing
these future artists, educators, and academics at work. For more
information on this event or the Cinematic Arts program, please visit
http://cinematicarts.unm.edu/aroundtown_news.html
or phone 505.277.6262
Importantly, putting us up for the afternoon, The Guild Cinema, has
been bringing independent, local, foreign and eclectic cinema to
Albuquerque since 1966. For more information please visit
www.guildcinema.com or come by and watch us at 3405 Central Ave NE,
505.255.1848
Support came from Experiments in Cinema, an annual five-day festival
of contemporary, international cinematic experimentation. To learn more
about this April 2010 event please visit www.basementfilms.org
Master of Music Degree Recital. With Darci Lobdell, mezzo-soprano, Monica de la Hoz, viola, Thomas Munro, baritone, Stephanie Hanusa, flute, Ben Therrell, cello, Arlene Wagg, soprano, Haley Seybert, flute, Jennifer Perez, soprano, and Heather Bentley, clarinet. Works by Franz Schubert, Catherine McMichael, Maurice Ravel and Johannes Brahms.
$10/8/6. Popejoy Hall. The UNM University Chorus, Prof. Bradley Ellingboe, director, "Dolce Suono" Dr. Regina Carlow, director, and the UNM Symphony Orchestra will present Brahms’ "Requiem," conducted by Dr. Jorge Pérez-Gómez. With Leslie Umphrey, soprano and James Demler, bass.
$10/8/6. Popejoy Hall. The UNM University Chorus, Prof. Bradley Ellingboe, director, "Dolce Suono" Dr. Regina Carlow, director, and the UNM Symphony Orchestra will present Brahms’ "Requiem," conducted by Dr. Jorge Pérez-Gómez. With Leslie Umphrey, soprano and James Demler, bass.
$10/8/6. Popejoy Hall. The UNM University Chorus, Prof. Bradley Ellingboe, director, "Dolce Suono" Dr. Regina Carlow, director, and the UNM Symphony Orchestra will present Brahms’ "Requiem," conducted by Dr. Jorge Pérez-Gómez. With Leslie Umphrey, soprano and James Demler, bass.
"Robin and Marion in the Greenwood." Works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance performed by students of the UNM Early Music Ensemble with voices and period instruments. Bethany Abrahamson, Bill Burns, Yuval Carmi, Gwen Easterday, Adam Gerling, Rafael Howell-Flores, Elena Maietta, Don Partridge and Kathy Wimmer. Directed by Colleen Sheinberg. Free.
$10/7/3. Artist faculty woodwind quintet-in-residence. Valerie Potter, flute; Kevin Vigneau, oboe; Keith Lemmons, clarinet; Denise Reig Turner, bassoon; JD Shaw, horn; with guest artist Richard White, tuba. Music of Lieuwen, Carter, Taffanel and Albinoni.
DANIEL REEVES is an internationally known video artist.
His film, Smothering Dreams received 3 Emmy Awards in
1982. Among numerous grants that he has been awarded are
six from the National Endowment for the Arts, three awards
from the New York State Council on the Arts, and a John S.
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. In 1988, he
received a United States/Japan Exchange Fellowship. Reeves
has served as artist-in-residence at the Television
Laboratory at WNET/13, New York, the Experimental Television
Center, Owego, NY, Carpenter Center at Harvard University,
and the University of Virginia, among other institutions.
His videotapes have been broadcast widely and exhibited
internationally, at festivals and institutions including
the Tate Liverpool; Museum of Modern Art; Tokyo Video
Festival; San Sebastian Video Festival, Spain; American
Film Institute National Video Festival, Los Angeles;
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany; Edinburgh International Film
Festival, Scotland; the Locarno Film Festival,
Switzerland; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston;
Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial; Centre Pompidou,
Paris, and The High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Daniel Reeves
work is included in the permanent collection of the Film
and Video departments at MoMA; Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam; Galeria Reina Sofia,Madrid; and the Centre
Pompidou, Paris, among other museums. For ten years he was
a Research Fellow in Visual Communications at the
Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.
Brooklyn based artist Angela Dufresne's often large and sprawling canvases depict fictitious!or hypothetical structures that make reference in their titles to specific architects, institutions, or films. In past works, Dufresne employed similar hypothetical guidelines in the creation of her "bastard portraits" - portraits that, indicated by their titles, were meant to illustrate what the progeny of such unlikely pairings as Julia Child and Kris Kristofferson might look like.
November 19, 2009: The SPECTRE SERIES presents SUN CIRCLE, OSKER MERRILL
SUN CIRCLE
PERSONNEL: GREG DAVIS, ZACH WALLACE
SOUNDS: ECSTATIC HIGH VOLUME DRONES, LONG FORM TRANCE MUSICS AND PEACE NOISE.
LABELS: LICHEN, MUSIC FELLOWSHIP, IMPORTANT
OSKER MERRILL
Osker Merrill is a New Mexico native born on the checkerboard side of the Navajo Nation reservation. Having moved often though currently living in Albuquerque for several years now studying psychology and religious studies to piece together what drives people and for introspective research as well. In addition interested as well in the role media has to play upon the psyche of a person. Whether it be a favorite book, movie or even commercial for a certain type of cereal the media plays a large part in ones life no matter how sheltered one can aim towards. This is a study on life’s ritualistic order and playing the role of creator, sustainer, and destroyer.
Brought forth in the last quarter of the twentieth century under a waxing gibbous moon and observing life as if an alien from another world and sometimes going back to that divergent dimension Osker Merrill has found himself piecing together life from its entrails using recordings. Having captured them on micro cassettes, digital recorders, phones or any other available means they are then woven together in a web. This web is the piecing together of current events, long deep-seated regrets, mythos from yesteryear, and sometimes cotton candy rearranging to bring forth the chaos and calm behind it all.
November 02, 2009: The SPECTRE SERIES presents MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN
Malcolm Goldstein (b. March 27, 1936, Brooklyn, New York). American composer, now resident in both Canada and the USA, of mostly chamber and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as an improviser and violinist. Mr. Goldstein attended Columbia University from 1952-59, where he studied composition with Otto Luening for one year and where he earned his BA and MA. He later studied violin privately with Antonio Miranda in New York City from the mid- to late 1960s. As a performer of new music, he has been active as an improviser, violinist and vocalist and has also played various found and natural objects, as well as other instruments. As a violinist, he performed with the Judson Dance Theatre in New York from 1962-64, the New York Festival of the Avant Garde in the 1960s and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York in the 1960s. Since then, he has performed primarily as a soloist, both in improvised and notated music. With Philip Corner and James Tenney he co-founded the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble in 1963, a new music group that performed until 1970. He later served as director of the New Music Ensemble of Dartmouth College in the 1970s and of the Hessischer Rundfunk Ensemble für Neue Musik in Frankfurt/Main in the 1990s. As a writer, he has contributed articles about improvisation to various journals, notably Perspectives of New Music, many of which appear in From Wheelock Mountain: Music and Writings by Malcolm Goldstein (1977, in Pieces: A Profile, edited by Michael Byron). In addition, he wrote the book Sounding the Full Circle: Concerning Music Improvisation and Other Related Matters (1988, self-published, now available through the McGill University Project On Improvisation). Mr. Goldstein was commissioned by the Charles Ives Society to prepare critical editions of Symphony No. 2 in 1976 and String Quartet No. 2 in 2002, both by Charles Ives. Frog Peak publishes some of his music.
Albuquerque, NM – Tamarind invites UNM alumni and the community to a special exhibit, "NM Keepsakes". This exhibit showcases works with a focus on New Mexico themes, and artists who have a connection to New Mexico. "NM Keepsakes" will be on view from October 22 through November 13 at the Tamarind Institute Gallery, 110 Cornell Drive SE (south of the Frontier). Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9-5pm. This exhibit is free and open to the public.
For many alumni returning to UNM for homecoming this year, this will be the last opportunity to visit Tamarind in its original Albuquerque location, where lithographs have been created by many outstanding New Mexico artists, including Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Fritz Scholder, Clinton Adams, Emmi Whitehorse, Robert Kelly, and Tom Joyce. In the spring of 2010, Tamarind will move into its new home at 2500 Central, which is currently under construction.
From New Mexico landscapes to charming images by New Mexico santero artists, "NM Keepsakes" is bound to have something for everyone with a love for New Mexico. The signature image of the Frontier Restaurant, Open All Night, an original, hand printed lithograph by Karen Beckwith, is one that all UNM alums and students will appreciate. Other artists included in this exhibit include Leroy Neiman, famous sports artist who created Lobo Layup during his visit in 2008; Frederick Hammersley, who lived and worked in Albuquerque for many years and received the NM Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts in 2005; Nick Abdalla, professor of art at UNM from 1968 to 1997; and Ramón José López and daughter, Miller López, santeros from Santa Fe. A complete list of works included in this exhibit is available. All work is available for sale.
Tamarind Institute, a division of the College of Fine Arts at UNM, is a nonprofit center for fine art lithography that offers the only master printer training program in the world, and houses a professional collaborative studio for artists. Established in 1960, Tamarind continues to play a significant role in ensuring the future of this unique artistic medium. Tamarind is a "jewel in the crown" of excellence at UNM, publishing important resource materials in the field of printmaking, providing residencies for some of the nation’s most important contemporary artists, and sponsoring community projects with Albuquerque. Public Schools, senior centers, Working Classroom, Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless, the Albuquerque Public Arts and many others. Located at 110 Cornell Avenue SE. For more information, visit http://tamarind.unm.edu or call 277-3901.
Celebrating Arts-in-Medicine Across Cultures: A Concert of Southwest, African, Classical and Contemporary Music. Performers include Kevin Vigneau, Jennifer Freeman de Garcia, Paul Akmajian, Kate Horsley, Nina Carlson, Patricia Repar, Steve Reid, Jered Ebenreck, Chuy Martinez, Courtney Johnson, Joanna de Keyser, Leonard Felberg, Kari Brane, Robin Abeles, Julietta Rabens, Becki Barnet, Lisa Donald and Nara Shedd. Keller Hall, free.
Image: Bill Gilbert, "For John Wesley Powell, Attempts to Walk the Grid, September 7, 2006", digital print, 2009
PUBLIC TALK - Tuesday, November 10, 5:30 PM
UNM Art Museum Lower Level
BILL GILBERT, LANNAN CHAIR AND DIRECTOR, LAND ARTS PROGRAM
UNM DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY
Bill Gilbert will present his lecture "Land Arts of the American West: Investigations in Place"
Bill Gilbert began teaching sculpture at UNM in the Dept. of Art and Art History in 1987. The Land Arts of the American West Program, an interdisciplinary, field based studio curriculum was conceived by Gilbert in his interest to redefine the very nature of how students are educated in the visual arts. In 2000 along with Professor Emeritus John Wenger and a dozen eager students, Gilbert initiated the first Land Arts trip which covered five states and some 8,000 miles. He later collaborated with Chris Taylor from The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Gilbert will discuss this "experiment" in pedagogy, as he calls it, and how this has both affected and intersected with his work as an artist and a teacher. Following the lecture, Gilbert will sign copies of his new book Land Arts of the American West, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009) which he co-authored with Chris Taylor.
Ed Osborn works with many forms of electronic media including installation, video, sound, and, performance. His pieces show a tactile sense of space, movement, image and aurality combined with a precise economy of materials. Osborn has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Creative Work Fund, and Arts International and been awarded residencies from the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Het Apollohuis (Eindhoven, Netherlands), STEIM (Amsterdam), the Djerassi Resident Artist Program (Woodside, CA), and the Center for Research and Computing in the Arts at UC San Diego.
He has presented his work worldwide with exhibitions at the singuhr-hörgalerie (Berlin, Germany), the Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, CA), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Artspace (Sydney, Australia), the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia), Sonambiente Festival (Berlin, Germany), the Kiasma Museum, (Helsinki, Finland), MassMOCA (North Adams, MA), the Auckland Art Gallery (Auckland, NZ), and the Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast, Northern Ireland) among many others. He has lectured and taught in numerous institutions and is currently Assistant Professor in the Visual Art Department at Brown University.
WHEN: Tuesday, November 10th at 4pm
WHERE: ARTS Lab Garage, 131 Pine St. NE
Directions at: http://artslab.unm.edu/where.html
$7/5/3. UNM Opera Theatre has doubled its size and is bursting at the seams with future stars. Join our young artists as they launch their Fall Opera Season with a double bill. Introducing Leslie Umphrey as director, the new face of Opera Studio will paint vibrant scenes and over-the-top fun. While Opera Theatre will continue its tradition of excellence in grand opera at the highest professional level. Gian Carlo Menotti’s irresistible opera The Old Maid and the Thief will be the featured work. For at least a generation in the years following World War II, Menotti was the most prolific and acclaimed American composer of opera. His sense of theatre stemmed from his Italian background. Menotti has always evidenced an exceptional musical flexibility and understanding of character and situation. Join opera devotees for an evening of sparkling lyricism. Suitable for children. Marilyn Tyler, director.
$7/5/3. UNM Opera Theatre has doubled its size and is bursting at the seams with future stars. Join our young artists as they launch their Fall Opera Season with a double bill. Introducing Leslie Umphrey as director, the new face of Opera Studio will paint vibrant scenes and over-the-top fun. While Opera Theatre will continue its tradition of excellence in grand opera at the highest professional level. Gian Carlo Menotti’s irresistible opera The Old Maid and the Thief will be the featured work. For at least a generation in the years following World War II, Menotti was the most prolific and acclaimed American composer of opera. His sense of theatre stemmed from his Italian background. Menotti has always evidenced an exceptional musical flexibility and understanding of character and situation. Join opera devotees for an evening of sparkling lyricism. Suitable for children. Marilyn Tyler, director.
November 02, 2009: The SPECTRE SERIES presents The Transducers
Featuring: Martin Back, James Brody, Philip Mantione, Christian Pincock, and Frank Rolla
The Transducers is a group of five composers and improvisers from diverse backgrounds spanning three generations of experience. They utilize laptops, custom software, sound sculptures, circuit bending and custom electronics to produce unique sonic worlds. Within the context of unstructured improvisation, they incorporate audience collaboration by means of the Photo-Instigator, a light-sensitive device suspended above the performers that picks up light beams originating from the audience. These rays are transduced into MIDI controller data streams that are sent to the performers to use or ignore as they see fit. So in essence, audience members become collaborators, instigators and possibly saboteurs.
$10/7/3. 25th Anniversary Gala Chamber Music Recital. Featuring Leslie Umphrey, soprano; Cármelo de los Santos, violin; Scott Ney, percussion, Kevin Vigneau, oboe; Kim Fredenburgh, viola; Stephen Montoya, piano. Music of Schubert, Arutiunian, Mauldin and Thompson.
Kristin Lucas creates video, installation, intervention, digital photographs, sculpture, and Internet artworks. Positioning herself at the center of her projects, Lucas' work addresses the effects of rapid-spread technology on the human condition. Reversing a popular concept of infusing humanity into machines she instead applies familiar strategies of electronic media to her own life. Transformations, mutations, and portraiture are the focus of works set to the backdrop of empty and meaningful exchanges with automated tellers, television, shopping malls, healing arts therapists, police officers, and a judge.
Lucas' work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions, including the Art Gallery of Windsor; Images Festival, Toronto; ICA, London; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Cheekwood Museum, Nashville; The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and Artists Space, New York. She has had solo exhibitions at Postmasters Gallery, New York; And/Or Gallery, Dallas; Or Gallery, Vancouver; Plugin, Basel; Windows, Brussels; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; O.K Center for Contemporary Arts, Linz, Austria; and FACT, Liverpool, England.
Lucas has been awarded numerous artist residencies including the Edith Russ Site for Media Art New Work Stipend, Oldenburg, Germany; the 13th International Studio Program of ACC Weimar and the City of Weimar, Germany; World Views, Experimental Television Center, Harvestworks, Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program and P.S.1 National Studio Program, New York; and the ARCUS A.I.R. Program, Ibaraki, Japan.
Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century is the only series on television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, and it uses the medium of television to provide an experience of the visual arts that goes far beyond a gallery visit. The UNM Art Museum is pleased to host this pre-screening of an episode of the fifth season of the PBS series Art:21. Compassion features three artists - William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems - whose works explore conscience and the possibility of understanding and reconciling past and present, while exposing injustice and expressing tolerance for others.
For more information:
Angela Berkson // 505.277.6773 // waxrtist@unm.edu
Main event presentation
Thursday, October 8th, 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Pearl Hall Auditorium
Architecture & Planning Building
Sponsored by the UNM Latin American & Iberian Institute and the Department of Art & Art History
Join us for one of Nicaragua’s finest young artists
More info: http://laii.unm.edu/winston/
Solo presentation & exhibition
Wednesday, October 7th, 12-1:30PM
Department of Art & Art History Gallery RM 203
Hosted by S.O.L.A.S.
Join us for one of Nicaragua’s finest young artists
More info: http://laii.unm.edu/winston/
Born in 1956, the Israeli photographer Roi Kuper has since the mid-1980s been working in the landscape, philosophically exploring and investigating it in both black and white and color work. Kuper has recently been honored with solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Herzliya Museum of Art, and the Tate Modern, London, as well as being included in group exhibitions at museums in New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Berlin, Vienna, and Guangdong (China), among other cities. He will be in Albuquerque during the Land Arts project for September to November, 2009.
Mr. Kuper's artist residency, hosted by the University Art Museum in collaboration with the Department of Art and Art History, is made possible through a generous grant from The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.
For more information:
Angela Berkson // 505.277.6773 // waxrtist@unm.edu
Celebrate the life and music of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) with music department faculty and students. Fauré devoted his life to the creation of simple, elegant, and gorgeous music, and his work is now regarded as the finest representation of French mélodie. We will hear his most celebrated chamber symphony works (Pavane, op. 50; Selections from Masques et Bergamasques), works for solo piano, choral selections, and rare vocal music. All proceeds will benefit Music Department scholarships. An evening you won’t forget!
$10/5
$10/7/3. With Susan Patrick, harpsichord; Denise Reig Turner, bassoon; Mark Tatum, bass; Felix Wurman, cello. Music of the 18th and 20th centuries including works of Zelenka, Marais, Berio and Holliger.
Bill Gilbert is the UNM Lannan Chair and founder of the Land Arts of the American West program. This solo exhibition features various sites along Bill Gilbert’s journeys from 2005-2006. The digital prints and videos on view represent Gilbert’s investigations between the conceptual disjunction of abstract notions about the landscape and the physical experience of topography and climate.
Smudge Studio is a collaborative effort between Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jaime Kruse that uses "media to sift, bridge, map, and cross-pollinate networks between artists and environments." They are the web presence for the state wide Land/Art project, and are providing coverage via blogs etc. on the exhibitions and events including programs at the UNM Art Museum. Smudge Studio Blog: http://smudgestudio.blogspot.com/
"Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West, 2000-2006"
As an important contribution to the state-wide Land Arts initiative, the University of New Mexico Art Museum is proud to present the work of 18 artists from the Land Arts of the American West interdisciplinary field program in the Department of Art and Art History at UNM. Curated by Bill Gilbert, the Lannan Chair and Director of the Land Arts program and Michele M. Penhall, Curator, Prints and Photographs at the UNM Art Museum, the exhibition brings together former artist-participants from this innovative studio program who continue to work on land art based projects.
Artists include: Julie Anand, Jeff Beekman, Nina Dubois, Jess Dunn, Blake Gibson, Jeanette Hart- Mann, Yoshimi Hayashi, Ryan Henel, Mark Hensel, Anna Keleher, Claire Long, John Loth, Erika Osborne, Gabe Romero, Geordie Shepherd, Brooke Steger, Jen Van Horn, and Peter Voshefski.
Smudge Studio is a collaborative effort between Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jaime Kruse that uses "media to sift, bridge, map, and cross-pollinate networks between artists and environments." They are the web presence for the state wide Land/Art project, and are providing coverage via blogs etc. on the exhibitions and events including programs at the UNM Art Museum. Smudge Studio Blog: http://smudgestudio.blogspot.com/
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands – This hour-long documentary traces Christo and Jeanne-Claude's seven-day installation in Biscayne Bay, Florida where they and 400 volunteers wrapped eleven islands in pink polypropylene fabric. (57 mins.)
For more information:
Angela Berkson // 505.277.6773 // waxrtist@unm.edu
Dr. Maurizio Forte will give a lecture on using 3D, geospatial technologies (GIS, GPS, and remote sensing), and CAD to reconstruct ancient landscapes that serve as the basis for VR environments that students, internet users, and museum visitors can interactively explore. As examples he will talk about and demonstrate his work on the Via Flamina Project in Rome, the Virtual Rome Web Project, and the Virtual Museum of the Western Han Dynasty (Xi'an, China). Some of the results of his work include an online virtual museum and a VR exhibit at the Museum of Diocletian Baths in which visitors can virtually roam the ancient Via Flaminia comparing it to present-day Rome.
The event is sponsored by the Anthropology Graduate Student Union, the Department of Art and Art History, and the Alfonso Ortiz Center of Intercultural Studies at UNM.
Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra – This video portrait weaves together interviews with Ana Mendieta, other artists, and filmed records of her earthworks and performance pieces to render a vivid testament of her extraordinary talent cut short in 1985 by her untimely, tragic death. (52 mins.)
For more information:
Angela Berkson // 505.277.6773 // waxrtist@unm.edu
Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty – Robert Smithson reveals the evolution of this monumental work, arguably one of the most famous earthwork projects from 1970, which resurfaced in Utah's Great Salt Lake in 2005 to new audiences and acclaim after being submerged for 30 years. (35 mins.)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Valley Curtain – An Academy Award nominated film directed by David and Albert Maysles that follows the construction of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's enormous (142,00 sq. feet of orange nylon) curtain suspended between two mountains in Rifle, Colorado. (28 mins.)
For more information:
Angela Berkson // 505.277.6773 // waxrtist@unm.edu
SiteWorks project for LAND/ART for two weekends only
The Very Rich Hours
a sound environment by Steve Peters in the Old San Ysidro Church in Corrales, New Mexico
August 27 - 30 & September 4 - 7, noon-6pm
Old San Ysidro Church in Corrales
966 Old Church Rd. (from Alameda Blvd. NW, drive north on Corrales Rd./NM 448 past Wagner Farms, then west on Old Church Rd.)
Free admission
The Very Rich Hours is a sound installation created especially for the Old San Ysidro Church in Corrales for SiteWorks, a series of projects for LAND/ART presented by 516 ARTS and organized by Kathleen Shields Contemporary Arts Projects. Taking its title from the detailed illuminated devotional manuscripts of the middle ages, the piece is a meditation on the land and sounds of northern New Mexico as filtered through individual human perception. A separate gallery component to this site project is currently on display at 516 ARTS for Second Site, an exhibition and reference site for many LAND/ART projects through September 19.
In developing The Very Rich Hours, Steve Peters invited ten friends to take him to places in New Mexico with which they felt a personal sense of connection or intimacy, and to describe what they experienced during this visit. These human voices are set within a continuously evolving eight-channel field of environmental sounds and slowly unfolds over 70 minutes. Installed inside the beautiful historic Old San Ysidro Church, listeners are encouraged to sit on the benches or to wander around the space, as different sounds are heard in different parts of the church. The piece features the speaking voices of New Mexico artists, writers, performers and filmmakers including Anne Cooper, Loren Kahn, JB Bryan, Mary Lance, Thomas Ashcraft, Basia Irland, Ted Harrison, Jeffrey Lee, Lisa Gill, and David Dunn as well as singing voices including Ben Black, Katherine Hanson, Jessika Kenney, Linda Strandberg and David Stutz; recorded by Steve Ditore at Jack Straw Publications, Seattle.
The Very Rich Hours will be broadcast on Sunday, August 30 at 9pm on KUNM, 89.9 FM (www.kunm.org)
Smudge Studio is a collaborative effort between Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jaime Kruse that uses "media to sift, bridge, map, and cross-pollinate networks between artists and environments." They are the web presence for the state wide Land/Art project, and are providing coverage via blogs etc. on the exhibitions and events including programs at the UNM Art Museum. Smudge Studio Blog: http://smudgestudio.blogspot.com/
Smithson and Serra: Beyond Modernism – Produced by the Open University in the United Kingdom, this film explores the challenging dialectic of site-specific works by Robert Smithson and Richard Serra through an examination of seminal works by both artists. (25 mins.)
James Turrell: Passageways – In this overview produced by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, James Turrell discusses his research on natural light and presents to the audience his masterpiece Roden Crater, located in Northern Arizona, which he has worked on since 1972. (26 mins.)
For more information:
Angela Berkson // 505.277.6773 // waxrtist@unm.edu
SiteWorks project for LAND/ART for two weekends only
The Very Rich Hours
a sound environment by Steve Peters in the Old San Ysidro Church in Corrales, New Mexico
August 27 - 30 & September 4 - 7, noon-6pm
Old San Ysidro Church in Corrales
966 Old Church Rd. (from Alameda Blvd. NW, drive north on Corrales Rd./NM 448 past Wagner Farms, then west on Old Church Rd.)
Free admission
The Very Rich Hours is a sound installation created especially for the Old San Ysidro Church in Corrales for SiteWorks, a series of projects for LAND/ART presented by 516 ARTS and organized by Kathleen Shields Contemporary Arts Projects. Taking its title from the detailed illuminated devotional manuscripts of the middle ages, the piece is a meditation on the land and sounds of northern New Mexico as filtered through individual human perception. A separate gallery component to this site project is currently on display at 516 ARTS for Second Site, an exhibition and reference site for many LAND/ART projects through September 19.
In developing The Very Rich Hours, Steve Peters invited ten friends to take him to places in New Mexico with which they felt a personal sense of connection or intimacy, and to describe what they experienced during this visit. These human voices are set within a continuously evolving eight-channel field of environmental sounds and slowly unfolds over 70 minutes. Installed inside the beautiful historic Old San Ysidro Church, listeners are encouraged to sit on the benches or to wander around the space, as different sounds are heard in different parts of the church. The piece features the speaking voices of New Mexico artists, writers, performers and filmmakers including Anne Cooper, Loren Kahn, JB Bryan, Mary Lance, Thomas Ashcraft, Basia Irland, Ted Harrison, Jeffrey Lee, Lisa Gill, and David Dunn as well as singing voices including Ben Black, Katherine Hanson, Jessika Kenney, Linda Strandberg and David Stutz; recorded by Steve Ditore at Jack Straw Publications, Seattle.
The Very Rich Hours will be broadcast on Sunday, August 30 at 9pm on KUNM, 89.9 FM (www.kunm.org)
Smudge Studio is a collaborative effort between Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jaime Kruse that uses "media to sift, bridge, map, and cross-pollinate networks between artists and environments." They are the web presence for the state wide Land/Art project, and are providing coverage via blogs etc. on the exhibitions and events including programs at the UNM Art Museum. Smudge Studio Blog: http://smudgestudio.blogspot.com/
"Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West, 2000-2006"
As an important contribution to the state-wide Land Arts initiative, the University of New Mexico Art Museum is proud to present the work of 18 artists from the Land Arts of the American West interdisciplinary field program in the Department of Art and Art History at UNM. Curated by Bill Gilbert, the Lannan Chair and Director of the Land Arts program and Michele M. Penhall, Curator, Prints and Photographs at the UNM Art Museum, the exhibition brings together former artist-participants from this innovative studio program who continue to work on land art based projects.
Artists include: Julie Anand, Jeff Beekman, Nina Dubois, Jess Dunn, Blake Gibson, Jeanette Hart- Mann, Yoshimi Hayashi, Ryan Henel, Mark Hensel, Anna Keleher, Claire Long, John Loth, Erika Osborne, Gabe Romero, Geordie Shepherd, Brooke Steger, Jen Van Horn, and Peter Voshefski.
Smudge Studio is a collaborative effort between Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jaime Kruse that uses "media to sift, bridge, map, and cross-pollinate networks between artists and environments." They are the web presence for the state wide Land/Art project, and are providing coverage via blogs etc. on the exhibitions and events including programs at the UNM Art Museum. Smudge Studio Blog: http://smudgestudio.blogspot.com/
Bill Gilbert is the UNM Lannan Chair and founder of the Land Arts of the American West program. This solo exhibition features various sites along Bill Gilbert’s journeys from 2005-2006. The digital prints and videos on view represent Gilbert’s investigations between the conceptual disjunction of abstract notions about the landscape and the physical experience of topography and climate.
Smudge Studio is a collaborative effort between Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jaime Kruse that uses "media to sift, bridge, map, and cross-pollinate networks between artists and environments." They are the web presence for the state wide Land/Art project, and are providing coverage via blogs etc. on the exhibitions and events including programs at the UNM Art Museum. Smudge Studio Blog: http://smudgestudio.blogspot.com/
FRED STURM, PIANO
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, a concert devoted to his works. Included on the program will be Cirandas, Ciclo Brasileiro, A Lenda do Caboclo, Saudades das Selvas Brasileiras, Alma Brasileira. Proceeds will benefit the George Robert Scholarship Fund.
JACQUELINE ZANDER-WALL, MEZZO-SOPRANO AND LOUISE BASS, PIANO
With Leslie Umphrey, soprano. Erica Otero, Horn will also be joining us! Hot Afternoon Concert, music by Rossini, Granados, Donizetti, Viardot, Poulenc and Villa Lobos.
The University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance’s award winning Dramatic Writing Program is pleased to announce the debut of the New American Plays Initiative, a partnership with the prestigious Drama League of New York City. Three innovative young Drama League directors shape the premieres and readings of our new plays during the 9th Annual Words Afire Festival, April 24 through May 3, 2009, in Rodey Theatre and The Experimental Theatre on UNM’s Main Campus. This collaboration will not only provide the MFA student writers with professional connections and experiences, but the association between the two programs will bring increased professional awareness to the UNM Department of Theatre and Dance. The guest directors, Michael Goldfried, Lauren Keating, and Kerry Whigham are all part of the Directors Project of the Drama League of New York. Now in its twenty-fifth year, The Directors Project has advanced the careers of over 220 talented young directors and has become the preeminent development program for new directors -- providing talented young artists with experiences in the professional theatrical world.
Rodey Theatre & Experimental Theatre, Center for the Arts
April 24 - May 03
Showtimes here: http://www4.unm.edu/theatre/waf/index.php
Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858, or online at unmtickets.com
More information call 277-4332
Master of Music degree recital. With Juliana Jorge, piano; Patrick Beare, percussion; Luis Alberto, violin; and the Albuquerque Jazz Quartet: (Phil Arnold, bass trombone & harmonica), John Rangel, piano; Paul Gonzalez, trumpet and fluegelhorn; and Richard "Kcool" Hall, electric bass. Works by András Szöllösy, Marcel Bitsch, Christopher Stearn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Donald White, Albert Mangelsdorff, Herbie Hancock, Ernö Rapée, Johnny Green and Charlie Parker.
Keller Hall, Free.
"Visions and Visionaries" will feature students performing medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music with voices and early instruments. Directed by Colleen Sheinberg. Keller Hall, Free.
African Art Speaker Series
Visual Cultures of the African World: Tradition, Transculturation, and Post-Colonialism
Moyosore Okediji, Ph.D.(Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin)
"The End of Freedom: Meaninglessness in Post-Colonial African Art"
This speaker series, funded by the UNM Department of Art and Art History was organized by Assistant Professor Ray Hernandez-Duran as an extension of Art History 429.004: Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa and the African Diaspora.
Master of Music Degree Recital. California Porcupine Rag (William Bolcom), La plus que lente (Claude Debussy), Berceuse and Grande Valse Brillante (Frédéric Chopin) and Sonata No. 21 "Waldstein" (Ludwig van Beethoven). Keller Hall, Free.
Master of Music degree recital. Program will include Chopin "Ballade in A-flat major," Beethoven "Sonata in C Major," Op. 2, No. 3; Ginastera: Tres Danzas Argentinas, Bach/Busoni "Chaconne in d minor." Keller Hall, Free.
May 09, 2009: The SPECTRE SERIES presents Metal Rouge & Mesa Ritual
"Metal Rouge started in Auckland, New Zealand with no aim but to open ourselves to the spontaneous psych tonalism running through the underbelly of popular music like a pure vein of lightning. We opened ourselves to the river, and now our only aim is to let that river (free)flow." Los Angeles-based Metal Rouge is a duo unit, originally formed between Andrew Scott and Helga Fassonaki.
Mesa Ritual is the duo of Raven Chacon and William Fowler Collins. If you caught the duo at the Robb Trust Composers' Symposium show here at ARTS Lab earlier this month then you'll recall low frequency electronics that shook the architecture, layered field recordings played at a whisper and towering, multicolored walls of sound.
When: Sat. May 09, 9:00 PM, $5/10 suggested donation.
Master of Music degree recital. Program will include Chopin "Ballade in A-flat major," Beethoven "Sonata in C Major," Op. 2, No. 3; Ginastera: Tres Danzas Argentinas, Bach/Busoni "Chaconne in d minor." Keller Hall, Free.
Continuum, a Program to Honor the Continuing Contributions of UNM Professor Emeriti, will present Dr. William Seymour on "Experiencing Musical Awareness." Keller Hall, FREE.
Imagine yourself embarking upon an operatic odyssey full of adventure, enchanting melodies, turbulent passions and infectious verve. Sail the operatic seas with a line up of impressive emerging vocal talent that will transport you to exotic destinations around the globe. Experience a unique atmonsphere of thrilling arias and ensembles sung with elegance and consummate musicality. Get in the mood for an interlude of fun and join UNM Opera Theatre. Family Friendly. Directed by Marilyn Tyler. Keller Hall, $7/5/3.
"The artist's role in society is to observe real life and report on it poetically. If the movement of his materials is sure and honest, the
work becomes a beautiful gesture." -Tom Marioni
Marioni pioneered using social situations as art, and his 1970 piece
called The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art has
become legendary. Also in 1970, Marioni founded the Museum of
Conceptual Art (MOCA) as “a large-scale social work of art.” He is a sculptor
who has created a large body of work in drawing and printmaking. His work is
currently being shown at the Guggenheim Musuem exhibition "The Third
Mind.
Go With All Your Heart: Traveling with Crown Point Press
KATHAN BROWN is an American printmaker, writer, lecturer, and
entrepreneur. Brown founded Crown Point Press, a fine art print shop
specializing in etching, in 1962 and has owned and directed it since then.
Crown Point Press is widely credited with sparking the revival of etching
as a viable art medium. Some of the most important artists of our
time,including John Cage, Chuck Close, Anish Kapoor, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith
and Pat Steir, have worked there."
Keller Hall, $10/7/3. Artist Faculty Woodwind Quintet-in-Residence. With Guest Soloist Dr. Eric Lau, Professor of Saxophone, Valerie Potter, flute; Kevin Vigneau, oboe; Keith Lemmons, clarinet; Denise Reig Turner, bassoon; Peter Ulffers, horn.
As part of this year's John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium, Mesa Ritual (William Fowler Collins and Raven Chacon) will perform a set of live electronics on Wednesday April 1st.
Featuring music by Christopher Shultis written between 1988 and 2008 including 64 Statements re and not re Child of Tree for amplified cactus (1988), Blindness for Marimba (1994) featuring Erica Jett marimba soloist, "a little light, in great darkness" (2000) featuring Eric Lau, saxophone and the New Mexico Winds, Devisidero (2007) featuring Falko Steinbach, piano and the world premiere of Waldmusik (2008) performed by the Goldstein-Hoffman percussion-piano duo.
Outpost Performance Space, www.outpostspace.org for tickets. Monday 30th, 7:30 pm at Popejoy Hall, Free. Tuesday 31st 2 & 7:30pm at Keller Hall, Free. Wednesday, April 1st, 7:30pm at Keller Hall, Free.
The 2009 John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium will feature MacArthur fellow and Columbia Universtiy Professor of Music George Lewis: a composer/performer with a long hisory of prominence in the experimental music tradition. That history includes his membership in the famed Chicago musician's cooperative, the AACM: Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, an organization about which Lewis has recently completed the definitive history "A Power Greater than Ourselves" published by the University of Chicago Press. His appearance at the symposium is being co-sponsored by the Outpost Performance Space where Lewis and an ensemble featuring Nicole Mitchell and Hamid Drake will give the opening concert on Sunday March 29. Concerts will continue Monday March 30 including the world premiere of Christopher Shultis's Openings by the UNM Wind Symphony and a performance of John Donald Robb's Viola Concerto by the chamber ensemble, Chatter, Tuesday March 31 featuring ensemble-in-residence the Hoffman-Goldstein piano-percussion duo. Wednesday April 01 is a day emphasizing radically new developments in contemporary music guest curated by Composer Raven Chacon.
Matthew McDuffie, an instructor in the Dramatic Writing Program at the University of New Mexico, and a professional screenwriter who has written for HBO, Showtime, Warner Brothers, and the producers of ER, Capote, and Six Feet Under, will lead an intensive and intimate workshop for novelists, playwrights and screenwriters who are determined to create stronger stories and characters. Participants are encouraged to bring in their own work to develop over the course of the weekend event.
The March Screenwriting Workshop w/ Matthew McDuffie will happen on March 28 and 29, at the ARTS Lab Digital Media Garage from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM. The cost is $225. Call (505) 385-1323 or write to buzzblanco@comcast.net for more information and reservations.
Artistic directors Vladimir Conde Reche and Eva Encinias-Sandoval
Featuring the choreography of UNM dance students
Impulse is an electrifying evening of dance choreographed by the very finest of UNM student choreographers. Offering a wide variety of styles, and featuring bold artistic collaboration, Impulse, is a showcase of riveting dance creations that explore the vast scope of dance study available at the University of New Mexico. Experience the excitement of new creation with a dance concert that represents the voices and visions of the next generation of contemporary choreographers and dancers.
South Arena, Carlisle Gym
March 27 and 28 at 7:30pm, and March 29 at 2pm and 6pm
Ticket Prices $10 General, $8 Faculty & Seniors, $7 Staff & Students
Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858, or online at unmtickets.com
"Blue Flower/ Flor Azul" is a Public Art piece designed for the George Pearl Hall building, School of Architecture and Planning at UNM. The project is commissioned by the Art in Public Places Program (AIPP) of New Mexico Arts and the UNM. It is scheduled to be installed on November 2009.
On the piece, the image of a small drop of blue ink expanding into water is optically enlarged and projected against a 900 Sq Feet custom-made LCD screen to be placed on the projection wall that is located on the west entry of the building.
This colloquium seeks to introduce the project to the University community in order to bring collaborators into the project. Due to the number of different technologies that the piece incorporates, this project offers the perfect platform for a rich collaborative experience where students from diverse disciplines will merge in a cooperative environment of open knowledge.
On this lecture the software and hardware technology that has been so far developed for the project will be introduced through an audiovisual presentation and functional prototypes. A series of "open collaboration calls" will happen along the lecture as we go over different aspects of the project. Computer Science, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Advanced Electronics, Optical Science, Digital Media Technology, Music and Fine Arts are just few of the fields related to this project. But most important of all is the craving from the student of being part of a team that will bring to life a never seen before kind of audiovisual technology.
African Art Speaker Series
Visual Cultures of the African World: Tradition, Transculturation, and Post-Colonialism
Paul Barrett Niell, Ph.D.(Assistant Professor, Arkansas Tech University in Russellville)
"The Ceiba Tree in Early Nineteenth-Century Havana: An Afro-Cuban Signifier in
Colonial Urban Space"
This speaker series, funded by the UNM Department of Art and Art History was organized by Assistant Professor Ray Hernandez-Duran as an extension of Art History 429.004: Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa and the African Diaspora.
An evening of heavy drone from Barn Owl (San Francisco) and Heavywater (Albuquerque).
We are very grateful to have Barn Owl coming through. Who are Barn Owl? From the beloved and essential record store Aquarius Records: "Not only have Barn Owl become one of our favorite musical projects right here in SF, but they are now serious contenders to the throne of best purveyors of deep and emotional and soul satisfying drone music anywhere in the world... While drone-folk bands have become a somewhat common entity in the last couple years, it's actually rare to discover one whose music exudes soul and spirited passion... There is much reward in patient listening to the music of Barn Owl. Their sound entrances and enthralls, but without letting go the melodies, or forgoing actual songwriting, these are not just chunks of droning sound, these are songs, dark, haunting, lovely mysterious songs." http://www.myspace.com/barnowlband
Heavywater are 1 part Jim Roeber and 1 part William Fowler Collins. Comfortable in Western Swing, Free Improvisation, and electronics, Jim Roeber is an inventive and focused multi-instrumentalist. William Fowler Collins is an improvisational guitarist and electronic composer and on this night the duo will serve up some heavy electronic dronescapes with a side of Southwestern, cinematic improvisation.
When: Tuesday, March 24, 7:00 PM
Where: ARTS Lab Digital Media Garage. 131 Pine Street NE, Albuquerque
(One block west of University Blvd., 1/2 block north of Central)
How much: $5-10 suggested donation goes to the artists.
Greek Row Tragedy: An Adaptation of The Bacchae of Euripides
By Mars Mráz
Directed by Paul Ford
Music by Mars Mráz
It is Greek Week at the University of America and Amanda and her Sisters of the Mu Nu Delta Sorority House are running out of time. The Greek Sing Showcase is tomorrow night and they still do not have a dance routine. Desperate to win, they seek the legendary dance instructor, Dean Isos who lost his position as ‘Dean of Dance’ at the University on charges of sexual misconduct. Seeing this as an opportunity to seek revenge on the University, he agrees to choreograph the routine. Peter, Amanda’s boyfriend, attempts to stop Dean Isos is met with violent attack from the ‘God of Dance’ and his faithful female followers. Warning: Adult content and situations. (Warning: Adult language and situations.)
Rodey Theatre, Center for the Arts
March 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 at 7:30 PM and March 8 at 2:00 PM
Ticket Prices $15 General, $10 Faculty & Seniors, $8 Staff & Students
Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858, or online at unmtickets.com
Tibetan Mountain Boat depicts acts of romance, bestiality and savage abductions. While sailing through the mountains of Tibet, the crew is faced with many perils: love triangles, cabin fever, foot fetishes, and crabs. It is a story about love and diversity and overcoming impossible odds for progress and humanity. With a fierce Chupacabra as the antagonist and pink flamingos at every turn, it’s like Phantom of the Opera. It’s one of those stories that need to be told.
Thou Art Villain
By Theo Jackson
Directed by Amanda Machon
It’s a PLAY! It’s a One Act! It’s an original work by Theodore Jackson. A plotting villain is left without purpose when his plans to vanquish his arch nemesis are foiled by the untimely death of the superhero "Blue Bugger". Comedy ensues as our villain copes with his new found inadequacies, pairing with Tibetan Mountain Boat for a night of one acts you won’t soon forget!
Experimental Theatre, Center for the Arts
March 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 at 7:30pm and March 15 at 6:00pm
Tickets $10 General, $8 Faculty & Seniors, $7 Staff & Students,
Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858, or online at unmtickets.com
Ecotone Physical Theatre performs "Falling Apart - An Evening in Three Acts"
Ecotone Physical Theatre is pleased to announce two performances only, March 13-14 at the ARTS Lab Garage. The ARTS Lab Garage is located near the main campus of the University of New Mexico, and is part of UNM's High Performance Computing Center. It is a research center for investigations into the connections between the arts, technology and science.
Veering from the abstract to the comic, "Falling Apart - An Evening in Three Acts" is a fully improvised work. It is the framework in which the performers invent character, gesture, movement, dialogue in response to the environment and to each other. The performances will feature collaborations with students in 3D Design, Video and Computer Animation, who will work to create environments for performers. The performances will also feature collaborations with UNM dance students.
Ecotone Physical Theatre is an Albuquerque-based performance ensemble of dancers, actors and musicians who mine the rich veins of improvisation: sonic, kinesthetic, textual, visual. Each performance is unique, a blend of slapstick dramedy, angular sound and gesture, rife with potential for hap and mishap. Ecotone Physical Theatre makes extensive use of computers, video and digital technology, random props and costumery, and a variety of dance techniques. The company was formed in the spring of 2006 when Jewell and Company Dance Theatre joined forces with the experimental music group Incus to collaborate on a series of improvised performances called Ecotone. The collaboration was so fruitful and well received, they decided to merge, taking the name of the performance as the name of the company. Its members are directors Donna Jewell and Kevin Paul with Lisa Nevada, Jessica Searer, Bill Clark, Mary Margaret Moore, Susan Skeele, Rufus Cohen, along with costume designer Stacia Smith.
WHEN: Friday and Saturday, March 13-14, 8:00 PM
WHERE: ARTS Lab Garage
131 Pine St., NE (One block west of University Blvd., 1/2 block north of Central)
COST: $10 at the door only. Seating is limited.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Call Donna Jewell at 505.440.4991 or Kevin Paul at 505.681.7368 (NOT FOR PUBLICATION). Photos available on request.
Join us for a special evening with Alex Lindsay from Pixel Corps in San Francisco. Learn techniques for using the greenscreen. Greenscreen is a valuable film, broadcast, and web video tool but it's still often a mystery to DPs and graphic artists. Learn the math, the tools and the techniques of shooting and keying greenscreen.
Alex has been involved in computer graphics for nearly 20 years. He has extensive experience in digital production including print, real-time graphics, multimedia titles, forensic animation, television, and film. Alex spent several years on the production of Star Wars: Episode 1 (at JAK Films and then at Industrial Light and Magic). He has taught at the Academy of Art and at the San Francisco State Multimedia Studies Programs. He writes for 3D Magazine, 3D World, and Post and is a regular guest on TechTV. Alex is the founder and Chief Architect for Pixel Corps in San Francisco.
African Art Speaker Series
Visual Cultures of the African World: Tradition, Transculturation, and Post-Colonialism
Henry J. Drewal, Ph.D. (Evue Bascomb Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Whirling Return of the Ancestors and Gods:Yoruba Performance Arts"
This speaker series, funded by the UNM Department of Art and Art History was organized by Assistant Professor Ray Hernandez-Duran as an extension of Art History 429.004: Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa and the African Diaspora.
Left: Jessica Kenney, Fight or Flight, 2009, Acrylic and oil on canvas
Right: Julia Sapir, In the Grass, 2008
The Jonson Gallery is pleased to present two new exhibitions, Julia Sapir: Equation and Jessica Kennedy: Self Diagnosis. The shows run from February 17th, 2009 through March 13th, 2009. Please join us for their opening reception on Friday, February 20th, from 5-7 p.m.
Julia Sapir: Equation
Sapir uses imagery in the way that a writer uses language. As a writer might string together words to create a sentence, she assembles photographs to a similar effect. A single photograph can tell one story. Adding more photographs expands the narrative possibilities further, each successive one building upon or disrupting the conventional interpretation of its neighbor. Surprising, beautiful images captivate and challenge us to perceive and create new and mutable stories.
Jessica Kennedy: Self Diagnosis
Jessica Kennedy’s paintings explore themes of anatomy, pathology, nature, and beauty. Her interest stems from the knowledge that we, as humans, are not as far removed from the flora and fauna of the natural world as we tend to believe. Vulnerability and fragility exist in us just as they do in single-celled organisms or blades of grass. Through a combination of oil and acrylic painting, Kennedy presents a sublime visual world that is interchangeably animal, botanical, and humanoid.
Thomas DeLio (Professor of Music at the University of Maryland) and Wesley Fuller (Professor Emeritus Clark University) will present their most recent electro-acoustic music as part of their residency at the UNM Department of Music. There will also be a public lecture on Monday March 2 6:00 PM (FAC 1108).
UNM/PAS Day of Percussion
Keller Hall, $5 General Admission, Free for PAS members. The event will feature local, national and international percussionists giving hands-on master classes, clinics and performances. Please go to the percussion section of the UNM Music website (http://music.unm.edu) and look for the UNM/PAS Day of Percussion for more detailed information.
Keller Hall, $7/5/3. Free for PAS members. This concert will feature collegiate ensembles as well as local, national and international percussion artists. Please go to the percussions section of the UNM Music website and look for UNM/PAS Day of Percussion for more detailed information.
UNM Wind Symphony
Popejoy Hall, $7/5/3. Directed by Eric Rombach-Kendall. This concert is part of the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference and will feature soloists Timothy McAllister of Arizona State University and Eric Lau of the University of New Mexico.
UNM Jazz Bands
Popejoy Hall, $7/5/3. Directed by Glenn Kostur. This concert is part of the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference and will feature saxophonists Doug Laurence of the Count Basie Orchestra, Chris Beaty, Greg Fishman, and the saxophone quartet Thrasher.
Keller Hall, Free. All Day. Program will include performances, lectures, lecture-recitals, clinics, master classes, and other presentations that relate to the saxophone. For more information please contact Eric Lau at elau@unm.edu
We're very glad to welcome Matthew McDuffie back for a small group Screenwriting Workshop at ARTS lab on February 21st and 22nd. Matthew McDuffie, an instructor in the Dramatic Writing Program at the University of New Mexico, and a professional screenwriter who has written for HBO, Showtime, Warner Brothers, and the producers of ER, Capote, and Six Feet Under, will lead an intensive and intimate workshop for novelists, playwrights and screenwriters who are determined to create stronger stories and characters. Participants are encouraged to bring in their own work to develop over the course of the weekend event.
WHEN: Sat. February 21 and Sun. February 22, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. The cost is $225. Call (505) 385-1323 or email buzzblanco@comcast.net for more information and reservations.
NoiseFold is a leading interactive sound-art and live cinema group founded by David Stout and Cory Metcalf. NoiseFold perform live animation works to breed virtual forms that both create and respond to sound. These abstract visual structures can take many forms including bio-mimetic cellular life & organic architectures. The performers animate, coax, bend and herd these audio-visual "organisms" by use of cameras, microphones, electro-magnetic and infrared sensors. The result is a visual music theater where "lifelike" avatars emerge, evolve and emit a startling array of sounds; from pure noise and chaotic rhythms to shimmering melodic textures.
Broadway, Your Way! The Interactive Musical Theatre Revue
Directed by Hal Simons
Musical Direction by Paul Roth
In Broadway Your Way! The Interactive Musical Revue, audiences are invited to participate by singing (if they want,) dancing (if they want,) and selecting their favorite songs from a mixed menu of musical theatre, to create a show that is sure to satisfy everyone’s taste. To keep things eclectic, an ensemble of a dozen of UNM’s most talented actors have prepared a variety of show tunes - with selections ranging from West Side Story to Spring Awakening! Several times each show, the audience will be asked to vote, and the most popular choices make it into that evening’s performance, fashioning a different musical revue each evening. Each performance will be as unique and as different as the audience that creates it!
Experimental Theatre, Center for the Arts
Ticket Prices: $10 General, $8 Faculty & Seniors, $7 Staff & Students
Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858, or online at unmtickets.com
Alec Soth is a Minneapolis-based photographer. His work is represented
in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Walker
Art Center in Minneapolis. His first monograph, Sleeping by the
Mississippi, was published in 2004 to critical acclaim. Since then
Soth has published NIAGARA (2006), Fashion Magazine (2007), and Dog
Days, Bogotá (2007). His most recent publication is entitled The Last
Days of W.
Peter Sarkisian is a remarkable and internationally recognized video artist working with video as a sculptural element that challenges the moving image as a narrative model. Using two-dimensional projections intertwined with three-dimensional surfaces, Sarkisian is attempting to free his imagery from the confines of the frame, thereby creating a sense of immediacy, which overcomes referential barriers and enables the viewer to participate perceptually in a constructed event.
Sarkisian studied film and photography at the California Institute of the Arts and then directing at the American Film Institute. He has exhibited his video work extensively including the 2002 Whitney Biennial, The Iris Collection in Mexico City, Art Forum, Berlin, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I-20 Gallery in New York, and is represented by James Kelly Contemporary in Santa Fe.
Funded by the Gale Memorial Lecture Series and the Art & Art History Department.
People with special needs please call the Art and Art History Department 277-5861
What is a Game Jam? In a Game Jam, participants come together to make video games. Each participant works in a small team on a complete game project over the course of a limited time period, usually over a weekend. With such a small time frame, the games tend to be innovative and experimental. The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the first of its kind: a game Jam that takes place in the same 48 hours all over the world! The global Game Jam will start at 5:00PM Friday, January 30, 2009 through 5:00PM Sunday, February 01, 2009, (all times local). All participants in the Global Game Jam will be constrained by the same rules and limitations, with each time zone having one distinct constraint.
The inaugural Global Game Jam also features a streaming video keynote from World of Goo developer Kyle Gabler (pretty cool!).
Participants must pre-register - no admission without pre-registration
The fifth annual MISP or Media Industries Conference serves the need to connect, inform and educate New Mexico's wide media industries community, to share information about activities and opportunities, and to strategize ways we can improve the creative business environment for all New Mexicans.
Location
Location is the UNM Student Union Building, UNM Main Campus, Albuquerque
Registration
Our registration site is now open! Cost is $50 for regular participants; $25 for students* and members of partner organizations -- which includes lunch and snacks.
