The University of New Mexico invites applications for the Director of ARTS Lab (Arts, Research, Technology, and Science Laboratory), starting in August 2008.

More information here: http://finearts.unm.edu/jobs.htm

The University of New Mexico invites applications for the Director of the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media (IFDM) Program, starting in August 2008.

More information here: http://finearts.unm.edu/jobs.htm

Connection to ARTstor is now live!

ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Log in to ARTstor from a campus computer by pointing your browser to http://www.artstor.org and click on launch in the upper right-hand corner; or access ARTstor from any computer by linking to the resource from the University Libraries electronic resources page at http://elibrary.unm.edu/articles/databasesindexes.php then choose ARTstor under “A” or the link on the Fine Arts Library page at http://elibrary.unm.edu/falref/

ARTstor User Services will provide training for use of the ARTstor digital collections and presentation software (called OIV for Off-line Image Viewer) at UNM in early November. If you’d like to be notified of this and future training as it is offered, please email the Bunting Library at bbmsl@unm.edu or falref@unm.edu at the Fine Arts Library. During this initial roll-out period, while FAL & BVRL are developing and implementing training and support structures, it is recommended that faculty and students utilize the ARTstor produced on-line training modules or information sheets available under “using ARTstor” at the www.artstor.org website.

Please feel free to contact FAL or BVRL staff with questions or concerns.

Fine Arts Library Bunting Visual Resources Library
falref@unm.edu, bbmsl@unm.edu
277-2357 or 277-6415

The IFDM’s fall Inter/New Media Speakers Series is ongoing, free, and open to faculty and the public. It meets every Wednesday morning, from 9 – 10:30 am at ARTS Lab (131 Pine NE, just west of UNM Parking Services at Central and University), and offers a variety of topics covering the sciences, game development, the Business of filmmaking, digital art and much, much more.

Come and hear the following speakers:

October 3rd: Pradeep Sen & Joe Kniss, UNM School of Engineering (Computer Science and Computer Engineering)

October 10th: Elaine Raybourn, Sandia Labs (SERIOUS GAMES)

October 17th: David Stout, Artist, College of Santa Fe

October 24th: Claudia X. Valdes, Digital Artist & Associate Director of ARTS Lab

October 31st: David Rogers, Sandia Labs (DREAMWORKS)

November 7th: Sande Scoredos / Sony Imageworks

November 14th: Anne Godfrey, UNM School of Architecture

November 21st: David Beining & Hue Walker, UNM ARTS Lab Dome Project

November 28th: Nick Flor, Anderson Schools of Management

ARTS Lab Garage
Located at 131 Pine St., NE, just North of Central and one block West of University
For more information, contact the (pending) UNM Interdisciplinary Film & Digital Media Program at 277-2286.

“Connecting the Arts, Humanities and Social Conscience”

Keynote address-performance by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Performance Artist, Author, Cultural Critic

2 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 1, in Rodey Theatre Center for the Arts

This symposium is jointly sponsored by the College of Fine Arts, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the University Libraries, as part of a series of symposia leading up to the installation of David Schmidly as UNM’s 20th President.

The symposium features Guillermo Gomez-Peña, director and founder of La Pocha Nostra, an international nonprofit organization that fosters collaboration in socially transformative, experimental performance art. UNM faculty panelists are Holly Barnet-Sanchez, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History; Teresa Eckmann, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Regional Studies; Miguel Gandert, Professor, Department of Communications and Journalism; Brian Herrera, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance; and Gabriel Melendez, Professor, Department of American Studies.

Gómez-Peña’s work in performance, video, installation, poetry, journalism, cultural theory and radical pedagogy explores cross-cultural issues, immigration, the politics of language and new technologies. A MacArthur Fellow and American Book Award winner, he has presented his work at more than 700 venues in almost 20 nations.

La Pocha Nostra has associates across the U.S., Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, Australia, and many other countries. Collaborating across national borders and artistic disciplines, La Pocha Nostra artists produce projects ranging from solos to large-scale performance installations using video, photography, audio and cyber-art. The projects challenge audiences to rethink the boundaries between cultures, ethnicities, genders and languages, as well as those between art and politics, artist and spectator. One of La Pocha Nostra’s ongoing projects is a living museum where performers exhibit themselves as human artifacts –as in an ethnographic diorama or freak show – using the culturally marginalizing context to challenge stereotypes and social fears. Audience members move through the interactive, simultaneously performed installations, creating a unique experience for each participant.

Rodey Theatre
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus

John Mulvany has been appointed Director of the University Art Museum. John has an MFA in Photography from UNM, and previously served as Director of both the School of Art and the Merwin Gallery of Art at Illinois Wesleyan University, as the Founder and Governing Board Chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and as Chairman of both the Department of Art and Design and the Department of Photography at Columbia College in Chicago. John replaces Linda Bahm, who retired on May 31 after serving as Associate Director and then Director since 1985.

University Art Museum
Center for the Arts building, Albuquerque campus

(505)277-4001