Genius Loci Calendar 2009-10: "MATERIALS"
| September 3 | 4pm | The Art Gallery at UWF | |
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September 3 |
Courtney Egan and David Webber |
A Roundtable Discussion in conjunction with the UWF Art Gallery Exhibition “Projected Landscapes” | |
| Courtney Egan |  |
http://www.courtneyegan.net/ | |
| Courtney Egan has created multimedia works with bottlecaps, cigarette butts, and bras, but now she spends inordinate amounts of time in front of a computer, mucking in the swampy terrain between the psyche and the mass media with digitally-created video collages. Her imagery straddles the worlds of “special effects” and art, exploring the increasingly blurry boundaries between mental states, outward reality, and interactive digital worlds. | |||
| David Webber |  |
http://www.davidwebber.net/ | |
| While working in many media, David Webber is an artist who primarily works with time-based media and interactive installations. At the moment he is developing customized audiovisual performance instruments utilizing galvanic skin resistance and capacitance proximity sensors. In his spare time he creates analog synthesizers and makes electro-acoustic music. | |||
| October 8 | 4pm | The Art Gallery at UWF | |
October 8 |
Sonya Blesofsky |
Artist Presentation/Lecture | |
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http://www.sonyablesofsky.com/ | ||
| Sonya Blesofsky is an installation artist who works with easily accessible and recognizable materials such as paper, aluminum foil, tape and glue. Her work deals with urban anxieties related to construction, development, urban renewal, and collapse. The fragile architectural structures she creates serve as metaphors for memory and loss, and each piece will fall apart, decay or eventually be deconstructed. | |||
| November 12 | 4pm | The Art Gallery at UWF | |
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November 12 4pm The Art Gallery at UWF |
New Faculty Members Thomas Asmuth, Gary Batzloff, Gina Cestaro, and Adam Shiverdecker |
Artist Presentation/Lecture | |
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| New faculty members from the Department of Art will discuss their work in tandem with the Department of Art Faculty Show. | |||
| January 14 | 6pm | location TBA | |
January 14 6pm Genius Loci location TBA |
Beautiful Losers | Film Screening | |
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http://www.beautifullosers.com/ | ||
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BEAUTIFUL LOSERS celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation. In the early 1990's a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hiphop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the "establishment" art world, this group and the subcultures they sprang from, have now become a movement that has been transforming pop culture. |
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| February 12 | Time TBA | Location TBA | |
February 12 Genius Loci Time and |
The Skees |
Artist Workshop in conjunction with UWF Gallery of Art exhibition “Hers and His” | |
| Alan Skees |  |
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| The Skees, are a wife and husband team who work independently as artists however their materials and concepts often crossover creating a dialog between the sexes. “Hers and His” will be an extension of this dialog exploring with digital drawing and digital photography the personal vs. political, the private vs. the public and how this relates to gender as a defining point of the self. Both artists come from a diverse background of academia ranging from traditional media such as printmaking, knitting, ceramics, sculpture, to new forms of digital media, installation, and performance. | http://www.skees.net/index.html | ||
| Kristen Skees |  |
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