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March 12, 2013

Arts Colloquium – Fall 2013

April 4 - June 6, 2013 The UCSB Department of Art & College of Creative Studies presents The COLLOQUIUM, beginning on Thursday, April 4th. The COLLOQUIUM offers a wide range of voices exploring the topics of contemporary art, theory, and cultural production. Presentations are provided by emerging and established visiting artists, as well as members of UCSB's own distinguished Art faculty. All lectures are free and open to the public, held every Thursday of the Spring quarter, from 5:00 to 6:50 at Buchanan Hall 1910.<div><hr /></div><div>April 4:</div><div>Faculty Speaker: Marko Peljhan</div><div><div><div>TWO POLAR VISIONS AND A WAR </div><div>Marko Peljhan is a conceptual artist acclaimed for his complex projects based on researching and designing methods of environmental and socio/political observation and reflection using sensing and information technologies.</div><div>Peljhan is the recipient of many prizes for his work, including the 2001 Golden Nica Prize at Ars Electronica together with Carsten Nicolai for their work, polar, and the UNESCO Digital Media Prize for Makrolab in 2004. During 2008, Peljhan was appointed as one of the European Union Ambassadors of Intercultural dialogue. His work has been exhibited internationally at multiple biennales and festivals (Venice, Gwangju,Brussels, Manifesta, Johannesburg, Istanbul), at the documenta X in Kassel, several ISEA exhibitions, several Ars Electronica presentations and major museums, such as the P.S.1 MOMA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, ICC NTT Tokyo, YCAM Yamaguchi, Van Abbemuseum and others. From 2009 on he is the one of the series editors of the Arctic Perspective Cahiers series (Hatje Cantz and API). He holds joint appointments with the Department of Art and the Media Arts & Technology graduate program at the University of California Santa Barbara, and was appointed as Co-Director of the University of California system-wide Institute for Research in the Arts in 2009.</div><div><a href="www.ladomir.net">www.ladomir.net</a></div></div></div>April 11: Faculty Speaker, Laurel Beckman Space Available: opportunities for the head and heart<img style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" src="https://i.imgur.com/GtCwmat.png" alt="" width="350" height="205" />Working with and nurturing eccentric positions and spaces, Laurel's work highlights perception, uncertainty, and public display. Attending to themes at the crossroads of consciousness + social conditions, meta-physics + science, Laurel’s practice investigates perceptual phenomena, stage and screen space, the built and imagined environment, language, and affect. Employing a range of media and distribution strategies, her projects often enlist commercial, neglected, and civic spaces in efforts to contribute meaningfully to the cultural landscape. Beckman’s public and video projects have been presented/screened in Palestine, Australia, India, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Toronto, Macau, and throughout the United States. She is a professor of art at the University of California Santa Barbara, where she engages with her lively students, pampers her small dog, and plays the occasional ukulele.<a style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;" href="https://www.laurelbeckman.com/">www.laurelbeckman.com</a> April 18: Keith Boadwee <img src="https://i.imgur.com/mrC70kn.jpg" alt="" /> Keith Boadwee studied at UCLA in the late 80’s where he worked with Paul McCarthy and Chris Burden who have both been influential on his practice. Boadwee’s works have primarily used photography as a tool to document/distill performance based activities. Notable exhibitions include the Venice Biennial, the New Museum’s “Bad Girls”, MOCA Los Angeles’ Portfolio of Photography curated by Cindy Sherman, Bay Area Now 3, Orange County Museum of Art’s “15 Minutes of Fame: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol” and PS1’s “Into Me/Out of Me”. For the last 4 years, he has worked with his collaborative CLUB PAINT producing paintings and drawings that explore his continued fascination with the body, actionism, expressionist painting, sex, humor, and abjection. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at White Columns, New York, Steven Wolfe Fine Art, San Francisco, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans as part of Dan Cameron’s Prospect 1.5, Niklas Schechinger Fine Art, Hamburg and Paradise Garage, Venice CaliforniaB.A. UCLA 1989 M.F.A. U.C. Berkeley 2001 April 25: Jesse WilsonJesse Lee Wilson is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Wilson’s practice grows out of the intersection of social engagement with design, architecture, and contemporary art. Working primarily in processes that blur the line between painting and sculpture, graphic design or photography, he seeks to use the representation of an object as a device to investigate what is most essential in the object’s identity. Graphic symbols and illustrative images play key roles in his investigations. Wilson’s work primarily employs materials utilized in industrial and construction applications, which he puts to work in ways that subvert their pedestrian nature and allow for flux within a given composition, in homage to the ways a material life may be re-invented.Upon completing his MFA at UCSB in 2005, Wilson received several design commissions for his installation work at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the UC Institute for Research in the Arts. Wilson moved to NYC in 2006 and worked as lead sculpture fabricator for artist Jeff Koons. After his blue chip art factory experience, Wilson began collaborating with architect, Jeremy Edmiston <a href="https://www.systemarchitects.net/profile_je.html">https://www.systemarchitects.net/profile_je.html</a> of SystemsArchitects on the design and installation of a community hosting venue for All Saints Church in Manhattan.Wilson has recently initiated a pilot project, Pathways Art Program in collaboration with System Architects, through a grant from the Hope for New York fund. Many of Wilson’s current projects engage artists who are homeless or in transitional housing, exploring opportunities for their expression of identity and personal narrative as a vehicle to engender dignity and empowerment through a creative practice. May 2: Ken Rinaldo(co-sponsored by MAT) Ken Rinaldo is an artist and theorist who creates interactive multimedia installations that blur the boundaries between the organic and inorganic. He has been working at the intersection of art and biology for over two decades working in the catagories of interactive robotics, biological art, artificial life, interspecies communication, rapid prototyping and digital imaging.His works have been commissioned and displayed nationally and internationally at museums, galleries and festivals such as: The Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth Australia, Exit Festival France, Transmediale Berlin, Germany, ARCO Arts Festival Madrid, Spain, The OK Center for Contemporary Art, ARS ELECTRONICA, Austria; The Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; The Australian Center for Photograhy; The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Chicago; The Home Show, Seoul, Korea; V2 Dutch Electronica Arts Festival, Rotterdam, Holland; Image Du Future, Montreal, Canada; Siggraph, Los Angeles; The Exploratorium, San Francisco. He was the recipient of first prize for Vida 3.0 an international competition on Artificial life, an Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica in 2004 for the work Augmented Fish Reality, an Honorable Mention in 2001 at Ars Electronica Austria for Autopoiesis and has received numerous grants and awards including an Ohio Arts Council Grant, and 3 Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affaires grants. Rinaldo's work has been reviewed and edited in numerous publications and books including: Digital Art by Christiane Paul, Contemporary, ArtByte, NY; Art Press, Paris; Tema Celeste Contemporary Art, Italy; Circa Magazine, Ireland; Information Arts: Intersections of Art Science and Technology by Steve Wilson; The New York Arts Magazine; Virtualities: Television Media Art and Cyberculture by Margaret Morse; Leonardo Digital Salon, SF; Artweek, SF; Wired Magazine, SF; International Design, NY; Intercommunication # 7, a Critical Anthology of Interactive Artists, Japan; Artificial Intelligence Magazine, SF, Superdesigning Number 5, Japan and A minima Portugal. Rinaldo's work has been featured on TV and radio in Austria, Italy, Spain, Singapore, England, France, Sweden, Germany, Japan. Portugal and Finnish Public TV, as well as featured onThe Knowzone a Syndicated television show on the Arts and Sciences, National Public Radio, BBC TV and Radio, CNET television coverage of "Delicate Balance", 1994 and a one half hour special on "The Flock" for The Future, Canadian Broadcasting Corporaration; 1994.<a style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;" href="https://kenrinaldo.com/index.html">https://kenrinaldo.com/index.html</a>May 9: Faculty Speaker: George Legrady + MAT GradsGeorge Legrady holds a joint appointment in the Department of Art and the Media Arts & Technology graduate program where he is director of the Experimental Visualization Lab. His research and teaching are currently focused on data visualization funded by a Robet W Deutsch Foundation fellowship, and a robotic actuated multi-camera system funded by a National Science Foundation grant. His artwork in interactive, digital media explores the intersections between culture, narrative and emerging technologies with installations featured internationally in Asia, Europe and North America at places such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2001); Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2005); the International Center for Photography, New York (1994), Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2007) and other places. Legrady had a retrospective of his analog to digital artworks at the National Gallery of Canada, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in 1997. His commission for the Seattle Public Library is one of the few digital artworks to collect and parse data since 2005. "We Are Stardust" realized in collaborative with the NASA Spitzer Science Center at Caltech was featured at the Art Center College of Design (2008) and the Vancouver Winter Olympics in winter 2010.<a style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" href="https://www.georgelegrady.com/">https://www.georgelegrady.com/</a>May 16: Annie Lapin Things and Ings Annie Lapin's recent practice re-imagines the painted image as a stage for the dialectic of signs and materials. The resulting paintings simultaneously engage memory and phenomenological perception by fragmenting and flattening art historical allusions through material and formal interjections. Her work exudes a mysticism and a romanticism, while self-consciously referring to it's own construction. In this way, Lapin's paintings operate in the divide between the school of materialist deconstruction and the neo-idealist school of young artists whose work, despite roots in crude materiality and self-conscious absurdism, plays with a post-ironic emphasis on spiritualism, psychology and ritual in art. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and institutions including: the Nerman Museum in Kansas City, Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles, Annarumma Gallery in Naples, Italy, Josh Lilley Gallery in London, UK, and will have her first solo museum exhibition at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in fall 2013 in Greensboro, North Carolina. May 23: Christian Waldvogel Weltenblicke — From Beyond the Horizon<img style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5;" src="https://i.imgur.com/UMuVwtP.jpg" alt="" />Christian Waldvogel is a conceptual artist who deals with humanity as a species, on a planet and in the universe. He operates on the assumption that understanding the «world» as such, that having a real sense of its properties and character as a sphere orbiting a star, enables his audience to achieve the sense of context necessary to become truly global citizens. Aside from conducting an ongoing series of thought experiments which cover the time span from the early renaissance to an uncharted future, he engages in cooperations with molecular biologists, physiologists, the Swiss Air Force, or NASA astronauts. He works to reflect, paraphrase and enhance the systems he lives in, and to provide his audience with the tools to do so as well, encouraging them to look at life from an outside perspective, with a critical distance. In this sense, Waldvogel’s work could be defined both as a toolkit for a reality-checkup, as well as a poetic extension of humanity's urge to expand both knowledge and territory. When the Swiss Federal Art Council presented him with a 2011 Swiss Art Award, they said: «The way in which Waldvogel realizes his idea [...] shows the artist taking control — not with the hubris underlying technology-based attempts to conquer the universe, but using a poetical approach that extends the reach of art to the universe or, rather, to human thought about the universe.» Waldvogel holds an MSci in architecture from the ETH Zurich and RISD, and his work has been exhibited in museums and institutions internationally, most notably as the official Swiss contribution to the 9th Architecture Biennale in Venice. He is a three time recipient of the Swiss Art Award, and the author of two monographs, both of which have received medals in the prestigious Leipzig competition. He has taught and lectured worldwide, and he is a member of the Swiss Institute in Rome and a Co-Chair of the ESA Topical Team Arts & Science. May 30: UCSB Second Year Art Grads June 6: Faculty Speaker: Kim Yasuda Professor Yasuda's site-specific installations incorporate a range of media to activate both interior exhibition and outdoor public space. Her three-dimensional works investigate the relationship between identity and location within the modern landscape. Yasuda's current investigations center on ways in which creative practices influence social transformation. Her work has been presented in exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada) Camerawork Gallery (London); the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York); The Whitney Museum of American Art (Connecticut) and MIT List Gallery (Boston). She has been the recipient of visual arts fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, US/Japan Foundation, Howard Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation in Sculpture and Anonymous was a Woman Foundation. Most recently, Yasuda has worked with students and faculty from across campus as part of the "Friday Academy", a project-based curricular initiative that enlists a cross-disciplinary team of faculty, students and community professionals to work on off-site community programming. Through the FriAc, Yasuda and her students have worked on a public art program for farm-worker housing in Oxnard, CA, the repurposing of shipping containers into affordable housing, a storefront renovation and streetscape banner redesign for downtown Isla Vista, CA. Most recently, Yasuda is developing a post-graduate community arts incubator to support recently-degreed graduates in creating sustainable models for their work. Yasuda currently serves on the national advisory board as executive vice chair for the academic consortium, Imagining America, a network of 95 colleges and universities committed to publicly engaged scholarship through the arts, design and humanities, developing policy and advocacy platforms that impact the arts and higher education.<a style="font-size: 13px;" href="https://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/yasuda/">https://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/yasuda/</a>

January 19, 2012

Colloquium Fall 2011

Sept 27, 5pm at <a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;" href="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/broida_map.jpg" target="_blank">Broida Hall</a> - Bruce W. Ferguson<img style="float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; border: 1px initial initial;" src="https://www.bbc2009.no/bilder/bbc/forelesarar/brucewfergusonW__250.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="241" />Bruce W. Ferguson has been a curator and critic for more than thirty years. Bruce previously served as the Dean, School of Arts at Columbia University; President and Executive Director of the New York Academy of Art, and is the founding Director and first bienial curator of SITE Santa Fe, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Bruce has curated more than 35 exhibitions for institutions such as the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, the Barbican Art Gallery in London, the Winnipeg and Vancouver Art Galleries in Canada and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. He also organized exhibitions in the international biennales of Sao Paulo, Sydney, Venice and Istanbul.A prolific writer, Bruce has written for art publications like Canadian Art, Art Forum, Art in America, Art + Text, Flash Art, Bomb Magazine, Art Press, Borders Crossing and Parachute. Along with Reesa Greenberg and Sandy Nairne, he received a Getty Senior Research Fellowship grant, which resulted in the publication of a seminal anthology of essays on the theories of exhibitions titled, Thinking About Exhibitions (Routledge: 1996).Bruce received his B.A. in Art History from the University of Saskatchewan and his M.A. in Communication from McGill University in Montreal. Oct 4, 5pm at <a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;" href="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/broida_map.jpg" target="_blank">Broida Hall</a> - Martin Kersels<img style="float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; border: 1px initial initial;" src="https://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/robinson/Images/robinson3-14-7s.jpg" alt="" width="175" height="230" />Martin Kersels is a Los Angeles-based artist working in the areas of sculpture and performance. Born in 1960 at St. Vincent's Hospital near downtown Los Angeles, Kersels has moved only 5 times in his life. He attended UCLA for both his graduate and undergraduate education, though there was an 8-year span of time between his two enrollments. He has held a variety of jobs since the age of 15 including plastic box stamper, copy machine jockey, cappuccino maker, print reviewer, lab assistant, and court reporter.His work runs the gamut from the collaborative performances of the group SHRIMPS to large-scale sculptures such as Tumble Room to intimate sculpture instruments for his "Orchestra for Idiots." Kersels has exhibited extensively at venues such as the Pompidou Center, MOCA Los Angeles, Kunsthalle Bern, the Tinguely Museum, and the Getty (the Getty even owns his work, though they will never, ever exhibit it). His sculpture, 5 Songs, and an accompanying performance series, Live on 5 Songs, was part of the recent Whitney Biennial of American Art. He is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York and by Galerie Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois in Paris.Oct 11, 5pm at <a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;" href="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/broida_map.jpg" target="_blank">Broida Hall</a> - Ruchama Noorda (Civic Virtue)<img style="margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left; border: 1px initial initial;" src="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/pictures/ruch.jpg" alt="" width="177" height="242" />Ruchama Noorda works across a range of media-video, installation and performance. She is a member of the Amsterdam-based Civic Virtue collective, a group dedicated to 'reforming' the future through the excavation of forgotten or neglected histories. CIVIC VIRTUE 11 the group's latest project consisted of a series of exhibits and interventions mounted over the summer at the Historical Museum in Bamberg, Germany . Noorda's current research traces the passage across the Atlantic of 'Nature-based' utopian communal ideals and practices from northern Europe to the West Coast of the U.S in the early to mid 20th century. Oct 18, 5pm at <a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;" href="https://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock" target="_blank">Pollock Theatre</a> - James Benning<img style="margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left; border: 1px initial initial;" src="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/pictures/james_benning.jpg" alt="" />James Benning (born 1942 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American filmmaker. He is the son of German immigrants and studied film at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1975) under the tutelage of David Bordwell. Working as an independent filmmaker, Benning's films focus on a sense of place, and are often built from long, unedited takes. He used to work in Chicago but in recent years has been based on the West Coast. In 2003, Reinhard Wulf made a 90 minute documentary about Benning and his films called James Benning: Circling the Image. In 2007, the Austrian Film Museum published a book of texts on his work.In addition to his film work, Benning has held professorships at Bard College and Northwestern University, and since 1987, he has taught film-making and experimental sound at the California Institute of the Arts.Oct 25, 5pm at <a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;" href="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/broida_map.jpg" target="_blank">Broida Hall</a> - Ken Ehrlich<img class="imgp_img" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; float: left;" src="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/kenehrlich.jpg" alt="Image" hspace="10" />Ken Ehrlich is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. He has exhibited internationally in a variety of media, including video, sculpture and photography. His project based practice interweaves architectural, technological and social themes and he frequently collaborates with architects and other artists on site-specific and community-based projects in public spaces. He is the editor of Art, Architecture, Pedagogy: Experiments in Learning (2010) published by viralnet.net and co-editor of Surface Tension: Problematics of Site (2003), Surface Tension Supplement No. 1 (2006) and What Remains Of A Building Divided Into Equal Parts And Distributed for Reconfiguration: Surface Tension No. 2 (2009) published by Errant Bodies Press. He currently teaches at The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and in the Department of Art at U.C. Riverside.Nov 1, 5pm at <a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;" href="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/broida_map.jpg" target="_blank">Broida Hall</a> - Otolith Group<img style="float: left; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; border: 1px initial initial;" src="https://otolithgroup.org/images/portrait.jpg" alt="" width="197" height="124" />The Otolith Group is an award winning artist led collective and organisation founded by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun in 2002 that integrates film and video making, artists writing, workshops, exhibition curation, publication and developing public platforms for the close readings of the image in contemporary society. The Group's work is formally engaged with research led projects exploring the legacies and potentialities of artists led proposals around the document and the essay film, the archive, the sonic, speculative futures and science-fictions.Nationally and internationally, the Group have produced work that acts as a platform to develop wider relations to the production of the experimental in moving image practice. They have organized workshops, discussions and curated and co-curated work at film festivals, programmes and exhibitions including the touring exhibition The Ghosts of Songs: A Retrospective of The Black Audio Film Collective 1982-1998, Harun Farocki. 22 Films: 1968-2009 at Tate Modern and the touring programme Protest conceived as part of the Essentials: The Secret Masterpieces of Cinema commissioned by the Independent Cinema Office.In 2010 The Otolith Group were nominated for the Turner Prize.In 2011 The Otolith Group will be presenting their work on several platforms internationally and in the UK will launch a new project in development with the theorist and blogger Mark Fisher and will co-curate a major conference on the militant image at The Institute of Visual Arts in London and on Jean Genet at The Nottingham Contemporary.Nov 8, 5pm at <a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;" href="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/broida_map.jpg" target="_blank">Broida Hall</a> - Jay Lizo and the Grad Art Showcase<a class="colorbox initColorbox-processed cboxElement" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;" href="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/gradart.jpg"><img class="imgp_img" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; float: left;" src="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/gradart.jpg" alt="Image" hspace="10" width="282" height="253" /></a>Jay Lizo graduated from the MFA program at UCSB in 2005, is a member of the Monte Vista Art collective and has exhibited widely in LA. The following grad students will present their work in the Grad Art Showcase :Alex Bogdanov Sterling Crispin Alison Ho Jae Hee Lee Nick Loewen Tristan Newcomb Chris Silva Erik Sultzer Van Tran Nov 15, 5pm at <a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;" href="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/broida_map.jpg" target="_blank"> </a><a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;" href="https://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock" target="_blank">Pollock Theatre</a> - Sharon Lockhart<img style="margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left; border: 1px initial initial;" src="https://theseventhart.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/sharon-lockhart.jpg" alt="" width="195" height="238" />Sharon Lockhart is well known for her formally strict and conceptually precise films and photographs that often explore social subject matter. As much as her photographs reveal cinematic qualities of staging and casting, so too do her films frequently engage a static camera and angles that recall photographic practices. To create the works in Lunch Break, Lockhart spent one year in Bath, Maine, at the Bath Iron Works shipyard—a private sector US naval shipbuilding company—observing and engaging with workers during their daily routines. The resultant film installations and series of photographs focus on the activities of these workers during their time off from production.Lockhart’s work in this exhibition crosses boundaries and complicates distinctions between film, photography, and documentation in provocative ways. Her visual representations are devoid of sentiment and yet deeply humane, intimate in their focus on everyday situations while reflecting broader global conditions through their historically grounded approach. Nov 22, 5pm at <a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;" href="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/broida_map.jpg" target="_blank">Broida Hall</a> - Sierra Brown<img class="imgp_img" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; float: left;" src="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/sierrabrown..jpg" alt="Image" hspace="10" />Based in San Pedro, CA, Sierra Brown is renowned for her previous ocean-based endurance works. Brown has performed works like 2007’s Supercommute, which included a 12-mile swim across four shipping lanes in the Port of Los Angeles, the western hemisphere’s busiest port. She considers her performance art works as part of her commitment to thinking through the linked issues of sustainability, consumption and waste management. The San Pedro-based artist is also a seasonal wild land fire fighter and dive boat captain. Nov 29, 5pm at <a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;" href="https://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/broida_map.jpg" target="_blank">Broida Hall</a> - Raitis Smits<img style="float: left; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; border: 1px initial initial;" src="https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3380/3559876719_2b9dc721b3.jpg" alt="" width="197" height="132" />RAITIS SMITS (LV, b. 1966) is a media artist, organiser and net activist, based in Riga, Latvia. He is co-founder of the Electronic arts and media centre E-LAB (1996) and The Center for New Media Culture RIXC (2000) in Riga, and co-organiser of the annual International new media culture festivals "Art+Communication" in Riga (since 1996). Since 1997 his activities are mainly devoted to 'acoustic explorations':<ul style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;"><li style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;">development of riga net radio OZONE and global net.radio network and mailinglist</li></ul><ul style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;"><li style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px;">Xchange (since 1997). The most recent project initiated by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, together with Derek Holzer (Amsterdam), is Acoustic Space Research Lab - an ongoing collaboration between RIXC, Projekt ATOL (Ljubljana), L'Audible (Sydney) and Radioqualia (Amsterdam-London-Adelaide). As the pilot event of this project, in summer 2001 they organised International symposium on sound art, radio and satellite technologies, which took place in Irbene Radiotelescope in Latvia.</li></ul>

February 28, 2011

Colloquium Spring 2012

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