Visiting Artists & Scholars
All lectures are in the Fine Arts Building, Room 249 at 7 pm.
530 Call Street, Tallahassee, FL 32306
For more info, call (850) 644-6474, or join the FSU Visiting Artists Series on facebook
Died Young Stayed Pretty and Q&A w/ filmmaker Eileen Yaghoobian
Tuesday, September 8, 7:00 pm - 9:00pm
Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. This unique documentary examines the creative spirit that drives these indie graphic artists. They pick through the dregs of America’s schizophrenic culture and piece them back together. What you end up with is a caricature of the black and bloated heart that pulses greed through the US economy. The artists push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that’s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape. The film gives us intimate look at some of the giants of this modern subculture. Outside of their own circle, they’re virtually unknown. But within their ranks they make up an army of bareknuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy 70s porn stars. They’ve created their own visual language for describing the spotty underbelly of western civilization and they're not shy about throwing it in the face of polite society. Along the way, they manage to create posters that are strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful. Yaghoobian shows these artists for what they are: the vivisectionists of America’s morbidly obese consumer culture.
Brandon Morse
Thursday, September 10, 7pm – 8pm
Brandon Morse is a Washington, DC based artist who works in video and video installation and portrays the degradation and collapse of organized systems. His process revolves around the creation of rule-based simulations of 3-D environments using animation software. Objects and environments are created in the software and assigned structural traits and physical behaviors and are then subjected to computer-generated forces such as gravity, turbulence and wind, which are also created within the software environment. The resulting videos are a record of these processes playing out over time wherein architectural and organic structures lose their coherence and slowly decay over time towards a chaotic, disorganized state. Morse has shown his work in video, video installation and sound art in museums and galleries across the United States, Europe, and Asia. He lives and works in the Washington, DC area and is a professor of Digital Media at the University of Maryland.
Satan's Camaro
Thursday, September 24, 7pm – 8pm
Satan’s Camaro is a collaborative between artists Justin Strom and Lenore Thomas. "The pieces we create combine our individual ideas and aesthetics to make work that at its most basic involves opposites. The work also reflects our interest to create characters out of the machines and the drips and to force them into a relationship with each other... Slayer meets Stereolab, Halo meets Super Mario Brothers, and Skeletor meets My Little Pony."
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Super-advanced robot (2008)
Screenprint, smoke on panel
18” x 40”
Ryan Berg
October 22, 2009, 7pm – 8pm FAB 249
Ryan Berg’s work is simply about love relationships between people. It grapples with the intricacies and complications of love, friendship and conflict, often taking shape as a hybrid of beauty, fantasy and monstrosity. Past work dealt with these forms through small sculptures and drawings that mashed multiple image sources to create an often unusual beauty.
Alexander Nemerov October 23 - 24, 2009
Keynote Speaker for the 27th Annual Symposium for Graduate Students in the History of Art
Willie Cole
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 7pm – 8pm FAB 249
Willie Cole is a noted contemporary African American sculptor, conceptual and visual artist. He has a BFA from The School of Visual Arts, New York and studied with The Art Students League, New York from 1976-79. Cole is best known for transforming ordinary domestic and used objects and other discarded appliances into imaginative and powerful works of art and installations.
Angus Galloway
ESCALATE AND INTENSIFY - A live sound performance
Monday, November 9, 2009 7pm FSU MFA Warehouse
Angus Galloway is an alumnus of Oxford College. He graduated from Emory University in 2000 with a degree in Philosophy and Art History. Angus went on to receive a Masters of Fine Art from Georgia State University where he specialized in drawing, painting, sound-design, and installation. After graduating with his masters he moved to New York and worked as both a sound designer for Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and a photographer and art handler for the James Graham Gallery. Angus left New York in 2007 and currently teaches drawing and painting as an adjunct professor for Emory University and the Art Institute of Atlanta in Decatur.
Jack Stenner
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 7pm – 8pm
Jack Stenner is an artist who works with digital media. He is currently Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator of the Digital Media Art program in the School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida. His work revolves around issues related to our socio-culturally constructed “reality” and the ways we create meaning from our environment. Combining techniques from information retrieval and visualization, motion tracking, video gaming, 3D visualization and experimental video, his work has been shown nationally and internationally at exhibitions including Siggraph, ACM Multimedia, International Society of Electronic Artists (ISEA), ZeroOne Biennial, Alternative Museum, Polk Museum of Art, Tampa Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, and others. http://www.jigglingwhisker.com
^Image Above: Playas: Homeland Mirage installation view, 2007, photo by Max Becher.
Sean Miller
Thursday, February 25, 2010, 7pm – 8pm
Sean Miller's work explores situations, practices, and information that sustain and define existing power structures in contemporary art and politics. Obsessive activities, absurd scenarios, and extreme aesthetics assist Miller as he introduces objects and events that question existing categorical and organizational methods within these hierarchal structures. Miller’s primary artwork involves his role as the Founder/Director of the John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA). JEMA is a location variable museum that may be viewed online at: http://www.jema.us/. Miller is one of the founders of SOIL Gallery/Collective (Seattle, Washington). Selected exhibitions of Miller’s work includes the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Contemporary Museum Baltimore, SOIL @ Aqua Art Fair Miami Beach, National Museum of Ireland (Dublin), ACC Galerie (Weimar, Germany), and Schalter Gallery (Berlin), Golden Thread Gallery (Belfast), Villa Croce Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Galleria d’Arte Moderna of Genoa, and UnimediaModern Gallery (Genoa, Italy), and Spazio Utopia Contemporary Art (Campagna, Italy). Miller is a Senior Lecturer at University of Florida where he teaches the Workshop for Art Research and Practice.
Steve McGuire
Thursday, March 25, 2010 7pm – 8pm
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