New Media Lecture Series: Spring 2008
The New Media program and Neuberger Museum of Art are pleased to announce the New Media Lecture Series for Spring 2008. Lectures are Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Neuberger Study and free to the public. Please join us!
Amy Franceschini: Feb. 13
www.futurefarmers.com/
Talk Title: The Local
Amy Franceschini will present works she has collaborated on with Futurefarmers and Free Soil. She will discuss research-based projects that look at how the local relates to larger global issues. She will present works that questions the role of technology in art and in our everyday lives.
Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator who works with notions of community, sustainability and a perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her work manifests "on" and "offline" in the form of dynamic Web sites, installations, open-access laboratories, and educational formats that collectively question or challenge the social, political, and economic systems we live in.
Amy founded Futurefarmers in 1995 and Free Soil in 2004. Her solo and collaborative work have been included in exhibitions internationally including ZKM, Whitney Museum, NY MoMA, and SF MoMA. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally. She has work in the permanent collection at the SF MoMA and Orange County Museums and has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Anderson Ranch and Pasadena City College. She is the recipient of the Artadia Award, Cultural Innovation, Eureka Fellowship and SF MoMA SECA; BFA, San Francisco State University; MFA, Stanford University. She is currently a professor of art at University of San Francisco and visiting faculty at CCA.
Torsten Zenas Burns: March 5
holyokeresearch.blogspot.com
Title: COLLABOTRONICA
Reimagined space-station training, etheric residue, re-educational workshops, obsessive-compulsive androids, gestural researchers, and semi-dead hosts are joined at the hip in this selection of works by videomakers who work together and apart. These collaborative works by the Halflifers, Darrin Martin, the Foundry, Virocode, and Michael O’Malley chart a processed terrain of speculative fictions and claim them as their science.
Torsten Zenas Burns received his BFA in video in 1990 from the New York State College of Art at Alfred University and his MFA in video and performance art from the San Franscisco Art Institute in 1993. He has created and curated video and installation projects exploring speculative content. Burns' video work is distributed by The Video Data Bank in Chicago. Over the past 10 years Burns has participated in seven residency programs including Headlands Center for the Arts (CA), L.M.C.C. World Views Studio Program (NY), and Eyebeam (NY). Burns has screened at the the Museum of Modern Art's Video Viewpoints and Premieres series, The Pacific Film Archive (CA), Aurora Picture Show (TX), Scanners: The New York Video Festival, The Chicago Underground Film & video Festival, the European Media Arts Festival(Germany), the Impakt Festival (Netherlands), the 4th Busan, Korean international video festival. In 2008 he curated HHORRRAUTICA a video program for the Stuttgarter Filmwinter festival for expanded media. Currently Burns is a visiting professor in the New Media program at Purchase College.
Off the Grid Artists: April 2
Artists from the Neuberger exhibition "Off the Grid" present a series of performances and workshops. More information forthcoming!