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January 19, 2012

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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>

November 15, 2011

Graduates 2013

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Alex Bogdanov Fine Arts <img class="imgp_img" src="/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/desert-reading-2.jpg" alt="Image" width="404" height="302"> I am a socially engaged artist without a social agenda. My projects attempt to create private mental realms in the public space. Each of us experiences the world in unique and often irreconcilable ways. I attempt to prompt individuals to re-experience the world on their own terms; we are in this together, yet we are, each, alone. The context, content, and meaning of my projects depend on its participants. <a href="https://AlexBogdanov.com">AlexBogdanov.com</a> mail2bog (~at~) gmail.com <hr> Ryan Bulis Fine Arts <img class="imgp_img" src="/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/rabulis_web.jpg" alt="Image" width="630" height="318"> Whether it be Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral, mankind has found a way to shape the natural world to meet his needs. This Anthropocentric view not only effects our collective attitudes toward the natural world, but it also manifest in the physical world leaving the unquestionably unique signature of Homosapien. My academic and artistic investigations are directly concerned with this phenomenon. rabulis@umail.ucsb.edu <a href="https://www.ryanbulis.com/" target="_blank">https://www.ryanbulis.com/</a> <hr> Sterling Crispin Fine Arts <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/28995227?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=1&loop=1" width="403" height="302" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen></iframe> I am interested in the turbulent event horizon between consciousness and objective reality, and the ways in which subjectivities can be manipulated through ritual, mindfulness and magic systems. My current area of interest lies in the relationship between these issues and our exponentially accelerating networked global culture that will result in a technological singularity; a theoretical event in the future when machine intelligence surpasses humanity and births the post-human era. <a href="https://www.sterlingcrispin.com">https://www.sterlingcrispin.com</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/sterlingcrispin">https://twitter.com/#!/sterlingcrispin</a> sterlingcrispin@gmail.com <hr> Alison Ho Fine Arts <img src="https://i.imgur.com/2RLxYf5.jpg" alt=""> I work with narrative, language, and identity, crafting pieces based on personal experience. I believe the construction of cultural identities is an ongoing process, which cannot be merely picked and chosen. As an artist, my cultural identity—being Chinese American, multilingual, female, from the Bay Area—is wholly integrated within and cannot separate from my practice. My work is confessional, using my own life details to examine broader themes of Asian American identity and the flexing boundaries of public vs. private. It also examines the negotiations, experiences, and expectations of different (sometimes contradicting) cultural values and directions. Within my work, I act as first person narrator and my thoughts provide insights into my choices as both artist and editor. Websites: <a href="https://toastandtea.org">https://toastandtea.org</a>/ <a href="https://alisonho.net">https://alisonho.net</a> Email: <a href="mailto:toastandtea@gmail.com">toastandtea@gmail.com</a> <hr> Tristan Newcomb Fine Arts <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ha2fHGEdCdk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Ahhh, surrealist puppet films - is there no end to their disquieting ammunition, or to their meta-commentary on the human condition? If only they weren't so agonizing to produce - how many tile floors or stubby carpets must one sprawl across, holding a puppet above them, trying to stay in frame? Alas, the quest for the "perfect" feature-length surrealist puppet movie continues unabated...but first up on the docket: a mockumentary about art & artificial intelligence. As of 2011, the individual-practice artist has full access to cinema language as their ontology of choice; there is no longer an economic boundary or a logistics barrier, only the vast expanse of nearly-endless labor that a feature-length movie brings...but that's why the gods made caffeine. Yes, I am making that specific claim: the gods invented caffeine solely so we can produce and enjoy surrealist puppet films. The fact of it being used for so many other purposes is a massive, long-standing societal mistake. <a href="https://www.lumalin.com">www.lumalin.com</a> <hr> Chris Silva Fine Arts <img class="imgp_img" src="/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/ucsbweb.jpg" alt="Image" width="401" height="401"> I am interested in the way we cultivate and harvest ideas that relate to the creation of the zeitgeist. I follow trending ideas within popular culture religiously to collect or monitor various streams of information to use with or to exploit my concepts. These rich sources act as catalysts for the dialog of larger issues that I don't think get enough attention. In my research, I have found that society is constantly trying to censor individuals within it for the gain of the majority. From the Falun Gong movement in China to the recent Wikileaks events around the world, I see censorship and as an important issue that I am constantly addressing, whether in the abstract or figurative most of the time it is not immediately recognizable. This issue can have a profound effect on how societal issues are perceived or reacted to. My work uses different methods of creation to find the end result, informing the work itself. I use programming code, digitally found and created image and object, various technologies, video and photography to inspire my thoughts and to create my work. These new and dynamic modes of visualization provide me with a post medium dialog to express my ideas in. Website: <a href=https://www.chrissilva.net>https://www.chrissilva.net</a> Blog: <a href=https://www.articulat.es>https://www.articulat.es</a> <a href=https://facebook.com/chrissilva>https://facebook.com/chrissilva</a> <a href=https://twitter.com/_chrissilva>https://twitter.com/_chrissilva</a> <hr> Erik Sultzer Fine Arts <img class="imgp_img" src="/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/ucsb-web-esultzer.jpg" alt="Image" width="405" height="324"> I am currently focused on the artist’s role in the promotion of political resistance and dissent. How do we determine the efficacy of these artistic gestures, and to what end do they point? I admit to feeling ambivalent about the artist’s ability to affect Change, while at the same time experiencing guilt for (possibly) losing Hope. What Is To Be Done? <a href="https://www.eriksultzer.info">https://www.eriksultzer.info</a> </body> </html>

November 7, 2011

Giving Opportunities

August 30, 2011

Faculty

February 28, 2011

Colloquium Spring 2012

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September 29, 2010

Graduates 2012

Tim BrownFine Arts<img class="imgp_img" src="/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/cobain_web.jpg" alt="Image" /> I seek greater transparency in my actions and work- I want everyone to see me from the inside out. I want to sign your name in my blood. I want to help. https://www.timlandia.net unotito@gmail.com<hr /> Jared FloresFine Arts<img class="imgp_img" src="/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/1955.jpg" alt="Image" />Investment into fiction is a catalyst for my image making practice. I play the role of the counterfeiter, and worshiper simultaneously. I consider both the perpetuation of throw away images, and belief in its most broad terms. I simulate evidence and artificial surface not from the perspective of gaining awareness or finding inherent truths, but to simply indulge in the unattainable nature of fiction. My work is not an exercise of persuasion but an act of devotion and atonement.https://jaredflores.virb.com/<hr /> Emily Halbardier Fine Arts<img class="imgp_img" src="/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/15.jpg" alt="Image" /> I make paintings as a way to explore objects and imagery from my personal life and how they relate to myself, each other and the viewer. My practice involves thrifting, painting, collecting, arranging, touching and exploring. https://www.emilyhalbardier.com https://www.flickr.com/photos/emilyhalbardier e.marlise@gmail.com<hr /> Elizabeth KunathFine Arts <img class="imgp_img" src="/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/elizabeth_kunath18_copy_1.jpg" alt="Image" />Paradigms and context of visual aesthetics as conceptual material in creating future forms.https://www.bessiekunath.com/ lizkunath@yahoo.com<hr /> Nick LoewenFine Arts<img class="imgp_img" src="../../sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/06_loewen_nicholas_continental_divide.jpg" alt="Image" />My practice over the last five years has been to interact with a variety of materials in a manner that speaks both to their common usage and chemical makeup. I see parallels between the intermixing of commercial products and the interaction of elements in the natural world. Where water meets land or a metropolis meets desert, the dynamic physical intersections of our planet draw social and material divides. My work is an attempt to understand the beautiful tension in the powerful, and yet incidental, aesthetics of our landscape. Many of the materials I use today—including aluminum (the most common element on the Earth's surface), petroleum (the base product of asphalt and polystyrene), tar, acetone and mortar—occur naturally but are distributed commercially. Culled from the earth and reinterpreted as earth-forms, the resulting pieces catalyze the link between the human and elemental impact on the landscape. Nick Loewen <a href="https://www.nickloewen.com">www.nickloewen.com</a> loewen.nick@gmail.com<hr /> Ruby OsorioFine Arts<img class="imgp_img" src="/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/rosorio1.jpg" alt="Image" /><a href="https://rubyaosorio.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://rubyaosorio.blogspot.com/</a> <hr /> Rimas SimaitisFine Arts<img class="imgp_img" src="/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/simaitis_canoe.jpg" alt="Image" width="400" height="224" /> I have recently been researching the dichotomy of the term "island fever," with specific interest in how the tendencies toward escapism that have developed on and around these micro-economies (islands) relate to the much larger tendencies of escapism that exist in space exploration and transcendence through technological means and development. Ultimately, my interest is in the cultural production of alternative spaces and alternative definitions of "space," as traditionally accepted ideas and actualities of physical space (and access to it) have been quickly diminishing. https://www.rksim.com/ https://ucsb.diospex.org/ R.Simaitis@gmail.com<hr /> Van TranFine Arts <img class="imgp_img" src="/sites/default/files/imagepicker/3/tran_van_16.jpg" alt="Image" />I believe the arts have the capacity to embed itself within a broader social realm as current social conditions render a new kind of creative practice: research. My relationship with the arts which I have often treated with reflection and exploration, is one that I envision with further potential to be an intersecting vehicle between the informal and the contemporary. Let us contemplate and take a stance at what surrounds us. https://thinkcollectdisseminate.weebly.com v_tran@umail.ucsb.edu

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