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Meet the Artists, TUESDAYS Workshops
NEW YORK, July 07, 2008- EdLab at Teachers College, Columbia University has announced its educational and public program along with The EdLab Digital Art Residency (EDAR) in Summer. EdLab holds four panels discussions, Meet the Artists, for its public and educational program to enhance the community's understanding of the digital art world. Three awarded artists, Daniel Iglesia (New York, New York), Lara Kohl (New York, New York), and Margot Herster (Austin, Texas) present the other way to learn more about their art philosophy and the contemporary art world. The topics range over artists' philosophy and contemporary cultural issues; it is a series of Tuesdays 2-4pm, from July 15 to August 12, 2008. All the sessions are held on the second floor in the Gottesman Libraries, Teachers College, Columbia University.
In the introductory session on July 5th, three EDAR resident artists talk about their art practice and their response to the digital visual culture. It helps audience to explore resident artists' practices from "artist context". The second session on July 22 focuses on their current project for EDAR, especially its concept and procedure. Following it, the EDAR artists talk about their artistic influences; the EDAR artists present one artist who inspires and influences their creation and practice. A closing panel discusses on how three awarded artists' projects for EDAR reflect and response to the technology trend in the contemporary society. In addition, educational exhibitions by each of the artists will follow during the 2008-2009 academic year (times/dates TBA).
Workshop Topics are:
*July 15
SESSION ONE: art practices and concerns
In this introductory session, EDAR awarded artists talk about their art concern and practice.
*July 22
SESSION TWO: current projects
EDAR selected artist talk about their in-progress project during the residency in Summer.
*July 29
SESSION THREE: artist influences
Each awarded artist talks about an artist who most influences their art practice most from the context of visual art.
*August 12
SESSION FOUR: CLOSING PANEL DISCUSSION, discussion of summer work
This panel presents a further discussion on how artists' work produced during the residency intestates cultural issues in the today's world.
EDLAB DIGITAL ART RESIDENCY (EDAR):
Digital media is changing the nature of communication and the way people access and understand information. The EdLab Digital Art Residency (EDAR), supported by the Gottesman Libraries (Teacher College, Columbia University), aims to explore these changes across a broad range of multimedia and technologies. Our goal is to showcase art that challenges our community to reflect on the impact of digital culture. EDAR awards selected artists a $4000 commission to create a work of art and a related exhibition that explores the theme of the artwork alongside the educational goals at Teachers College.
In addition to holding the largest collection of materials devoted to the educating professions, the library has been developing a range of new services to meet the needs of students and faculty members interested in both accessing and producing educational and research materials in multiple media. Included in recent library initiatives have been centers and work groups organized to support educational software development, media design, educational consulting, and publishing. These units are organized within the library, a unit focused on advancing education for the information age.
The library is eager to develop opportunities for students and faculty at the College to interact with professionals in other organizations engaged in the creation of new educational resources. EDAR will bring working art and media professionals from relevant organizations for short visits to the campus where they will have time to interact with the College community. The visiting residents will work on site at EdLab over 12 weeks, and develop an exhibition to be mounted in a library exhibition space. Perhaps even more important is the opportunity to develop professional relationships that would extend beyond the fellowship period.
ABOUT AWARDED ARTISTS:
DANIEL IGLESIA:
Daniel Iglesia creates music and media for humans, computers, and broad interactions of the two. He is especially interested in live manipulations of sound and video, with notions of automation and algorithmic composition, the magnification of inherent chaos in sounds, and real-time media performance with traditional instruments. His works have taken the form of audio and video performance, instrumental works with live electronics, gallery installations, and collaborations with many disciplines such as theater and dance. His work has been presented throughout New York City in such diverse venues as Lincoln Center, Eyebeam Gallery, The Stone, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Merce Cunningham Studio, Roulette, the Public Theater, the Delancey, and in international festivals in the United States, France, and Spain. He is currently a teaching fellow at the Columbia University Computer Music Center.
LARA KOHL:
Lara Kohl's creative background is cross-boundary in photography, video, film, sound, sculpture, performance and installation. Her interdisciplinary and conceptual practice is very much rooted in every-day life and in particular, in how we take in and process information: how we learn, what we learn, and how this makes us who we are. Lara Kohl has exhibited internationally in various art institutes, such as Artists Space (New York), Exit Art (New York), PS1 (New York), Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Canada), ParaSite Art Space (Hong Kong), etc.
MARGOT HERSTER:
Margot Herster is a photo-based artist who works and resides in Austin, TX. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with degrees in psychology, art history and studio art from the University of Kansas. Margot Herster's work is driven by her interest in the subtext of interpersonal relationships. Her ongoing project, AFTER YOU'VE BEEN BURNED BY HOT SOUP YOU BLOW IN YOUR YOGURT, is an experimental documentary comprising a series of photography, text, video and audio installations that examine dynamics of trust between suspected terrorists held Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and their U.S. lawyers. Margot Herster has exhibited nationally, for example exhibitions at Sesnon Gallery at the University of California-Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, Calfornia), FotoFest (Houston, Texas), SCALO Gallery (New York, NY). Her work has appeared in group exhibitions at Arthouse (Austin, TX); Exit Art (New York, New York), Moving Walls at Open Society Institute (New York, NY and Washington, DC), Else Madsen Gallery (Austin, Texas), SPAZIOTEMPO (Florence, Italy). Her awards include Puffin Artist Grant, School of Visual Arts Alumni Scholarship Award, and Nerve Emerging Photographer Showcase.
ABOUT EDLAB, TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY:
EdLab is a research, design, and development unit at Teachers College, Columbia University. EdLab envisions and pilots knowledge projects for a fundamentally different education sector that is attuned to the emerging post-industrial world. Edlab engages in work that has the potential to contribute to the improvement of educational institutions today and the broader evolution and reconfiguration of future educational services. Our work is divided into five foundational areas: Reimagining Schooling, Innovations for Online Learning, New Directions for Online Publishing, Efficiencies in Educational Research, and Charting the Future of Libraries.
Funding for the EdLab Digital Art Residency was provided by generous support from the Florence H. and Eugene Myers Charitable Remainders Unistrust.
CONTACT:
For more information, please email edlab@tc.columbia.edu
