Dear Friends and Colleagues of EdLab,
We are pleased to announce a series of events related to our EdLab Digital Art Residency (EDAR) program this summer. More information about EDAR can be obtained online at http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu/index.php?q=node/1935.
[size=36]TUESDAY “Meet the Artists” Workshops:[/size]
EdLab will host four events 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) discuss their art and join a discussion about art and the contemporary art world. The topics range from artists' philosophies to contemporary cultural issues.
All the sessions are held on the second floor in the Gottesman Libraries, Teachers College, Columbia University. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/users/visitors.htm. Light snacks will be provided. Please RSVP if you think you will attend a session. Thanks!
Forthcoming Workshop Topics are:
[size=30]July 22 – Current Projects[/size]
EDAR artists talk about their in-progress projects.
At this session, the artists will discuss their art-in-progress. The conversation will investigate the connections between their artworks and the academic environment, education, and the evolving landscape of digital media.
July 29 – Artistic influences
Each artist talks about an artist who most influenced their art practice.
August 12 – Discussion of Summer Work
A further discussion on how the artists' work produced during the residency resonates with 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 artists a 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 brings 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 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:
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.
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.
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
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