Kell Black and Barry Jones at Green|Spaces Chattanooga / Live Video Performance of “Sonor et Visio”
Thursday March 5, 2009 / 7-8pm

location:
Green|Spaces Chattanooga
63 e Main Street Chattanooga, TN 37408
free and open to the public. please join us!

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Kicking off a month of POLYMER events we are pleased to announce Black and Jones will be in Chattanooga to perform. POLYMER (Chattanooga, TN) is a series of cultural events presenting art work in contemporary expanded forms like video, sound, performance, and interactive installation. For complete details see http://polymer2009.wordpress.com/

POLYMER is produced by SEED in collaboration with Lyndhurst Foundation, UTC Department of Art, the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Pulse, Green | Spaces, and Tanner Hill.

Kell Black
Mr. Black was a founding member of Sluggo, a post-punk band in Boston in the early 80s. He was also the keyboard player for The TLC Band, a Latin/reggae/Creole group. In 2002 he composed a solo piano soundtrack for W. F. Murnau’s 1922 film, Nosferatu, the first of many screen adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Black holds an MFA in sculpture and drawing from the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is a Professor of Art at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. Mr. Black has exhibited widely across the United States and in Switzerland, and he was also awarded an NEA Individual Artist’s Grant. His work will be featured in a group exhibition in 2008 at the Frist Center in Nashville.

Barry Jones
Barry Jones is a digital video and sound artist with far ranging interests in music, the history of film, and new technologies. He earned his BFA in photography at Austin Peay State University, and his MFA in 3d studies at the University of South Carolina. He is nationally and internationally known for his video installations, and has exhibited works at SPACElab in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, Virginia, and in Istanbul, Turkey, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Madrid, Spain. On a more local level, he was recently featured at the Brooks Museum in Memphis, and he has two digital works in the permanent art base collection of the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s new media branch, Rhizome. Mr. Jones is an assistant professor at Austin Peay State University. He lives in Clarksville with his wife, Jennifer, and their three children, Marlena, Aidan and Hope. He also performs in the vj duo [ fladry + jones ]