Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. and the Hunter College Integrated Media MFA Program are pleased to be hosting presentations by West Coast artists Christina McPhee and Julian Voss Andreae on Monday, November 7th at 7PM in the 4th floor TV studio, room 436 Hunter North.
Information about presenters:
Christina McPhee
Californians accommodate to seismicity, via amnesia and the shock of recall, within a
landscape that serves up intervals, between tremor and nothing. The Fault manifests its
most obvious display at Carrizo Plain, sometimes called the "Cadillac of earthquake
geomorphology" about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles where the M 8.5-9.0 Fort Tejon Quake occurred over 150 years ago, and offset the banks of Carrizo?s Wallace Creek by thirty feet in a couple of seconds. The Fault appears quiet here. Documentation must address what?s felt, what?s in the air, what?s feared and what may also not be seen. McPhee works onsite at the San Andreas Fault at Carrizo Plain, and the alkaline Soda Lake at its centre. Nearby at Parkfield, the fault, present in only subtle visual signs, is a continuously active seismic landscape: a recent 2004,6.0 quake yields a rich archive of open source geologic data. The digital video and chromogenic prints open onto things about to be remembered, or things lost. They incorporate traces from geomorphologic seismicity subsurface maps at Parkfield, and take on names from the ground motion data and seismic geomorphic visualizations from the 2004 Parkfield quake. Place becomes both an intimate and inhuman seismic memory.
http://saratecchia.com/artists/christina_mcphee/
http://christinamcphee.net
Julian Voss Andreae
The artist takes a literal look at the foundation of our physical existence by creating
sculptures of proteins, the universal parts of the machinery of life. For him, it is less
important to copy a molecule accurately in all its details than to find a guiding
principle and follow it to see whether it yields artistically interesting results. The
main idea underlying these sculptures is the analogy between the technique of mitered
cuts and protein folding. The sculptures offer a sensual experience of a world that is
usually accessible only through the intellect.
www.JulianVossAndreae.com
Directions:
By Subway
The #6 train stops directly under the College at the 68th Street Stop. Major transfer points for the #6 train are: 14th Street-Union Square, 42nd Street - Grand Central, 51st Street & Lexington Avenue, and 59th Street & Lexington Avenue. There is an entrance to the school in the Subway station.
Room 436, Fourth Floor Hunter North
Enter the North Building at the 69th street entrance (between Park and Lexington Avenues). Take the elevators on the left to the fourth floor. Make a left through the double doors. Make a right. Room 436 is straight ahead.
