Visiting Artist Schedule 2008/2009

FALL 2008
September 16: Regina Jose Galindo
September 30: Timothy Weaver - location change: ATLAS Black Box
October 14: Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison
October 28: Barbara Madsen
November 11: Clare Twomey

SPRING 2009
February 3: Don Gregorio Antón
February 17: Patrick Lichty
March 10: Haiko Meijer - Onix
April 7: Zhi Lin
April 21: Gudrun Gut

Unless noted, lectures will be held in Fleming - Rm. 155
All lectures begin at 7:00pm

Regina José Galindo
José Galindo’s poetry and performance call attention to social injustice, gender discrimination, and racism in disturbing narratives that portray social crimes committed by institutions and governing bodies. Galindo has always had a strong desire to creatively respond to events in her life and her country often by sujecting her body to public display and abuse. Regarding her use of her body as an art form Galindo states “My body not like an individual body, but a social body, a collective body, a global body. To be, or to reflect, through me, her, his, their experience; because all of us, we are at the same time ourselves and others.” Ms. Galindo won a Golden Lion award for her performance Who Can Erase the Traces at the Venice Biennale in 2005. She continues to reside in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Timothy Weaver
Please note that this lecture will be held in the Black Box (ATLAS Building)

Timothy Weaver’s recent work focuses on developing narratives that integrate biological and environmental imagery into the authoring of experimental forms of electronic/digital media. This body of work juxtaposes multimedia/electronica sources over an abstracted structure of biological elements and interactions. The biomimetic foundations in the works include concepts of the re-narration of extinction, the emergence of life, biological time, the duality of sustenance and the internal drama of pain. Tim holds a BS in Microbiology and a MS in Environmental Engineering from Purdue University, he received his MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He currently teaches Electronic Media Arts Design (eMAD), at the University of Denver.

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison
The ParkeHarrison's construct fantasies in the guise of environmental performances for the protagonist of their images. Tapping into their surreal imaginations, the artists combine elaborate sets within vast landscapes to address issues surrounding man’s relationship to the earth and technology while additionally delving into the human condition. "We want to make images that have open, narrative qualities; images containing ideas about human limits. These mythic images mirror our world, where nature is domesticated, controlled, and destroyed." The ParkeHarrison's collaboration has developed organically over the past sixteen years.

Robert studied photography at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of New Mexico. In 1999 he was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He currently teaches in Worcester, Massachusetts, at the College of the Holy Cross. Shana received a degree in painting from William Woods College.

Barbara Madsen
Barbara Madsen is a printmaker who works in installation, photogravure, photography, and billboards. Her billboards are extending the boundaries of printmaking to the realm of public art. Barbara’s work has evolved from working in traditional flat print formats into 3-dimensional installations that explore the monumental limits of the printed image. She accomplishes this by creating controlled encapsulated room environments that hint at a fourth dimension. Her environments are visceral spaces that include photographic images of ephemera objects painted on vinyl flooring and wallpaper covering every surface of the walls, ceiling and floor.

She received her MFA in Printmaking/Painting from Drake University and her BFA in Printmaking/Painting from Brigham Young University. She is an Associate Professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts/Rutgers.

Clare Twomey
Ms Twomey is a British artist who works with clay in large-scale installations, sculpture and site-specific works. She is actively involved in critical research in the area of the applied arts, including writing, curating and making. The themes of Clare’s work are influenced by observations of human interaction and political behavior. Clare develops work, which pursues her interest in space, architectural interventions and the gallery as destination. She has developed work, which expands the fields’ knowledge of large scale installation as exhibited in a piece titled Consciousness/conscience, which required the production of 3,000 units of porcelain to create a temporary floor at the Ceramic Biennial in Korea. The floor was crushed by the participation of the audience during the exhibition period. She has exhibited at the Tate- UK, Victoria and Albert Museum – UK, Crafts Council-UK, Museum of Modern Art Kyoto-Japan.

Don Gregorio Antón
Don Gregorio Anton "explores the possibilities of the spirit and enhances our awareness of its existence. ... his work deals with the meaning of self and the spirit within and around that self." Antón’s photographs radiate compassion and are filled with humanity that is typically reserved for documentary photographers and photojournalists. His photographs are constructions of psychological realities, portrayals of mythic fears, sacrifices, and hopes. “My ancestors used their “art” as forms of sacred rights. They transformed and edified meaning to insure guidance and wisdom. It is from this that I create my imagery, visual inscriptions to help navigate and formulate my right to see.”

His work can be found in collections across the country, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Consejo Mexicano de Fotografica, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and more. Don received his MA and BA in Art from San Francisco State University. He is a Professor at Humboldt State University.

Patrick Lichty
Patrick Lichty is a digital intermedia designer, artist, writer, and independent curator whose work comments on the impact that technology has on society and how technology shapes the perception of the world around us. He works in diverse technological media, including printmaking, kinetics, video, generative music, and neon. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and collaborative works that include the Whitney and Venice Bienniales as well as the International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA). He is Editor-in Chief of Intelligent Agent, an electronic arts/culture journal based in New York City, and featured in the new documentary by the makers of American Movie, called The Yes Men. Patrick received his MA from Kent State University and BS in Electronic Engineering from the University of Akron. He is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia College in Chicago.

Haiko Meijer
Onix Architecten was founded by Haiko Meijer and Alex van der Beld in 1994. Far from the hub of Dutch architecture in the Randstad conurbation of major cities in the west of the Netherlands, Onix has been working on its oeuvre with highly idiosyncratic views about the essential aspects of architecture. In many of its projects, such as the much-discussed ecological farm for the disabled, the firm seeks out novel positions where the context and specificity of the local play an important role, yet without ever falling into the traps of facile historicizing solutions.

The design attitude at Onix can be characterized as being a continuous search – oscillating between old and new, between change and improvement, between neutral and specific, between obvious and alienation and between the generic and the architects signature. Borders are deliberately transgressed so that the assignment can be stretched and new possibilities arise for the requested project.

Their works display certain recurrent features, above all the use of wood, the source of the “strange confidence” they see in their projects. They have pursued this ambiguity ever since their very first works in the conviction that modernity depends not on the nature of a material but on the use made of it. This dual identity – comfortable and minimal, warm but with radical forms – is particularly evident in the details and the way in which the surfaces are brought together. A façade never tells a single story but anticipates or dissimulates what will take place on the opposite side. (Everything depends on the handling of the corner, where one of the two planes that meet prevails over the other.) In this way, the directionality of the building is increased and a hierarchy is established between pure, minimal façades and hybrid façades in which hierarchies of surfaces and materials are clearly visible.

Zhi Lin
Zhi Lin’s figurative paintings and drawings stand out as testimony to his mastery of the realistic portrayal of epochal human history. Blending the representational techniques of Northern European Renaissance painting with the compositional devices of classic Chinese monumental landscape painting, he achieves his objective — to use his artwork to bring to light the social truths of the inhuman treatment of human beings that most of us tend to ignore and the historical truths that are buried in time. Tiananmen Square was a watershed event for Lin who was in England studying European art at the time. As someone who was exposed to human violence at an early age, he felt that a realistic portrayal of his subject would cross cultural lines with the greatest impact.

Zhi Lin is a graduate of the China National Academy of Fine Arts, the Slade School of Fine Art at the University of London (MFA 1989), and the University of Delaware (MFA 1992). Lin joined the faculty of the School of Art at the University of Washington in 2001.

Gundrun Gut
Gudrun Gut is a powerhouse advocate for women in electronic and digital arts and has been globally proactive in electronic music culture since the late 70's. Her career is eclectic, spanning a wide range of electronic music, media and collaborations. Ms. Gut moved to Berlin in 1975, where she studied visual arts at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (1978-84). She was an early member of the experimental act Einstürzende Neubauten and was a founding member of Mania D, Malaria! and Matador. In addition, she is the founder and owner of two music labels (Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik) Gut promotes unconventional attitude. Her debut solo album, I Put a Record On was released last year. Together with Thomas Fehlmann, Gut hosts and co-produces OCEANCLUB Radio, a weekly 2 hour show of "musica obscura" on Radio Eins, Berlin.

Ms. Gut’s visit is made possible by the collaborative efforts of ATLAS and the Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts. Communikey is a collective of DJ’s, musicians, producers and multimedia artists, who collaborate to create forward thinking electronic arts environments, showcasing international and local talents. For more information go to: http://www.communikey.us/

The Visiting Artist Program has been a vital component of the Department of Art & Art History since 1972. Each year, 8–10 nationally recognized artists present diverse ideas and their body of work during their visit to the Boulder campus. During their stay, artists give a public lecture, teach a seminar class, participate in a recorded interview and provide individual critiques with graduate students. All lectures in this series are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Valerie Albicker at (303) 492-2539.

We would like to thank our students for making this programming possible with funding from Art and Art History Student Activities Fees. In addition, we thank The Boulder Outlook Hotel for their continued support and donations to the program.