Art & Art History News - October 1, 2024

Mark Amerika recently exhibited Posthuman Cinema at the Arsenale in Montreal, as part of the International Biennale of Digital Art. This fall, the artwork will be featured at two additional venues:

More Than Meets AI
September 19 — October 24, 2024
USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway (presented by the Bergen International Film Festival).

This exhibition investigates AI and its role in creativity, narrative, and artistic innovation. We do so from a critically engaged perspective, one that both celebrates the new potentialities of AI for the arts and literature, while simultaneously considering some of the significant challenges AI poses for our culture and society.

Pixel Perceptions
Noorderlicht International Photo Festival
October 27, 2024 — January 19, 2025
Akerk, Groningen, Netherlands)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an increasing role in our daily lives. This artificial form of intelligence, consisting of algorithms that recognise patterns in large amounts of data, can now also generate images, texts and sounds on its own – from simple shopping lists to detailed photographic portraits. While AI offers countless new possibilities, it also raises critical questions. How do we as humans relate to technology, and how will AI affect the photographic and lens-based field? Pixel Perceptions explores how these innovative explorations of AI are changing the value of photography and rearranging the impact of this technology on our relationship with reality.

Molly Valentine Dierks has a public sculpture mounted in the Museum District of Fort Worth, through Winter 2025. Entitled Day Labor (…to Love One Another), the sculpture is inspired by poet Rainer Marie Rilke’s writing to a colleague about the work inherent in loving one another. Fabricated in rebar, it elevates and makes visible essential labor infrastructure—environmental, social, civic—including the vibrant LGBTQIA+ movement in Texas.

The work created with funding from: a Eugene M. Kayden Research Award (CU Boulder, College of Arts & Sciences) |  a Center for Humanities & the Arts Small Grant (CU Boulder) | the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York, NY) | and the City of Fort Worth public art fund.

 Photography credit: Shawn Saumell 

Intimacy with a (non) site
September 2024 - March 2026

Reception: Thursday, October 3, from 5:30-7:30pm, free

For BMoCA’s InsideOut commission, González Barragán created a site-specific installation using cast-off gray Yule marble from the Yule Marble Quarry (Marble, Colorado). Positioned as a metaphor for the act of extraction, Intimacy with a (non) site references the female anatomy by evocatively threading a steel pipe through drilled holes, led by a phallic-shaped drill bit used in industrial coal mining. The artist’s intimate manipulation of the materials using hand tools further expresses commentary on the often violent and exploitative industrial methods, commodification, and transnational circulation of natural resources. She positions the inherent qualities of marble vein like lines and raw edges in conversation with spray paint and chainsaw marks—residual evidence of mine activity. And heat-forms the bends in the steel by hand using coal directly sourced from TwentyMile Coal Mine (Oak Creek, Colorado).

The BFA degree in Art Practices is a more specialized degree in studio art. It allows you to take a higher number of courses through the Art & Art History Department. Choose this degree if you like to make art at an intense level. Choose this degree if you want to create a personal portfolio, attend graduate school, want a career directly related to the arts, or are interested in pursuing a teaching career at the college level. 

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You are invited to be part of a new program in our department. We are starting a mentorship program that will engage undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff in a creative community that is intended to provide support and success for everyone involved.   

The program was created to support all who promote diversity in our department, whether through your identity as a first-generation student, as part of an under-represented group, or as an ally.   

Undergraduates who become part of the community will have the chance to have a graduate student mentor for one-on-one conversations, as well as invitations to regular events including outings to art openings, presentations from alumni who have been successful as artists, curators, and teachers, and other social gatherings.   

If you would like to be part of this community, please let us know by sharing your contact information and letting us know a little about yourself at this link.