TERRY CAMPBELL: NO LONGER IN MY HANDS

Exhibition Opening Reception with the artist
Friday, April 6
5:30–8:30pm free public reception
at The Andrew J. Macky Gallery on the CU Boulder campus

BMoCA AT MACKY
BMoCA AT MACKY is a new collaboration between Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and The Andrew J. Macky Gallery, located in the foyer of the Macky Auditorium Concert Hall at the University of Colorado Boulder. This series of exhibitions is curated by BMoCA as an extension to its rotating exhibition schedule. Exhibitions take place at The Macky Gallery on the CU campus.

The first edition of BMoCA AT MACKY presents the large-scale figurative paintings of Denver artist Terry Campbell. This exhibition is curated by BMoCA and will be on view at The Macky Gallery from April 6 to May 27, 2012.

Admission to the gallery is free and open to the public Monday through Friday from 10am to 5pm and to ticketed patrons during Macky Auditorium performances and events.

Macky Auditorium is located at the intersection of 17th Street and University Avenue in Boulder on the CU campus. To chart driving directions online, use the address 17th Street and University Avenue.

For more information visit macky.colorado.edu/andrew-j-macky-gallery.

TERRY CAMPBELL: NO LONGER IN MY HANDS
Terry Campbell tells of personal experiences and impressions through large-scale figurative paintings. Executed in natural muted hues on vast canvases, their presence induces a sense of somber unease. Although often depicting his friends or relatives, the artist regards these works as self-portraits, documenting his own emotions and memories of specific situations.

The characters are set to navigate austere interiors and barren landscapes of an undefined yet specific time and place, tinted with nostalgia. Here, every aspect takes on symbolic meaning – from the people’s pensive expressions and stationary postures, to the dress or costume they are wearing, their position towards objects and each other, and even the implied place the observer assumes in relation to them. But as the meaning of these details is never fully revealed, viewers are drawn to conceive and insert their own narratives.

Terry Campbell was born in 1982. He lives in Denver and teaches art at Colorow Elementary School in Littleton, Colorado. He holds a Bachelor of Art Education and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Denver (2005). Campbell is a member of Pirate Contemporary Art, Denver and a Resident Artist at RedLine Denver, where he exhibits regularly. In 2007 he curated the exhibition He Did What? of works by Harry C. Walters at Rhinoceropolis, Denver.

Image: Terry Campbell, In the End I Hope There’s More, 2012, oil on canvas

Join BMoCA on an insiders’ tour of three art venues:  a private collection, a gallery, and a museum.

Artists share their work in a silent auction.  All artistic media welcome.  Proceeds are split 50/50 between participating artists and BMoCA.

Drawing FUNdamentals
9am–12pm
Large, small, wide, and tall. Learn to draw like never before as artist Sara Sanderson helps you explore a variety of materials.

Airbrush Painting
1–4pm
Learn to use an airbrush to create paintings on canvas, paper, and t-shirts with artist Joseph Martinez.

Members: June 11-15 for ages 9-12

Drawing FUNdamentals: 9am-12pm $120.00 USD Airbrush Painting: 1-4pm $120.00 USD Full Day: June 11-15 $240.00 USD

Non-Members: June 11-15 for ages 9-12

Drawing FUNdamentals: 9am-12pm $140.00 USD Airbrush Painting: 1-4pm $140.00 USD Full Day: June 11-15 $280.00 USD

June 25–29
For 9–12-year-olds

Modern Masters & Me
9am–12pm
Travel through Modernism with artist Jennifer Lees as your guide. Create your own versions of works by Kandinsky, Picasso, and artists you may not know!

From Sumi to Sharpie
1–4pm
Inspired by contemporary and traditional Japanese art, make Kanjii characters, anime self-portraits, and more with artist Angela Beloian.

Members: June 25-29 for ages 9-12

Modern Masters and Me: 9am-12pm $120.00 USD From Sumi to Sharpie: 1-4pm $120.00 USD Full Day: June 25-29 $240.00 USD

Non-Members: June 25-29 for ages 9-12

Modern Masters and Me: 9am-12pm $140.00 USD From Sumi to Sharpie: 1-4pm $140.00 USD Full Day: June 25-29 $280.00 USD

July 16–20
For 9–12-year-olds

Members: July 16-20 for ages 9-12

Viewfinders: 9am-12pm $120.00 USD

Non-Members: July 16-20 for ages 9-12

Viewfinders: 9am-12pm $140.00 USD

Wax Works
9am–12pm
Work in wax and learn encaustic painting, sandpaper prints, wax resists, and wet media techniques with artist Sarah Hanson.

Painters’ Palette
1–4pm
Colors, shapes, portraits, and more–like you’ve never seen before! Create a variety of innovative paintings with artist Mónica Pesántez.

Members: July 23-27 for ages 9-12

Wax Works: 9am-12pm $120.00 USD Painters Palette: 1-4pm $120.00 USD Full Day: July 23-27 $240.00 USD

Non-Members: July 23-27 for ages 9-12

Wax Works: 9am-12pm $140.00 USD Painters Palette: 1-4pm $140.00 USD Full Day: July 23-27 $280.00 USD

Cost & Registration for each workshop:
$140 per workshop / $120 Members

To register, use the PayPal options above, call 303.443.2122, or stop by the museum.

Participants must also complete the Young Artists at Work registration form. Click here to download the form. To submit your completed form: email shannon@bmoca.org, fax 303.447.1633, or bring it to the museum.

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: A limited number of scholarships are available for Latino youth with financial need. Sponsored by Marco’s Ready Foods. To download the scholarship application, click here. For more information, contact shannon@bmoca.org or call 303-443-2122 x11.

Join the Lunch Bunch: Pack a lunch and stay for a fun-filled break with more art-making, storytelling, and games! 12–1pm. Cost per week for Lunch Bunch: $25

Receive a 5% discount when you enroll more than one child in the same family in camp together.

Join BMoCA today and receive discounts all year long. A Family Membership is $55. Click here to learn more about BMoCA memberships.

Cancellation & Refund Policy:
To cancel and request a refund for a program or workshop, including Young Artists at Work, please contact BMoCA’s Education Department at 303.443.2122 x11.
A 10% administrative fee will be charged on all refunds.
A 90% refund will be given to cancellations made 5 business days before the program or workshop.
A cancellation made within the week prior to a program or workshop will result in a 50% refund.
We apologize, but no refunds can be given on the day of the program or workshop.

June 4–8
For 5–8-year-olds

Art Adventurer
9am–12pm
Join artist Julia Lunk and create a storybook world full of fairies, boats, castles, and moats.

SOLD OUT

Paper Passion
1–4pm
Discover your passion for paper. Make animals and clothing and design a miniature tree house with artist Heather Cherry.

Paper Passion: 1-4pm, June 4-8 for ages 5-8

Non-Members Paper Passion$140.00 USD Members Paper Passion$120.00 USD

July 9–13
For 5–8-year-olds

Free Art
9am–12pm
Like Free Draw, only better. Be free to paint, draw, sculpt, photograph, print, and silkscreen your ideas with the guidance of artist Jay Tomlinson.

SOLD OUT

Myths and Legends
1–4pm
Hear wonderful stories from around the world and let them stir your imagination for a week of art-making in paint, clay, and mosaic with artist Tyrell Osborn.

SOLD OUT

July 30–August 3
For 5–8-year-olds

Wearable, Shareable
9am–noon
Join artist Sarah Kinn for a week of making upcycled, wearable art for you and your friends! You will make hats, capes, bracelets, and bags–all with re-purposed materials.

Red Fish, Blue Fish
1–4pm
Learn the art of printmaking without a press with artist Mary Powell. You will even make a suminigashi fish print with a REAL fish!

Members: July 30-Aug. 3 for ages 5-8

Wearable, Shareable: 9am-12pm $120.00 USD Red Fish, Blue Fish: 1-4pm $120.00 USD Full Day: July 30-Aug. 3 $240.00 USD

Non-Members: July 30-Aug. 3 for ages 5-8

Wearable, Shareable: 9am-12pm $140.00 USD Red Fish, Blue Fish: 1-4pm $140.00 USD Full Day: July 30-Aug. 3 $280.00 USD

Cost & Registration for each workshop:
$140 per workshop / $120 Members

To register, use the PayPal options above, call 303.443.2122, or stop by the museum.

Participants must also complete the Young Artists at Work registration form. Click here to download the form. To submit your completed form: email shannon@bmoca.org, fax 303.447.1633, or bring it to the museum.

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: A limited number of scholarships are available for Latino youth with financial need. Sponsored by Marco’s Ready Foods. To download the scholarship application, click here. For more information, contact shannon@bmoca.org or call 303-443-2122 x11.

Join the Lunch Bunch: Pack a lunch and stay for a fun-filled break with more art-making, storytelling, and games! 12–1pm. Cost per week for Lunch Bunch: $25

Receive a 5% discount when you enroll more than one child in the same family in camp together.

Join BMoCA today and receive discounts all year long. A Family Membership is $55. Click here to learn more about BMoCA memberships.

Cancellation & Refund Policy:
To cancel and request a refund for a program or workshop, including Young Artists at Work, please contact BMoCA’s Education Department at 303.443.2122 x11.
A 10% administrative fee will be charged on all refunds.
A 90% refund will be given to cancellations made 5 business days before the program or workshop.
A cancellation made within the week prior to a program or workshop will result in a 50% refund.
We apologize, but no refunds can be given on the day of the program or workshop.

Experience highlights on the international contemporary art calendar by joining Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) for an exclusive, full-immersion art tour in NYC. The tour will visit the Whitney Biennial, the New Museum Triennial, and the Armory Show 2012.

Only once every six years do these three important events in contemporary art come together at the same time. Take advantage of this excellently-priced opportunity to immerse yourself in what’s going on in the world of art right now.

Limited to 12 participants.

Package Includes:
- Private tour of the Whitney Biennial
- Private tour of the New Museum Triennial
- Private tour of emerging Lower East Side galleries with a local independent curator
- Private lecture from the architects at So-Il (formerly of SANAA), recently awarded the Frieze NY 2012 commission; architects for Pole Dance MoMA PS1 2010, fashion designer Derek Lam
- VIP tickets to the Armory Show including the opening event
- Visits to two artists’ studios
- 3 nights accommodation at the Ace Hotel Chelsea
- 2 lunches
- 1 cocktail hour at the Ace Hotel on the first night

Price: $1600
**Pricing includes items listed above and excludes airfare or airport/hotel transfers of any kind.

Total Art Immersion NYC is organized and led by Kecia Benvenuto, Board of Directors, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; former head of art buying, Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam (1999 – 2007); independent curator.

For more information and to make reservations: please contact David Dadone at david@bmoca.org or 303.443.2122 or Kecia Benvenuto at dearkecia@gmail.com or 718.909.3669.

This tour is sure to fill up fast, book soon to reserve your space.

Sponsored by the Boulder Arts Commission

Our Spring Scavenger Hunt has taken off!  Download the free SCVNGR app, and then answer questions about our current exhibitions for cool prizes from local businesses. We also have hard copies at the membership desk and a “Just for Kids!” version.

 Local participating businesses include:  Dish Gourmet, MomentuM, Clutter Consignment, Pangea, and Smooch Frozen Yogurt!

The BMoCA Scavenger Hunt is a fun, educational and exhibition-themed scavenger hunt that can be played at the museum and throughout downtownBoulder. Museum visitors can use SCVNGR, a web-based application that can be downloaded onto any Smartphone: players can download the free app, choose their location, and begin the scavenger hunt. If a museum patron does not have access to a smart phone, we will have hard copies at the front desk, including a “Just for Kids!” version.

As an incentive for completing a challenge successfully, players will receive a small reward from their favorite local businesses.  The BMoCA Scavenger Hunt is a community-building activity that is designed to educate players about the museum’s exhibitions while encouraging interaction with and support for local businesses.

Our scavenger hunt is made possible by a grant through the Boulder Arts Commission.  Through this grant, the Boulder Arts Commission has encouraged all of us at BMoCA to recognize the capacity for arts organizations to contribute to the vitality of theBouldereconomy. The grant has allowed us to consider the arts not just as a cultural asset to our community, but as an economic asset as well. By creatively integrating art, technology, and business, the BMoCA Scavenger Hunt will have a viable, sustainable impact on the City ofBoulder.  Come by BMoCA and join the fun!  It’s a great way to get to know our current artists, exhibitions and receive coupons/gift certificates from local businesses.  Happy Hunting!

Directions:

1. With your smart phone, download the free scavenger hunt app:  SCVNGR.

1. Once you’ve downloaded the app click on “places” and scroll down until you find BMoCA.  Click on BMoCA and begin the hunt!

1. There are 5 questions. Each question is worth a certain number of points. When you receive your score, show it to the staff member at the front desk who will reward you with a treasure from a local business!

1. If you do not have access to a smart phone, just pick up a hard copy at the front desk and turn it in when you’ve completed the hunt.  If you receive enough points for correct answers you will be rewarded with a gift certificate or goody from a local business!

1. Our “Just for Kids!” scavenger hunt is available here at the front desk.

1. Happy Hunting!

Our scavenger hunt is made possible by Boulder Arts Commission and local businesses.

cycling74.com

Darwin Grosse

Darwin Grosse works at the intersection of Creativity and Code. By applying an engineer’s tools to live performance, he builds complex visual textures and sonic landscapes out of whole cloth. In addition to his active live media performance work, Darwin is part of the Cycling ’74 software development team, is a member of the University of Denver adjunct faculty, is an active music producer.

Max/MSP/Jitter workshop with Darwin Grosse of Cycling 74

Diving into media-based programming can both overwhelm and inspire. This workshop will introduce the participant to using Cycling ’74′s Max programming language to interactively manipulate audio and visuals. No programming experience is necessary – just a desire to warp, twist and mangle sound and video. Participants will need to bring their own computer, Mac or PC.

What is Max?

Make connections. Make things happen.

Max gives you the parts to create unique sounds, stunning visuals, and engaging interactive media. These parts are called ‘objects’ – visual boxes that contain tiny programs to do something specific. Each object does something different. Some make noises, some make video effects, others just do simple calculations or make decisions. In Max you add objects to a visual canvas and connect them together with patchcords. You can use as many as you like. By combining objects, you create interactive and unique software without ever writing any code (you can do that too if you really want to). Just connect.

For information and workshop registration, please email jordan@bmoca.org.

SparkFun
sparkfun.com

Based in Boulder, Colorado, SparkFun is an online retail store that sells the bits and pieces to make your electronics projects possible. Whether it’s a robot that can cook your breakfast or a GPS cat tracking device, their products and resources are designed to make the world of electronics more accessible to the average person. Products ranging from resistors and LEDs to humidity sensors and LCD screens, their goal is to make finding the parts and information you need easier and affordable so you can create awesome projects. SparkFun believes anyone and everyone can play with cool electronic gadgets and will offer workshops designed to help educate individuals in the wonderful world of embedded electronics..so go on and let your geek shine!

Workshop details: Introduction to Arduino

Go from blinking an LED to virtual prototyping and enjoy brunch alongside a live performance by the Boulder Laptop Orchestra.  This class is for anyone who has never played around with Arduino before and those who have played around a little bit but aren’t entirely sure about how the basics work. It’s easier than you think! SparkFun will put together basic single component electrical circuits, learn about analog and digital, input and output, basic programming concepts, practice very basic Serial communication, and briefly cover basic virtual prototyping.

Students will create three simple circuits highlighting analog and digital forms of input and output. Get started with the Arduino programming environment, briefly discuss programming and virtual prototyping. Depending on class interest, a SparkFun Inventor’s Kit and an Educational Material Binder in both physical and digital format will be available.

For information and workshop registration, please email jordan@bmoca.org.

offthesky.com
pillowgarden.com

off the sky:
Jason Corder is a sonic spelunker, graphic designer, video artist, painter, and teacher in the art of sound.  He has worked during the past 10 years to produce over 30 releases on various record labels from 12k.term to Zymogen.  He is constantly evolving his many musical projects: offthesky, color cassette, and juxta phona.  He spends his free time developing interactive installations, performing live audio/video, and collaborating with many artists from around the world.  Jason grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and now resides in Denver, Colorado.

pillow garden:
With a background in painting, mixed media and experimental video, Pillow Garden, aka Sarah H.Dot, takes a similar approach to experiments in audio. Pillow Garden music is inspired by the voices and resonances hidden within orphaned instruments and all curious objects. Sarah H.Dot has been capturing field recordings and creating noise making art objects since 2006 to add to her growing library of sounds and is now enjoying the process of playing with her collection.

davidfodel.com
pacoproano.com
downtownmusic.net/matt-pass

David Fodel was born and raised in Baltimore, and now lives in Colorado. His eclectic music has been released on several independent labels, and featured on the Sci-Fi Channel UK and ITV. His electronic media art has been featured at ISEA, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, ADAPT Festival, Future Places Festival Portugal, Communikey Festival, Denver Museum of Nature and Science and the Transmediale Salon in Berlin. His award winning sound design and video has been screened in festivals internationally. Fodel has designed and built custom hardware, and developed controller software for composition and performance. David Fodel received his MFA in Electronic Media Arts & Design from the University of Denver.

Paco Proano has exhibited and performed for the past decade under the new media project en.ve.lope, with domestic shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Denver, +Plus Gallery, RMCAD, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and SHARE in New York City. Work has also been exhibited internationally in Japan, Mexico, Ecuador, England and Turkey. Paco Proano serves as curator and experience architect for Object+Thought (O+T), a space dedicated to New Media, installation and performance.

Matt Pass was born and raised in New York City, and a recent transplant to Colorado. He is a improvisor of voice, bowed piano strings, artifact and homemade instruments thru his live field of sound processing and custom pedal-work. Matt Pass has become adept in sound improvisation, having played solos, duos and with sound collectives in various nooks and crannies of NYC and other North American cities.  He revels in working and playing with group soundscapes, where he adds sound spices and herbs to enhance the overall aural environment while encouraging variety and the occasional stillness of quietude.

janetfeder.com
youtube.com/watch?v=1_ct117f-GU
darwingrosse.com

Janet Feder is most widely known for pioneering composition for prepared guitar(s). Until recently the chair of the Music Department at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, she has toured both solo and with her duo cowhause (with Colin Bricker, live electronics) across the US and internationally. Considered to be one of the most innovative guitarists worldwide today, Janet Feder has performed and collaborated with other legends of modern music including Fred Frith, Elliot Sharp, Nels Cline, and Bill Frisell.

cowhause is Janet Feder, guitar(s) and Colin Bricker, laptop.  Their first single, “Sueno” hit high on the College Music Journal charts in 2003 with Janet’s solo release “Speak Puppet” (ReR Recommended Records, UK 2002) which Colin also engineered, mixed and mastered at his premier Denver recording studio Notably Fine Audio.  The duo has since had two EU tours, performances across the western US, and is currently recording their second release due in 2012.

Darwin Grosse works at the intersection of Creativity and Code. By applying an engineer’s tools to live performance, he builds complex visual textures and sonic landscapes out of whole cloth. In addition to his active live media performance work, Darwin is part of the Cycling ’74 software development team, is a member of the University of Denver adjunct faculty, is an active music producer.

sue-c.net

SUE.C was born Sue Costabile in 1974 in Long Island, NY. For the past 10 years she has created handmade videos for both the stage and screen as a visual and performing artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her works challenge the norms of photography, video, and technology by blending them all into an organic and improvisational live performance setting. Employing a variety of digital tools to create an experimental animation “instrument,” SUE-C synthesizes cinema from photographs, drawings, watercolors, hand-made papers, fabrics and miniature lighting effects. Dark, moody, textural, and physical, her live films inherit equally from the kinetic languages of Stan Brakhage’s abstract cinema and Nicolas Schöffer’s lumodynamic sculptures. She employs the same techniques in her recorded work to emphasize the beauty of the banal street corner, public parking lot, forgotten winter beach, torn remnant of a found photograph, cast-away super 8 vacation footage, and other half-forgotten, often-unnoticed, in-between spaces in her surroundings.

jeremybailey.net

Jeremy Bailey is a Toronto-based new media and performance artist whose work explores custom software in a performative context. “His work is often confidently self-deprecating in offering hilarious parodies of new media vocabularies.” (Marisa Olson, Rhizome) Recent projects include performances for Transmediale, FACT, the Tate Liverpool and the New Museum.

noisefold.com
uitti.org

NoiseFold is an interactive media group founded by artists, David Stout and Cory Metcalf. The pair work at the intersection of moving image, music and the visual arts, creating live cinema performances, interactive video installations, animated films and electro-acoustic music scores.  NoiseFold presented their world premiere performance at the Festival Internationale d’Art Video in Casablanca, Morocco in spring 2006. Their performances, which have included the UNESCO Creative Cities Summit, the New York Electronic Arts Festival, Interactive Futures in Victoria, BC, Los Angeles SCREAM festival, TEDx at the Denver Art Museum  and “Chinati Weekend” in Marfa, Texas have garnered rave reviews and a growing international audience. NoiseFold routinely performs in wildly different contexts from art museums and galleries to planetariums, concert halls, film theaters, rock venues and even botanic gardens. This ability to cross generational, disciplinary and cultural boundaries has enabled the artists to cultivate an audience eager to experience new cinematic and musical  forms.   Stout & Metcalf began their seminal work in Santa Fe, New Mexico, famed as an art center and lesser known as the birthplace of Artificial Life (A-Life). The duo have received numerous awards including a recent honorable mention for the international Vida 13.0 Art & Artificial Life competition in Spain. Currently Cory and David are developing a series of installation environments and performances exploring interactive audio-visual transcoding systems, artificial life, synthetic ecology and playful critique of bio-metric surveillance and encryption technologies. They have now expanded their collaboration to include virtuoso acoustic instrumentalists and visionary computer programmers from the USA, Netherlands and Germany.

Frances-Marie Uitti, composer/performer, pioneered a revolutionary dimension to the cello by transforming it for the first time into a polyphonic instrument capable of sustained chordal (two, three, and four-part) and intricate multivoiced writing. Using two bows in one hand, this invention permits contemporaneous cross accents, multiple timbres, contrasting 4-voiced dynamics, simultaneous legato vs articulated playing. György Kurtág, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi, Jonathan Harvey, Richard Barrett, Horatio Radulescu, Lisa Bielawa are among many who have used this technique in their works dedicated to her.

Collaborating significantly over years with radicals, Dick Raaijmakers, John Cage and Giacinto Scelsi, she has also worked closely with Iannis Xenakis, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough and countless composers from the new generation. She tours as soloist extensively throughout the world having played for audiences from New York City to Mongolia and appears regularly in such festivals as the Biennale Di Venezia, Strasbourg Festival, Gulbenkian Festival Ars Musica, Holland Festival and for radios and televisions in Europe, Japan, and the United States. She premiered cello concerti dedicated to her by Per Norgaard, Dick Raaijmakers, Jonathan Harvey, James Tenney, Peter Nelson and gave the first performance of the cello concerto of William Jeths in 2000. She premiered the newly discovered concerto by Giacinto Scelsi in 2008.

Recordings:
ECM records, Wergo, CRI, Mode, HatHut, Raretone, Cramps, JdKrecordings, BVHaast, Etcetera, Cryptogramophone.

David Stout is a visual and sonic artist, video director and performer exploring cross-media synthesis and interdisciplinary approaches to new genres bridging the arts, design and sciences.  He is a recipient of the New Mexico New Visions Award (2007), the Harvestworks Interactive Technology Award and the Sun Micro Systems Award for Academic Excellence (2004) and a nominee for the USA Artist Fellowship (2008), International Media Art Prize (2004) and the WTN World Technology Award (2003). He holds an inter-arts MFA (1985) from CalArts where he studied with Ed Emshwiller, Jules Engel, Jim Pomeroy, and Bill Viola. His work across multiple mediums include live cinema performance, video-dance, animation, print-making, video installation, electro-acoustic music composition and large-scale telematic video events that emphasize multi-screen projection as an extension of performer, audience and architecture. Since 2002 he has worked closely with creative partner, Cory Metcalf to examine the aesthetic possibilities for evolutionary generative systems, artificial life networks and simulation environments. The pair are renown as members of the performance group, NoiseFold, a critically acclaimed interactive media ensemble. Stout previously founded the MOV-iN Gallery and the Installation, Performance & Interactivity project (IPI) at the College of Santa Fe. He is at present directing activities for the Initiative for Advance Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA), a new transdisciplinary research program at the University of North Texas located in the Dallas metropolitan area, where he is a professor in the Composition Division of the College of Music.

Cory Metcalf is a moving image and sound artist with interests ranging from the field of bio-mimicry and healing arts to the performance of aerial theater, extended vocal and instrumental noise-music. Metcalf’s work explores the intersection of human interaction, real-time media systems and responsive installation environments. His interest in physical computing is evidenced in works such as Sensor Swarm (2002). Sensor Swarm is a hybrid interactive performance/installation that senses the presence and state of audience members to shape an auditory environment composed of recorded cicada samples, thus fore-grounding the normally unconscious influence that humans impose on their environment, blurring the distinction between the audience and performer, and creating an unpredictable and improvisational experience for both. In 2002, Metcalf joined David Stout, then director of the interactive performance group, i2O, where he developed dynamic diffusion sound designs for live acoustics and video performance instruments. Further collaboration between Stout and Metcalf led to the use of real-time 3D data visualization and complex data feed-back programs to model synthetic ecologies based on genetic and behavioral processes found in living systems. These techniques are central to works such as 100 Monkey Garden, a self-generating and self-regulating aesthetic ecology. The two are co-founders of the interactive media-performance group, NoiseFold.

MediaLive: Confluence and Contradiction brings together practitioners who explore diverse approaches to emerging forms of live performance. The very notion of what it means for a work to be live, the interplay between modes of perception such as sight and sound, and the entanglement of human interaction with technology all come into question as artists investigate the elasticity of form and content, bridging the analog and digital realms.

Invited participants approach their work from differing perspectives, mixing narrative with abstraction, novel technology with nostalgic references, and generative processes with instrumental virtuosity.

Each artist explores the interface as more than a means to control or manipulate the substance of the performance, acknowledging the interface as a potential site of meaning, sometimes rooted in tradition, sometimes in ironic self-reflection.

Our hope in putting together this 3 day event is to showcase a variety of approaches, discuss both the technology and the underlying theoretical, formal and conceptual considerations, and to give people the opportunity to explore some of the tools used in this type of artistic practice.

Schedule

Friday July 13:
off the sky+pillow garden (Denver)
cowhause with darwin grosse (Denver)
noisefold with frances marie uitti (Texas, Netherlands)
(ambient media – TBD)

Saturday, July 14:
Panel Discussion:
What is Live Media? – with participating artists, and curators.

Performances:
Jeremy Bailey (Toronto)
paco and david and matt (Denver)
sue-c (San Francisco)
fernando velasquez (Sao Paulo)
(ambient media / TBD)

Sunday, July 15:
Continental BLOrkFast with the Boulder Laptop Orkestra (Boulder)

DIY Audiovisual Instrument Building:
Max/MSP/Jitter workshop with Darwin Grosse of Cycling 74
Arduino/Sensor workshop with Sparkfun

For additional information, please email jordan@bmoca.org.

Jason Rogenes, Dreamweaver, 2004

JASON ROGENES: SP4C3CR4FT

Union Works Gallery

Polystyrene inserts and cardboard, these symbols of our consumer culture, are the materials of choice for Brooklyn-based artist Jason Rogenes. Making use of commonly disregarded aesthetic attributes, including their inherent surface qualities, color, and varying degrees of translucency, he creates a large-scale installation like an otherworldly environment designed to transport viewers into outer space using pedestrian resources. Illuminated from the inside, the work acquires a monumental and spiritual presence usually associated with totems or space stations, and is equally representative of human aspirations and accomplishments.

Rogenes affords as much care and attention in the treatment of his abundantly available material as a sculptor working in marble or alabaster would. Piece by individually carved piece is assembled into a complex structure, thoughtfully fit together according to the rules of his artistic vision. The result is not only a creative way of looking at everything in our environment beyond assigned functions and limitations but also an opportunity to reimagine ourselves with open eyes for endless possibilities.

Conceptually related to the sculptural work are his drawings, which represent a two-dimensional translation of the sculptural work, created either as preparatory studies or as documentation following an installation. Executed in ink and watercolor on paper, they illustrate a determined technology, connected to the natural world in the form of colorful planets.

Jason Rogenes was born in 1971 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He holds an MFA from the University of California at Santa Barbara (1996) and a BA from University of California, San Diego (1993). His work has been shown at Big Light Show, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO (2010); Manuf®actured: The conspicuous transformation of everyday objects, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR (catalogue) (2008); Site-specific Installation at Navy Pier Walk, Chicago, curated by David Pagel (2003).