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September 14, 2011:
Laura Nova — Runner Up
Nova explores the impact of the environment on human relationships. Inspired by endurance sports and physical activity, her research and work often engages the public in a social practice, such as organized running races and walking tours.
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September 21, 2011:
Tiffany Holmes — Beyond Eco-Art: 21st Century Eco-visualisation
Eco-visualisation artwork translates ecological data into easy-to-understand images and sounds. These projects explore new technologies and media forms to present a message of positive environmental stewardship.
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September 28, 2011:
Bill Lucas — Spreading the Practice of Human-Centered Design
Lucas understands the growing need for Human-Centered design in this age of increasing technological power and complexity. He will share the mindsets, tools, and skills that are central to this practice.
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October 5, 2011:
Paul Druecke — Cover the City with Lines
Druecke's projects have an uneasy, compelling relationship with intersecting notions of creating and control. He talks of possibilities for exile between the personal and communal, and between city and idea of city. Watch the YouTube video.
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October 12, 2011:
Tom Loeser — Additions, Distractions, Multiple Complications and Divisions
Known for his quirky and unusual approach, Loeser will speak about the sources, inspirations, and ideas behind his functional and dysfunctional object designs, including furniture, boats, and sculpture. Watch the YouTube video.
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October 19, 2011:
Sean Slemon — Public Property/ Responsibility
Slemon examines land use and nature, and how they are co-opted to create advantage or discriminate. His work explores the politics of access to natural resources and how such assets are acquired and deployed. Watch the YouTube video.
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October 26, 2011:
Mark Wagner — How to Make Money by Cutting up Money
Wagner's collages use American currency as his medium, creating beautifully crafted images and objects from fragments of money. He will discuss the nature of money, economics, and currency as revealed through the act of destroying money to make art. Watch the YouTube video.
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November 2, 2011:
Iris Eichenberg — Would I Be My Costumer
In this talk, jeweler Eichenberg asks: "The work I like, the works I make. Will the twain ever meet?"
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November 16, 2011:
Martha Glowacki – Private Science
Glowacki will talk about directions in her current studio practice and how she develops ideas for work. She'll show some examples of source material from the history of natural science, collecting, and museums as part of the talk.
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February 1, 2012:
Elinor Carucci — Closer to My Children
Carucci's intimate color photographs chronicle her life with her family. These portraits in everyday domestic environments are at the same time, intensely personal and universal.
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February 8, 2012:
Lisa Bulawsky — The Print as Organism
Bulawsky's ideas filter through her knowledge and investigation of printmaking, and its physical and philosophical implications. She will discuss the private and public impulses as well as the metaphorical role of print in her work and in culture through recent projects.
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February 15, 2012:
Anya Kivarkis — Jewelry Appropriating Jewelry: From Dutch Portraiture to the Internet Archive
Kivarkis recreates pieces of jewelry from image archives. The sources of the work move through history and examine material culture in moments of Imperialism, including the Victorian, the Baroque, and our contemporary period.
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February 22, 2012:
B. Stephen Carpenter, II — Artistic Intervention, Curriculum, and Public Pedagogy
Carpenter argues that the global water crisis demands creative interdisciplinary responses in the form of artistic, curricular, and pedagogical interventions that raise awareness, engage research, and take action.
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February 29, 2012:
Maria Tomasula — Becoming and Being
Tomasula's paintings explore the paradox of each person being singular, yet shaped by economic, historical, and social circumstances. She will chart the influences from her own urban, immigrant, working-class background, which have formed the pictures she makes.
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March 14, 2012:
David Bowen — Aesthetic Data
Bowen produces devices and situations that are set in motion to create drawings, movements, compositions, sounds and objects. These devices often attempt to mimic a natural form, system or function, and when they fail, the results can be fascinating.
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April 18, 2012:
Joseph Delappe — Protest, Memory and Reenactment
In 2001, DeLappe began a series "hacktivist" performances within computer games and online communities which creatively engaged our contemporary geopolitical and technological context through interventionist strategies.
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May 2, 2012:
Beth Lipman — The Still Life Revisited
Lipman's still life projects reflect her ability to control material in the moment. Through this process, glass objects are made, composed, and reduced to a photograph before they are destroyed or recycled. Lipman will discuss the still life tradition, her own work, and other inspirations.
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