LARRY MILLER - FLUXUS ARTIST AND SCHOLAR
Wed., March 1, 6 p.m.
Folk Hall Auditorium
Guest Lecturer for Special Topics Class: “Mass Production: Artist’s Multiples from the 1960’s Through the Present”
Open to all Myers’ students, faculty, and staff
Seating is limited
Brief Biographical Background:
Larry Miller describes himself as an intermedia artist, who was active in the development of multi-media and performance-based works in SoHo’s earliest alternative exhibition spaces. Whether presented as live performance, specific site installation, or gallery exhibition, Miller considers all of his works -- as well as himself -- to be “performing objects.” He explains that in this view, there are no fixed boundaries between objects, events, time and space, or between definitions that societies offer for science, art, and religion. Drawing upon a background in music, theater and the visual arts, Miller composes configurations that merge diverse media and participatory elements, cutting across disciplines to blend ironic humor and poetic contemplation.
Starting in 1969, Miller became a core associate of the group of artists known as Fluxus – a nonconformist international group which began in Germany in 1962, This group was opposed to tradition and professionalism in the arts, and were noted for its Happenings, actions, publications, and concerts. Miller was active as an organizer, performer, and presenter within the Fluxus milieu, and today he is recognized internationally as a Fluxus scholar. His works have appeared world-wide in a variety of exhibitions, galleries and museums.
HELEN MOLESWORTH
Wednesday, March 15, 2006 – 5:30 p.m.
Folk Hall auditorium, Myers School of Art, The University of Akron, 150 E. Exchange St., Akron
Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator of Exhibitions, Wexner Center for the Arts, to speak at Myers School of Art, The University of Akron – March 15
Visiting the Myers School of Art on Wednesday, March 15, Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, will lecture at 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Folk Hall. Helen Molesworth's most recent exhibition at the Wexner, "Part Object Part Sculpture", charted a geneology of transatlantic sculpture produced in the wake of Marcel Duchamp’s erotic objects and his hand made readymades of the 1960s.
From 2000-2003 Molesworth was the Curator of Contemporary Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art, where she organized "Work Ethic", which traced the problem of artistic labor in post-1960s art, and BodySpace, which explored the legacy of Minimalism for contemporary artists. She is the author of numerous articles and her writing has appeared in publications such as Art Journal, Documents, and October. Her research areas are concentrated largely within and around the problems of feminism, the reception of Marcel Duchamp, and the socio-historical frameworks of contemporary art.
This presentation is free and open to the public. Ms. Molesworth is a guest lecturer for Asst. Professor of Art Kevin Concannon's special topics class, "Mass Production: Artist’s Multiples from the 1960’s Through the Present”. Seating is limited.
Contact dwatt@uakron.edu for more information, or call 330-972-5951.
2006 JURIED STUDENT EXHIBITION
MARCH 6 - MARCH 17, 2006
Reception: Thursday, March 16, 4:30 at 6pm
New Orleans photojournalist to present “40 days 40 nights"
New Orleans photojournalist to present “40 days 40 nights”, a lecture on the city and its people pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina, March 20 at The University of Akron.
Image by Donn Young.
Akron, Ohio, March 6, 2006 – For the past 25 years, New Orleans photojournalist Donn Young has chronicled life in his culturally rich city. Nothing could have prepared him for the calamity that devastated so much of the Gulf Coast last August. Deemed an essential employee by the State of Louisiana, Young got back to work three days after the storm, despite the fact that he had personally lost his home and his photography studio, which was located in the Lakeview neighborhood. Since September, he has worked 12-hour days or longer to document a city brought to its knees, and the subsequent attempts to start the monumental rebuilding process.
At the Myers School of Art at The University of Akron, Donn Young will present “40 Days 40 Nights” on Mon., March 20 at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of Folk Hall (150 E. Exchange St., Akron, OH). The lecture is free and open to the public (seating is limited). This tour and lecture series, created by Young, puts into perspective what has happened to New Orleans and its hundreds of thousands of citizens displaced by America’s worst natural disaster. The story is put into context by showing pre-Katrina pictures of the city and its people, with emphasis on business leaders, home owners, artists and musicians.
Young says, “I believe the power of photography can bring empathy and compassion for people whose lives have been forever changed, and to a great American city that bears little resemblance to its former self”. The program ends with images from a “New Orleans comes back” promotional campaign. Young will be available to answer questions following the presentation.
Young has been selected as guest curator for a one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, to be created by the Louisiana State Museum. His photography has been deemed “historically significant” by Louisiana State University and the Records Management Association of America. As such, LSU has mandated the salvaging and restoration of Young’s storm-damaged archive of 1,350,000 images. Young has been a photographer for the past 35 years, and has received 38 awards during his career. His gallery exhibitions include Florida State University, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, Springfield Museum of Art, Louisiana State Museum, and many other group and one man shows.
PATRICK LICHTY, New Media Artist
MYERS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
LECTURE: "Confessions of a Culture Hacker: Probes, Pranks, and Investigations"
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2006 - 6pm
Patrick Lichty is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, and curator for over 15 years, and graduate of The University of Akron. Lichty’s work includes video, digital media, print and installations that deal with political and social issues of contemporary media and technological culture. Currently, he is best known as the computer animator for the activist art group, The Yes Men, and as Editor-in-Chief for Intelligent Agent, a New Media arts journal published in cooperation with Christiane Paul, Adjunct Digital Arts Curator for the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC.
Lichty’s work has been exhibited worldwide at such venues such as Ars Electronica and the International Symposium of Electronic Arts as well as the Whitney, Torino, Melbourne, and Maribor Biennales. Lichty was born and raised in the Akron/Canton area, and his 2000 Smithsonian work, “SPRAWL: The American Landscape in Transition” spotlights the encroachment of urban sprawl in northeast Ohio.
SCHOLARSHIP DISPLAY WEEK
MARCH 20 - MARCH 24, 2006
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