tournament date: monday, feb.20th, 11:30 a.m.*
shoot to win: prizes, fame, and immortality!
open to all students: sign up in the gallery by feb. 17th

ANY QUESTIONS? Ask Diana in Room #104 or Gallery personnel
*If you want to compete, but cannotat this time, please indicate on sign-up form.

This exhibition is designed to highlight experimental works that have pushed the boundaries of traditional cinema using computer and electronic technology. From computer games to interactive films and immersive environments, “Outside the Box” will allow students and the community in general to see and experience non-traditional cinema. Exhibition artists include: Jud Yalkut, Cory Arcangel, Toni Dove, Lev Manovich and Andreas Kratky, Tennessee Rice Dixon, and Paul Catanese.

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.

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.

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.

Akron, Ohio, Mar. 15, 2006 – Bringing the work of seven contemporary artists together, the exhibition, “Intersections”, opens at the Myers School of Art’s Emily Davis Gallery on April 3, 2006, and continues through April 27 in Folk Hall on the campus of The University of Akron (150 E. Exchange St.). Artists Fabian Marcaccio, Richmond Burton, Lydia Dona, Julia Fish, Joe Fyfe, James Hyde, and Steve Roden will each have several works displayed in the show. In discussing the exhibition, curator Matthew Kolodziej, Assistant Professor of Art at UA, explains that “An intersection is a place where encounters happen and choices are made. In the hands of these seven accomplished artists - time, space, and materials are crafted to orient and mislead. The painters all use materials and subjects that suggest familiar and intimate experiences, only to question the permanence and strength of what we seem to understand.”

For more information, contact 330-972-5951, email dwatt@uakron.edu, or visit
www.uakron.edu/art/intersections.