CORY ARCANGEL, Computer Artist
MYERS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
LECTURE: "How I Went from Modifying Nintendo Games
to Giving Lectures About Simon & Garfunkel"
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2006 - 6pm
Cory Arcangel is a computer artist whose work is concerned with technology's relationship to culture and the creative process. He is a founding member of BEIGE, a group of computer programmers and enthusiasts who recycle obsolete computers and video game systems to make art and music, and a member of RSG (Radical Software Group). Arcangel's work has been exhibited at the American Museum of the
Moving Image, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim,
and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
2006 JURIED STUDENT EXHIBITION
MARCH 6 - MARCH 17, 2006
Reception – Thursday, March 16, 4:30– 6pm
SCHOLARSHIP DISPLAY WEEK
MARCH 20 - MARCH 24, 2006
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.
INTERSECTIONS: RICHMOND BURTON, LYDIA DONA,
JULIA FISH, JOE FYFE, JAMES HYDE, FABIAN
MARCACCIO & STEVE RODEN
APRIL 3 - APRIL 27, 2006
Opening Reception, April 6, 6pm - 8pm
Curated by Matthew Kolodziej
This exhibition will examine how various artists energize the space in front of the painting, and individual artistic approaches to this problem. Each of the highly regarded artists in the show use or allude to architectural space to explore perception and meaning. This constructed experience is achieved through use of light, materials, language, time, or a sense of place. The Intersections exhibition will feature 3 to 5 works by each of the artists. An interactive dialogue/lecture with one or more of the painters in a panel format will give students and the community an opportunity to discuss concepts and ask questions directly. (TBA)
