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  • Retro-Perspective

    RETRO-PERSPECTIVE

    by award-winning, iconic performance artists Lois Weaver & Peggy Shaw

    A
    performed compilation of their greatest hits, featuring a medley of work that
    has made the politics of gender and sexuality and the humor of human relations
    accessible to all ages and persuasions for the last 30 years. Peggy Shaw and
    Lois Weaver, along with Deb Margolin, founded the company “Split Britches” in
    New York City 32 years ago. Since 1980 Weaver and Shaw have transformed the
    landscape of queer performance with their vaudevillian and satirical
    gender-bending shows.

  • American Rococo: Asbury Park Trek

    American Rococo: Asbury Park Trek

    with artist Duane McDiarmid

    Lecture: 

    Wed. October 17, 2012 4:30 p.m.

    Magill Club Rooms 107&108

    Walking Tour:

    Thurs. October 18 begins at 10:00 a.m.

    Art Building Courtyard

    FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

    A performative walking tour through economically varied sections of the communities surrounding Monmouth University. This project explores a society that has advanced to a point where an excess of highly specialized tools and goods results in a trajectory towards some form of collapse.

    Audiences and participants can come and go as they please as we trek from Monmouth University to Asbury Park. We’ll meet on the boardwalk in AP for an after performance “picnic” (*picnic go-ers pay for their own meal). Students, Faculty, and Staff who want to take part in creating
    Duane McDiarmid’s piece in advance can contact Prof. Anne Massoni.

  • Art Now: There’s An App for that Shirt!

    THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT SHIRT!

    An Augmented Reality Performance Project

    PLANGERE TV STUDIO, 1st FLOOR

    Katherine Behar and her collaborators will present a
    performance/fashion show. The piece will feature
    garments which can be seen multiple ways through the AR (augmented
    reality) application. MU students, contortionists, and more will be
    performing! Bring your
    phones (Droid or Apple phones/iPads) to view the app at the event!

  • Art Now: Multimedia Art – Matt Kenyon

    In 1999 Matt
    co-founded SWAMP (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production) with
    Douglas Easterly. Their work focuses on critical themes addressing the
    affects of global corporate operations, mass media and communication,
    military-industrial complexes, and general meditations on the liminal
    area between life and artificial life. SWAMP has been making work in
    this vein since 1999 using a wide range of media, including custom
    software, electronics, mechanical devices, and often times working with
    living organisms.

  • Art Now: Geotagging the Omissions

     Thurs. Oct 17

     The Mac Varsity Club 301 & 302 | 6 p.m.

    Our workshop empowers participants
    to create and upload photographic documentation of
    overlooked communities to Google maps, building a public document of
    the community from within. The half day workshop can be adapted for any age
    and participants may use any level of digital camera. We begin with a
    short presentation on work with locative media and conceptual
    documentary projects. Participants then are given a shooting
    assignment based on local areas absent or overlooked in Google
    StreetView. We then aggregate the images using Google’s image
    uploader, carefully geotagging them. Within a few
    weeks, Google’s search engine picks these images up and they appear
    on Google Maps.

     

    Image Caption:
    #HowToKeepARelationshipWithMe Everything You Say Emotionally You Have To Mean
    It &Make Sure I’m Happy & Your Happy With Me.

     

    http://larson-shindelman.com/

  • ART NOW: Jennifer Haley – Writing, Performing & Producing Virtual Realities Onstage

    Jennifer Haley is an award winning playwright and TV writer in LA whose cutting edge work delves into ethics in virtual reality and the impact of technology on our human relationships, identity, and desire. She won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Los Angeles Ovation Award and Drama Critics Circle Award for her play, The Nether, which is a haunting exploration of the consequences of living out our darkest desires online. Select other plays include Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, a horror story about suburban video game addiction; and Froggy, an interactive graphic novel come to life as a noir thriller with a live soundtrack. Jennifer’s numerous plays have been developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Lark Play Development Center, PlayPenn, Page 73, Seven Devils and the MacDowell Colony.

    She is a member of New Dramatists in New York City and lives in Los Angeles, where she founded the Playwrights Union. Jennifer currently writes for the Netflix original series, Hemlock
    Grove.

    Artist website: http://jenniferhaley.com/

  • ART NOW: Wafaa Bilal

    2:30 – 3:15 artist lecture – Wilson Auditorium
    3:30 – 4:15 video screening/extended Q &A – Rechnitz Hall room 208.

    Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal, an Associate Arts Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, is known internationally for his on-line performative and interactive works provoking dialogue about international politics and internal dynamics. For his 2007 installation, Domestic Tension, Bilal spent a month in a Chicago gallery with a paintball gun that people could shoot at him over the internet. The Chicago Tribune called it “one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time ”and named him 2008 Artist of the Year. Bilal’s work is constantly informed by the experience of fleeing his homeland and existing simultaneously in two worlds – his home in the “comfort zone” of the U.S. and his consciousness of the “conflict zone” in Iraq. Using his own body as a medium, Bilal continues to challenge our comfort zone with projects like 3rdi and …And Counting. In 2008 City Lights published “Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun,” about Bilal’s life and the Domestic Tension project. He holds a BFA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar; amongst others.

  • Art Now: Bernd Klug – Sound Installation and Performance

    This sound installation features a piano-wired based interactive feedback system that turns Rechnitz Hall into a resonating instrument. Room frequencies, wavelengths and the connection points of the strings will create a unique sonic activation of the exhibition space.

    Using the means of transducers, piezo-disks, single coils and speakers, found sounds will be amplified and create an interactive situation, blurring the lines between sculpture, architecture, instruments and sound. In a performance, students will play the sound installation transforming architecture directly into an orchestra.

    2 pm: Installation Opens

    4:30 pm: Artist Talk with Bernd Klug and Richard Garet, Daniel Neumann and Wolfgang Gil from Contour Editions

    6 pm: Student Performance

  • ART NOW: Eric Barry Drasin and Phillip David Stearns

    Demonstration: 4:30 pm Rechnitz Hall room 216

    Artist Lecture: 6:00 pm Wilson Auditorium

    Eric Barry Drasin is a Brooklyn-based artist, musician and curator working at the intersection of digital media, performance and installation. Rooted in the Expanded Cinema tradition, his work explores the relationship between composition, interface, performance, score, and synesthetic audiovisual systems.

    Eric Barry Drasin’s website

    Phillip David Stearns is also based in Brooklyn. His work is centered on the use of electronic technologies and electronic media to explore dynamic relationships between ideas and material. Deconstruction, reconfiguration, and extension are key methodologies and techniques employed in the production of works that range from audio visual performances, electronic sculptures, light and sound installation, digital textiles, and other oddities both digital and material. 

    Phillip David Stearn’s website

    Eric and Phil will give a joint artist lecture as well as lead a demonstration of their tools and techniques.

  • ART NOW: Coco Fusco- Observations of Predation in Humans, A Lecture by Dr. Zira, Animal Psychologist

    The Chimp psychologist from Plant of the Apes is back! Zira travelled back in time to visit us 20 years ago and narrowly escaped death at the hands of the paranoid humans who could not tolerate the idea of other primates as equals. After living in seclusion for 20 years and conducting ethological studies of our species from her hideout, she has emerged in order to share her findings relating to aggressive behavior in members of the home genus. Her lecture is introduced by esteemed posthuman cultural theorist Donna Haraway and is followed by a question and answer session with human audience members. Dr. Zira draws on the cutting edge research in the fields of neuroscience, primatology and evolutionary biology to interpret the predatory activities of human beings in postindustrial societies around the world.

    Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer and MIT’s MLK Visiting Scholar for 2014-2015. She is a recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2013 Fulbright Fellowship, and a 2012 US Artists Fellowship among other prestigious awards, and her performances and videos have been presented in two Whitney Biennials, BAM’s Next Wave Festival, as well as numerous international Biennials and festivals.  Her works have appeared at the Tate Liverpool, The Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. 

Fusco is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995) and The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is also the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003). She is currently working on a new book entitled Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba. 

Fusco’s work combines electronic media and performance in a variety of formats, from staged multi-media performances incorporating large scale projections and closed circuit television to live performances streamed to the internet that invite audiences to chart the course of action through chat interaction. 

Fusco received her B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University, her M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, and her Ph.D. in Art and Visual Culture from Middlesex University.

    More information on Coco Fusco here