The members of the Senior Studio and Thesis need to clean out their studios and prepare to graduate! Fortunately for the rest of us, they will be sponsoring a Studio Sale. The sale will take place this Thursday, May 20th, from 4-6pm. If it’s nice outside, the sale will take place behind the art building, on the grass in front of the domes. If it’s raining, they will move inside to Classroom 062 in the Venturi wing. There will be a variety of art prints, art supplies and odds and ends for sale. Make sure to check it out!
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Reel Feel Schedule
Below is the schedule of events for the Reel Feel Media Arts Festival.
THURSDAY, MAY 13
8:30pm Watch You Move, screening curated by Kemi Gbadebo & Jack Mintz
Paved area in front of 128 Forest Street (behind Lord/Saunders House)
10pm The Childhood You Never Had, screening curated by Katie Buono & Ashley Roberts
Severence Hall, Room 108 (120 West Lorain Street)
FRIDAY, MAY 14
8pm The Adolescent Identity: Shifting Perceptions of the Self, screening curated by Kate Ettinger & Amanda Mummery
64 North Pleasant Street (in basement)
10pm How to Be Good at Being Human, screening curated by Solomon Turner & Katie Gleysteen
Fairchild Chapel (50 West Lorain Street)
SATURDAY, MAY 15
5pm Marco Polo, screening curated by Kelly Crimmins & Eliza Koch
Robert Carr Swimming Pool, Phillips Center (200 Woodland Street)
8pm [General Theory of Relativity], screening curated by Rachel Garcia-Grossman & Christina Boland
Grassy area next to 40 North Pleasant Street
10pm OM OHM UM, screening curated by Conor Shanahan & Logan Takahashi
Grassy area next to 40 North Pleasant Street
11:30pm Exhibitionism: The REEL FEEL Closing Party!
Location TBA
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Soundings
Tomorrow night in Fisher Gallery, Julia Christensen’s and Brett Kashmere’s classes will present work along with acclaimed video artist Marisa Olson.
Schedule of Events:
7-10pm Exhibition Viewing and Reception (Refreshments will be provided)
8pm Marisa Olson Artist Talk / Illustrated Lecture
10pm REEL FEEL Opening Party, with music by Teengirl Fantasy and DJ Wabberjockey
According to Wikipedia, the term SOUNDINGS “generally refers to a mechanism of probing the environment by sending out some kind of stimulus.” The SOUNDINGS exhibition on May 12 at Oberlin College will explore this idea, through student work comprised of a range of media, from sound to video to installation. How do we, as artists and thinkers making cross-disciplinary work in the context of new media, send stimuli into the environment in order to interact with our audiences––culling a read on the response, the temperature, the landscape around us? How does this response develop a feedback loop with our own creative processes, integrating an interactive approach into our practices?
SOUNDINGS will feature work by visiting artist Marisa Olson, who prompted the Oberlin students’ projects with the title of the show. Olson’s piece, Performed Listening (Boomerang), explores this impulse/response duplicity while recalling the seminal work by Richard Serra and Nancy Holt, who explored a similar question with the video/sound project Boomerang in 1974.
Alongside Olson’s work, the SOUNDINGS exhibition features the work of students from Julia Christensen’s “Creative Resistance” and “Performance/Installation Technology” courses, and is produced by Brett Kashmere’s “Exhibition Practices in the Media Arts” course. Students involved include Maira Clancy, Brooklyn Demme, Theresa DeSaltels, Vivian Gentry, Adriana Meraz, Sarah Michelson, Cooper Rogers, Susan Russ, Kevin Soulivong, Erika Zarowin, Asha Tamarisa, Ben Bacon, David Bird, Luke Lovett, Nick Weiss, Chrissi Boland, Katie Buono, Kelly Crimmins, Kate Ettinger, Rachel Garcia-Grossman, Kemi Gbadebo, Katie Gleysteen, Eliza Koch, Jack Mintz, Amanda Mummery, Ashley Roberts, Conor Shanahan, Logan Takahashi, and Solomon Turner.
Marisa Olson’s visit is co-sponsored between the departments of Studio Art, TIMARA, and Cinema Studies through the Luce Margin Release New Media Lecture Series and Sight Lines: Dialogues in Film and Media, a Cinema Studies initiative with support from the Blanchard Fund.
Image: Installation view of Performed Listening (Boomerang) (2009), by Marisa Olson.
About Marisa Olson: Marisa Olson‘s work combines performance, video, drawing & installation to address the cultural history of technology, the politics of participation in pop culture & the aesthetics of failure. Her work has recently been presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou-Paris, New Museum of Contemporary Art, 52nd International Biennale di Venezia, National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens, Greece), Edith Russ-Haus fur Medienkunst, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst/ Montevideo, the British Film Institute, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, the Sundance Film Festival, and elsewhere. She is also a founding member of the Nasty Nets “internet surfing club” whose new DVD premiered at the New York Underground Film Festival. Her work has been written about in ArtForum, Art in America, Folha de Sao Paolo, Liberation-Paris, the Village Voice, New York Magazine, and elsewhere. While Wired has called her both funny and humorous, the New York Times has called her “anything but stupid.” Marisa studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College-London, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Her critiques of contemporary art and digital visual culture have extended to writing for Flash Art, Art Review, Afterimage, Planet, and Art on Paper and to curating exhibitions and programs at the Guggenheim, SFMOMA, White Columns, Artists Space, the Performa Biennial, SF Camerawork, and Rhizome. She has previously taught Film Studies and New Media classes at UC Berkeley and NYU’s ITP graduate program in the Tisch School of the Arts. She is Assistant Professor of New Media at SUNY-Purchase and remains a Contributing Editor at Rhizome, after several years of collaboration. Marisa was born in Germany and lives in New York.
Imagination Conversation
The Lincoln Center Institute will be hosting a panel this weekend on Saturday, May 15th from 1:30-3:00pm in Hallock Auditorium (Environmental Studies Building). The Imagination Conversation is a part of a larger initiative of the Lincoln Center Institute which hopes to discuss imagination and why it is important in our nation’s institutions. Oberlin is the site of one such panel, and information gathered from this panel will become a part of a final summit in 2011. The Ohio Department of Education, OhioDance and Oberlin College are proud to host one of Ohio’s Imagination Conversations.
The panel will include:
Mark Bradford, Professor of Biology and Neuroscience; Julia Christensen, artist, writer, and visiting Luce Assistant Professor of the Emerging Arts; David W. Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics; Lynn Powell, award-winning poet and Oberlin resident. The panel will be moderated by Ann Cooper Albright, performer, choreographer and feminist scholar, and Professor of Dance and Theater at Oberlin College.
Reel Feel Media Arts Festival
REEL FEEL Media Arts Festival
Oberlin College, May 12-15, 2010
Various Locations
CINEMA 062, an Oberlin-based, student-run film and video collective, is pleased to announce the premier of REEL FEEL, a four-day film and media arts festival that draws on the collaboration of artists, students, and community!
From May 12-15, join us each night for a distinct celebration including visiting artist presentations, multimedia exhibitions,
media-infused parties, and student-curated screening programs in diverse and alternative art spaces including swimming pools, parking lots, grassy nooks, chapels, and other unexpected and surprising locales!
The festival kicks off with an interactive presentation by the renowned New York-based new media artist and curator Marisa Olson (pictured above). Olson will present a performative lecture in the Allen Art Building’s Fisher Galley at 8pm on Wednesday, May 12th, which will simultaneously feature sound and video installations and new media projects by Olson and an assortment of Oberlin College students. Visitors are invited to stick around for REEL FEEL’s opening party to enjoy live music, DJ sets, and refreshments.
The next three nights promise a variety of film and media experiences, and will conclude with a special closing party for festival
participants. All events are free, and all are welcome!
ABOUT CINEMA 062
CINEMA 062 began in September 2010 as a weekly series that presents specially curated alternative, independent, and experimental media every Wednesday night in Oberlin, Ohio. The series takes place in the basement of Oberlin College’s Art Building, in room 062, and has featured a variety of unique screenings, including The Blazing World, curated by Thomas Beard (Founding Director of Light Industry in Brooklyn), From the Vault: Films from the Oberlin College Collection, Aaron Dilloway: Carte Blanche, Two Films by Yoko Ono, student-curated YouTube Playlists, and more. CINEMA 062 is an initiative of CINE 323: Exhibition Practices in the Media Arts, a course taught by Brett Kashmere in the Oberlin College Cinema Studies Program.
Marisa Olson’s artist talk is co-sponsored by the Margin Release Lecture Series, produced by the Henry Luce Visiting Assistant
Professor of the Emerging Arts, Julia Christensen, and Sight Lines: Dialogues in Film and Media, organized by Brett Kashmere for the Cinema Studies Program, with support from the Blanchard Fund.
Yoko Ono comes to Oberlin
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Today, Thursday May 6th, Yoko Ono will give a talk at Oberlin College’s Finney Chapel. A celebrated artist working in the fields of conceptual art, installation, film, architecture, performance art and music, her ground-breaking work should prove inspirational for all who attend.
In preparation for her arrival, members of Kazim Ali’s FYSP 168 class, including Sophia Yapalater, Arielle Orenstein, and Ayako Harada set up a Wish Tree in Wilder Bowl. The Oberlin Wish Tree is a part of a larger body of work that Ono has been gathering since 1981. Everyone in the College and town of Oberlin is invited to participate; the project will not be complete without the help! Below is the score for the project:
Wish Tree for Oberlin
Make a wish.
Write it down on a piece of paper.
Tie it to the branch of the wish tree.
Ask your friends to do the same.
Keep wishing
Until all the branches are covered with wishes.
The wishes will be collected on Friday May 7th and sent to Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower in Reykjavik, Iceland she plans to store them in time-capsule boxes, bury them, and have a tree planted just above. Ono hopes that in time this whole area will look like a forest.
Author of The Painter’s Handbook to give demonstration
Mark Gottsegen, an expert on oil paints, traditional painting materials and the chemistry behind modern paints, works as Administrator of the Artists Materials Information and Education Network, is Material Research Director at the Intermuseum Conservation Association and author of The Painter’s Handbook. He will be in Oberlin on Thursday, May 6th at 4:30. He will give a lecture and demonstration in Classroom I. His demonstration will include how to grind oil paint starting with raw pigment, a valuable process to understand when squeezing your paint out of a tube.
This lecture was organized by Heather Galloway, painting conservator at the Intermuseum Conservation Association in Cleveland.
Kalan’s Senior Studio Show
In lieu of a traditional gallery exhibition, Senior Studio student Kalan Sherrard created a series of large, mobile sculptures composed of found and collected objects. Interested in the varied, infinite meaning behind words, the intersections of media and theoretical concepts, Kalan’s work rotated around various spaces of campus during the week of April 26th.
Each of Kalan’s moveable structures were made up of very different materials. The variety and range of toys, electrical and plumbing supplies, technology (typewriters, cellphones), clothing, animal bones and preserved appendages, puppets made with fabric and bike parts, and melted crayons and fibrous matter all worked together to create a body of work that was decisively individual to Kalan.
Several of his objects dealt with themes of cages and pets. The objects pictured above formed a small tableau, and another work used cell phones inside a gerbil cage. He also found a large dog kennel and affixed it to a bier; the kennel was filled with a compliant friend on one afternoon.
All photos courtesy Gary Cohen. To see more pictures of this show and others, please visit his Flickr page.
Honey & Wounds: Arden and Yujean’s Exhibition
Aden Surdam, a senior studio photography student, and Yujean Park, an advanced photography student, had their art opening this Friday, April 30th in Fisher Gallery. Upon walking into the gallery it was immediately obvious that something was different; the whole gallery seemed warmer and brighter and more inviting. Arden and Yujean had painted the floor a warm cream color, which had a striking effect on the space. Both women are longtime students of Pipo Nguyen-Duy and their committment to the medium shows.
Arden works with a large format camera to take large, beautifully detailed portraits of people who are important to her. She hopes to portray their personalities and authenticities through photographing them in spaces that are familiar to each person, such as a beekeeper with his bees. 
Some of her subjects are students at Oberlin College and others are people she has met in the town of Oberlin or during her travels. She also did a small series of works photographing the personal spaces of the men who did not feel comfortable being photographed. This study of men’s desks, living rooms and bedrooms conveyed a lot of information about each person without him even needing to be there.
Yujean Park’s work deals with ideas of home and lived-in spaces. She has a very established aesthetic that emphasizes warmth, softness and recurring imagery of lace and brocade upholstery.
Yujean also did a series of portraits that are staged in a blank, white studio space. This is a departure from her images of home, but her use of lace and feminine symbols remain.
All photos courtesy Gary Cohen. To see more works from this show and others, please see his flickr page.
