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| | Mediated Realities
May 26 - June 6, 2009
Reception: Tuesday, May 26 6 - 8pm
Live performance and demonstration of projects: Saturday, May 30, 2pm
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Mediated Realities,” an exhibition of selected thesis projects by 2009 graduates of the MFA Computer Art Department. The exhibition is curated by faculty member Russet Lederman.
This exhibition presents nearly 45 projects, including experimental linear video; networked media; video and audio installation; non-narrative and narrative 3D animation; and interactive installation and performance. Using current technologies to explore the inner self and the outer world, the artists also examine how their relationship to one another and their environment is mediated through technology. Often combining media and technologies, these artists employ a range of materials and programming languages to question social interactions in a media-saturated environment.
One such project is Dustin Grella's stop-motion animation entitled Prayers for Peace, which is created from thousands of chalkboard drawings. Grella uses a technique similar to rotoscoping where each frame is projected onto a slate board and then redrawn using soft pastels. The projection is removed and the image is recorded. The narrative at the center of Grella’s animation describes the death of his brother Devin Grella, who was killed in Iraq while delivering a military diesel tanker to an active combat zone near Najaf.
Rita Sa Mendes has created a multi-channel video installation that explores the context and transformation of human interactions in contemporary society. Using five LCD screens arranged in darkened room, Mendes creates an immersive environment in which the viewer's attention is focused on animations that question the nature of mediated social interactions and communications. Initially created from watercolors and appropriated photographic material from the Internet, Mendes’ working style is process-oriented and not predetermined. She is not interested in linear narratives, but rather seeks to engage the spectator in a fluid non-linear conversation.
Also exploring social interactions, Graham Smith's Virtual Sync reveals how individuals express themselves emotionally through digital means and social networking sites. Accessing information and feedback through several interrelated devices, applications, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Smith presents his collected data in the form of a digital painting and wall-mounted installation. The digital painting is a physically reconfigured laptop display that tracks the social interactions of a group of Facebook "friends" through the visual metaphor of lightning bugs. The physical presence of each member of his social network is reinforced by an object belonging to each Facebook friend and displayed on several wall-mounted shelves next to the digital painting.
The exhibition also displays the work of Roxanna Allen, Kwahena Appiah, Eric Berthoud, Sheena Boone, Claudia Cardoso-Fleck, Thanawadee Chagasik, Chan-Chia Chang, Eun Ha Choi, Jose Ramon Vincente Del Prado, Jaime Ekkens, Edward Farro, Nathan Freise, Asa Gauen, Jelani Gould-Bailey, Christopher Greener, Su Kyung Heo, Shiou-Wen Hong, Christopher Hsu, Chih-Wei Hsu, Adel Kerpely, Taek Sang Kim, Sung Kyu Koo, Jae Min Lee, Maurice Lee, Darren Lee, Chaoying Lin, Luis Navarro, Amjad Olabi, Miguel Rodrigues, Blake Sample, Anthony Schubert, Kuo-Pei Sun, Christine Tadler, Aliki Vasileia Tsigkri, Tai Li Wu, Wan-Chun Wu, Jimmy Yeo and Xun Zhu.
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| | Visual Arts Gallery
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
New York,
NY 10001
212.592.2145
The Visual Arts Gallery is SVA's premier exhibition facility. Located in Chelsea on the 15th floor of the landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building, it comprises four state of the art galleries and a large terrace with a commanding view of Lower Manhattan and the Hudson River. Staffed by six full-time professionals, Visual Arts Gallery offers select students the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work in the same environment as some of the country's leading artists--a number of whom have exhibited there as well.
Since the Visual Arts Gallery moved from 137 Wooster Street in Soho to its present location in 2004, it has exhibited works by renowned SVA alumni such as Renee Cox, Inka Essenhigh, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Lazzarini, Sol Lewitt, Vera Lutter, Elizabeth Peyton, Alexis Rockman, Collier Schorr, Lorna Simpson and Sara Sze, Works by Richard Avedon, Milton Glaser, Anish Kapoor, Stefan Sagmeister, Sebastiao Salgado have also been exhibited at the Visual Arts Gallery.
SVA students of every discipline derive great educational benefit from being able to study the work of celebrated artists, hear them speak at lectures, or even get the chance to meet them in person -- all right here at the College.
The Visual Arts Gallery is open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and is closed Sunday and federal holidays*. The gallery is accessible by wheelchair. For more information, or to purchase student's work (the gallery takes no commission), please call 212.592.2145.
*Summer Hours: The gallery will be closed for the
Independence Day holiday weekend from Friday, July 2, 1pm through
Monday, July 5. June 4th
through August 20th, 2010, the gallery will be closing one hour earlier
on Fridays (5pm instead of 6pm).
For press inquiries, please call the Office of Communication at 212.592.2010 or email proffice@sva.edu
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