The School of Art Visiting Artist & Scholar Series

Daniel Shieh

March 26, 2020 at 6:00 pm in DAAP 5401 - POSTPONED

Daniel Shieh is an artist from Taiwan. He creates interactive installations that encourage participants to view each other from a different perspective. The installations usually involve two or more participants to activate. Once activated, they isolate parts of the participants’ bodies, such as the gaze or breath. Participants then present themselves to each other in a mediated manner, such as reflecting one’s gaze through mirrors or delivering one’s breath via an inflatable device.

His installations have been commissioned by Art in Odd Places, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, University City Municipal Commission on Arts & Letters, and Harvard Office for the Arts. He has been invited as an artist in residence to the School of Visual Arts, Cité Internationale des Arts,

Franconia Sculpture Park, Spruce Arts, Laboratory Spokane, the Studios at MASS MoCA, Wave Pool Gallery, Monson Arts, and Jamestown Art Center.

The School of Art Visiting Artist & Scholar Series

Charles Woodman
March 10, 2020 at 6:00 pm in DAAP 5401

Charles Woodman is an electronic artist working in video and expanded media. His recent projects have concentrated on the integration of video with live performance, often in collaboration with musicians or dancers. Exhibitions of his work include screenings at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Black Maria Film and Video Festival, the American Dance Festival in Raleigh, NC and Roulette in Brooklyn. Woodman is a founding member of the video performance group viDEO sAVant and has been a pioneer in the development of Live Cinema - real time video editing as live performance. Recent appearances by that group include performances at ENSAD in Paris, Spettro in Brescia, Italy, ISEA in Dubai, and the Center for New Music in San Francisco. Woodman is a professor at the University of Cincinnati and currently resides in the Bay area.

The School of Art Visiting Artist & Scholar Series

Futurefarmers (Amy Franceschini + Lode Vranken)
April 16, 2019 at 6:00 pm in DAAP 5401 - POSTPONED

Futurefarmers is a group of artists, activists, farmers and architects with a common interest in creating frameworks of participation that recalibrate our cultural compass. Their work uses various media to enact situations that disassemble habitual apparatus; performance, architecture, temporary public art, permanent public art, lectures and publications. They produce relational objects that serve as tools for audiences to gain insight into deeper fields of inquiry- not only to imagine, but also to participate in and initiate change in the places we live.

Wandering might be what Futurefarmers do best—sure, on land and at sea, but also through anecdotes of history, or lines of inquiry that trespass disciplines, or into the materiality and means of production of everyday things. This kind of wandering, a bit more directed than flânerie, a bit more open than academic research, has led them from grain fields to nuclear test sites to the brick pathways of Harvard; from orchards to stock exchanges to the telescope observatories; from studios to picnics to libraries and factories; from galleries to the highest peaks of San Francisco. Up there, where the clouds touch the ground, the fog bodies will condense, and transform the environment. Their work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Whitney Biennial in New York, NYMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal, the 2014 Venice Architectural Biennale and beyond.

Visiting Artist Lecture Series with assistance from the Agnes Croll Blackburne Visiting Artist and Scholars fund and the Elise Zeller Sauer Fund for Fine Arts; Wave Pool and People’s Liberty