Public Lectures and Exhibitions in Milwaukee and Johannesburg

Last night saw the opening of Night Work at The Armoury Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Some great responses, surprise guests, new show offers, decent sales – a really great Milwaukee debut for both me and Jessica (my collaborator). Thanks to everyone who helped, came out, etc. For those who didn’t make it, the show was a kind of “weekend pick” over at Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel (where one of the gallerists also pitched the show), and it’ll be up for more than a month (including Milwaukee’s gallery night, on April 17th!). If you can’t make it, it’s brand spanking new work, so we still need to document it – I’m hoping to have some images and/or video online in the next few weeks. We’re really excited about the progression, so watch this space….

I will also be giving public lectures about my work this week, twice. First, I will take over a spot on Wednesday, April 1st, 7pm (in ACL 120) for the Artist Now! series in the Visual Art department, Peck School of the Arts, at UWM:

Artists Now! is a Wednesday evening lecture series designed for a broad audience with an interest in contemporary visual art. The series presents a diverse group of artists working across traditional, hybrid and emergent disciplines. Join these nationally and internationally recognized practitioners as they explore and expand the boundaries of creative visual practice today.

All lectures take place on Wednesdays at 7 pm in the Arts Center Lecture Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd. on the UWM campus. The lectures are free and open to the public.

I’ll give an hour’s worth of overview of my practice, some works, and a couple of the trajectories I’m aware of in them. But if you can’t make that, don’t worry! The very next day I will be giving a very similar talk (pretty much the same one, with perhaps slightly more on the tech side, and with the general variability that comes with my “performances”) as part of the Computation and Craft lecture series in the School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) – Thursday, April 2nd at noon in AUP 110, also UWM. See the flyer below (click for larger).

interactions, interventions and implications: computation and craft lecture at UWM

Finally, I’ll kind of be all over the Johannesburg Art Fair, in South Africa – well, my art will. I personally can’t attend, but I am: (twice) in the Internet Art in the Global South net.art exhibition, curated by Tegan Bristow; on Bad Form, an interesting show over at Blank Projects, curated by Christian Nerf and Kathryn Smith; featured in a talk by Wilhelm van Rensburg on contemporary printmaking (Gallery AOP); and will mostly likely also feature at the David Krut table. Should be an awesome fair – sad to miss it.

Hope to see some of you around these great events!