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Current Tendencies II: Artists from Milwaukee<\/span><\/strong>
\nMilwaukee, Wisconsin<\/em><\/p>\n

10 Milwaukee artists at the Haggerty Museum of Art<\/a>, Marquette University
\n13th and Clybourn, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
\nAugust 24 – December 31, 2011
\nOpening reception, August 31, 6PM<\/p>\n

Concert at Church of the Gesu with John Weissrock, September 14, 6PM
\nPanel Discussion with Meuninck-Ganger, Stern and others, October 6, 6PM
\nLecture by Reginald Baylor and Mark Brautigam, November 9, 6PM<\/p>\n

Current Tendencies II<\/a> features 10 Milwaukee artists working in a variety of media, including photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, video and sculpture.\u00c2\u00a0 The exhibition presents many never-before-seen works, commissioned specifically for the Haggerty Museum.\u00c2\u00a0 Each artist was paired with a Marquette professor who wrote a reflection of the artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work based on the professor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s area of expertise, creating dialogue between artist and scholar and connecting philosophy, theology, political science, communications, etc., to the works in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

The exhibition premieres 13 Views of a Journey<\/em><\/a> (6 x 8 feet, see above detail), a new Distill Life<\/a><\/em> installation by Jessica Meuninck-Ganger and Nathaniel Stern. Here the artists mount large-scale and translucent prints to plexiglass and rear project video through them, creating “moving images on paper.” The 13 animated vignettes are played in random order behind fibrous and inky paper, making a dynamic and room-sized book art project. Says Philosophy Professor Melissa Shew, “This work is not about the artists, past and present; it is not about correctness in terms of history or technique; it is not about influence and deference…. this work concerns what is possible through collaboration, through layering and uncovering, film and print.”<\/p>\n

Jessica and Nathaniel will also be part of a panel discussion at the museum on October 6 at 6 PM, with Will Pergl, Dr. Melissa Shew and Dr. Bonnie Brennen. Other artists featured in Current Tendencies II include Reginald Baylor, Mark Brautigam, Julian Correa, Lisa Hecht, Sharon Kerry-Harlan, Luc Leplae, Will Pergl, and Jordan Waraksa. Catalogs are available at the museum, or as a PDF download<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Wikipedia<\/a>New Forms Festival: Public Domain<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/strong>Vancouver, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kildall, among others
\nWaldorf Hotel, Vancouver<\/a>
\n1489 East Hastings Street
\nVancouver, BC V5L 1S4, Canada
\nSeptember 9-11, 2011<\/p>\n

New Forms Festival 2011<\/a> delves into the theme of “Public Domain”, focusing on concepts of copyright art, public interactivity, media fa\u00c3\u00a7ades and relationships between public and private spaces. Utilizing the entire hotel premises, the festival will act as a creative hub, a laboratory for exploration and discovery. Throughout the festival, performances, video projects, workshops and installations will take place in the hotel rooms, various bars, spaces, hallways, outer walls and the back parking lot, including artists such as Antoine Schmitt, Negativland, Patrick Cruz, ARO, Lief Hall and Hart Snider.<\/p>\n

Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern famously used Wikipedia as an artistic platform, creating a collaborative project that explores and challenges our understanding of how knowledge is formed and disseminated. For over a year they planned the initiation of Wikipedia Art<\/em><\/a>, a socially generated artwork that exploits a feedback loop in Wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s citation mechanism. Here, a “word war” across blogs, interviews and the mainstream press, which involved Wikipedians, artists, journalists, lawyers and even the Wikimedia Foundation itself, continuously defined and transformed a work of art in much the same way that these categories define the discourses of the everyday. Their Wikipedia Art <\/em>hotel room for the New Forms Festival plays with the kinds of parodoxical publicity needed to begin and sustain a Wikipedia page, and charts the inception, birth, life, death and resurrection of their work. It questions the authoritative role of Wikipedia, and reveals its fallibility whilst debating the control of, access to, and creation of, knowledge.<\/p>\n

\"static\"<\/a>Transcode<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/strong>Pretoria, South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n

UNISA Gallery<\/a>
\nUniversity of South Africa
\nKgorong Building, Ground floor
\nPreller & Ridge Street
\nMuckleneuk Ridge, Pretoria
\nSeptember 7 – 30, 2011
\nOpening reception: September 7<\/p>\n

Transcode: Dialogues Around Intermedia Practice, curated by Gwen Miller at the new UNISA (University of South Africa) Gallery, explores the space between digital and traditional work for contemporary, South African artist-researchers. It premieres new work by many artists, including Lawrence Lemaoana, Celia de Villiers, Frikkie Eksteen, Marcus Neustetter, Carolyn Parton, Churchill Madikida, Colleen Alborough, Minette V\u00c3\u00a1ri and Fabian Wargau, among others.<\/p>\n

Nathaniel Stern’s new piece, static<\/em><\/a>, is an enclosed installation of six looped films, where each is edited down through “thresholding” the audio: any time the volume goes above a set and very low amplitude, that section is completely removed, and the film jump cuts to the next (nearly) silent sequence. These are in a tight corridor with three body-sized and wall-to-wall projections on either side, spatially putting viewers “in quotes” as they inadvertently cast shadows into the stories around them. High-volume loudspeakers accompany each projection, creating a hum out of the minor background noise left behind in all six Best Picture-winning films: Apocalypse Now, Casablanca, Silence of the Lambs, On The Waterfront, The Godfather II<\/em> and Midnight Cowboy<\/em>. What we see or experience is reliant not only on the work’s rich-but-noiseless stasis and over-determined visual action, but also our familiarity with each film or filmic genre. The clips’ varied lengths, styles and narratives, all seen together, accent our collective, social relationships to archetypal stories and characters at large.<\/p>\n

Also on exhibition is Stern’s well known interactive piece, stuttering<\/em><\/a>, and several works from his Compressionism<\/em><\/a> and Distill Life<\/em><\/a> series (the latter with collaborator Jessica Meuninck-Ganger).<\/p>\n

Out of the Suitcase<\/span><\/strong>
\n\"At<\/a>Milwaukee, Wisconsin<\/em><\/p>\n

Nathaniel Stern and Jessica Meuninck-Ganger are also part of Out of the Suitcase: Works by Recent Recipients of the Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Awards<\/a>, with their collaborative and solo print work. The exhibition is curated by Mark Lawson and Bruce Knackert in the Frederick Layton Gallery at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, on view now through October 8, and with an opening reception Thursday, September 8, at 6PM.<\/p>\n

Other participating artists include: Nicole Brown, Matt Cipov, Michael Davidson, Chris Davis Benavides, Santiago Cucullu, Nicholas Grider, Karen Gunderman, Nicolas Lampert, Angela Laughingheart, Faythe Levine, Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg, Kimberly Miller, Will Pergl, John Ruebartsch, Val Schleicher, Sonja Thomsen, Christopher Willey and James Zwadlo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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