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Guest Speakers : SVA MFA VISUAL NARRATIVE 2013-2016
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Chrissie Iles, Curator at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, discusses Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation
Movement. This exhibition brought together a group of new and rarely seen works by Paul
McCarthy. The installations, films, photographs, and drawings that were on view
focused on a central element of McCarthy's practice: the way the body is destabilized through dislocations of architectural
space. The disorientation that threads though all of the works that were shown there were at once formal, corporeal, and
psychological. The screens, projectors, and rotating cameras of Spinning Room placed the viewer at the center of hypnotic
environment whereas the moving walls and doors of Bang Bang Room collapsed our notion of stable architectural space. Whitney Curator Chrissie Iles gave us the lowdown.
http://whitney.org
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Alexander Juhasz, production
and character designer, The Little Prince Mister Juhasz completed a BFA in Illustration
at the School of visual Arts in New York in 2005. With director Jamie Caliri. he created many successful and award winning
projects together such as: United Airlines commercials, Heart and Dragon, The Shins: Rifle’s Spiral music video and
the United States of Tara main title sequence. In 2012 Alex was invited to join The Babadook
crew in Australia to create a Pop-up Book for the film. As of today, The Babadook has been critically acclaimed as the “Best
Horror Film of 2014” and has won multiple awards internationally. The Pop-up book is being published as a collectible
item. The Little Prince with director Mark Osborne, will be released in 2016. http://alexanderjuhasz.com/ |
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Alicia DeSantis | Ambidextrous New Media Art/Editrix for The New York Times.
Alicia
DeSantis is a visual journalist living in Brooklyn, NY. She grew up in Chicago, Scotland, and Texas, amongst other
places — finally landing in Boston, where she graduated from Harvard. She is currently working as the graphics editor
for culture at the New York Times. In 2013, she received her Ph.D. from Columbia University, where she completed a dissertation
on the history of mental imagery.
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Claire Phillips | Feminist Science Fiction Ms. Phillips is the author of the
novella, Black Market Babies (11th Hour, 1998) and recipient of the Academy of American Poets, First Prize. A regular contributor
for Black Clock magazine, she has read for the publication with notable authors Mark Z. Danielewski, Jonathan Lethem, Rick
Moody, and Geoff Nicholson, and participated in the 2014 LA Lit Crawl. Presently she teaches writing
at CalArts, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), and at UC Irvine. She is co-founder and coordinator
of the L.A. Writers Reading Series at Glendale Community College, now in its sixth year, with notable author appearances by
Aimee Bender, Bernard Cooper, James Ellory, Janet Fitch, Amy Gerstler, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, David L. Ulin, and D.J. Waldie,
among others. http://claire-phillips.com/
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Joshua Yumibe Ph.D. | Color in Early Cinema Dr. Yumibe is Associate Professor
Director of Film Studies University of Michigan and the author of Moving Color: Early Film,
Mass Culture, Modernism (Rutgers University Press, 2012), which examines early color cinema in relation to the
cultural and aesthetic horizon of modernism and modernity. His research focuses on the aesthetic and
technological history of cinema. Other areas of interest include avant-garde and experimental cinemas,
nineteenth and early twentieth century visual culture, Frankfurt school theory, and archival theories and practices. He
is also the co-author of Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2015), with Giovanna
Fossati, Tom Gunning, and Jonathon Rosen. http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/yumibe/
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Henrik Drescher | China Days In 1967 Drescher and his family emigrated to the United States. Drescher began studying at the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston but quit after one semester to become an illustrator. While travelling in North
America and Europe he kept journals of notes and drawings that informed his later work.
Drescher's editorial illustrations appear regularly in the New York Times, the Washington
Post, Newsweek, Time, and Rolling Stone. He has also written and illustrated several books, including books for children.
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Alexandra Zsigmond of The
New York Times | The Anxiety Series
Day in, day out, Alexandra Zsigmond, Deputy
Art Director for the Opinion section in The New York Times works with some of the world’s top illustrators,
designers and image makers. |
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Graham Rawle | Case
studies in Visual Narrative
Graham
Rawle is a writer and collage artist whose visual work incorporates illustration, design, photography and installation. Amongst
his published books are the Wonder Book of Fun, Lying Doggo, and Diary of an Amateur Photographer. His critically acclaimed
Woman’s World, a novel created entirely from fragments of found text, is being made into a feature film. His reinterpretation of The Wizard of Oz won 2009 Book of the
Year at the British Book Design Awards. Graham lectures and exhibits internationally and teaches on the MA Sequential Design/Illustration
and MA Arts and Design by Independent Project courses at the University of Brighton. His most recent book, The Card, was published
in June 2012 by Atlantic Books. www.grahamrawle.com/
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Lewis Klahr | Collage Artist
Called "the reigning proponent of cut and paste" by J. Hoberman of the Village Voice, master collagist
Lewis Klahr has been making films since 1977. He is known for his uniquely idiosyncratic
collage films which have screened extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia—in venues such as New York's
Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Biennial, the New York Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Hong
Kong International Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the LA County Museum of Art, the Tate Modern and REDCAT. In May
of 2010, The Wexner Center for the Arts presented a five program retrospective of Klahr's films. In March of 2013 the
Museum of the Moving Image presented a retrospective weekend of Klahr's digital work since 2008.
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Martha Colburn |
Multi-threat Multi-Media Artist Martha
Colburn is best
known for her animation films, which are created through puppetry, collage, and paint on glass techniques. Colburn (b. 1971, Gettysburg, PA) earned a MA from Rijksakademie
Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL and a BA from Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD. She is the recipient of numerous
awards, grants and residencies including the Rema Hort Mann Award, the Sarah Lawrence College Film Award, the Kenneth Patchen
Award, the New York Foundation of the Arts Grant, the New York Council for the Arts Grant, the Experimental Television Grant,
the Jerome Foundation Film Grant and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant. http://marthacolburn.com/
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Lou Beach | Construction Worker with Scissors and Glue Lou Beach was born in Germany of Polish parents, came to the US when he was 4. Lou Beach is a
wildly successful illustrator, working in the music business, publishing and magazine/newspapers arenas working creating
many now classic album covers. Writing has come as a surprising second act for him. Beach has
also been revitalized in migrating to fine art by showing in multiple acclaimed and successful gallery exhibitions and showing
with his two adult children, Sam and Alpha Lubicz. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the Art Institute
of Chicago. http://www.loubeach.com/illustration/ |
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Mark Kingsley | Branding and Design Philosophy
Mark Kingsley received a personal lesson in branding
from Ralph Lauren… traveled with the punk band Bad Religion… counts some of the greatest cultural institutions
in the United States as his clients … co-owned an award-winning design studio for over 15 years… believes that
leading is also mentoring… was nominated for a Grammy… was an author on SpeakUp, the first significant design
blog… was at Ogilvy’s Brand Innovation Group (BIG) during its height… worked at Landor as the global
creative lead on the Citi account… knows the dark arts of corporate America. http://www.malcontent.com/
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Carl
Schoonover | The Mind Looks at the BrainDr. Schoonover
is a postdoctoral fellow in the Axel Laboratory at Columbia University where he investigates the neural circuitry of behaviors
mediated by olfaction. His doctoral work in the Bruno Laboratory at Columbia University focused on microanatomy and electrophysiology
of rodent somatosensory cortex. He is the author of Portraits of the Mind, and has written for The New York Times, Le Figaro,
and Scientific American. In 2007 he co-founded NeuWrite, a collaborative working group for scientists, writers, and those
in between.Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century (Abrams 2010) follows the fascinating
exploration of the brain through images. http://www.carlschoonover.com/
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Martin Venezky | Appetite Engineers Martin
Venezky is the mastermind and master designer behind Appetite Engineers, an internationally recognized, San Francisco-based
design firm that has been running on all cylinders since it was founded in 1997. At that time Venezky was celebrated for
his design of Speak Magazine, an adventurous and groundbreaking quarterly. But soon Appetite Engineers expanded
into exhibition design for Reebok (1998, 1999), revolutionary print work for the Sundance Film Festival (2001), and
award-winning catalogs for the Wattis Institute, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art
and the International Center of Photography. http://www.appetiteengineers.com/
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Linda Holliday, CEO of CITIA Reconstructs the Book The
ebook company Citia is making and selling books that are reformatted as hyperactive, virtual, stacks of cards. Linda Holliday, CEO will explain the history, philosophy & current incarnation of the Citia system for e-book
publishing, which is attempting nothing short of re-imagining publishing & re-engineering the form of the book itself. Each stack of digital files—tagged with search terms,
scattered across the Web—can be redistributed as fragments from a book-as-mothership, to which a reader might never
return. https://citia.com
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Chris
Fisher, Background Painter Titmouse Animation Studio, NY.Titmouse, Inc. is an animation studio that develops and produces animated
television programming, feature films, music videos, title sequences, commercials and short films. The studio opened in
2000, and has offices in Los Angeles, New York City, Saharanpur, and Vancouver.
http://www.coroflot.com/theartofchrisfisher
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SARAH FORNACE is a choreographer, performer, and narrative theorist based
in Chicago. Her interests include: narrative structure, theories of time, non-verbal storytelling, spectacle, and interactions
with (in)animate objects. She has choreographed fights and stunts for Depaul University, Court Theatre, Red Orchid Theatre,
Steppenwolf’s Garage Rep. series, The New Colony, Adventure Stage, and elsewhere. She has performed with Redmoon,
Lookingglass Theatre Company, Collaboraction, and Babes with Blades. Sarah has been a member of Blair Thomas and Company
(puppetry) and Boum Twa (ladder acrobatics). She currently teaches movement at Columbia College Chicago.
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John Hogan | Comics and Conceptual
Art John Hogan creates artworks engendering drawing, writing, music,
performance, radio-plays, and video. His performance art evokes popular forms such as Community Theater and garage rock,
which resist professionalization and celebrate untrained enthusiasm. His paintings and drawings are built on a visual
vocabulary rooted in American folk art, the Old Masters of Renaissance Europe, Japanese scroll painting, and underground comics.
Hogan satirizes the grandstanding of
dominant ideologies, with a focus on comic anti-heroes in situations that dramatize imperialistic, colonial, and institutional
struggles.
http://johnhoganstudio.com
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Alexander Ross | Influence Threads The painting and drawing practices of Alexander Ross, always in fundamental opposition, have increasingly been cross-pollinating.
The paintings create photorealist illusions, and are thus, to a high degree, preordained. They are mappings of a kind, in
which, in Caroll Dunham’s appreciative phrase, Ross “systematizes rendering as a conflation of sonar and paint-by-numbers.”
The drawings are earthy and florid, drawn as if by an ecstatic 19th-century Dr. Seuss looking through a microscope and reporting
back from the microbial frontier. - Hybrids, Mutants: Alexander Ross at David
Nolan by David Brody http://www.davidnolangallery.com/artists/alexander-ross/ |
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GARY PANTER Gary Panter was born in Oklahoma and
raised in Texas. He studied painting at the East Texas State University and moved to Los Angeles in 1977. In L.A. he worked
on multiple fronts, including painting, design, comics, and commercial imagery, establishing a pattern of creating across
traditional boundaries, and in multiple media, that endures to this day. Can I mention Pee Wee's Playhouse ?
In the late 1970s he exhibited his first major suite of paintings
and drew posters and fliers for the likes of The Germs and The Screamers. He also began a long association with the various
incarnations of Pee-wee Herman, as well as creating the early adventures of his punk/nuclear/hillbilly alter ego, Jimbo. In
1980 Gary published "The Rozz-Tox Manifesto", a highly influential document that directed his generation to infiltrate
the mainstream with underground ideas and culture.
Gary's
paintings occupy a large portion of a very prolific 1980s, during which he also designed the sets and puppets for Pee-wee's
Playhouse, completed record covers for the likes of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and maintained an active comics output through
his own mini-comics and his contributions to Raw magazine and other anthologies.
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Anton Marini | Vade Anton Marini (vade) is a video performance artist and programmer. His artwork focuses on improvisation and realtime
manipulation of video. He plays, bends, rips, tears, shreds, morphs, molds, glitches and synthesizes pixels to form new visual
experiences. He designs open source tools to help facilitate the realtime video performance medium.
He is
a former artist in residence at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and researcher in residence at NYU's Brooklyn Experimental
Media Center. He has also taught at Parsons/New School Design and Technology Department and performed and taught workshops
at many new media and video festivals around the world. |
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