Submitted by Sarah.Lou on Mon, 01/10/2011 – 11:20am My work often uses technology to draw attention to the experience of thinking, while exploring relationships between the body, language, thought and the environment. Inevitably the work also explores how technology and interactivity affect perception. I am interested in thought as connected to bodies and situations, individual […]
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The Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the President’s Office and the Intermedia MFA Program, invited well-known digital artist Reza Safavi to visit the Orono campus this past week for a whirlwind two-day schedule that included a presentation, interactivity programming workshop and meeting students one-on-one. Safavi lead a three-hour workshop with both Intermedia MFA students […]
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Karen Montanaro performed and talked about her work as a mime/dance artist on October 20, at the Black Box Theater, on the University of Maine Campus. The Intermedia graduate students expressed interested in her experiences of ‘creating from the in-between space’ of mime and dance. Karen opened her show with a piece that she choreographed […]
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The art installation that I presented in the VI Biennale of Tijuana was called Skinning (In Spanish Desprendimientos). This was an installation of a huge human cocoon measuring 17.40 feet tall and made of transparent plastic, pork skin, horsehair and thread. The materials explore the paradoxes of the human condition; the relationship between wrappings and smothering, and oppression […]
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The Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the President’s Office and the Intermedia MFA Program, invited well-known digital artist Reza Safavi to visit the Orono campus this past week for a whirlwind two-day schedule that included a presentation, interactivity programming workshop and meeting students one-on-one. Safavi lead a three-hour workshop with both Intermedia MFA students […]
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Submitted by Matthew.Leavitt on Wed, 11/03/2010 – 12:55pm John Bell is a software developer, data artist, and teacher in his final year of the Intermedia MFA program. Ranging from straightforward and utilitarian to confounding and aggressively useless, the running theme across his projects is a desire to merge concept, design, and technology to convey a single, […]
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Submitted by Matthew.Leavitt on Tue, 10/26/2010 – 12:10pm Last month, on September 14, 2010, our tired and fearless leader, Professor Laurie Hicks returned from her visit to China the night before her invited guest and colleague Graeme Sullivan visited the U-Maine Campus for a talk on “Art Practice As Research”. She introduced Mr. Sullivan, the […]
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George Kinghorn, Director and Curator of the UMMA, is scheduled to visit Intermedia MFA students to discuss their portfolio’s, grant writing and other topics on October 27th. The Intermedia MFA Program is hosting curators from museums and galleries state-wide over the course of the fall 2010 semester in an effort to help graduate students make […]
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Artist Reza Safavi will talk about his current interactive art projects and collaborations. Reza’s work investigates how the presence of technology in daily life shapes human experience: our perceptions, social behavior, economics, entertainment and the way we meet our basic needs. He uses video, photography, sound, sculpture and digital devices to create interactive experiences that […]
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Intermedia MFA student Carol Ayoob presented her piece ‘CONVEY’ at Minskey Theater on October 14th at 7:30 pm. The piece featured Anatole Wieck on violin, Karen Montanaro performing interpretive dance, Sarah Peters operating the conveyor belt and Carol Ayoob as conductor. The performance began with Sarah Peters picking up pieces of trash that littered the […]
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