Intermedia Programs

Tuesdays at the IMRC: Kemi Ilesanmi
2019-04-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Kemi Ilesanmiis Executive Director of The Laundromat Project, which advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities. She is inspired by the immense possibilities for joyful justice at the intersection of arts and community. She has previously worked at Creative Capital Foundation and Walker Art Center. In 2015, she was appointed by the Mayor of New York City to the Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission, and in 2017 she was honored by the Metropolitan Museum. She serves on the boards of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and The Broad Room. She is a graduate of Smith College, NYU, and Coro Leadership NY. She is currently a Sterling Network Fellow.
The Intermedia MFA Tuesdays at the IMRC Lecture Series provides the UMaine, Orono and Bangor community with a diverse schedule of compelling speakers, and performances by contemporary and interdisciplinary artists and performers from around the country and world.
All events are free, open to the public and take place at the Innovative Media Research Commercialization Center, located in Stewart Commons at the University of Maine, at 7 p.m. On Tuesdays.
The following artists will present in the Spring 2019 Tuesday’s at the IMRC Lecture Series:
February 5 — Joanne Arnold
February 26 — Nyeema Morgan
March 5 — Lilly McElroy
April 2 — Frank Mauceri
April 16 — Kemi Ilesanmi
For more information, visit the Intermedia Program website.

Visting Artist
2020-02-25 19:00 - 20:30 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Eve Mosher – Artist in Residence

“Eve Mosher is an artist living and working in New York City. Acutely aware of the ecological and climate devastation we are witnessing, she has turned her creativity towards creating space for grappling with radical truth about our contemporary moment and for engaging in the complexity of emotions related to that truth. Within this space, she also creates opportunities for radical imagination of future possibilities. Creatively communicating the climate emergency since 2007, she reached a breaking point in the fall of 2018 which has brought about her own truth and radical imagining of the role of creativity in a rapidly changing world. None of the previous experience, accolades, press or degrees have adequately prepared her for the moment we are in.”

View her work here: https://www.evemosher.com/

FilmFest 2020
2020-03-03 19:00 - 20:30 | ME

Visiting Artist
2020-03-10 19:00 - 20:30 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Sean Glover
“N. Sean Glover is an artist who lives and works in Boston, MA. His artwork uses materials and processes (both new and old) to investigate the histories of objects, labor, and technology. Sean has had the position of fresco instructor at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture since 2008 where he had attended as a participant in 2003. From 2013-2015, he was the Visiting Assistant Professor in Sculpture at Maine College of Art. In 2005, he was a recipient of a Traveling Scholars award at the SMFA in Boston, which he used to live in Florence, Italy and San Francisco, California. In 2011, Sean received his MFA at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and was a recipient of a Blanche E Colman Award in 2012 and an Artist Resource Trust Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation in 2013. He has exhibited in San Francisco, Boston, Galway, Helsinki, New York, and Miami.”

More information about his work here: https://www.nseanglover.com/

Visiting Artist
2020-03-24 19:00 - 20:30 | ME
Dave McKenzie
“In an attempt to examine the structures of our desires and beliefs I create videos, installations, objects, and multiples from an interest in the inner workings of contemporary culture. My concerns as an artist are indistinguishable from the concerns I have as a being in the world. These concerns of daily life are extended to my practice and made primary over other considerations that may be considered merely formal or art historical. I am not an artist who is concerned with defining and sub-defining my practice, but I am someone who desperately wants to produce new situations that may become models for myself or others. I often try to do this through the most economical of means producing an economy of form that hopefully allows the work to feel familiar, and at the same time the slight formal differences allow for the generation of new areas for discussion and consideration. As always, I hope the work is not a simple reiteration of what is known, but that it can be understood to be an argument for why we think we know at all. ” – Dave McKenzie

View More about his work here: https://vielmetter.com/artists/dave-mckenzie

Visiting Artist
2020-04-14 19:00 - 20:30 | ME
Aviva Rahmani

“Aviva Rahmani began her career as a performance artist, founding and directing the American Ritual Theatre (1968-1971), performing throughout California. She graduated from California Institute of the Arts and received a PhD from Plymouth University, UK, Rahmani has presented workshops on her theoretical approach to environmental restoration and her transdisciplinary work has been exhibited internationally including in The Independent Museum of Contemporary Art (IMCA), Cyprus with the National Centres of Contemporary Art (NCCA), Ekaterinburg and Moscow, Russian Federation, KRICT, Daejeon, Korea, the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO. Her work has been discussed and covered in books, essays, and in art magazines such as Art in America, Art News, The Huffington Post and Leonardo. Rahmani’s video documentation Gulf to Gulf sessions have been viewed on line from over eighty-five countries. “Trigger Points/ Tipping Points,” a precursor to Gulf to Gulf, premiered at the 2007 Venice Biennale. In 2002, her pioneering community action project, Blue Rocks, helped restore degraded wetlands on Vinalhaven Island, Maine a USDA investment of over $500,000. The Blued Trees Symphony (2015 – present) has received numerous awards and been extensively written about and exhibited internationally. A Mock Trial is scheduled for the project at the Cardozo Law School, NYC on April 25, 2018.” -Aviva Rahmani

See more of Aviva’s work here: http://ghostnets.com/index.html

Farah Al Qasimi via Zoom
2020-09-15 19:00 - 20:00 | UMaine Intermedia MFA, Stewart Commons, Orono
Farah Al Qasimi (b.1991, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; lives and works in Brooklyn and Dubai) works in photography, video, and performance. Her recent commission with Public Art Fund, Back and Forth Disco, is on view around New York City through May 17. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco; the CCS Bard Galleries at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York; Helena Anrather, New York; The Third Line, Dubai; The List Visual Arts Center at MIT, Cambridge; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; and the Houston Center for Photography, Houston. Al Qasimi received her MFA from the Yale School of Art. She has participated in residencies at the Delfina Foundation, London; the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine; and is a recipient of the New York NADA Artadia Prize and the Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; and NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, New York. Links to my recent show here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a3lgy16txhj6ns6/AAC-58eA3yszp31ihVCrxaQ_a?dl=0

Contact Susan Smith for Zoom Invite: susan.lynn.smith@maine.edu

Krista Caballero Via Zoom
2020-10-06 19:00 - 20:00 | UMaine Intermedia MFA, Stewart Commons, Orono
Krista Caballero is an interdisciplinary artist exploring issues of agency, survival, and environmental change in a more-than-human world. Moving freely between traditional and emerging media, her work explores the messy and often surprising encounters between human, ecological, and technological landscapes. In 2010 she created Mapping Meaning, an ongoing project that brings together artists, scientists, and scholars through experimental workshops, exhibitions, and transdisciplinary research. Caballero was selected as a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow and is now a Smithsonian Research Associate working with the National Museum of Natural History researching the cultural implications of bird species decline. Her work has been presented across the United States, as well as internationally in exhibitions and festivals such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Dubai and New Mexico; the North American Ornithological Conference; “Paradoxes in Video” at Mohsen Gallery in Tehran; EXTREME. ENVIRONMENTS / RAY2018 Photo Triennale in Germany; and Balance-Unbalance International Festival in Queensland, Australia. Caballero received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and is currently the Associate Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities (EH) at Bard College.
Zoom Invite Contact: susan.lynn.smith@maine.edu

Quaranzine Exhibition
2020-10-09 10:00 - 2020-11-13 18:00 | ME
QUARANZINE, edited and organized by Marc Fischer QUARANZINE was published as a five color Risograph prints, one color per issue, in an edition size of approximately 100-175 copies of each issue. Most of the issues of QUARANZINE were pasted up around Chicago and given away during the run of its publication. The exhibition at the IMRC Center is a presentation of all 100 of the issues of QUARANZINE so that the viewers will get to see the full run of the publication and the diversity and creativity of the publication.
Some information directly from Marc Fischer:
“By Friday, March 13th, I felt the full importance of staying home to slow the spread of coronavirus, and so I began to shelter in place. With the exception of a quick trip to Walgreens to pick up a prescription, one more grocery trip, and walks outside, away from people to get air and move my legs, I’ve been hunkered down at home with my wife Jen, an academic advisor who is now working remotely. Most of the things I want to do creatively and am employed to do are not possible now or have to be changed in a way that requires me to stay home. Teaching is on pause or moving online. Book fairs and related events are canceled or postponed. Other Public Collectors projects are impossible to continue in any realistic way until it is safe to do so.
I did not want to stop making things, however. I had just ordered more ink and master film for the RISOGRAPH and I have been hoarding odd amounts of paper for years. The name QUARANZINE occurred to me (as it did to multiple other self-publishers as a shared epiphany) and I decided that one-page zines would a way I would occupy my time and brain to get through this pandemic and all of the anxiety that has come with it. The zines would also be a way to collaborate with others outside of any kind of institutional framework, returning to the spirit of sharing and generosity that made me start Public Collectors to begin with. Since March 15th, that is what I have been making. Every day I make a new issue and if I miss a day, I make two the next day. Each person or idea gets both sides of a single sheet of paper. I’m printing about 100-175 copies of each issue. Some will go to the contributors, I’ve been hanging some on utility poles, bus shelters and dumpsters around my neighborhood during solitary walks, and the bulk will be turned into complete sets to sell or give to libraries later.”

Jodi Clayton Via Zoom
2020-10-20 19:00 - 20:00 | UMaine Intermedia MFA, Stewart Commons, Orono
Jodi Clayton is a Maine fiber artist and owner of One Lupine Fiber Arts store in Bangor, Maine which she founded in 2002. Her business began and has grown with her deep love of wool and natural fibers. She has a rich background in knitting, spinning, felting and textile design.
Zoom Invite Contact: susan.lynn.smith@maine.edu

Pecha Kucha IPhD Students
2020-11-10 19:00 - 20:00 | ME

Allison Maria Rodriquez Via Zoom
2020-11-17 19:00 - 20:00 | UMaine Intermedia MFA, Stewart Commons, Orono
Allison Maria Rodriguez is a first-generation Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist working predominantly in video installation. Her work focuses extensively on climate change, species extinction and the interconnectivity of existence. Through video, performance, digital animation, photography, drawing, collage and installation, Rodriguez creates immersive experiential spaces that challenge conventional ways of knowing and understanding the world. In addition to her art practice, she is a curator, educator and arts organizer – and was appointed as the Assistant Director at Boston Cyberarts this summer. Rodriguez is a grand prize winner of the Creative Climate Awards sponsored by The Human Impacts Institute and she was also recently awarded an Earthwatch Communications Fellowship for a residency at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre to work on their “Climate Change at the Arctic’s Edge” project. In 2019, she was honored by WBUR’s The ARTery as one of “The ARTery 25”, a celebration of 25 millennials of color impacting Boston’s arts and culture scene.
Zoom Invite Contact: susan.lynn.smith@maine.edu

Visiting Artist Lecture Series
2022-01-25 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-02-01 19:00 - 20:00 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Join us Tuesdays at 7pm!
Intermedia welcomes Spring 2022 Visiting Artists:
Bill Giordano : January 25th, 2022
Elijah Ober : February 1st, 2022
Erin Johnson: February 8th, 2022
Alexis Hope: February 22nd, 2022
Bernie Vinzani: March 1st, 2022
Walter Tisdale: March 8th, 2022

Visiting Artist: Dave Mckenzie
2022-09-20 19:00 - 20:00 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Join us in person or virtually!
IMRC 5Hilltop Rd Orono, ME 04469
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Visiting Artists: Tectonic Industries
2022-09-27 19:00 - 20:00 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Join us in person or virtually!
IMRC 5 Hilltop Rd Orono, ME 04469
Zoom Link & Login
Join by Telephone: +1 646 931 3860
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Meeting ID: 865 6926 5795

Changing the Paradigm: Marking a surface, Marking the Society
2022-10-06 19:00 - 20:00 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Artist Talk by Aviva Rahmani, as part of the Creative Ecologies Series, funded by a University of Maine Arts Initiative seed grant.
Thursday October 6th, 7pm
Join us in person or virtually!
IMRC Room104
5 Hilltop Rd
Orono, ME
04469
Zoom Pre-Event Registration

Visiting Artist: Ashley Page
2022-10-18 19:00 - 20:00 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Join us in person or virtually!
5 Hilltop Rd Orono, ME 04469
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To Join by telephone: +1 646 931 3860
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Meeting ID: 822 8396 9776

Visiting Artist: Annea Lockwood
2022-11-01 19:00 - 20:00 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
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5 Hilltop Rd Orono, ME 04469
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Join by Telephone: +1 646 876 9923
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Meeting ID: 831 2106 2117

Open House
2022-12-06 17:00 - 19:00 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Come See Art!

Open Studio
2022-12-06 17:00 - 19:00 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Stop by the Stewart Commons (5 Hilltop Rd) for an evening of exhibitions from Studio Art, New Media, and Intermedia students. Studios and classrooms of Stewart Commons (IMRC & Wyeth Family Studio Art Center) will be open for folks to visit and explore as they wish.
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available. No registration is required. For more information, contact the Intermedia Department at um.intermedia@maine.edu

Visiting Artist: Maria Villanueva
2023-02-07 19:00 - 20:30 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Join the Intermedia department in welcoming visiting artist Maria Villanueva on Tuesday February 7th from 7 to 8pm.
The event is located in the APPE Space of the IMRC building at 5 Hilltop Rd. We would love to see you in person!
For those interested in attending from afar please see the below Zoom invitation:
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://maine.zoom.us/j/82897286956?pwd=[REDACTED]
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Or Telephone:
US: +1 309 205 3325 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 876 9923

Visiting Artist: Chelsea Knight
2023-02-21 19:00 - 20:00 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Please join us in welcoming visiting artist Chelsea Knight! Chelsea will be zooming in with us on Tuesday February 21st, from 7-8pm.
Come watch her presentation and Q&A on the big screen at IMRC (5 Hilltop Rd Orono, ME 04469) or join us virtually.
Zoom details:
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://maine.zoom.us/j/87888939566?pwd=[REDACTED]
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Or Telephone: US: +1 646 876 9923
Meeting ID: 878 8893 9566

Visiting Artist: Letitia Huckaby
2023-03-01 19:00 - 20:00 | ME
On Wednesday March 1st from 7-8pm we will be hosting a completely virtual visit with visiting artist Letitia Huckaby!
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://maine.zoom.us/j/88019700995?pwd=[REDACTED]
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Or Telephone:
US: +1 305 224 1968 or +1 309 205 3325 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 876 9923
Meeting ID: 880 1970 0995
From a Polycom or other H.323 room system that is not a member of a video conference, click call on the remote and dial one of the following IP addresses followed by # the meeting ID and # again:
162.255.36.11 (US East)
162.255.37.11 (US West)
Meeting ID: 880 1970 0995
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Please call your campus Help Desk if you need assistance.
We hope to see you there!

Anna Martin: Art-At-Work: Creativity & Social Practice as Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research
2023-04-04 12:00 - 13:00 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Please join us in supporting Interdisciplinary PhD Candidate Anna Martin!

April 4th, 2023 12pm in IMRC104.

This is an In-Person Only Event.

Co-Translation: Making the Invisible Visible
2023-04-10 17:00 - 2023-05-12 19:00 | ME
Join us for a collaborative exhibit between Environmental Engineering students and Intermedia students!
Nanotechnology & Art vs. PFAS & MicroPlastics
Exhibit on view April 11th-12th, Gallery Hours: 9-6pm
Opening Reception April10th 5-7pm.

This is an In Person Event Only

Intrusions: Visiting Artist Performance
2023-04-18 19:00 - 20:00 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Join Interdisciplinary PhD student Rori Smith and collaborators for “Intrusions” a reproductive justice dance that asks, “how do we organize, how do we support?”
Tuesday April 18th, 7pm at IMRC104.

Mary Kate Jones 2023 MA Thesis Exhibiton: Seeds and Threads
2023-04-25 19:00 - 20:00 | IMRC, Steward Commons, Orono, ME, United States
Please join us for a special evening supporting Mary Kate Jones and her MA Thesis Exhibition: Seeds and Threads
April 25th 2023 7pm
IMRC 104

This is an In Person Only Event

Illuminating Sound: Ruixin Niu 2023 MA Thesis Performance
2023-04-25 19:00 - 20:00 | ME
Please join us in celebrating and bearing witness to Intermedia MA graduate Ruixin Niu’s performance and exhibit.

Tuesday April 25th, 7pm at IMRC#104

"Basement Ontology" An Intermedia Art Event: Poetry, Video Projection, Performance by IPHD student Sean Lopez
2023-05-05 19:00 - 20:00 | ME
Please join us in supporting IPHD student Sean Lopez for his debut of “Basement Ontology” An Intermedia Art Event with Video Projection, Poetry, and Performance.
On view from May 1st to the 5th with a live performance on Friday May 5th, at 7pm. IMRC 104. Gallery Hours 9-6pm.

Livestream Broadcast: twitch.tv/seanylopez
