A History of Paleontology Illustration - by Jane Davidson, Professor Art History

Writing from the perspective of an art historian, Jane P. Davidson traces the history of paleontology illustration from the 15th century to the present. For more information click here

Congratulations to Art Preparator, Ceramics Instructor Fred Reid for winning the 2007 Classified Staff of the Year award. The award will be presented at the College's award ceremony, which will be held on May 1, 2008 in the William Raggio Building, Room 1003 at 4pm

Laetitia Sonami, Visiting Perforamnce Artist

Please join us on Monday April 28 at 7:30 PM in the Black Box Studio Theatre in Church Fine Arts for Aural Spans. We will have the Free Improv Ensemble from the Music Department performing. Students from Art 452: Performances in Experimental Sound, will also be performing. This semester they have been studying sound as an artistic material to work with, notions of time, gesture and the indeterminate.

Laetitia Sonami is the headlining act. She will be performing two pieces- "THE APPEARANCE of SILENCE (The Invention of Perspective)" and "Why_dreams like a loose engine".

Laetitia Sonami was born in France and settled in the United States in 1975 to pursue her interest in electronic music. Her work combines text, music and "found sound" from the world, in compositions which have been described as "performance novels". For the past few years she has developed and adapted new gestural controllers to musical performance and composed works with these materials. The "lady's glove", which she developed at STEIM, Amsterdam, with engineer Bert Bongers, is made out of black lycra, embedded with an array of sensors which track the slightest motion of each finger, the hand and the arm. Max-MSP software maps the incoming data and controls sounds, motors, lights and/or video. The performance thus becomes a small dance where the movements shape the music and its environment. To view her website click here

Art Department Notes:

CONGRATULATIONS! -Associate Professor, Painting/Ceramics Michael Sarich for winning the Dean's Award for Research and Creative Activity for 2007.

CONGRATULATIONS! - Devin Hosselkus has been awarded the Deans Award for Performance and Artistryfor more info click here

CONGRATULATIONS! - Ahren Hertel has been awarded the Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award for more info click here

Annual Student Art Show - Call for Submissions from BFA and BA students. Entries will be accepted April 14 & 15 at the Sheppard Gallery from 11am to 5pm. Any medium accepted. Cost is $5 per entry. For more information visit the Art Club web page here

The Salt Satyagrah Online - From March 12th through April 6th Associate Professor Joseph DeLappe will be reenacting Mahatma Gandhi's "Salt March to Dandi" entirely within the online world of Second Life. His avatar's forward movements will be controlled by a customized treadmill to allow him to physically "walk" the 240 miles of the original march. Visit his blog click here

Iraqimemorial.org - Commemorating Civilian Deaths - Associate Professor, Digital Media, Joseph DeLappe has launched his most recent work. Iraqimemorial.org is an onlinecall to action to artists, designers, architects and other interested individuals or collaborators to propose concepts for the creation of memorials to the many thousands of Iraqi civilians killed in the War in Iraq

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