SOUNDINGS. Fisher Gallery, Oberlin College Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Schedule of Events: 7-10pm — Exhibition Viewing and Reception (Refreshments will be provided) 8pm — Marisa Olson Artist Talk / Illustrated Lecture 10pm — REEL FEEL Opening Party, with music by Teengirl Fantasy and DJ Wabberjockey http://reelfeel.tumblr.com/post/582063551/soundings-exhibition-to-launch-reel-feel-festival According to Wikipedia, the term SOUNDINGS “generally refers to a mechanism of probing the environment by sending out some kind of stimulus.” The SOUNDINGS exhibition on May 12 at Oberlin College will explore this idea, through student work comprised of a range of media, from sound to video to installation. How do we, as artists and thinkers making cross-disciplinary work in the context of new media, send stimuli into the environment in order to interact with our audiences––culling a read on the response, the temperature, the landscape around us? How does this response develop a feedback loop with our own creative processes, integrating an interactive approach into our practices? SOUNDINGS will feature work by visiting artist Marisa Olson, who prompted the Oberlin students’ projects with the title of the show. Olson’s piece, Performed Listening (Boomerang), explores this impulse/response duplicity while recalling the seminal work by Richard Serra and Nancy Holt, who explored a similar question with the video/sound project Boomerang in 1974. Alongside Olson’s work, the SOUNDINGS exhibition features the work of students from Julia Christensen’s “Creative Resistance” and “Performance/Installation Technology” courses, and is produced by Brett Kashmere’s “Exhibition Practices in the Media Arts” course. Students involved include Maira Clancy, Brooklyn Demme, Theresa DeSaltels, Vivian Gentry, Adriana Meraz, Sarah Michelson, Cooper Rogers, Susan Russ, Kevin Soulivong, Erika Zarowin, Asha Tamarisa, Ben Bacon, David Bird, Luke Lovett, and Nick Weiss, and Chrissi Boland, Katie Buono, Kelly Crimmins, Kate Ettinger, Rachel Garcia-Grossman, Kemi Gbadebo, Katie Gleysteen, Eliza Koch, Jack Mintz, Amanda Mummery, Ashley Roberts, Conor Shanahan, Logan Takahashi, and Solomon Turner. Marisa Olson’s visit is co-sponsored by the Luce Margin Release series and Sight Lines: Dialogues in Film and Media, a Cinema Studies initiative with support from the Blanchard Fund. Image: Installation view of Performed Listening (Boomerang) (2009), by Marisa Olson. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
