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FLAT OUT: Travel Movie
Darren Douglas Floyd

Video
January 12 - 22, 2012
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 24, 2012 with 0 Comments

Darren Douglas Floyd’s work is a combination of 16mm film and digital effects. These visual effects undermine the sincerity of his narration, add a supernatural…

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Trying to Save it All
Stephen Eakin

Installation
January 12 - February 4, 2012
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 24, 2012 with 0 Comments

“At the origin of painting and sculpture there lies a mummy complex. The religion of ancient Egypt, aimed against death, saw survival as dependent on…

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DENSELY WOODED AND PRECIPITOUS MOUNTAIN
Megan Mjaatvedt

Installation
January 12 - February 4, 2012
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 24, 2012 with 0 Comments

DENSELY WOODED AND PRECIPITOUS MOUNTAIN consists of two components: the first, a cluster of small prints featuring segments of battle maps from American wars; the second,…

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Reflections &Object Permanence
Marco Pinter

Installation
January 12 - February 4, 2012
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 23, 2012 with 0 Comments

Marco Pinter explores the fusion of physical kinetic forms with live visualizations. He finds inspiration in dance, sculpture, cognitive psychology, neuroscience and mathematics. His work frequently has…

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FLAT OUT: Trapped Inside Pixels
Sarah Buckius

Video
December 8 - 21, 2011
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 22, 2012 with 0 Comments

This performative-video transforms human movements into digital bits that can be copied and pasted, dragged and dropped, rotated and manipulated to create kaleidoscopic patterns. In…

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Occupy the Walls: A Poster Show
Curated by Bob Holman
& Holly Anderson

Installation
December 8 - 16, 2011
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 21, 2012 with 0 Comments

Art heeds the clarion call of the Occupy Wall Street movement at AC Institute. This special show of posters is dedicated to the spirit evinced…

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Mine
Ana Bélen Cantoni

Installation
November 17 - December 3, 2011
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 20, 2012 with 0 Comments

Ana Bélen Cantoni explores the subject of architecture and its relationship to the body via drawings and installations. Her interest lies in the notion of there being…

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FLAT OUT: Slapp & Und wenn
Betty Boehm

Video
November 17 - December 3, 2011
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 19, 2012 with 0 Comments

Betty Boehm is interested in existential self-questioning and exploring the ambivalence of the human psyche. To do so she uses bizarre, tragicomical, erratic and abysmal…

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MODELO PARA ARMAR:
REHEARSING THE CITY

Amapola Prada

Video
November 3 - December 3, 2011
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 18, 2012 with 0 Comments

Modelo para Armar is the effect of the Amapola Prada’s ongoing study of the apparent tensions of collectively engaged individuals as well as the expression of…

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Who’s There
Micah Bowers

Video
November 3 - 16, 2011
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 17, 2012 with 0 Comments

Micah Bowers enjoys stories but rarely believes them. They’re too tidy, too convenient. His work has a narrow focus. Instances. Occurrences. Like joining a conversation…

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Chess with Duchamp, Readymade Art
Holly Crawford

Participatory Project
Thursday, October 27, 2011 | 6 - 8 pm
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 17, 2012 with 0 Comments

“…the metaphysical chess game called ‘art history’…” —Adam Gopnik, New Yorker 6/27/11   “The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although…

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UCLA Filmmakers Showcase 2011

Reception + Film Screening
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Events start at 6:30 pm
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 16, 2012 with 0 Comments

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INFERNAL MACHINES
Lars Graugaard & Hans Tammen

Music Performance
Wednesday, October 19 | 7:00 PM
Admission: $15 / $8 students & seniors
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 16, 2012 with 0 Comments

“These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy… in front of every house…

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FLAT OUT: Interworld
Michael Filimowicz

Video
September 22 - October 8, 2011
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 16, 2012 with 0 Comments

The flux of experience is typically characterized by artists and thinkers as an undifferentiated continuum of sensuous particulars, haphazard, unorganized, a “raw stuff” to be…

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FLAT OUT:
Ein lebendiger Gartenzwerg in Bad Ems
Ondrej Brody & Krisofer Paetau

Video
September 8 - 21, 2011
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 16, 2012 with 0 Comments

In their work, Brody and Paetau look at the grotesque aspects of both the institutionalized art world and art production. Their strategy is obvious and…

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Sweat Equity
Gary DiBenedetto

Installation
September 8 - October 8, 2011
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 15, 2012 with 0 Comments

Sweat Equity expresses outrage over the negative impact of capitalist exploitation as a means of production. With an increasing globalized economy accompanied by ravenous consumption…

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Relative Space: Son/Husband
Chris Stockbridge

Video
September 8 - October 8, 2011
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 15, 2012 with 0 Comments

Relative Space: Son/Husband looks at a family relationship shown in an expanded moment of time. It is made up of a series of still images extended…

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Loss Sheds a Light on What Remains
Graham Dunning

Installation
September 8 - October 8, 2011
By admin in 2011–2012 on Oct 14, 2012 with 0 Comments

“Loss sheds a light on what remains, and in that light all that we have and all that we have had glows more brightly still.”…

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Chain Letter
Curated by Doug Harvey

Virtual Exhibition
July 16 - August 28, 2011
By admin in 2010–2011 on Apr 30, 2011 with 0 Comments

An AC Institute Virtual Exhibition  Featuring 10 net-based artists and interactive artworks   Click on the title to view the artwork   A program for lonely…

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Gravity, inversion of the matter
Sebastian Mahaluf

Installation
June 30 - July 30, 2011
By admin in 2010–2011 on Apr 29, 2011 with 0 Comments

Geometry is the main object of research in Sebastian Mahaluf’s artistic practice. This refers not only to an analysis of sculptural and architectural shapes, but…

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