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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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THE DUTY FREE SHOP IS ON THE 3RD FLOOR AS YOU PASS THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE
Michael Georgetti

Installation
May 12 - June 18, 2011
By admin in 2010–2011 on Apr 28, 2011 with 0 Comments

Through painting, sculpture, installation and film, Michael Georgetti explores the duality of human behavior and technology. He is interested in the way thoughts and feelings…

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Strata-Caster
Joseph Farbrook

Installation
May 12 - June 18, 2011
By admin in 2010–2011 on Apr 28, 2011 with 0 Comments

Adding up the hours we spend staring into screens, it could be argued that we are seeing an ever-greater part of our lives mediated through…

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Virutorium
The KIT Collaboration + Robert Saucier

Installation
May 12 - June 18, 2011
By admin in 2010–2011 on Apr 28, 2011 with 0 Comments

Virutorium is the second joint project by The KIT Collaboration + Robert Saucier. Their first project, Infrasense, was a large-scale sound installation that toured 11 galleries…

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QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENTS
Jonathon Keats

Installation
May 12 - July 30, 2011
By admin in 2010–2011 on Apr 28, 2011 with 0 Comments

With five millennia of history, and a plethora of religious and civil ceremonies, marriage is a popular means of producing families. Yet matrimony isn’t the…

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Unlikely Savages
Curated by Carla Macchiavello

Multimedia Group Exhibition
March 24 - April 30, 2011
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Unlikely Savages presents works that question the continuity of the savage paradigm in Latin America along with the ideologies of dominion and violence that support it….

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See You on the Flip Side!
Curated by Nicole Bebout & Sonja Hofstetter

Multipedia Group Exhibition
February 3 - March 12, 2011
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The group show “See You on the Flip Side!”  explores the tenuous border crossings through which we define ourselves by questioning the frontiers of cultural,…

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Life is Fleeting;
Therefore, Life is Beautiful

Takafumi Ide

Installation
December 16, 2010 - January 22, 2011
By admin in 2010–2011 on Apr 26, 2011 with 0 Comments

“Life is fleeting; therefore, life is beautiful.” This expression is based on one of the values in Japanese aesthetics: impermanence. The fragile and transitory qualities of…

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Lullaby Land
Harm van den Berg

Installation
December 16, 2010 - January 22, 2011
By admin in 2010–2011 on Apr 26, 2011 with 0 Comments

A sense of “place” is central in Harm van den Berg’s work. Using different media (painting, sculpture, sound, video) and crossing boundaries between them, Van…

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