The U Oregon Digital Arts BFA Exhibition, Watch Your Mouth, is composed of 12 artists completing their fifth year degree program experience. An entire year has been dedicated to the development of their creative process, their conceptual motivations and the production of a vast range of media in an art context. These artists seek to define meaning and purpose in a complicated world. They are invested in a critical inquiry into how humankind navigates a complex existence. This thesis exhibition is the result of mining the abstract space between humans and technology, researching cognitive behavior, dissecting language and information delivery systems, examining our poetic relationships to space and place, investigating material translations, process obsessions, and questioning personal philosophies, all with an often dark, twisted and cryptic sense of humor.
There is a diversity and consistency to the Digital Arts BFA artists’ work. The range of media and methodologies employed span hybrid digital output, computer programming, image capture, drawing, animation, sculpture and as always, evidence of the skilled hand. Clearly a mark of the UO Digital Arts experience, the ideas reign importance over the media. It is the ideas that appear consistent and substantial, for this unique BFA experience. Like barometers for culture and society-at-large, these artists ask important questions about how and why we live in a technologically fertile, swiftly moving world. Change, thought, story, space, inquiry, truth, translation, language, communication, digitization, these ideas are consistently mined and dissected from this critical, analytical group of young artists. It is with their work we attempt to find a better understanding to our place in the universe.
The artists are Brian Aebi, Amy Chan, Braeden Cox, Gage Hamilton, Matt Pfliiger, Andrew Pomeroy, Steven Robinson, Brad Saiki, Lauren Seiffert, Tanya Tracy, Chris Wilson and Zach Yarrington. The UOregon Digital Arts faculty is Colin Ives, Craig Hickman, John Park, Michael Salter, Ying Tan, and Kartz Ucci. The UOregon Digital Arts BFA Exhibition, Watch Your Mouth, will occupy the White Box exhibition space at the White Stag Building, opening June 2nd 2011.
Digital Arts and the Department of Art are proud to present HUNG Keung. HUNG graduated from the Swire School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (MA in Film + Video), UK. He was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Art and Media (ZKM), Germany (2001-02). Currently, he is a PhD candidate at The Planetary Collegium, the University of the Arts in Zurich, Switzerland.
In recognition of his international achievement in new media art, HUNG was awarded a prestigious President’s Award (2002); Deutscher Akademicscher Austausch Dienst Scholarship, Germany (2002) and Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, US (2005). In 2004, HUNG founded innov+media lab, focusing on new media art + design research in relation to Chinese philosophy and interactivity.
HUNG KEUNG BLOATED CITY | SKINNY LANGUAGE
In HUNG’s Bloated City | Skinny Language, the viewer appears on two screens surrounded by a myriad of fragmented brush strokes. Characters read the viewer’s outline and aggregate around their body. Responding to the slightest movement, the characters fly gradually from one screen to the next, from one image of the viewer to their mirror image. The artist prompts viewers to reflect on how they can locate themselves in their universe (Heaven + Earth) and relate to the notions of Dao 道.
PUBLIC TALKS + LECTURES
April 5 | Artist Lecture| Harrington Room (Jaqua Center) at 6 pm
Sponsors: Computer and Information Science, Arts Administration Program
April 6 | Gallery Talk| 240 JSMA at 6 pm. Sponsors: Cinema Pacific + JSMA
April 7 | White Box Opening
24 NW1st Avenue, UO White Stag Block, Portland
6–8 pm; remarks at 7pm
EXHIBITIONS
JSMA: Where To Come From? Where To Go?
Video Works by Hung Keung
Showing from April 5th to June 19th
White Box: Bloated City | Skinny Language
Showing from April 5th to May 14th
Sponsors: University of Oregon Portland Programs
Additional support from Ace Hotel
Meow Meow (Liz Bayan + Alison Ho) presents
COPY CAT
March 4, 2010 from 6-9 pm at the John Ross gallery
3623 SW River Parkway
Portland, OR 97239
have
no
regrets
don’t deny yourself an amazing experience, premier facilities, a vibrant community, and the chance to take your work to a new level.
the DIGITAL ARTS BFA happens in PDX at the white stag building.
Our deadline for the BFA application is offically extended until March 29.
That is after spring break, and that means you have plenty of time to put together your portfolio.
2010 BFA website http://luminousdeer.com/
2009 BFA website http://maybewecan.org/
Current white stag 4r hallway installation by Alison Ho and Liz Bayan, both of whom are current Digital Arts BFA candidates in our Portland BFA 5th year program.
I took a nap instead of thinking conceptually.
Liz Bayan & Alison Ho
You know you have done it. We have.
With 77 days in each term, we knew most of these days have and will be spent doing things other than thinking about a project. Some may simply call this procrastination.
We like to think of it more as a way of life. We all have those moments when concentration just isn’t possible, no matter how hard you try or how impending that deadline. We all have to struggle through that block one way or another.
On occasion, we like to take naps instead of thinking conceptually.
Fill out your own at http://toastandtea.org/nap/
January 18, 2010-February 26, 2010 in the White Stag Building on Floor 4R hallway right before Kate Wagle’s office.
