Opening Reception: May 11, 5 – 9 pm
Gallery Hours Monday – Saturday, noon – 5 pm

Art: May 11 – 26
Virginia/Terry Building, 1000 Virginia Street (entrance on Terry Avenue, between Virginia and Lenora Streets)

Design: May 11 – 25
Main Campus Center, 1000 Lenora Street, 1st Floor (entrance on the corner of Terry Avenue and Lenora Street)

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Art Department
Design Department

1 - 2:30 pm: Informal Art Workshop with Alison Saar, an artist based in the Los Angeles area. A graduate of Scripps College (BA) and Otis Art Institute (MFA), Saar is currently represented by the Phyllis Kind Gallery.
3 - 4:30 pm: Informal Art & Media Workshop Tom Leeser, Director of the MFA in Art and Technology at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where he also directs the Integrated Media (IM) program.

Later that evening, at 8 pm, at Intiman Playhouse, join us for “The World, Exposed,” co-presented with The Next Fifty, Seattle Center 2012, a lively address by Commencement Speaker, Chris Csikszentmihalyi. Chris Csikszentmihalyi is currently Professor of Media Design Matters at the Art Center College of Design, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art & Design Research at Parsons New School of Design. Prior to those appointments, he directed the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, and ran a research group at the MIT Media Lab, the Computing Culture Group.

Commencement 2012 is at 1 pm on Sunday, May 13, at Benaroya Hall.

Saturday, May 12, 8 pm
Intiman Playhouse at Seattle Center
Reserve Your Free Ticket

Join Chris Csikszentmihályi, artist, designer, and technologist, for an engaging lecture, followed by a Q&A hosted by KUOW’s Marcie Sillman. Co-presented with The Next Fifty.

Chris Csikszentmihályi, an artist, designer, and technologist, is Professor of Media Design Matters at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art and Design Research at Parsons the New School for Design. He cofounded and directed the MIT Center for Future Civic Media (C4), which was dedicated to developing technologies that strengthen communities. He also founded the MIT Media Lab’s Computing Culture group, which worked to create unique media technologies for cultural and political applications. Trained as an artist, he has worked in the intersection of new technologies, media, and the arts for 16 years, lecturing, showing new media work, and presenting installations on five continents and one subcontinent. He was a 2005 Rockefeller New Media Fellow, and a 2007-2008 fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and has taught at the University of California at San Diego, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and at Turku University.

Csikszentmihályi’s Computing Culture research group is known for developing political technologies that rebalance power between citizens, corporations, and governments. From Afghan Explorer, a tele-operated robot journalist designed to bypass Pentagon and Taliban press censorship, to txtMob, a mobile phone based activist system that enabled highly effective protests at the 2004 RNC and DNC, these systems are working proofs of concept and sometimes also widely used and distributed tools. The group also works to develop technologies of empathy, including Cherry Blossoms, an automatic pamphlet distribution system to memorialize civilian war deaths, or OMO, the sympathetic breathing robot.

C4 works to develop social and technical systems that allow communities to research and reflect on their condition, and to take action in their interests. Work ranges from mapping and blogging systems for Gaza, to space-based wikis of unusual features of a community, to work with citizens groups from Zimbabwe to New York trying to assert their interests against oppressive, top-down interference. Csikszentmihályi is currently leading the extrAct research project, a large-scale effort to bring software-based tools for collective action to parts of the US that are heavily affected by oil and natural gas drilling.

Csikszentmihályi is represented by the Location One Gallery in New York’s SoHo and Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles. He toured museums and nightclubs with his mechanical hip hop device, DJ I, Robot, which was nominated for the Best Artistic Software award at Berlin’s Transmediale, while a previous piece, Natural Language Processor, was commissioned by the KIASMA Museum in Helsinki, Finland. The catalog for his installations Skin and Control is published by Charta and distributed by DAP, and he served on the National Academy of Science’s IT and Creativity panel. Csikszentmihályi received an MFA from the University of California at San Diego, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The awardees were chosen by Ian Berry, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator at The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. A specialist in contemporary art, Berry has organized numerous groundbreaking exhibits, and continues a deep engagement with teaching and writing. Berry visited Seattle April 19-23 to conduct studio visits with each of the finalists. In reporting his choices, Berry said the two recipients “had a clarity to their current and proposed projects and inspiring collaborative elements to their work that connect them to ideas of community in important ways.”

The Neddy at Cornish exhibition will take place in the Main Gallery at Cornish College of the Arts. Included in the show will be the work of all 2012 finalists, including: Gala Bent, Cynthia Camlin, and Jeremy Mangan in Painting; and Susie Lee, Lead Pencil Studio, and James Coupe in Open Medium.

June 6 – July 18, 2012
Opening Reception: June 6, 5 – 8 pm
1000 Lenora Street
1st Floor Gallery
Gallery Hours 12 – 5, Mon – Sat

More information available here

Image: Open Medium recipient Eirik Johnson (left) and Painting recipient Stacey Rozich (right).

You can check out all of the finalists here:

http://pfmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/p-gallery/index.php?level=collection&id=7

Images: Aiko Szymczak (Top), Matt Matsuda (bottom)

Saturday, May 12, 8 pm
Intiman Playhouse at Seattle Center
Free; reservations suggested at: http://www.tinyurl.com/theworldexposed

World’s fairs and expositions were once fantastic venues for industry and governments to assert their visions of the future, but in hindsight they revealed far more about the present.  Each Fair was a metonym for its moment, and the mid-century fairs in particular banked on markets and technology with a zealous urgency. As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair at Seattle Center, Apr 21 – Oct 21, 2012, we ask ourselves what would a contemporary fair look like?  Where would be the best location?  Or have we invented an entirely better, more continuous approach to exposition?

Join Chris Csikszentmihályi, artist, designer, and technologist, for an engaging lecture, followed by a Q&A hosted by KUOW’s Marcie Sillman.

Chris Csikszentmihályi, an artist, designer, and technologist, is Professor of Media Design Matters at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art and Design Research at Parsons the New School for Design. He cofounded and directed the MIT Center for Future Civic Media (C4), which was dedicated to developing technologies that strengthen communities. He also founded the MIT Media Lab’s Computing Culture group, which worked to create unique media technologies for cultural and political applications. Trained as an artist, he has worked in the intersection of new technologies, media, and the arts for 16 years, lecturing, showing new media work, and presenting installations on five continents and one subcontinent. He was a 2005 Rockefeller New Media Fellow, and a 2007-2008 fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and has taught at the University of California at San Diego, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and at Turku University.

Csikszentmihályi’s Computing Culture research group is known for developing political technologies that rebalance power between citizens, corporations, and governments. From Afghan Explorer, a tele-operated robot journalist designed to bypass Pentagon and Taliban press censorship, to txtMob, a mobile phone based activist system that enabled highly effective protests at the 2004 RNC and DNC, these systems are working proofs of concept and sometimes also widely used and distributed tools. The group also works to develop technologies of empathy, including Cherry Blossoms, an automatic pamphlet distribution system to memorialize civilian war deaths, or OMO, the sympathetic breathing robot.

C4 works to develop social and technical systems that allow communities to research and reflect on their condition, and to take action in their interests. Work ranges from mapping and blogging systems for Gaza, to space-based wikis of unusual features of a community, to work with citizens groups from Zimbabwe to New York trying to assert their interests against oppressive, top-down interference. Csikszentmihályi is currently leading the extrAct research project, a large-scale effort to bring software-based tools for collective action to parts of the US that are heavily affected by oil and natural gas drilling.

Csikszentmihályi is represented by the Location One Gallery in New York’s SoHo and Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles. He toured museums and nightclubs with his mechanical hip hop device, DJ I, Robot, which was nominated for the Best Artistic Software award at Berlin’s Transmediale, while a previous piece, Natural Language Processor, was commissioned by the KIASMA Museum in Helsinki, Finland. The catalog for his installations Skin and Control is published by Charta and distributed by DAP, and he served on the National Academy of Science’s IT and Creativity panel. Csikszentmihályi received an MFA from the University of California at San Diego, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Blick hosted an Award Ceremony on Tuesday, May 1 at the Cornish campus where Deborah Roetter, Director of National Sales, and Mark Adams, General Manager, of Blick Art Materials’ Seattle store, presented Van Pamel with a 2012 Zuma Motor Scooter and custom airbrushed helmet by Iwata artist, Javier Soto.  Bonnie Biggs, Art Department Interim Chair and Dr. Nancy J. Uscher, President of Cornish College of the Arts, accepted the $2,500 Blick gift card on behalf of Cornish.
“We are so thrilled for Samantha and are pleased to accept the $2,500 gift card for Cornish from Blick Art Materials as part of Blick’s national Student Motor Scooter Sweepstakes. We appreciate Blick’s ongoing support of art education in our local Seattle community and around the United States.”—Bonnie Biggs, Art Department Interim Chair

Photo: (Left to right) Bonnie Biggs, Jillian Van Pamel, Deborah Roetter

Blick hosted an Award Ceremony on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at the Cornish campus, located at 1000 Lenora Street, on the 7th floor from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. where Deborah Roetter, Director of National Sales, and Mark Adams, General Manager, of Blick Art Materials’ Seattle store, presented Van Pamel with a 2012 Zuma Motor Scooter and custom airbrushed helmet by Iwata artist, Javier Soto.  Bonnie Biggs, Art Department Interim Chair and Dr. Nancy J. Uscher, President of Cornish College of the Arts, accepted the $2,500 Blick gift card on behalf of Cornish. 

“We are so thrilled for Samantha and are pleased to accept the $2,500 gift card for Cornish from Blick Art Materials as part of Blick’s national Student Motor Scooter Sweepstakes. We appreciate Blick’s ongoing support of art education in our local Seattle community and around the United States.”—Bonnie Biggs, Art Department Interim Chair