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| NEXT MEETING @ HUNTER COLLEGE, NYC
DATE: Monday, November 7th - 7pm Sharp!
PRESENTERS' INFORMATION:
JULIAN VOSS-ANDREAE
Protein Sculptures: Life’s Building Blocks Inspire Art
Heart of Steel (Hemoglobin), 2005; weathering steel and glass, height 5’ (1.60 m); a public art commission located at 1st Street/"A" Avenue, City of Lake Oswego, Oregon
The artist takes a literal look at the foundation of our physical existence by creating sculptures of proteins, the universal parts of the machinery of life. For him, it is less important to copy a molecule accurately in all its details than to find a guiding principle and follow it to see whether it yields artistically interesting results. The main idea underlying these sculptures is the analogy between the technique of mitered cuts and protein folding. The sculptures offer a sensual experience of a world that is usually accessible only through the intellect.
www.JulianVossAndreae.com
Christina McPhee
Seismic Riffs
 Cholame by Christina McPhee
Californians accommodate to seismicity, via amnesia and the shock of recall, within a landscape that serves up intervals, between tremor and nothing. The Fault manifests its most obvious display at Carrizo Plain, sometimes called the "Cadillac of earthquake geomorphology" about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles where the M 8.5-9.0 Fort Tejon Quake occurred over 150 years ago, and offset the banks of Carrizo’s Wallace Creek by thirty feet in a couple of seconds. The Fault appears quiet here. Documentation must address what’s felt, what’s in the air, what’s feared and what may also not be seen. I work onsite at the San Andreas Fault at Carrizo Plain, and the alkaline Soda Lake at its centre. Nearby at Parkfield, the fault, present in only subtle visual signs, is a continuously active seismic landscape: a recent 2004,6.0 quake yields a rich archive of open source geologic data. The digital video and chromogenic prints open onto things about to be remembered, or things lost. They incorporate traces from geomorphologic seismicity subsurface maps at Parkfield, and take on names from the ground motion data and seismic geomorphic visualizations from the 2004 Parkfield quake. Place becomes both an intimate and inhuman seismic memory. Christina McPhee http://saratecchia.com/artists/christina_mcphee/http://christinamcphee.netFORMAT: a 20-minute presentation + Q&A followed by 1-hour social networking time for members. Share what you're doing, find collaborators!
LOCATION: TV Studio #436, Hunter College, NYC [print/bring directions]
MAP/DIRECTIONS: Enter the North Building at the 69th Street entrance (between Park and Lexington Avenues. Take the elevators to the fourth floor. Make a left to the double doors. Make a right. The studio is straight ahead. Map: http://fm.hunter.cuny.edu/student_contact.shtml
NO RSVPs REQUIRED. Get Refreshments at Starbucks on the ground floor, just after entering Hunter College's 69th Street Entrance.
SPECIAL THANKS! to ASCI Member, Andrea Polli, Director of the MFA Program in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College, for providing the space and presentation technology for ASCI's monthly, NYC-Area Member Meetings; and ASCI member, Donna Marshall who is our meeting host.
Read about our past meetings: /artikel547.html | |
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