Calendar : 2005-06

LIVE

Radical Software Group (Alexander R. Galloway) and MTAA (Mike Sarff & Tim Whidden),  Natalie  Bookchin, Aphid Stern, Michael Dale, Karen Finley, Siebren Versteeg and Ben Rubin.

curated by David Familian

April 3 – June 7, 2008
Opening Reception  April 3rd 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Boxed Music Event June 5th     6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Family Day  May 3rd    11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

What is the meaning of "live" when the majority of our day-to-day interactions are so mediated? LIVE features nine artists who sample and transform data, photographs and video from the Internet and incorporate it into their sculptures and installations. Either extracting live footage or transmitting data in real time, they cull from diverse sources including Congressional speeches from C-Span, websites with Iraqi war casualties, a critique of consumerism from a peer-to-peer network and on-line video surveillance. As the artists isolate ideas and images from the steady stream of unrelenting data, they produce thought-provoking, aesthetic and "live" works of art. Curated by David Familian, includes Radical Software Group (Alexander R. Galloway) and MTAA (Mike Sarff & Tim Whidden), Natalie Bookchin, Aphid Stern, Michael Dale, Karen Finley, Siebren Versteeg, Ben Rubin.

Family Day is held in conjunction with the current exhibit "Live." This group exhibition features contemporary American artists using video, images, and text captured from the internet as their expressive medium. The resulting artworks offer a surprisingly diverse array of experience, ranging from social commentary to the unintended beauty of surveillance footage.

Family Day activities include hands on art and science projects, art and technology demonstrations, and more.

A free two part Digital Workshop will be offered beginning at 12 noon (recommended for ages 10 and up). Limited seating is available. For Workshop reservations sign-up at the Beall or email syoungha@uci.edu with your name and number of guests attending the Workshop.

For additional information and directions go to beallcenter.uci.edu or call (949)824-4339.

FAMILY DAY SCHEDULE Digital Workshop I: Create your own “funny animal” through digital collage.” 12:00pm. (Limited seating)

Digital Workshop II: Learn how to make your “Funny Animal” come alive through digital animation. 1:00pm. (Limited seating)

(Digital workshops are located in HIB 335, and last approx 45 minutes. It is recommended that you bring a USB flash disc for easy transportation of data.)

Discover and Learn with "Dr. Donn, The Optricks Apprentice.” Ongoing presentations in the Beall Gallery. Hands-on art activities located behind the Beall Center gallery.

Tour of current Beall Center exhibit “LIVE”.

January 10 – March 15, 2008
Opening Reception January 10th  6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Boxed Music Event March 13th  6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Family Day February 2nd  11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

From north of the border comes Vancouver’s Computational Poetics Group.  Their hauntingly hypnotic digital art performances are captured in “in a thousand drops…refracted glances,” their latest multiple screen, interactive, audiovisual installation.  In a thousand drops explores the human body in relation to itself, others, and a fragile environment.  Aleksandra Dulic, Martin Gotfrit, and Kenneth Newby.

Grand Text Auto

Noah Wardrip-Fruin / Mary Flanagan
Michael Mateas / Andrew Stern
Nick Montfort / Scott Rettberg

October 4 – December 15, 2007 (Closed Nov. 22-26)
Opening reception: October 4th 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Symposium October 5th 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Performance October 5th 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Boxed Music Event December 6th 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Family Day November 3rd 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Synopsis | Image Gallery | Press Packet (PDF)

What happens when a popular blog crashes into a gallery exhibition? Jump in as the drivers of Grand Text Auto careen toward new fictional forms and modes of play. Grand Text Auto presents six artists wheeling their way to the forefront of digital games and narrative. The artists include Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Mary Flanagan, Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern, Nick Montfort, and Scott Rettberg.

With collaboration and support from the GVU Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at the University of California, San Diego.

Experience the Future
September 14 – 16, 2007
LA Convention Center

WIRED magazine’s vision of a new World's Fair, NextFest is a four-day festival of innovative products and technologies that are transforming our world. This year's NextFest in Los Angeles features more than 160 interactive exhibits from leading scientists and researchers around the world. Experience the future of communication, design, entertainment, exploration, health, play, robots, transportation, security, and green living. Get 50% off your tickets with a special Beall Center discount code. Just enter Beall_NF at checkout on wirednextfest.com

STRANDED SUBJECT(WEEKENDS)

Dorit Cypis

curated by Denise Spampinato

August 6 - August 17
Gallery Talk: August 10th 5:30 p.m.
Opening reception: August 10th 7:00 p.m.
Sponsored by University of California Humanities Research Institute

Each of the nine photographic images featured in “Stranded Subject (weekends),” is a poetic transformation of pictures taken from the front pages of the Los Angeles Times. By juxtaposing seemingly disparate images, Cypis incites the viewer to seek unfamiliar intellectual, historical, allegorical and emotional contexts which might open up the possibility of thinking differently about issues which the media continues to frame in a homogeneous fashion. Each piece retains some of its original documentary quality but by superimposing two images, or altering its inner contours, Cypis erases the boundary between the documentary and the allegorical. In so doing, she also refocuses the referentiality of the work away from the familiar framing of the photos depicted, opening up the possibility for empathy with those depicted in the images. The exhibit will also feature a video project titled “The Source” – an active archival depository of Cypis’ previous work.