Patricia Bellan-Gillen will exhibit in Flock & Fable: Animal Identity in Contemporary Art curated by Amie Robinson (BFA '98) at the Chelsea Art Museum at 556 West 22nd Street. http://chelseaartmuseum.org/.

Elaine A. King gave a lecture at the Rhode Island School of Design entitled Conceptualism: The Ongoing Tradition of Contemporary Art and she conducted critiques in the foundation classes.

Pamela Jennings will present three papers at the 2004 CHI (Computer Human Interaction) conference to be held April 24-29 in Vienna, Austria. They are: Crossing Boundaries: Fostering Interdisciplinary Arts Practice and Human Computer Interaction Research Teams for the Cross-Dressing and Border Crossing: Exploring Experience Methods Across Disciplines Workshop, organized by Ron Wakkary, Thecla Schiphorst, and Jim Budd; Teaching Design to Technologists; Teaching Technology to Designers and Artists, for the Design and HCI Workshop, organized by John Zimmerman, Shelley Evenson, Peter Purgathofer and Konrad Bauman; and Distributed Minds | Negotiated Spaces: Social Interfaces for Public Spaces for the Reflective HCI: Towards a Critical Technical Practice Workshop, organized by Paul Dourish, Janet Fenlay, Phoebe Sengers and Peter Wright.
http://www.chi2004.org/.

Fabian Winkler will present a paper, DIELECTRIC, at the Subtle Technologies Conference in Toronto, May 27-30.

Golan Levin will participate in Performing Technology from the 2004 Whitney Biennial as part of the NEW SOUND, NEW YORK FESTIVAL: 25 Years Beyond New Music, New York, presented by The Kitchen with The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union for the advancement of Science and Art on April 30 and May 1. Levin, creator of Dialtones Telesymphony (2001), collaborates with artist-engineer Zachary Lieberman on an audiovisual piece probing "the subtleties of manual expression." http://www.thekitchen.org/04S_april.html.

Clayton Merrell will be a Roswell Artist-in Residence from August 2004 - August 2005. He will also exhibit in Art & Environment Summer Show at Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts & Sciences Gallery in Loveladies, New Jersey from May-August, 2004. A series of six paintings were commissioned this February for the Marriott Corporation in Pittsburgh.

Melissa Ragona will publish Hidden Noise: Strategies of Sound Montage in the Films of Hollis Frampton in the summer issue of October.

Jim Duesing's Tender Bodies will be screened at the World Festival of Animated Film in Zagreb, Croatia June 14 -19. His paper, Team Teaching Animation Art and Technology, co-authored with Jessica Hodgins, Associate Professor in the Robotics Institute, was selected for the 2004 SIGGRAPH Educators' Program. SIGGRAPH, the 31st International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, runs August 8-12 in Los Angeles.
http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/cfp/edu/index.php?pageID=cfp.

Pamela Jennings and James Duesing (in collaboration with Jessica Hodgins) were awarded support from the Berkman Faculty Development Fund. The grants will be applied toward Jennings' Constructed Narrative Project and Duesing/Hodgins' End of Code project.

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) exhibited seven works entitled Paradise Lost at The Ormond Art Museum in Florida in February.

Margery Amdur (BFA '79) is Associate Professor of Art at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Last year, she was awarded a US Embassy Grant in Budapest, Hungary and had solo/two person exhibits at University of Szeged in Hungary, Florida International University in Miami and Alsager Gallery in Manchester England. This year, she exhibits at Gallery X in Istanbul.

Charles Ritchie (MFA '80) has a solo exhibit, Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings and Prints of Charles Ritchie, at The University of Richmond Museums' March Gallery, March 31 through June 26. Ritchie will present a lecture, Private Astronomies on March 31 at 7pm, followed by a reception until 9pm. Ritchie is on the Education Staff at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

John Currin (BFA '84) is exhibiting in Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection through May 23 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work was discussed in five articles last month alone, in the Toronto Star, The Village Voice, The New Republic, The New York Times and The Nation. http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=152.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93) and Temporary Services are presenting at Basekamp, a non-commercial studio and exhibition space in Philadelphia, which will host the largest exhibition of the Prisoners' Inventions project to date, April 2 - May 7, 2004. A full-size replica of Angelo's cell and re-creations of numerous prisoners' inventions will be on view. Enlarged copies of some of Angelo's cell construction measurements and diagrams will be included. Temporary Services has also published a new booklet of interviews and discussions about the project and related issues. Free copies will be available at Basekamp. The opening reception is Friday, April 2, from 6-10 pm. with a brunch discussion the following day at 12 pm. Basekamp is located at 723 Chestnut Street, 2nd Fl. http://www.basekamp.com or call 215-206-8176.

Tonnie Warfield (BFA '01) is attending Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, MD. She is using her fluency in Spanish to communicate with inner-city (both Baltimore and Washington DC) patients. She has also been visiting a Honduran clinic in the summer, as a volunteer, and now as a nursing student, to help administer patient care to Honduran children and adults. She expects to graduate in the spring of 2005 and engage in pediatrics or community nursing.

Brooke Singer (MFA '02), Beatriz da Costa (former exchange student) and Jamie Schulte (CS '01) were among three artists/collaborations, chosen by the Franklin Furnace Archive's 2003 selection panel for THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT 2004 residencies, made possible in 2004 and 2005 in part by new support from the J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation. Da Costa recently joined the University of California at Irvine as an Assistant Professor in the new graduate program of Arts, Computation and Engineering. Schulte is an engineer with an interest in designing systems that engage human aesthetics, culture, and politics and is currently a robotics researcher at Stanford University. Singer is a digital media artist and arts organizer based in New York City. Her work and research explores the effects of evolving, digital networks on experience in the physical, lived-in world. Singer is an Assistant Professor of New Media at the State University of New York, Purchase College. For information on their project, visit: http://turbulence.org/works/swipe.

Jacob Ciocci presents with Paper Rad at Foxy Production, 547 West 27th Street, opening April 17. On May 6, he will also participate in Free Musical VIDEOZ, a live video performance with Paper Rad and Cory Arcangel/BEIGE (included in the Whitney Biennial) as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Teen Night. http://www.foxyproduction.com/Exhibitions.html.

Fereshteh Hamidi Toosi and Carolyn Lambert will present their paper entitled Searching for the Fourth River: Creative Tactics for Gathering and Disseminating Stories (and Information) at the international Community/Performance conference sponsored by The Olimpias Performance Research Projects at Bryant College in Rhode Island, June 4-6.

William Cravis and Shana Moulton have been awarded fellowships to attend Skowhegan. Founded in 1946 by artists, and still governed by artists for artists, Skowhegan is an intensive nine-week summer residency program for advanced visual artists in Skowhegan, Maine. Selection is intensely competitive with 1400 applicants for 65 places.

Alexi Morrissey (Class of '98) and Matt Barton performed for AMP@ The Brewhouse in Pittsburgh on March 19. Morrissey presented an original spoken word performance of experimental/poetic writing - a word salad tossed to perfection! Barton created Call of the Wild, a dreamlike narrative of a hunting expedition in a performance that explores the distance between contemporary society and our nature centered ancestry.

Leslie Klasterka will present The Psychotic Tarot: The Secret World of Leslie Klasterka at Peru Resh: A Tribute to Rozz Williams at The Eye at 4814 Penn Avenue on April 1 at 7pm.
http://www.propertyproject.org.

Erin Pischke exhibited with Joana Ricou in the University Center Gallery through March 26 as part of Women's History Month. All proceeds from the gallery's silent auction benefited Myriam's Women's Shelter.

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