Elaine A. King's interview of the 51st Venice Biennale’s directors Maria de Coral and Rosa Martinez appears in the summer issue of Sculpture.

A group of faculty and graduate students from the School of Art participated in Due Settimane/Two Weeks, a joint project with Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera - Milano in Lecco and Milan this summer. The project culminated in an exhibit, Junk Is Back/La Spazzatura e Tornata at Ex Colonia Ballabio in Lecco, Italy between June 24 and July 10. Participants included faculty Michelle Illuminato, Carol Kumata and Joseph Mannino with graduate students Matt Barton, Take Etani, Gunnhildur Jonsdottir, Jesse Hulcher, Thomas Sturgill and Tiffany Sum.

Joseph Mannino and Charlee Brodsky (with Roberta Levine) are exhibiting in Teaching Artists from Western Pennsylvania at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in Pittsburgh, July 15 through September 9. http://www.manchesterguild.org.

Michelle Illuminato had a solo exhibit, Stage, Action, Flash! at La Corte Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy, July 1-20.

Golan Levin participated this June in Abstraction Now in Digital Art A La Carte at the SONAR Festival in Barcelona and in Expo Art Numerique at Festival ArtRock, Saint-Brieuc, France. http://www.sonar.es/2004/eng/sonarcarta.cfm; http://www.artrock.org/prog/prog_artrock_2005.pdf. His work, A Personal Chronology of Audiovisual Systems Research and Sounds from Shapes: Audiovisual Performance with Hand Silhouette Contours in The Manual Input Sessions, was published as part of the proceedings of NIME '05, Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 26-28. Golan was quoted in and had his Dialtones telesymphony discussed in the Sunday, July 10 New York Times article, The Nokia Fugue in G Major by Melena Z. Ryzik. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/arts/music/10ryzi.html.

Kim Beck was awarded a Heinz Foundation grant to attend the Virginia Center for Creative Arts this summer.

Roger Dannenberg, Research Professor in Computer Science and Art, performed Feedback for violin and computer, in the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble's 2005 season on July 15 and 16. Feedback used 8 channels of acoustic feedback with computer control to turn the concert hall into a huge electro-acoustic instrument that interacted with the violin soloist, Marc Levine. This version included projected interactive computer animation created using a feedback process. http://pnme.org.

Rhizome ArtBase 101, an exhibit of 40 internet artworks at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, includes works by Assistant Professor of Art Golan Levin, and MFA alumnus Jacob Ciocci (a member of Paper Rad) in collaboration with graduate student Matt Barton. In extreme animalz: the movie: part I (2005), Paper Rad and Matt Barton translated the outdated aesthetic of animated gifs into a sculptural installation exploring the spectacle and emotion we bring to these digital forms and their obsolescence. Collages of animated gifs of animals--sourced through Google's Image search--are surrounded by similarly discarded stuffed animals found in thrift stores. The exhibit was reviewed by Sarah Boxer in the June 28 New York Times. It runs through September 10 and is also on view at: http://rhizome.org/artbase101; http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?33719;
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?3415; http://www.newmuseum.org/now_cur_RhizomeArtBase101.htm.

Elizabeth Asche Douglas (BFA '51), Rochester artist and gallery owner, is one of a nationally selected group of artists selected to exhibit at the annual conference of the Association of African American Museums hosted by the Smithsonian Institution July 27-30. Three of her digital compositions may be seen locally in the Seeing Red, at the Society for Contemporary Craft Gallery at One Mellon Center in downtown Pittsburgh until August 21. http://www.douglasartgallery.com.

Joel Feldman (BFA '65) exhibited Annotated Landscapes at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts in Mt. Vernon, IL last fall and this spring at Castellani Art Museum at Niagra University, NY.
http://www.niagara.edu/cam/exhibitions/WINTER_SPRING_2005.html.

Christopher Anselmo Priore (BFA '81) exhibits in A Tasting at Kim Foster Gallery in New York City, July 9 - 30. He spoke to CMU alumni at the gallery on July 23, joined by gallerist Kim Foster who represents and spoke about Diane Samuels (BFA '70, MFA '76) as well.

ROY (BFA '84) is included in a new publication, 1000 Rings: Inspiring Adornments for the Hand by Marthe Le Van. An exhibition to coincide with the book at the Cannon Gallery of Art and Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, runs August 21 - October 3, with possible travel to Velvet DaVinci, San Francisco.

Boris Bally’s (BFA '84) proposal Flatware: Function + Fantasy has been accepted by The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) Metalsmith Editorial Advisory Committee for the 2005 curated exhibition in print, A Focus on Flatware. Expected release date is August 2005.

Patrick Shea (BFA '84) has spent the last 20 years teaching life painting, creating illustrations for Marvel, and working as an Art Director for a legal graphics company in NYC. He is currently the Creative Director for a large IT company in NY. He continues to paint landscapes, mostly of the North Shore of Long Island where he lives with his wife and four children.

Christine Cocca (BFA '92) and Deborah Nolan present new work at the exhibition RIPE: Harvesting Meaning from Motherhood at Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta, in Indonesia. The work, which includes sculpture, installation, painting and works on paper, focuses on various phenomenon associated with human creation. Christine's work looks at identity through potent symbols of femininity and sexuality related to marriage and motherhood.  The exhibition was opened by Dr. Melani Setiawan on Monday, July 11. http://www.ripeexhibition.com

Edgar Um Bucholtz (Class of '93) and Terry Young (BFA '01) exhibit in Gestures, an exhibition of small site-specific work at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, July 31 through October 8.

Leah Piepgras (MFA '97) presents Lovers, an exhibition of paintings at Studio 412 in Boston, opening August 5, 5:30-9pm.

Seldon Yuan (BFA '98) exhibits in Summer Salon Show at Concepto Gallery in Brooklyn, through July 30. http://www.concepto9.com.

Rebecca Vaughan (MFA '01) and Peter Coffin (MFA '00) exhibit in a Manchester show called Fuzzy Logic, part of Futuresonic 2005 Low Grade - an interlinked exhibition, workshop, music night and symposium - focusing on technological obsolescence, curated by Michael Connor and Jackie Passmore (US). http://www.futuresonic.com.

Terry Young (BFA '01) collaborated with Tom Hall on a community mural project for alumna Laurie Mancuso's Arrow Gallery on Penn Avenue and North Fairmount in Pittsburgh.
http://www.terryyoung.org/www/community_mural_project/cmp_index.html

Jill Palermo (BFA '02) has a solo exhibit at The Jewish Community Center , Pittsburgh, July 1 - August 15, 2005. Jill's Ribbon Revolution business is booming. Inspired on a long drive from St. Louis to Cleveland, she co-created All Love is Divine, Just Pretend, and Bless the World ribbons, the latter redesigned by John Ritter, illustrator for The New Yorker, Time, Harper's, Newsweek, and more. All proceeds go to non-profits with special attention to putting healthy, organic food in school cafeterias and gardens and grant organizations serving women in developing nations for micro-enterprise. They're also hoping to contribute to the Darfur region. Ribbons are being offered to LGTB and democratic groups on college campuses for fundraisers. http://www.theribbonrevolution.com.

Carolyn Lambert (MFA '05) was an invited artist in the Kingston Biennial, an outdoor sculpture exhibition in Kingston, NY. She collaborated with Mark Bernard on an interactive video installation, The Camera Had a Nervous Twitch. The piece will show from July 12 - October 15.

Lauren Adams (MFA Class of 2007) presents Photo A Go Go with Clare Britt, at Rebus Works in Raleigh, North Carolina, July 3 through August. Photo A Go Go is an installation of photographs and documentation from a mobile Camera Obscura truck that drove around Raleigh in August of 2004.

Ally Reeves (MFA Class of 2008) presents (with Shaun Sliferat) Between Here and There (is better than either Here or There), a show that includes new sculpture and video installations at 707 Penn Ave Gallery in Pittsburgh through July.

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