Pamela Jennings, Assistant Professor of Art and Human Computer Interaction, co-curated DIGITAL BOUNDARIES: Multiculturalism, Identity, and Awareness, a group exhibition of interactive multimedia art featuring the work of 16 international artists and their collaborators including alumni Marc Böhlen (MFA '99), Shawn Lawson (BFA '00), and Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99). The exhibit accompanies the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Multimedia 2004 Interactive Art Program (that Jennings co-chaired) at Columbia University, October 10 - 16, 2004. The opening reception is at Columbia’s Macy Gallery, 444 Macy Building, 525 West 120th Street on Tuesday, October 12 from 8-10 pm. http://www.mm2004.org/acm_mm04_call4interactiveartprogram.htm. Pamela's Constructed Narratives project was included in Wireless Experience at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland. She presented the project in the Critical Interaction Design: Narratives, Subjectivity and Interaction track at ISEA 2004 Helsinki (International Symposium on Electronic Art), August 14-22. She also participated in a subsequent International Expert Meeting on Media Art and New Media Culture Policy as a moderator for the workshop, Media Arts Policy, sponsored by the m-cult, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies and the Arts Council of Finland.

Golan Levin, Assistant Professor of Art, is participating in the following group exhibitions during the month of September: Phonorama at ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany; Prix Ars Electronica at O.K. Centrum Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria (receiving honorable mention in the Interactive Art category); and Carnivore Survey at La Villette Numerique, Paris, France. He will present The Manual Input Sessions at the Ars Electronica Festival and Scribble (Solo) at SonarSound, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Additionally, Golan is honored to be included in TR100, Technology Review's 100 Top Young Innovators Under 35.

Kim Beck, Assistant Professor of Art, has a solo exhibit, Ideal City, at Plane Space, 102 Charles St., NYC, September 9 through October 10. http://www.plane-space.com/.

Ayanah Moor, Assistant Professor of Art, is exhibiting in site unseen at New Sense Enterprises in Lakewood, Ohio, September 4 through October 9. http://www.newsenseonline.com.

Hilda Green Demsky (BFA '58) exhibited in group shows this year at Pen and Brush Gallery, Larchmont, NY and Gallery Deady, Newport, RI. She has solo shows in October at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY and Pleiades Gallery, NYC. http://www.pleiadesgallery.com; http://www.demskyart.com/.

Elaine Wechsler (A '59) operates At Home in Manhattan, a bed and breakfast on Manhattan's Upper West Side, primarily for people in the arts.

Raymond Saunders (BFA '60) had solo exhibits in 2004 at Gallery Resche, Paris and Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR. His work was also included in A Survey Exhibition: Fade 1990-2003, California State University, Los Angeles, CA; What's Doin, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco; and A Rare Glimpse: Modern American Art from Private Napa Valley Collections, Napa Valley Museum, Napa, CA.

Mel Bochner (BFA '62) has works in Speaking With Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC through September 8. His Theory of Boundaries, a 1969 wall drawing, was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Patricia Colvin Burson (BFA '71) will exhibit September 15-16 at South End Open Studios, 500 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA. She is currently represented by: Art Advisory/Boston, LLC; Boston Art, Inc.; and CAA Corporate Leasing Program. Upcoming residencies include those at Provincetown Community Compact, Inc. and Cape Cod National Seashore,this October. Burson also has a November I-Park fellowship in East Haddam, CT. http://www.bursonstudios.com.

Paul Glabicki (BFA '72) had Academy Leader Variations (1987), which he co-directed, shown at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. His work was included in the 10th International Animation Festival in Japan, August 19-23 in Hiroshima. He is Co-Director of Digital Imaging Initiative at University of Pittsburgh where he has been a professor for 25 years.

Christina Fenton (BFA '73) is a Development Officer for UNM Hospitals where she directs the UNM Health Sciences Center Art Program and works with the development team on fundraising projects. Fenton began at UNM in 1992; among her special projects for the HSC Administration was managing the award-winning publication Alliances. Prior to UNM, Fenton worked for Futures for Children as the Assistant Director of Development, Executive Director of the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Executive Director of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and as Cultural Programs Coordinator for the City of Pittsburgh. Her civic involvement currently includes serving on the boards of the Albuquerque Arts Alliance, UNM Friends of Art, UNM Friends of Dance, and Albuquerque Rotary Club.

Deborah Kass (BFA '74) exhibited in: Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art; Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Artists, California College of Art Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (traveling); and The Muse, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks+Projects, NYC. Her work is currently on view in Co-Conspirators: The Artist and Collector, Orlando Museum of Art, FL through October 31 and Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980's, Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH through November 21. http://www.contemporaryartscenter.org/exhibitions/crimes.html; http://www.omart.org/art/art.current.html.

Linsley Lambert (BFA '75) is showing in 3 Painters at I-5 Gallery at the Brewery, 2100 North Main Street #A9, Los Angeles, opening September 11, 7-10pm and running through September 26.

Diane Samuels (BFA '70, MFA '76) exhibits her permanent installation, Luminous Manuscript, at the Center for Jewish History, NYC. She had a solo exhibit this summer, Diane Samuels: Traces, at Kim Foster Gallery, NYC. http://www.artnet.com/event/59545/Diane_Samuels_Traces.html;
http://www.cjh.org/about/news/view_archive.cfm?newsid=139.

Renee Stout (BFA '80) had a solo exhibit, Fatima’s Dreams, this summer at Barrister’s Gallery in New Orleans. http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2004-06-08/art_review.html.

Matt Wrbican (BFA '81) is Assistant Archivist for the Andy Warhol Museum and co-author of Andy Warhol: Time Capsule 21 by Andy Warhol, John W. Smith, Mario Kramer and Matt Wrbican (DAP, 2004).

Christopher Priore (BFA '81) has a solo exhibit, Albero della Vita / Tree of Life, at the Italian American Museum in The New Yorker Building, 28 West 44th St. 17th floor, NYC, opening September 8, 6-8pm. He will present an artist's talk on September 14, 6-8pm. A Carnegie Mellon alumni reception at the exhibit is scheduled for Friday, September 17, 6-8pm.

James Adams (BFA '83) teaches at Salisbury University in Salisbury, MD. He has solo exhibits at: OM Gallery, New Orleans in October, 2004; Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO in February, 2005; and Atrium Gallery, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD in November, 2005.

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '87) exhibited this summer in I Want to Take You Higher, a show exploring the visual structures of the mandala at McKenzie Fine Art, Inc., NYC. http://www.mckenziefineart.com/.

David Yu (BFA '89), after a very fulfilling 13 years with Amnesty International USA, has accepted a position as Events Manager with inMotion, Justice for All Women. InMotion recruits and trains corporate lawyers to provide pro bono counsel to low income, underserved and/or abused women in the areas of matrimonial, family, and immigration law. He'll be working on two major events in New York City: an annual photography auction at Sotheby's and a summer networking party for professionals, among other fundraising projects.

James Thurman (BFA '93) will have a solo exhibition, Systems, at the Art Gallery of West Liberty State College in West Liberty, WV, September 1-23. An opening reception will be held on September 1 from 5:30 - 7:30pm. The exhibition will feature plates and similar artworks that are made from recycled books, maps and paper. Most of the pieces are made by gluing hundreds of pages together and then creating the final form using a woodturning lathe. The completed artworks often have the appearance of abstract topographical surfaces, many with semi-concentric circular layers. Thurman is Associate to the Director and Assistant Professor in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State University. He received his M.F.A. in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Arden Bendler Browning (BFA '97) teaches at Cabrini College in Radnor, PA. She has a 2004 Artist Residency: Soaring Gardens, (Ora Lerman Trust) in Laceyville, PA. This summer she exhibited in Philadelphia Selections Five, through September 3 at Goldey Paley Gallery, at Moore College of Art and in Summer Dialogue at Broadway Gallery in NYC. Her solo exhibit, Instability, ended August 7 at University City Arts League, Philadelphia. http://www.thegalleriesatmoore.org; http://www.ucartsleague.org.

Emily Walazek (MFA '97) is Administrative Assistant at CBCL/Poggio Lab, DiCarlo Lab, MIT. She gave birth to her first child, a boy, on August 13.

Steffi Domike (MFA '97) has left the art faculty of Chatham College for a consulting position with The Heinz Endowments where she is developing a new regional organization that will focus attention on the impacts of environmental pollution and hazards on human health. By year's end she hopes to have the new organization up and running in the Pittsburgh area.

Marc Böhlen (MFA '99) is Assistant Professor of Digital Arts and Robotics at University at Buffalo. He has presented works in GRAM, Université du Québec à Montreal, the 6th New York Digital Salon, and DIGITAL BOUNDARIES: Multiculturalism, Identity, and Awareness, Columbia University. http://www.realtechsupport.org/.

Cheryl Casteen (MFA '00) will be teaching 3-D Design at Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minnesota this Fall and Spring. She is also Manager and Gallery Director of the Arts Center of Saint Peter, in St. Peter, MN.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) and Jacob Ciocci (MFA Class of 2005) are exhibiting in the Liverpool Biennial: International Festival of Contemporary Art in England, September 18 - November 28. http://www.biennial.org.uk/.

James Pastorius (BFA '01) is Visual Effects Artist for Cobalt FX. He has worked on The Cat in the Hat, Van Helsing and The Chronicles of Riddick.

Semi Ryu (MFA '02) is Assistant Professor, Department of Kinetic Imaging, Virginia Commonwealth University. Her animation, Hungboga, was featured in the 2004 Annecy International Animation Festival, France. Her work on virtual interactive puppetry has been presented at international new media conferences: The 2003 New Forms Festival, Vancouver; INTERACT 2003, Zurich; e-culture fair, Amsterdam; 6th International Conference on Generative Art, Milan; and 5th International Whitehead Philosophy Conference, Seoul.

Jill Palermo's (BFA '02) Cellular Portraiture has been shown this year at: The World Universe Gallery in Soho; 937 Liberty Avenue with the Three Rivers Arts Festival; Take Two Gallery in East Stroudsburg, PA; and Springboard Space in Pittsburgh. She was chosen as a visiting artist at http://www.crudeoils.us. This September through November, she has a solo exhibit at The Life Sciences Greenhouse, Pittsburgh.

Abe Orden and Nate Hooper (both BFA '02) exhibited in Theft: The Act of Inspired Borrowing, Mission Badlands/Balazo Gallery, San Francisco.

Brooke Singer (MFA '02) co-curated Spectroplis: Mobile Media, Art and the City, a three-day event (October 1-3) in Lower Manhattan that highlights the diverse ways artists, technical innovators and activists are using communication technologies to generate urban experiences and public voice.
http://www.spectropolis.info/.

Todd Pavlisko (MFA '02) is exhibiting in site unseen at New Sense Enterprises in Lakewood, Ohio, September 27 through October 9. http://www.newsenseonline.com.

Tak Noguchi (MFA Class of 2003) was awarded a Fulbright for a project involving 1-800 workers in India.

Joana Ricou (BSA '04) in Biological Sciences and Art, will be on campus for an additional year as a Carnegie Mellon Fifth Year Scholar.

Jacob Ciocci, third year graduate student, screens new paperrad videos at Pittsburgh Filmmakers on September 2 at 8pm as part of a traveling tour called Magic Visions: Movies with Live Soundtracks.

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