Susanne Slavick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art, will serve on the accreditation panel for Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Hall in Germany on November 27-28, 2006.

Two Carnegie Mellon affiliated artists were awarded Creative Capital Foundation 2006 Grants in the digital arts and new genres categories respectively: Golan Levin and alumnus and School of Art Advisory Board member, Paul Vanouse (MFA '96). Levin's project, Observation as Interaction: Eye Contact Systems, is a series of large-scale artworks from wall projections to robotic sculptures that play with the idea of surveillance by returning the viewer’s gaze using tracking software and a simulated return glance. Paul Vanouse's Latent Figure Protocol is a multimedia installation beginning with taped live science experiments to create representational visual art works using DNA samples. http://channel.creative-capital.org/project_815.html;
http://channel.creative-capital.org/grantee_275.html.

Elaine A. King has two articles [Magadelena Jetelova and Tony Oursler] included in the anthology, Sculpture Reader: Sculpture Since 1980 (Perspectives on Contemporary Sculpture), 2006. In addition, her article Whistler's Mother, appears in the anthology American Icons, published by Greenwood Press, 2006 co-edited by David and Susan Hall. King is currently living in Italy and teaching for American University's International Program as the Distinguished Art Historian in Residence.

Golan Levin will give an artist's presentation in the Meet the Media Guru lecture series, on October 20 in Milan at the Mediateca Santa Teresa. While in Milan, he will also give a workshop for Progetto INnet, at Villa Olmo Como, on October 21. Levin's installation work appears in Further Processing: Generative Art, Open Systems at the Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, and in an exhibition entitled www-dot-creative-capital-dot-org, showing in the Nathan Cummings Foundation Offices, New York City. http://www.meetthemediaguru.org/MTMGgolanlevin.html;
http://www.didstudio.org/innet/; http://www.medienturm.at/.

Christopher Sperandio and Simon Grennan have produced two new comic books that will appear in October. Sperandio is currently in pre-production with a television series slated to air nationally in June 2007. Sperandio will lecture on his work this fall at the Ohio State University, West Virginia University and Seattle University.

Elizabeth "Betty" Asche Douglas (BFA '51) artist and gallery owner, has most recently exhibited work at the Art Fair in Mellon Park, September 8-10; Women of Visions at the Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, September 8 - October 21; The Tenth Annual Mavuno Festival First Fruit Exhibition at Sweetwater Center for the Arts, September 15 - October 7; and the Aliquippa Festival of Art and Music September 15-17, 2006. http://www.douglasartgallery.com/Newsletter.html.

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) exhibits in Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape at Hunterdon Museum in Clinton, New Jersey through October 29. She also exhibited Fleshscapes this summer at the DeCordova Gallery in Greenport, NY.
http://www.hunterdonartmuseum.org/exhibitions.cfm.

Mel Bochner (BFA'62) presents a large survey of language-based works in all media at the Art Institute of Chicago, October 5, 2006 through March 2007. At the same time, Chicago's Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies has commissioned his Joys of Yiddish, on view from mid-September 2006 through March 2007, as part of its Language Barrier series in which text-based artists' projects are installed on a construction wall in Centennial Park. The exhibit, Mel Bochner ('62): Drawing from Four Decades has now traveled to the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama through September 30 and will proceed to the Weatherspoon Art Museum at University of North Carolina in Greensboro, October 15 through December 23, and the San Diego Museum of Art next January 20 through March 25, 2007. Bochner is a contributor to the September issue of Artforum with reflections on his 1966 collaboration with Robert Smithson for Art Voices magazine. Bochner's upcoming exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is also featured in Artforum's Preview section and his Minimal Art - The Movie (1966) is listed in Matias Faldbakken's Top Ten column for the same issue. http://www.galleryguide.org/details.asp?CustomerID=117143.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) presents a two solo exhibits this fall. Atmospheric Disturbances opens September 26 at Salem State College in Salem, MA, through October 19, 2006 with a reception on October 4, 2-3pm, following a gallery talk from 1-2pm. The show is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Lily Wei. It travels to Simon Gallery in Morristown, NJ, opening November 14 through December 23 with a reception on Friday, November 17, 6-8pm. Her work is also included in the Erie Art Museum's Boundaries: Book Arts Between the Traditional and the Experimental, opening October 10 through January 5 in Erie, PA.
http://www.simongallery.com/index.html; http://www.erieartmuseum.org.

Patricia Burson (BFA '71) presents work in Boston's South End Open Studios at 450 Harrison Ave, Studio 402-A, Saturday and Sunday, September 16-17, 11am through 6pm.
http://www.bursonstudios.com.

James Welling (’72) exhibits in Sixteen Tons, the UCLA Art Faculty show at the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center at UCLA’s north campus, September 14 through October 26. He also has a solo exhibit at Galerie Nelson in Paris, November 4 through December 22, 2006. http://www.uclalumni.net/enewsletters/connect/sep06/intro.cfm?email=G9IG; http://www.galerie-nelson.com/.

Mary Mazziotti (Drama '72) presents The Dead IX: A Day in the Life of Death at the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI. http://www.uica.org/eNews.html.

Peter Stanick (BFA '75) was interviewed by DG Magazine for an article that will be published in November.

Katherine Kuharic (BFA '84) exhibited in American Eden at Jenkins Johnson Gallery in NYC this summer. http://www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com/exhibitions/06eden/eden_title.htm.

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA ’87) presents a solo exhibit at McKenzie Fine Art, in New York City, September 7 through October 7. http://www.mckenziefineart.com/exhib/exhib.htm.

Laura Karetsky (BFA '87) has work included in the The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC through February 19, 2007. She will also be showing at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, 521 W.26th Street in NYC, opening October 19 through November 25. http://www.portraitcompetition.si.edu/index.html; http://www.studio259.net; http://www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com.

Susan Carolonza Chanin (BFA '87) has curated You Are Here, a group exhibition for the Jersey City Artist Tour , opening October 21 through November 21 and including works by: Easton Davy, Ev Stone, Key Wilde, Leslie Sheryll, Laura Karetzky (BFA '87), Marcelo Kruschewsky, Susan Carolonza Chanin (BFA '87), and Taeseong Kim.

Three alumni exhibit at Digging Pitt Gallery in Pittsburgh, September 14 through November 4, with a closing reception from 6-9pm. Kate Temple (BFA '88) presents a solo exhibit, The Year Series - Side 1, while Lara Hoke (BFA '03) and Rachel Popowcer (BFA '92) exhibit in Pittsburgh Alumni: Twenty Artists from beyond the Rivers - Side 1.http://www.diggingpitt.com/;
http://diggingpitt.blogspot.com/.

Katie Grinnan (BFA ’92) presents a solo exhibit, Cheerleaders and Bandwagons at ACME in Los Angeles, September 9 through October 14. http://www.acmelosangeles.com.

Charlie Castaneda and Brody Reiman (BFA '92) open a solo exhibit at DCKT Contemporary in New York City, September 7 through October 7. The work focuses on the natural scenic environments existing on the fringes of the urban landscape.
http://www.dcktcontemporary.com/.

Marc Fischer (BFA ’93), with Temporary Services, recently completed a spread of new public phenomena research for an upcoming issue of Multitudes magazine from Paris. This special issue is printed in conjunction with the Transmission exhibition they participated in this spring at the Villa Arson in Nice, France. Marc also participatd in a one-night exhibition at COMA (California Occidental Museum of Art) in Chicago, showing 360 pages of photo relationships made from scavenged images from books and magazines and in Exalted Trash, a group show at Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts, October 7 through December 9, 2006. This fall, he began teaching a class on working in groups at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. http://multitudes.samizdat.net/;
http://www.villa-arson.org/centre_dart/expos_encours/expo_2006/transmission/indexp.html;
http://www.temporaryservices.org/public_phenomena_mltds.pd; http://www.bookandpaper.org/;
http://www.kittyspit.net/coma.

Systems + Propositions, a duo show by Carin Mincemoyer (BFA '94) and Julian Montague, Rochester Contemporary (September 8 through October 8, 2006) Artist in Residence at I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut (October 2006) Artist in Residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska (April through June 2007) Artist in Residence and solo exhibition at the Klondike Institute for Art and Culture, Dawson, Yukon, Canada (July through August 2007).

Jen Urso (BFA '96) recently received a Contemporary Forum Artist Materials Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum for $1500; she is in an Eye Lounge alumni show in Phoenix, AZ; and in October she will be creating a site-specific piece about the construction and dismantling of Phoenix in Beauty and Paradox in Downtown Phoenix at Modified Arts. http://www.jenniferursoart.com; http://www.eyelounge.com; http://www.modified.org.

Amie Robinson (BFA '98) exhibits in Yanaguana: Polvo Est. 1996, at Polvo @ Unit B Gallery in San Antonio, Texas, opening September 15 through November 3. Amy lives in Brooklyn, New York where she teaches art to children with special needs.
http://polvochicago.blogspot.com/2006/08/polvounitb-gallery-opens-september-15.html.

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99) exhibits in Under Fire at I Space, Chicago, September 8 through October 7. http://www.art.uiuc.edu/projects/underfire/. Riccardo is participating in the School of Art Fall Lectures, and will speak on Tuesday, November 28 at McConomy Auditorium.

Hyla Willis (MFA '99) and Faith Wilding (Studio for Creative Inquiry Fellow) exhibit in The Propagation Show, a group show curated by Sabrina Raaf at POLVO in Chicago, opening October 13 (6-10pm) through November 4. http://www.polvo.org/upcoming.htm.

Carolina Loyola Garcia (MFA ’00) participates in a group show, Terror?, at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, September 11 through November 11.
http://www.theintersection.org/calendar/program_gallery.php.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) participates (through the Neutral Capital Collection) in It's Not What You Know; It's Who You Know at Samson Projects, 450 Harrison Avenue, Storefront 63 in Boston, September 8 through October 14.
http://www.samsonprojects.com/?emc=intellicontact&m=3430319&v=1015389031&l=1.

Evan Tapper (MFA '01) received a Media Production Grant this year from the Canada Council for the Arts. This year, he presents in: In Search of Vashti, a site-specific audio installation through mid-September at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australian Centre for the Moving Image;Inside Out Festival, Toronto; the Dawson City Short Film Festival, Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City, Yukon; Emirates Film Festival, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; The Carnivalesque: Videos of A World Inside Out at Trent University, Peterborough; and the Jewish Animation Celebration, National Film Board Cinema, Toronto. http://www.insearchofvashti.net/.

Brad McCombs (MFA '02) presents an installation and kinetic works at the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The show opened on September 8.
http://www.uica.org/eNews.html.

Semi Ryu (MFA '02) published Virtual Puppetry and the Process of Ritual in Midea-N: The Journal of the New Media Caucus and Catalogue of the 2006 Gwangju Biennale. Her paper, Love Letter Reading to Virtual Beings was presented this July ay the 8th International research conference, Consciousness Reframed in Plymouth, UK. Her new project Infinite Cemetery (Virtual Reality + generative sound), created in collaboration with the multimedia lab at the University of Rome, premiered at the Web3D Symposium, the 11th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, this April in Columbia, Maryland, USA. Later this year the exhibition will be showcased at the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia and at Danacenter, Science Museum, London UK. http://www.people.vcu.edu/~sryu2/.

Jacob Feige (BFA ’02) presents a solo exhibit at Lombard Fried, 531 W. 26th Street. December 1, 2006 through January 13, 2007. http://www.lombard-freid.com/home.htm.

Shana Moulton (MFA '04) Just completed a two-year residency at De Ateliers in Amsterdam and recently had videos screened at: the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabruck, Germany, the Internationale Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen Germany, the Darklight Festival in Dublin, the Impakt Festival in Utrecht, a Music Video Art Screening at Electronic Arts Intermix, the Asheville Fringe arts festival in North Carolina, a group show at Canada Gallery in New York called Action Adventure, and received a grant for a performance project this summer in Amsterdam called Love in the City. http://www.skor.nl/artefact-2646-en.html.

Kristina Lazar (BFA '04) has a solo exhibit, The Elemental Vision: Portraits in the Mische Technique at Local Girl Gallery, 16106 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, Michigan through September with a reception on the 17th, 7-10pm.

Cassandra C. Jones (MFA '04) is joining a collective of curators, artists and environmentalists for a 1-2 year live/work studio residency in a 50,000 sq. foot building located in Manhattan's Chelsea Art District.

Ellie Sherman (BFA '05) presents a solo exhibit, House Paintings: Recent Irks, at Pittsburgh's Ash Galleries, 5314 Butler Street, opening September 14 (6-10pm) through September 30.

Take Etani (MFA Class of 2006) has been selected to be a resident artist at Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, CA, May 22 through June 21, 2007.

Bum Lee's (BFA '06) animation, Sports and Diversions was screened at the Portland Indy Animation Festival in mid August. It will also be screened at the Milano Film Festival, in Milan Italy, the 2006 Little Big Films: Short Film Competition sponsored by Landmark Theatres and at the Bradford Animation Festival in the UK. http://www.pdxanimation.com/; http://www.milanofilmfestival.it/eng/; http://www.littlebigfilms.net/; http://www.nmpft.org.uk/baf/2006/home.asp.

Eben Eliason (BFA '06) is working at Pentagram Design in NYC.

Lauren Adams (MFA Class of 2007) collaborated with Jake Peterson to participate in a show entitled Rat Fink's Revenge: The Custom Monster Collection. Opening October 28 at the Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, CA, the show honors the legacy of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and his many curious car and comics inventions. A catalogue will be published, and the show will travel to NY and Japan. http://www.petersen.org/.

Julia Stein (BHA Class of 2008) and Ben Bigelow (BFA Class of 2008) will be exhibiting and performing in, Many Happy Returns, October 21 - November 25 at High Energy Constructs in Los Angeles. Stein, aka JULIACKS, will be conducting a special store-front window performance on opening night accompanied by a sound piece by Ben Bigelow. Many Happy Returns is a group exhibition that will center around the intersections of poetry/literature/language and the visual/media arts. http://www.highenergyconstructs.com.

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