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The University of Washington’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media program and the Lawrimore Project are pleased to announce a BFA thesis exhibition of cutting-edge artistic inquiry, opening Thursday, June 12th from 6 to 10PM, running through June 22nd.

more info: http://www.washington.edu/dxarts/bfa/

Featured works include installations that explore spatiotemporal aspects of light and sound in relation to the viewer, memory, kinetics, and real-time interactions. Intersecting these installations are environments that employ dance performance, stereoscopic cinema, animation, and a selection of experimental video.

This exhibition is undertaken by thirteen emerging artists investigating areas of convergence between technology and hybrid art forms. The Bachelor of Fine Arts acquired through the DXARTS program emphasizes creative academic research and experimentation through the arts, and this thesis exhibition showcases the final products of that process. The nature of this course of study merges the use of modern tools, techniques and modes of thought to pioneer new directions in contemporary, interdisciplinary art practice.

Seattle’s Lawrimore Project presents some of the most ambitious and innovative shows in the Northwest and is dedicated to carrying forward a critical dialogue between artists, curators, collectors, and the community. Scott Lawrimore’s curatorial instincts, matched with his unique historical perspective, are evident with a quick glance at the wide breadth of shows he has exhibited. From radical installations that transform the entire gallery, to unhinged video, painting and photography exhibitions, Lawrimore’s interventions in Northwest contemporary arts reinforces the new collaboration with DXARTS and will deliver a new emerging artistic logic heavily focused on the frontier of experimental arts.

Just blocks away from the U-District. Take a nice sunny walk and blow your mind.

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Dorsey Dunn’s
RESONANCES:
Performance + Sound Installation

Jack Straw Productions presents Resonances, a sound installation that begins with a live electro-acoustic improvisational performance in the gallery and continues as an extended aural ‘dying-away’ of the event itself over the course of the exhibition. Music and sound captured during the opening will slowly disappear in a long series of disintegrating reverberations, from an intense beginning to a final period that is spare and minimal. Dorsey Dunn, based in Los Angeles, works in sound, text and image in the form of installations, performances, and written and recorded works.

4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105-6999
Phone: (206) 634-0919

Jack Straw New Media Gallery Hours:
Monday-Friday, 10am - 6pm

Wed May 21st
5:00 pm
Henry Art Gallery Auditorium

“Up” | dxarts video screening

DXARTS presents a special screening of video shorts created by students in the course “Experiments in Digital Video: The Architecture of Time.” These works are final projects from this intensive, year-long sequence that explores the ideas and methods from the beginnings of the moving image up to contemporary digital cinema and video art. These emerging filmmakers have honed their skills in all areas of the production process including cinematography, sound, and lighting to non-linear editing, compositing, and effects presented in a diverse array of short features.

Admission: free

Electronic 4Culture - Call for Artists

4Culture is seeking electronic artworks for Electronic 4Culture (e4c). Walk, drive or ride by - e4c will offer a high quality, high visibility venue for the exhibition of dynamic electronic artworks by media artists and projects intrinsic to 4Culture’s work. Twenty media works or media proposals will be selected for presentation through this electronic gallery. Media artists working in all genres are encouraged to apply. e4c is located adjacent to Gallery4Culture facing Prefontaine Place South in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood.

Download the call and application information here: http://www.4culture.org/e4c/index.htm

Exhibiting artists: Julia Bruk, Anna Czoski, Alexis Eggertsen, Mollie Fabric, Robert Gay, Kjell Hansen, Mi-Jong Jang, Daren Keck, Amber Manuguid, Michael McCrea, Toby McKes, Erik, Parr, Nathan Wade.

ANNA HOMLER ~ Pharmicia Poetica
Wed, April 9, 7:30pm

“…a singer who can take the audience by the hand and lead them along the weird path between atmospherics and surreal humor… A witch with a few home-brewed spells and a ray gun.” –Resonance Magazine

Anna Homler will discuss her Jack Straw residency, a recording project featuring a large improvising ensemble featuring cello, koto, guitar, toys, homemade instruments, didjeridu, and voice, with Seattle musicians. Encompassing music, spoken word, and installation, intermedia artist Anna Homler’s alternative languages extend the possibilities of meaning and communication. With a sensibility that is both ancient and post-modern, Homler makes words musical and music like words. Highlighting Homler’s work is the performance/installation project PHARMACIA POETICA, which examines the symbolic and tonal qualities of words and objects.

Check it out:
Jack Staw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105-6999
Phone: (206) 634-0919
Fax: (206) 634-0925

The University of Washington’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) is a creative research convergence zone for intrepid artists and scholars who are pioneers in an unfolding new era in the arts. Join the program’s director Shawn Brixey and doctoral students to get a glimpse of mind-blowing new forms of art. Presenting artists include Noel Paul (Visual Synthesis), Allison Kudla (Sensing and Control Systems), Heather Raikes (Dance Technology) and Nicolas Varchausky (Computer Music) as well as Assistant Professor James Coupe (Systems Art).

A Q&A with the audience and particpating artists will follow.

Thursday, March 13
Henry Auditorium
7 pm, FREE