Throwies in Milwaukee

From Lane Hall and the Evan Roth Throwies Workshop at UWM last Friday.

Mat Rappaport Awarded Howard Foundation Fellowship

Nice work, Mat Rappaport, DAC Faculty

HOWARD FOUNDATION NEWS RELEASE APRIL, 2007

Providence, RI -- The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, administered by Brown University for the Board of Administration of the Howard Foundation, announced twelve fellowships of $25,000 each for the 2007-2008 academic year. The twelve recipients, representing the fields of Visual Arts, Media Studies and the History of Art and Architecture, were selected from among 237 artists and scholars nominated by administrative officers of colleges, universities, and cultural institutions throughout the country. The 2007-2008 fellows and their projects are:

Visual Arts and Media Studies:

Yizhak Elyashiv, Independent Artist, Adjunct Faculty: Rhode Island College and
Rhode Island School of Design, Landscape – Memory.

Paul Ramirez Jonas, Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Bard College, Clay Library: To be Spoken out Loud.

Pam Lins, Independent Artist and Adjunct Instructor at the Cooper Union School of Art, Please Bear with Us.

Hillary Mushkin, Associate Professor of Digital Media Art & Design, Orange Coast College, As We Go On: A Drawing Series.

Paul Myoda, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Department, Brown University, 21st Century Architectural Ornamentation.

Carol Prusa, Associate Professor, Department of Visual Art and Art History, Florida Atlantic University, Innies and Outies Unification Series: An Investigation of “Wonderfully Strange Ideas” (Expressed in Domes and Quantum Foam).

Mat Rappaport, Assistant Professor Digital Media, Department of Visual Art, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Office, A Multichannel Video Installation and Performance.

Rigo 23, Independent Artist, Criminal/Victim.

History of Art and Architecture:

Alexander Alberro, Associate Professor, School of Art and Architecture, University of Florida, Periodizing Contemporary Art.

William Gleason, Associate Professor, Department of English, Princeton University, Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature.

Robin Greeley, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Connecticut, Between Campesino and State: the Mexican Avant-garde and Images of the Nation, 1920-1952.

Max Page, Associate Professor of Architecture and History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Priceless: The History and Politics of Historic Preservation.

The Board of Administration announced that fellowships in 2008-2009 will be awarded in the fields of Music, Playwriting and Theatre Studies. See the Howard Foundation website for more information.

Graffiti Research Lab in Milwaukee

From Lane Hall:
Folks,

You don't want to miss Layton Lecture and Visiting Artist Evan Roth on
Thursday, April 19th, 7:30 p.m. at UWM's Curtin 175. (free and open to
the public).

Evan Roth is a media maker interested in uses of technology in popular
culture and the urban environment. He is currently doing some of the most compelling public art projects in the world. He is a founding member of Graffiti Research Lab and a developer of multiple technology hacker applications, including
“throwies.” He is also a senior fellow at the Eyebeam OpenLab, an
open source creative technology research and development lab for the public
domain. (Where, by the way, Intermedia grad alum Paul Amitai also
works.)

You can view his amazing output and viral interventions at the
following sites (but be sure to spend some time at Graffiti Research
Lab!)

http://ni9e.com/
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/
http://research.eyebeam.org/people/evan-roth

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Join us on Friday, April 20th at 3:00 in the 3rd floor of Kenilworth for a hands-on "Throwies" workshop! Learn this simple hack that is rocking the internet and engage in thinking about electronic palettes and new forms of interaction within contested public spaces. This event is free, but space is limited, so please sign up at the Grad Office (A255) in the Art Building on UWM campus.

Please contact Lane Hall with any questions.

Therese Quinn and Daniel Tucker

From Nicolas Lampert:

Upcoming Presentation at UWM by Therese Quinn and Daniel Tucker. This event is during Nicolas Lampert's ART 309 class and is open to all. Please inform your
students!

Therese Quinn will present on teaching art education within a social justice framework and Daniel Tucker will present on activist art projects within Chicago.

Wednesday, April 18th 4:00-6:40
MIT 191
EVERYONE WELCOME!

Therese Quinn is an assistant professor of art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she directs an undergraduate teacher education program. She also works with the Multicultural Arts School, one of four new public high schools built to serve the Little Village/North Lawndale neighborhoods, and serves on the coordinating committee of the Chicago Teachers for Social Justice.
She is a co-editor of the book "Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader."

Daniel Tucker is the editor of AREA Chicago - a biannual publication dedicated to researching and networking the art, education, and activist practices within the city of Chicago. AREA Chicago focuses on grassroots projects and has explored the themes of Privatization/Welfare Cuts, Local Food Systems, and social movements that connects local practice with the rest of the globe.

Additionally, AREA Chicago sponsors three related projects: “Infrastructure Lecture Series” dealing with organizational/sustainability issues of activist and
cultural groups and the “Peoples Atlas of Chicago: Sites of Relevance” mapping project which takes the form of workshops designed to create subjective and nontraditional maps of the city about different topics, and "AREA Books Imprint" - our most recent side project launching next year.

Googlization

Saturday, May 12, 2007

The School of Information Studies invites you to the 2007 Ted Samore Lecture featuring Siva Vaidhyanathan.

Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2004). Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including American Scholar, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, MSNBC.COM, Salon.com, openDemocracy.net, and The Nation. After five years as a professional journalist, Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Columbia University, and is currently an associate professor of Culture and Communication at New York University and a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities.

Hide House
2625 S. Greeley St.
Bay View, WI 53207

Cocktails 5:00
Buffet Dinner 5:30-6:30
Presentation 7:00

Please RSVP by May 1, 2007

Registration Fee: $20.00 ($10/student)
Registration Form

Contact: UWM - School of Information Studies

Bolton Hall Rm: 510
3210 N Maryland Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53211

Ph: 414-229-4707
Fax: 414-229-6699