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THIS WEEKEND
Weiss Field
RHODOPSIN is an original light and sound installation organized by WSOHOIDPS (A SHIP IN THE WOODS) which first premiered at ARTSD'14. Architect, artist, and MFA candidate Patrick Shields has created a revised version of the installation for this years WoW Festival. This project is an ongoing collaboration between WSOHOIDPS, Salk Institute neurobiologist John Reynolds, sound artist Greg Smaller and vision scientist Patrick Cavanagh. Rhodopsin aims to encourage visitors to think about the process of perception and consider the brain's role in actively constructing, rather than simply relaying, reality.
NEXT WEEK
Monday, October 12
MFA alumna and esteemed artist Carrie Mae Weems returns to campus. In her lecture she will reflect on her journey as an artist, negotiating the contradictions and intricacies of racism, sexism, class, gender roles, and political systems. Weems has received a MacArthur "genius" fellowship and has also had a major retrospective entitled "Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video,"at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
This Lecture is presented by the Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
as part of the Inclusive Excellence Speaker Series and is co-sponsored by the UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts and UCSD Alumni.
Click here to read a feature about this event in the UC San Diego News Center.
Wednesday, October 14
6:30 pm, Reception
October 6 - 16
Triton Art Gallery, Visual Arts Facility
Outside of Room 228
Triton Art Club presents a solo exhibition by undergraduate Media student Danielle Robbins in the new Triton Art Gallery space located in the center building within the Visual Arts Facility.
The Village
is an exhibition of photography that investigates light, color, line, and shape in the architecture and spaces of Carlsbad, California.
ONGOING
Running until December 4
gallery@calit2, Atkinson Hall
Aggregat
features works by sound artists and musicians Jan Scacjer, Daniel Bisig, Tobias Gerber, Markus Maeder, Philippe Kocher, and Medusa Cramer. The artists are all active in the Institute for Comuter Music and Sound Technology (ICST) of Switzerland's Zurich University of the Arts. The exhibition explores the notions of sound and movement in body-object
relationships in concrete materiality and present
thematic approaches such as 'choreography' of sound and movement, social and group behaviours, synchronization of media and senses, spatiality in real space, and figure-ground relationships between physical and sound movement.
NEXT WEEKEND IN THE COMMUNITY
Saturday, October 17
New Children's Museum
200 West Island Ave., San Diego
Eureka! features five large scale installations, including Globos from Collective Magpie and Desert Derby from Roman de Salvo. Globos is a monumental balloon that is shaped by individuals from Tijuana and San Diego. It is comprised of thousands of gold tissues and symbolizes the connectiveness and interdependence of the Tijuana-San Diego region. De Salvo's interactive installation, Desert Derby, traces California highways and highlights the California Aqueduct. It aims to familiarize participants with the region's water system.
All visual arts events are free and open to the public
To view a complete listing of upcoming visual arts events please visit:
visarts.ucsd.edu
Images Credits (top to bottom):
Rhodopsin;
The Considered
, ©Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery; Danielle Robbins, The Village; Aggregat diagram;
Globos,
Collective Magpie.
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