NIU’s Time Arts Department in coordination with the College of Visual and Performing Arts cordially invites you to join Ryder Cooley as she performs excerpts from Xmalia.
XMALIA features songs about extinct animals such as the Tasmanian Tiger, the Pyrenean Ibex the Xerces Butterfly, plus a Dodo-trapeze act. This entertaining tragedy is hosted by a lonely mortician, who summons the animals back to life for her Graveyard Cabaret.
C. Ryder Cooley is an inter-disciplinary musician and artist. Weaving together songs on ukulele, singing saw and accordion with projections and movement, her work reveals a terrain of lost dreams and phantom memories. Ryder has performed in numerous bands including Fall Harbor, The Ramblin Jug Stompers, The Darklings, Corner Tour and Down River.
For more information visit:
http://carolynrydercooley.org/
http://xmalia.tumblr.com/
http://timearts.niu.edu/
Where: NIU School of Music West Courtyard (weather permitting – rain venue: Recital Hall)
When: Sunday, Sept. 25th @7p.m.
Cost: Free
There will be limited seating available and current weather indications are that it might be cold – dress appropriately.
“UN-”
Group exhibition
Artists: Aaron Vermedal, Carrie Schumacher, Jason Judd, Brian Montana,Iga Puchalska, R.J. Vanderwerf, Natee Prasanpanich
Pleasant Street Gallery
1650 Pleasant St. DeKalb, IL
Reception March 31st 2011, 5-9 pm
www.unexhibition.com
Seven Midwestern Artists Exhibit New Work Dealing With the Elusive Concept of the ‘Invisible’
On the evening of March 31st at the Pleasant Street Gallery in DeKalb, IL seven newmedia artists will display a group of work dealing with the concept of the invisible. The exhibition will be a one-night event held at Pleasant Street Gallery (1650 Pleasant St. DeKalb, IL) starting promptly at 5pm through 9pm. Invisible, how do you communicate this particularly intangible concept? As we survive our daily lives we sometimes stand naive of the ephemeral nature that surrounds us. The subtle suggestions, soft symbols, and suggestive gestures that often guide our lives. Seven artists look to examine their idea of the ‘invisible’ in the upcoming exhibition properly titled “UN-”. The featured seven artists work in a variety of new/mixed media. The exhibited work will feature digital based performance, installation, sculpture, sound, and video.
Exhibiting artists: Aaron Vermedal, Carrie Schumacher, Jason Judd, Brian Montana, Iga Puchalska, R.J. Vanderwerf, Natee Prasanpanich
Further information please contact: Jason Judd / jasonajudd@gmail.com / 815.721.9120
The House Cafe will present a film fest and photography exhibition entitled Dynamic Formulations. The film fest and exhibition will open on February 9th, 2011 at 7:00pm. The film fest will only be shown twice that night at 7:00pm and again at around 8:30pm so do not miss your chance to see it. Some of the videos shown will include …content regarding gender, video recycling, environments, and a self help video, as well as other interesting topics. There will be photography displaying bikes in unusual places and unique perspectives of fruit. Time Arts professor, Bart Woodstrup, will also be premiering his animation Animalia – about an inter-species fairytale. Come in from the cold, take a break from your studies, and enjoy some art. You do not want to miss this show.
The students in the Time Arts program of the NIU School of Visual and Performing Arts are presenting a live cinema art show entitled Live.Render.Go. Live Cinema is not cinema, but a live digital painting performed before an a audience. This show is the result of a semester’s worth of exploration by the Time Arts students using the real-time software authoring program, Max5/Jitter. The pieces in the show contain real-time video and audio manipulation, computer vision, and VJing. The show will be on December 7th, 2010 at 7:30pm in the Jack Arends building, Rm. 100.
Warning! This show contains loud noises and flashing lights that may conducive to epileptic seizures.
Reflection II from Datdatdat / A. N. Fischer on Vimeo.
More here: http://anfischer.com/reflection-II/
When: Tuesday, Aug. 31st 7p.m.
Where: The House Cafe, 263 East Lincoln Highway, DeKalb IL.
URL: http://www.thehousecafe.net/
In cinema, as in life, we desire resolution. However, we must remember that the journey is as valuable (if not more) as the destination. All too often this cinematic structure becomes a well-worn path to the resolution. “What happens next?” is an engaging collection of short video art collected from a diverse group of artists living and working in the New York Hudson Valley area. Each artist approaches their craft with a variety of intentions. Some seek to entertain, to some, creating the moving image is an experiment, and to others the image represents a personal or political statement. Regardless of their intentions, each of these works relies on the audience to intellectually interact with it and thereby complete its thought. What Happens Next? was curated by Bart Woodstrup for the Beacon Sitelines and Hudson Plugged In art festivals in 2008.
Artists Include: Dara Greenwald + Bettina Escauriza, Jaanika Peerna, Christine Sciulli, LoVid, Shawn Lawson, Penny Lane, Matthew Biederman with Alain Thibault, C. Ryder Cooley with Jen Smith and Gretchen Hildebran, J. Craig Tompkins, and Project-K.
Exciting new additions: Randi Stella, Iga Puchalska, Matthew Dotson, and Paolo Pedercini.
Please note: Some imagery not appropriate for young viewers, or people with neurological conditions.
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