the 2012 MFA show installation is in full swing! opening Thursday, May 17th!

as featured in THE EAST VILLAGE BOYS (click here)

The show opens May 17th, click here to see a preview!

Please join us for a conversation with EPSCoR Research Scientist Marta Gomez-Chiarri, Digital Artist Jack Lovell, and Industrial Designer David Zacher as they reflect on their experience in art+design+science collaboration to develop tools for visualization.

The conversation, entitled The Encounter, will launch the new series Conversations | Collaborations, an initiative of the Creative Arts Council at Brown University. The series is curated by Charlie Cannon.

The Encounter Wednesday, April 11, 5:30 – 7:00 pm Englander Studio (N420) Granoff Center 154 Angell St. Providence

How do we begin to work together; before we know what we are going to do?

Drawing from their experience developing new tools for data visualization – a biologist, an artist and a designer will reflect on the importance of vulnerability and openness in the first encounter – in the meeting that precedes a project.

Participants Marta Gomez-Chiarri, Professor, Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences, URI, Visiting Scientist at RISD
David Zacher, MFA Candidate, ID, RISD
Jack Lovell, MFA Candidate, D+M, RISD

Conversations | Collaborations is a series of events exploring the importance of conversation to successful, creative interdisciplinary collaboration.

Conversations | Collaborations is a part of the Creative Mind Initiative at Brown University, curated by Charlie Cannon, in association with the Creative Arts Council.

Artists in Context is collaborating sponsor of Conversations | Collaborations.
The Encounter is co-sponsored by RI NSF EPSCoR

http://beautifuldecay.com/2012/04/03/laura-swansons-facial-splices/  

“Splices” recognizes an absurdity in comparing overt physical differences. I am fascinated with a contemporary phenomenon: overindulgent, politically correct driven behavior of pointing out obvious differences to avoid seeming ignorant or biased. Often, this ends up as condescending towards the person who is the “different” one. In “Splices”, it is apparent the eyes are not the subject’s, but what is it about a blunt splice that makes one so quick to notice or point out the obvious difference? Ultimately, I am interested in the idea that something can become too different to bear – to the degree where one cannot refrain from pointing it out. -Laura Swanson