Dialogues In Art Polyphony Spring 2023
Polyphony: a conversation on sound art
Friday, March 10 at 12.00 - 1.00 pm, the UTA Dialogues in Art series will present a group of artists and curators discussing aspects of audio work in contemporary art. The presentation offers an opportunity to explore sculpture, technology, curatorial practices in time arts. Moderated by Stephen Laptisophon.
Livestream Link: https://youtube.com/live/KtFCwEwIJt4?feature=share
Speakers:
Emily Edwards is the Assistant Curator at Dallas Contemporary. While there, she has curated solo exhibitions of artists Gabrielle Goliath, Natalie Wadlington, Shilpa Gupta, Ariel Rene Jackson, and Margarita Cabrera and assisted over thirty exhibitions. She is currently working on presentations of artists Bianca Bondi and Chloe Chiasson in 2023. Prior to Dallas, she worked at the 9/11 Memorial Museum. Her research interests include memorialization, diasporic art, and sociopolitical commentary. She graduated with a BFA with Honors in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA in Art History and Museum Studies from Georgetown University.
Fernando Johnson is an artist living and working within the Dallas/ Fort Worth area for over a decade. He received his B.F.A from The University of North Texas in painting and drawing in 2009, and later his M.F.A. with a focus in sculpture from Texas Christian University in 2015. He has been teaching at UTA since 2016 and is now the area coordinator for sculpture. Working with a wide range of materials throughout his practice, Johnson seeks to find a greater awareness of the subtle interactions between viewer, object, space, and experience. Through his sound and sound-based installations Johnson utilizes manipulated field recordings to create new experiences that explore the ideas of transitory and liminal space.
Jeremy Scidmoreis a Faculty in the Glass Department at the University of Texas Arlington.His art practice has covered a wide array of glass media (neon, hot glass, kilnforming, glass printing), as well as installation, video, and sound. He continues to balance these studio-based explorations with community activism through arts advocacy and teaching. He has been an instructor, lecturer, and adviser at a range of academic, nonprofit, and for-profit institutions including Google, Solar City, The Crucible, Chicago Public Schools, Street Level Youth Media Group, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana, Pilchuck Glass School, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Public Glass, Ox-bow School of Arts and Residency, California College of Arts, Bullseye Glass Co., The Art Institute of California, Urban Glass, and North Land Creative Glass (Scotland). Scidmore earned a BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later returned to SAIC to study Arts Administration and Policy.
Liz Trosper is a new media painter working with ideas of reproduction, the body, painting and technology. Trosper’s work centers on the desire for touch that is both fueled by technology and denied by it. Her work is represented by Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas and via the international DANAE HI digital art network in Paris. Trosper’s work has been the subject of a one-person exhibition at The Wilcox Space, an initiative of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, a site for the exhibition, documentation, and study of the work of artists who explore painting as medium and idea. Her work has also shown internationally, participating in the Centre Pompadour residency in Ercourt, France, featured at the CICA Museum in South Korea and via the Artron network in China. Her work has also been in museum surveys of abstraction at the San Antonio Museum of Art and The Museum of South Texas. Trosper teaches as Assistant Professor of Instruction at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Listen to the talk online: https://youtube.com/live/KtFCwEwIJt4?feature=share