Faculty
PhD Program
Undergraduates
Staff & Support
Visual Resources
News & Events
Links

Art & Art History banner
Home ::News & Events::
horizontal bar-red

Calendar:

 

  Departmental News & Events | University Calendar

Weekly Newsletter
To subscribe to NewsByte, the AAH&VS weekly email newsletter, please email your request and email address to John Taormina at taormina@duke.edu

NewsByte :: May 13, 2010 ::
 
Homepage | Faculty | PhD Program | Undergraduates | VRC | Announcements | Contacts
Art, Art History & Visual Studies - Duke University
Current Events

PUBLIC SCULPTURE


Kwadwo "Kojo" Owusu-Akyaw, The Eternal Double Helix, 2010.

Kwadwo "Kojo" Owusu-Akyaw, a senior Evolutionary Anthropology and Chemistry major, who will be attending Duke Medical School beginning in the fall, recently installed a large public sculpture on the West Campus Plaza in front of the Bryan Center. Created with funds provided by the Office of Undergraduate Research Support in conjunction with an Independent Study with William Noland, associate professor of the practice of visual arts, the sculpture will remain on display through the calendar year through the efforts of Vice Provost for the Arts Scott Lindroth and Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta. 

Titled The Eternal Double Helix, the large, brightly colored steel sculpture departs from standard depictions of the double helix that represent it as relatively uniform and upright. Seeking to create a more dynamic representation in order to capture its functional role in life processes, Owusu-Akyaw created a form that stands more than eight feel tall, simplifying the base pairs for aesthetic purposes and creating two freely interlocking helices to suggest the process of replication, a key part of procreation. 

Owusu-Akyaw says in his project statement: "Too often the fields of biological science and visual arts are considered polar opposites. The truth of the matter is that many elements of biology are stunningly beautiful when depicted through art. DNA is no exception to this."
 

2010 SENIOR DISTINCTION EXHIBITION + SENIOR CAPSTONE EXHIBITION

 

April 29 – May 18, 2010
Smith Warehouse, Bays 11-12
114 S. Buchanan Blvd.

Graduating seniors Sue Li, Allison Simler, Taylor Martyn, and Umberto Plaja will be exhibiting their Senior Distinction projects.


FACULTY MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION IN DUKE LINK

Passage Sets/One Pulls Pivots at the Tip of the Tongue
(Wall of Light Version)

 

Interactive work by Bill Seaman
Programming by Todd Berreth
Location: Mediawall, The LINK @ Perkins Library (lower level)

Passage Sets by Bill Seaman, professor of visual studies, is a generative visual poem. It includes an interactive poem generator. The users of the system can position themselves in front of the screen and select words and/or phrases from four lists that become visual as they enter into differing proximities in relation to the screens. Moving forward and/or backward, then stopping in the center of the field, enables the participants to make selections from specific lists authored by Seaman. These words then flow across the screen and become part of an ever-changing line of text at the bottom of the screen.

The original version of Passage Sets/One Pulls Pivots at The Tip Of The Tongue was premiered in 1995. That version has been shown internationally and is in the permanent collection of the ZKM Museum (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany. This exhibition is displayed on the LINK Mediawall, a large tiled-display, composed of 48 computer monitors driven by a Linux computing cluster. Control for the exhibition is provided by an array of cameras mounted on the ceiling in front of the exhibit.


EAST DUKE CORRIDOR GALLERY INSTALLATION

 
Merrill Shatzman, ART poem, 24" x 30", digital print.

A new multimedia installation by artists Raquel Salvatella de Prada and Merrill Shatzman (Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies) and poet Deborah Pope (Department of English) is on view in the East Duke Building Corridor Gallery on Duke’s East Campus.

Supported by a Council for the Arts Collaboration Development Grant and the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, this multi-faceted project displays the collaborative work of these Duke professors in exploring the interactive relationship between original visual artwork with original creative text. The installation features the poetry of Pope, the letterforms and digital prints of Shatzman, and the animation of Salvatella de Prada, highlighting the potential of digital media in translating the written word. 


Raquel Salvatella de Prada, stlll frame from ART poem video.

The resulting exhibition, ART, reflects the artists’ own interactive, interdisciplinary, individual, and collective dynamic, aspiring to simultaneously enact and celebrate the essence and process of creating itself:  Art in all its rhythms of paradox, play, persistence, its rough turns and joys; its restless circling, transcendent moments of ephemeral poise, and ceaseless seeking.

For further information please go to: http://www.dukevisualstudies.org/letters

Department News

2010 Art, Art History & Visual Studies Undergraduate Awards

The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Visual Arts Award
•Allison Simler
•Rebecca Wood 

The Nancy Kaneb Art History Award
•Margaret Morrison
•Caroline Schermer

The Sue and Lee Noel Prize in Visual Arts Award
•Umberto Plaja
•Taylor Martyn

Visual Studies Initiative Award
•Mycah Braxton
•Michelle Rose Sullivan


2009-2010 Art History Doctorates

Samantha Noel
Advisor: Richard Powell
Dissertation: "Carnival is Woman: Gender, Performance, and Visual Culture in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival"


Faculty Lecture at the British Archaeological Association

Caroline Bruzelius, Ann M. Cogan Professor of art history, presented a lecture to the British Archaeological Association on May 5.  The title of the lecture was "Stiffs and Stones: Brothers, Burials and Bodies in the Medieval City."


Faculty Artwork in ColorPrint USA 40th Anniversary Exhibition


Bill Fick, Yummy No.3, 2004, 37” x 25”, color reduction linocut 

A color reduction linocut print titled Yummy No.3 by Bill Fick, visiting assistant professor of the practice of visual art, is currently on view at The Museum of Texas Tech University as part of the ColorPrint USA 40th Anniversary exhibition.

As noted on the museum’s website: “For four decades ColorPrint USA exhibitions gathered together exemplary cross-sections of fine art prints. Through the foresight and creative direction of retired Texas Tech art professor Lynwood Kreneck, these sometimes annual, sometimes biennial, and sometimes triennial showcases of contemporary art brought to West Texas many of the most persuasive, famous, and compelling creative efforts of American and, at times, European, printmakers. The Museum of Texas Tech University now houses the ColorPrint USA collection. Through 65 works curated from this collection, this exhibition celebrates and refocuses attention on the singular importance of ColorPrint’s 40 year history.”

 

Faculty Lecture at Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels


Willem van der Vliet (attr), The Money Counter, 64 x 51 cm. Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium.

Hans van Miegroet, professor of art history and chair, gave the keynote lecture at the academic conference in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, Art and Finance in Europe: 17th Century Masterworks in a New Light, at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels on April 28. Van Miegroet’s lecture was titled, “Art and Finance on the 17th Century Art Market.”


Exhibition at the Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, for the European Association of Public Banks. Left: Miriam Roemers, public relations manager, European Association of Public Banks. Middle: Henning Schoppman, secretary general, European Union Association of Public Banks. Right: Hans van Miegroet, professor and chair, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University.

 

“Duke Office Hours”

Neil McWilliam, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of art history, discussed the history of political caricature and the Lines of Attack exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke in an online "Office Hours" interview on April 16.

The full recorded version is available at: http://ondemand.duke.edu/video/21774/neil-mcwilliam-history-of-poli

 

Faculty Lecture at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts


Theresa Musoke [Uganda, b. 1942], Evolution, c. 1975


Ai Wei Wei [China, b. 1957] Marble Chair, 2008 

Kristine Stiles, professor of art history, delivered the Sylvia Druy Lecture on the topic of “World Art and Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts,” Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, May 6, 2010. The lecture coincided with the opening of the exhibition, Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), the inaugural exhibition by MIA’s newly appointed contemporary art curator, Elizabeth Armstrong.

 
Graduate Student Participates on InMediaRes

 

Graduate student Karen Gonzalez Rice presented "Linda Montano, Student of Real Presence” on April 16, 2010, as part of a week of religion-themed postings on the collaborative, scholarly site, InMediaRes.

For her presentation please see: 

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2010/04/15/linda-montano-student-real-presence#comment-1851

 

Franklin Humanities Institute Dissertation Working Groups

Graduate students Karen Gonzalez Rice and Ignacio Adriasola took part in interdisciplinary dissertation panels sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute in April. Adriasola participated in the panel about Sensory Designs on April 21. Gonzalez Rice was part of the panel on Religion and the Humanities, Strategies for Interdisciplinary Engagement, which met on April 28.
Coming Soon

VISUAL STUDIES INITIATIVE

Those interested in subscribing to the Visual Studies list, please go to: https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/subscribe/duke-visualstudies

Please refer all relevant departmental information for inclusion in our bi-weekly email announcement to John Taormina, Director, Visual Resources Center, at taormina@duke.edu.



Homepage | Faculty | PhD Program | Undergraduates | VRC | Announcements | Contacts
© 2010 Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
 
NewsByte archive ::
2010
April 26 Student Photography | Bill Seaman | Esther Gabara | Patricia Leighten | Kristine Stiles | Sarah Jones Dickens | Rebecca Keegan | Sandra van Ginhoven | Ignacio Adriasola | Kyle Singler / Lance Thomas
April 12 Bill Seaman | Lines of Attack | David Ferreiro | Graduation With Distinction | Graduate School Fellowships | Kristine Stiles | Karen Gonzalez Rice | Light Moving in Time
March 29 Corina Apostol | Independent Studies exhibition | Abusing Power | Lines of Attack | Mark Antliff | Caroline Bruzelius | Pedro Lasch | Bill Seaman | Gennifer Weisenfeld | Karen Gonzalez Rice | Sarah Jones Dickens | Jaime Lara
March 15 Corina Apostol | Abusing Power | Lines of Attack | Mark Antliff | Neil McWilliam | William Noland| Kristine Stiles | C.H.A.T. Festival | Katherine de Vos Devine
March 3 Abusing Power | Lines of Attack | Sheila Dillon | Merrill Shatzman | Graduate Awards
February 11 Save a Child's Heart | C.H.A.T. Festival | Lines of Attack / Roundtable | Graduate Student Symposium / W.J.T. Mitchell
February 1 Mendicant Revolution Lecture Series | Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature / Neil McWilliam | Visualizing San Lorenzo Maggiore Grants | Zoe Marie Jones | Edward Shanken
January 19 Merrill Shatzman, Raquel Salvatella de Prada & Deborah Pope | Arne R. Flaten | Jacobs University Collaboration | Elizabeth Nashold | Caroline Bruzelius | Alexis Clark
2009
December 22 Picasso & the Allure of Language | Merrill Shatzman, Raquel Salvatella de Prada & Deborah Pope | Betty Rogers | New Courses
December 8 Arts of the Moving Image | Kristine Stiles | David Morgan | Pinar Yoldas | Matthew Woodworth | New Courses
November 23 Maurizio Forte | Arts of the Moving Image | David Morgan | Caroline Bruzelius | Zoe Marie Jones | Sarah Jones Dickens | Charles Sparkman
November 10 Merrill Shatzman | Bill Fick | Victoria Szabo | Gennifer Weisenfeld | Rebecca Keegan
October 26 Annahid Kassabian | Richard J. Powell | Merrill Shatzman | Bill Fick
October 12 William Noland | Student Exhibition | Avner Amiri | Provost's Lecture Series | Visual Studies "Rendez-vous" | Gennifer Weisenfeld | Undergraduate Research
September 20 Annabel Wharton | Paul Hendrickson | Richard J. Powell | Bill Seaman | Franklin Institute Working Group | John Taormina
September 10 Aaron Weaver | Bill Fick | Wired! | Visual Practice Exhibitions & Events | Allison Evans
August 20 Picasso & the Allure of Language | Arts Open House | Jean Toche | Pedro Lasch | Meagan Green Labunski | Cambodia Project | Laurel Frederickson
July 16 Beyond Beauty | Duke In Venice | Kristine Stiles | Zoe Jones
June 9 David Roberts | Neil McWilliam | 2009-2010 Graduate Fellowships and Grants | Todd Berreth
May 5 Commencement 2009 | CIEMAS workshop | Christian Marclay | Smith Warehouse exhibitions | East Duke Bldg gallery | 2009 fellowships, awards, and grants | John Taormina | Jack Edinger
April 27 Bernard Frischer | Shawn Brixey | Wired! | From the Reel to the Virtual | Fatimah Tuggar | VSI Workshop | Smith Warehouse Exhibitions
April 13 Student Exhibition | Carolyn Dean | Gregory Maertz | VSI Symposium | Gennifer Weisenfeld | Hans J. Van Miegroet | Bill Fick | Bill Seaman | VRC reconfigured
March 31 Thomas Coomans | William Noland | Matthias Pabsch | Undergraduate Colloquium | Elizabeth Boone | Maqbool Fida Husain | Documentary Film | Gennifer Weisenfeld | Elizabeth Baudoin | Nasher: Mellon grant | Visual Resources Association conference, Toronto
March 16 Jonathan Black | Richard H. Brodhead | Visual Resourses Center | Visual Studies Initiative | Merrill Shatzman | Edward Shanken
February 24 Nelia Dias | East Duke Building gallery | Patricia Leighten | Mitali Routh
February 9 Graduate Student Symposium | Kristine Stiles | Pedro Lasch
January 29 Dans la nuit, des images
January 14 Pedro Lasch | David Odo | Kristine Stiles | Casey Alt | El Greco to Velazquez | Caroline Bruzelius
   
2008  
December 10 William Noland | Bill Seaman | Le Fresnoy | Bloomsbury Artists | Esther Gabara | Julie Doring
November 24 Barkley L. Hendricks | Richard J. Powell | Merrill Shatzman | Neil McWilliam | Jack Edinger | Julie Doring | John Taormina


 
Art, Art History & Visual Studies @ Duke


 

 
 

Link to Duke Home Link to AAH Home