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An Evening of Academic Excellence with Bryan ISD
Please save the date and plan to join fellow Texas A&M Institute for Applied Creativity faculty and staff members at An Evening of Academic Excellence from 6:00-7:30 PM on Friday, April 6th at Ice House on Main in historic downtown Bryan.
The Evening of Academic Excellence will feature presentations and performances by more than 50 of Bryan Independent School District’s highest achieving kindergarten through 12th grade students. This is an opportunity for area civic and business leaders to engage with Bryan's best students and faculty, offer encouragement to future leaders, and learn about the outcomes Bryan ISD is achieving for students and our community through advanced academics, and exceptional career tech, and fine arts programs.
Texas A&M Institute for Applied Creativity faculty and staff members are also invited to a VIP reception at Grand Stafford Theater following the academic event. Please RSVP at the following link: https://www.showclix.com/event/BISD040618
Anna Dumitriu and Alex May: Recent Works
College Station, Texas-- Art, science, and technology combine in a fascinating fusion as the Wright Gallery of the Texas A&M College of Architecture opens their latest exhibition Anna Dumitriu and Alex May: Recent Works, running March 5-8, 2018. Through their innovative approaches, British artists Anna Dumitriu and Alex May have established themselves at the forefront of the art-science practice, gaining international critical acclaim for their works which explore cutting-edge bioscience and technology. In conjunction with the exhibition of their stunning artworks, the artists will host three captivating, interactive workshops, bringing an even closer look at their pioneering pieces and processes.
Bacteria lie at the center of Dumitriu’s groundbreaking work, which combines traditional artistic media with contemporary science to produce artwork that is not only about bacteria but rather fused with them. She works hands-on with the tools and techniques of microbiology and synthetic biology to create intricate artworks that reveal strange histories and emerging futures.
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In describing the exhibition, Carol LaFayette (curator and Harold Adams Interdisciplinary Professor of Visualization) commented, “Anna Dumitriu and Alex May remind us that we are inherently collaborative organisms: at the micro-level, we host other living entities and cannot live without them. Through a blend of craft, technology
In addition, both artists will be in residence for a series of lectures, discussions, and interactive workshops from March 6-8, 2018. May and Dumitriu will discuss their processes and fields of study in captivating lectures on March 7,
They will also engage students and audiences in three interactive workshops:
Anna Dumitriu: BioArt and Bacteria
March 6, 2018
12-3pm
Langford A 212
Anna Dumitriu will introduce her practice which fuses craft, sculpture
Alex May: Video Mapping with Painting with Light
March 7, 2018
12-3pm
Langford A 212
Alex May will introduce "Painting with Light" the video mapping tool he created that enables artists of any technical ability to paint with static and moving images through any video projector onto 3D physical objects. 15 participants are reserved, but there is plenty of room to observe. Click here to register as a participant.
Anna Dumitriu and Alex May: The Collaborative Process
March 8, 2018
9:30-11:30 am
Langford A 212
Anna Dumitriu and Alex May will discuss how they work as individual artists and in collaboration with each on projects that explore life through digital technologies from whole genome sequencing and generative art, to virtual reality and robotics. They will also explore their extensive collaborations with scientists and propose methods of best practice.
(Times and locations subject to change. Visit creativity.tamu.edu for updated information during the week of February 26, 2018)
An opening reception will be held at the Wright Gallery on Monday, March 5,
Exhibition Details:
Anna Dumitriu and Alex May: Recent Works
March 6-8, 2018
Wright Gallery, Texas A&M College of Architecture
Opening Reception:
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ABOUT ANNA DUMITRIU
Anna Dumitriu is a British artist whose work fuses craft, technology
Dumitriu recently completed a residency at the Liu Laboratory for Synthetic Evolution at The University of California in Irvine (USA) and the resulting artworks were featured in the ground-breaking exhibition “WETWARE” at the Beall Center for Art and Technology in Irvine (USA) curated by Jens Hauser and David Familian. Her work is featured in William Myers significant large format book on Bio-Art, entitled “Bio-Art: Altered Realities” published by Thames and Hudson in 2016. She has recently begun a new collaboration with the National Culture Type Collection, the oldest and most significant collection of historically important micro-organisms in the world. More information at www.annadumitriu.co.uk
ABOUT ALEX MAY
Alex May is a British artist exploring a wide range of digital technologies, most notably video projection onto physical objects (building on the technique known as video mapping or projection mapping by using his own bespoke software), also interactive installations, generative works, full-size humanoid robots, performance, and video art. He has performed live video mapping at Tate Modern in London, and for the inauguration of Serre Numérique in Valenciennes, France, and exhibited internationally including at the Eden Project (permanent collection), V&A, Royal Academy of Art, Wellcome Collection, Science Museum, Bletchley Park, Watermans, Goldsmiths, One Canada Square in Canary Wharf, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, Venezuela, the Science Gallery in Dublin, Princeton University, University of Calgary (international visiting artist 2016), and the Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine.
May gives talks about many aspects of digital art, digital preservation, and public engagement with social robotics through art (UCLA, USC, School of Visual Arts (SVA) New York, University of Boulder, SUNY, TEDx Bucharest, Chelsea College of Art (in conversation with curator Robert Storr), Waag Society in Amsterdam, ICT2013 European Commission Digital Agenda event in Vilnius, Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, British Film Institute in London, Ahmed Shawky Museum in Cairo) and runs workshops for artists using his own software (UCLA, for Fluxmedia at Concordia University in Montreal, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Istanbul), and gave the 2012 Christmas lecture for the Computer Arts Society. Visit http://www.alexmayarts.co.uk/ for more information.
Anna Dumitiru and Alex May
Schedule
Some times and locations may change, please check back here the week before
Monday, March 5
4-6 pm: Opening reception at the Wright Gallery
Tuesday, March 6
12-3pm Workshop 1, Anna Dumitriu in Langford A
Wednesday, March 7
12-3 pm Workshop 2, Alex May in Langford A
5-7 pm Artists' lectures, Health Sciences
Health Sciences, HPEB LL30
Thursday, March 8
9:30-11:30 am Workshop 3, Anna Dumitriu and Alex May in Langford A
ABOUT THE WRIGHT GALLERY
The College of Architecture's Wright Gallery is located on the second floor of the Langford Architecture Center's Building A on the Texas A&M College Station campus. The gallery is dedicated to showcasing the visual arts with a commitment to honoring diversity in all its forms; providing a venue for emerging and established artists, architects and designers of local, regional, national and international acclaim; featuring works by women artists and artists from other underrepresented groups, artists whose works promote dialogue on topics of social and cultural importance, and artists whose work challenges conventional art practice; and serving as a center for campus and community visual arts engagement, education and enjoyment.
The gallery's 2008 renovation was made possible by a generous gift from Jim Wright, a retired senior partner with Page Sutherland Page who earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Texas A&M in 1954, and his wife Mary.
Visualization prof's NSF-funded STEM-to-STEAM effort prompts Academies to green-light study
"The green-lighting of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study investigating the value of integrating arts and humanities into science and technology education is a milestone in the global transdisciplinary education movement," said Carol LaFayette, a visualization professor at Texas A&M University and founder of an advocacy network on the vanguard of the movement.
With initial support from the National Science Foundation, LaFayette created the Network for Sciences Engineering, Arts & Design (SEAD Network) to advocate for