Nov 18, 2009, 2:00 PM
Office of the School of Art and Design
MFA Information Session and School Tour
If you are interested in graduate study in the UIC School of Art and Design and want to learn more, please join professor Jennifer Reeder, Director of Graduate Studies, and Erin Brady, Graduate Advisor, for an information session and tour of the studios of our graduate programs in Studio Arts, Photography, Moving Image, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, and Electronic Visualization.
An additional sessions will be held on Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at 2pm. Please note the priority MFA application deadline (for consideration in the first round of Graduate College Fellowships) is December 15, 2009.
Nov 18, 2009, 7:00 PM
Gallery 400
The Hydroacoustic Show
Film and video works curated by Ben Russell
At 20,000 leagues below the sea everyone can hear you scream – that’s the nature of sound and water after all, and (maybe) that’s why we call all those vibrations dazzling our skulls by the oceanic descriptor WAVEFORMS. Just ask Alex Halstead – she was born into water, under water, knows wet and sound better than all of us combined. For the last month in Gallery 400 she’s been humoring our earth-ears with her rhythmic pulses, and now it’s time to return the favor. And so, submitted for her approval: an aqua-opera in 8 stanzas, a capital-SEA-composition in as many verses. From that silent surface (Hutton) to the scratch and curl of the fevered deep (Gatten); betwixt a siren-spongebob-song (Best) and a flicker score for the Red Sea (Holthuis); with whale chorus (Clark), octo-electronica (Painleve), and gurgling pop tune (Rist) – this is a kino-song* for the best Nigerian Elephant-nosed Fish we’ll ever know. Here’s To You, Alex.
FEATURING: Study of A River by Peter Hutton (16:00, 16mm, 1996-97), What the Water Said Nos 4-7 by David Gatten (17:00, 16mm, 2007), Crank Dat Soulja Boy Spongebob by Masta Best (3:46, video, 2007), Amours de la pieuvre (Love Life of the Octopus) by Jean Painleve (14:00, 16mm on video, 1965), I'm a Victim of This Song by Pipilotti Rist (5:06, video, 1995), Marsa Abu Galawa by Gerard Holthuis (15:00, 35mm on video, 2004), Sound Over Water by Mary Helena Clark (6:00, 16mm, 2009)