Category Archives: Film & Media Arts

Professor d’Agostino exhibits World-Wide-Walks

The Walk Series: Roof Walk (1973), by Professor Peter d’Agostino, FMA, is currently on exhibit at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, continuing to July 2. Initiated in 1973 as video documentation/performances, the World-Wide-Walks evolved into video/Web projects combining elements of natural, cultural and virtual identities: mixed realities of walking through physical environments and of virtually surfing the Web.

During April, the World-Wide-Walks/between earth & sky/Temples installation was exhibited at Tyler School of Art, Temple Performing Arts Center, and Crane Arts Old School, Philadelphia. These video walks were performed in Italy, Egypt, India, Peru and the U.S., including the Baptist Temple, Philadelphia. It was produced with support from the Pew Trusts, American Academy in Rome, Temple University Arts Commission and the School of Communications and Theater.

For more information, visit www.peterdagostino.net

Professor d’Agostino exhibits World-Wide-Walks

The Walk Series: Roof Walk (1973), by Professor Peter d’Agostino, FMA, is currently on exhibit at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, continuing to July 2. Initiated in 1973 as video documentation/performances, the World-Wide-Walks evolved into video/Web projects combining elements of natural, cultural and virtual identities: mixed realities of walking through physical environments and of virtually surfing the Web.

During April, the World-Wide-Walks/between earth & sky/Temples installation was exhibited at Tyler School of Art, Temple Performing Arts Center, and Crane Arts Old School, Philadelphia. These video walks were performed in Italy, Egypt, India, Peru and the U.S., including the Baptist Temple, Philadelphia. It was produced with support from the Pew Trusts, American Academy in Rome, Temple University Arts Commission and the School of Communications and Theater.

For more information, visit www.peterdagostino.net

Podcast features Professor Erickson, Top Secret Rosies

Top Secret Rosies, a feature documentary by Associate Professor LeAnn Erickson, FMA, was featured in the April 29 IEEE Spectrum podcast.  IEEE, the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity, has more than 400,000 members worldwide. The IEEE Foundation awarded Erickson a grant in support of the documentary.

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Associate Professor Coover elected to the Executive Board of IVSA

Associate Professor Roderick Coover, FMA, MMC, has been elected executive board member of the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA). IVSA is an international organization that is devoted to the visual study of society, culture and social relationships and to promoting uses of photographs, film, video and electronically transmitted images in social sciences and related disciplines and applications.

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Virtual exhibit gives a new look to Brooklyn

Associate Professor Sarah Drury, FMA, is one of several artists who have augmented the reality of Brooklyn through a smartphone exhibit called “Decollage: Torn Exteriors.” She is also the curator.

According to the organizers: “Augmented reality using the smartphone allows the participant to visualize digital images ‘collaged’ over the present location, as seen through the phone’s camera. Although this superimposition of visual information onto the landscape is an additive process, ‘Decollage: Torn Exteriors’ implies a tearing away of existing surfaces.”

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FMA professor’s new film to screen in Arizona

Canyonlands, a new film by Associate Professor Roderick Coover, FMA, MMC, will be featured at the University of Arizona symposium, Hidden Cinema of the Southwest and Mexico on Feb. 25, and at the Bisbee Central School Project on Feb. 27. The film examines environmental issues the American West and the legacy of provocative writer Edward Abbey.

Professor Coover to lecture at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts

Professor Roderick Coover, FMA, MMC, will offer invited lectures from his forthcoming book on trends in video and new media in contemporary art at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in Wilmington, Del., on Feb. 17 and at the Institute for Humanities Research Phoenix, Ariz., on Feb. 28.

Associate Professor Erickson’s documentary featured on CNN

Associate Professor LeAnn Erickson, FMA, was in the midst of another project when she learned of a group of women who worked as military “computers” during World War II to perform ballistics research. Based at the University of Pennsylvania, dozens of women would figure out things like weapon trajectory. Some went on to help program the earliest mechanical computer. Her research became Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of World War II.

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Virtual art show features Associate Professor Drury

Associate Professor Sarah Drury, FMA, is showing in the Virtual Public Art Project show, based at the Esther Klein Gallery. The VPAP is a series of eight augmented reality pieces, which are virtual public art pieces that can be accessed with a smartphone at particular locations around Philadelphia. VPAP is sponsored by the Breadboard Initiative of the University City Science Center.

FMA chair appointed to art museum committee

Chair Nora M. Alter was appointed to the committee of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Additionally, she gave the following Public Invited Lectures: “The Essay Film,” Center for Humanities at Temple University, Philadelphia, (October 2010); “National Performances” Live Cinema/In the Round: Contemporary Art from the East Mediterranean, Newark, Delaware, (September 2010); “Between Art and Documentary,” Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, (September 2010).