RISD : Digital + Media

As most of you have heard, “Art and Technology Guru” George Fifield sadly passed away on November 11th.

From the day Digital + Media was formed, almost everyone–students, faculty, and staff–had the honor and pleasure of interacting with George either through his Media Perspectives course or through Cyberarts gallery.

George was an abundantly generous individual who enthusiastically shared his deep knowledge of, and experience in, media art. Above and beyond teaching media perspectives, he opened Cyberarts gallery to D+M students allowing them to gain real world gallery experience.

George will be sorely missed, but his influence will forever be a part of the culture of D+M and his memory will remain in our hearts. ❤️💾💽🕹️💻📹 🙏

Shona Kitchen / Aly Ogasian
With writings by Charlie Hailey
Interviews with Bill McKibben, Naomi Orestes, Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz

Exhibition
Saturday, 12th – Sunday, 13th / 11am – 5pm
Friday, 18th / 2pm – 5pm
Saturday, 19th – Sunday, 20th /11am – 5pm

Swale House
Nolan Park, Building 15
Governors Island

Livestream
Performance
Currents New Media Festival 2021
Another Final Frontier: Spoil Island Habitat

June 19th, Saturday / 7:30pm (EDT)
June 27th, Sunday / 6:30pm (EDT)

The virtual festival will be
www.ohyay.co/s/scurrentsvirtual

Another Final Frontier: Spoil Island Habitat x CURRENTS VIRTUAL 2021
https://currentsnewmedia.org/events/another-final-frontier/

https://made-ground.com

👽✨🥩THIS FRIDAY the 13th of March - D+M student show WETWIRED in the MEATSPACE comes to The Wurks in Providence! 6-9pm, performance at 7:15.

WETWIRED in the MEATSPACE invites you to dip your toes into the slipstream of reality between screen and substance, between science and superstition—where the beautiful and bizarre are transformed from the digital imagination into fleshy manifestations.

Co-curated by Emily Bright, Kat Jarvinen, and Hannah Suzanna.

Included in the exhibit are works by:
Thomas Brett
Emily Bright
Zhanyi Chen
Ji Yoon Jen Chung
Nicola DiFusco
Zongxian Huang
Kat Jarvinen
Songan Kyung
Xinyu Li
Zihan Iris Li
Ollie Rosario
Elise Stephens
Meghan Surges
Hannah Suzanna
Joon June Yoon
Hyejun Youn

This week David Bowen visits D+M! Lecture on Thursday 3/12, 1-2pm, 4th floor of CIT.🌱

David Bowen is a prolific studio artist and associate professor of sculpture at the University of Minnesota. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Herron School of Art, Indianapolis in 1999, and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 2004. Bowen creates complex sculptural installations that utilize technology to integrate mechanical systems with the natural world. His work eloquently incorporates the influence of nature on machines and, in turn, machines over nature. His art reflects his lifelong fascination with dissecting systems and laying bare the beauty of how a machine’s function dictates its shape, movements, and composition. Bowen’s installations often intertwine the organic with the machine, to create a new hybrid environment exploring how technology can amplify our experience of the physical world. His work has been widely exhibited both within the US as well as abroad.

OPENING THIS FRIDAY 2/28/2020 6-8pm
Digital + Media student show at Boston Cyberarts

WETWIRED in the MEATSPACE invites you to dip your toes into the slipstream of reality between screen and substance, between science and superstition—where the beautiful and bizarre are transformed from the digital imagination into fleshy manifestations. In this exhibit, artists conjure alternate realities in which beach trash and aliens are one and the same, microscopic worlds become inhabitable, dream monsters walk the earth, and meat is grown in outer space. Through experimental research methods, these artworks link our perceived environments to unseen social architectures and endeavor to “make sense of it all.”

Co-curated by Emily Bright, Kat Jarvinen, and Hannah Suzanna.

Included in the exhibit are works by:
Thomas Brett
Emily Bright
Zhanyi Chen
Ji Yoon Jen Chung
Nicola DiFusco
Zongxian Huang
Kat Jarvinen
Songan Kyung
Xinyu Li
Zihan Iris Li
Ollie Rosario
Elise Stephens
Meghan Surges
Hannah Suzanna
Joon June Yoon
Hyejun Youn

event details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/499366417676225/

We are thrilled to host Maia Ruth Lee this Thursday 2/27 as part of our D+M lecture series. Join us in CIT 1-2pm ✨

Maia Ruth Lee (born in Busan, South Korea) lives and works in New York. Lee has had solo exhibitions at Eli Ping Frances Perkins Gallery and Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions including 2019 Whitney Biennial, CANADA gallery, and Salon 94 in New York; Roberts & Tilton Gallery in Los Angeles and Parisian Laundry Gallery in Montreal. Maia Ruth Lee is the director of non-profit after school art program Wide Rainbow.

Stewart Copeland (DM19) is in ___scapes an exhibition at the RISD Museum Gelman Gallery curated by Zola Anderson, Raghvi Bhatia, Kelly Eriksen BFA Painting, Glass, Glass 2019. The show runs from February 1, 2019 to March 17, 2019. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am-5 pm

At the opening reception on February 1, Bhatia explained the concept behind the exhibition: that the term scape is meant to serve as a framing mechanism infusing shades of meaning into notions of narrative, vastness and ownership. True to that idea, the work included crosses geographic, cultural and political boundaries.

For more info: http://our.risd.edu/post/182638417709/solid-show-riffs-on-scapes

And for images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/risdexhibitions/sets/72157678278168848

Zeyu Ren ('19) is featured in Engadget for his multi-scene animated film created in VR

‘Wired’ is a multi-scene movie painted and animated in VR Artists are using Quill, a virtual reality painting app, to create fully-fledged movies.

Check out Ice News this weekend, Dec 15th at the Wurks from 6-8pm!

Second year crits are underway- Stewart Copeland (D+M ‘19) is currently presenting.

Tomorrow, join us at RISD Museum - 3rd Floor for Yuhe Yao's (DM '19) Curator Presentation for Innocent Excuses. 2pm

Our own Stewart Copeland D+M '19 is "developing 3D models of sensor buoys which comprise the integrated Bay Observatory, a new array of equipment to monitor the ecological changes of Narragansett Bay." - University of Rhode Island

Bringing the Bay Observatory to 3D life Stewart Copeland has been a webmaster, documentary filmmaker, and even a touring musician over the past 10 years. Now, the Tennessee native is developing 3D models of sensor buoys which comprise the integrated Bay Observatory, a new array of equipment to monitor the ecological changes of Narraganset...