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Performance, Art, & Technology Visiting Artist Series at Monmouth University. All events are free and open to the public.

ArtNow: Art, Performance, and Technology, a visiting artist series, transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries and embraces provocative works that challenge what we know and what we think we know. It fosters experiential conversations and art-making between contemporary artists who work with emergent creative practices, students, and the broader community. ArtNow guests have worked with and am

ong many genres such as art, science, and technology (AST); experimental music; interactive and site-specific installation; internet art; new media; performance art; screen writing; social practice; sound art; and video performance. Recent visiting artists have included Wafaa Bilal, Hasan Elahi, Coco Fusco, Jennifer Haley, Matt Kenyon, Tim Miller, and Sheryl Oring. For information about this series, contact Amanda Stojanov, chair of the ART NOW committee, at [email protected].

11/10/2025

Corrie Francis Parks will facilitate a workshop and given an artist talk on the campus of Monmouth University on Wednesday, November 12th. Details in the poster image above.

Corrie Francis Parks is an inventor of animation techniques. Adopting an investigative studio practice where subject collides with substance, each project builds upon the discoveries made in the previous, making the arduous process of frame-by-frame creation engaging. The results of this studio research manifest not only in short films, but in expanded animation projects that involve projection mapping, site-specific installations, augmented reality and collage.

02/06/2025

Please join us for the Ocean Bodies, a solo exhibition by artist and Monmouth University Art & Design faculty Kimberly Callas, which explores the interconnected relationship between humanity and the ocean, featuring life-sized sculptures and large-scale drawings that evoke ecological consciousness and the climate crisis. The exhibition is on at the Ice House Gallery on Monmouth University's campus from February 9 through March 23, 2025. The opening reception is Thursday, February 6 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm.

11/04/2024

ELECTION DAY Performance - TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5
NOON - 8:00 ICE HOUSE GALLERY

This is a hands-on Performance/Demonstration of an interactive art exhibit. The project is a custom-built musical interface housed in a voting booth. You can remix political videos and soundbites and make techno-inspired beats. The event will be streamed on the project’s

Twitch channel: twitch.tv/electoelectro.
Refreshments will be served!

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10/23/2024

Join us for the live performance of Click Here (to Start Your Order): a powerful 4-woman performance of a new verbatim play based on oral history interviews and which shares the stories of women across the country most impacted by state abortion restrictions in order to inspire social action and compassion. The performance is a response to the 2022 Dobbs decision, which led to the loss of national abortion access, has ushered in a new era for women’s health, one marked by worsening health outcomes, maternal health deserts, uncertainty and fear.

The performance will immediately be followed by a talkback facilitated by Dr. Katie Parkin and Dan Swern (writer/director).

The event is co-sponsoered by ArtNow: Performance, Art, and Technology and the MU Program in Gender and Intersectionality Studies (PGIS). The project was made possible by grants from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Middles*x County Board of Commissioners’ Cultural and Arts Trust Fund, and funding through the New England Foundation for the Arts.

For more information, contact the co-chairs of ArtNOW, Prof. Amanda Stojanov at [email protected] or Prof. Dickie Cox at [email protected]

10/14/2024

This fall the DiMattio Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Sheryl Oring’s "I Wish to Say" and related works. Since 2004, Oring has traveled with her typewriter, asking the public to dictate and mail postcards to the US President. To date, she has typed over 4300 postcards in her attempt to use art as a catalyst for social change.

Part of our exhibition programming will be a teach-in series from Monmouth University faculty about topics related to themes that intersect with Oring’s project as art reaches across disciplinary bounds.

Our next teach-in is a hands-on activity lead by Professor Kimberly Callas and students in Drawing 3. On Wednesday, October 16 from 1:15-2:15 come by the DiMattio Gallery in Rechnitz Hall to use watercolors to create your own postcard based on what you wish to say.

This series is free and open to the public. Typists will also be available so guests can dictate their own postcard to the US President.

10/07/2024

As part of "I Wish to Say" programming this fall, ArtNOW is hosting a teach-in series from Monmouth University faculty about topics related to themes that intersect across disciplinary bounds with Sheryl Oring’s project.

Our next teach-in is by Dr. Laura Turner, Associate Professor of Mathematics. She will teach about “Solving for XX: Histories of Sexism in Mathematical Practice” on Thursday, October 10, 2024, from 2:50-4:10pm in the DiMattio Gallery in Rechnitz Hall.

It is free and open to the public. As part of Oring's social practice project, typists will be available so guests can dictate their own postcard to the US President.

10/02/2024

Prof. Mike Richison (Graphic Design) will perform his Electo Electro 2024, updated for the 2024 election cycle. This interactive installation combines audience participation, music, news footage, and politics. The project allows participants to remix videos from political rallies, debates, and news in a structured sixteen beat loop. The touchscreen design is a parody of the system employed by the Accuvote, a voting system that is difficult to audit and susceptible to hacking. The parody continues into the format of the installation itself which will resemble a polling station.

Richison will introduce his project, perform, and then open up his event for discussion. If you cannot make it to Richison’s live performance, stop by the Ice House Gallery to see his project on display for the semester.

For more information, contact the co-chairs of ArtNOW, Prof. Amanda Stojanov at [email protected] Prof. Dickie Cox at [email protected]

09/30/2024

Join us for Dr. Kristin Bluemel's talk "Green Worlds in Black and White: Feminist Readings of the 1930s Wood Engraving Revival," as part of the Ink and Electricity Lecture Series on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 6:00-7:00 pm (refreshments start at 5:30pm) in the DiMattio Gallery and 107 Rechnitz Hall.

The enchanting black and white pictures featured in this talk tell a forgotten feminist tale of personal freedom and commercial success achieved by women artists whose creations of wood, ink, and paper brought joy and beauty into the dark days of the Great Depression and World War I.

Co-sponsored by the Wayne D. McMurray-Helen Bennett Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Monmouth University. This talk is in connection with the I Wish to Say Teach-In Series and the exhibition of Sheryl Oring's social practice art projects on display in the DiMattio Gallery.

This fall the DiMattio Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Sheryl Oring’s "I Wish to Say" and related works. Since 2004, Oring has traveled with her typewriter, asking the public to dictate and mail postcards to the US President. To date, she has typed over 4241 postcards in her attempt to use art as a catalyst for social change. Part of our exhibition programming will be a teach-in series from Monmouth University faculty, including Bluemel, about topics related to themes that intersect with Oring’s project as art reaches across disciplinary bounds. Typists will be available so guests can dictate their own postcard to the US President.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Dr. Corey Dzenko ([email protected]) or Dr. Kristin Bluemel ([email protected]).

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09/23/2024

As part of "I Wish to Say" programming this fall, ArtNOW is hosting a teach-in series from Monmouth University faculty about topics related to themes that intersect across disciplinary bounds with Sheryl Oring’s project.

Our first teach-in is by Dr. Katherine Parkin, Professor of History and Jules Plangere, Jr., Endowed Chair in American Social History. She will teach about "Native American Reproductive Lives in the Archives" on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, from 4:30-5:15pm in the DiMattio Gallery in Rechnitz Hall.

It is free and open to the public. As part of Oring's social practice project, typists will be available so guests can dictate their own postcard to the US President.

09/16/2024

Join ArtNOW for a day of events around artist Sheryl Oring's I Wish to Say on Thursday, September 19. Oring invites the public to dictate postcards to the US President. One copy is mailed to the White House. Oring archives and exhibits a second copy. These events are in connection with the exhibition I Wish That I Had Spoken Only of It All: Twenty Years of Sheryl Oring's "I Wish to Say," on display in the DiMattio Gallery through December 20.

Oring performs I Wish to Say, 11am-1pm (Student Center Patio)
Artist talk, 4:30-5:30pm (Great Hall Auditorium)
Opening reception, 5:30-7:30pm (DiMatttio Gallery, Rechntiz Hall)

Typists will be available to take your dictation at all three events. All events are free and open to the public.

For more information, see: https://www.monmouth.edu/mca/event/i-wish-that-i-had-spoken-only-of-it-all/

12/18/2023

I will dance with those oak trees as long as
Performance and Q&A: Tuesday, January 23 | 4:30pm-6pm | Woods Theatre
Theater of Cultural Resistance Workshop: Wednesday, January 24, 11:40am-1pm – Registration is encouraged.

I need a street
Empty of bloodstains,
A street that has never seen
Or known terror.
Let it be flawless, let it be flawless, flawless
Like the s*x of these girls that are killed unjustly
Let it be long, let it be long, long,
Like their agony.
Kajal Ahmad

In March of 1988 in Halabja, Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s regime attacked Kurdish peoples through the use of chemical weapons, as part of the Anfal ethnic cleansing campaign. Set in a carpet store at this time, I will dance with those oak trees as long as takes us on a poetic voyage into the life of three Kurdish women, inspired by the poetry of Kajal Ahmad and the characters Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and Ninsun from the world’s most ancient epic poem: Gilgamesh. Carpets, chairs, and strings create the environment in which two actresses interpret the three different women and how they react to a violent and unstable outside world. Accompanied by soundscapes inspired by traditional Kurdish music, this international duo uses objects, puppets, and a multilayered world of reality, dreams, memories, and visions to explore the question of what it means to be a hero when you have no other choice.

Performed by: Audrey Rose Dégez, Daria Holovchanska
Producer, Playwright, & Director: Audrey Rose Dégez
Puppet Master, Lighting & Sound Designer, Movement & Object Director: Daria Holovchanska
Stage Manager: Berivan Alothman
Produced by:CP4P International Productions

https://www.monmouth.edu/mca/event/jin-jiyan-azadi-women-life-freedom/

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