2nd Annual Maryland Day MFA Showcase

After the success of last year's collaboration between TAG's annual MFA exhibition and the Dept. of English Creative Writing MFA program we thought it would be wisest to stick with what works. So on Maryland Day 2011 (Saturday, April 30th) swing by TAG to SEE a special SNEAK PREVIEW of the 2011 MFA Exhibition and HEAR a special poetry/fiction reading! We'll also be a stop to pick up your official Colloge of Arts and Humanities scavenger hunt postcards and stickers!

As always, the gallery opens at 11. The reading starts at 1pm! See ya there!

Special Guest Lecturer Golan Levin will speak in the Art-Soc Bldg. room 2309 on April 25 at 5:30!

Golan Levin is an artist and engineer interested in exploring new modes of reactive expression. Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, Golan applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other, and explore the intersection of non-verbal communication and interactivity. Golan has exhibited and performed widely in Europe, America and Asia. As an educator, Golan's pedagogy is concerned with reclaiming computationas a medium of personal expression. He teaches “studio art courses in computer science,” on themes like interactive art, generative form, digital fabrication, information visualization, and audiovisual performance. At Carnegie Mellon University, Golan is currently an Associate Professor of Electronic Art, withcourtesy appointments in Computer Science and Design. In January he was also appointed Director of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, a "meta-laboratory" within CMU dedicated to supporting "atypical, interdisciplinary andinter-institutional" research projects at the intersection of arts, sciences and technology. Golan has spent half his life as an artist embedded within technological research environments, in places like the MIT Media Laboratory, the Ars Electronica Futurelab, and the former Interval Research Corporation in Palo Alto. Check him out on 4/25 @ 5:30pm @ the Art-Socilogy Building, room 2309. See Golan work @ http://www.flong.com

Going out with a BANG

WARNING: This is going to be one lengthy post. Juicy, but lengthy. ..

To commemorate the successful run of Modernity Stripped Bare TAG is closing the show with a bang. On Friday, April 22, TAG welcomes one of the photographers featured in Modernity Stripped Bare Ryoko Suzuki! She'll give an artist's talk from 6:30-7:30! Before the talk begins, a reception will be held outside the gallery in the atrium! After the artist's talk TAG will host a dance performance (inside the actual gallery!!!) by Naoko Maeshiba w/ live musical accompaniment by Yoko Kamitani! Then on Saturday, April 23 (the LAST day of the exhibition!!!), TAG will host a grad student conference Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture: A Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Student Conference. The day-long confernece kicks off with a coffee hour at 9am and runs through 5pm. Finally, on Sunday, April 24, Naoko Maeshiba will lead the movement workshop Towards the Egoless Body. The workshop will investigate the body as a dynamic, transformative entity. The class requires no prior dance experience, so register regardless of experience! Registration is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC...but space is limited...so register NOW. Call Elizabeth Johnson at 301-275-8674 or email edorris@umd.edu to register!!!!

See? I told you it was a juicy post! Call 301-405-2763 for more info!