Artists
Unit 2: Kate Nelson, graduate student, Dallas
Dates of residency: 04/01/08-05/15/09
Kate Nelson is a sculptor, painter, and installation artist. She is a first-year graduate student in the MFA program in Arts & Technology at UT Dallas. She makes sculptures that are molds of the human form and smart splattery painting. Her work is blobby, edgy and tight all at once.
Kate Nelson, Untitled Kate Nelson, All 315 Lots of Sells
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Unit 3: Daniel Rozenberg of dadara, artist in residence, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dates of residency: 04/07/08-04/14/08; 07/01/08-01/04/09
Hailing from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Daniel Rozenberg is a designer, sculptor and the principal member of dadara, an arts-action consortium based in The Netherlands. After a brief stay in April, he will return to the residency in July to build Checkpoint Dreamyourtopia, a project focusing on borders that he will build at Centraltrak and take to the Burning Man festival in Nevada in August 2008.
dadara, Computer rendering of Checkpoint Dreamyourtopia
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Unit 4: Kyle Kondas, graduate student, Dallas
Dates of residency: 06/10/08-05/15/09
Kyle Kondas is a video artist and curator. He is curating On_game, an exhibition linking artists to 1980s video games, this fall at UT Dallas.
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Unit 5: Edward “Ted” Setina, artist in residence, Dallas
Dates of residency: 04/01/08-04/15/09
Ted Setina makes paintings that are opaque boxy things. They come off the wall and have rounded edges like sculpture but the surfaces are immaculately rendered like the best color field painters of the 20th century.
Ted Setina, Untitled Ted Setina, Untitled
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Unit 6: Ruben Nieto, graduate student, Guanajuato, Mexico
Dates of residency: 04/01/08-05/15/09
Toys-R-Us meets Elsworth Kelly in these paintings. Brightly colored Legos skate across cake-like surfaces in primary colors that are thick with enamel. For Nieto the toys register the rhythm and scattershot layout of urban sprawl. Nieto is a first-year graduate student in Arts & Technology.
Ruben Neito, Untitled
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Unit 7: Florencia Levy, artist in residence, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dates of Residency: 04/01/08-07/01/08
Below is a still from Turismo Local, a video capturing the sound of people walking on streets, car traffic, and the general urban grind through open windows. The interiors are un-peopled, anonymous and out-of-date. The video makes for a weird kind of aural voyeurism – peeping and snooping with the ears.
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Unit 8: Ayman Ali Alamoudi, graduate student, Saudi Arabia
Dates of Residency: 06/10/08-05/15/09
Working between traditional and new media, painting and video, Ayman Ali Alamoudi investigates the machine-human interface. He is currently writing a dissertation on abstraction and cybernetics.
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Unit 9: Akintunde Akinleye, photo-journalist, Lagos, Nigeria
Dates of residency: 06/24/08-01/15/09
A photographer for Reuters, Akintunde Akinleye travels around the globe and makes “conflict photography.” Akintunde is the first Nigerian photographer to have been awarded a prize in the prestigious World Press Photo, Netherlands in 2007 with an iconic photograph of a man rinsing his face at the scene of an oil pipeline explosion in Lagos, December 2006. It was the beauty of a tragedy, which claimed the lives of 269 people that made the official signage of the 19th edition of international photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France in 2007. While in Dallas he will be documenting the Barnett Shale.
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