CALENDAR

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Currently in the Gallery
March 28 - May 12
Dark Energy/Dark Matter: Work by Edward Setina
For his solo exhibition at Centraltrak: The UT Dallas Artists Residency, Edward Setina, graduate of the University of North Texas, fuses a sculptor's sensibility with painting. While exploring dreamlike narratives of dislocation,paranoia, and an almost myth-laden destruction, the paintings' sculptedfoundations became verbal and active. They take on a cinematic presence, jutting out into physical space. With another nod to epic film making, Setina's short video narratives deal with the current mode of ubiquitous self-reference and upend it into absurdity, with humor steeped in defeat.

Synesthetic Reactor: A Sound and Video Installation by Thorrific
March 28 - May 12
Opening Reception Saturday,
March 28, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Thor Johnson’s interactive video installation detects light, motion and audio levels to generate images and sound. The participants experience the archetypes of the collective unconscious mediated through technology. The juncture between light waves affecting the visuals and sound lends a synesthetic quality to the work. There are certain elements that are constant yet the work is in continuous flux and the sense of time is distorted.

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LECTURES/ROUNDTABLES/SYMPOSIA

Janus Face, Antipode, or Homologue: Feminism and Conceptualism 1965-1975, May 23, 2009, Fran Colpitt, Professor of Art History, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Marilyn Waligore, Artist and Associate Professor of Photography, UT Dallas, Dallas, Noah Simblist, Artist and Assistant Professor of Art, SMU, Eric Stryker, Lecturer in Art History, SMU

Technology, Mobility, and New-Media Hybrids Series: [Title Pending], topic = automotive futures, sustainability, cocooning, September 2009, Gijs Mom, Professor of History of Technology and Mobility, Eindhoven University of Technology, author The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automotive Age (2004),
Technology, Mobility, and New-Media Hybrids Series: Digital Sense: Sound, Image, and Object at the Interstices of New Technology, October 16-18, 2009, WJT Mitchell, Professor of Art History and English, University of Chicago, Michael Fried, Professor of Humanities and Art History, Johns Hopkins University, and Walter Benn-Michaels, Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago

Technology, Mobility, and New-Media Hybrids Series: [Title Pending], topic = embodiment and new-media art, date pending, Mark Hansen, Professor, Department of English and Department of Visual Arts, Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, author (2006) New Philosophy for a New Media, Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media (2004), and Embodying Technesis: Technology beyond Writing (2000),

Technology, Mobility, and New-Media Hybrids Series: Kinetics of Urban Sprawl: Cybernetics and Urbanism in the 21st Century (supported by a grant of $7500 from the Graham Foundation of the Fine Arts), February 2010, Peter Hales, Professor of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, Robert Bruegmann, Professor of Architectural History, University of Illinois at Chicago, Mitchell Schwarzer, Professor of Visual Studies, California College of the Arts, Antoine Picon, Professor of Architecture, Harvard University, Peter Galison, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
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Upcoming events
Bio-Digital Video and Painting Exhibition. Saudi Arabian graduate student in residence, Ayman Ali Alamoudi, May 30-June 16, 2009

35mm Video Exhibition. Dallas video artist Robert Flowers will have an exhibition of his video. June 20-July 6, 2009

Campin’ Out: Urban Pastoral. Curated by Dr. Terranova and Mary Benedicto, the Assistant Director, this is an exhibition in the main gallery exploring the representation of “camp” articulated in Susan Sontag’s 1964-essay, “Notes on Camp.”In conjunction with the exhibition, Centraltrak will host a public reading of each of Sontag’s 58 “notes” wherein visitors will be randomly assigned a numbered fragment to read. Phonication, Curated by Ms. Benedicto, this is a sound exhibition with five artists that will take place in the long corridor. July 18-August 28, 2009

Peter Barrickmann: New Work.Painter and artist in residence will show a body of new work. September 12-November 6, 2009

Homo Sacer = Bare LifeCurated by Professor of Art History at Northwestern University Dr. Stephen Eisenman and Dr. Terranova, this is an exhibition in the main gallery exploring Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s writings on “bare life” and homo sacer. In conjunction with this exhibition, there will be a live performance of former prison inmates from Chicago written and spearheaded by Laurie Jo Reynolds. Exhibition tentatively includes work by Sue Coe, Laurie Jo Reynolds,Atelier Van Lieshout, Dadara, and MVRDV. November 14, 2009-January 29, 2010

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