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FAR & Abroad
Artistic collaborations have e'er been an integral part of FAR's mission. The FAR & Away series is a new approach to working with invitee artists and scholars. Over the class of the school year four residents volition be commissioned to spend a week working at FAR. The resident has the opportunity to seek interdisciplinary partners from across the university who share research interests. By triangulating the collaboration between the FAR & Away Resident, FSU scholars, and FAR artists, the stage will be fix for creative conversations that lead to unexpected output.
FAR & Abroad Residents will be featured in a public Research Night that could take the form of a discussion, lecture, demonstration, or performance. Interactions between the resident and FSU Higher of Fine Arts students and faculty volition range from conversations to hands-on participation.
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FAR & Abroad Residents 2021/2022
Kei Ito and Andrew Keiper
Residency Dates: March seventh-March 11th
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Kei Ito is a visual creative person working primarily with experimental photography and installation fine art who is currently teaching at the International Heart of Photography (ICP) in NYC. Ito received his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Fine art in 2016. Ito's work addresses issues of deep intergenerational loss and connections equally he explores the materiality and experimental processes of photography, visualizing the invisible: radiations, retentiveness and life/death.
Ito'southward piece of work, fundamentally rooted in the trauma and legacy passed down from his belatedly grandfather – a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, meditates on the complexity of his identity and heritage through examining the past and current threats of nuclear disaster and his present status as an Usa-immigrant. Many of Ito'southward artworks transformed both art and not-fine art spaces into temporal monuments that became platforms for the audience to explore social issues and the memorials dedicated to the losses suffered from the consequences of those issues.
Ito has participated in numerous Creative person in Residence programs offered past the Studio at MASS MoCA, the Marva and John Warnock Biennial A-I-R, CPW, the Center for Fine Art Photography, and Creative Brotherhood. His works are included in the drove of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Norton Museum of Art, Candela Drove, the Marva & John Warnock A-I-R Committee, En Foco, and California Establish of Integral Studies. His internationally recognized solo and group shows can exist read in reviews and articles published by Washington Post, Hyperallergic, BmoreArt, ArtMaze Mag, Washington City Paper and BBC Culture/Art.
Andrew Paul Keiper is an artist and educator based in Baltimore, Maryland where he teaches at the Maryland Establish Higher of Fine art in the Blitheness and Film & Video programs. Working in sound, image and installation, Andrew's work dances across the boundaries of audio fine art, experimental music and sound design.
Field recordings, drones, drumming and audio designed evocations of places remote in time and place commingle in Keiper'south piece of work, inviting the audition to listen in ways they may non be accustomed to listening. Much of Andrew's piece of work contemplates the legacy of his granddad'southward role in the creation of the atomic bomb, and the ramifications of atomic weaponry past and nowadays. Andrew also maintains a practice as a sound designer for motion picture, and as a musician and sound engineer.
Keiper received his BFA in painting from the Stonemason Gross School of the Arts in 2002. He has exhibited in nationally, including in Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia, New Bailiwick of jersey and Washington DC. In 2016 and 2019 he was a Sondheim Prize semi-finalist, and in 2016 won a Rubys Artist Grant along with collaborator Kei Ito to produce a large scale projection.
In January of 2018 Keiper and Ito presented their Rubys project, Afterimage Requiem at the Baltimore War Memorial. The exhibition received coverage past the Washington Postal service Magazine, the BBC, the Baltimore Sun and others. In 2016, they brought this work, along with others to the Southeastern Center for Gimmicky Art in Winston-Salem, Due north Carolina, where they exhibited their kickoff big-calibration art museum exhibition, Archives Aglow.
Jiha Moon
Residency Dates: February 16th-19th
Public Event: Feb 17th @ 6pm
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Jiha Moon is from DaeGu, Korea, and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She received her MFA from the Academy of Iowa, Iowa City. Moon'southward gestural paintings, mixed media, ceramic sculpture, and installation explore fluid identities and the global movement of people and their cultures. She says, "I am a cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds." She is taking cues from broad ranges of history of Eastern and Western fine art, colors and designs from pop civilisation, Korean temple paintings and folk fine art, cyberspace emoticons and icons, fruit stickers and labels of products from all over the place. She ofttimes teases and changes these lexicons so that they are hard to identify all the same familiar.
THIS PRESENTATION AND EXHIBITION IS FUNDED, IN PART, Past A GRANT FROM SOUTH ARTS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS AND THE FLORIDA DIVISION OF CULTURAL Diplomacy.
Sonnenzimmer
Residency Dates: November 8th-12th
Public Event: Nov 9th @ 7pm
Sonnenzimmer is the collaborative exercise of artists Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi. Their work investigates and challenges preconceived notions of the graphic arts. Their experimental studio was established in 2006 in Chicago. Together, they explore the concrete and psycho-physical nature of visualization through image-making, sculpture, writing, publishing, exhibitions, blueprint, music, and operation. While they motility through an array of media, their focus is on triangulating a deeper understanding of graphic expression at large.
Keioui Keijaun Thomas
Residency Dates: October 11th-15th
Public Outcome: October 12th 2021 @ 7pm
Keioui Keijaun Thomas creates live performance and multimedia installations that address blackness exterior of a codependent, binary construction of existence. Her work investigates the histories, symbols, and images that construct notions of Black identity within black personhood. The materials employed by Thomas function as tools, objects, and structures to compose a visual linguistic communication that tin can be read, observed, and repeated within spatial, temporal, and sensorial environments. Thomas is the inaugural winner of the Queer|Art 2020 Illuminations Grant for Blackness Trans Women Visual Artists and the Franklin Furnace Fund Recipient for 2018. She earned her Masters caste from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA with Honors from the Schoolhouse of Visual Arts in New York Metropolis.
FAR & Abroad Residents 2019/2020
Ruth Dusseault
Residency Dates: April 5-8
Public Event: April seven, 2020 @ 7PM
Ruth Dusseault is a cross-disciplinary media artist who works in photography, motion picture and installation. Her piece of work falls at the intersection of geography and social psychology, reflecting utopian expressions as they enter the built environment. She has a BA in psychology and attended graduate school in journalism earlier earning her MFA at Florida State University. For 11 years, Dusseault taught lens-based and site-specific art as Assistant Professor and Artist in Residence at Georgia Tech'due south College of Blueprint. She curated exhibitions that merge art and compages for the District of Columbia Art Centre, the Gimmicky in Atlanta and the Carnegie Museum of Fine art.
Abigail Levine
Residency Dates: March ane-iv
Public Event: March 3, 2020 @ 7PM
Abigail Levine is an artist working between New York and Los Angeles. Rooted in dance but moving across media—operation, text, drawing, sound—Levine focuses on the poetics of our trunk's piece of work, how we record and value it. Levine holds a Masters in Dance and Performance Studies from New York Academy nether the advisement of André Lepecki and was the 2013-xv editor of Motility Research's digital performance journal Critical Correspondence,where she co-curated the Trip the light fantastic toe and the Museum project. Levine is currently contributing editor at the Move Research Operation Journal. She has been visiting professor in Trip the light fantastic toe at Wesleyan Academy and at present teaches in Florida State University's ARTS in NYC program.
Sam Van Aken
Residency Dates: December 8-11
Public Event: December 10, 2019 @ 7PM
Sam Van Aken is a contemporary artist and Associate Professor of sculpture at Syracuse Academy who works across traditional modes of art making, crossing artistic genres and disciplines to develop new perspectives on such themes as communication, botany, agriculture, climatology, and the ever-increasing impact of technology. Employing "anti-structures and unknowing as generative processes", Van Aken's interventions in the natural and public realm are seen every bit metaphors that serve equally the ground of narrative, sites of place making, and in some cases fifty-fifty go the basis of scientific research.
Liat Berdugo
Residency Dates: Nov iii-half-dozen
Public Event: November 5, 2019 @ 7PM
Liat Berdugo is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Berdugo holds a B.A. in mathematics and philosophy from Brown University, an G.F.A. in digital + media from the Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently an assistant professor of Art and Architecture at the University of San Francisco. Her work strives to create an expanded, thoughtful consideration for new media and digital culture. She is the co-founder of World Broad West, co-founder of the Living Room Light Exchange, and Net Art and Special Programs Curator for State of israel'due south Print Screen Festival. Current enquiry projects include a series of works that interrogate denizen video archives in zones of disharmonize.
FAR & Away Residents 2018/2019
Olivia Valentine
Residency Dates: April 1-5
Public Issue: April 4, 2019 @ 7PM
Olivia Valentine is an interdisciplinary visual artist working primarily in textile construction, creating architectural scale fabric installations and collaborative projects that span a variety of media and disciplines. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for Installation Art in Turkey and the Brandford/Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber Arts and has exhibited her work internationally. Olivia received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is currently an Banana Professor of Fine art and Visual Civilization at Iowa Country University.
Chris Kardambikis
Residency Dates: Feb xix-24
Public Event: Feb 21, 2019 @ 7PM
Christopher Kardambikis explores infinite, process, and grade through books, printmaking, and cartoon. He has co-founded iii artist volume and zine projects: Encyclopedia Destructica in Pittsburgh, Gravity and Trajectory in San Diego, and 90 Proof Press in Los Angeles. Christopher has been an artist-in-residence at The Wassaic Project, Crosstown Arts, Pioneer Works, The Fine art Students League, The Millay Colony, The Virginia Middle for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Heart. He received his BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University and MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Christopher is the host of Paper Cuts, a podcast that documents the contemporary world of zines and DIY publishing. In the fall of 2016, Christopher joined the faculty at George Mason University as an Assistant Professor and the Manager of Navigation Printing.
Carole Garmon
Residency Dates: Oct 29- November 2
Public Event: November 1, 2018 @ 7PM
Carole Garmon holds an One thousand.F.A. and a B.F.A. in sculpture from Virginia Republic University. She has taught at the University of Mary Washington since 1998 and is a recipient of UMW's Outstanding Young Kinesthesia Member Award. Garmon's research acknowledgements include the accessioning of select images and research materials on Rembrandt into the Rijksmuseum Inquiry Library in Amsterdam, Holland, and participating in a BBC Two documentary on Rembrandt's painting, The Dark Watch. The segment is part of the larger series, The Individual Life of a Masterpiece. She was 1 of two Americans chosen to participate in the international exhibition, Inspired By Rembrandt, commemorating Rembrandt's 400th birthday. In addition to numerous private collections, her piece of work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including Washington, D.C., New York, New York, Lima, Republic of peru, Berlin, Germany and Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Monica Martinez
Residency Dates: September 18-22
Public Event: September 19, 2018 @ 7PM
Monica is a native of United mexican states City, receiving her MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. Monica is a boyfriend of the MacDowell Colony equally well as Sculpture Space in New York and has attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. She has exhibited her piece of work nationally and internationally, near recently at the New Positions programme at Art Cologne in Germany and the Museo de Arte Querétaro in México. Her piece of work has been featured on NOVA, PBS, The Wall Street Journal, PRI's The World and the Un FAO written report on Food Security. Monica resides in San Francisco, California where she is an adjunct professor at the Califonia College of the Arts and an agile advocate for creating sustainable food systems.
Source: https://artsresearch.fsu.edu/residencies/far-away/