FINAL PROGRAM CONFIRMED FOR THE ART + ENVIRONMENT CONFERENCE
RENO, NV - Global interest in the intersections of nature and culture has broadened in recent years and contemporary artists and designers have re-envisioned the concept of environment. To better understand the ideas shaping this dialogue, Nevada Museum of Art (NMA) will bring together creative practitioners whose works explore natural, built, and virtual environments at The Art + Environment Conference, scheduled for
October 2-4, 2008.
With programming and permanent collections focused on art and the environment, and partnerships with key environmental and science communities, the NMA looks toward building an active network of people who are shaping the future of this field.
“The Art and Environment Conference at the Nevada Museum of Art is bringing together some of today’s most notable scientists, artists, architects and designers to begin a dialogue about the environmental connections between these disciplines,” said David Walker, Executive Director, Nevada Museum of Art. “Nevada is the ideal place to launch this dialogue and the NMA is eager to continue to host this conversation as it grows.”
Confirmed presenters include: Vito Acconci; Lita Albuquerque; Will Bruder - Will Bruder + Partners, LTD; Matt Coolidge - Center for Land Use Interpretation; Lynn Fenstermaker, Ph.D. - Desert Research Institute; Chris Drury; Kianga K. Ford; Cheryl Haines, FOR-SITE Foundation; Bill Gilbert - Land Arts of the American West; Jeff Gordinier - author, X Saves the World; Fritz Haeg; Katie Holten; Michael Light; Geoff Manaugh - Senior Editor, Dwell Magazine, and author, BLDGBLOG; W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago; Crimson Rose, Burning Man; and Jennifer Steinkamp.
The Conference will be introduced and partially moderated by William L. Fox, author of Making Time: Essays on the Nature of Los Angeles; The Void, the Grid & the Sign: Traversing The Great Basin and In the Desert of Desire: Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle.
THE ART + ENVIRONMENT CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The Conference program includes several key discussions which pair artists together with scholars, designers and scientists to address key ideas discussed within the field today.
Whirlwinds and Black Holes: Art(work) and Science in Extreme Environments brings together artists and scientists who have spent significant time working in extreme desert and polar regions. Participants include Lita Albuquerque, Chris Drury, and Lynn Fenstermaker.
Burning the Man: Artists Navigate the Mainstream examines how Burning Man has been a gathering dedicated to radical self-reliance, self-expression, and art. As attendance numbers soar and major Burning Man artworks are acquired by museums, event participants and organizers continue to debate the changing spirit of the gathering. Participants include Michael Light and Crimson Rose.
what’s neXt: Artists Imagining the Future will be moderated by Jeff Gordinier. In his recent book X Saves the World, Gordinier suggests that Gen X innovations in art, technology, and activism have come to define the way we live today. This session brings together Gen X artists, designers, and writers whose work aspires to change the way people view and experience the world. Participants include Fritz Haeg, Katie Holton, Jason Houston, and Kianga K. Ford.
Placing Space | Spacing Place brings together individuals who have worked to develop interdisciplinary networks of artists, designers, and scholars to explore the nature of place and placelessness. Participants include Bill Gilbert, Matt Coolidge, Cheryl Haines and Geoff Manaugh.
The Conference program also includes a number of solo artist presentations which allow for in-depth conversations regarding the ideas presented in each artist’s body of work. The solo presentations include Filling the Void: Crimson Rose on Burning Man; Take Back the Lawn: Fritz Haeg on Redesigning Landscape; Ben Aleck and Ralph Burns: Paiute Stories and Environmental Stewardship; Immersed in the Virtual: Jennifer Steinkamp; and Vito Acconci: The Space that Inspires Second Thoughts.
The ideas and issues raised at The Conference will be summarized by cultural critic W.J.T. Mitchell, professor of Art and English at the University of Chicago and editor of Cultural Inquiry, a quarterly journal devoted to critical theory in the arts and human sciences.
In addition to The Conference, the Museum will also present a series of exhibitions as a part of its Art + Environment series, an initiative that brings community, artists, and scholars together to explore the interaction between people and their environments. In its feature gallery, the Nevada Museum of Art will present Chris Drury: Mushrooms | Clouds —the first major museum exhibition in the United States by British artist Chris Drury. The exhibition includes new work produced in partnership with the FOR-SITE Foundation in Nevada City, Calif. and the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nev. Much of the exhibition refers to the complex legacy—and continued presence—of nuclear activity in the American West.
Other exhibitions presented during The Conference include Terry Falke: Observations in an Occupied Wilderness; Dan Goods: The Hidden Light; Katie Holten: Atlas of Memory; and Some Dry Space: Michael Light.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:Limited seating is available with an additional 60 seats available in the simulcast suite. Seats will be assigned in the order of registrations received until final capacity is met. Registration information can be downloaded at www.nevadaart.org/theconference.
AUDIENCE PARTNERS
A live blog with students enrolled in The New School’s Extreme Media Studies university lecture course will pose questions to instructors and The Conference speakers. Ideas and perspectives from The Conference will also be documented via interviews, visual essays, and field tests then posted at ExtremeMediaStudies.org for students and teachers to use worldwide. The New School’s Extreme Media Studies program, based at The New School, New York City, New York, is interdisciplinary and draws students from across the university into a multidisciplinary group (The New School for Social Research, Parsons The New School for Design, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music).
CONFERENCE PARTNERS
The Conference is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Nevada Humanities, a state program of the National Endwoment for the Humanities. Additional support provided by the Nevada Commission on Tourism, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and Sierra Pacific.
ABOUT THE NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART
Designed by architect Will Bruder, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for the Visual Arts became the new facility for the Nevada Museum of Art in May of 2003. With its torqued exterior wall, suspended atrium staircase and views of Reno’s skyline as well as the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the building is recognized as one of the most distinguished architectural achievements in Nevada. The NMA’s feature exhibitions showcase national and international artists while the permanent collection of twentieth and twenty-first century art is divided into five focus collections linked by an overall emphasis on land and environment. This thematic focus provides scope and direction for future acquisitions and exhibitions.
For more information, please contact or Alexia Bratiotis, Director of Communications and Marketing at 775.329.3333 ex. 228 / alexia.bratiotis@nevadaart.org or Amy Oppio, Deputy Director at 775.329.3333 ex. 251 / oppio@nevadaart.org.
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October 2-4, 2008.
With programming and permanent collections focused on art and the environment, and partnerships with key environmental and science communities, the NMA looks toward building an active network of people who are shaping the future of this field.
“The Art and Environment Conference at the Nevada Museum of Art is bringing together some of today’s most notable scientists, artists, architects and designers to begin a dialogue about the environmental connections between these disciplines,” said David Walker, Executive Director, Nevada Museum of Art. “Nevada is the ideal place to launch this dialogue and the NMA is eager to continue to host this conversation as it grows.”
Confirmed presenters include: Vito Acconci; Lita Albuquerque; Will Bruder - Will Bruder + Partners, LTD; Matt Coolidge - Center for Land Use Interpretation; Lynn Fenstermaker, Ph.D. - Desert Research Institute; Chris Drury; Kianga K. Ford; Cheryl Haines, FOR-SITE Foundation; Bill Gilbert - Land Arts of the American West; Jeff Gordinier - author, X Saves the World; Fritz Haeg; Katie Holten; Michael Light; Geoff Manaugh - Senior Editor, Dwell Magazine, and author, BLDGBLOG; W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago; Crimson Rose, Burning Man; and Jennifer Steinkamp.
The Conference will be introduced and partially moderated by William L. Fox, author of Making Time: Essays on the Nature of Los Angeles; The Void, the Grid & the Sign: Traversing The Great Basin and In the Desert of Desire: Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle.
THE ART + ENVIRONMENT CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The Conference program includes several key discussions which pair artists together with scholars, designers and scientists to address key ideas discussed within the field today.
Whirlwinds and Black Holes: Art(work) and Science in Extreme Environments brings together artists and scientists who have spent significant time working in extreme desert and polar regions. Participants include Lita Albuquerque, Chris Drury, and Lynn Fenstermaker.
Burning the Man: Artists Navigate the Mainstream examines how Burning Man has been a gathering dedicated to radical self-reliance, self-expression, and art. As attendance numbers soar and major Burning Man artworks are acquired by museums, event participants and organizers continue to debate the changing spirit of the gathering. Participants include Michael Light and Crimson Rose.
what’s neXt: Artists Imagining the Future will be moderated by Jeff Gordinier. In his recent book X Saves the World, Gordinier suggests that Gen X innovations in art, technology, and activism have come to define the way we live today. This session brings together Gen X artists, designers, and writers whose work aspires to change the way people view and experience the world. Participants include Fritz Haeg, Katie Holton, Jason Houston, and Kianga K. Ford.
Placing Space | Spacing Place brings together individuals who have worked to develop interdisciplinary networks of artists, designers, and scholars to explore the nature of place and placelessness. Participants include Bill Gilbert, Matt Coolidge, Cheryl Haines and Geoff Manaugh.
The Conference program also includes a number of solo artist presentations which allow for in-depth conversations regarding the ideas presented in each artist’s body of work. The solo presentations include Filling the Void: Crimson Rose on Burning Man; Take Back the Lawn: Fritz Haeg on Redesigning Landscape; Ben Aleck and Ralph Burns: Paiute Stories and Environmental Stewardship; Immersed in the Virtual: Jennifer Steinkamp; and Vito Acconci: The Space that Inspires Second Thoughts.
The ideas and issues raised at The Conference will be summarized by cultural critic W.J.T. Mitchell, professor of Art and English at the University of Chicago and editor of Cultural Inquiry, a quarterly journal devoted to critical theory in the arts and human sciences.
In addition to The Conference, the Museum will also present a series of exhibitions as a part of its Art + Environment series, an initiative that brings community, artists, and scholars together to explore the interaction between people and their environments. In its feature gallery, the Nevada Museum of Art will present Chris Drury: Mushrooms | Clouds —the first major museum exhibition in the United States by British artist Chris Drury. The exhibition includes new work produced in partnership with the FOR-SITE Foundation in Nevada City, Calif. and the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nev. Much of the exhibition refers to the complex legacy—and continued presence—of nuclear activity in the American West.
Other exhibitions presented during The Conference include Terry Falke: Observations in an Occupied Wilderness; Dan Goods: The Hidden Light; Katie Holten: Atlas of Memory; and Some Dry Space: Michael Light.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:Limited seating is available with an additional 60 seats available in the simulcast suite. Seats will be assigned in the order of registrations received until final capacity is met. Registration information can be downloaded at www.nevadaart.org/theconference.
AUDIENCE PARTNERS
A live blog with students enrolled in The New School’s Extreme Media Studies university lecture course will pose questions to instructors and The Conference speakers. Ideas and perspectives from The Conference will also be documented via interviews, visual essays, and field tests then posted at ExtremeMediaStudies.org for students and teachers to use worldwide. The New School’s Extreme Media Studies program, based at The New School, New York City, New York, is interdisciplinary and draws students from across the university into a multidisciplinary group (The New School for Social Research, Parsons The New School for Design, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music).
CONFERENCE PARTNERS
The Conference is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Nevada Humanities, a state program of the National Endwoment for the Humanities. Additional support provided by the Nevada Commission on Tourism, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and Sierra Pacific.
ABOUT THE NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART
Designed by architect Will Bruder, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for the Visual Arts became the new facility for the Nevada Museum of Art in May of 2003. With its torqued exterior wall, suspended atrium staircase and views of Reno’s skyline as well as the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the building is recognized as one of the most distinguished architectural achievements in Nevada. The NMA’s feature exhibitions showcase national and international artists while the permanent collection of twentieth and twenty-first century art is divided into five focus collections linked by an overall emphasis on land and environment. This thematic focus provides scope and direction for future acquisitions and exhibitions.
For more information, please contact or Alexia Bratiotis, Director of Communications and Marketing at 775.329.3333 ex. 228 / alexia.bratiotis@nevadaart.org or Amy Oppio, Deputy Director at 775.329.3333 ex. 251 / oppio@nevadaart.org.
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