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JOSELOFF GALLERY/HARTFORD ART SCHOOL
200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut 06117-1599

Contact:  Zina Davis (860) 768-4090 (zdavis at mail.hartford.edu)
or Joan Walden (860) 236-9620 (joanwalden at aol.com)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JOSELOFF GALLERY/HARTFORD ART SCHOOL/UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD

November 12, 2001 - January 18, 2002
Gala Opening Reception November 13, 5:30 pm
 
BITS & PIECES:  A SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBITION
 7 International Media-Based Artists Take Technology to a New Level

West Hartford, Conn. ... The Joseloff Gallery/Hartford Art School/University 
of Hartford announce the Fourth International Distinguished Artists Symposium 
and Exhibition: Bits & Pieces. This evocative, visually striking, often 
playful exhibition explores the shifting boundaries between art, science and 
technology. It illustrates how artists can transform our assumptions about 
aesthetics, communication, reality and perception through the innovative use 
of technologies that range from state-of-the-art to what is currently 
referred to as “media archaeology.”
    Participating artists will spend several days on campus where they will 
engage in a series of events. On Monday, November 12, the program begins with 
lectures during the day and an evening performance. On Tuesday, the program 
continues with artists’ lectures and a gala evening opening reception. It 
concludes on Wednesday, November 14 with a symposium moderated by co-curator 
of the exhibition, Timothy Druckrey. All events are free and open to the 
public. (see schedule)
    Artists from the U.S.A. and abroad are Zoe Beloff, Keith Piper, Paul 
DeMarinis, Gebhard Sengmuller (VinylVideo), Perry Hoberman and Christa 
Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau. 
    “This program presents a rare opportunity to view a significant body of 
work dealing with a subject that is little understood and mystifying to 
general audiences,” says co-curator Timothy Druckrey, noted author, curator 
and scholar in the field of new media technologies.
    Each artist has created a work that combines the familiar with the new. 
Zoe Beloff’s The Influencing Machine of Miss Natalija A. is an interactive 
stereoscopic diagram that triggers video projections. Keith Piper’s Tracing 
the Mechanoid’s Bloodline is a provocative exploration of prevailing notions 
of racial and social difference. Paul DeMarnis’s Fireflies Alight on the 
Abacus of Al-Farabi is a sound installation in a darkened room that 
incorporates dancing loops of monofilament stretched and illuminated by an 
emerald laser beam. Gebhard Sengmuller’s Welcome to the World of VinylVideo 
reconstructs home movie technology of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Each 
VinylVideo disc is created in collaboration with international multimedia 
artists. When combined with a turntable and a TV, the viewer is able to watch 
video with synchronized sound--all from a long-playing record. Perry 
Hoberman’s Systems Maintenance consists of 3 versions of a furnished room 
that viewers simultaneously reorganize and manipulate. Christa Sommerer & 
Laurent Mignonneau’s Interactive Plant Growing incorporates the notion of 
real and virtual time, also through viewer interaction.
    Power Boothe, Dean of the Hartford Art School, believes that this 
exhibition marks an historic moment, similar turning points that evolved in 
both photography and filmmaking.
    "At the onset of a new technology, it can be more of a novelty than an 
art form. But to be a viable art form, the technology must eventually become 
transparent to the artwork.
    "For instance, in its first few decades movie-making was about the 
phenomenon of the moving image, but then D. W. Griffith made 'Intolerance,' 
and now no one would question movie-making as a vehicle for art. It may be 
that today we are witnessing a similar transformation with digital technology 
--a process that has been with us for three decades," he says.
    Boothe, who is a nationally recognized abstract painter, believes that it 
is an exciting time to assess what contemporary artists are now doing with 
the computer, "because it's the art that matters, not the technology," he 
continues.  "This exhibition is not a demonstration of what computers can do. 
It is an exhibition to see what artists, who happen to use digital 
technology, are doing as artists."
    Zina Davis, Director of the Joseloff Gallery, adds that the participatory 
nature of the exhibition brings with it a new level of experience as visitors 
become actively engaged in the process. “For the most part, it is the viewer 
who brings the work to life,” she explains. “Each artist is operating on a 
highly conceptual level, creating challenging and evocative work that deals 
with personal experience, human interaction, and cultural expectations.”
    The illustrated catalogue will include an essay by Timothy Druckrey and 
an introduction by Dean Boothe. For more information and a schedule of 
events, which are subject to change, call (860) 768-4090 or log on to the 
Hartford Art School website, www.hartfordartschool.org.   ###


 JOSELOFF GALLERY/HARTFORD ART SCHOOL (860) 768-4090
200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut 06117-1599

4TH INTERNATIONAL DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBITION
BITS & PIECES:  SHIFTING BOUNDARIES AND DIFFERENT REALITIES

CALENDAR LISTING & SCHEDULE

WHAT:  The Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, and University of Hartford 
announce BITS & PIECES, a major exhibition with installations by 7 
internationally known artists. A series of artists’ lectures, and a 
multi-media performance will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition.

ARTISTS:  Zoe Beloff, Paul DeMarinis, Perry Hoberman, Keith Piper, Gebhard 
Sengmuller, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau

CURATED & ORGANIZED BY:  Timothy Druckrey & Zina Davis

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Monday, November 12  - Wilde Auditorium 
11:00 a.m. - Noon 
Perry Hoberman - Lecture
7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
“A Mechanical Medium”
performed by Zoe Beloff with live sound by Gen Ken Montgomery

Tuesday, November 13 - Wilde Auditorium 
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
11:30 - 12:30 p.m.
Gebhard Sengmuller
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Paul DeMarinis
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Joseloff Gallery
Opening Reception

Wednesday, November 14
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Symposium: Moderated by Timothy Druckery
Dialogue with visiting artists

WHERE:  Lectures will be held in Wilde Auditorium, Harry Jack Gray Center, 
University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut. 
The exhibition is located in Joseloff Gallery and Taub Hall Gallery, 
University of Hartford

GALLERY
HOURS:  Tuesday - Friday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, Noon - 4 p.m.
Handicap accessible

CONTACT:  
Zina Davis (860) 768-4090
zdavis at mail.hartford.edu
www.hartfordartschool.org

SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. PLEASE CALL TO CONFIRM.


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