Thursday, April 16, 430 - 530 performance, discussion and reception to follow

Location: Broad Art Center, EDA, Room 1250

Organized by Chicano Studies Research Center and Sponsored by the Art + Activism Lecture Series

RAPHAEL ORTIZ Primal Scream

During his fifty-year career, Raphael Montañez Ortiz has created mixed-media ritual performances and installations for museums and galleries in Europe and Canada and throughout the United States, including MOCA, MoMA, and the Whitney Museum. "Primal Scream" includes two of the artist's signature pieces: a Piano Destruction and a Paper Bag concert. A central figure in the Destructivism movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Mr. Ortiz began experimenting with digital media in the 1980s, and recent works include digital paintings. He is on the faculty of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Joining the artist is Monique Ortiz-Arndt, an artist and dancer who has been performing with Mr. Ortiz for fifteen years.

Location: Broad Art Center, EDA, Room 1250
Co-hosted with the Department of Design Media Arts

AMY FRANCESCHINI OF FUTUREFARMERS
Local Landscape Campus

Tuesday, April 7, 530 reception, 6-8pm lecture

Franceschini is an artist and educator. She founded Futurefarmers in 1995 to bring together multidisciplinary practitioners to create new work. She is currently teaching media theory and practice courses at Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute.

KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO
Projections and Instrumentations

Tuesday, April 21, 530 reception, 6-8pm lecture

Wodiczko is internationally renowned for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments. He has developed a series of nomadic instruments for both homeless and immigrant operators that function as implements for survival, communication, empowerment, and healing.

NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

Tuesday, May 5, 530 reception, 6-8pm lecture

Jeremijenko is an artist, inventor, and engineer with the mission to reclaim technology from idealized, abstract concepts and to apply it to the messy complexities of the real world, often with disquieting results.