AIB Author Series: The Magic Rabbit
by Annette LeBlanc Cate, AIB Alumna Tuesday, April 29, 3:30-4:30pm
700 Beacon Street, Library
The AIB Library presents The Magic Rabbit, an illustrated tale of a little lost bunny and a magical friendship, more...
Recent Visiting Artists
Venetian Art, Censorship, and Geopolitics:
Veronese's Feast in the House of Levi April 22
By Paul Kaplan, Ph.D., Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
for African American Research, Harvard University
The Sonic Arts I
An Artist's Lecture March 24
Sound installation artist and performer, Derek Hoffend,
gave a talk about his work and the sonic arts.
Presentation on Sonic Art, Game Design
and Interactive Media March 26
Frederick Bianchi and Joe Farbrook, professors of media and interactive arts at WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), presented work from their programs. Students were invited to identify possible joint projects amongst the artists, designers, software programmers, media technicians, and engineers of our two institutions.
The Sonic Arts II
Live Sound Performances March 28
Live sound performance by artists Jessica Ryan and Derek Hoffend. Currently a research affiliate at The Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, Jessica designs and creates modular synthesizers using analog circuits to create a variety of sounds. Derek's current work explores immerse audio, viewer participation, resonant objects and spaces, as well as architecture and site as an instrument.
Richard Baker March 21 Lee Walton
March 17
Lee Walton's primary concern is the creation of new experiences, either for himself or for others. Walton's work takes many forms: drawings on paper, game/system based structures, video, web-based performances, public projects, theatrical orchestrations and more. Walton delivered an artist lecture and public screening in conjunction with his new piece: Life/Theater Performance: ICA at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston March 16, 2008. For more information, visit www.leewalton.com
Carlota Duarte
March 4
Photographer Carlota Duarte is formerly from Boston and now lives in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, one of the poorest, most remote areas of that country. In 1992, Duarte founded the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP), which provides indigenous Maya people with the opportunity to use photography to document their lives and communities and for their own creative purposes. CPP was featured in a New York Times article on October 5, 2007 and Duarte was a speaker at the recent Visible Rights conference at Harvard University.
Jesse LeDoux February 13
Jesse designs and illustrates posters, CD packages, snowboards and helmets, toys, apparel, magazines, and so on. His clients include music groups: The Shins, Pedro the Lion, Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse—to name a few. He has been featured on the cover of the HOW Design Annual, and Beautiful Decay. Visit: www.ledouxville.com