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Visiting Artist: Chad Greene
November 16 through November 17, 2006
Where: Olscamp - Room 221
BGSU alum Chad Greene will be here November 16 and 17 to visit classes, present an artist lecture, and give an advanced rendering workshop.
Chad is currently a Senior Technical Director at Activision, heading up teams of artists that produce Xbox 360 games. Previously he did modeling, texturing, and lighting for feature animations, including Shrek, Antz, and The Polar Express. He has also worked at a number of other studios, including EA Games, EA Sports, and more.
His artist talk will be at 6pm Thursday (location TBD), and on Friday he will be giving an advanced rendering workshop. Tentative workshop topics include: lighting do's and don't, optimization tips, advanced lighting using Mental Ray (GI, Final Gather, HDRI), advanced Mental Ray shaders (ambient occlusion, SSS, etc.), and the importance of production rendering and using layers/compositing.
We have 19 seats available in the PC lab for Chad's workshop. A sign-up sheet will be put up sometime this week. Those interested are encouraged to sign up early, as space is limited! Preference will be given to those who have already taken Intermediate Modeling (but if space is available, anyone who wants will be able to sign up for a slot!).
This is an amazing opportunity! Mark it on your calendars now. Chad is excited about coming back to BG, and he really wants to help push the students here. Be there!
Open to the public
Contact: Jim Levasseur
E-mail: jlevass@bgsu.edu
Violence And Art Film Series: Sin City
November 15, 2006
Where: Fine Arts Center - Room 204
Directed by Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, 2005, USA, 124 min
A collection of interweaving stories all based in the corrupt, crime-infested hell-hole that is Basin City. Heavily influenced by film-noir, the main storylines concern a hulking brute called Marv (Mickey Rourke), who is seeking the murderer of a beautiful woman who was killed while asleep in bed with him; an ex-photographer called Dwight (Clive Owen) who accidentally kills a hero cop and has to cover it up; and a soon-to-be-retiring policeman called Hartigan (Bruce Willis) who is incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit. All based on the brilliant graphic novels "Sin City", "The Big Fat Kill" and "That Yellow Bastard", written and illustrated by Frank Miller.
Sponsored by the BGSU Art History Association
Contact: Allie Terry
E-mail: alterry@bgsu.edu
Visiting Artist: Scott Short
November 15, 2006
Where: Fine Arts Center - Room 1101
Scott Short is a Chicago-based conceptual painter and the Senior Preparator for Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. He will talk about his current work, his upcoming solo museum exhibition at the UCis Renaissance Society, and his experiences as a museum professional.
Short (USA, b. 1964) has a simple and highly refined method for arriving at abstract compositions. He places a piece of colored construction paper on the scanning bed of a black and white photocopier and makes a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy etc. a couple hundred times. Within a few generations the photocopied image become monotonous fields of black and white static which Short faithfully and painstakingly reproduces on canvases varying in size. This very restricted economy provides Short a wealth of visual effect in which value, arrived at through the textural interplay of black and white, becomes as rich and complex a phenomenon as color itself.
Contact: Michael Arrigo
E-mail: marrigo@bgsu.edu
Violence And Art Film Series: Blue Velvet
November 8, 2006
Where: Fine Arts Center - Room 204
Directed by David Lynch, 1986, USA, 120 min
Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) returns to his hometown after being away and discovers a severed human ear in a field. Not satisfied with the police's pace, he and the police detective's daughter (Laura Dern) carry out their own investigation. The object of his investigation turns out to be the dark underside of an idyllic suburban town. Lynch was nominated for an Oscar for Best Director.
Sponsored by the BGSU Art History Association
Contact: Allie Terry
E-mail: alterry@bgsu.edu
ARTalks: Cecily Hilsdale
November 6, 2006
Where: Fine Arts Center - Room 1101
Art Historian
Assistant Professor of Art History, Northwestern University
Recent Research
Cecily Hilsdale's research concerns cultural exchange in the medieval world, in particular the circulation of Byzantine luxury objects as diplomatic gifts. Her other academic interests include patronage and gender, image theory, art and ritual, as well as artistic relations between Byzantium and Italy. Having earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, she has held a Fulbright Fellowship at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Junior Research Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine studies in Washington DC, and Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Contact: Allie Terry
E-mail: alterry@bgsu.edu
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