Artwork created with computerized systems often feels cold and impersonal to audiences. Building on prior work in alternative visualization systems, and an interest in the technological tools of the everyday, the [meme.garden] software included in the exhibition blends software art and search tool to visualize participant's interests in prevalent streams of information, encouraging browsing and interaction between users in real time, through time.

In the 1990s, Flanagan garnered over 20 international awards for titles produced for The Discovery Channel, Creative Wonders/ABC, and Knowledge Adventure. She is the creator of The Adventures of Josie True, the first web-based adventure game for girls, and is collaborating on a new project to teach middle school girls computer programming, RAPUNSEL.

An internationally exhibited artist whose work has been shown at the Whitney and Guggenheim Museums, SIGGRAPH and Ars Electronica, Flanagan directs the Tiltfactor research laboratory and teaches at Hunter College in Manhattan. MEME.GARDEN won the prestigious Juried International Net Art Competition in 2005.

Contact: Jacqueline S. Nathan, Gallery Director
E-mail: jnathan@bgsu.edu
Phone Number: 419.372.8525

Exhibitions: Mary Flanagan and Joan Livingstone

Where: Fine Arts Center - Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery

Mary Flanagan [Arboressence]
Joan Livingstone: Membranes - Margins - Disruptions

Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 1-4pm

Mary Flanagan About her work Flanagan says," I explore the relationship between computers and everyday life from within a technologically infused culture. Her installation, MEME.GARDEN, is "an internet application that visualizes patterns in prevalent streams of interest among participants in pop culture, and allows users to interact with the data in real time, through time."

In the 1990s, Flanagan garnered over 20 international awards for titles produced for The Discovery Channel, Creative Wonders/ABC, and Knowledge Adventure. She is the creator of The Adventures of Josie True, the first web-based adventure game for girls, and is collaborating on a new project to teach middle school girls computer programming, RAPUNSEL. An internationally exhibited artist whose work has been shown at the Whitney and Guggenheim Museums, SIGGRAPH and Ars Electronica, Flanagan directs the Tiltfactor research laboratory and teaches at Hunter College in Manhattan. MEME.GARDEN won the prestigious Juried International Net Art Competition in 2005.

Joan Livingstone's exhibit includes sculptures with vibrant colors and rich abstract forms that use suggestive fragments to evoke the human body and the unavoidably physical aspects of being alive. Livingstone's work challenges viewers to visually and viscerally explore their own perspectives regarding sexuality, intimacy, and desire.

Joan Livingstone is an important figure in contemporary sculpture. Her work has been presented in numerous national and international exhibitions, and resides in the permanent collections of museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Livingstone is Professor and Chair in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This exhibition is possible through the generous support of the Ohio Arts Council.

Contact: Jacqueline S. Nathan, Gallery Director
Phone Number: 419-372-8525

Tea Time: Anthony Fontana

Where: Fine Arts Center - Ceramics Studio

Anthony will be showing images of and talking about his recently finished Graphic Novel

TEA TIME is meant to be a half hour presentation where we will be inviting faculty from around the school and university to come and give short slide talks while having tea and donut holes. It is supposed to be a nice break at the end of the week where students and faculty can relax and exchange ideas while having a bit of tea and sugar!

Bring your own mug! This is open to the BGSU community - Please join us when you can.

Hosted by the BGSU Ceramics Department

Contact: Stephanie Rozene
E-mail: srozene@bgsu.edu

ARTalks: Mary Flanagan

Where: Fine Arts Center - Room 204

Digital artist
Radical Computing

An internationally exhibited artist whose work has been shown at the Whitney and Guggenheim Museums, SIGGRAPH and Ars Electronica. In the 1990s, Flanagan garnered over 20 international awards for titles produced for The Discovery Channel, Creative Wonders/ABC, and Knowledge Adventure. As an activist media maker, she is the creator of The Adventures of Josie True, the first web-based adventure game for girls, and is collaborating on a new project to teach middle school girls computer programming, RAPUNSEL. Her projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Flanagan now directs the Tiltfactor research laboratory and teaches at Hunter College in Manhattan.

Co-sponsored by the Digital Arts Division, the School of Art and the Fine Arts Center Galleries

Contact: Dena Eber
E-mail: deber@bgsu.edu

School of Art Iron Pour: PIG HEAVEN #7

Where: Fine Arts Center - Sculpture Yard

...with guest, Tom Cobett
Director of Research and Development OmniSource Corp
Former President American Foundry Society
Technical advisor to THINKER outside Olscamp Hall
30 years casting experience
Microwave metal casting techniques
Metal land fill reclaim development

Non-sculpture students interested in participating in the iron pour should see Greg Mueller in Sculpture ASAP: 419-372-4193

Contact: Greg Mueller
E-mail: mgreg@bgsu.edu