The College of Creative Studies
Art Symposium
Fall 2006
All lectures are at 5:00 in IV Theater II
Tuesday, 10/17
KIP FULBECK
Kip Fulbeck specializes in personal narrative, identity exploration, race/ethnicity
study, and pop-culture analysis. A filmmaker, photographer, writer, and performer,
he has exhibited in over 20 countries and throughout the U.S., including the
Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, the Japanese American National Musuem,
the Singapore International Film Festival, the Bonn Videonale, and the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art. He is the author of Part Asian, 100% Hapa (Chronicle
Books, 2006) and Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography (University of Washington
Press, 2001) and the director of a dozen short films including Banana Split,
Some Questions for 28 Kisses, and Lilo & Me. Fulbeck teaches as a Professor
of Art at UCSB and is currently producing a photography book entitled Permanence:
Tattoo Portraits by Kip Fulbeck to be published by Chronicle Books in 2008.
Tuesday, 10/24
JAKE JACOBSON
Throughout his 35 years as a professional photographer, printmaker and jazz
musician, Jake has been driven by his passions. In the mid-1960's he operated
a backyard print shop, producing rock concert posters that are now collectors'
items. During his career in advertising and editorial photography, he pioneered
many techniques for special effects photography and printmaking. He owned and
operated an award winning advertising agency and has contributed many photographic
assignments and essays to magazines around the world. His continuing passion
for photographing artists is evident by his extra-ordinary portraits and photographic
images. A graduate of Brooks Institute of Photography, Jake has taught photography
at UCLA and Cypress College. He is also a longtime practitioner and teacher
of Yoga, and a previous owner of the renowned Center for Yoga in Los Angeles.
Jake has completed his second-degree black belt in Kung Fu San Soo after years
of dedication and focus in the art.
Currently, Jake operates a state-of-the-art photography, printmaking and video
production studio in Santa Barbara, California. The labors of love so evident
in musical instrument making have always fascinated him; he has combined his
two greatest passions-photography and music-into a unique and monumental project.
Heart and Hands: Musical Instrument Makers of America is a book, published
by Konemann and sold throughout the world, as well as an exhibition produced
by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). The exhibition
has been toured in the United States for four years, showing in over twenty
locations and viewed by over 500,000 people. The venues include The Arts and
Industries Museum of the Smithsonian, The Russell Office Building of the United
States Senate, The Bowers Museum and The Florida International Museum. The
entire work is now in the permanent collection of the National Museum of American
History's photographic archives of American photographers.
Jake has begun a new journey, photographing and authoring OH BABY: Celebrating
Birth Rites Around the World. This ambitious project will be completed as a
book and major traveling exhibit in 2008. It is sponsored by Worldborn Corporation,
a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing global understanding and
tolerance of how humans live through the production and distribution of art
and educational materials that inspire, teach and inform. In carrying out its
mission, Worldborn highlights our cultural differences in a positive way while
emphasizing what we share with one another as human beings. Jake is the founder
of Worldborn and sits as its Executive Director.
Tuesday, 10/31
Marko Peljhan
Marko Peljhan holds a joint appointment with the Department of Art and the
Media Arts & Technology graduate program at UCSB. A theatre and radio director
by profession, he co-founded the Ljudmila digital media lab in Slovenia and
is active in numerous tactical media communities. He founded the arts and technology
organisation Projekt Atol, the music label rx:tx and coordinates the ongoing
mobile laboratory project Makrolab, focusing on telecommunications, migrations
and weather systems in an intersection of art and science. His work has been
featured in published contemporary art anthologies (Fresh Cream, Art Tommorow)
and extensively online and has been installed internationally including the
Venice, Gwangju and Johannesburg Biennials, Documenta, Ars Electronica, ISEA,
Manifesta, and numerous other exhibitions and museums, in Europe, Asia and
the US among them P.S.1 Moma and the New Museum in New York.
In 2000, he received the special Medienkunst prize at the ZKM in Karlsruehe
and in 2001 the Golden Nica Prize at Ars Electronica together with Carsten
Nicolai for their work, Polar, produced at the Canon Artlab in Tokyo in 2000.
His performances have been shown in theatres across Europe and large scale
events during two Cultural Capital of Europe event series. He currently serves
on the strategic council for information society of the Republic of Slovenia
and is active in the Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research initiative, coordinating
and flight directing microgravity and space-art related experiments with the
Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Russia and in Europe within
the MIR network. He received his Master of Arts degree from the University
of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Tuesday, 11/7
CASEY REAS
Casey Reas is an artist and educator living and working in Los Angeles. His
work employs ideas explored in conceptual and minimal artworks as focused through
the contemporary lens of software. He exhibits, performs, and lectures in the
US, Asia, and Europe. As an associate professor in the Design | Media Arts
department at UCLA, Reas interacts with undergraduate and graduate students.
His classes provide a foundation for thinking about software as a medium for
visual exploration. He is the co-author of Processing with Ben Fry.
Tuesday, 11/14
JANE CALLISTER
Jane Callister has exhibited her paintings, drawings and installations both
nationally and internationally over the past 10 years in such notable exhibits
as "The 2003 Prague Biennale" at the Veletrizni Palace Prague; "Cosmic
Lingerie:" at Gallerie Anton Weller, Paris 2001; “Extreme Abstraction” at
the Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo NY 2005; "Step into Liquid" curated
by Dave Hickey for the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis in Santa Monica 2005, and
more recently at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona in addition
to numerous solo an group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Texas, Florida,
San Fransisco.
Her work is currently on view at the Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna Beach,
as part of this years 2006 California Biennial, and has been featured in notable
publications such as "Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting" by
Phaidon Press which was recently re-released in paperback and has been translated
into several different languages and circulated world wide.
Callister is also featured prominantly in "Abstract Painting: Concepts
and Techniques" written by Vicky Perry and published by Watson & Guptil,
2005, NY and recently appeared in LA Artland, published by black dog press,
London, November 2005. Jane is currently represented by Susanne Vielmetter:
Los Angeles Projects, and is also a professor and chair of the Art Department
at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Tuesday, 11/21
DANIEL DOVE
Daniel Dove received a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1994
and an MFA in painting from Yale University in 1996. After completing a residency
at the Vermont Studio Center he returned to Austin, TX temporarily continuing
to focus on his studio practice and was later awarded a Kimbrough Grant from
the Dallas Museum of Art. Daniel's has work has been exhibited in numerous
national solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Texas, and Ohio
(where he was selected as the winner of the 2004 Young Painter's Competition
at the University of Miami, Ohio by juror Buzz Spector), and was also awarded
the top Ohio Arts Council Individual artist's grant in 2005.
Daniel also taught as an assistant professor at the Cleveland Institute of
Art in 2000 and at CIA From 2000-2005 and is currently an assistant professor
in Art and Design, teaching painting at Cal Poly State University, San Luis
Obispo, CA.
Tuesday, 11/28
KIM YASUDA
Kim Yasuda is a visual artist and professor of spatial studies in the Art
Department at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also co-director
of the U.C. Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), together with interdisciplinary
scholar, Dick Hebdige. The UCIRA serves as a major platform for presenting,
discussing and advocating for the arts and arts-centered research across the
U.C. system.
Yasuda's past gallery installations and public projects investigate links
between identity and place within the contemporary landscape. She has commissioned
projects throughout California, including a subway station and bus shelter
facility for the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Los Angeles and permanent
commemorative installations for the City of San Jose and Hollywood. She has
exhibited her work internationally in galleries and museums, including the
Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; Camerawork, London; the New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art @ Champion, Connecticut and
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston. She is the recipient of visual arts fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts, US/Japan Foundation, Eliza. M. Howard
Foundation, Art Matters, Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Anonymous Was a Woman
Foundation.
Recently, Yasuda has begun to experiment with university teaching models through
her public art research, developing projects that create partnerships between
UCSB and the broader community. In spring of 2006, Yasuda and her undergraduate
art students were awarded a public commission for the Villa Cesar Chavez development,
a 52-unit, seasonal farm-worker housing complex in Oxnard, California. Students
designed and oversaw the installation of the public art components, including
a central plaza, community center and pedestrian streetscape. UCSB students
also collaborated with the residents in the creation of works of art for the
development through a series of on-campus workshops. Yasuda would like to further
develop this integrated model for research-teaching toward the creation of
a campus community design center that provides art students with internship
opportunities for engaged scholarship in the community.
Tuesday, 12/5
TBA
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