Post by deanna on Feb 13, 2012 13:09:06 GMT -7
We are pleased to announce an upcoming lecture series that is part of the Spring 2012 course :: CO-EVOLUTION: Art + Biology in the Museum
co-taught by Joseph Cook and Szu-Han Ho; UNM Bio 402/502 // ARTS 389/429/529 // UHON 402. The theme of our seminar and workshop series is "Morphology and Geographic Variation," on the relationship of form to place. With the natural history collection as our starting point, we'll hear from scientists, artists, designers, programmers, musicians, and more on place-based study.
Our three Visiting Artists will be leading the class in 2-day intensive workshops from the UNM Museum of Southwestern Biology as well as in the field. During their visit to UNM, each artist will be giving a talk that is free and open to the public. Please forward this information to your students!
Brandon Ballengée will be giving the first public lecture on Friday, Feb 24 5pm at the Science Math & Learning Center (SMLC). See below for Brandon's bio.
The dates for the following 2 talks are:
Thur MAR 29 [5pm] :: Suzanne Anker, Chair of the Fine Arts Department at School of Visual Studies (NYC)
Thur APR 26 [5pm] :: Brian Conley, Professor in Sculpture, Fine Arts, and Interdisciplinary Studies at California College of the Arts (SF)
All talks are free and open to the public at the UNM Science Math & Learning Center (SMLC). Visiting Artist lectures and workshops are supported by the National Science Foundation AIM-UP! Research Coordination Network, UNM Department of Biology, UNM Art & Ecology, and the College of Fine Arts at UNM.
Check in to the course blog to learn about upcoming lectures, relevant articles, artists, and other resources on the intersection of art and natural history.
unm-coev.blogspot.com/
***ereserves password: museum***
for more information, please contact Szu-Han Ho: szho@unm.edu
Brandon Ballengée (American, b 1974)
Artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée creates trans-disciplinary artworks inspired from his ecological field and laboratory research. Since 1996, a central investigation focus has been the occurrence of developmental deformities and population declines among amphibians. In 2001, he was nominated for membership into Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society. In 2009, Ballengée and SK Sessions published “Explanation for Missing Limbs in Deformed Amphibians” in the Journal of Experimental Zoology and received international media attention from the BBC and others. This scientific study was the inspiration for the book Malamp: The Occurrence of Deformities in Amphibians (published by Arts Catalyst & Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK) and a solo exhibition at the Royal Institution of Great Brittain (2010, London). Since 2009 he has continued his amphibian research as a visiting scientist at McGill University (Canada). In 2011 he was awarded a conservation leadership fellowship from the National Audubon Society’s TogetherGreen Program.
Ballengée's art has been exhibited internationally with recent solo exhibitions held at Longue Vue House and Gardens (2011, New Orleans); Parco Arte Vivente, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea (2010, Turin); Nowhere Gallery (2009, Milan); Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College (2009, USA); Shrewsbury Museum (2009, former Shropshire home of Charles Darwin); Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2008, Wakefield); Central Park’s Arsenal Gallery (2007, NYC); Peabody Museum of Natural History (2007, Yale University); and others. His works have been included in several international biennales and festivals including: Geumgang Nature Art Biennale (2004, South Korea); Venice Biennale (2005, Italy); Biennale for Electronic Arts Perth (2007, Australia); 3rd Moscow Biennale (2009, Russia); Transmediale 11 (2010, Germany); Prospect 2 New Orleans (2011, USA) and others. He also received several cultural grants from Puffin Foundation, Maxwell Landau Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Nature Conservancy, NYSCA, Brooklyn Arts Council and others. He also been invited as an artist/researcher by several organizations including: Natural History Museum (London, 2003); Gunpowder Park (Essex, 2007); SPACE (London, 2007); Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Wakefield, 2008); Société des arts technologiques (Montréal, 2009/10); Concordia University (Montréal, 2010/11); Sculpture in the Parklands, (Offaly, 2010); KHOJ International Artists Association (New Delhi, 2011) and others.
In 2011 the book Praeter Naturam: Brandon Ballengée was published by Parco Arte Vivente, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea and Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, which discussed his Italian amphibian studies and ‘eco-system’ activism. Another book From Scales to Feathers, will debut this year published by the Williams Center for the Arts (USA) and Verbeke Gallery (Belgium). He currently is co-founding an urban bio-art institute in his midtown Manhattan based studio and is finalizing his Ph.D. through a collaborative program between the University of Plymouth (UK) and Hochschule für Gestaltung Zürich (Switzerland).
co-taught by Joseph Cook and Szu-Han Ho; UNM Bio 402/502 // ARTS 389/429/529 // UHON 402. The theme of our seminar and workshop series is "Morphology and Geographic Variation," on the relationship of form to place. With the natural history collection as our starting point, we'll hear from scientists, artists, designers, programmers, musicians, and more on place-based study.
Our three Visiting Artists will be leading the class in 2-day intensive workshops from the UNM Museum of Southwestern Biology as well as in the field. During their visit to UNM, each artist will be giving a talk that is free and open to the public. Please forward this information to your students!
Brandon Ballengée will be giving the first public lecture on Friday, Feb 24 5pm at the Science Math & Learning Center (SMLC). See below for Brandon's bio.
The dates for the following 2 talks are:
Thur MAR 29 [5pm] :: Suzanne Anker, Chair of the Fine Arts Department at School of Visual Studies (NYC)
Thur APR 26 [5pm] :: Brian Conley, Professor in Sculpture, Fine Arts, and Interdisciplinary Studies at California College of the Arts (SF)
All talks are free and open to the public at the UNM Science Math & Learning Center (SMLC). Visiting Artist lectures and workshops are supported by the National Science Foundation AIM-UP! Research Coordination Network, UNM Department of Biology, UNM Art & Ecology, and the College of Fine Arts at UNM.
Check in to the course blog to learn about upcoming lectures, relevant articles, artists, and other resources on the intersection of art and natural history.
unm-coev.blogspot.com/
***ereserves password: museum***
for more information, please contact Szu-Han Ho: szho@unm.edu
Brandon Ballengée (American, b 1974)
Artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée creates trans-disciplinary artworks inspired from his ecological field and laboratory research. Since 1996, a central investigation focus has been the occurrence of developmental deformities and population declines among amphibians. In 2001, he was nominated for membership into Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society. In 2009, Ballengée and SK Sessions published “Explanation for Missing Limbs in Deformed Amphibians” in the Journal of Experimental Zoology and received international media attention from the BBC and others. This scientific study was the inspiration for the book Malamp: The Occurrence of Deformities in Amphibians (published by Arts Catalyst & Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK) and a solo exhibition at the Royal Institution of Great Brittain (2010, London). Since 2009 he has continued his amphibian research as a visiting scientist at McGill University (Canada). In 2011 he was awarded a conservation leadership fellowship from the National Audubon Society’s TogetherGreen Program.
Ballengée's art has been exhibited internationally with recent solo exhibitions held at Longue Vue House and Gardens (2011, New Orleans); Parco Arte Vivente, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea (2010, Turin); Nowhere Gallery (2009, Milan); Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College (2009, USA); Shrewsbury Museum (2009, former Shropshire home of Charles Darwin); Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2008, Wakefield); Central Park’s Arsenal Gallery (2007, NYC); Peabody Museum of Natural History (2007, Yale University); and others. His works have been included in several international biennales and festivals including: Geumgang Nature Art Biennale (2004, South Korea); Venice Biennale (2005, Italy); Biennale for Electronic Arts Perth (2007, Australia); 3rd Moscow Biennale (2009, Russia); Transmediale 11 (2010, Germany); Prospect 2 New Orleans (2011, USA) and others. He also received several cultural grants from Puffin Foundation, Maxwell Landau Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Nature Conservancy, NYSCA, Brooklyn Arts Council and others. He also been invited as an artist/researcher by several organizations including: Natural History Museum (London, 2003); Gunpowder Park (Essex, 2007); SPACE (London, 2007); Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Wakefield, 2008); Société des arts technologiques (Montréal, 2009/10); Concordia University (Montréal, 2010/11); Sculpture in the Parklands, (Offaly, 2010); KHOJ International Artists Association (New Delhi, 2011) and others.
In 2011 the book Praeter Naturam: Brandon Ballengée was published by Parco Arte Vivente, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea and Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, which discussed his Italian amphibian studies and ‘eco-system’ activism. Another book From Scales to Feathers, will debut this year published by the Williams Center for the Arts (USA) and Verbeke Gallery (Belgium). He currently is co-founding an urban bio-art institute in his midtown Manhattan based studio and is finalizing his Ph.D. through a collaborative program between the University of Plymouth (UK) and Hochschule für Gestaltung Zürich (Switzerland).