WED MARCH 28 thru SAT MARCH 31 — 12:30 - 5 p.m.
GREENE GALLERY, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
OPENING RECEPTION with Sean Reed:
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The word Bedlam refers to a medieval asylum for mad people in England. In the 18th Century, such asylums were a source of entertainment. Wealthy people paid a penny to enter and watch mad people behave crazily. Later the word came to mean, a chaotic, uncontrollable situation. A similar word is Shambles, which Beckett uses symbolically to describe the very substance of existence.
Curated by Kathleen Forde
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SEAN REED
Studies at the Eastman School of Music and the Hamburg College of Music and Theater with Manfred Stahnke. Active as a composer for traditional ensembles, as well as interactive pieces and computer/tape music. Collaborative work with dance, theater, visual art, video, and space-sound installations. International performances of individual and collaborative works, including by soloists of the ensemble modern, within the zeitoper series of the Hanover State Opera, at the Munich Biennale, the CYNETart festival, the ISEA 2002 in Nagoya, the CalArts CEAIT, netzspannung's "cast_01", the transmediale05 in Berlin, the ZKM in Karlsruhe, and the INMM in Darmstadt.
Sean Reed has been awarded several prizes and stipends, including the Young Generation Forum of the Cologne Society for New Musik (GNM), the Asolo 1st prize for computer art, from the Cultural Committee of German Business, the Institute for New Music and Music Education (INMM) in Darmstadt, and the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. Sean is currently pursuing a PhD in Music Composition at Trinity College in Dublin.
ROBERT DARROLL
For over 25 years, Robert Darroll [*1946, UK] has been working in the field of experimental animation.
After having studied Fine Arts at the Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town, Robert Darroll turned to experimental film and abstract animation, and has been working with digital technology in this field since 1990. One of the important sources of inspiration for his abstract works, which are often created in close collaboration with international composers, are visual impressions gathered during his stays abroad, as for example, in Asia. One of the main topics of Darroll's work is the discussion of the construction of reality and meaning in global media society.
Since 2001, Robert Darroll has been living in Japan where he was professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music in 2001/02 and now teaches at the Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences. Darroll's works have been presented worldwide at major mueseums and in the scope of numerous media art and music festivals [including the Netherlands Film Museum, Amsterdam; the American Film Institute, Los Angeles; the ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; the ISCM World Music Festival, Seoul; Rencontres Internationales Art Cinema, Paris; VIDEOEX, Zurich; the Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA; the Tokyo National University Museum, Tokyo.
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