For more information please visit the Department of Art & Art History’s website.

The exhibition includes four interactive digital installations —Text Rain, Liquid Time – Tokyo, Untitled 5, and Untitled 6; a six-screen dynamic animation Floating World; and two new pieces incorporating hand painted glass and flat screen displays. Documentation of Utterback’s site-specific and public commissions will also be on display.

Tracing Time/Marking Movement is accompanied by an exhibit brochure with essay by Mark Scala.

This exhibition was organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and co-curated by Frist Center Chief Curator Mark Scala and Curator Trinita Kennedy.

Press on Tracing Time/Marking Movement:
The Tennessean
Nashville Arts Magazine
Clarksville Online

The exhibition coincides with the announcement of Camille’s representation by Haines Gallery in San Francisco.

From the Press Release:

Our intervention with the world is invariably shaped by the composed form. Even in the seemingly limitless digital society with which we are obliged to interact, our negotiations with physical and conceptual space is predetermined. But as poetry in language grants aesthetic freedom to expand prescribed bounds of expression, a visionary approach to the technical patterns that surround us not only permit but also invite us to reexamine our experiential environment.

Haines Gallery’s Poetics of Construction brings together an international roster of creative minds to reconsider the nature of process and how form influences perception. Various degrees of interactivity activate geometric patterns within and between each part of the exhibition.

The exhibition runs through March 23 and will be open during normal gallery hours and First Thursday activities on February 7.

While we might think of San Francisco Bay as a timeless presence, its boundaries clearly fixed in place, Camille Utterback’s dynamically generated installation reveals the ways in which the Bay and the Golden Gate have changed — and continue to change — over time.

The installation in Fort Point’s west bastion consists of a series of eight video monitors installed in a curving arrangement that roughly mimics the shape of the Golden Gate’s shores. On the monitors, an animated line referencing the shifting shoreline builds up and washes away historic and contemporary depictions of the Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. The imagery ranges from hand drawn maps from the 1800’s, to USGS maps from before and after the building of the bridge, to black and white areal photography from the 1940’s, to current nautical charts and satellite imagery. As the linear form of the Golden Gate Bridge appears and disappears in the fluid animations, the piece reveals the contrast between the seemingly permanent structure of the bridge, and the constantly evolving nature of the Bay. As the layers of drawings, maps, and photography morph and blend into one another, the piece also highlights the human shifts in understanding, technology, and printing techniques employed in our constantly evolving attempts to depict an environment in constant motion.

Lighthouses have had a vital importance for Rogalands coastline in the previous two centuries. Through the use of LIGHT and SOUND signals, they have ”talked” to the world beyond the shoreline and the lighthouses themselves have functioned as small self-contained communities: in this way can we say that they have shaped and saved LIVES. The exhibitions and events that comprise On The Edge 2012 investigate light, sound and live elements in varying combinations and contexts.

The exhibition will run from June 23 – September 23, 2012.

Here are some links that give more information on the program:
Lighthouses of Norway
On the Edge 2012 Facebook page
PDF of the catalog

In one of the signature events celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in 2012, fifteen leading artists from the Bay Area and around the world will create on-site installations responding to the bridge as an icon, historic structure, and conceptual inspiration. Organized by the nonprofit FOR-SITE Foundation in partnership with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and the National Park Service, International Orange will occupy selected areas of all three floors and the spacious courtyard of the historic Fort Point building, dating from 1861 and nestled at the southern base of the bridge.

International Orange will open on Memorial Day weekend, May 26–28, as part of the kickoff to the 75th anniversary and will remain on view to the public free of charge through October 2012.

For more information on the FOR-SITE foundation please visit their website.

Recent press:
Art Practical
KQED- This Week in California
ArtDaily.org
The Examiner

An internationally renowned artist, Camille Utterback is known for her interactive installations and reactive sculptures that engage the audience in a dynamic process of kinesthetic experience. Her work has been exhibited widely at local and international galleries, festivals, and museums including The New Museum of Contemporary Art in NY, The Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Netherlands Institute for Media Art, and Ars Electronica Center in Austria, among others. She has garnered many prestigious awards including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship, as well as major public commissions from the cities of San Jose and St. Louis Park in Minnesota.

The Mohr Visiting Artist Program is supported by Nancy and Larry Mohr and administered by SiCa.

VISITOR INFORMATION: AR2 is located in the lower level of the Cummings Art Building, 435 Lasuen Mall, Stanford. Parking is free from 4 pm on weekdays and all day on weekends. Information: (650) 723-3404.

Click here to view a short video that was made by the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts.

The artists worked with an incredible team including Barry Threw, Masako Miyazaki, Meghan Jean Kinder, and Andre Salyer to realize this technically challenging piece.

Active Ecosystem (SMF) consists of a series of 14 LCD screens mounted across the glass surface of a three-story elevator shaft in the airport’s new ticketing hall. Animations controlled by the rise and fall of the elevator depict changes in different ecosystems, linking the human movement within the airport to the environment outside.

The Sacramento Airport is hosting a free Community Day on October 2nd where the public can view the piece, along with the 14 other commissions located pre- and post- security.

The event is free, but requires an RSVP here.

Since Active Ecosystem (SMF) is pre-security, you can also see the piece anytime after the airport officially opens on October 6.

Seeing/Knowing features 15 internationally renowned award-winning artists working at the intersection of information and image exchange. Their provocative works vary from formal investigations to illustrations of data, expressed through a range of media, from painting to viewer-responsive interactive digital forms.

Artists:
Diana Cooper, Andreas Nicolas Fischer & Benjamin Maus, Michael Joaquin Grey, Eduardo Kac, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Benjamin Maus & Julius von Bismarck, Emma McNally, Julie Mehretu, Nathalie Miebach, C.E.B. Reas, Matthew Ritchie, Camille Utterback, Jorinde Voigt, and Marius Watz.

For more information please visit Kenyon College’s website.

View a PDF of article, “Beta Test: Innovation in administration at San Jose, Camifornia’s Norman Y. Mineta Airport” by Helen Lessick here.