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dxarts 2008 bachelor of fine arts exhibition

The University of Washington's Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media program and the Lawrimore Project are pleased to announce a BFA thesis exhibition of cutting-edge artistic inquiry, opening Thursday, June 12th from 6 to 10PM, running through June 22nd.

more info: http://www.washington.edu/dxarts/bfa/

Featured works include installations that explore spatiotemporal aspects of light and sound in relation to the viewer, memory, kinetics, and real-time interactions. Intersecting these installations are environments that employ dance performance, stereoscopic cinema, animation, and a selection of experimental video.

This exhibition is undertaken by thirteen emerging artists investigating areas of convergence between technology and hybrid art forms. The Bachelor of Fine Arts acquired through the DXARTS program emphasizes creative academic research and experimentation through the arts, and this thesis exhibition showcases the final products of that process. The nature of this course of study merges the use of modern tools, techniques and modes of thought to pioneer new directions in contemporary, interdisciplinary art practice.

Seattle's Lawrimore Project presents some of the most ambitious and innovative shows in the Northwest and is dedicated to carrying forward a critical dialogue between artists, curators, collectors, and the community. Scott Lawrimore's curatorial instincts, matched with his unique historical perspective, are evident with a quick glance at the wide breadth of shows he has exhibited. From radical installations that transform the entire gallery, to unhinged video, painting and photography exhibitions, Lawrimore's interventions in Northwest contemporary arts reinforces the new collaboration with DXARTS and will deliver a new emerging artistic logic heavily focused on the frontier of experimental arts.

Dancing in the Digital Domain

This concert features original works by Dance Program graduate students in collaboration with graduate and advanced undergraduate students from Digital Arts and Experimental Media. Performers are undergraduates from the Dance Program.

Choreographers Louis Gervais and Jamie Hall, along with digital artists Michael McCrea, Jim George and Jared Friend present Soma, an exploration on the evolution of the human body, memory and touch. Choreographer Maria Cynthia Anderson, dancer Devin McDermott and musician/media artist Hugo Solis play with the constraints of time and space as the musician, dancer and digital points interact. PuPaa is a multimedia performance, inspired by Butoh, exploring transformative states of body, mind and perception with five dancers as five entities living in obligatory symbiosis, created by media artist Eunsu Kang, choreographer/visual artist Diana Garcia-Snyder and visual artist Bo Choi. Digital artist Heather Raikes and choreographer Kent Lindemer present Purnachandra Raktva, a performance of the body extended and rediscovered through a prism of technological expansion, mythic embodiment, multi-sensory language, and kinesthetic sculpture. Choreographer Catherine Cabeen, with digital artist Tivon Rice and visual artist Elizabeth Buschmann create an environment requiring the dancers to move between projected light sources and an array of sculptural pixellation screens.

Admission:
General: $14, UW Faculty/Staff,UWAA: $12, Students: $10
Preview performance: $8

Performances:
May 29-June 1, 2008
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, 2:00 p.m.