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AUGUST 2012 NEWSLETTER

Programs and Events Save the Date for our Season Opening! Sept. 28 and 29, 2012, 6:30-9 p.m. (Member preview Sept. 28, 5:30-6:30 p.m.) On Friday, Sept. 28 and Saturday, Sept. 29, we're throwing a giant party, and you're invited. Celebrate the arrival of the Ant Farm Media Van at the Ceramics Research Center and the opening of Trajectory, a new exhibition by visiting artist Miguel Palma, based in Lisbon, Portugal. (For a teaser of Palma's project, click here.) Come hungry -- there will be food trucks here Friday and Saturday! We'll also be joined by the parkour group Movement Connections, shown in action in the photograph at right. At 7:30 p.m. both nights, experience the premiere of 55: Music and Dance in Concrete, a project by composer, pianist and electronic musician Wayne Horvitz.  An intricate performance featuring dance and video elements, 55: Music and Dance in Concrete emphasizes the unique visual and acoustic elements specific to the site, with site-specific choreography performed by dancers visiting from Japan. For images and a more detailed description of 55: Music and Dance in Concrete, please go to this link: http://waynehorvitz.net/projects/55.html Learn more... Above: Movement Connections at the ASU Art Museum. Photo by Sean Deckert. The Desert Initiative's DI:D1 launches at ISEA 2012 Desert Initiative: Desert One (DI:D1) is a creative collaboration that brings together more than 30 leading museums, cultural centers and organizations, universities and public agencies connecting and exploring the Chihuahuan, Sonoran, Mojave and Great Basin deserts. Next month, DI:D1 officially launches, in tandem with The Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2012 Albuquerque: “Machine Wilderness” in New Mexico, beginning Sept. 19-24, 2012.   DI:D1 investigates the desert as a site of critical and creative inquiry by extending into and connecting the four desert regions of North America through arts-based transdisciplinary research and projects. These four desert regions are the inspiration, subject and sites of exhibitions, lectures, commissioned projects, residencies and events that will continue through April 2013. To hear an NPR interview with Desert Initiative Director Greg Esser, click here. Learn more... Photo by Greg Esser. Exhibitions Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule] / Aug. 25-Dec. 1 The Ceramics Research Center goes back to the future with Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule], 2008, by Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier and Bruce Tomb.  (Lord and Schreier were partners in the legendary art and technology cooperative Ant Farm, active from 1968-1978.)   The Media Van v.08 is a repurposed 1972 Chevy with interior modifications including vintage Ant Farm videos, a conversation pit and a media HUQQUH. The HUQQUH will create a digital time capsule of  images and music randomly donated by the public through the process of plugging in a personal digital device such as a camera, MP3 player or iPhone. The project revisits the 1970 Ant Farm Media Van and mixes it up with digital media culture, consumerism and popular culture. At the center of the Media Van v.08 is the social condition created by a small group of people sitting around shared media, and contributing to the making of a new artwork: the ASU Time Capsule Triptych.  Also on view are remnants from the original Truckstop Tour, 1970, and a previous digital Time Capsule, the SFMOMA Time Capsule Triptych.   Learn more... Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule], a project by Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier and Bruce Tomb, 2008 (conceptual rendering). Trajectory: Miguel Palma / Sept. 29, 2012-Feb. 9, 2013 International artist-in-residence Miguel Palma (Portugal) presents the fruits of his research here in the Southwest. Palma’s “Remote Desert Exploration Vehicle” investigates ways in which meaning of place, particularly in remote desert environments, is created and communicated. The work engages issues through the lens of exploration: military history in Arizona and the Southwest, the military’s role in desert preservation, the history of Manifest Destiny and colonialism in populated places, strategies of adaptation and the role of technology in desert survival. Palma will also present a suite of 100 new mixed-media drawings, created during his residency at Combine Studios, that celebrate 100 years of Arizona history in honor of the state's Centennial. Click here for a teaser of the Remote Desert Exploration Vehicle in action.   Learn more... Miguel Palma (left) and space research trainee from the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration. Photo courtesy of the Desert Initiative. In Our Store Ceramics by Tempe artist Tom Budzak We’re excited to introduce work by Tempe-based ceramist Tom Budzak in our Museum Store. A graduate of ASU, Budzak holds an MFA from New Mexico State University.  He uses a combination of wheel thrown, hand built and slip cast to create his unique pieces. On your next visit to the museum, stop by and see his long-handled and double-spouted teapots, wedding vases and double ollas – they’re beauties. Double-spouted teapot by Tom Budzak. Image courtesy of the artist. On the Blog Well, excuuuuse me! “Bad Manners” at the Museum Far from crass or revolting, as the name might imply, the installation is intricate, even delicate. The complexity of its construction is a thing of awe. Read more. "Bad Manners," 1983, by Marilyn Lysohir. Image courtesy of the ASU Art Museum.

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