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SEPTEMBER 2012 NEWSLETTER

Programs & Events New curator at the Museum! The ASU Art Museum is pleased to announce that this month, we gained a curator: Julio Cesar Morales. Morales is an artist, educator and curator currently working both individually and collaboratively. His artwork explores issues of labor, memory, surveillance technologies and identity strategies. From 2008-2012 Morales was adjunct curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; he is also the founder, co-director and curator of Queens Nails Annex. Welcome, Julio! Learn more... Julio Cesar Morales Season Opening Reception Sept. 28 and 29 On Friday, Sept. 28 and Saturday Sept. 29, we'll be celebrating the opening of Trajectory, the new exhibition at the Museum by international artist-in-residence Miguel Palma, as well as Ant Farm Media Van v. 08 [Time Capsule] at the CRC. Artists will be in attendance both nights. There's a members-only preview on Friday at 5:30 p.m., and general festivities begin both nights at 6:30 p.m. and run through 9 p.m. At 7:30 p.m. both Friday and Saturday, composer and musician Wayne Horvitz presents the premiere of 55: Music and Dance in Concrete, a project that involves video work by Yohei Saito and live dancers from Yukio Suzuki's KINGYO group. There will be food trucks on site both nights, plus members of the parkour group Movement Connections, who will use the Museum building as their stage (check them out in the photo, right). We look forward to seeing you there! Learn more... Photo by Sean Deckert. Ant Farm: Where they're going, where they've been The innovative countercultural collective Ant Farm paved the way for everything from Burning Man to the Yes Men to flash mobs. To see where Ant Farm's long, strange trip has taken them now, step into the Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule], at the Ceramics Research Center, and contribute to the ASU Time Capsule. The artists -- Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier and Bruce Tomb -- will be on hand for the opening weekend Sept. 28 and 29, and will present a public panel at the Museum on Sept. 28 at noon. The panel is free and open to the public. Also: Don't miss West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977 on view at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art from Sept. 29, 2012-Jan. 6, 2013. This traveling exhibition highlights the milieu in which Ant Farm shaped an artistic movement that still resonates with us today. SMoCA is also showing the film "Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm," on Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased through the SMoCA website or by calling 480.874.4666. Ant Farm Media Van v.08 at the ASU Art Museum is suported by the Wilhelmine Prinzen Endowment, Peter Shikany and PS Studios Inc., the Advisory Board of the ASU Art Museum, Kitchell-Perez, Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, and Friends of the ASU Art Museum. Learn more... Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule], a project by Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier and Bruce Tomb, 2008 (conceptual rendering). Image courtesy of the artists. Save the Date / Momentum / Oct. 11 On Oct. 11 at 6 p.m., the Museum is hosting a panel/lecture with three artists as part of a series of exhibitions, workshops, lectures and screenings that are taking place nationally under the project titled Momentum: Women/Art/Technology.   Muriel Magenta, artist, educator, and co-director of the project, will speak about the use of technology in her own work and the work of Momentum participants locally and internationally. Adriene Jenik, artist and Director of the School of Art, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU, and Mary Neubauer, Head of Sculpture, School of Art, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU, will lecture on their experiences with technology in art.   For more information: http://www.momentum-women-art-technology.com Learn more... Artwork by Muriel Magenta. Image courtesy of the artist. In Our Store Introducing Street Gems Street Gems is a micro-enterprise created by Ann Morton, a recent MFA graduate from ASU, and Lodestar Day Resource Center. Street Gems are eco-friendly, eye-catching pieces of jewelry created from everyday discarded items (grocery bags, soda bottles, straws), remade into beautiful, contemporary wearable art. More than that, Street Gems is an enterprise that helps support Phoenix's homeless population. The jewelry itself is made by the homeless in the Phoenix area who are affiliated with Lodestar Day Resource Center. The project allows the jewelry makers to learn a new skill and work in a team, and helps them feel a sense of pride and a connection to the community. This is a line of jewelry that both looks good and does good! Street Gems. Image courtesy of Ann Morton. On the Blog ISEA or bust: The Desert Initiative on the road The Desert Initiative is taking the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Albuquerque by storm — or haboob, to be desert-specific — where it’s kicking off Desert Initiative: Desert One, a.k.a. DI:D1. Read more. Learn more... Photo by Sean Deckert.

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