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Ringelberg essay published in Alan Ball book

msalmond — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:02:00 +0000

Kirstin Ringelberg, Assistant Professor of Art History, has an article in the newly published anthology “Considering Alan Ball: Essays on Sexuality, Death and America in the Television and Film Writings,” edited by Thomas Fahy (McFarland Press, 2006). Her essay, “’You Have to Develop an Eye For It’: Anti-Aesthetic Art in Alan Ball’s Vision,” explores the emphasis placed on contemporary avant-garde notions of the anti-aesthetic or “unbeautiful” in works like the film American Beauty and the HBO series Six Feet Under. Comparing American Beauty to Todd Solondz’ film Happiness, Ringelberg argues that although Ball’s work is itself quite aesthetically “beautiful” and not particularly avant-garde, its fundamental premise is that such beauty is shallow and false in comparison to more avant-garde images of the everyday and even “ugly.”

Ringelberg presents paper at Cultural Studies Association conference

msalmond — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:11:00 +0000

Kirstin Ringelberg, assistant professor of art history, will be presenting her paper “Factory/Memory/Spectacle: Why the Avant-Garde Can’t Give Up” in a multidisciplinary panel at the Cultural Studies Association conference at George Mason University’s Arlington, Va., campus this Thursday.

Ringelberg’s talk will consider representations of the factory as a site for avant-garde critiques of late capitalism. Focusing on three contemporary artists’ use of video techniques and memory in expressing the problems in the shift from local to distant factory production and from production labor to service labor, she hopes to show how avant-garde artists continue to attempt new ways of using and revealing instrumentalized labor and its corrosive effects on people and the spaces (both literal, in the case of the factory, and more ephemeral, in the case of the nation) they occupy.

The panel of which Ringelberg is a part is titled “A Critique of Everyday Articulations: Globalized Subjects and Aesthetics of Fragmented Spaces”; the four speakers will examine different alternative globalized sites of “everyday life” in and around the contested spaces of what Henri Lefebvre details as our continually emerging “urban reality.”

Salmond work appears in Boston gallery

msalmond — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:58:00 +0000

Assistant Professor of Digital Art – Michael Salmond recently had digital work shown in a new Boston gallery as part of the College Arts Conference. His video piece “Travelschism” has been shown nationally and internationally and is included in a DVD available for purchase from the gallery.

Salmond speaks at Rutgers University

msalmond — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:56:00 +0000

On Wednesday, Feb. 22, Assistant Professor of Digital Art Mike Salmond spoke about his art work and research at Rutgers University at the Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Salmond to give talk on art/research

msalmond — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:52:00 +0000

On Wed, Jan. 18, Mike Salmond, assistant professor of digital art, has been invited to guest lecture at his former undergraduate college — The University of Plymouth, Devon, UK. Mike will be delivering a lecture relating to his most recent artworks, shows and his research into Video Games as Art.

Fels and Ringelberg featured in local art exhibition this weekend

msalmond — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:36:00 +0000

The artwork of Professor Michael Fels will be included in an art exhibition in Mebane this Thursday through Sunday. Deconcealed, a show that also includes work by former adjunct art professor Will Taylor (now of the NC School of the Arts), will take place this weekend in the White furniture factory in Mebane at the corner of I-70 and Fifth St. There are a variety of events, including an opening Thursday night, “Flicker” (a showing of alternative short films normally held in Chapel Hill) on Friday night, screenprinting activities on Saturday, and a roundtable discussion with the artists led by Professor Ringelberg on Sunday afternoon.

For more information, go to www.deconcealed.com

Photography by Sandra Varry showing at George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.

msalmond — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 22:02:00 +0000

Photography professor Sandra Varry has work included in the exhibition: ‘PROOF -evidence.representation.fact.

verification.confirmation.trace.

The show runs from October 21 – November 13, 2005

This exhibit is part of the Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, and was juried by eminent photographer Chan Chao.

Salmond to present at Refresh! Conference

msalmond — Mon, 23 May 2005 18:41:00 +0000

Mike Salmond, assistant professor of digital art in the school of Fine Arts is to present a poster session on his research “Art and Videogames,” at the Refresh! Conference in Banff, Canada, Sept. 28-Oct. 1. It is the first international conference on the histories of Media Art, Science and Technology.

Ringelberg essay published in anthology on screenwriter Aaron Sorkin

msalmond — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:30:00 +0000

Kirstin Ringelberg, assistant professor of art history,is one of 11 authors whose essays on screenwriter Aaron Sorkin have recently been anthologized in the book, “Considering Aaron Sorkin: Essays on the Politics, Poetics and Sleight of Hand in the Films and Television Series.”

Ringelberg’s essay, “His Girl Friday (and Every Day): Brilliant Women Put to Poor Use”, considers the female characters of “The West Wing,” “Sports Night,” “The American President,” and “A Few Good Men.” Ringelberg determines that although seemingly positively depicted as strong, intelligent women with often feminist agendas–an unusual depiction in contemporary popular film and television–these characters bear a striking similarity to those of the post-Hays Code era of screwball comedies like “His Girl Friday” (dir. Howard Hawks, 1940)–films in which women like those played by Rosalind Russell and Jean Arthur could be smart and “in charge” up to a point, but whose eventual trajectory led straight to a limited supporting role in the male characters’ more significant lives.

Although the book was published in January of this year, it has only become available for public sale this week on Amazon and Barnes and Noble websites.

For more information, see the following link:

Digital Arts Professor on U.S. PBR

msalmond — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:48:00 +0000

On Sunday, September 12, Digital Arts professor, Michael Salmond will be on the U.S. Public Radio show “Here On Earth.” The focus will be on INTERNET ART. “Here On Earth” is a show about international arts, culture and politics. The guests will be discussing how the Internet allows for new artistic forms, and also how it affects artistic communities and collaborations. The show airs at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time (3:00 p.m. Central, 1:00 p.m. Pacific).

To find out how to listen to “Here On Earth” over the air or on the Web, go to http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/listen.cfm. To find out when “Here On Earth” airs wherever you live, go to www.hereonearth.org and click on “Local Times Around the World.”

The show will also be archived at www.hereonearth.org.

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