COLLECTION NAME:
University Art Galleries (UMassD)
Record
exhibition_title:
NONUMENT 01::McKeldin Fountain
exhibition_dates:
Sept. 26 - Oct. 29, 2018
exhibition_year:
2018 Fall
exhibition_location:
CVPA Campus Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Galleries)
exhibition_note:
This exhibition, open through October 29 at UMass Dartmouth CVPA Campus Gallery, recreates a destroyed brutalist fountain in the heart of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Using the latest Augmented Reality (AR) technology, the free app addresses the politics of reclaiming public spaces that are of symbolic value to citizens. Created by Baltimore artists Lisa Moren and James Mayhew, as well as Slovenian artists Martin Bricelj Baraga and Neja Tomšič, this exhibition consists of artistic productions and research aimed at defining the role of monuments today and the ways in which societies mark important landmarks in contemporary urban life. On Thursday, October 4th, artist and professor Lisa Moren will give an artist talk, showcasing the NONUMENT 01 augmented reality app, in which the fountain’s history is told through various interactive “memory artifacts,” such as koi fish and protest signs, which, when clicked, will show interviews with Baltimore residents sharing their memories of events at McKeldin Square. In addition to functioning as a public art project and historical record, the NONUMENT 01 app is also a new form of technological protest, and will serve to draw attention to the increasing influence of private entities on public spaces across the world, which the NONUMENT 01 artists feel is detrimental to the ability of citizens to express their First Amendment rights through demonstration. McKeldin Fountain was declared a Free Speech Zone for safe public protest in 2013, and because McKeldin Square still holds that designation, the artists have included free speech tools in the app. Exhibition Dates: Sept 26 – Oct 29 Augmented Reality Presentation with artist Lisa Moren: Thurs, Oct 4, 2 – 3 PM In conjunction with Professor Pamela Karimi’s class: Architecture & Sustainability. The event will take place partially in CVPA Campus Gallery and partially in UMass Dartmouth quad. The event is open to the public. Reception and Artist Talk: Thurs, Oct 4, 4 – 6 PM Commentaries by Professor Pamela Karimi.
exhibition_genre:
New Media
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2018_Fall_Nonument_04
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2018_Fall_Nonument_05
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2018_Fall_Nonument_08
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2018_Fall_Nonument_09
resourceID:
2018_Fall_Nonument_10
resourceID:
2018_Fall_Nonument_11
resource_type:
photographs
copyright notice:
COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
credit line:
UMass Dartmouth Art Galleries
artist name:
Lisa Moren
artist_nationality:
American
artist_biographical note:
Lisa Moren is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with emerging media, public space and works-on-paper. She created one of the first virtual reality projects “Practically Tender” in 1991 at the Banff Centre for Art. Since 2001, through her artwork, she has worked with communities to document under-represented memories from Berlin and cities in Central and Eastern Europe that were archived as interactive installations. Her most recent collaboration is a public art project in augmented reality that replaces a utopian-style fountain in Baltimore City’s Inner Harbor and Free Speech zone that was demolished, entitled “NONUMENT01::The McKeldin Fountain.” Lisa has also created pigments out of polluted waterways including her project “Chesapeake Bay Water Watercolors” in Baltimore and “eLAND” in the Australian outback, and “Marbleized Paper from the Gulf of Mexico” off the coast of Louisiana, where she collected oil during BPs Deep Water Horizon rig spill that devastated the Gulf of Mexico. Lisa Moren has exhibited her work widely at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City and in Brooklyn, the Cranbrook Art Museum and international venues including Ars Electronica [ Austria ] and Akademie der Kunste [ Germany ] and the Artists Research Network [ Australia ], and ISEA [ South Africa ]. She received the National Endowment for the Arts award [ 2003 ], is a Fulbright Scholar to Czech Republic; a multi-year recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council and CEC Artslink International; and most recently a Saul Zaentz Innovation Fellow in Film and Media at Johns Hopkins University. Her writing has appeared in Performance Research; Visible Language; Inter Arts Actuel; New Media Caucus for “Algorithmic Pollution: Artists working with Dataveillance and Societies of Control” and “CYBER IN|SECURITY” featuring artists Hasan Elahi, Heather Dewey Hagborg, David Rokeby, Preemptive Media and others; and her own books on Intermedia on Dick Higgins; and Issues in Contemporary Theory for “Command Z: Artists Working with Phenomena and Technology” featuring artists Paul DeMarinis, Nina Katchadourian, Ingrid Bachmann and Emile Morin & Jocelyn Robert.
artist name:
Martin Bricelj Baraga and Neja Tomšič,
artist_nationality:
Slovenian
artist name:
James Mayhew
artist_nationality:
British
work_title:
Exhibition Photographs
work_date:
Sept 26, 2018
date_of_ record:
2018/10/22
name_cataloger:
acywin
Exhibition Photographs
