Mark Allen Lecture and Workshop
Lecture: “DIY Art Spaces”
Thursday, September 6, 2007, 1:00p.m.
SOA Fine Arts Building Room 110
An introduction to do-it-yourself art spaces with Mark Allen’s projects as “case studies,” and a practical guide to everything involved in creating, promoting and sustaining a space.
Workshop:
Thursday, September 6, 2007, 2:30–5:30p.m.
SOA Fine Arts Building Room 204A
A hands-on introduction to computer programming using LOLCODE- a code-syntax based on the grammatical fantasies and malapropism of adorable cats! Bring your laptop to follow along with the programming exercises.
Mark Allen is an artist, educator and curator located in Los Angeles. He is the founder and executive director of Machine Project, a non-profit art and event space dedicated to exploring the directions, deviations and connections between art, science, technology, music and literature. For more information please visit http://www.machineproject.com
The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Spring 2007–Fall 2008
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center Residency
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) is a research and educational organization involved in exploring land and landscape issues, specifically how humans interact with their surroundings and the traces they leave upon it. CLUI engages in research, classification, extrapolation, and interpretation through the establishment of physical field stations, virtual and physical databases of land-based research and organizing exhibitions.
The Residency
The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, in partnership with the School of Art and the Creative Writing Program, will host CLUI for a residency spanning from Spring 2007 to Fall 2008. The residency will focus on the Buffalo Bayou and Houston Ship Channel.
The 50-mile long Houston Ship Channel is a central geographic site for the energy sector. The Houston Bayou system leads into the Ship Channel, and will be part of the area of focus for residency research. Community partners based in the bayou and Ship Channel will provide access to CLUI research. These include the Buffalo Bayou Partnership (a coalition of civic, environmental, governmental and business representatives) and the Port of Houston (made up of the Port of Houston Authority and the 150-plus private industrial companies along the Houston Ship Channel).
Beginning in January 2008 and spanning the spring semester, CLUI members Matthew Coolidge, Erik Knutzen, and Steve Rowell will travel to and from Houston for their residency activities. A site on the bayou, adjacent to Houston Biodiesel on Navigation Blvd. & N. Drennan St. will serve as their hub, housing a mobile unit and boat with which they will conduct and compile their research.
Student Participation/Academic Programs
Students from the participating courses in the School of Art, Creative Writing Program and College of Architecture, along with possible participants from the College of Engineering, will work with CLUI members to visit, examine and interpret the regional landscape, focusing primarily on the landscape, history of the bayou system, and activities of the local energy industries. The students will be engaged in CLUI’s research and re-presentation methodologies.
Public Programs
In Fall 2008, a series of public programs will take place CLUI and participants will offer a series of public programs, possibly including boat, walking, and bus tours. In addition, a publication will be developed documenting the CLUI residency in Houston from start to finish. Students may have the opportunity to contribute to the publication.
SYMPOSIUM: You Are Here
Aurora Picture Show
800 Aurora Street, Houston, TX
Friday November 30, 9:00 pm
Saturday December 1, 1:00–5:00 pm
All events held at the Aurora Picture Show
A 2-day symposium featuring contemporary artists and researchers working with mapping and tactical media. Performances and lectures will be presented by Center for Land Use Interpretation, Matt McCormick, Institute for Applied Autonomy and Nato Thompson.
Sponsored by the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts in collaboration with Aurora Picture Show.
Information:
- Aurora Picture Show 713-868-2101 or
Mitchell Center hotline 713-743-5548
http://www.node.net/youarehere
Schedule of Events
Friday November 30, 9:00pm/Tickets: $6.00
Matt McCormick
Performance: Future So Bright: Live
Featuring Portland's own award-winning filmmaker and musician Matt McCormick! McCormick will perform the soundtrack to his film Future So Bright, with footage from his time at the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Wendover Complex earlier this year.
Saturday December 1, 1:00–5:00pm
Free Admission
Presentations:
Experimental Geography
Nato Thompson, Curator, Creative Time, NYC
Terminal Air
Institute for Applied Autonomy, Artist Collective
Points of Disinterest in the Gulf Coast Region
Matthew Coolidge, Director, Center For Land Use Interpretation
Screenings:
Fifty Years Later and The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal
Matt McCormick with narration by Miranda July.
Lecture: Donny George,
former director of the Iraq Museum
February 14, 2008, 7:00 pm
Location: TBA
General Admission: $20 (charged by AIA) / Students: Free
Co-sponsored by UH Art History area and the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
Lecture: Todd Gray, Artist
Thursday, February 28, 2008, 1:00
Room 110 FAB, School of Art
Todd Gray has taught at Cal State University, Long Beach, the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and the Photo Art Program at UCLA. He has exhibited his photo based work internationally and is represented in the permanent collections of museums and universities here and abroad. In addition to his studio work, Gray has photographed over 100 album covers, directed music videos and shot magazine covers.