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ART TALK BY OUR NEW SENIOR CURATOR, AARON MOULTON
TONIGHT: FRI, FEB 24, 2012, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
 
Meet our new Senior Curator, Aaron Moulton, and learn more about his vision for the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. Join us on Friday, Feb. 24 at 7:00 PM, for an Art Talk with Moulton as he discusses his practice as a curator, and, in particular, the ways in which we establish notions of value in contemporary art.
Moulton received his Masters in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London. Thereafter he served as Editor of Flash Art International in Milan, followed by a five-year stint operating Feinkost, an exhibition venue located on one of the former sites of the Berlin Wall.
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FIRST FRIDAY RETURNS IN MARCH WITH DJ SAM EYE AM
FRI, MAR 2, 2012, 8:00 - 10:00 PM
  Join us for our next First Friday on March 2. Our monthly celebration of the contemporary art world features five amazing exhibitions at UMOCA, DJ Sam Eye Am, food, and cash bar.
Our First Friday celebration will be preceded by a special members' event from 7:00 to 8:00 PM, featuring a curator-led tour of our new exhibition, FAX (described more fully below).
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JORGE ROJAS: TORTILLA ORACLE
SAT, FEB 25, 2012, 6:30 - 10:00 PM
In his performance, Tortilla Oracle, artist Jorge Rojas takes inspiration from traditional forms of divination such as Tarot cards and tea leaf readings, to explore myths and legends surrounding maize and its uses in ancient Mayan and Aztec mystical practices. Twelve to fifteen members of the audience will be selected to receive a tortilla reading by Rojas at the event.
Admission is $100 and includes a selection of fine food and beverage, with all proceeds benefitting UMOCA's exhibition programs. Tickets may be purchased on our website or by calling Kristin at 801.328.4201. The event will be held at a private residence in the Avenues/University area of downtown Salt Lake.
You won't want to miss this amazing one-of-a-kind party.
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WORLD PREMIERE
ARC OF LIGHT: A PORTRAIT OF ANNA CAMPBELL BLISS
FRI, MAR 9, 2012, 7:00 PM
 ARC OF LIGHT: A PORTRAIT OF ANNA CAMPBELL BLISS, examines the broad spectrum of this important artist's life and work. Tracing the aesthetic influences of her early childhood through her ground-breaking career as a Harvard-trained architect, Bliss emerges as a cutting-edge artist whose work fuses an astonishing range of elements, including architecture, mathematics, computer technology, painting, printmaking and calligraphy. The documentary film examines Bliss's roots in the Bauhaus school, which flourished in Germany in the 1920s, and how the Bauhaus artists influenced the development of Bliss's extensive contribution to American modern art. Directed by Cid Collins Walker.
***Anna Campbell Bliss will be in attendance for a post screening Q+A***
Presented in collaboration with Utah Film Center.
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FAX
MAR 2 - JUN 16, 2012
 FAX invites a multigenerational group of artists, architects, designers, scientists, filmmakers and writers to reconceive of the fax machine as a thinking and drawing tool. Participants transmit their fax-based work via the venues' working fax lines through the duration of the exhibition's tour. Faxes by nearly 100 participants sent to the initial showing of FAX at The Drawing Center form the core of the exhibition, with each institution inviting additional participants to submit works, which will then be archived with The Drawing Center's collection to create an evolving document of all participants. The accumulation of information--received in real time in the exhibition space--includes drawings and texts, and the inevitable junk faxes and errors of transmission, creating an ongoing cumulative project.
UMOCA has added the following artists to FAX: Mike Bouchet, Salotto Buono, Roisin Byrne, Keren Cytter, Sejla Kajmeric, Daniel Kingery, Forniture Pallotta, Bertrand Planes, Jared Steffensen, and Ignacio Uriarte. Other artists will be added over the course of the exhibition. The works of these artists will be included in future presentations at other institutions world-wide.
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CONSTANT DULLAART: ONOMATOPOEIA
MAR 2 - MAY 5, 2012
 Dutch artist Constant Dullaart wrestles within the delicate space between analog and digital. He makes works that reconcile ways to demystify technology by trying to physically enter it. Onomatopoeia is an exhibition of video works where form mimics function and meaning becomes the action itself. In the works on display we see the magical non-spaces of the internet, the standby droll before pressing play and the commonalities of our collective memories each deceptively occupied and turned into a performative zone. The work YouTube on the Floor II (2012) has been made specifically for this exhibition.
Onomatopoeia is being screened as part of the UMOCA ongoing video series, Looped.
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2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL NEW FRONTIER
JAN 20 - MAY 19, 2012
 Highlighting work that pushes the boundaries and the moving image, New Frontier at UMOCA celebrates the convergence of film, art, and new media technologies as a hotbed for cinematic innovation. As part of Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier at UMOCA presents ongoing media installations as well as multimedia performances, transmedia experiences, artist lectures, and more.
Featured artists include: Paul Abacus/Early Morning Opera/Lars Jan; Jeremy Mendes & Leanne Allison; Marco Brambilla; Nonny de la Peña; Eva & Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org; Hank Willis Thomas & Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith & Kamal Sinclair; Molleindustria; and Gingger Shankar, Mridu Chandra & The Shanghai Restoration Project.
Writing in The Salt Lake Tribune, Glen Warchol called New Frontier "one of the coolest things at the Sundance Festival!" And you can still see it at UMOCA through May 19, 2012!
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KARL HAENDEL AND PETTER RINGBOM: QUESTIONS FOR MY FATHER
JAN 31 - MAY 19, 2012
Made in collaboration between Karl Haendel and New York-based filmmaker Petter Ringbom, Questions for My Father is a document of the inquiries, doubts and reservations of a generation of men who came of age in the late 20th century.
Arranged like a series of portraits on a black studio backdrop, the subjects of the film face the camera and ask things they always wanted to know about their fathers but never voiced with a direct and even delivery that belies the emotional topics. Some of the men have already lost their fathers; others rarely, if ever, knew them; and for many, their questions were just too hard to ask.
Writing in The New York Times, Roberta Smith called this important video "one of the genuine sleepers" of the Chelsea fall season. Don't miss it.
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Haendel and Ringbom, Questions for My Father, 2011, 11:17 minutes, Still from video. Courtesy Harris Lieberman Gallery
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JOSHUA LUTHER: MEANING
JAN 6 - APR 21, 2012
 Joshua Luther's multi-media exhibition is an exciting invitation for visitors to take a step back from the language that we all too often take for granted and instead contemplate why it is that we are prepared to argue, fight, and sometimes die over various combinations of letter and syllables.
Luther received his BFA at Utah State University and his MFA from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Luther's work is deeply influenced by his studies of epistemology and linguistics.
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Joshua Luther, Big Bang Genesis, Courtesy of the artist.
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KEHINDE WILEY: SMILE
LAST CHANCE: CLOSES FEB 25, 2012
Kehinde Wiley's Smile, a video created while a student at Yale University, challenges four men, each in a separate quadrant of the screen, to smile directly into the camera's lens for one full hour. As the minutes pass, the smile gradually contorts; the "smile" muscles spasm and each model's performance becomes a strenuous test of endurance.
Smileis being screened as part of the UMOCA ongoing video series, Looped.
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SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: SONIC SQUEEZE
LAST CHANCE: CLOSES MAR 24, 2012
Cooperate. Communicate. Collaborate. Buzz words of the 21st Century. In theory, it's what we're all doing, but in the lightning fast world we live in, these ideas often get left by the wayside in the effort to "just get it done."
At Spy Hop Productions, collaborate is a word students often get sick of hearing, but it's an idea so ingrained in the way Spy Hop works, that staff and students can't imagine a day without it. Film needs music, game design needs sound, musicians need recording. Art is interdependent.
In that spirit, consider SONIC SQUEEZE a collaboration test, a 21st century mash-up of video games, drum machines and tone makers. Play the game to create sounds from one of three stations - but work together with other participants to get all three games to create your own song. A digital media experiment, SONIC SQUEEZE invites visitors to play an interactive game that celebrates the collaborative nature of everything Spy Hop does.
Created by Interactive Design Mentor Chris Manfre, Musical Arts Mentor Jeremy Chatelain and Audio Program Mentor Alain Koffi Sessi with help from their students.
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MUSEUM LAB
FOR TEENS
THIS SUMMER!
JUN 14 - AUG 18
Museum Lab for Teens is a new eight-week program at UMOCA that provides youth aged 15-19 with a behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to run a major art museum.
Through workshops, field trips, discussions, and hands-on projects with staff, youth will move beyond art making to gain a better understanding of the role that cultural institutions play in bringing art to the public. Participants will put their new skills to the test by organizing an end-of-summer event at the museum. Museum Lab is great for teens interested in exploring and promoting the arts, meeting other teens, and gaining 21st century career skills.
Participating students will be able to attend tuition-free and earn a summer stipend as well, all thanks to the generosity of UMOCA supporters. Space is limited to 12 dedicated teens. More information along with the application will be posted to our website in early March. |
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FAMILY ART SATURDAY: MOVING MOBILE EXPLOSION
FEB 10, 2 - 4 PM
Let's go back to the future and explore space-aged shapes. Make mobiles with dangling starbursts, atoms, and cosmos.
Family Art Saturday is free and provides a great opportunity for kids and their adults to make an innovative piece of art while learning about the exhibitions at UMOCA.
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MUSIC & THE LAW
SAT, MAR 23, 1 PM
UMOCA and Utah Lawyers for the Arts welcomes Thomas Leavens, Esq. of Leavens, Strand, Glover & Adler, LLC.
Learn what you need to know to succeed in the business of music by protecting your rights and understanding industry practices and terms, including how publishing works, how to negotiate recording, agency, performance, distribution, licensing and management agreements, and how to make the most of new technologies and business models.
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ART21 PREVIEW SCREENING AT UMOCA!
SAVE THE DATE:
FIRST FRIDAY
APR 6, 7 PM
UMOCA, in partnership with Art21 as part of its Access '12 initiative, will present a sneak preview in advance of the premiere of the sixth season of Art in the Twenty-First Century, the only prime time national television series focused exclusively on contemporary art. This event is free and open to the public. |
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THE ART SHOP ARTIST OF THE MONTH
This month's featured artist of the month is Jena Schmidt. Growing up at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon, Schmidt's work is heavily influenced by the natural world which is evident in her beautiful abstracted mixed-media landscapes and etchings. These one-of-a-kind pieces and more are on display at UMOCA's Art Shop.
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