David Lloyd Brown has been appointed Associate Dean of Academic Affairs--Graduate Programs at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In September 2005 he had a one-person exhibition of drawings entitled “Evolution” at the New England School of Art and Design, Boston. In January 2006 his work will be included in “Methods,” a group exhibition at Emmanuel College, Boston, focusing on artists who reference or use mathematic principles in their artistic process.
Jeffrey Byrd received an $8,000 award from the Tanne Foundation in Boston for his work as a performance artist. He recently lectured at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and performed in the Private Impact Live Art Festival at the Polish National Museum in Szczecin and at AktionsBank in Berlin. Additionally, two of his early photographs were included in Reed Massengill’s book Self-exposure: the male nude self-portrait.
Maria de Guzmán presented “The pre/post-enlightenment visuality of Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood” on the panel “Style and substance III” at the December conference of the Modern Language Association in Washington, DC.
Harmony Hammond is included in the “How American women artists invented postmodernism” exhibition at Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries at Rutgers University (through Jan. 27) and in the “Unexpected developments” exhibition curated by Tirza True Latimer at the CCA in San Francisco (Jan. 17-27). The update of her website has been completed with the addition of two new archival galleries: “Sculpture” and “Political work” -- www.harmonyhammond.com. As the website aims to assist research, most images and text are printable; please note that high-resolution images for PowerPoint presentations must be obtained directly from Harmony. LaLanera@aol.com
Robert Summers has an essay entitled “Vaginal Davis does art history” in the new collection Dead history, live art edited by Jonathan Harris (full citation under Harris in the bibliography in this issue). Robert will present a paper at the AAH Conference in Leeds; his paper is on the panel “Over-sexed art history” and is titled “Un-becoming art history: queering the discipline, or, an over-sexed art history? Hell, yeah!”
Late in 2005, Jonathan Weinberg was using the Imagestation site which is owned by Sony to produce some calendars based on his paintings of male nudes. They were described as unacceptable and his membership was suspended until he removed the images. Jonathan suggests that we boycott the site. If you would like to see some of the images that were found to be offensive, some are posted at www.jonathanweinberg.com. If you want to read Jonathan’s message, you can go to the list archive at forums.nyu.edu.
Plugged Video Collective is now accepting single-channel video submissions for “Her Shorts” -- a festival and symposium dedicated to showcasing new video art conceived and directed by emerging and established women artists from the USA and abroad. All topics, subjects considered and all genres accepted: narrative, experimental, documentary, and animation. Videos should be 10 minutes or less. Work must have been completed after 2003. All submissions from the call will become part of a permanent video library, maintained by Plugged Video Collective and housed at Dinnerware Contemporary Art Gallery.
For details: www.pluggedvideocollective.com
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
“Trans: visual culture conference”
October 19-22, 2006
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Deadline: March 1, 2006
The transsubstantiating challenge of the “trans” in transdisciplinarity, transgender, transethnic, transart and transracial are the theme and point of departure. Keynote speakers include Nicholas Mirzoeff, Olu Oguibe, Leslie Hill, and Helen Paris. Conference panels and breakout sessions, exhibitions, performances, and installations, as well as a pedagogy session, are planned. Call for participation, registration forms, and other information available at www.visualculture.wisc.edu/Conference/call.htm
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Nineteenth-century gender studies
A new peer-reviewed online journal
Editors: Melissa Purdue & Stacey Floyd, Department of English, University of Kentucky
www.ncgsjournal.com