2006

Douglas Ross
September 14 to 16, 2006
Doug will be in residence at VCUarts to install his work as part of the Anderson Gallery's "Artificial Light" Exhibition, scheduled to run from September 15 to October 29, 2006. Other artists included are: Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Spencer Finch, Ceal Floyer, Ivan Navarro, and Nathaniel Rackowe.

Doug makes work that displays his interest in framing new perspectives. He uses a diverse range of media, including sound, video, installation and text. For "Artificial Light", Ross will re-create "Picture Motion", in which he used motorized rotating horizontal blinds to transform the view from the 91st floor of the World Trade Center, creating a sensation reminiscent of silent films. Ross was born in Brockton, MA, in 1969 and lives in New York City.

Associate Professor, Pam Turner and, Administrative Director, Rachele Riley, attended the 2006 Siggraph Conference in Boston, MA. We hosted a reception to celebrate VCUarts Alumni and introduce our MFA program on Tuesday August 1, 2006 at the Seaport Hotel Boston.

Notable attendees were:
Walter Wright and Mary Ann Kearns from the 119 Gallery in Boston.
Larry Cuba, founder and director of the IOTA Center and juror of the 2006 Siggraph Computer Animation Festival.
Kenneth Huff, independent digital media artist and one of the curators for the 2006 Siggraph art exhibition.
George Fifield, director of the Boston Cyberarts Festival and instructor in RISD's digital media MFA program.
Vibeke Sorensen, digital media artist, professor at Arizona State University and Chair of the 2007 ACM Siggraph Art Gallery.
Laura Giannitrapani, the director of the media lab at Boston University.
Muqeem Khan, Assistant Professor of Motion Graphics at VCUarts in Qatar.
David Jackson, from Ball State University in Indiana and many others!

Several Alumni attended from the Kinetic Imaging, Communication Arts and Design and Sculpture Departments.

Semi Ryu
Presentation July 2006
Semi's paper "Love Letter Reading to Virtual Beings" was accepted for presentation, for the 8th International research conference, "Consciousness Reframed", to be held in Plymouth, UK, from July 20th to July 23rd 2006.


Stephen Vitiello
June 8 to August 27, 2006
Stephen collaborated with artist, Julie Mehretu, at the Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.







Rachele Riley
June 12 to 23, 2006
Rachele was artist-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, in Nebraska City, NE.


Stephen Vitiello
June 9, 2006
Performance at Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia.


Semi Ryu
October and November 2006
Semi has been awarded an artist-in-residence position for two months this Fall in the digital media program at the Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado.


Stephen Vitiello
May 20-July 18, 2006
"What Sound Does a Color Make?" at Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand


Rachele Riley
May 26 to June 18, 2006
Group exhibition "Dispersal Tactics" 2006 Artspace Drawing Invitational. Curated by Vaughn Garland and Ryan Mulligan.


Semi Ryu
Publication in Media-N
Semi's paper "Virtual Puppetry and the Process of Ritual" will be published in Media-N: The Journal of the New Media Caucus„ƒ and The 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006 Catalogue„ƒ during this summer.


Stephen Vitiello
May 20, 2006
Performance at the Austin Museum of Digital Art.


Student News
Katherine Padua
Winner of a 2006-2007 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship for Film/Video (Undergraduate Award)


James Duesing, animator
April 20, 2006
5p lecture presentation, Bowe Street Deck, Room 535

James Duesing is an animator and an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His primary concentration is in the area of Computer animation: "darkly funny, cynical and profoundly unsettling" (Linda Dubler, High Museum of Art, Atlanta).

Duesing combines a unique visual style with humor and social commentary. Populated by strange
animal-human hybrids, abstract sounds, and alien landscapes, Duesing's films are a feast for the eyes and mind. His work has been exhibited widely, in hundreds of international festivals and exhibitions
and nationally televised in the United States, through out Europe, Asia and Australia.


Rachele Riley
April 6 and 20, 2006
The One Minutes Media exhibitions aired on Dutch television. An excerpt from "Visualizing the Art of War" aired on Salto television Amsterdam A1 on Thursday, April 6 and on Thursday April 20, from 11p to 12a.


Rachele Riley
April 26, 2006
WPA\C Experimental Media Series "Antithesis"
from 7 to 9pm at the Corcoran Gallery of Art Armand Hammer Auditorium (New York Avenue entrance).
A screening that features a video/ animation
by Kinetic Imaging faculty member and VCU Visual Communication MFA Alumna, Rachele Riley.


Semi Ryu
Symposium April 18 to 21, 2006
Semi's new project "Infinite Cemetery (Virtual Reality and generative sound)", created in collaboration with multimedia lab at the University of Rome, was selected for the WEB3D Art Symposium 2006.

Later this year the exhibition will be showcased at the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide „? Australia and at Danacenter, Science Museum, London UK


Stephen Vitiello
March 30 to August 12, 2006
Sound Installation "Boys and Flowers at Western Bridge" commissioned work by Western Bridge of Seattle, WA.


Kathleen Forde
March 2006
The curator at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Troy, New York, curated the Kinetic Imaging 2006 Student Show. The show opens March 31 and runs to April 15, 2006.


Stephen Vitiello
February 2006
Stephen created an outdoor piece for the Cultural Olympics, which are being held in connection with the Winter Olympics in Torino and the Susa Valley, Italy.


Bob Paris
January 27 to March 5, 2006
Anderson Gallery
Bob Paris: Disturbance
Bob Paris has resurrected scenes from the television coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots in this ambitious installation exploring the link between social disaster and television product.



Twilight, Bob Paris
3 channel video, 27 minute, 34 second video loop


Matt Flowers
January 2006
MAGMART | Video Under Volcano
international Festival of Video Art
Matt's, Inferno, has been selected for the festival and will become part of the permanent video collection of Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum in Naples, Italy.


Rachele Riley
January 25 to February 18, 2006
Exhibition in Dublin, Ireland "Despite My Good Intentions: A Wander Beyond". The international and interdisciplinary show examines the activity of reading as a "meeting of language and the imagination."








Korean National University of the Arts
February 3 to 11, 2006
An exhibition of Kinetic Media Art Students from Korea in the School of the Arts gallery was on view from February 3 to 11, 2006. As part of the exchange, Kinetic Imaging students will exhibit their work
in Korea in May 2006.

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