2006 Artists in Residence, College of Architecture


	College of Architecture Artists in Residence 2006 Made possible by the Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts with additional support by the Vizlab
	Collaboration with Katrina, 2005 Dawn DeDeaux January 31 - February 9 Artist's lecture Monday, February 6, 2 p.m. College of Architecture, Langford Auditorium Dawn DeDeaux is best known for large scale works addressing social issues. She is one of America's pioneering artists in new media. Her work is included in Understanding Art, and Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media. DeDeaux's work has also been the subject of televised features including CBS Sunday Morning and Canada Public Broadcasting's series The Future. Works by Dawn DeDeaux have been exhibited widely at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Armand Hanmer Museum in Los Angeles, The Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Peace Museum, Chicago and Delfina Trust in London, England. DeDeaux is the winner of the 1976 Demolition Derby staged in the Louisiana Superdome as the only female contestant in a field of 35 drivers. DeDeaux will work with students on a multimedia installation for the Dallas Museum of Art.
	BurlBody + 4 (Partial), Digital Wood Prints w/ 3D Animation, 32” x 48” x 4 Pieces, 4 LCD TVs, 2005, Noyes Museum of Art, USA; Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern art, China LiQin Tan February 24 - March 5 Artist's lecture Monday, February 27, 2 p.m. College of Architecture, Langford Auditorium LiQin Tan makes connections between seemingly disparate worlds. He is fascinated by similarities between Native American and Chinese cultures, but most of all, he is intrigued by the idea of reinterpreting ancient images as technological works of art. A traditional artist influenced by ancient cultures and art forms, Tan uses 3D modeling and animation to investigate historical and cultural traditions. One of his current projects is an interactive work on the history, culture and spirituality of the indigenous peoples of the Americas titled "The Spirit of Turtle Land -- Through Indigenous American Eyes." The project explores Native American spirituality through 2D and 3D multimedia. Tan has taught brush figure painting, art history, and life drawing in China, and was Executive Art Editor for Hunan Art Publishing House, where he founded Painter magazine. He was an art director and an educator in computer animation and digital effects in Canada for several years. He has also worked on Disney's Saturday morning cartoons. Tan will work with students on character design and 3D modeling.
		Ink alchemy, a site-specific installation, sherman galleries, sydney, australia, 2001 9 boxes of liquid hair ink, 9 boxes of hair ink sticks, 18 six inches flat tv monitors, hair braid and electronic cables, video document: making ink alchemy. 1999 - 2001, shanghai cao su gong ink factory, shanghai, china. Wenda Gu March 22 - 28 Artist's lecture Wednesday, March 22, 2 p.m. College of Architecture, Langford Auditorium Wenda Gu is one of the leading contemporary Chinese artists of his generation. He has built his reputation on reinvigorating ancient Chinese symbols and practices—the seal, calligraphy, ink, painting—with contemporary vision and meaning. His most ambitious, ongoing project, the United Nations series, consists of installations at sites around the world in which hair is used to create works of art embelematic of a future not ruled by racial or national boundaries. Wenda Gu's artwork has been exhibited worldwide at venues including the National Gallery of Australia, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Alternative Museum, New York, Enrico Gariboldi Art Contemporanea, Milan, China National Gallery, Beijing, National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Seoul, PS1 Museum, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and the 2001 Venice Biennale. Wenda Gu: Art From the Middle Kingdom to Biological Millenium, ed. Mark H.C. Bessire, MIT Press, was published in 2003. His work is in permanent collections at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The British Museum, London, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Wenda Gu will work with students to create translations between Chinese and English. Neon is the format and visual presentation.