faculty : visiting faculty

Visiting Faculty 2007

Joan Retallack

Professor of Humanities at Bard College and directs the Workshop in Language and Thinking.  Author of Musicage: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack.

Lawrence Rinder

Founding director of the CCCA Wattis Institute forContemporary Arts and curator of 20th Century art at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Charlie Hewitt

He has described his art as a “search for something to conquer,” evidenced by his variety of media, including drawings, ceramics and welded steel. At a recent solo show, he debuted work populated by hardware, tools, body parts and animals that were installed directly onto the walls in a large-scale installation of printed vinyl cuts.
www.charliehewitt.com
 

John Schmor

A lecturer and writer of performance theory and has completed training in new European clown, mask and improvisation traditions.  In 2000 he toured theUnited Kingdom with Leon Johnson in the performance of Leon’s piece,“Faust/Faustus,” as a member of Leon’s Creative Material Group; this performance was nominated by London’s Time Out for “best touring performance art group.”
 
Ernesto Pujol

Cuban born internationally celebrated conceptual artist, curator, and professor who has developed a complex body of multimedia work including painting, video and photography.  His work focused on site-specificprojects and community collaborations addressing themes such as the humanbody, memory and our relationship to our environment.
 
Mary Flanagan

Her internationally exhibited work investigates everyday technologies through critical writing, artwork and activist design projects.
www.maryflanagan.com
 
Bracha L. Ettinger

This Tel Aviv born artist, senior clinica lpsychologist and practicing psychoanalyst paintings have been exhibited in many major museums, including the Stedelijk Museumin Amsterdam and The Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels.

www.metramorphosis.org.uk
 
Hamza Walker

Since 1994, he served as curator and director of education for the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, an internationally renowned non-collecting museum devoted to contemporary art that aims to promote developments in contemporary visual art through exhibitions and related events such as lectures, concerts, readings, performances and other means. The New York Times has named Hamza oneof the seven most influential curators in the country and has lauded him as “one of the museum world’s most talented essayists.”

Visiting Faculty 2006

Daniel Bozhkov
www.danielbozhkov.com

Mary Jane Jacob

Curator and author noted for her work on the national and international art scene.
www.maryjanejacob.org

Allison Smith

Virginia born artist whose work focuses on the the subject of historical reenactment through the use of sculptural installations and live events.
www.bellwethergallery.com
www.notionnanny.net

Gideon Bok

Professor of painting and drawing, Hampshire College and recipient of a 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
www.alphagallery.com

Michelle Grabner
www.artic.edu

Jason Simon

Artist, film and video maker based in New York City and currently a founding member of the cooperative gallery Orchard.  His films and videos are distributed by First Run/Icarus Films and the Video Data Bank and some of his projects deal with advertising, art restoration, public address systems and collecting.
www.transartinstitute.org

Alison Saar. Tom Leeser

Alison Saar is a figurative sculptor and mixed media artist.  Tom Lesser is a film and video artist.
The Kunst Brothers

Chuck Agro, Christine Agro
www.chuckagro.com

www.healingdog.com

Visiting Faculty 2005

Louwrien Wijers
Artist and writer based in Amsterdam. Examines the nexus of art, spirituality and science.

Beverly Semmes

Based in New York, Semmes makes installations, sculptures and videos exploring identity and gender, often employing clothing and textiles.

Miwon Kwon
Critic, theorist and professor of contemporary art history at UCLA, Kwon has been at the forefront of rethinking contemporary art's engagement with place, territory, architecture and urbanism.

Amar Kanwar
New Delhi video artist addressing questions of democracy, ethnic and racial conflicts.

Kathy Butterly

New York based sculptor exploring the contemporary grotesque in ceramics.

Tom Burkhardt

New York artist  converging abstraction, figuration and landscape.

Suzanne Bocanegra

Bocanegra synthesizes events and materials of daily life to make mixed-media paintings.

David Lang
Contemporary composer and co-founder of Bang on a Can music collaborative, working on an opera with Mark Dion and a film with Peter Greenaway.

Mike Bode

Staffan Schmidt

A collaborative team based in Sweden, they have produced a series of video and sound projects examining the built environment and social space.

Visiting Faculty 2004

Alex Coles

London-based critic and cultural theorist, founding editor of de-,dis-,ex-.

Katarina Weslien

Installation and new media artist, Director of MFA in Studio Arts at MECA

Annette Lemieux

Lemieux appropriates images and photographs and recontextualizes them in order to strengthen their original, and usually political, meanings

Cesare Pietroiusti

Focuses on problematic and paradoxical situations that are hidden in common relationships and in ordinary acts

Rosamond Purcell

Photographer exploring the connections between art and science, collaborator with Stephen Jay Gould

Will Rogan

Photographer of found situations in the urban landscape in which everyday materials become sculptural

Mira Schor

Painter and writer with a focus on issues of gender representation

Wenda Gu

Best known for environmental installations such as the United Nations series, which takes contributions of human hair and weaves them into enormous hanging panels.

 

Visiting Faculty 2003

Suzanne Lacy
Public art activist, writer and video producer whose work has defined the field of public art

Sean Foley
Painter, Chair of Painting, Maine College of Art

Vito Acconci
Leading conceptual artist working in performance, video, installation, public art and architecture

Jane Lackey
Multimedia artist, Artist-in-Residence, Cranbrook Academy of Art

Whitfield Lovell
Mixed media and installation artist focusing on post-Reconstruction America

Peter Robinson
Multimedia artist, New Zealand representative, Venice Biennale 2001

Dara Birnbaum
Video artist creating works that deconstruct the media's role in reinforcing social values and codes

Hal Foster
Scholar, critic, historian, Princeton University

Visiting Faculty 2002

Mary Kelly
Installation artist and theorist, UCLA Department of Art

Jeanne Silverthorne
Sculptor, faculty, School of Visual Arts and Columbia University

Krzysztof Wodiczko
International projection artist, Head of the Interrogative Design Group at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies

Yvonne Rainer
New York-based cross-disciplinary intellectual with a long relationship to theater, dance and film

J. Morgan Puett
Installation artist with an interest in the history of dress, textiles and design

William Pope.L
Artist-educator, faculty, Theater and Rhetoric Department, Bates College, national touring retrospective William Pope.L: eRacism, ICA at MECA, July 26-October 17

Alex Coles
London-based critic and cultural theorist, founding editor of de-,dis-,ex-.

Harrell Fletcher
Artist/collaborator of interdisciplinary, site-specific projects exploring the dynamics of social spaces and communities. New work in Playground exhibition, ICA at MECA, May 30-July 12.

Visiting Faculty 2001

Dan Graham
Internationally renowned multidisciplinary artist/conceptualist.

Rona Pondick
One of Americaís foremost sculptors and one of the most interesting and important boundary breakers in the art world today.

Fred Wilson
Wilson has transformed the museum into a contested site and flat-out changed the rules of art.

Alix Pearlstein
New York based multidisciplinary performance/video and installation artist.

Joan Livingstone
Professor and Chair, Department of Fiber and Material Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

David Batchelor
Author of the widely acclaimed Chromophobia. Senior Tutor in Critical Theory at Royal College of Art, London.

Annette Lemieux
Boston based mixed media artist. Visiting Lecturer, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University.

Visiting Faculty 2000

Mark Dion
Multi-disciplinary artist problematizing ecology, conservation, popular media, and representation.

Jessie Shefrin
Media artist rooted in the poetics of language and image. Professor of Print Media, co-director of the Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, New York.

Mel Chin
Multi-disciplinary artist, collaborator, human rights activist.

Krzysztof Wodiczko
Industrial designer and artist. Head of the Interrogative Design Group at the Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lucy Lippard
Internationally known writer, art critic.

Ulf Rollof
Multimedia artist transversing the geography of memories and dreams. Sweden's representative to numerous Art Biennials and Documenta.

Bonnie Marranca
Editor of PAJ - Performance Arts Journal, critic, scholar, and art historian.

Carolee Schneemann
One of the world's foremost pioneers of body, performance, and installation art.

Visiting Faculty 1999

Vito Acconci
Internationally acclaimed installation video and performance artist.

Shirley Keneda
Painter, 1999 Gugenheim Fellowship contributing writer Bomb magazine

Robert Morris
Art theorist, renowned sculptor.

Portia Munson
Painter and installation artist.

Patricia Nick
Founder and director of Vinalhaven Press and Vinalhaven Graphic Arts Foundation.

Saul Ostro
MFA Professor of Theory, NYU. Art Editor Bomb magazine

Alison Saar
Figurative sculptor and mixed media artist.

www.phylliskindgallery.com

Robert Storr
Critic, painter, Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.

Marcia Tucker
Founding director, New Museum, New York.

Visiting Faculty 1998

David Driskell
American painter, world's leading expert in African American Art History.

Charles Hewitt
Multimedia artist, Head of Printmaking, The School of Art, Chautaugua Institution.

Michiko Itatani
American multi-media artist, Professor of Painting, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ming Cho Lee
Aesthetic visionary and America's foremost set designer, Chair of the Design Department, Yale School of Drama.

Carolee Schneemann
Internationally acclaimed installation, film, video and performance artist.