Vito Acconci, Keynote  Fri 7pm: Holiday Inn Ballroom
[ Th 9 - 10:30am ]
Technology & Time
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Jean Strommer, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Joan Strommer, Film, Virginia Commonwealth University
New Technology Synthesizes Time and Meaning in Film Art
Barbara Martinson, Design, Housing, & Apparel, U of M
Tradition, Transition, Transgression
Tammy Knipp, Graphic Design, Florida Atlantic University
Creative Development
The Exciting World of Monotony, Repetition, & Obsession
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Aaron Dysart, Sculpture, College of Visual Arts
The Easy Way Out, Industry and the Process of Making
Kristina Estell, Sculpture, Lawrence, KS
Mapping and the Spatial Effects of Repetitive Process
Trever Nicholas, Sculpture, Minneapolis, MN
The Structure of Desire
Andrew Messerschmidt, Artist: Ely, MN
Real Sick Puppies: Illness and the Contagion of Pattern
Visual Language
[ In Flux Space ]
John Richardson, Sculpture, Wayne State University
Or Current Resident: Addressing Contemporary Art
Dana Gay, Auburn University
Typographic Landscapes: Commanding Space
Matthew Teti, African Studies, Northwestern University
Post-Structural Texts In Contemporary Art
Evan Larson, Wayne State University
A Rhetoric of Energy Exchange
[ Th 10:45am - 12:15pm ]
Collaboration: Art, Dance, Theater
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Irve Dell, St. Olaf College
Kira Obolensky, playwright: Minneapolis, MN
Recent Collaboration: Quick Silver, a Text-based Object Theater Piece
Diane Katsiaficas, Painting, University of Minnesota
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
5 Topics on Teaching Drawing
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Dale Leys, Murray State University
Interrelationships of Teaching Drawing at Beginning..
Lucy Lamp, University of Minnesota
Shifting Role of Drawing in a Technological World
David Feinberg, University of Minnesota
What Makes Shape Interesting...
Jerry Speight, Foundation Design, Murray State University
Information in Front of the Eyes / Behind the Eyes
Armin Musham, Painting & Drawing, NW Missouri State
Teaching students to Become More Like Artists...
Please Leave Your Ego At the Door: The Key to Interplay
[ In Flux Space ]
Suzanne Cohan-Lange, Sculptor / Designer, Columbia U: Chicago
Mind Over Media: Why We Do What We Do
Jeff Abell, Composer, Writer, Performance, Columbia College
Student Collaborations - You Want Us to Do What?
Sherry Antonini, Writer, Photographer, Musician
Niki Nolin, Chair of Academic Computing, Columbia College
Collaborative Teaching: Non-linear Strategies
Jeanine Mellinger, Painting, Video, Columbia College
Beth Berolzheimer, Photographer & Media Activist
Deconstructing Delusions: Art & Technology
[ Th 2 - 3:30pm ]
Painting Without Paint (or very little of it)
Panelists in Discussion
[ Hopkins Center for Art ]
David Feinberg, Painting & Drawing, University of Minnesota
Bob Granger, Drawing & Painting, Idaho State University
Derrick Buisch, 2D, University of Wisconsin: Madison
Scott Stulen, Artist [painter/multi-media], St. Louis Park, MN
Nancy Mladenoff, 2D, University of Wisconsin: Madison
Lynn Gray, Drawing & Painting, University of Minnesota
Art and Theater
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Roann Barris, Art History & Humanities, St. Xavier University, Chicago
Revolutionary Interchange: Russian Constructivist Theater and
the Creation of a New Spectator
May Talbot, Art History, California State U: San Bernardino
Art and Theater: Creation out of Symbiosis, from Aeschylus to Zimmerman
Social / Political Aspects of Art
[ In Flux Space ]
Loretta Bebeau, Women in Arts, University of Minnesota
Sociological Aspect of Art / Artists with the Non-Art Community
Roger Colombik, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Tradition on the Brink: The Role of the Art Academy in Post-Berlin Wall Europe
Jerry Johnson, Design, Troy State University
Art + Economics in the Post-Information Age
Jake Keeler, Painting, Macalester & Rhymesayers Entertainment
Extensions of Oneself: Graffiti, Hip-Hop, and a Rural / Urban Mix of Social Identity
[ Th 3:45 - 5:15pm ]
Sense of Place / Sense of Self
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Dr. Lesley Wright, Director, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College
Roots and Renewal in Contemporary Midwestern Art
Dr. Lee Gray, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
Appalachians: A Contemporary Cultural Perspective
Christine Willcox, Painting, Macalester College
Border Spaces
Performance: Artists Making Active Objects
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Jason Brown, Sculpture, University of Tennessee: Knoxville
Object as Prop: The Intersection of Performance and Sculpture
Allen Peterson, Sculpture, University of Alabama: Birmingham
When Production Becomes Performance
Chris Wildrick, Southern Illinois Universtiy at Carbondale
Jason Lee, Kent State University
2funBasTards Talk Shop
Down and Dirty: The Sanitizing of Painting
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Clarence Morgan, Painting, University of Minnesota
Joe Houston, curator, Cranbrook Art Museum
Saul Ostrow, curator/critic/editor, Cleveland Art Institute
Gelsy Verna, Painting, University of Wisconsin:Madison
Patricia Briggs, Ph.D., critic/Art Historian, MCAD
New Energies - The Next Generation
Panelists Represent Schools & Areas
[ In Flux Space ]
Moira Marti Goeffrion, University of Arizona at Tucson
Kate Hodges, Intermedia, University of Arizona at Tucson
Patty Healy McMeans, Sculpture, University of Minnesota
Alessandra Torres, Sculpture, VCU
Claire Watkins, Intermedia & Performance, VCU
Jason Butler, Sculpture & Public Art, University of Arizona
Nicholas Alley, Printmaking & Painting, Kansas University
[ Th 7 - 10pm ]
Interplay Exhibition Openings
Katherine Nash Gallery, Regis Art Center, U of MN
Mpls College of Art & Design / Mpls Institute of Art
Macalester College, St. Paul [shuttle from Regis]
College of Visual Arts, St. Paul [shuttle from Regis]
[ Th 9:30pm ]
[ Fri 9 - 10:30am ]
Concept into Practice
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Pete Driessen, Foundation / Color Theory, College of Visual Arts
Chromancing with Hues: Color & Its Interlocutors
Katrina Lamb, San Francisco Art Institute
Encountering a New Language of Drawing: Verbal Language and Visual Language in RelationtoRe-envisioning the Maker / Viewer Construct
Sarah Rossiter, Ceramics, Kalispell, MT
Please Touch the Art
Getting Wired! Teachers Adapting to a Changing Foundation Curriculum (FATE session)
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Barbara Giorgio, Foundations / Drawing, Ball State University
Karen Bakke, Fashion & Design, VPA, Syracuse University
Foundations Without Gouache: A Photo Finish!
Brian Curtis, Painting / Drawing, University of Miami
Watching the Technological Cart Pull the Academic Horse
Lari Gibbons, School of the Visual Arts: University of N. Texas
Creating Positive Change: Digital Technology in Foundations Programs
Bill Hosterman, Foundations, Grand Valley State University
The Sourcebook: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Design
Edward M. Noriega, Art & Design, Troy State University
Looking Back - Looking Ahead
Interdisciplinary Collaborations
[ In Flux Space ]
Leon Johnson, University of Oregon
Faust / Faustus in Deptford
Hyunsoo Byun, Time-based Media, University North Dakota
Performance Hybridity
[ Fri 10:45am - 12:15pm ]
The Misspelled Word
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Arthur F. Jones, Art History, University of North Dakota,
The Misspelled Word: The Use of Written Language in Folk and Outsider Art
Patrick A. Luber, Sculpture, University of North Dakota,
In the Beginning There was the (W)ord: The Authoritative Use of Language by Self-Taught Artists and Academically Trained Artists
Richard J. Bay, Art Education, Radford University
Teaching the ART World's Main Event: WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN vs.imaginspirituvisionaryEXPRESSION
Mentorship: An On-going Interplay
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Reni Gower, Painting & Printmaking, VCU
Connect the Dots
Mary Flinn, Executive Director, New Virginia Review
The Compass: Fixed and Moving
Sally Bowring, Public Art Coordinator, City of Richmond
Interaction
Gloria De Fillipps Bush, Photography, U of M: Duluth
Clearing Their Way: Mentoring New Artist-Professors
Art in Public Space
[ In Flux Space ]
Jack Becker, Director, FORECAST Public Art Works, St. Paul
Value of Artists to Communities: Public Art Education
John Hock, Director, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer
Community Resource: Facilitating Artists & Supporting the Art
Christine Podas-Larson, Director, Public Art St. Paul, St. Paul
The New Stone Age Initiative: Art as a Motivating Agent for Social Change
[ Fri 2 - 3:30pm ]
Materializing Language
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Jan Estep, Photography, University of Minnesota
Language as Sculpture
Tom Rose, Sculpture, University of Minnesota
The Tower of Babble
Technology Shifts
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Gary Hallman, Photography, University of Minnesota
Technology & Concept: New Challenges for Artists
Steve Luecking, DePaul University
Interfacing Hand and Machine
Pauline De Souza, University of East London, England, UK
Variations Beyond the Scene: The Position of Language Within the Visual Arts
Caroline Simpson, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Incorporating Intermedia Into Contemporary Art History Courses
Interplay of Ethics and Aesthetics: Expanding the Discourse
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Christine Baeumler, Painting, University of Minnesota
The Aesthetics of Engagement
Marcia Eaton, Philosophy, University of Minnesota
Learning from Loosestrife
Shelly Willis, Public Art on Campus Coordinator, U of M
Ethics and the Space Between 'Public' and 'Art'
Shana Kaplow, Painting, St. Cloud University
The Role of Poetics in Socially Conscious Art
Architecture of Art Buildings
[ In Flux Space ]
Garth Rockcastle, Architecture, U of Maryland: College Park,
Principal Architect: Regis Center for Art
[ Fri 3:45 - 5:15pm ]
Language Streams
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
Stephanie Bacon, Boise State University
Multiple and Simultaneous Forms of Language That Comprise the Landscape ofContemporaryConsciousness
Kimberly Allen-Kattus, Northern Kentucky University
Infinite Meaning: the Art of Xu Bing
Crystal Yang, University of North Dakota
Describing the Indescribable and Defining the Infinite: Chinese Poetry and Painting
Art and Typography
[ In Flux Space ]
Dennis Ichiyama, Art & Design, Purdue University
Losing Touch: Low Tech in Typographic Education
John Nordyke, University of Hartford
Creating One's Own Typographic Character
Deb Hall, Skidmore College
DaVinci, Arts+Crafts, Palantino+Cezanne:
[ Fri 5pm ]
A Dante Cocktale series of performances
[ Holiday Inn Ballroom ]
David Walsh, University of Minnesota
Le Renard: a Burlesque by Igor Stravinsky
Dean Sorenson, Head of Jazz, University of Minnesota
Foxy: a Jazz Performance Work
[ Fri 7 - 9pm ]
[ Sat 9am - 4:30pm ]
Four Pre-Registered Tours
St. Olaf and Carleton
Public Art Bus Tour
Franconia & Stillwater
TC Metro Arts Centers
[ Sat 6 - 10pm ]
Concluding Party
Soap Factory
featuring live music by Willie Murphy and the Angel Headed Hipsters