Laurids Andersen Sonne听screened his film听Passerine in Time听at the Sharjah Film Platform held at the Sharjah Art Foundation in December 2019. His film听Monolithography听was shown at Revolutions Per Minute in Boston on Feb. 2.
Roberto Azaretto's听solo piano work,听lago. paisajismo abstracto. 2., was performed by Bruno Mesz on Dec. 15 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as part of the Tempus Fugit Art Festival.
Kimberley Bianca听recently designed scenography and performed audiovisual听media听for听Kurt谩g - Attila J贸zsef Fragments, along with opera singer Judit Molnar, on Nov. 29 in Brisbane, Australia. For her second semester in the ETMAP PhD, she is launching听, a series of听media听arts meetups for prototyping in a collaborative environment to encourage dialogue around sustainable use of technology in the arts. The first meetup is at 麻豆影院 Public Library on Feb. 24 and is open to participants.
Bentley Brown鈥檚听feature film听Revolution from Afar听made its world premiere at the Sudan Independent Film Festival, in partnership with the Goethe Institut, in January. The film depicts Sudanese-American musical artists in a discussion around third culture identity and the 2019 revolution in Sudan, from which they were physically cut off. Also in January, Bentley completed his second trip to the Red Sea Lodge filmmaking residency hosted by the Torino Film Lab in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In December, Bentley's short film听Terrorist Number Four, a satire of racial profiling in the film industry, won an Award of Recognition at Taiwan's Formosa Film Festival; his sound project听The Sounds of Black Holes Colliding, exploring the sonification of gravitational wave data released by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, was exhibited in the Production Methods Showcase.
Eliseo Ortiz听will present his most recent piece,听Mexico I USA, at the International Symposium for Visual Culture 2020, to be held in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and at CICA Museum in South Korea. He is currently in the review phase on his article, 鈥�(Re)constructing the political space of the jigsaw puzzle,鈥� to be published in听Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture.
Toma Peiu听completed two months of preliminary dissertation fieldwork and production in Brooklyn, New York. In January, he and educator and writer Nelesi Rodriguez (University of Pittsburgh)听facilitated the workshop听Is 鈥淭here鈥� Necessarily Not 鈥淗ere鈥�? A Study of Home听at Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms, the international conference of the Center for听Media, Religion and Culture and SIMAGINE. With听Professor Teri Rueb, he听will contribute to the workshop Artistic听Practice听in the Research University, convened by the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, in February 2020. In March, Toma will be a featured speaker at the CMCI One College Symposium - Immigration and Borders: Politics of Movement and Poetics of the Frontier.听Over the听Spring, his ViewMaster piece,听Message in a Bottle, will be a part of听Three River Stories, a community exhibition in Shamaldy-Sai, Kyrgyzstan and Qazaly, Kazakhstan. With geographer Maria Hagan (Cambridge University)听he has convened and will be co-chairing 鈥淢apping the Migrant Experience: Places, Affect and Imaginaries from the Margins,鈥� a mixed-methods panel at the joint biennial conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Royal Geographical Society - The British Museum / SOAS, in June. With long-term听collaborator, Root Films co-founder听and听顿别辫补谤迟尘别苍迟听辞蹿听颁谤颈迟颈肠补濒听惭别诲颈补听笔谤补肠迟颈肠别蝉听Lecturer Luiza Parvu听he continues to work on the feature documentary film听Ubi Bene Ibi Patria, and on the development stages of an ethno-fiction feature on fieldwork, gender and surveillance. The two recently collaborated with choreographer Kristen Holleyman on her short film听A Palavra.
Justin Trupiano鈥檚听visual simulation of fluid flow was recently unveiled as part of a permanent installation for the lobby of the new Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building. Other visualizations by Trupiano are currently on display at the Fiske Planetarium, including an interactive display of the surface of the sun and a 3D LED cube showing the connection of earth鈥檚 magnetic fields to the aurora.听