Art Talk Series 2009
recent Art Talks @ the MACArt Talk from Meadows School of the Arts' panelists
Panelists: Susan Barnett and others
Wed 4/8/2009
6:30 PM
Etty Horowitz Art Talk
Wed 4/15/2009
6:30 - 7:30
MAC exhibiting artist, photographer and educator Angilee Wilkerson
discusses her work.
The MAC welcomes "Sprawl" to Dallas! The 46th SPE National Conference at the Fairmont Dallas Hotel, March 26 - 29, 2009. The Society for Photographic Education is a non-profit membership organization that provides a forum for the discussion of photography-related media as a means of creative expression and cultural insight. Through its interdisciplinary programs, services and publications, the society seeks to promote a broader understanding of the medium in all its forms, and to foster the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship and criticism.
Dallas-based and nationally recognized artist, filmmaker & videographer Quin Mathews
discusses his work. Also featuring a special reading of
The Futurist Manifesto (1909) of F. T. Marinetti in its original italian.
Artist and curator Mary Benedicto discusses her work.
There is a certain triangulation that encompasses Mary Benedicto’s work, the haptic, the optic and the sonic. She deploys repetitive pattern-like images and sound in her video work. Benedicto’s goal, in bringing together image and sound as such, is to lay bare the manner in which serial sounds can take on pattern-like qualities. This in turn reveals a fourth leg to her work, synesthesia: the cross-wiring of the senses when ballistic images become ballistic sounds and the two are interchangeable. As a curator, uniting sense to sense and image to sound, Mary Benedicto’s work is the conceptual red thread uniting all.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
6:30 -7:30 PM
MAC staff member Autumn Lopez presents
Contemporary Japanese Art (Superflat)
From devastation came a strong economy and a powerful visual culture system that is responsible for producing cute art and products. How and why did massive destruction of a country create cute and popular visual culture? After World War II Japan was left scrambling to find itself after the American occupation and one outlet it chose was manga (Japanese comic books). This media proliferated a new generation of contemporary artists that created cute and sexualized artworks that possessed deeper meanings beyond their "Superflat" surfaces. This lecture will briefly discuss the events that happened in Japanese history to bring about a westernized change during the Meiji Period of Japan and examine the material culture of manga and how it has influenced today's contemporary artists, Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara.
image: Takashi Murakami, My Lonesome Cowboy
January 14@6:00PM Rusty Scruby movie screening: Beyond the plane
January 28@6:30PM Charlotte Smith and Paul Abbott: The Synthetic Landscape
Art Talks 2008Previous Screenings:
French Film Night
(presented by L'Alliance Francaise, North Texas)
Samedi 14 mars, 14h au MAC
Saturday, March 14th, at 2pm, at the MAC
La Fille sur le Pont
De : Patrice Leconte
Avec :Long métrage - Couleur - France - 2002 - 1h30
In French (English caption) - Rated: R
Thursday, February 26, 7:00 pm
L'HOMME DU TRAIN
De : Patrice Leconte
Avec : Johnny Hallyday, Jean Rochefort
Long métrage - Couleur - France – 2002 - 1h30
In French (English caption) - Rated: R
Previous Screenings:
Hungarian Film Screening
