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October Issue
2008
Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem,
NC, Opens Season with New Exhibitions
Wake Forest University's Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery in Winston-Salem, NC, has opened its 2008-2009 season with new exhibits including: Perpetual Art Machine and The Old Alma Mater: A Wake Forest History Exhibit, on view in the Downstairs Gallery through Oct. 12, 2008; Pam Longobardi: Drifters, on view in the Mezzanine Gallery through Oct. 12, 2008; and By Assignment and By the Way: Gordon Schenck Photographs, curated Paul Bright and Margaret Supplee Smith, on view in both the Downstairs and Mezzanine galleries from Oct. 23 through Dec. 12, 2008.
Perpetual Art Machine (PAM) is an archive of 21st century international video art. The archive contains more than 1,000 videos from hundreds of artists in more than 70 countries. In 2005, four New York-based artists conceived the "Perpetual Art Machine" as a means to democratize the curatorial process. It invites artists and viewers to participate through live interactive installations and online through a free video portal. The web site is (www.perpetualartmachine.com).
The installation will include two touch screens controlled by two computers. One screen will allow the viewer to choose from hundreds of categories such as environment, sadness or love. When a word is chosen, 16 thumbnail images of related artist videos will appear on the second screen. Touching one of the images prompts a video to be projected on the gallery wall.
The Old Alma Mater: A Wake Forest History Exhibit is designed to celebrate Wake Forest traditions with artifacts spanning the university's 174-year history. Most artifacts were gathered from the Wake Forest College Birthplace Museum in the town of Wake Forest and the Wake Forest University Archives and the North Carolina Baptist Historical Collection in the university's Z. Smith Reynolds Library.
The items on display are accompanied by a video presentation, which features 16 mm film footage of Wake Forest life on the old campus in the town of Wake Forest and on the university's Reynolda Campus in Winston-Salem, where the university moved in 1956. The exhibit was organized by the Traditions Council, a group formed by students in 2006 to promote the university's heritage and traditions.
Pam Longobardi
The third exhibit, Pam Longobardi: Drifters, includes sculptural wall and floor installations and site photography. Longobardi is an associate professor in the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design at Georgia State University and a former associate dean of fine arts at the university.
"My current project, Drifters, focuses on the global issue of marine debris and plastics in the ocean," explained Longobardi. "I have been working on installations and public artworks that address the interconnectedness of the land and sea, between humans and the ocean biosphere. My work has a strong environmental focus that has come to the foreground as awareness of climate change, extinction and human impact has become more urgent."
The exhibition, By Assignment and By the Way: Gordon Schenck Photographs, includes 50 photographs and related documentary material.
Since 1963, North Carolina photographer Gordon Schenck has sustained an extraordinary career, working nationally and internationally, yet maintaining deep regional and local roots. A 1950 graduate of the NCSU engineering program, he studied architecture at the College of Design and has photographed buildings across the country and around the world. His work has appeared in virtually every significant architectural journal and has been exhibited in many universities and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the North Carolina Museum of Art.
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