is proud to announce

the 2009 Visual Arts Practice and Research

and Emerging Fields

Grantees

Emerging Fields Grantees

• Sharon Daniel (UCSC / Faculty / DANM): Capitalist Punishment

A multi-media installation developed in collaboration with California state prisoners. Capitalist Punishment will challenge audiences to join in critical resistance against the corruption of the Prison Industrial Complex through: a museum installation of prison industry products inscribed with statements made by prison laborers, a multi-media museum tour including audio interviews with prison laborers, a locative-media "social cost" price tracker that identifies the products of prison labor in the market place, and an interactive web site that maps the social geography of the prison industrial complex.

• G. Craig Hobbs and Ian Pye (UCSC / Grad / DANM): kwpe/

Keyword Processing Environment (kwpe/) is an open-source multimedia tagging tool and playback software to be used in live cinema, installation, and net-based collaborative artworks. kwpe/ is being developed by G. Craig Hobbs at the UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts and New Media MFA program in collaboration with UCSC Computer Science PhD candidate Ian Pye.

• Simon Penny (UCI / Faculty / Arts+Engineering): Phatus

The Phatus project is an intervention into engineering-computational discourses and digital-cultural discourses, manifested as sculptural-computational artifacts – several electro-pneumatico-mechanical ‘voice synthesizer machines’ which, in opposition to conventional voice synthesis technology, manifest only affect, with no semantic content, ie they grunt and howl.

• Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas (UCSD / Grad / Vis Arts): mixed relations

A series of performances that explore the ways relations are changed in mixed reality environments focusing on the body as instrument and as an extension of technology. The project will include explorations of a number of technologies, which bring the body into mixed realities, outside of its daily boundaries, beyond the skin.

• Brenda Varda (UCR / Grad / Theater): Liquid

LIQUID, a 21st Century picaresque adventure through a melting world, is a large scale multimedia theatrical work, that examines both the sublime and insane responses to a (hopefully) alternate universe of global crisis. Through everything from Garbage Islands to Undersea Societies, the play – a collaboration between Brenda Varda (writer), Chris Covics (director), Perry Hoberman (video), Daniel Yasmin (music), Paul Bertin (sound) and Rachel

Lincoln (movement) - takes a fantastical journey of genetics, pirating, mer-people and ice caps to discover what remains when much has turned liquid.

Visual Arts Practice and Research Grantees

• Crystal Campbell (UCSD / Grad / Film/Vis Arts): Twenty-Eight People You Might Meet in February

Twenty-Eight People You Might Meet in February is a short narrative film (16mm) that appropriates from Black History, but is filmed in Iceland, to challenge constructions of race, gender and place.

• Annie Loui (UCI / Faculty / Dance): Blue Light

Blue Light is a multi media performance about the pursuit of wonderment in the abandoned Blue Light Silver Mines high above Orange County. Entwining text, projection and movement, the viewer goes on a familiar journey of reckless abandon fueled by rock and roll and the lure of risk taking. Based on a true story. Created in collaboration by director Annie Loui, award winning author Michelle Latiolais and LA video designer Greg Pacificar.

• Kyong Park (UCSD / Faculty /Vis Arts): New Silk Road

"New Silk Roads" is an expedition-based urban research project that explores the new urban landscapes emerging in rapidly expanding and transforming Asian cities and regions. Employing a method of "nomadic research," Kyong Park has conducted three expeditions through contemporary transitional cities between Istanbul and Tokyo. These cities are documented in photographs, video, and audio/video interviews of experts. The project investigates the economic, cultural and political issues that are embedded or emerging through the development of urban landscapes, by combining documentary and research materials to produce spatial visualization of dynamics between local identities and transnational movements, such as labor, capital,information and media.

• Tim Schwartz (UCSD / Grad / Vis Arts): Time Capsule

A mobile sculpture that will be a time capsule for American history in the 20^th century. The sculpture will be an enclosure containing refuse from the 20th century along with refuse data displayed on 250 antique analog gauges. These gauges will display information gathered and analyzed from the New York Times archive, Google Books, and various other sets of data pertaining to the American 20th century.

• Tyler Stallings (UCR / Staff / Sweeney Art Gallery): Mapping the Mojave

Mapping the Mojave offers a vision of the Mojave Desert from insider and outsider perspectives that evokes both cultural myths of the “desert” and explores the Mojave Desert in particular as an extra-urban hub where diverse communities seek refuge and flourish. During two months of intense activity in fall 2009, events will include temporary installations, guest speakers, spoken-word artists, film screenings, and desert excursions. Artists will be solicited primarily from within the ten-campus UC system through invitations and open call to faculty and grad students. Events will be presented in downtown Riverside at UCR ARTSblock and at the UC Riverside Palm Desert Graduate Center through the newly established Desert Studies.

• Wu Ingrid Tsang, Michelle Dizon, Camilo Ontiveros, Nicolau Vergueiro (UCB + UCLA /Grad / Art): Imprenta

A year-long series of programming and exhibition events that deals with the question of migration, its intersection with sexuality, and how it is being addressed globally. This programming will take the form of film screenings, visual arts exhibitions and projects, panel discussions, teach-ins, and legal and social services provided for the immigrant and transgender communities in the immediate Los Angeles vicinity of Mac Arthur Park. It is an attempt for a space to bring global struggles for social justice into the discourse of Los Angeles artist and activist communities.