Look + Listen
A picture is worth a thousand words. How about a video or audio snippet?
Look + Listen offers multimedia documentation of VAC exhibitions and programs that provides a new dimension for experiencing the Visual Arts Center. Here you'll find media that illustrate our commitment to creative growth and exploration within the contemporary arts.
Art in Practice panel discussion
April 19, 2011
Art in Practice provides guidance and insight into the professional world to students preparing for careers in the arts. Varying topics of conversation range from a nuts-and-bolts approach to gaining valuable job skills, to broad issues relevant to creative culture as a whole.
Panelists of this edition included Andy Campbell (art historian), Mike Chesser (collector), Arturo Palacios (gallerist), Devon Dikeou (artist), Wendy Vogel (critic), and Elizabeth Dunbar (curator). Moderated by Risa Puleo, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Blanton Musuem of Art
Sound + Vision: The End of Cities by Travis Weller, performed by Line Upon Line percussion ensemble
March 11, 2011
Sound + Vision aims to promote experiments in sound, video and performance. Each program is designed to complement and enrich the contemporary art experience fostered by the Visual Arts Center.
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. — Italo Calvino
Travis Weller of Austin's New Music Co-op presented a very special composition utilizing the architecture of the Visual Arts Center. The End of Cities is a piece for percussion trio composed specifically for the steel awning over the Kayem Arbor at the VAC, using only resonant sounds inherent within the structure. It was commissioned by the UT Visual Arts Center.
Panel discussion: The Working Homeless
February 25, 2011
This panel discussion was related to the exhibition The Working Homeless, an installation by MFA candidate in Studio Art Daniel Rudin that addressed issues of homelessness. Panelists included Rudin, members of the UT community whose research deals with homelessness, and partcipants in a film made by Rudin who have had personal experiences with homelessness. The discussion was moderated by Noah Simblist, the 2010-11 VAC Curatorial Fellow.
Gallery Talk with Amanda Ross-Ho
February 11, 2011
This gallery talk was with the VAC's spring 2011 artist-in-residence Amanda Ross-Ho. The conversation came at the end of her one-month residence and included insight into her transformation of the Vaulted Gallery into a public, interactive work site.
Natasha Bowdoin: The Daisy Argument
Natasha Bowdoin was in residence at the Visual Arts Center in January 2011. This time-lapse video documents the creation of her site-specific work over the span of three weeks.
Sound + Vision: Air Jordan and Magic Jewels
November 12, 2010
Sound + Vision aims to promote experiments in sound, video and performance. Each program is designed to complement and enrich the contemporary art experience fostered by the Visual Arts Center.
Air Jordan is a one-man, two-piece rock and bowl outfit that rips and rolls through an endless visual sound-scape of strange yet familiar brain terrain. Simultaneously hard and soft, this quilted thicker picker upper constantly explores complex issues of shadow and light, comedy and dramedy, booty and the sub-slime, vote or don't, why vegan?, and the like.
Magic Jewels is a two-piece guitar-and-drums psychedelic punk rock kick flip dive into the alter verse. The sound of the music is an over-the-top blast funneled into a toxic spirit animal that surfs the cosmic sound waves of the cerebral vortex. The spells that Magic Jewels are conjuring explode like grenade topped pizzas sending laser claws strait to your heart, forever altering its beat to pulse in perfect harmony with their music!
Sound + Vision: Phase Lab
October 8, 2010
Sound + Vision aims to promote experiments in sound, video and performance. Each program is designed to complement and enrich the contemporary art experience fostered by the Visual Arts Center.
Phase Lab is a curated and collaborative effort of auditory and visual synthesis operators performing to facilitate degrees of relationship between pure sound and vision. Phase Lab aims to investigate the nuances of one's cognitive behavior using electronically produced "drones" and analog video synthesis. Phase Lab also serves as the debut for a custom designed video synthesizer, aptly titled "The Visionary," that transformed the drone composition into the realm of the visual.
Director: Malcolm Elijah Welbourne
Assistant Director and Creator of "The Visionary": Lars Larsen