ARTISTS TALK: Connie Samaras V.A.L.I.S
1pm 21 March 2006
The Engine Room
VALIS
The title VALIS is loosely borrowed from science fiction writer Philip K. Dick’s thoughts on transcendence and technology. Connie Samaras, a Los Angeles-based artist, will be showing segments from “Vast Active Living Intelligence System (V.A.L.I.S)” a series of photographs and videos recently shot at the South Pole and the Ross Ice Shelf. A recipient of a 2004-05 U.S. National Science Foundation Polar Grant for Artists and Writers, Samaras travelled to Antarctica, primarily the South Pole, in order to depict the liminal spaces between life support architecture and extreme environment.
Connie Samaras will also be in discussion with Anne Noble and Lee Wing Choy (Victoria University Art History departments inaugural Clark Collection Critic/Curator-in-Residence) in The Engine Room on Tuesday 21st at 1pm. She has exhibited and lectured widely on her work at venues such as Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta Canada, Franklin Furnace, NY, San Francisco Art Institute, ICA London, the School at the Boston Museum, Medcad, Barcelona, Spain, the Berkeley Museum, Oakland CA, MOCA, and Gallery 727, Los Angeles. A discussion of “VALIS” was part of the UCLA 2005 artist lecture series at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and portions of the work will be shown in 2006 in several exhibitions in Los Angeles and NY. Samaras is also a noted professor in the Department of Studio Art, at UC Irvine in Los Angeles.
This exhibition is curated by John Di Stefano, Associate Professor and Director of Postgraduate Studies, Massey University, School of Fine Arts.
The Engine Room
Massey School of Fine Arts, Wellington
Access via Entrance C, Upper Taranaki St
Eastern Corner, Block 1
Opening Hours Wednesday-Saturday, 12pm-4pm
T: 04 801 5799 x6313
E: the_engine_room@massey.ac.nz
The Engine Room
VALIS
The title VALIS is loosely borrowed from science fiction writer Philip K. Dick’s thoughts on transcendence and technology. Connie Samaras, a Los Angeles-based artist, will be showing segments from “Vast Active Living Intelligence System (V.A.L.I.S)” a series of photographs and videos recently shot at the South Pole and the Ross Ice Shelf. A recipient of a 2004-05 U.S. National Science Foundation Polar Grant for Artists and Writers, Samaras travelled to Antarctica, primarily the South Pole, in order to depict the liminal spaces between life support architecture and extreme environment.
Connie Samaras will also be in discussion with Anne Noble and Lee Wing Choy (Victoria University Art History departments inaugural Clark Collection Critic/Curator-in-Residence) in The Engine Room on Tuesday 21st at 1pm. She has exhibited and lectured widely on her work at venues such as Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta Canada, Franklin Furnace, NY, San Francisco Art Institute, ICA London, the School at the Boston Museum, Medcad, Barcelona, Spain, the Berkeley Museum, Oakland CA, MOCA, and Gallery 727, Los Angeles. A discussion of “VALIS” was part of the UCLA 2005 artist lecture series at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and portions of the work will be shown in 2006 in several exhibitions in Los Angeles and NY. Samaras is also a noted professor in the Department of Studio Art, at UC Irvine in Los Angeles.
This exhibition is curated by John Di Stefano, Associate Professor and Director of Postgraduate Studies, Massey University, School of Fine Arts.
The Engine Room
Massey School of Fine Arts, Wellington
Access via Entrance C, Upper Taranaki St
Eastern Corner, Block 1
Opening Hours Wednesday-Saturday, 12pm-4pm
T: 04 801 5799 x6313
E: the_engine_room@massey.ac.nz
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