The Creativity Fund: Get funding for your brilliant idea!

Announcement, Posted Nov. 14
Deadline: December 4th
Sponsored by the Creativity & Leadership: Entrepreneurship at Oberlin Project, The Creativity Fund offers awards of $500 to $1,500 to support a range of student ventures. Open to students of any year and major (including graduating seniors), these awards are ideal for students who have developed entrepreneurial ideas and are poised to take the next step toward realizing their projects. Strong candidates will have demonstrated leadership and project management skills, as well as a compelling commitment to their proposed idea/venture.

Full description, application, and FAQs are available from the Creativity & Leadership website at www.oberlin.edu/creativity/opportunities.html

Posted by Creativity

Earth Water Air Fire

Tomorrow [Fri. 16 Nov.] @ 5:30 in the evening, the students in my Digital Art and Public Space class will be showing video projections they have made for the courtyard of the art building. Their assignment was to figure out how to make multiple projections appear simultaneously using only one projector, no peripheral equipment. They have to project on to a "found" surface (no screens!), and were to create video that worked with the surface. They are allowed two speakers for sound. There are four groups of students, and each group was given one word, Earth, Water, Air, or Fire. That word is the impulse point to drive the projection pieces.

Come by! We will be there for an hour or so!

Best wishes,
Julia

from Julia Christensen
date Nov 14, 2007 10:03 PM

Funding for student exhibits

From Susan Morse:
Please share information about this opportunity with your students and advisees.

Funding is available to students on a competitive basis through The PoGo Family Foundation for student-curated exhibitions of 2-D or 3-D art. The grants are intended to cover the costs of materials to mount the exhibit, documentation and related marketing materials for a gallery and/or Internet-based exhibit. The exhibition requires faculty sponsorship and should be developed either in conjunction with an existing course, an approved independent study program or a Winter Term project.

The maximum amount available for each grant is $500. One or two grants will be awarded for projects undertaken during Winter Term, with additional grants awarded for projects undertaken during the spring semester.

Applications for Winter Term projects must be received by November 27, 2007, with awards announced on December 3, 2007. Applications for spring semester projects must be received by February 29, 2008, with awards announced on March 14, 2008.

Full guidelines and the required cover page and budget form are available on the Sponsored Programs Blackboard site, which may be accessed through the Offices & Departments listing of the campus directory online.

Questions about the program and possible grant applications should be addressed to Professor Johnny Coleman, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Art (johnny.coleman@oberlin.edu or x56908).

from Susan Morse Invited
	♫ susan.morse@oberlin.edu

Global Compass brings the art world to Oberlin

To better understand the effect of globalization on contemporary art,
five international curators and critics will discuss their views at
Global Compass, a free public symposium to be held on Friday, November
9, and Saturday, November 10.

Cleveland Plain Dealer art and architecture critic Steven Litt will
moderate the discussions, which will be held in the West Auditorium of
Oberlin College's Science Center, beginning at 1:30 p.m. on Friday.
The event will conclude with a reception at 6 p.m. Saturday at the
College's Allen Memorial Art Museum.

Five distinguished speakers will each speak for one hour, exploring
how "the advent of digital communication, the reduction of
international barriers, and the rise of an international economy have
changed the rules of art forever," says John Pearson, Oberlin's
Young-Hunter Professor of Studio Art, who planned the symposium.

"By the end of the 20th century, contemporary art had truly become
global in scope," says Pearson. "New York could no longer claim its
distinction as the major center of 'new art.' Indeed, the 'new'
contemporary art was proliferating internationally.

"London, Berlin, Leipzig, Beijing, Tokyo, and other cities became
centers of creative explosion. Further, the 'new art' did not appear
to have just one major movement – one set of attitudes – that could
claim center stage. 'New art' had become multicultural, multifaceted,
and multiconceptual.

"The loosening of economic, cultural, political, and social-system
boundaries – globalization – had broadened creative possibilities, or
perhaps the very definition of art, to challenge and inspire artists
everywhere," Pearson says.

riday, November 9
1:30 - 2:30 pm - Hans Ulrich Obrist
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Roger McDonald
3:30 - 4:30 pm - Steve Litt
4:30 - 5:30 pm - Q&A

Saturday, November 10
10:00 - 11:00 am - Roberta Smith
11:00 - Noon - Chrissie Iles
12:15 - 1:30 pm - Lunch
1:45 - 2:45 pm - Kay Heymer
2:45 - 3:30 pm - Q&A
3:45 - 5:45 pm - Panel discussion with further question time
(moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist)

6:00 - 7:30 pm - Reception, Allen Memorial Art Museum (East Gallery)

[excerpted from Oberlin Online, "News and Features" November 5, 2007 &
www.oberlin.edu/amam/GlobalCompass.htm.]

ARTIST and ALUM Aimee Lee

will be lecturing on her work
MONDAY NOVEMBER 5TH
4:45
CLASSROOM ONE

AIMEE LEE 'OC 99 worked for NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) as an arts administrator, finished a masters in Book Arts and Sculpture at Columbia College has been successfully exhibiting her work. In addition she has attended many residencies throughout the us. She has a rich breadth of experience and insight to share with our majors.

from Nanette Yannuzzi-Macias <Nanette.Yannuzzi@oberlin.edu>

LoVid

LoVid will be giving a presentation on their work on
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16
2PM
KULAS CONCERT HALL, OBERLIN CONSERVATORY

"LoVid is an interdisciplinary artist duo composed of Tali Hinkis and Kyle
Lapidus. Our work includes live video installations, sculptures, digital
prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. We
combine many opposing elements in our work, contrasting hard electronics
with soft patchworks, analog and digital, or handmade and machine produced
objects. This multidirectional approach is also reflected in the content of
our work: romantic and aggressive, wireless and wire-full. We are interested
in the ways in which the human body and mind observe, process, and respond
to both natural and technological environments, and in the preservation of
data, signals, and memory."
http://www.lovid.org/

For questions and more information, please call the office of Julia
Christensen, Visiting Assistant Professor of Emerging Arts @ (440) 775-8519,
or email @ julia.christensen@oberlin.edu