Multimedia artist to lecture Thursday
Monday, November 11, 2013
Jorge Bachman will collaborate with OSU students
Multimedia and sound artist Jorge Bachman will overview his work and preview his plans for a project with OSU students in a lecture titled “Meanderings” on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 5:30 p.m. in the Bartlett Center for the Visual Arts, room 109. The lecture, sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Lecture Series and the College of Arts and Sciences, is free and open to the public. It will be followed by a reception in the Gardiner Gallery.
As the 2014 OSU Museum of Art visiting artist, Bachman will work with OSU students next semester to create media-based installations from the sound recordings of Dale McKinney (1911-1994), a former OSU art professor.
Bachman will work both remotely and on site with students to create a public art experience. The work will be installed at the Postal Plaza Gallery in downtown Stillwater alongside McKinney¹s own rarely-seen kinetic sculptures.McKinney was an influential associate professor of art at OSU, as well as a respected painter, printmaker and sculptor. The Department of Art, Art History, and Graphic Design at OSU currently holds archival material from McKinney, including 1,400 reel-to-reel audio tape recordings of found sounds, music, and more that will be used as inspiration by students to create site-specific installations on campus this spring.
Bachman collects field recordings exploring the strange, unique, and microcosmic sounds of everyday life. His sound installations combine found and created sounds with instrumental performance in unconventional environments. Recently, he has been working with scientists to explore the interaction between sound and brain activity, incorporating their discoveries into his compositions.
About the OSU Museum of Art Visiting Artist Series
The Visiting Artist Series began last spring with Yatika Starr Fields, a Stillwater native and emerging artist, then based in NYC. Fields worked with music and art students in a project that culminated with a live painting performance set to music on the Student Union plaza and resulted in a 10-panel mural now installed in the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts. As the program moves forward, the goal is to build upon this success, inviting internationally-recognized artists to collaborate with our world-class faculty to transform students¹ lives, build new connections and widen people¹s experience of what art can be. The visiting artist workshop is generously sponsored by Ken and Mary Ann Fergeson.
About the OSU Museum of Art
For more information about the OSUMA and upcoming programming at the Postal Plaza Gallery, visit http://www.museum.okstate.edu or call 405-744-2780. The Postal Plaza Gallery is located at 720 S. Husband Street in downtown Stillwater. All exhibitions and programs are offered free of charge