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  • Steve Davis on Kazegama

    Daily: Wednesday 01/18/2012 - Sunday 03/04/2012; 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
    University Park Campus Watt Hall, Ground Floor Galen Ceramics Studio, Room 107

    Lecture: Wednesday, January 18th, 9 am and 2 pm

    Workshop & Firing: “Kazegama: An Alternative to Woodfiring,” Saturday, March 3rd, 9 am–6 pm

    Kiln will be unloaded: Sunday, March 4th, 9–11 am  

    Wednesday’s lectures will cover the development of the “Kazegama” and preparations for the production and firing of students’ ceramic works. Steve Davis will discuss a brief history of Japanese woodfired ceramics, its influence on American Ceramics, and the development of an alternative kiln (the Kazegama) that produces results similar to Japanese woodfired ceramics.

    On the day of the workshop, students will be involved in the loading and firing of the kiln. During the firing of the kiln, Steve will share his approach towards clay and aesthetics through demonstrations.

    For additional information, go to kazegamas.com.

     

  • SUPERHIGHWAY Weeks 3 & 4: Jennifer Wong

    Daily: Monday 01/23/2012 - Sunday 02/05/2012; 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
    Superhighway University Gateway 3335 S. Figueroa Street Los Angeles CA 90007

    Building Form
    On view in Superhighway from January 23rd–February 5th is a loop of student work. 

    Jennifer Wong, Matchstick/Big Stick, 2011
    Jennifer Wong, Gelatin Effect, 2011

    Superhighway is located just inside the main entrance of the recently completed University Gateway apartment building, at Figueroa and Jefferson. The space is open from 10 am to 8 pm every day.

    Image: Jennifer Wong, still from Matchstick/Big Stick, 2011.

  • New Turf: Ceramics Exhibition

    Daily: Monday 01/30/2012 - Thursday 02/09/2012; 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM
    University Park Campus Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery Watt Hall, Ground Floor

    An exhibition featuring the work of advanced and beginning ceramics students

    Reception: Monday, February 6th, 5–7 pm

  • Net Work I.R.L. (in this room)

    Daily: Monday 01/30/2012 - Wednesday 02/15/2012; 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
    STATION Gallery Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007

    Reception: Wednesday, February 15th, 8:30–10 pm 

    Helen Adamidou
    Anthony Antonellis
    Jeff Baij
    Chris Coy
    Jasper Elings
    Lois Hopwood
    Jordan Levine
    Guthrie Lonergan
    Erik Peterson
    QIL
    david SZAKALY
    slothwave
    Kathleen Stevenson
    Joshua Caleb Weibley

    Organized by Donnie Cervantes

    Exhibition designed with QIL

     

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    GIF is one of those computer words commonly used but rarely spoken. If I assume a general user, I opt for the more popular hard “G” /gif/ instead of the original /dʒɪf/ as in “gym”. To a hard G’s defense the G does stand for “Graphics”. However, the acronym’s own inventors have always emphatically stressed that it should sound like “Jif” the peanut butter. So “Jif” it is when I’m being choosy. Even then I tentatively amend that under my breath with a hard “G” to play things safe. I know this is internet nerd esoterica, but it underscores my point: that the word’s phonetic oscillations nicely evoke its temporal, oft-animated situation across multiple states. Visually and semantically, the GIF loops back on itself and the speaker like an unsure ouroboros forever updating its own tail.

     

    –Chris Coy

     

    Image: Erik Peterson, Rendering Error (Sunset), gif, 2012.

  • Ian Stanton, Hello m_rosa, 2012

    Daily: Monday 01/30/2012 - Wednesday 02/15/2012; 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
    3001 Gallery Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007

    Reception: Wednesday, February 15th, 8:30–10 pm

     

    Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011  3:08

    To: m_rosa,

    Subject:  Hhello

     

    Hello m_rosa,

     

    You were in your bathroom when I clicked into your broadcast page. Your bathroom is very beautiful. I’ve never felt so captivated with something for reasons I am unable to articulate. Perhaps it was the non-sex that halted my quick and passive perusing. The genuineness of your desire to share yourself with your watchers.

     

    I didn’t participate in the chat though I wondered if I should have, but thought—just another number on your guest-counter—maybe it was enough for me to watch you anonymously… silently.

     

    I felt as if there was some reciprocal and mutual desires to just (for lack of a better word) connect.

     

    To be present with you—script-less, erotic-less, face-less, name-less.

     

    Though, I wish you could have seen or felt my excitedness when I saw that you were about to play the piano.

     

    I used to play music.

     

    very best,

    istanton