NEW ART IN THE SOUTH: News + Reviews
- BIN, collective action from across the US
AVA Center, January 9 - February 1. Programs and details forthcoming.
- Arizona Digital Media Investigations
I’m not sure I will ever be able to “define” digital media. But I do enjoy all the questions it brings up. This project involves a public blog-based conversation. Could be interesting. Participation is always tricky business. Kudos to William Culpepper for cooking this up. arizonadigitalmedia.org
- AFTERBIRTH: call for birth videos / deadline (postmark) August 30
Building on the conceptual foundations brought forth through the works of psychologist Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan and artist/writer Mary Kelly this project considers the current state of birth (reception and projection) in its captured form. Afterbirth is a proposed multi-channel, projected video installation. Live birth video will be sourced and edited from submissions received through an open [...]
- Welcome Phillip Andrew Lewis and Julie Tomblin Lewis
SEED welcomes Phillip Andrew Lewis and Julie Tomblin Lewis from Memphis by way of Youngstown, OH. Both are artists and co-founded, Medicine Factory, an independent art organization for installation based work in Memphis, TN. Phillip is new faculty in the art department at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
- Jessica Westbrook returns to Chattanooga from Chicago
After a year working in the industry as a creative director for a small internet marketing and application development company in Chicago - I’m happy to return to Chattanooga for a faculty position at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. I did a national search and had a lot of options, but Chattanooga and UTC [...]
- The city of Chattanooga Rejects SEED project(s)
SEED received an RFP from the city of Chattanooga calling for proposals for works “in any media, must be suitable for outdoors, and may be functional or non-functional, temporary in nature or permanent.” SEED submitted a proposal for a 7 foot branded POD to be installed on public grounds. Read the proposal.
The project was rejected [...]
- CreateHere Rejects SEED project(s)
CreateHere is an organization formed to support the economic development of a network of Chattanooga neighborhoods. Much of their programming involves an investment in sustainable art and creative entrepreneurial practices that will return a level of culture, generate revenue, and/or help solidify the growth and development of Chattanooga as a lifestyle.
Invested in creative diversification [...]
- SEED presents POLYMER-2, video+time based art event, on schedule for March 26, 2009 at The Hunter Museum of American Art.
Phillip Andrew Lewis, Nandini Makrandi, Adam Trowbridge, and Jessica Westbrook are billing out this extended video and time based art event with both high profile and emerging artists. Thank you to the Hunter Museum, Adera Causey and Nandini Makrandi. More information will be made available as the program develops.
- SEED presents Tablet: Contemporary Southern Painting at Tanner Hill Gallery
The text below is pulled from the CURATORS’ STATEMENT (Mark Bradley-Shoup and Ron Buffington).
Images proliferate like never before. Even more unique to our culture, the majority of images produced are not the creation of artists, but of the general public. It seems that no event, no matter how banal, goes [...]
