June 12 - June 22, 2008

Lawrimore Project is pleased to host the 2008 DXARTS BFA Thesis Exhibition. A unique partnership between the gallery and an education program, this exhibition marks a departure from Lawrimore Project's normal programming while reinforcing its commitment to supporting artists working in digital and experimental media and institutions that edify, encourage and validate those wishing to work with those forms of expression. With so much attention being given to the various lacks and strengths of arts education programs around the world, Lawrimore Project recognized in DXARTS an admirable departure from traditional curricula, a faculty that is actively engaged in the larger art world and a student body refreshingly mature and prepared for the next stages of their careers. It is our hope that by providing this platform for these young artists we will not only shed light on their individual talents, but also expose a wider audience to a new model of education worthy of attention and support.

From DXARTS:

The University of Washington's Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media program and Lawrimore Project are pleased to announce a BFA thesis exhibition of cutting-edge artistic inquiry.

Featured works include installations that explore spatiotemporal aspects of light and sound in relation to the viewer, memory, kinetics, and real-time interactions.  Intersecting these installations are environments that employ dance performance, stereoscopic cinema, animation, and a selection of experimental video.

The exhibition is undertaken by thirteen emerging artists investigating areas of convergence between technology and hybrid art forms.  The BFA acquired through the DXARTS program emphasizes creative academic research and experimentation through the arts, and this thesis exhibition showcases the final products of that process.  The nature of this course of study merges the use of modern tools, techniques and modes of thought to pioneer new directions in contemporary, interdisciplinary art practice.

Seattle's Lawrimore Project presents some of the most ambitious and innovative shows in the northwest  and is dedicated to carrying forward a critical dialogue between artists, curators, collectors, and the community.  Scott Lawrimore's curatorial instincts, matched with his unique historical perspective, are evident with a quick glance at the wide breadth of shows he has exhibited.  From radical installations that transform the entire gallery, to unhinged video, painting and photography exhibitions, Lawrimore's interventions in northwest contemporary arts reinforces the new collaboration with DXARTS and will deliver a new emerging artistic logic heavily focused on the frontier of experimental arts.

T. JARED FRIEND

We Spent Our Time Lusting After Uneven Terrain, 2008

Steel, acryllic, polyethylene, LCDs, speakers, contact mics, gravel 8 x 6 x 24 feet

A video installation with real-time sound synthesis that attempts to preemptively mediate a physical experience with a cinematic one. MORE HERE

AMIR STONE

Blight Horizon, 2008

Digital video projection, fused acrylic, water, milk, and real time infra red capture 36'' x 52'' x 8'

Imagine a space filled with light timelessly suspended. Beams pass by scattering suddenly. As you move slowly the light avoids you. You do not know why. You can see forms hanging, moving slowly and reacting to your movements. Blight Horizon utilizes cutting edge video composition combined with real time image manipulation and the physical properties of light in space and time. It is an art installation that relies upon controlling scientific principle with the poetry and rigor of art to create an entirely immersive environment. MORE HERE

GARY PENNOCK

The Cold Empty Wave, 2008

Digital Video Infinite Loop

An inquiry into the nature of time experienced through waves of light emanating from an empty corked bottle shattering upon the concrete. This magic moment is in a process of fission and fusion, while gravitating to an explication of its existence. MORE HERE

STEFAN MOORE

Untitled, 2008
video loop

NAASIR RAMJI

Nur, 2008

Solo Dance Performance | LED embedded flex circuits | Composed Audio

A dance as a body of light.

Nur, the Arabic word for light, is not only a reference to external sources of illumination, but internal ones as well. It is often used as a metaphor to encompass the notions of the Spirit, the Soul, and finally, that of Intellect.

JON MASAYA EVANS

Meditations on Temporeality, 2008

Video, Electro-Mechanics, Paraffin Wax 3'x2'x2'

It is said that the founder of Zen, Bodhidharma, meditated in a cave for nine years until his limbs atrophied and eventually fell off. It is after this time that he found enlightenment...

Meditations is a living and changing sculptural experience. MORE HERE

COLLIN MONDA

Recycled, 2008

HD & Stop-Motion 30 min

A surreal experimental narrative in which real and fiber-based worlds are unexpectedly interleaved. The film follows a character who works at a paper recycling center and gradually descends into a bizarre illustration fueled obsession with an unseen female through her intriguing paper waste. MORE HERE

LEI ZHANG

The Stone Mason and His Wife, 2008

Digital video

MATTHEW SALTON

The Sleeper, 2008

Super8 transferred to HD video

ERICA BETHURUM

Indistinction, 2008

Infrared / motion tracking camera, custom software

Indistinction is an interactive installation that displays the intimacy of a individuals facial fingerprint as a means of networking with other viewers. The piece displays a pulse of liquid ripples which expand to unmask similar facial point features of past participant to show a connection between them and the individual interacting. MORE HERE

JD PIRTLE

The Far Dark Shore, 2008

Stereoscopic digital video and computer graphics

A woman encounters her youth and mortality in an interdimensional space between the screen and the world all around us.

ALEX GEORGESCU

Absorbed, 2008

3D Projection on Plaster 6ft x 4.5ft

Absorbed is a short animation that explores the potential of stereo environments, and experiments with projection on non-flat surfaces. MORE HERE