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The Exhibition (as a whole)

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The Rhizome Project

Rhizome2Sara Schneckloth

Hotspot

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Tin Cans and String

Recall 2006

Transrobbins201 Jeff Fitzgerald

installation

The Temporary Travel Office in Residence at the Timucuan Historic and Ecological Preserve, Jacksonville, Florida

Transrobbins061Ryan Griffis

installation

Mind's Eye Radio/Ron Ellis' Fuzzy Logic

Musicear Mind's Eye Radio
radio broadcast
Monday, October 23, 7:00pm

                     Fuzzy Logic
                     performance
                     Monday, October 23, 8:30pm

The Death of Peter Pan: A Dialogue

Deathofpeter Anna Campbell and Chele Isaac

Video

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Birthday Girl

Steven Wetzel

video, 58 minutes

Beautiful Dachau

Alan_marcus_1 Alan Marcus

video, 30 minutes

Beautiful Dachau is an experimental documentary that observes streams of visitors to the Dachau concentration camp, now a popular tourist attraction. 800,000 people visit the site annually.

Pas de Deux

Transrobbins171Phil Sayers and Esther Sayers

A collaboration between Phil Sayers and his daughter Esther.  Inkjet prints by Phil Sayers and van dyck brown prints by Esther Sayers.

Tony and His Mirror

Mark_harvey_1 Mark Harvey

video

Exhibition Podcast

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Gibbosity

Liner Stephanie Liner

live sculpture

Private Voices

Anderson Nikki Renee Anderson

sound, cast porcelain sculptures, fabric

Liftig Anya Liftig

installation/performance with thrift-store afghans

One Clock

Irietalv Dominick Talvaccio and Matt Irie

Each tick of the seconds digit in this digital clock appears to be malfunctioning, though the clock is always very near the actual time.

Farmwork (Landscape)

Rosenbergforweb_2Douglas Rosenberg

video installation

San Shin Blues

Rodriguez Jose Rodriguez

watercolor and gouache, 2001

Rotating (in Four Movements)

Terrynauheimweb Terry Nauheim

video, 12 minutes

Terry Nauheim hand-cast records in rubber, inverting the original spiral. When played these cast records produce familiar but ambiguous musical remnants. The imagery is composed of 260 rotating drawings.

The Sid Boyum Sculpture Project

Gretta Wing Miller

video, 52 minutes, 2002

The Sid Boyum Sculpture Project documents the work of a group East Madison residents as they grapple with the acquisition of Madison folk artist Sid Boyum’s massive concrete sculptures.

N.A.F.T.A. (Not a Fair Trade for All)

16_truckr1_4 Fred Lonidier

digital prints

No. 92 (Architectural Digest, Nov. 1998)

Transrobbins079 Sally Larson

Lambda print, 27.5”x30”

Jeep Cherokee Indian

Auto_tour01 Sarah Kanouse and Nicholas Brown

video

Jeep Cherokee Indian follows the search for (Jeep) Cherokees along a section of the Trail of Tears 167 years after the forced relocation of the Cherokee Nation from their territories in Georgia and the Carolinas to Oaklahoma.

Clearing Your Conscience is on Sale Now

Nicole_gruter_adjNicole Gruter

performance

Untitled (Bradley Pool)

Img_6049 Heidi Ganshaw

Labor

Derr Robert Ladislas Derr

video

Labor documents Robert Derr’s unrolling and rolling up of a bolt of denim fabric at 4:30 PM each day for five days, Monday through Friday.

Hargrave's Machines

Bookwalterforweb Denise Bookwalter

digital prints, wax, lightboxes

Hargrave’s Machines draws on the work of Lawrence Hargrave, an early aviation pioneer who played an integral role in the development of flight and is most well known for his invention of the box kite. During his life he created over 200 models of flying machines; most of these were destroyed during the bombings of World War II.

Devotion of Duty

Img_5912 Jill Baker and Nelson Goranson

textile/performance

The Fantasy of the Present

Lamb0072Katrina Lamb

performance

A post-modern cabaret that incorporates music, photographs, and somewhat inappropriately personal, emotional stories.

Transylvania

Transylvaniaforweb The Art Club

stop-action animation

The Art Club is a group of Madison 4th graders who have been meeting weekly with artist Abby Shotwell for the past three years. The members of the Art Club are:
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Leaf Anthony

Olive Earley

Gillian Gehri

Linnea Halsten

Sylvia Hecht

Isak Lund

Henry Shotwell

Isaiah Stefan

Carina Vargas-Nunez

Blind Vision

Westonforweb_1 Kurt Weston

Archival digital photographic prints


Losing the Light

Peering Through the Darkness

Blind Vision

These photographs are from a series of self-portraits Kurt Weston made to explore the impact of his sight loss on his identity as a visual artist.

Allegiance

Simpson Gail Simpson

recycled paper products

Confetti Tricks

Shotwell Abby Shotwell

confetti

Serving Synesthesia

Transrobbins203Dan Schwarzlose

Performance and installation

Schwarzlose explores synesthesia, the neurological condition in which stimulation of one sense triggers a response from another.

Krumkake

Roy_krumkakeiiCarrie Roy

photographs

Krumkake are traditional Norwegian cookies.

Signal

ParisriotBob Paris

single channel video, 4 minutes

Signal is composed of television coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Other Visions

Transrobbins049_1Aaron Raz Link
Mixed media

Other Visions is a traveling ethnographic exhibit of the Museum of Nature    documenting the art and culture of the  little known Outremer People.

Ecosystem

Transrobbins020Max Liboiron

interactive installation with plastic cubes, diorama materials, Polaroid camera

Open GL (Re)Drawing

KluberMatthew Kluber

video, 20 minutes

Matthew Kluber uses a specific function in the code of Open GL (Graphical Library) software to re-draw a video clip found on a public domain website, rendering a new image every 20 seconds.

Photosynthesis at Apex Avenue

Lucyhg_3 Lucy HG

video

Dowagers

Ba BA Harrington

wood

The Four Humours

Humours Leigh Ann Hallberg

oil and mixed media on polyester film

Site

Georgiades Aristotle Georgiades

mixed media

L.A. Botanical

Joyce_campbell Joyce Campbell

tintype photographs, 10"x10

LA Botanical is an ongoing project to document each plant that grows in Los Angeles for which there is a documented use. These uses include use as food, medicine, weapon, abortive, analgesic, fuel, stimulant, building material, deadly toxin or mind altering entheogen.

After the Bough Breaks, The Yoke of the Perennial Everyman

Burghardforweb_2 Ryan Burghard

video installation and mixed media

After the Bough Breaks, the Yoke of the Perennial Everyman is Burghard’s re-telling of the story of Dionysius’ salvation at sea.

Just Try Having None: Transmuting, Transcribing, Transfixing, Transfiguring, Transforming, Transcending Pain, 2006

Transrobbins068_1Jim Ferris and Laura Ferguson

Performance and poems by Jim Ferris, Drawings by Laura Ferguson


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Back, viewed from above, 2003
Reclining figure with visible skeleton, 2004
Profile couple with visible skeleton, blue version, 2004
Standing couple with visible skeleton, 1996
Triple hands, embracing, 1998
oils, bronze powder, charcoal, pastel, pencil, and oil crayon on paper

Viral Confections

Transrobbins179Caitlin Berrigan

Plaster model, chocolates, interactive tea party

Viral Confections is from a series of works, Sentimental Objects in Attempts to Befriend a Virus. The chocolates illustrate the protein structure of the hepatitis C virus.

RESIDENT. ALIEN

Hewsonkellysm Kate Hewson and Marina Kelly

Performance and Installation

Hospital

Farmilantforweb_1 Mary Farmilant

From the series Hospital


Saturated Phenol: Columbus Hospital,
2004, pigment print, 30”x30”
Morning Light: Columbus Hospital, 2004, pigment print, 30”x30”
Room 1107: Columbus Hospital, 2004, pigment print, 30”x30”
Surgery: Columbus Hospital, 2005, pigment print, 30”x30”
recording, glass vials

Photos taken in the empty spaces of the former Columbus Hospital in Chicago

Artists


  • Aaron Raz Link
    is a Portland-based artist.
  • Abby Shotwell
    is a Madison-based artist and homemaker who teaches at the Madison Children's Museum, Madison Public Library, and Madison Schools.
  • Alan Marcus
    is Director of the Centre for Screen Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.
  • Anna Campbell and Chele Isaac
    Anna Campbell is associate professor of sculpture at Grand Valley State University. Chele Isaac is a graduate student in the Art Department at UW-Madison.
  • Anya Liftig
    is a Kentucky-based artist.
  • Aristotle Georgiades
    is a sculpture professor at the UW-Madison.
  • BA Harrington
    recently completed her MFA at UW-Madison.
  • Bob Paris
    teaches in the Kinetic Imaging Department in the School of Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.
  • Caitlin Berrigan
    is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in video, sculpture, performance, and interactive art.
  • Carrie Roy
    is a graduate student in the folklore program at UW-Madison.
  • Dan Schwarzlose
    is a Chicago-based artist and director of Elastic Arts Foundation since 1998.
  • Denise Bookwalter
    teaches at Xavier College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Douglas Rosenberg
    is a professor in the Art Department at UW-Madison.
  • Fred Lonidier
    is a Professor on the Visual Arts Faculty at the University of California, San Diego.
  • Gail Simpson
    is a sculpture professor at UW Madison.
  • Heidi Ganshaw
    is a Madison-based artist.
  • Jeff Fitzgerald
    is a Madison-based artist and founder of Revolution Cycles.
  • Jill Baker and Nelson Goranson
    Jill Baker is a graduate student at the University of Iowa Intermedia Program in the Department of Art. Nelson Goranson is a graduate student in the Education Department at the UW-Madison.
  • Jim Ferris
    is a poet and a professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the UW-Madison.
  • Jose Rodriguez
    is a graduate student in the Art Department at UW Madison.
  • Joyce Campbell
    is a Los Angeles based artist working in sculpture, film installations, and photography. She teaches at Scripps College and Claremont Graduate University.
  • Kate Hewson and Marina Kelly
    Kate Hewson is a Madison-based dancer and Arts Residency Coordinator at the UW-Madison. Marina Kelly is a Madison based dancer and artist, and a social worker at Malcolm Shabazz City High School.
  • Katrina Lamb
    is a San Franscisco-based artist.
  • Konjac
    is the collaborative team of artists Megan Katz and Jenny San Martin, both graduate students in the Art department at UW Madison.
  • Kurt Weston
    is a Los Angeles-based artist.
  • Laura Ferguson
    is a New York-based artist.
  • Leigh Ann Hallberg
    is teaching at Wake Forest University.
  • Lucy HG
    directs the Multimedia Studies Program at Los Angeles Mission College and co-founded the Institute of Arts and Multimedia.
  • Mark Harvey
    is Lecturer in Dance Studies in the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Mary Farmilant
    is a Chicago based artist, and teaches photography in the Chicago area.
  • Matt Irie and Dominick Talvacchio
    Chicago-based Irie and Brooklyn-based Talvacchio have been working together since 2002.
  • Matthew Kluber
    is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Grinnell College.
  • Max Liboiron
    lives and works in Stonybrook, NY.
  • Nicole Gruter
    is a graduate student in the Art department at UW Madison.
  • Nikki Renee Anderson
    is a Chicago based artist and teaches ceramics in the Chicago area.
  • Phil Sayers and Esther Sayers
    Phil Sayers teaches Fine Art at Staffordshire University UK and is a transvestite artist specializing in feminine masquerade from historical sources. Esther Sayers is a key member of the Education Team at Tate Modern, London.
  • Robert Ladislas Derr
    is Assistant Professor of Photography at The Ohio State University.
  • Ryan Burghard
    recently finished his MFA at the UW-Madison.
  • Ryan Griffis
    is Assistant Professor of New Media at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
  • Sally Grizzell Larson
    is a Philadelphia based photographer, filmmaker, and script-writer.
  • Sarah Kanouse and Nicholas Brown
    Sarah Kanouse is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where Nicholas Brown is a graduate student in the Department of Landscape Architecture, History and Theory.
  • Stephanie Liner
    recently completed her MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Stephen Wetzel
    is a Milwaukee-based filmmaker and Education Coordinator at Mata Community Media in Milwaukee.
  • Terry Nauheim
    is a New York-based artist who teaches digital media, computer graphics, and interactive design in the New York City area.
  • The Art Club
    is a group of Madison 4th graders who have been meeting weekly with artist Abby Shotwell for the past three years. The members of the Art Club are: Leaf Anthony, Olive Earley, Gillian Gehri, Linnea Halsten, Sylvia Hecht, Isak Lund, Henry Shotwell, Isaiah Stefan, and Carina Vargas-Nunez