Ad Hoc ongoing from July 29, with Will Pappenheimer

Thursday July 29, 12:30pm est. Will Pappenheimer

Michael Rees and International Sculpture Center in partnership with Grounds For Sculpture are excited to present adhoc: a virtual talk series. Join Michael Rees as he talks with special guests who work in art, technology, and sculpture with a focus on making and the artist’s role in the current era.

Join us every other week for more episodes! Make sure you subscribe to get updates on the International Sculpture Center. This program is made possible by the New Jersey State Council for the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Michael Rees: Synthetic Cells: Site and (Para)Site catalogue is available in in the ISC Store.

Michael Rees  is a pioneer working with sculpture, technology, and interactivity exploring the dynamic between physical objects and virtual spaces. His invented sculptural platforms are made of robot assisted carvings, automatic dimensional prints, augmented reality, and photography.  He is a professor and runs a one of a kind robot lab as the Director of the Center for New Art at William Paterson University developing one of the first experimental curriculums in sculpture and new media. He lives in North Bergen, New Jersey on the Palisade overlooking Manhattan with his wife the painter Mary Ann Strandell. Follow Michael Rees on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.

Will Pappenheimer is a Brooklyn based artist working in new media, performance and installation with an interest in spatial and institutional intervention and the altered meaning of things. His work explores the collage of the virtual and physical worlds. He is a founding member of the augmented reality collective, Manifest.AR. His projects have been shown internationally at Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, Los Angeles; San Francisco MOMA; Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; FACT, Liverpool, UK; Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul; Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles; the ICA, Boston CyberArts and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington; FILE, Sao Paulo, BR; Xi’an Academy of Art Gallery in China; the New Museum and the 2017 Moving Image Art fair in New York. The artist’s works have been reviewed in Christiane Paulʼs recent historical edition of “Digital Art,” Art in America, New York Times, Hyperallergic.org, WIRED, Modern Painters, the Boston Globe, EL PAIS, Madrid, Liberation, Paris, and Art US. A documentary on his work is as part of Bloomberg TV’s Art + Technology series. He teaches new media at Pace University, New York. Follow Will Pappenheimer on Facebook and Instagram.

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Ad Hoc ongoing from July 15, with Carla Gannis

Carla Gannis is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She produces works that consider the uncanny complications between grounded and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science fiction in contemporary culture. Fascinated by digital semiotics, Gannis takes a horror vacui approach to her artistic practice, culling inspiration from networked communication, art and literary history, emerging technologies and speculative design.

Gannis’s work has appeared in exhibitions, screenings and internet projects across the globe. Recent projects include “Portraits in Landscape,” Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, NY and “Sunrise/Sunset,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Artport. A regular lecturer on digital art and extended reality, in March 2019 Gannis was a speaker at the SXSW Interactive Festival on the panel “Human Presence and Humor Make Us Better Storytellers.” Publications who have featured Gannis’s work include The Creators Project, Wired, FastCo, Hyperallergic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, El PaÍs and The LA Times, among others.  In 2015 her speculative fiction was included in DEVOURING THE GREEN:: fear of a human planet: a cyborg / eco poetry anthology, published by Jaded Ibis Press.

Gannis holds a BFA and MFA in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Boston University, respectively. Currently, she is Industry Professor at New York University (NYU) in the Integrated Digital Media Program, Department of Technology, Culture and Society, Tandon School of Engineering. She is also a Year 7 Member of NEW INC, in the XR: Bodies in Space track, New York, NY. Follow @carlagannis on twitter and Instagram.Check out Gannis’ channels on Vimeo and Youtube visit her website here: https://carlagannis.com

Ad Hoc ongoing from July 1, 2021 with John Craig Freeman

Michael Rees and International Sculpture Center in partnership with Grounds For Sculpture are excited to present adhoc: a virtual talk series. Join Michael Rees as he talks with special guests who work in art, technology, and sculpture with a focus on making and the artist’s role in the current era.

Join us every other week for more episodes! Make sure you subscribe to get updates on the International Sculpture Center. This program is made possible by the New Jersey State Council for the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Michael Rees: Synthetic Cells: Site and (Para)Site catalogue is available in in the ISC Store.

Michael Rees  is a pioneer working with sculpture, technology, and interactivity exploring the dynamic between physical objects and virtual spaces. His invented sculptural platforms are made of robot assisted carvings, automatic dimensional prints, augmented reality, and photography.  He is a professor and runs a one of a kind robot lab as the Director of the Center for New Art at William Paterson University developing one of the first experimental curriculums in sculpture and new media. He lives in North Bergen, New Jersey on the Palisade overlooking Manhattan with his wife the painter Mary Ann Strandell. Follow Michael Rees on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.

John Craig Freeman is a public artist with over thirty years of experience using emergent technologies to produce large-scale public work at sites where the forces of globalization are impacting the lives of individuals in local communities. His work seeks to expand the notion of public by exploring how digital networked technology is transforming our sense of place. Freeman is a founding member of the international artists collective Manifest.AR and he has produced work and exhibited around the world including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, FACT Liverpool, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing. In 2015, he was the recipient of a commission from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Art + Technology program. In 2016 he will travel to Wuhan China as part of the American Arts Incubator program administered by ZERO1 and was the recipient of an NEA Individual Artist Fellowship in 1992. Freeman received a Bachelor of Art degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1990. He is currently a Professor of Art and Technology at Emerson College in Boston.

Ad Hoc ongoing from June 17, 10:30am ET with Tamiko Thiel

Michael Rees and International Sculpture Center in partnership with Grounds For Sculpture are excited to present adhoc: a virtual talk series. Join Michael Rees as he talks with special guests who work in art, technology, and sculpture with a focus on making and the artist’s role in the current era.

Join us every other week for more episodes! Make sure you subscribe to get updates on the International Sculpture Center. This program is made possible by the New Jersey State Council for the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Michael Rees: Synthetic Cells: Site and (Para)Site catalogue is available in in the ISC Store.

Michael Rees  is a pioneer working with sculpture, technology, and interactivity exploring the dynamic between physical objects and virtual spaces. His invented sculptural platforms are made of robot assisted carvings, automatic dimensional prints, augmented reality, and photography.  He is a professor and runs a one of a kind robot lab as the Director of the Center for New Art at William Paterson University developing one of the first experimental curriculums in sculpture and new media. He lives in North Bergen, New Jersey on the Palisade overlooking Manhattan with his wife the painter Mary Ann Strandell. Follow Michael Rees on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.

Tamiko Thiel Tamiko Thiel is a visual artist exploring the interplay of place, space, the body and cultural identity. She works in a variety of media ranging from supercomputers to digital prints and videos to interactive 3d virtual reality worlds and augmented and mixed reality artworks and installations. Her long form biography is available here: https://tamikothiel.com/cv.html#biography

Tamiko Thiel was awarded the 2018 Visionary Pioneer Award by the Society for Art and Technology Montreal for her (now over 35) years of media artworks exploring the interplay of place, space, the body and cultural identity in political and socially critical artworks. She was lead product designer on Danny HIllis‘ "Connection Machine CM1/CM2“ AI supercomputer, in 1989 the fastest computer on earth and now in the collection of MoMA NY. She began working with virtual reality in 1994 as producer and creative director of "Starbright World" (1994-‘97), in collaboration with Steven Spielberg, and with augmented reality in 2010, showing her „ARt Critic Face Matrix“ as part of a path-breaking AR intervention into MoMA NY. Her first VR art installation "Beyond Manzanar" (2000, w/Zara Houshmand) is in the collection of the San Jose Museum of Art, and her AR commissions include "Unexpected Growth" (2018, with /p) for the Whitney Museum, now in the permanent collection. In 2020 she came full circle to her beginnings in the AI world with her AI deepfake art installation „Lend Me Your Face!“ (with /p). Website: https://tamikothiel.com/ Facebook: @tamiko.thiel Instagram: @tamikothiel Twitter: @tamikothiel LinkedIn: @tamiko-thiel-5b869b44

Ad Hoc ongoing from June 3, 12:30pm with Chris Manzione

Michael Rees and International Sculpture Center in partnership with Grounds For Sculpture are excited to present adhoc: a virtual talk series. Join Michael Rees as he talks with special guests who work in art, technology, and sculpture with a focus on making and the artist’s role in the current era.

Join us every other week for more episodes! Make sure you subscribe to get updates on the International Sculpture Center. This program is made possible by the New Jersey State Council for the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Michael Rees: Synthetic Cells: Site and (Para)Site catalogue is available in in the ISC Store.

Michael Rees  is a pioneer working with sculpture, technology, and interactivity exploring the dynamic between physical objects and virtual spaces. His invented sculptural platforms are made of robot assisted carvings, automatic dimensional prints, augmented reality, and photography.  He is a professor and runs a one of a kind robot lab as the Director of the Center for New Art at William Paterson University developing one of the first experimental curriculums in sculpture and new media. He lives in North Bergen, New Jersey on the Palisade overlooking Manhattan with his wife the painter Mary Ann Strandell. Follow Michael Rees on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.

Christopher Manzione is an American artist who ran the Virtual Public Art Project (10’), an organization that used augmented reality to produce original artist works in public space. His most recent project Activatar app hosts a range of new media artists projects through monthly shows via a free app. Manzione’s work also includes sculpture, installation, virtual reality, 3D printing and performance; most recently he presented the virtual reality artwork World and Place Evaporating as part of the Moving Image Art Fair (17) along with curating and showing in Space Between the Skies at Apex Art (16). In addition he has received a 2014 Fellowship through Franconia Sculpture, he was a 2013 Fellow for New Jersey State Council on the Arts, artist-in-residence at William Paterson University’s Center for Computer Art and Animation (11), Socrates Sculpture Park (Emerging Artist Fellowship, 2010). He has shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Boston ICA, Abington Arts Center, Kim? Art Center in Riga, Alt Art Space in Istanbul, Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, the Surry Hills Festival in Melbourne, and Gurzenich Koln Museum in Cologne. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Visual Arts and Technology at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.

Ad Hoc Episode 5 with Claudia Hart 05.20.2021

Michael Rees and the International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture magazine, are excited to present Ad Hoc, a virtual talk series. Join Michael Rees as he talks with special guests who work in art, technology, and sculpture. These conversations will focus on making and the artists role in the current era. Join us every other week for more episodes! Make sure you like and subscribe to get updates on the International Sculpture Center.

In this episode, Michael is joined by artist Claudia Hart, who took part in the exhibition and was featured in the book, Synthetic Cells. In this conversation they talk about Claudia’s work and her interest in the intersection of art and technology. Buy the book here: Claudia Hart emerged as part of a generation of 90s intermedia artists examining issues of identity, now focusing on how technology affects that, along with issues of the body, perception, and nature collapsing into it and then back again. Hart was an early adopter of virtual imaging, using 3D animation to make media installations and projections, and later as they were invented, other forms of VR, AR and objects using computer-driven production machines. At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she developed a pedagogic program based on this concept - Experimental 3D - the first dedicated solely to teaching simulations technologies in an art context. She lives in New York, is represented in the US by bitforms galleries, and is married to the media artist Kurt Hentschlager. https://claudiahart.com/ https://www.chamberofdreams.net/ https://vimeo.com/claudiahart https://www.instagram.com/claudhart

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Ad Hoc Episode 4 with Edward Winkelman and Thomas Moran 05.06.2021

Michael Rees and International Sculpture Center in partnership with Grounds For Sculpture are excited to present adhoc: a virtual talk series. Join Michael Rees as he talks with special guests who work in art, technology, and sculpture with a focus on making and the artist’s role in the current era.

Tom Moran served as the Chief Curator at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey from 2011 to 2020.  Over the course of his service, he curated major exhibitions of the works of Bruce Beasley, Willie Cole, Jae Ko, Masayuki Koorida, Kang Muxiang, Michael Rees, Steve Tobin, Elyn Zimmerman, and many others. Moran is recognized as an expert in the field of public art having completed over 400 public art projects serving as the program director from 1982 to 2011 with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has worked with a vast number of artists including Michele Oka Doner, George Segal, Isaac Witkin, Alice Aycock, and Maya Lin.  He also served as a peer review expert for the United States General Services Art-In-Architecture program from 1990 until 2010 on projects in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and others.  Moran has served as a consultant to foundations, museums, governments, and artists about the field of sculpture, memorials, and public art and has published several major essays and lectured on these subjects throughout the United States and internationally.

Edward Winkleman is a private art dealer based in New York. He is the former director of Winkleman Gallery, and former co-founder of the Moving Image art fair which took place in New York, London, and Istanbul. He is the author of "Selling Contemporary Art" and the co-author of "How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery." Since 2019, he has been a consultant to the Art Basel Miami Beach Conversations program.

Michael Rees  is a pioneer working with sculpture, technology, and interactivity exploring the dynamic between physical objects and virtual spaces. His invented sculptural platforms are made of robot assisted carvings, automatic dimensional prints, augmented reality, and photography.  He is a professor and runs a one of a kind robot lab as the Director of the Center for New Art at William Paterson University developing one of the first experimental curriculums in sculpture and new media. He lives in North Bergen, New Jersey on the Palisade overlooking Manhattan with his wife the painter Mary Ann Strandell. Follow Michael Rees on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.

Join us every other week for more episodes! Make sure you subscribe to get updates on the International Sculpture Center. This program is made possible by the New Jersey State Council for the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Michael Rees: Synthetic Cells: Site and (Para)Site catalogue is available in in the ISC Store.

Ad Hoc Episode 3 with Anna Ehrsam and Edward A Shanken 04.22.2021

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On Thursday, April 22nd at 12:30PM ET, check out Ad Hoc on the YouTube channel. Artist Michael Rees will be speaking with writer Anna Ehrsam, Editor in Chief of Battery Journal, as they discuss the making of Rees' exhibition Site and (Para)Site, which was up at Grounds For Sculpture from June 2, 2018 — January 10, 2021. Watch now on our YouTube channel, and make sure to like and subscribe! More videos in this talk series will be added every other week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrYK2QRnNwM
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Interdisciplinary artist Anna Ehrsam is a patented inventor, publisher, and art historian who works across a variety of mediums. She is also the founder and Editor in Chief of Battery Journal. She has lived and worked in New York City for over twenty years and her interdisciplinary work allows an expansive vision of exploration, experimentation, and flow. https://www.batteryjournal.org/about-1
Edward A. Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. He is Associate Professor at UC Santa Cruz, where he has served as Director of the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA program. Shanken has also published several books and many more essays on contemporary art and new media. https://artexetra.wordpress.com

Michael Rees is an artist working in themes of figuration, language, technology and the social to weave a sculptural mélange. He has shown his work most recentlyat Grounds for Sculpture in Synthetic Cells: Site and (Para)Site. Rees is currently professor of sculpture and digital media at William Paterson University and Director of the Center for NewArt there. https://michaelrees.org

Ad Hoc Episode 2 with Tom Moran 04.08.2021

On Thursday, April 8th at 12:30PM ET, check out Ad Hoc on our YouTube channel. Artist Michael Rees will be speaking with Tom Moran, curator, as they discuss the making of the exhibition Site and Parasite, which was up at Grounds For Sculpture from June 2, 2018 — January 10, 2021. Watch now on our YouTube channel, and make sure to like and subscribe! More videos in this talk series will be added every other week. The videos will be available on youtube after the premier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ_SrBHB43o

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Michael Rees: Synthetic Cells: Site and (Para)Site catalogue available in in the ISC Store

Ad Hoc Episode 1 with Gary Garrido Schneider and Anna Ehrsam 03.25.2021

Announcing AD HOC, a virtual talk series from Michael Rees and the International Sculpture Center. These will be biweekly talks on youtube with the smartest people I can get to talk to me. My first show in the series features Anna Ehrsam artist, publisher, gallerist and patent holder and Gary Garrido Schneider Executive Director of Grounds For Sculpture. We talk about my exhibition Synthetic Cells: Site and (Para)Site that ended last January. Upcoming episodes feature these guests: Tom Moran, Will Pappenheimer, Claudia Hart, Edward A. Shanken, Tamiko Thiel, Carla Gannis, Edward Winkleman, Christopher Manzione, John Craig Freeman, Edward Winkleman, Bill Albertini, Jose Luis Garcia delCastillo y Lopez and others. Join us for episode 1 below.

AD HOC Episode 1: Michael Rees in conversation with Gary Garrido Schneider and Anna Ehrsam

Watch the premier episode of adhoc: Michael Rees in conversation with artists, curators, writers and more, on March 25, 2021. In this first episode, Michael is joined by Gary Garrido Schneider, Executive Director at Grounds for Sculpture, and Anna Ehrsam, Founder and Editor-In-Chief at Battery Journal.

WATCH adhoc: Michael Rees in conversation with Gary Garrido Schneider and Anna Ehrsam

Join us every other week for more episodes! Make sure you like and subscribe to get updates on the International Sculpture Center.

Michael Rees is a pioneer working with sculpture, technology, and interactivity exploring the dynamic between physical objects and virtual spaces. His invented sculptural platforms are made of robot assisted carvings, automatic dimensional prints, augmented reality, and photography.  He is a professor and runs a one of a kind robot lab as the Director of the Center for New Art at William Paterson University developing one of the first experimental curriculum in sculpture and new media. He lives in North Bergen, New Jersey on the Palisade overlooking Manhattan with his wife the painter Mary Ann Strandell. Follow Michael Rees on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.

Gary Garrido Schneider currently serves as the Executive Director of Grounds For Sculpture where he has been leading the organization through a complex founder transition and has set a vision to expand its impact as a leader, creative magnet and vibrant space that invites a diverse public to create, learn, and discover personal meaning in their interactions with art, artists, nature and one another. Throughout his career he has been committed to cultivating human connections, community building and lifelong learning that can occur through the arts and within museums. For 12 years he held a senior leadership position within the Montclair Art Museum, developing innovative programs, redefining the museums relationship to the community, and expanding and diversifying audience. He has a B.F.A from Parsons School of Design and K-12 Art Education certification through Bank Street College. He is a graduate of the prestigious Getty Museum Leadership Institute and the Teacher Institute in Museum Education (TIME) at the Art Institute of Chicago. Follow Grounds For Sculpture on social Media: Facebook and Instagram.

Anna Ehrsam is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief at Battery Journal. She is also an interdisciplinary artist, patented inventor and art historian who works across a variety of mediums. Her work embodies infinitely permutable forms, performances, sounds, text, images, and video. She has lived and worked in New York City for over twenty years. The objective of her work is to develop and expand the languages of form, color, light, sound, text and context, using their intrinsic physical metaphysical and relational properties to make concrete and ephemeral phenomenon. She creates intimate artifacts, installations, images, drawings, and documents. Ehrsam is guided by the concepts of beauty, truth and knowledge as liberating forces. The interdisciplinary nature of her work allows an expansive vision of exploration, experimentation, and flow.

This video series is made in partnership with Michael Rees and Grounds For Sculpture. This program is made possible by the New Jersey State Council for the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Michael Rees: Synthetic Cells: Site and (Para)Site catalogue available in in the ISC Store