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
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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