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.
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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 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.