Brandon Bauer

Art as ethical inquiry.

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  • Art & Society Lectures at SNC

    As a part of my ART 205: Art, Technology, & Society course at St. Norbert College, I will be hosting a lecture series supported by the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, and Public Understanding. The schedule is as follows: Sky Hopinka – Thursday, March 9th at Noon Sky Hopinka is a Native American visual artist, […]

    randomculture

    February 2, 2023
    Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Presentations, Socially Engaged Art, Video
    Art & Society Lecture, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Jill Magid, Norman Miller Center for Peace Justice & Public Understanding, Sky Hopinka
  • fsm. The Artist as Citizen

    I submitted a short essay to the open call “The Artist as Citizen ” by the journal fsm. fsm. is a new art review journal covering contemporary arts in the Greater Fox River Valley of Wisconsin. My essay, Art in a Democratic Society, discusses my work to bring civics education to the arts and the necessary […]

    randomculture

    December 7, 2022
    Contemporary Art, Contributions, Political Art, Publication, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching
    Aram Han Sifuentes, Artist as Citizen, Civics Education, Contemporary Art, Political Art, Pro-Democracy Movement, Service Learning, Wisconsin
  • Art & Democracy Fall 2022

    This fall, I organized a series of exhibitions and events at St. Norbert College associated with an arts-based service-learning course called Art & Creative Democracy. The exhibitions and events were open to the campus and the community. The students in the Art & Creative Democracy course also participated in artistic activism workshops led by the […]

    randomculture

    November 17, 2022
    Collaborations, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations, Projects, Publication, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching
    Aram Han Sifuentes, Art & Creative Democracy, Art Education, art exhibition, Bun Stout, Center for Artistic Activism, Chto Delat?, Contemporary Art, democracy, Jonas Staal, Moki Tantoco, Oliver Ressler, Service Learning, Social Practice, Socially Engaged Art, U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC)
  • newARTSpace!

    I am included in an exhibition at a great new space in De Pere – the newARTSpace! The gallery is run by Terri Warpinski and David Graham who have over 75 years of making, teaching, and exhibiting art between the two of them. They are featuring the work of the St. Norbert College (SNC) Art faculty in the current […]

    randomculture

    August 11, 2022
    Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Teaching
    artwork, Contemporary Art, De Pere, Exhibitions and Events, newARTSpace, Wisconsin
  • Landscapes of Absence at the Miller Art Museum

    My project ‘Landscapes of Absence’ will be on view at the Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay, WI from July 16th through September 12, 2022. The exhibition in the main gallery is complemented by selections of other projects that provide a context for this work within my larger body of work. On view will be […]

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    July 15, 2022
    Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Presentations, Projects
    Brandon Bauer, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, experimental video, Miller Art Museum, video art, Wisconsin
  • The Nature of the Future

    My video Anthropogenic Horizon is featured in the exhibition The Nature of the Future at the Leu Art Gallery on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, TN. This exhibition takes its title from the book Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert. The exhibition features artists whose work addresses […]

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    March 17, 2022
    Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Projects, Video
    Anthopogenic Horizon, artwork, Belmont University, Climate Crisis, Contemporary Art, Leu Art Gallery, Nature of the Future, video art
  • An Imminent Wave

    This semester the Art in a Democratic Society students engaged in a SEA (Socially-Engaged Art) and pedagogy project. Included here are photos and documentation from the project “An Imminent Wave”, focusing on the intersection of climate change and immigrant and refugee issues. It was created by St. Norbert College ART 285: Art in a Democratic […]

    randomculture

    December 9, 2021
    Collaborations, Exhibitions and Events, Projects, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching
    climate change, Migration, Mulva Library, Norman Miller Center for Peace Justice & Public Understanding, pedagogy, Socially Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Art (SEA), St. Norbert College
  • UNCG International Sustainability Shorts Film Fest!

    My video Anthropogenic Horizon is featured in the 12th Annual University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) International Sustainability Shorts Film Festival and Competition! This annual short film competition held in the Spring semester incorporates and addresses the elements of UNCG’s definition of sustainability: social equity, the environment, the economy, and aesthetics. To see the films in […]

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    April 21, 2021
    Exhibitions and Events, film festival, Video
    aesthetics, Anthropogenic Horizon, environment, film festival, International Sustainability Shorts Film Festival, social equity, University of North Carolina Greensboro, video art
  • Art, Technology, & Society Lecture Series

    As a part of my ART 205: Art, Technology, & Society course at St. Norbert College I am hosting a lecture series that was supported by the Faculty Mini-Grant Program through the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, and Public Understanding. The schedule is as follows: Thursday, February 18th @ Noon – Mark Tribe  Mark Tribe […]

    randomculture

    February 3, 2021
    Art History, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Presentations, Teaching
    Claudia X. Valdes, Constance Hockaday, Contemporary Art, jackie sumell, Jonas Lund, Lecture Series, Mark Tribe, Social Practice, Socially Engaged Art, St. Norbert College
  • Critical Digital Making in Art Education

    I recently wrote an essay about my Landscapes of Absence project that has been published as a chapter in the new book Critical Digital Making in Art Education edited by Aaron D. Knochel, Christine Liao, and Ryan M. Patton. The book integrates the three fields critical theory, digital art making, and pedagogy, drawing from scholarship […]

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    October 16, 2020
    Books and Zines, Contemporary Art, Contributions, Digital Art, Publication, Releases
    Art Education, Critical Art Making, Digital Art, Peter Lang Publishing
  • Art in a Democratic Society Lecture Series

    As a part of my ART 285: Art in a Democratic Society course at St. Norbert College, I am hosting a lecture series that was supported by the Faculty Mini-Grant Program through the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, and Public Understanding. The schedule is as follows: Tuesday, September 8th – Center for Creative Citizenship […]

    randomculture

    September 1, 2020
    Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching
    Amanda Lovelee, Art in a Democratic Society, Center for Creative Citizenship, Contemporary Art, democracy, Girl Child Art Foundation, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Norman Miller Center for Peace Justice & Public Understanding, Social Practice
  • HOT STEAM III

    I am excited that my video Anthropogenic Horizon has been selected to screen at this year’s HOT STEAM III: A Science / Video / Art Festival. My work will be screened in an episode titled Traces along with work by Brit Bunkley, Hiorya Sakurai, Zhongkai Li, David Montgomery, and Maria Ferriera. The HOT STEAM festival will run differently this year due to the coronavirus […]

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    August 20, 2020
    Contemporary Art, Digital Art, Exhibitions and Events, Video
    Anthopogenic Horizon, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Brit Bunkley, Cambridge Community Television, Cranbrook Art Museum, David Montgomery, Frost Science Museum, Hiorya Sakurai, HOT STEAM, Maria Ferriera, MIT Museum, Starlight Square, Zhongkai Li
  • Celebrate People’s History Book!

    I am excited very to be included in the forthcoming 2nd edition of Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution that will be released on August 4th by the Feminist Press. The book is edited by Josh MacPhee who launched the poster series. The book includes an introduction by Charlene Carruthers and foreword […]

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    July 26, 2020
    Books and Zines, Collaborations, Contemporary Art, Contributions, Political Art, Posters, Projects, Releases
    Celebrate People’s History, Feminist Press, history, Justseeds, political graphics
  • Fragments of the Acceleration

    Fragments of the Acceleration – A Project by Brandon Bauer Featuring work that Brandon Bauer, associate professor of art at St. Norbert College, completed on a recent sabbatical. Through video works, photo sequences and graphics, the project Fragments of the Acceleration explores the atomic origins of what has been referred to as “the Great Acceleration […]

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    January 16, 2020
    Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations
    ANTHROPOCENE, Art Exhibitions, climate change, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Photography, Killeen Lecture Series, St. Norbert College
  • Indiana Green 2019

    Indiana Green is just around the corner! The annual exhibition started in Sheboygan, Wisconsin in 2010. Curated by the artist and gallerist Frank Juarez as a way to pay respect to artists that supported him. The exhibition was originally intended to be a one-year event but gradually grew to become a premier showcase of Wisconsin […]

    randomculture

    July 17, 2019
    Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events
    art exhibition, Art in Wisconsin, Cedarburg Cultural Center, Contemporary Art, Frank Juarez Gallery, Indiana Green, Wisconsin
  • LIFES – Treading Water LP

    I recently collaborated on the artwork for the band LIFES Treading Water LP that was just released. The record can be purchased or streamed through bandcamp and it can also be streamed through Spotify. The LP can be purchased in either a blue vinyl or a mixed grey & black “garbage” vinyl. The site Breathing […]

    randomculture

    June 30, 2019
    Collaborations, Contributions, Projects, Punk, Releases
    Art Collaboration, graphics, grindcore, LIFES, LP, punk, Vinyl
  • Film as Idea, Film as Film, Film as Art

    My video Cut: [The Sea Is All That Remains] is included in the exhibition My Gallery is an Idea: Ewa Partum and the Galeria Adres Archive, as a part of the Film as Idea, Film as Film, Film as Art screenings associated with the exhibition. This is the first comprehensive exhibition of the Galeria Adres archives, […]

    randomculture

    April 3, 2019
    Art History, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Video
    Conceptual Art, Ewa Partum, experimental film, Galeria Adres, Studio Teatrgaleria, video art
  • Oliver Ressler Interview in Arts & International Affairs

    My interview with Oliver Ressler has been published in the journal Arts & International Affairs (AIA). The current issue focuses on “understanding multimodalities in arts and social sciences” and has contributions from a range of scholars addressing this topic. My interview is one of two included in the issue, the other is a conversation between […]

    randomculture

    March 31, 2019
    Contemporary Art, Contributions, Interview, Political Art, Projects, Publication
    Academic Journal, Arts & International Affairs, multimodalities in arts and social sciences, Oliver Ressler, The University of Edinburgh
  • Lifted at the Pearl Conard Art Gallery

    Lifted An Exhibition Exploring Image-Based Appropriation in the Digital Age   I am excited to have work form my Landscapes of Absence series included in this exhibition! Here is information from the gallery website: The Pearl Conard Gallery at Ohio State Mansfield is proud to present Lifted, an exhibition exploring image-based appropriation in the digital […]

    randomculture

    February 3, 2019
    Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events
    appropriation, art exhibition, Contemporary Art, Ohio State Mansfield, Pearl Conard Gallery, Post-Internet
  • Landscapes of Absence in Hz

    A long form essay about my project Landscapes of Absence was just published in Issue #21 of the Swedish intermedia art journal Hz. Hz started as a print journal after its predecessor Fylkingen Bulletin in the 1960s. Since 2000, Hz moved to the Internet and has become a web-based journal, one of the few in […]

    randomculture

    January 21, 2019
    Contemporary Art, Contributions, Digital Art, Projects, Publication, Releases
    Art Journal, Atau Tanaka, Contemporary Art, David Fodel, experimental music and intermedia art, Fylkingen, Hz, intermedia, Internet art, Landscapes of Absence, Lars Bröndum, Marco Donnarumma, Mihai Bacaran, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Treasure – Ben Shahn Portfolio

    I was recently interviewed for a feature in the St. Norbert College Magazine to discuss a treasure on campus. I chose to discuss the Ben Shahn portfolio “For the sake of a single verse…” in the college art collection. The feature can be found here.

    randomculture

    November 8, 2018
    Interview, Teaching
    Art Collection, Ben Shahn, printmaking, Rainer Maria Rilke, St. Norbert College Magazine
  • 50-year celebration of the Milwaukee 14!

    There will be a 50-year celebration for the Milwaukee 14 this September 21st – 24th in Milwaukee. As they state on their website: Why We Gather 50 Years Later In 1968 the nation experienced a year of resistance and nonviolent direct action for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam. In Milwaukee, besides the […]

    randomculture

    September 4, 2018
    Exhibitions and Events, Posters
    Celebrate People’s History, Direct Action, Justseeds, Milwaukee 14, People’s History, poster
  • Celebrate People’s History in Ann Arbor

    One of the best-designed exhibitions of the Celebrate People’s History poster series is now on at the Stamps Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The photos (see below) look amazing. If you are in Eastern MI, check it out! More info on the show can be found on the Justseeds site HERE, or from the gallery website HERE. Stamps Gallery […]

    randomculture

    February 14, 2018
    Books and Zines, Collaborations, Contemporary Art, Contributions, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Posters, Projects
    Ann Arbor, Celebrate People’s History, graphics, history, Justseeds, political graphics, poster art, University of Michigan
  • The Euromissiles Crises Series at UW-Manitowoc

      My Euromissiles Crisis series is currently on display at the University of Wisconsin – Manitowoc through Mid-March in the Founder’s Hall Art Gallery. More information about the exhibition can be found here.

    randomculture

    February 11, 2018
    Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Projects
    Art Exhibitions, Euromissiles Crisis, Founder’s Hall Art Gallery, nuclear freeze movement, Nuclear Weapons, University of Wisconsin – Manitowoc
  • Oliver Ressler – Catastrophe Bonds

    About the Exhibition: The exhibition Catastrophe Bonds is the first survey of Oliver Ressler‘s work in the United States. It will be on view in the Bush Art Center Galleries at St. Norbert College, and the Lawton Gallery at the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay. The exhibition focuses on forms of grassroots democracy as well as economic […]

    randomculture

    February 7, 2018
    Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Projects, Publication
    Art Exhibitions, Catastrophe Bonds, Contemporary Art, Oliver Ressler, St. Norbert College, video art, Video Installation
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