Brandon Bauer

Art as ethical inquiry.

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  • 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…

    randomculture

    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…

    randomculture

    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…

    randomculture

    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…

    randomculture

    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
  • Uncovering News: Reporting and Forms of New Media Art

    My essay Landscapes of Absence has been published in the latest issue of Media-N, the journal of the College Art Association New Media Caucus. The issue is titled Uncovering News: Reporting and Forms of New Media Art and was edited by Abigail Susik and Grant Taylor. The issue features great contributions by a variety of…

    randomculture

    October 8, 2017
    Contemporary Art, Contributions, Digital Art, Publication
    College Art Association, digital media, Landscapes of Absence, Media-N, New Media Caucus, News Media
  • Art As Action: Politics and the Creative Impulse

    September 22 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm  in the Kresge Little Theatre, East Hall, Ripon College Our time in history is one of political upheaval as well as social and environmental unrest. Many of the seminal moments in art history have come from artists willing to take a stand amid such adversity. Artists act…

    randomculture

    September 18, 2017
    Art History, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations
    Center for Politics and the People, education, Political Art, political graphics, Ripon College
  • Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound

    Radius will be participating as a featured exhibitor at the Museum of Arts and Design‘s (MAD) upcoming exhibition Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound. This exhibition will be taking place at MAD in New York City from September 14, 2017 until February 25, 2018. It will include a gallery installation of Radius, a six month…

    randomculture

    September 10, 2017
    Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Sound Art
    Anna Friz, Deborah Stratman, Free Music Archive, Lumpen Radio, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, radio broadcast, Radius, Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound, sound art, Wave Farm
  • SNC Faculty Triennial Exhibition

    Click here for a “Triennial Faculty Exhibition Preview” post by Katie Hopkins on the St. Norbert College Art Galleries site. Click here for images from the St. Norbert College Magazine.

    randomculture

    August 24, 2017
    Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Teaching
    Bush Art Center, education, Faculty Exhibition, St. Norbert College, Triennial Exhibition
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    August 23, 2017
    Contemporary Art, Digital Art, Exhibitions and Events
    alternative facts, artwork, Contemporary Art, digital exhibition, echo chambers, fake news, filter bubble, homophily, net-art, NEWSpeak, Peripheral Forms, post-modern condition, public spheres, time based media
  • #WorldsUpsideDown

    #WorldsUpsideDown is an exhibition exploring the hopes and failures of radical political change at Firstsite, a cultural center in Colchester, England. The Justseeds Celebrate People’s History poster series will be included along with other great projects. Here is the description of the exhibition from the Firstsite website: Riots. Revolts. Revolution. All flashing moments which throw the…

    randomculture

    March 10, 2017
    Contributions, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art
    Arab Spring, art, Celebrate People’s History, Firstsite, graphics, Justseeds, Political Art, political graphics, Radical Politics
  • Interface/Landscape – FLEFF 2016 New Media Exhibition

    My project Landscapes of Absence has been included in Interface/Landscape, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival’s (FLEFF) 2016 new media exhibition at Ithaca College. As the curators state in their introduction to the exhibition: Collectively, the twelve projects in the INTERFACE/LANDSCAPE prompt us to think about elastic, multidirectional relationships between interface and landscape. These projects…

    randomculture

    December 12, 2016
    Contemporary Art, Contributions, Digital Art, Exhibitions and Events, Projects
    Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, FLEFF, Interface/Landscape, Ithaca College, Landscape, Landscapes of Absence, New Media Art
  • FFE 2016 – ANTHROPOCENE

    My work AN602: Tsar Bomba is part of the Fuse Factory 2016 juried exhibition – ANTHROPOCENE. The Fuse Factory is a hands-on art and technology lab. They expose the general public to new media art, sound art, and experimental music created with a diverse range of high and low technologies. Their public programming includes free…

    randomculture

    November 14, 2016
    Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Video
    ANTHROPOCENE, Brandon Bauer, Byron Rich and Mary Tsang, Columbus College Art & Design, Digital Art, Digital Video projects, Eric Souther, Lori Hepner, Michael Demers, New Media Art, Pearl Conard Art Gallery, Richard Munaba, Roderick Coover and Scott Rettberg, ROY G BIV Gallery, Sophie Kahn, Stephen Nachtigall, The Fuse Factory, The Ohio State University, Toby Kaufmann-Buhler and Lexie Stoia, William Randall
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