Tag: Contemporary Art

• It All Matters Now

  It All Matters Now: A Creative Resistance Exhibition curated by Kyler Lasee & Tyli Scheetz, Presented in collaboration with Fall of Freedom, St. Norbert College, Bush Art Center, Godschalx Gallery, Exhibition on View from November 3 – December 5, 2025 It All Matters Now: A Creative Resistance is a student-curated exhibition exploring freedom of expression…

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  November 12, 2025

  Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Experimental Film, Projects, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

  Contemporary Art, Fall of Freedom, Justseeds, Political Art, video art

• Imagining Human Rights

  The Imagining Human Rights project was featured in the latest installment of the Behind The Arch series produced by the St. Norbert College Office of Alumni Engagement. As they state on thier site: “In this latest installment of the ‘Behind the Arch’ series, SNC professor Brandon Bauer (Art) details how students from multiple classes put…

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  October 3, 2024

  Collaborations, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Interview, Posters, Projects, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

  Contemporary Art, Imagining Human Rights, printmaking, St. Norbert College, Teaching Art, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Last chance to see “In Concert with Jen de los Reyes” at Co-Prosperity

  Tommorow is the last opportunity to see the exhibition “In Concert with Jen de los Reyes“, the first mid-career retrospective of this influential social practice artist, organizer, and educator. This retrospective exhibition, organized by Anthony Stepter, Astria Suparak and Nick Wylie, illuminates more than twenty years of artmaking, organizing, writing, and teaching by Jen de…

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  July 26, 2024

  Collaborations, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Projects, Socially Engaged Art

  Co-Prosperity, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Jen de los Reyes, Social Practice

• Indiana Green Invitational

  About Indiana Green Artdose Magazine will celebrate its Indiana Green Invitational 15th Anniversary at the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in downtown Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, July 26 through September 6, 2024. Join us on July 26, 6 – 8 pm, for our opening reception. This anniversary show will feature works by 53 artists that participated…

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  June 13, 2024

  Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events

  art, Artdose, Contemporary Art, exhibition, exhibitions, Indiana Green, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Wisconsin

• Sustained Turbulence

  My project Landscapes of Absence will be included in Sustained Turbulence the FLEFF 2024 New Media Exhibition at Ithaca College. For this edition of FLEFF, the curators looked back on past exhibitions to revisit work by artists whose work alerts us to the sustained turbulence of our moment. The work in this exhibition pulls into…

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  April 1, 2024

  Contemporary Art, Digital Art, Exhibitions and Events, Film Festival, Projects

  art and ecology, Contemporary Art, Critical Art Making, Digital Art, FLEFF, Ithaca College

• Artists Now! with Oliver Ressler

  On January 31, Oliver Ressler shared his work as a part of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts Artists Now! series of lectures. Nicolas Lampert hosted and I was invited to introduce Oliver for this lecture. For more information about the Artists Now! Series visit the series website.

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  February 2, 2024

  Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations

  Artists Now!, Climate Crisis, Contemporary Art, Oliver Ressler, Peck School of The Arts, Political Art, UW-Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• The Trace of Dawn

  I am excited to be included in this online exhibition curated by Harshini J. Karunaratne for the College Art Association‘s New Media Caucus Header/Footer Gallery! Harshini was invited to curate an exhibition – choosing the theme of light, and selected works of 6 artists who examine the interplay between vision, light, and darkness to create works of resistance,…

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  July 22, 2023

  Contemporary Art, Digital Art, Exhibitions and Events, Video

  College Art Association, Contemporary Art, experimental video, New Media Art, New Media Caucus, Online Exhibition, video art

• The Votes Are In!

  The votes are in from the Nuclear Weapons Referenda restaged for the DEMOCRACY exhibition at the Overture Center for the Arts. The installation was a reenactment of the 1982 Nuclear Freeze Referenda, in which Wisconsin was the first state to put nuclear disarmament policy to a popular vote. The final vote was 210 YES to…

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  June 12, 2023

  Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Projects, Socially Engaged Art

  Contemporary Art, democracy, Nuclear Disarmament Policy, nuclear freeze movement, Overture Center for the Arts, Political Art, Voting, Wisconsin

• Democracy Exhibition at the Overture Center for the Arts!

  The Democracy Exhibition is on display through Sunday, June 4 in the Playhouse Gallery at the Overture Center for the Arts! President Abraham Lincoln described democracy in his Gettysburg Address as a form of “…government of the people, by the people, for the people…” An ideal democratic system would listen to and serve all its…

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  March 14, 2023

  Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art

  Art in a Democratic Society, Contemporary Art, democracy, Overture Center for the Arts, Political Art, Wisconsin

• 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,…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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

• 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…

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  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

• 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…

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  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

• 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…

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  July 17, 2019

  Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events

  art exhibition, Art in Wisconsin, Cedarburg Cultural Center, Contemporary Art, Frank Juarez Gallery, Indiana Green, Wisconsin

• 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…

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  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…

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  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

• 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…

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  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

• #homophily

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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

• Visual Art & Social Statements

  I recently participated in a lecture titled “Visual Art & Social Statements: Peacemaking Through Art” with Fr. James Neilson sponsored by the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice & Public Understanding. The lecture was livestreamed on facebook and can be viewed at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/normanmillercenter/videos/10154155266206713/

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  October 5, 2016

  Art History, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations, Teaching

  Contemporary Art, Norman Miller Center for Peace Justice & Public Understanding, Peace Studies, Political Art, Social Practice, St. Norbert College

• Viewpoints: Social In/Justice at University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point

  ============================================================== ============================================================== The exhibition Viewpoints: Social In/Justice will open at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point in the Edna Carlsten Gallery on June 18th and continues through July 29th. The exhibition will feature the Social In/Justice print portfolio that was organized by Benjamin Rinehart – Associate Professor of Art at Lawrence University, and will…

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  June 6, 2016

  Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art

  Contemporary Art, Edna Carlsten Gallery, Euromissiles Crisis, Political Art, Social IN/JUSTICE, Social Justice, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point