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Welcome to the Department of Art Theory & Practice (AT&P) at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. The department has both an undergraduate program, offering a baccalaureate degree, and a graduate program, offering a Masters of Fine Arts degree. |
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Pamela Bannos |
Marlena Novak Marlena Novak’s work is a cross-disciplinary hybrid including HD video, animatography, interactive time-based media, digital photography, and encaustic painting (BFA, Carnegie-Mellon; MFA, Northwestern) with solo exhibitions in Berlin, Cologne, Amsterdam, Enschede and the U.S. Her encaustic-painting technique was the subject of a documentary presented on PBS and she was invited to teach a course in this medium at the Amsterdam Institute for Painting in 1996. Both as a solo artist and as a member of the collaborative localStyle Novak’s work is motivated by the theme of perception. “Beginning with visual perception and expanding to the ways that individuals gather and process information about our social, political and physical environments, I am interested in the ways that thresholds and boundaries are constructed and interconnected. Since each work is driven by an underlying concept, its realization varies, ranging from installation, video, and performance, or combinations of all three. Interactive digital electronics as well as low-tech means are utilized in the exploration of themes as varied as abstract narrative, boundaries relating to physical and intangible properties, issues of trespass, and the mating behavior of hermaphroditic flatworms.” localStyle projects have been presented in Berlin, Valencia, Mexico City, Linz, New York, Chicago, Boston, Sydney, Santa Barbara, Sarasota, Szczecin, Sittard, Duluth, Camden, and Santa Fe, in exhibitions and festivals such as the Warsaw Electronic Festival, Experimental Intermedia New York, Electrostatic at Toronto’s Drake Underground, Ars Electronica and EstacionArte in Mexico City. The Digital Art Museum—Berlin presented the digital video Dancing Cranes on a 13x20 foot outdoor LED display at Sony Center, Potsdamer Platz, and the Mondriaan Museum of Concrete Art (Amersfoort, the Netherlands, birthplace of Mondriaan) acquired the same piece for their permanent collection. This workwas initially funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain. Dancing Cranes also entered the collections of three U.S. museums, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Several projects have been supported by grants from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (Northwestern), and the Illinois Arts Council. In addition to her professional activities as an artist, Novak has written about the work of other artists in Flash Art magazine and contributed a chapter to Explorations in Art and Technology (Springer-Verlag, London 2002), curated exhibitions such as switched>ON< (international electronic-based art, Chicago 2004), and continues to teach in the Animate Arts Program at Northwestern, where she serves as the Associate Director. video and other documentation can be found at www.localStyle.tv an interview with the artist is located at www.chicagocityarts.org/content/view/1896/98
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