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SCCS 810 Presents:

Beth Frey and Dan Tapper hosted by Jenn Norton

Friday, Jan. 20 @ 11:30 Room 222

Beth Frey works with a variety of media, including drawing, painting, video, sculpture and installation. Through her wry, absurdist sense of humour, Frey playfully draws out contradictions in her subject matter, be it gender, the body, social media, or mental health, often integrating representations of herself into her chromatic cartoon-like world. Working from her complexly layered watercolours, Frey incorporates accessible smartphone apps and AI image generation tools to expand this universe and bring her body into it as an active player. Her popular Instagram project, sentientmuppetfactory, uses AI to comically deform bodies and poke fun classic film tropes. Frey has an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University and a BFA from the University of Victoria. She has exhibited her work in a number of solo and group shows across Canada, Mexico and the US. Frey currently divides her time between Montreal and Mexico City. 

Social media links: IG: @bethisms and @sentientmuppetfactory.

Dan Tapper is an artist and creative technologist interested in the intersection between information and experience. His current projects include building sonic VR environments and using machine learning to create new forms of divination.

FILM 460/SCCS810: A Talk with John Greyson

Feb. 3 @ 11:30

Room 222 IBCPA

"Prison Break"  - A clips lecture focused on incarceration and representation – how to break out of the prison-house of realism

Photo Booth + talk

FREE PUBLIC EVENT

Feb. 1 @ 5:30PM

The Screening Room 

120 Princess Street

Register Here: 

A conversation with Fernando Velázquez 

Fernando Velázquez is an artist, curator and professor. He explores how technical devices mediate perception, with particular interest in the structures, dynamics, and narratives that give rise current paradigms such as technosolutionism and the anthropobscene. He is interested in emergent and generative creative processes and transdisciplinary methodologies. In this talk, Velázquez will be discussing how his work – which includes installations, objects, videos, audiovisual performances and images generated with algorithmic systems –involve the viewer in a labyrinth of hyperbolic, interactive and ritualistic narratives. 

A conversation with Raphael Fonseca 

Raphael Fonseca is a researcher in curating, art history, art criticism, and education. He works as a curator of modern and contemporary Latin American art at the Denver Art Museum. The juxtaposition of different temporalities and how it can bring contemporary reflections to the audience has a significant role in his practice. In this talk, Raphael will discuss some of his curatorial projects engaged in a transhistorical approach to art and images. How can images from different historical moments dialogue in the same exhibition space? How do they create contemporary echoes? What are some tensions between the idea of art and visual culture? 

A conversation with Lucas Bambozzi (FAAP, Brazil) 

Lucas Bambozzi is a filmmaker and new media artist-researcher who produces installations, single channel videos and interactive projects. His work has been shown in solo and collective exhibitions in more than 40 countries. But he is also a seasoned curator, having worked in museums, put together film and media art festivals, exhibitions, performance showcases and much more. In this talk, he will discuss the permeability between artistic and curatorial practices, based on a series of projects that could be understood as ambivalent proposals. What is at stake at the ambiguous condition of artist-curators? To whom their decisions might – and need – to serve? 

A conversation with Marina Guzzo (Unifesp, Brazil) 

Artist/researcher Marina Guzzo works at the intersection of the body and the landscape, combining dance, performance, and circus while tensioning the limits of subjectivity in cities and in nature. She often works in partnership with healthcare, cultural, and social assistance centers, exploring interspecies networks among people, institutions, objects, plants, animals, and fungi. In this talk, Marina will discuss how her practice deals with the climate crisis and the role of artists in creating new imaginaries in the face of a ruined world.