michael rees
Beez and Honey with Nicolette Ramirez
Thank you Nicoletter Ramirez for this warm conversation.
Project 61 Video Magazine
interview with Laura Schwamb and Anna Ehrsam
Say hello to Michael Rees, Artist & Professor at William Paterson University's New Art Center. He shares his thoughts on how to develop and evolve ideas, collaborate with diversity in expression and land in the world together. Our goal is to extend the global community of interdisciplinary collaborations in art, science, technology, engineering, by creating a global voice of collective support. We aim to present to the public an open-source magazine that will be inspiring, informative, uplifting, and educational. Learn more about PROJECT61: www.proj61.com
A conversation with John Simon
A conversation from November of 2018! I so enjoyed speaking with the artist John Simon on his podcast Drawing Your Own Path.
From his site: iclock. click to listen!
Michael Rees and I are friends from the early digital art days in NYC. He is an innovator in the integration of technology and sculpture experimenting with robotic marble carving, 3D modeling of inflatables, and AR activated imagery. We discuss work from his ongoing exhibitions, the relationship of his work to the world, and then, of course, we talk about the creative process and what it means to make things in the digital world.
Michael's shows:
Grounds for sculpture: http://michaelrees.org/2018-synthetic-cells-site-and-parasite/
Aldrich Museum: http://michaelrees.org/aldrichonedge/
NermanMuseum: http://www.nermanmuseum.org/exhibitions/2018-08-02-michael-rees-pneumatopia.html
Conversation with Anna Ehrsam part 1 and 2
Anna Ehrsam of Battery Journal visited me at my exhibition Synthetic Cells: Site and Para(Site). A conversation ensues! Thank you Anna!
Video Introduction to Synthetic Cells Site and (Para)Site
Video Introduction to Synthetic Cells: Site and Para(Site) at Grounds For Sculpture with Tom Moran and production by Keith Pyatt.
Pneumatopia @ the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art as part of OpenSpacesKC
Up through October 24, 2018
On Edge, Aldrich Museum May 20, 2018-January 13, 2019
Synthetic Cells: Site and Para(Site) @ Grounds For Sculpture
Opening to the public in June of 2018- June 2019 photo: Work in progress Xiamen, China
Opening celebration October 28th 2018
@ Grounds For Sculpture
Hamilton Township, New Jersey
Synthetic Cells:
Site and Para (Site)
Synthetic Cells is an n-dimensional sculptural project that uses augmented reality and inflatable vinyl sculptures to weave a rich melange around the collision of utopias and an updated 21rst century Chattaqua. Curated by Tom Moran, Rees also conceived of the exhibition as a para-site for artists working with augmented reality to create a show beside the site of the inflatable vinyl cubes. Grounds for Sculpture has invited guest curators Edward Winkelman and Murat Otrbozekov to curate the Para (Site) with 6 artists: Will Pappenheimer, Claudia Hart, Chris Manzione, Tamiko Thiel, Carla Gannis, John Craig Freeman.
Clown Town EXTENDED
EXTENDED
open Saturday 11.26 from 12p-5p
open Saturday 12.3 from 11a-5p
open by appointment from 11.25.16-12.216
please call 6462719898
Clown Town Press Release
Clown Town is a comedic picaresque mediated through a sculptural interface. Each sculpture contains a juxtaposition of form, imagery, and augmented reality that plumbs some aspect of internet foolishness. The ludic tenor of the works in Clown Town points to anxious times and shifting definitions of the world around while a sense of fatalism and of powerlessness in the face of political and economic forces suffuses each work. The clowns in the exhibition are exposed through sculptural vignettes that Rees juggles the clown motif as an increasingly fitting, effective and well-used symbol for our unbelievable (incredulous, radically anxious, bombastic) times.
Read MoreMurmuration Festival
information about this event
http://murmurationfest.com/lineup/arts-ability-to-predict/
information about the sculpture
http://murmurationfest.com/art-at-murmuration/
Are you attending Murmuration in St. Louis this weekend? Please see Michael Rees's contribution, a conversation with Laumeier Sculpture Park director Marilu Knode themed around “Does Art predict the future?"
Saturday 4:00pm on the Centene Stage
4320 Forest Park Ave #201, St. Louis, MO 63108
The Centene stage is located in a large tent on the Cortex parking lot. That is the address to the Cortex building. The parking lot is right by it
Also please see my collaboration with Vita Uruhimovitz in the Cortex surround. An image from one of the augments attendent to the sculpture, below.
Inclusion in Making Now: Open for Exchange
Making Now: Open for Exchange | Museum of Fine Arts
mofa.cvatd.fsu.edu
http://mofa.cvatd.fsu.edu/2014/01/making-now-open-for-exchange/
check out this interesting show curated by Carolyn Henne. It includes work by Conrad Bakker, Joseph DeLappe, Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy, Judy Rushin, Julietta Cheung, and many others. The catalogue has essays by Carolyn Henne, Shane Aslan Selzer and Rob Duarte. Bravo!
LISA talk (Leaders in Software and Art)
Special thanks to Isabel and Scott Draves. I was part of an evening with Linda Lauro-Lazin, Matthew Epler, and Marco Dunarummo.
Panel Discussion Innovative Public Art Project
Panel discussing a public art project along Broadway in Sacremento, California which will be created and disseminated using augmented reality. The panel took place at the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacremento, California. with Rachel Clarke, Shelly Willis, Jose Carlos Casado, and Sabrina Ratte.
link to recording of the panel
my talk begins at 55 minutes. with a question and answer towards the end.
Lecture at Florida State University November 21
Live in Tallahasse or know someone who does, pleae share.
Michael Rees artist lecture
Free and open to the public
Thursday, November 21, 7:00PM
Florida State University, Fine Arts Building Room 249
Michael Rees, formLab’s inaugural Project Fellow, will be visiting FAR to work on a sculptural project relating to augmented reality. Rees is an artist working in themes of figuration, language, technology, and the social to weave a sculptural mélange. He is the recipient of numerous honors and grants, and his works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and numerous private collections. Rees is Associate Professor of Sculpture and Digital Media, and Director of the Center for New Art at William Paterson University. For more information about his work, visit www.michaelrees.com.
FAR Exchanges: Interactions with SCAP and formLab
Opening Reception: November 22, 5-6:30PM
FAR Gallery
3216 Sessions Road
FAR Exchanges: Interactions with SCAP and formLab, is an exhibition featuring the creative output of the College of Visual Arts Theatre & Dance's Facility for Arts Research (FAR) in 2013. Over the past year, FAR's internal units—Small Craft Advisory Press (SCAP) and formLab—have hosted several local and national visiting artists, held numerous class interactions led by FAR Faculty in Residence, and organized our first FAR Listening Post sound art installation. Please join us for the opening reception on November 22, 5-6:30PM to view the work produced during these exciting interactions at our facility. Light refreshments will be served.
Driving Directions to FAR:
Sessions Road is approximately 0.7 miles north of I-10 Exit 199 (Monroe St). From North Monroe St, take a left on Sessions Road and continue 0.25 miles. FAR will be on the right. See it on google maps.
Converge: Ghraib Bag on Broadway between 58 and 59
Converge: Ghraib Bag is included in the Museum of Art & Design's Out of Hand: Materializing the Post Digital, curated by Ron Labacco. Two of my works are included in the exhibition: Converge: Ghraib Bag, a sculpture and animation from 2008, and a collaborative piece with Robert Gero called Intervening Phenomena which was part of our Tactical Play Exchange Series from 2012-13.
Viewers are encourages to use their smart phones to see the animation for the exhbition. A local QR TAG takes them to the animation (click here) or by typing http://www.thwack.tv. These works will be up until April 17, 2014.
New Yorker Covers Intervening Phenomena
In Review of Out of Hand, the New Yorker covers Intervening Phenomena.
A Canadian-born artist, Robert Gero, pointed to a contraption he built with Michael Rees, which they call “Intervening Phenomena.” It looked a bit like a white umbrella that had been destroyed by a barreling gust of wind, and then positioned upright on a platform. Gero said that he and Rees are working with “tactical play exchange.” The white geometric umbrella top was actually the floor plan of a gallery, manipulated into a different shape, and made into a sculpture. “In a network, things get twisted, modified,” Gero explained. On one side were projected images from the opening scene of the 1961 film “Last Year at Marienbad.” Gero said, “It’s all about iteration.”
- Betsy Morais
Architectural Record mentions Converge
Advance Press for Converge @ Columbus Circle
Doing and Undergoing at Teacher's College
Um and Ah Shift Dewey is included in Doing and Undergoing, an exhibition curated by Robert Gero and Richard Jochum at Teacher's College, Columbia University.
from the Site:
Doing and Undergoing is an art exhibition at Teachers College, Columbia University celebrating its 125th year anniversary. From October 15th to December 15th, 2013 select artists present site-specific installations that reference the thoughts and wisdom of the American Philosopher John Dewey.
The exhibition is organized throughout the historic Teachers College building on 120th Street in New York City and enlightens the three core themes of Dewey’s foundational text “Art As Experience”. While “Experiential Inquiry” conveys the idea that the process of researching and finding meaning is transformative, “Experiment and Experience” opens new fields of experience through experimentation. Dewey’s third notion “Doing and Undergoing” stresses that only by doing as well as undergoing an experience, it becomes transformational.
The artworks selected for the exhibition reflect and sensitively engage the site as an educational structure and idea. The exhibition is accompanied by an interactive audio-video guide that provides behind-the-scenes insights and leads visitors through the structure of the college and its intriguing history.
