CAPITALE UMANO
14 – 15 Dicembre 2013
Sabato: ore 17.00 – 24.00/ Domenica: ore 15.00 – 20.00
SINCRESIS Associazione culturale per le arti contemporanee propone un laboratorio multimediale con l’artista statunitense Scott Townsend giunto dal North Carolina e presente nella nostra residenza per artisti fino al 19 dicembre prossimo.
Il tema del suo lavoro creativo è la globalizzazione e il suo workshop riguarda una riflessione sulle economie della globalizzazione tramite un sondaggio d’opinione, ponendo questioni relative a come noi migriamo e lavoriamo in un’altra cultura, per imparare un altro linguaggio ed alle modalità attraverso le quali organizziamo noi stessi, esplorando specialmente alcuni dei compiti sociali indicati dalla Comunità Europea, i problemi relativi all’austerità economica e le idee comuni riguardo alla storia ed alla cultura “regionale” e nazionale.
“La globalizzazione – dice Scott, che insegna come docente associato presso il College of Design nella Università statale del North Carolina – è sia globale che locale. Questi due aspetti sono spesso scollegati l’uno dall’altro. Tale progetto mira a costruire comunità locali attraverso la discussione sulle esperienze e le percezioni della globalizzazione, soffermandosi su taluni aspetti come il viaggio, la
comunicazione, la ricchezza, la lingua, i confini ed introduce aree tematiche relative a storie, comunità condivise, limiti e scambi attraverso animazioni interattive proiettate nello spazio espositivo con cui il pubblico può interagire come nell’ultimo suo progetto proposto a Belgrado.
Focalizzando l’attenzione sui temi specifici della globalizzazione, l’interesse consiste nel comprendere come le nuove idee e la gente entrano in contatto e come la globalizzazione può creare pressioni sulle economie e sull’identità di un’ area storico geografica.
Attraverso la proiezione di animazioni interattive e tramite connessione Internet, il pubblico può proporre questioni e risposte che diventano parte del progetto di lavoro mentre i partecipanti al workshop potranno creare mappe annotando le loro storie e idee, condividere le conoscenze e proporre un confronto collaborativo.
SCOTT TOWNSEND
823 Brookside Drive, Raleigh,
North Carolina, 27604 USA
c/o College of Design
NC State University
Box 7701 Brooks Hall
50 Pullen Road
Raleigh, NC, 27695-7701
USA
email: sttwn@earthlink.net
web proposal site: http://www.imaginarycountry.org
Employment History
1998- Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Graphic Design, College of Design, North Carolina State University.
1993- 1998- Assistant Professor, Department of Graphic Design, College of Design, North Carolina State University.
1991- 1993- Assistant Professor, School of Art, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
1989-1991- Assistant Professor, School of Visual Arts and Dance, Florida State University
1987-1989- Assistant Professor, School of Art, Bowling Green State University.
Education
1987- Masters of Fine Arts
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
1985- Bachelors of Fine Art
Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN.
Professional: Selected Exhibitions
2013- “Social Capital” (continuing work), Sincresis, (Empoli) Florence, Italy.
2013- “Human Capital” (continuing work), European Center for Culture and Debate (GRAD), Belgrade, Serbia.
2011-2012 Six channel video installation, “Human Capital,” Digital Arts and Entertainment Lab, Atlanta GA.
2011- One person installation and exhibition, “Your Imaginary Country,” developed site-specifically for D.F. audience/Central Mexico, Juan C. Mendez Fototeca, Puebla, Mexico.
2011- Memefest online exhibition, “Socially Responsive Communication.”
2011- Two person exhibition and project, “Human Capital,” McColl Visual Art Center, Charlotte, NC.
2010- Two person exhibition, “American Studies as Transactional Artistic Practice,” University Gallery, Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX.
2010- Group exhibition, “Gesture at Large,” Hopkins Gallery, College of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus OH.
2009- Third Islamic Poster Biennial, Tehran, Iran.
2009- One person installation as part of Kaunos Biennial “Marriage of Convenience” M. K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum.
2008- One person exhibition, “Your Imaginary Country, the Berlin Wall and the Strategic Border Initiative,” New Life Shop, Berlin (Mitte) Germany.
2007- One person exhibition, “Map Stories,” Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan.
2006- Video Screening, “Digital Transitions,” Light Work, Syracuse, NY.
2005- Group show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marracaibo, Venezuela.
2005- One-person installation, of “Homeland: the USA Piece,” Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
2003- One-person installation, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee WI.
2002- Nine person show,“Myopic”, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
2002- Group show, event, (with Mark America and others) “Borderhack,” Fran Illich, organizer- Mexico City/Tijuana, Mexico.
2002- Group show, “IV International Digital Salon,” Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana Cuba.
2002- One-person installation, “Borderline Stories,” Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ.
2001-One person installation- Sony Media Room, ARC Gallery, Chicago IL.
2000-One person installation-”End Game” Spaces, Cleveland OH.
1999- Two person show, “7-bit Dialogue,” Weems Gallery, Meredith College, Raleigh NC.
1998- Group show, “A Common Thread: Digital Media and the Creative Process,” Wake Forest University Art Gallery, Winston-Salem NC.
1997- Group show, “Tech.no.site” Rike Art Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton OH.
1996- Three-person exhibition, Pittsburgh Filmakers Media Arts Center Gallery, Pittsburgh PA.
1994- Group show, X International Biennial, Brno, Czechoslovakia.
1993- Group show, Siggraph traveling exhibition, Northern Illinois University Galleries, Chicago/Governor’s State University.
1992-93- Group show, “The Politics of Gender” Walker’s Point, Milwaukee WI.
1992- Group show, “20/20 Vision” Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills MI.
1991- Ten-person show, “Was Wahrheit Ware Fotomontage Heute,” Fotogallerie Friedrichshahn, Berlin, Germany (part of symposium hosted by Humboldt University and the Academy of Art, a.k.a. Akademie der Kunst Berlin).
1991- Five person show Isernhagenhof Gallery, Hamburg, Germany.
1990- Group show, (with Robert Fichter and others) “The Ethical Object”, Stetson University Deland, FL.
1989- One person show, “The Indecisive Moment, Photomontage as Text”, The University of Florida, Gainesville FL.
1989-90- Four person show (with Paul Berger and others) “Towards a New Visual Poetics: New Photomontage,”
San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio TX.
1988- Five person show, (with Carl Toth and others) “Photo, Text and the Underlying Message,” Indianapolis Art League, Indianapolis IN.
Selected Authored Writings/Publications/Published Visual Projects/etc.
2013- Editorial board member, Design and Culture, Berg, Oxford, UK.
2013- Design and Culture, “Boundary Objects and Social Actions: Audience Visualization as Discourse (in review), Berg, Oxford, UK.
2011-”Identity and Community: the Role of an Extension Practicum.” 32 page book published on methods of community involvement, College of Design, Raleigh, NC.
2011- Memefest “Socially Responsive” workshop, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. “Branding in a Global Context.”
2011- European Academy of Design Proceedings, Porto, Portugal. “A Praxis for a Situated Design.”
2011- Design and Culture, “Situated Design: a Space for Interaction and Reading,” Elizabeth Guffey, ed., Berg, Oxford, UK.
2009- Design Inquiry, Journal, “In response to the theme of “Design-less…” http://journal.designinquiry.net/.
2009- Beyond the Margins (conference presentation Cambridge UK), “A Space for Interaction: Physical+Digital+Information+Type” (abstracts published 2009).
2009- Visual Communication, “Recent Projects: 2002-2008” published visual project, Theo Van Leeuwen, ed., Sage, London, UK.
2008- Included in Teaching Motion Design, by Steve Heller.
2007- “Is There a Question Here? The Role of Graduate Research and New Media.” Schools of Thought III, Art Center, Pasadena, CA.
2005- Review of One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity by Miwon Kwon for Visual Communication London, UK.
2004- “The Borderline Projects: Art Making as a Mirror in Global Redistribution,” Brujula, Hemispheric Institute of the Americas, UC Davis.
2004- Online article “Mapping: Using the Tools of Visualization as a Critical Practice” published through the European Academy of Design and the University of Barcelona, Barcelona,Spain.
2003- Published Abstract of presentation: “Mapping: Using the Tools of Visualization as Critical Practice,” College Art Association Abstracts 2003, New York.
1999- “Interactive Design and the Starving Audience: Some Examples for Understanding “New” Media,” Proceedings; Useful and Critical UIAH, Helsinki Finland.
1998- “The Surface of Information” (pt. 2) Design Issues, volume 14, #3 (fall).
1998- “Unfolding the Surface of Information” (pt.1) ZED 5: The Implications Issue (fall).
1997- “Speed and Velocity in Electronic Information,” International Institute for Information Design Monographs. (published by IIID and web through Hochesparterre, Switzerland).
1997- “Cultural Memory and Identity”- nine page visual/text piece created for volume 9, #1 issue of Rethinking Marxism, (Amherst Massachusetts).
1997- Art Papers, visual project created for September/October theme of “Beauty? Politics? Global Culture?” (Atlanta GA).
Selected Visiting Artist/Invited presenter
2013- “Social Capital” (continuing work), Sincresis, (Empoli) Florence, Italy.
2012- Queensland College of Art, Design Futures: two lectures, Brisbane, AU.
2012- Geographics: Design, Education and the Transnational Terrain (conference University of Hawaii and AIGA) “Transnational Practice Experiences to “Transnational” Research Framings: Approaches to Audience Engagement.” Presenter with Sheila de Bretteville and panel moderator.
2012- Paris Hothouse, American University, Paris, France.
2011- Memefest, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
2011- McColl Visual Arts Center, Charlotte, NC.
2010- American Studies as Transnational Practice, Visiting Artist, Texas, Tech, Lubbock, TX.
2010- Gesture at Large, College of Art (Design Department), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
2009- Beyond the Margins, Clare College, Cambridge U.K.
2009- Kaunos Bienniele- M. K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum,Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.
2009- Design Inquiry, Portland ME.
2009- Presentation to Design area of recent work, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2007- Artist in Residence, Youkobo, Tokyo, Japan
2005- Artist in Residence, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
2005- Visiting Artist, Wake Forest University Department of Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
2004- Artist in Residence, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY.
2003- Featured speaker, Center for Twenty-First Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. One of five presenters invited through the semester in conjunction with the Center’s research focus of “Geographies of Difference.” Other participants include Tyler Stovall (UC Berkeley), David Harvey (CUNY) Fatimah Rony (UC Irvine) and Xu Bing.
2003- Invited presenter, 5th European Academy of Design Conference, Barcelona Spain.
2003- Invited presenter on panel “Drawn to Maps,” CAA annual national conference, New York, NY.
2002- Artist in Residence Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ. Two month residency culminating in an exhibition of bilingual online work, “Borderline Stories.”
1999- Invited presenter National University of Art and Design (UIAH) Helsinki, Finland. Presentation: “Interactive Design and the Starving Audience:Some Examples for Understanding ‘New’ Media.”
1997- Featured presenter at Visions Plus III (along with John Maeda, Kryzysztof Lenk and Suguru Ishizaki), Schwarzenberg, Austria, sponsored by UNESCO and the International Institute for Information Design. Thematic topic of “Structures of Information.”
1996- Invited presenter Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism, joint session with Cheryl Harris on “The Politics of Virtual Reality” sponsored by the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
1990- Visiting Artist, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Selected Reviews and Media
2013- Article in “Results” magazine: research (NC State University.
2011- Interview, Radio BUAP, (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla), Puebla, MX
2010- Catalog, “American Studies as Transactional Artistic Practice,” University Gallery, Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX. Essay by Joe Arredondo, curator.
2010- Catalog, “Gesture,” OSU University Galleries.
2009- Included in forthcoming book Don’t Say That You Didn’t Know, (contributors and critical essays to “Posters for Palestine”).
2009- “Your Imaginary Country” chosen as case study by Lab for Culture, The Netherlands.
2008- Interview with Valerie Palmer, Open Dialogues, London UK.
2008- Interview with Fran Illich, Tijuana Media Lab streamed broadcast.
2005- Contact Sheet, publication with introduction by Johanna Frieser, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY.
2002- Catalog, IV International Digital Salon, Havana, Cuba
2000- Interview, WCPN, Cleveland; National Public Radio (June 2000)
1998- Catalog, A Common Thread: Digital Media and the Creative Process.
1991- Article in Freitag (Berlin, Germany) “Im Schatten des Meisters,” (June 7 1991)
1991- Catalog essay, (January 1991) “The Artist as Gadfly” Roberta Smith (NY Times reviewer).
Grants
2012- FRPD grant NC State University
2011- Reinvestment grant, NC State University.
2010- EEED grant, NC State University.
2006-07- FRPD grant, NC State University.
1995- FRPD grant, NC State University.
Instructional development (since 2003)
2012- Developed studio to create digital and physical interaction in Hunt Library (a $120,000,000 state of the art digital library, NC State University, Raleigh, NC).
2011- Developed funded studio GD 400 “Identity and Community.”
2009- Co-developed 410 with emphasis on interaction design- Amber Howard lead.
2008- Co-developed GD 492- Prague Studio Narrative Photo and Book Design, GD 510: authored a new version of 510 that introduced specific ideas of interaction and visualization design and user testing processes. Split course into first and second year grads. Co-developed GD 202 revised course as “people in environments.” New course examines design activities in 1-physical contexts, 2- reading contexts (looking at a hypothetical user), and 3- programmatic/interactive design.
2007- GD 400- 01, Exhibition Design project with GAD.
2006- GD 492 experimental course offering “Focus Studio” based on motion design at the 400 level, hosted Johanna Drucker, Robertson professor of Media Studies, UVA in New Information Seminar, public lecture.
2005 GD 310 “Web Module,” GD 573 Seminar: New Information Environments: Narrative
2004 GD 410 “Introduction to Motion” module, GD 510 “Imaging IV:” developed an intermediate level course that included motion design, scripting, video and sound, narrative video.
Masters committees (since 2003)
2012- Rachael Huston, Anastasia Tumash, Alexandria Jarvis, Jay Vaglio, Michael Carbaugh, committee member.
2011- David Raymond, Kelly Bailey, Ryan Gottfried committee member.
2010- Chelsea Hedrick, Brooke Chornyak, Tania Allen, Dan McCafferty, chair. Lincoln Penn Hancock, committee member.
(2009 on leave in Spring)
2008- Gretchen C. Rinnert, chair. Kelly Cunningham, Steve Harjula, committee member.
2007- Jon Harris, Matt Peterson, committee member
2006- Jessica Gladstone, chair. Jason Toth, Jon Hyland, Cynthia Fobert (LARCH), committee member.
2005- James Brooks, committee member.
2004- Denielle Lincoln, chair. Kim Garza, Lee Vander Koi, committee member.
Orari:
sabato 14 ore 17.00 – 24.00 domenica 15 ore 15.00 – 20.00. Apertura: tutti i giorni escluso la domenica fino al 19 dicembre. Per informazioni e appuntamenti: tel. 0571/73619; a.scappini@virgilio.it
www.sincresisarte.org (new website)
Come arrivare:
Superstrada da Firenze o da Pisa (FI PI LI) Uscita EMPOLI (la seconda dopo Empoli Est o Empoli Ovest), a 700 metri verso il Centro di fronte alla INCOOP di Via della Repubblica o Ferrovie dello Stato da Firenze, da Pisa, da Siena fermata Stazione Empoli e proseguire a piedi per un chilometro in direzione Pisa.
