Eventworks Festival 2014-2015 Catalog

EVENTWORKS 2014

2015

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Š 2015 EVENTWORKS This book is a documentation of the 2014-2015 Studio for Interrelated Media Eventworks Festival Series at the Massachusetts College Of Art Design, a state university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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CONTENTS 4 Mission Statement 6 Eventworks Festival 2014-2015 Team 10 Camp Git Ta No Ya 14 Reel Spiel 18 Boston’s Finest 22 WAVE 26 Transient Vessels 30 Special Thanks

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MISSION STATEMENT

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Eventworks was founded in 1977 by the Studio for Interrelated Media Department (SIM) at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a state university in Boston, Massachusetts. The Eventworks Festival, originally a showcase of music, was established on terms of providing spaces for experimental artists, harboring safe experimental environments, and bridging gaps between MassArt and the local community.

The 2014-2015 eventworks team embraces these values today. Our goals are to invite, incite, and celebrate the collaboration of multimedia, interdisciplinary artists inside our community and others. The benefits of serving as a vessel to fellow creators and thinkers has been nothing shy of audacious. We are thankful for the generous opportunities, relationships, and knowledge the artists have provided us throughout these experiences.

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LUKE DILLON Hailing from both Colorado and Utah, Luke Dillon seeks common understanding through his work. He has steadily immersed himself in percussive practice for over fifteen years, and continues to develop his understanding of sound and its various properties through composition, production, performance and sculpture. At the age of fourteen, Luke took on an apprenticeship as an ornamental blacksmith.

His work was commissioned and sold; and in 2007, recognized by the National Young Arts Foundation. Considering himself as much an opportunist as an artist, Luke seeks cathartic exchange through collaboration. He finds interest in human projection and our physiological interaction with the world. Luke attends the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA and is enrolled as a double major in Sculpture and Studio for Interrelated Media.

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ALEX NALLY Alexander Armand Ribeiro Nally is a Junior in the Studio for Interrelated Media program at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts. Their creative focus considers the intersections of applied design, social practice, civic engagement, social justice and technology. Through visual and applied design, Alex fosters educational awareness to issues of adversity and discrimination. In their fine art work, they use light and installation to create subtle social interventions in existing spaces to educate and build community on various topics.

Beyond their creative work, Alex is involved in MassArt’s Student Government Association, the Student Advisory Council to the State Board of Higher Education, the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth.

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CAITLYN POZERSKI Caitlyn Pozerski is a multimedia artist who specializes in event planning, video and sound installation, audio engineering, and performance. Her background is well versed in communications, live audio mixing, and music performance which are the foundation for her developing projects. Pozerski’s recent works have explored the world of vibro-acoustics, the effect of sound waves on the mind and body. Using sound as a medium she creates immersive environments that trigger brain waves ranging from beta to delta. Pozerski attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design and received her BFA in 2015.

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POLINA PROTSENKO A double major in Studio for Interrelated Media and Art Education, Polina Protsenko attempts to provoke a sense of ownership through social engagement so viewers get a chance to become participants in collaborative experiences. Through installations, productions, and site specific work as a source for civic intervention, she deconstructs the value of actions to build awareness of self reflection and its importance.

In her own realization while trying to pause and capture the attention of others, she developed a form of documentation through introspection. A mutual trust and a belief in valuing components of community evolves when stimulating different sensations of one’s own placement in time. She, the autonomous agent, hopes to reach a level of immersion through her work by inflicting a reaction within a setting. She values interactions made by coming together to create moments. And to exchange moments.

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CAMP-GIT-TA-NO-YA 9.20.2014

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lex Nally A Allison Disher Chrome Over Brass Emma Lanct么t Kelsey Trottier Kern SaintDic Matt Crescenzi Sara Neary TJ Freda

OVER 40 IN ATTENDANCE Combining light sculpture, 3D work, graphic design, and performance artists, Eventworks launched its first event of the year. Camp-GitTa-No-Ya was presented with a campy aesthetic. Attendees were invited to make their own trail mix, view work presented in the Pozen Center, and participate in an open mic. Following was a group of performances by SIM students and visiting musician Chrome Over Brass.

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REEL SPIEL 10.30.2014

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nna Graham A Ben Aron Brenna McInerney Dev Lachapelle Jessie Hansen Lauren Foley Nick Ruhlmann Sam Aprea

Annalisa Quagliata Brandi Diaz Clio Berta Elise Orlowski Katii Durrell Mel Taing Nicholas Bouwer Ty Ueda

OVER 50 IN ATTENDANCE Collaborating with the Film/Video department, Studio for Interrelated Media department, Animation department, Alumni, and Boston artists, Reel Spiel exhibited narrative works. These pieces included portraits, politics, abstract elements, handmade film, 16mm film, and found footage. An artist panel resulted in viewers posing challenging questions about the developing media.

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BOSTON’S FINEST 12.14.2014

Ambro

BLKBX w/ visuals by SAMO

Lewis Morris & Hassan Barclay

Rowlan & Deven Diaz Sparrowhawk

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OVER 100 IN ATTENDANCE Nearing the end of 2014, Eventworks closed the year with a Hip-Hop show. This was a collection of Boston-based underground artists, SIM alumni, and MassArt students. Our goal was to provide a safe, high-tech produced environment in order to honor the hard work and determination these individuals have done for many years. Bringing the hidden gems of the city together with our own campus provided a sharing of cultures, music, poetry, and community.

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WAVE 3.20.2015

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mber Vistein A Ben Aron Cory Dodge Dan Callahan Elijah Fortes John E. Steiner Keytar Bear Molly Rennie Sara Neary

Amanda Justice Brooke Scibelli Cory Ploessl Dyllan Nguyen Ethan Hamby Kern SaintDic Michael Degregrio Samantha Hansen Vanessa Baird

OVER 100 IN ATTENDANCE WAVE was a collaboration between Ben Bigelow’s Sound Installation class at MassArt, current students, KeyTar Bear, and SIM alumni. The main question after we conceived the concept of the show was how do we orchestrate sound-based works without them overlapping or being missed by our audience? The solution we generated from many brainstorming sessions was an audio-based tour with programs. Before the event, we recorded artists’ bios and concept descriptions of the work.

We then put these recordings on our Soundcloud soundcloud.com/ eventworkssim for guests to listen to prior to or after the event. During WAVE we choreographed durational pieces, video works, performance, and music performances so that every piece could be experienced twice.

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TRANSIENT VESSELS 4.25.2015

CURATED BY ELAINE THAP

BOSTON D.C.

Helina Metaferia Eames Armstrong

Bryana Siobhan Hayley Cutler

Nabeela Vega Jane Claire Remick

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OVER 130 IN ATTENDANCE For the Eventworks Festival and our last event of the year we collaborated with Elaine Thap. Thap is a performance artist in the SIM program and an event curator. She is a major part of the larger performance art community of Boston. Through her connections with Mobius in Boston mobius.org, and other resources, she collected artists from the local Boston area and from Washington, DC. Transient Vessels confronted gentrification, segregation, and the inherent transfer of bodies between these specific locations. Using sound, video projection, light, sculpture, objects, and performance these artists commented on power and privilege through gender and class.

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SPECIAL THANKS

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The 2014-2015 Eventworks Team would like to specially thank the following groups and individuals. Without these people and our incredible community, none of these events would have been possible. Thank you for helping us have such an incredible year together!

Max Azanow SIM/Pozen studio manager Nita Sturiale Eventworks Advisor Kelsey Trottier SGA Budget Advisor The Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) Department MassArt Student Government Association MassArt Public Safety Chartwells Catering Services

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