Multimedia artist Carla Gannis will present a lecture and be a featured artist in the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art’s “Beyond the Beyond” at 6 p.m. Nov. 5 at GOCA121, 121 S. Tejon Street.
All events are free and open to the public.
Gannis is a visual storyteller who narrates with 21st century technologies. Her reflections and ruminations on power, sexuality, marginalization and agency emerge by melding digital art with historical art.
Gannis’ lecture is part of the UCCS Visiting Artists and Critics Series which fosters understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through dialogue and critical conversations. Artists and scholars of national significance present public lectures and meet with UCCS undergraduate students in classes and workshop settings. The Visiting Artists and Critics Series is a collaborative program of the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art and the UCCS Department of Visual and Performing Arts.
Gannis is from Oxford, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received a bachelor’s in fine arts degree in painting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a master’s in fine arts degree in painting from Boston University. In the late 1990s she began to incorporate digital technologies into her work. In 2005, she was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in computer arts. Currently, she is a professor and assistant chairwoman of the Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
Since 2003, her work has appeared in 20 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her most recent solo exhibitions include “The Garden of Earthly Delights” at The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, and at Kasia Kay Art Projects in Chicago in 2014. In 2013, she collaborated with poet Justin Petropoulos on a transmedia book, installation and net art project “<legend> </legend>” published by Jaded Ibis Press, Seattle, Washington, and exhibited at Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Her forthcoming shows include the group exhibition “Porn to Pizza – Domestic Clichés” at DAM Gallery in Berlin and solo exhibitions at EBK Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, and Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
Features on her work have appeared in ARTnews, the Creators Project, the Huffington Post, Wired, Buzzfeed, FastCo, Hyperallergic, Art F City, Art Critical, the Wallstreet Journal, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Her speculative fiction was included in “DEVOURING THE GREEN: fear of a human planet: a cyborg / eco poetry anthology,” published by Jaded Ibis Press. Her recent speaking engagements include “Let’s Get Digital” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and “Cogency in the Imaginarium” at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has participated in numerous panels on the intersections between art, technology, education and networked culture.
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