February 18th 2011 from 8:00 – 11:00 pm at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Come to the Center for Creative Connections/C3 space at the DMA for Late Night.

Pose, perform or play! Join me for a fun-felt evening of feltography. I will be making one-of-a-kind photos of you outfitted in felt. Images will be available to you on Flickr at a later date.

Free with admission.

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Opening Reception is Thursday September 25 2010. Check out more details here.

The Dallas Museum of Art invites community partners to contribute to the Center for Creative Connections by responding to the Encountering Space exhibition. Faculty and alumni of the Division of Art and the Center of Creative Computation of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University (SMU) considered ideas about space as well as the interactive nature of C3 in the design of this immersive installation.

The project Living Room is the result of an intense collaborative process involving conversation, diverse perspectives, consideration of various models, and eventually the development of a coherent project taking on a life of its own. Living Room is as much about the nature of artistic collaboration as it is about a particular response to exploring space in and through art.

Living Room is an environment that actively combines physical and perceptual experiences. The space reacts to your presence through changes in its sensory aspects—its sound, its visual elements, and its bodily sense. Within a materially altered physical environment, a digital audio-visual system uses custom software to dynamically create an experience in sight and sound of 3D forms generated from mathematical expressions. The behavior of these forms is altered by the location and movement of persons in the room. This allows you to literally walk around the room integrating the physical and virtual space.

Living Room

We speak of inhabiting a space. This means, mostly, we assert our sovereignty over the space. We make the space work for us. We work on the space in order for the space to better do its work, to realize a purpose that is latent in it or that we have imposed upon it. But space is not a passive container that we occupy at will. The space reacts against us and on us. It constrains us and invites us to enter into a conversation. We respond to it and allow it to act upon us within limits.

Living Room is a physical space and a perceptual space, a reactive environment in which certain aspects—auditory and visual—alter in relation to your presence. Open yourself to the unexpected effects of space on your senses and your mind.

This space is in flux as you enter and re-enter. We can say it is impossible to enter this room again. You can place yourself inside the space, certainly. But, as this space is our host, we are like guests and must constantly adjust to the nuances presented to us by this dynamic environment.

The experience of engaging with Living Room is not necessarily that of inhabiting a space. It is a space of paradox: a room to be inhabited as well as a room that resists habitation. Living Room invites you to confront space while space confronts you.

Participating artists: Susan Barnett, MFA ‘08; Michael Corris, Chair, Meadows School of the Arts,  Division of Art,  Ira Greenberg, Director, Center of Creative Computation (Associate Professor Meadows School of the Arts and Lyle School of Engineering), Tom Lauerman, Instructor, Meadows;  Teresa Rafidi, BFA;  James Sullivan, Professor Meadows, and  Martin Sweidel, Associate Dean Meadows.

Volunteers:  Alisha Driggers, Meadows undergraduate, Katherine Frost, Meadows undergraduate, James Justinic, Meadows undergraduate, Leeanna Morris, BFA’10, and Olivia Smith, BFA ’10.

installation © teresa rafidi

Opening Reception is Tuesday, September 1 from 4:30-6 PM.

The exhibit will run Aug. 25 (Tuesday) to Sept. 26 (Saturday) in the Art Gallery of UNT’s Art Building, located one block west of Mulberry and Welch streets.

Gallery hours are noon to 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays and noon – 5 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays. more details here.

love seat © teresa rafidi

Premiere Peek
Thursday, January 29, 2009, Dallas, Texas
7 ~ 10 pm

http://www.thecontemporary.net

Opening Reception is Saturday, August 30, 2008 from 8-11 PM. The group exhibition at Big Medium will coincide with the magazine launch of Cantanker Issue 6:Transitions. The Exhibition is juried by Leona Scull-Hons, independent curator.

Artists include: Leigh Lester, ,Katherine Lovas, Lanie McCormick, Terri Thomas, Matthew Roberts, Teresa Rafidi, Julia Landois, Judith Cottrell, Monica Zeringue, Mason McFee, Daniel Fabian, Andy Taylor, Sarah Voglewede, Leah DeVun, Robert Boland, Tamara Johnson, Erin Hernsberger, Mary Magsamen, Stephan Hillerbrand, Daniel Hipolito, Amanda Winkles.

The show opens Saturday, September 6, from 2-8 p.m., in conjunction with Fall Gallery Night. The Exhibition is juried by Eleanor Heartney, contributing editor for Art in America.On Friday evening, September 19, at 7:00 p.m. the juror will give her lecture and award the prizes in the Moudy Gallery.

Black Out

The Exhibition is juried by Clint Willour, Curator of the Galveston Arts Center for the past 17 years.Fotofest » www.fotofest.org.

A total of 367 artists submitted more than 1,000 images for the scrutiny by juror Todd Hido, a photographer from San Francisco acclaimed internationally for his unsettling images of the suburban landscape. Hido selected 83 black-and-white and color images created by 69 individuals for inclusion in the exhibition.

Closing Reception on February 22, 6-8pm in the Forum Gallery

Artists include: John Breazeale, Du Chau, Chong Chu, James Darnell, Karen Davenport, Kandace Davis, Arthur Fields, Meikle Gardner, John M. Henderson, Jennifer Hill, Clayton Hurt, Corey Johnson, Amelia Jones, Ian Jones, Tori Kaspareit, Hannah Kim, Priscila Lima, Jean McComas, Grant MacManus, Goran Maric, Jorge Misium, Chancellor Page, Roxanne Phillips, Teresa Rafidi, Audra Tolbert, Shawn Smith, John A. Taylor, James Van Arsdale and Brian Zimmerman are each represented by a single work.