UC San Diego

Office of the Dean
Division of Arts and Humanities
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive # 0406
La Jolla, CA 92093-0406

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Hyperlocal Identities: The San Diego effect

An exhibition of selected works by MFA graduate students and graduated artists from SDSU and UCSD.

Participating artists:  Shane Anderson, Dia Bassett, Crystal Campbell, Jim Cavolt, Emily Halpern, Chelsea Herman, Andrew Hunter, Rizzhel Mae Javier, Ross Karre, Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli, Adam John Manley, Clare Parry, Iana Quesnell, Marisa Scheinfeld, Kelly Schnorr, Wendy Shapiro, Jeannette Ibarra Shindell, Aren Skalman, Rayyane Tabet, Silvia Valentino, Jude Weirmeir, Joe Yorty, and Claire Zitzow.

Poetry featured in the exhibition by Steve Willard, (Ph.D. Candidate, Music, UCSD)
Visual Musical Scores by Jude Weirmeir (Ph.D., Music, UCSD)
Musical performance by doctoral students in Music, UCSD – Ian Carroll (trombone), Meghann Welsh (voice) Jaime Oliver La Rosa (tactile electronics), Steve Willard (electric guitar), and Ross Karre (percussion/video)

Curated by Tatiana Sizonenko, Ph.D Candidate, Visual Arts Department, UCSD

San Diego’s artworld has long been home to a vibrant mix of artists with local roots, and artists living here for only a short time.  A microcosm of this artistic community is the MFA programs of UCSD & SDSU.  Hyperlocal Identities: The San Diego Effect provides a look at how students and recent graduates from both programs find themselves affected by local cultures, languages, content, contexts, landscapes, forms, borders, and identities, and how MFA students in turn change San Diego—its artistic circles, the life of the university, and the city’s overall cultural mix.  It also examines how our MFA students respond to or engage with the practices, discourses and concerns of our department’s academic community.  Hyperlocal Identities: The San Diego Effect explores this dynamic, while celebrating the unique artistic identities of both UCSD & SDSU MFA cultures and their contributions to the city and its cultures. 

Hyperlocal Identities: The San Diego Effect brings together a small selection of graduate student work from the two thriving artistic and academic communities.  Because the MFA program in Visual Arts at UCSD from its inception has been closely affiliated with UCSD’s Music and Literature departments, the exhibition features graduate student work from these departments.  In addition, the opening reception will include performances by UCSD graduate students in music and creative writing, responding to the exhibited works.  Hyperlocal Identities: The San Diego Effect provides a look at some of the traditions and the community formed in this dialogue and explores the formation of local artistic identities.

Hyperlocal Identities: The San Diego Effect is free and open to the public.

October 21, 2010 - February 4, 2011
10 a.m. – 12 p.m. & 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Monday-Friday
The Dean’s Office, Division of Arts and Humanities
Literature Building, rooms 410 & 310
When you visit, please check in with the front desk on each floor before viewing works. 

An opening reception will be held on Thursday, October 21, 2010, 5-8 p.m.

The exhibition opens with a curator talk and introduction at 5:30 p.m. and continues with musical improvisations and interventions by UCSD’s Music Department graduate artists.  

A special short concert of live avant-garde music, video, and poetry inspired by the exhibition, performed and composed by graduate students from UCSD’s Music Department  will conclude the opening reception.  Performers include Ian Carroll (trombone), Meghann Welsh (voice), Jaime Oliver La Rosa (tactile electronics), Steve Willard (electric guitar), and Ross Karre (percussion/video).

The concert will start at 7:00 p.m. at Warren Music Department Studios, Studio B. (across the walkway from the Literature Building).

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http://dah.ucsd.edu/dean/officeart.shtml

ABOUT performing artists on October 21, at 7 p.m.:

IAN CAROLL  is a trombonist, composer, and teacher currently residing in San Diego, completing his Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of California San Diego.  Ian Carroll also holds a Bachelor’s of Music Performance from the University of Louisville, Kentucky and his Master’s of Fine Arts in Music from the California Institute of the Arts.   He has studied and played all alongside artists such as James Miller, Vinny Golia, Ulrich Krieger, Susie Allen, Wadada Leo Smith, and Mark Dresser.  Ian’s projects include experimental metal ensembles such as Tinhorn Justice and Mancuerda, an avant garde jazz group Dirty Squid, and members of the Industrial Jazz Group and DogShitTaco.  

MEGHANN WELSH, soprano, is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area where she completed a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2002 and received her Master of Music degree from San Francisco State University in 2009. During her time at UCSC, Ms. Welsh worked with composer Lou Harrison and conductor Nicole Paimaent on the recording, Lou Harrison: Works 1939-2000, and performed the role of Micäela in Bizet’s Carmen.  At SFSU, Ms. Welsh performed the role of Elmire in Kirk Meecham’s Tartuffe, and developed a love for chamber music through her performances and close work with the Alexander String Quartet.  While living in the Bay Area, Ms. Welsh worked to present multi-media art projects in public spaces, collaborating extensively with dancers, video artists, poets, and computer and acoustic musicians. She also collaborated with local composers, premiering numerous chamber works including the role of Nina in Kevin Caulfield's musical drama, A Rose For Nina. Although her heart remains in San Francisco, Ms. Welsh is currently pursuing the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Contemporary Performance at the University of California, San Diego, studying under the inimitable soprano, Susan Narucki.  Her own enterprises include Art and Meat, a work-in-progress chamber opera based on Bill Griffith’s comic strip Zippy The Pinhead, and her solo improvisation project, The Meghann Welsh Experience.

JAIME OLIVER is a computer musician, currently working towards a Ph.D. in Computer Music at the University of California, San Diego, (UCSD), where he studies with M. Puckette, P. Manoury, R. Reynolds, D. Wessel, G. Balzano and F. Richard Moore.  He is a researcher in the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) and assistant to composer Roger Reynolds.  His current production consists of music pieces for computer, sound performance and installation.  His research explores the use of gesture in live performance of real-time computer music, producing new controllers and compositions and studying the relationship between gesture and electronic sound, as it relates to the theories of embodiment developed in cognitive science, phenomenology and HCI.

STEVE WILLARD is a Ph.D candidate in Critical Studies/Experimental Practices in UCSD.  His first book of poems, Harm., was published by the University of California Press in 2007; essays on Fergie, and Sound Poetry, have appeared in recent issues of Lana Turner.  His second book of poems, Blues Actor, is a wild thing, gorged on hypersonic detail, bad politics, the vernacular, junct & disjunct memoir, and more—watch for it!

ROSS KARRE is a percussionist and temporal artist based in San Diego, CA.  He works with a variety of media and practices ranging from contemporary classical music to experimental multimedia performance incorporating video, sound, lighting, and theatre.  He attended Oberlin Conservatory (B.M. 2005) and UCSD (DMA 2009). He has worked extensively with Steven Schick and Red Fish Blue Fish. He co-founded the percussion group EnsembleXII under the direction of Pierre Boulez in Lucerne, Switzerland.  He works as a freelance artist and musician as he pursues a second terminal degree (MFA Visual Arts), at UCSD.

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