This week there will be three Visiting Artist Lectures due to prior rescheduling!
Tuesday, April 16th: MGSA faculty Ohad Meromi, 6:40 p.m. in Civic Square Building 110
Wednesday, April 17th: Yo-Yo Lin, lecture 6:40 p.m. in Civic Square Building, James J. Florio Forum
Friday, April 19th: CAConrad, lecture 6:40 p.m. in Civic Square Building 110
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Ohad Meromi was born in 1967 in Kibbutz Mizra, Israel, and lives and works in New York. He graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and went on to receive his MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. He has exhibited at venues and events including The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Tel Aviv Museum of Art; The 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art; The Lyon Biennial, France; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; Magasin 3, Stockholm; De Appel Museum, Amsterdam; Sculpture Center, New York; MoMa PS1, New York; and Art in General, New York.
Yo-Yo Lin is a media artist who creates audiovisual installation experiences and explores the possibilities of the animated medium in the context of emerging technologies. She uses intelligent projection/ lighting, digital and hand-drawn media, interactive objects, and lush sound design to create meditative 'memoryscapes'. Her work often evaluates human perception and connection as a vehicle for self-knowledge. A first generation immigrant from Taiwanese parents, Yo-Yo often draws from childhood memories borrows iconography from her Tao Buddhist religion.
She has shown new media works at international multimedia art galleries (Human Resources, Lincoln Center, La Corte Contemporanea), music festivals (Coachella, Panorama, Steez Day), film festivals (New York Film Festival, SXSW, LA Pacific Asian Film Festival), and public art venues. Her work has been featured in the HuffingtonPost, Indiewire, and Surface Magazine.
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CAConrad is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including "While Standing in Line for Death" (Wave Books, 2017); "ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness" (Wave Books, 2014); "Philip Seymour Hoffman (were you high when you said this?)" (Worms Press, 2014); "A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics" (Wave Books, 2012); "The City Real & Imagined" (Factory School Press, 2010), "with the poet Frank Sherlock; and The Book of Frank" (Chax Press, 2009), recipient of the Gil Ott Book Award. He has also authored a book of nonfiction essays, "Advanced Elvis Course" (Soft Skull Press, 2009).
CAConrad’s honors include fellowships from the Banff Art Center, Lannan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and Ucross Foundation. CAConrad conducts lectures and workshops across the country on (Soma)tics and Ecopoetics. He currently lives in Philadelphia.
Where: 33 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, NJ.
The Visiting Artist Lecture Series is organized by the Rutgers MFA program and includes weekly lectures, studio visits and critiques by luminaries working across a wide spectrum of mediums.
Free and open to the public.
Wheelchair Accessible; ASL/CART available on request. Contact Cassandra at coliveras@mgsa.rutgers.edu or 848-932-5399 one week prior to event.