2006-2007 Visiting Artists & Scholars

The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth's surface. The Center embraces a multidisciplinary approach to fulfilling the stated mission, employing conventional research and information processing methodology as well as nontraditional interpretive tools. The organization was founded in 1994, and since that time it has produced over 30 exhibits on land use themes and regions, for public institutions all over the United States, as well as overseas. Public tours have been conducted in several states, and over ten books have been published by the CLUI. CLUI Archive photographs illustrate journals, popular magazines, and books by other publishers, and have been used in non-CLUI exhibitions, and acquired by art collectors. The CLUI exists to stimulate discussion, thought, and general interest in the contemporary landscape. Neither an environmental group nor an industry affiliated organization, the work of the Center integrates the many approaches to land use - the many perspectives of the landscape - into a single vision that illustrates the common ground in "land use" debates. At the very least, the Center attempts to emphasize the multiplicity of points of view regarding the utilization of terrestrial and geographic resources.
http://www. clui.org

Michael Olijnyk Juror for the School of Art Undergraduate Student Exhibition Winter Quarter

Michael Olijnyk is the Mattress Factory's Curator of Exhibitions. He has worked closely with more than 150 artists (including James Turrell, John Cage, Bill Woodrow, Yayoi Kusama and Ann Hamilton) since 1982. He has also coordinated, designed and installed exhibitions for other museums, galleries, art centers and festivals. He served on the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) Visual Arts Program panel in 1988-89, and has been a member of the Interdisciplinary Arts Program panel since 1992. He studied design, painting, and sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University and has shown his own work in group and solo exhibitions.
http://www.mattress.org

Miwon Kwon Winter Quarter Lecture: February 27, 2007 in Mitchell Auditorium

Miwon Kwon received her Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory at Princeton University in 1998, the same year in which she joined the faculty at UCLA as Assistant Professor of contemporary art history (post 1945). Her research and writings engaged several disciplines including contemporary art, architecture, public art, and urban studies. She is a founding editor and publisher of Documents, a journal of art, culture, and criticism, and serves on the advisory board of October magazine. She is the author of One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity(MIT Press, 2002). For 2003-04, she is on leave to do research for her new book at the Getty Research Institute

Clarina Bezzola Spring Quarter

Clarina Bezzola was born in the German speaking part of Switzerland. She came to New York at the age of 20 to study at Parsons School of Design. Bezzola graduated with a metal-smithing and furniture design degree, giving her the basic technical vocabulary to continue her work of translating "the unexplainable" of our psychological universe into visual sign and symbols. "Art has to be alive and not locked up"--so she continued her education, shifting focus to performing arts. She presently studies classical voice with Pamela Kucenic in New York, a discipline she already studied in high-school back in Switzerland. As her vocal and visual repertoires broaden they also move closer bringing her into the discipline of performance art. Over the years Bezzola has shown her work and staged her performances in many group and solo shows in various galleries and museums across America and has just introduced her new body of work in Berlin, Germany.
http://www.clarinabezzola.com