Germany and an Installation,

So I found out the other day that I got into this Art Festival in Germany that I applied to!  Atomino is an experimental festival in south eastern Germany that has accepted artists from all over the world.  I'm so pumped! My roommate Rachel King and our friend Brett Woodward, a senior at MassArt, also got in.  So it looks like I'm going to have an exhibition in Germany in August! Here's a link to the festival's tumblr where they showcase artists that have submitted work (FYI the deadline hasn't been announced yet so there's still time for you to submit if you want to!).

Other thoughts today:
So far I haven't heard news of audio from the "Is Photography Over" talk at SFMoMA but on their blog they have some notes from the symposium.  I haven't had a chance to read much of it but I'm sure it's worth a look.  I also talked to Walead Beshty the other day after his lecture at MassArt but he wouldn't divulge much about the discussion.  All he said was roughly 'it was cool' and 'hilarious' because of the discussion on photographer vs. artist.  I tried to squeeze an answer out of him but to no avail. Disappointing.


I finished my extremely ambitious collaboration final with my friend Erika Duran (who looks like Deb) and I'm so excited about it! I think it's awesome, and we've gotten some really good responses.  It was a backlit projection onto two 24X30" thick frosted plexiglass sheets suspended from the ceiling.  We blacked out the light in the room and created audio that we played loud within the space to echo and overwhelm.  The audio was a compilation of poems we wrote and read aloud and a quiet clip of waves on a shore.  It could stand to be a bit more successful, perhaps we'll revisit it and make a better recording.  Here's a couple shots of the installation from the front and side, and a link to the audio:

suspension.mp3

Oh yeah and guess what...we're seniors!  Ohhh man!


Rose