Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012. 6:00 PM.
Location: Cummings Art Building, AR2
Stephen Vitiello: Sound Installations (Inside and Out) Sound and media artist Stephen Vitiello will present documentation of recent site-specific sound installations, including, A Bell For Every Minute which was installed for one year on the High Line in New York City and All Those Vanished Engines, a long-term project that takes over a vacant building at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. Vitiello will also present recently found video footage from his 1999 residency on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and media artist. Vitiello’s sound installations have been presented internationally, including the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the 2006 Biennial of Sydney, at the Cartier Foundation, Paris and a site-specific project on the High Line in NYC. CD releases include Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion Records), Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa), The Gorilla Variations (12k) and Box Music (12k). Since 1989, Vitiello has collaborated with numerous artists and musicians including Pauline Oliveros, Tony Oursler, Julie Mehretu, Scanner, Steve Roden, Taylor Deupree and Ryuichi Sakamoto. In 2011, ABC-TV, Australia produced the documentary Stephen Vitiello: Listening With Intent. Originally from New York, Vitiello is now based in Richmond, VA where he is an Associate Professor in the department of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2011, he was awarded a John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship. www.stephenvitiello.com The Studio Lecture Series is sponsored by the Millicent Greenwell Clapp Fund for Studio Art.
Location: Cummings Art Building, AR2
Stephen Vitiello: Sound Installations (Inside and Out) Sound and media artist Stephen Vitiello will present documentation of recent site-specific sound installations, including, A Bell For Every Minute which was installed for one year on the High Line in New York City and All Those Vanished Engines, a long-term project that takes over a vacant building at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. Vitiello will also present recently found video footage from his 1999 residency on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and media artist. Vitiello’s sound installations have been presented internationally, including the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the 2006 Biennial of Sydney, at the Cartier Foundation, Paris and a site-specific project on the High Line in NYC. CD releases include Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion Records), Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa), The Gorilla Variations (12k) and Box Music (12k). Since 1989, Vitiello has collaborated with numerous artists and musicians including Pauline Oliveros, Tony Oursler, Julie Mehretu, Scanner, Steve Roden, Taylor Deupree and Ryuichi Sakamoto. In 2011, ABC-TV, Australia produced the documentary Stephen Vitiello: Listening With Intent. Originally from New York, Vitiello is now based in Richmond, VA where he is an Associate Professor in the department of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2011, he was awarded a John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship. www.stephenvitiello.com The Studio Lecture Series is sponsored by the Millicent Greenwell Clapp Fund for Studio Art.