
You can usually find Flounder Lee, an assistant professor of photography at IUPUI's Herron School of Art and Design, somewhere around town, either in a classroom or the gallery he co-founded, SpaceCamp MicroGallery. But Lee periodically takes trips far afield — from Alaska to Northern Europe and beyond — to explore the borders that divide nations and peoples from one another.
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Paper maps are becoming increasingly irrelevant due to the rise of affordable GPS technology, but they remain a source of inspiration for certain artists. The exhibit is a great introduction to a small genre of art-making that tries to make sense of our increasingly crowded global village.
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Love Library
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art
Indianapolis, Indiana
April 5th to May 18th, 2013
Opening reception is IDADA First Friday April 5th, 6-9pm
We are open Thursday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m
In this exhibition the object of affection takes the form of a book -- individual artist’s interpretation of “love” concealed and superficially homogenized as romance novels. The installation can employ the basic structure of a bookstore or library. The space has shelves containing the fabricated romance novels with each visually uniform title presented on the shelves and accessible to the viewer. Lounging chairs or sofas are available to encourage individuals to comfortably sit, read and become more active participants. Unable to judge the books by their covers, the viewer has have the opportunity to scroll through titles and authors (artists) choose a book and engage with the actual content.
Airport Time-Lapse (working title)
Indianapolis International Airport
Indianapolis, Indiana
January to June 2014
Currently in progress is a comissioned time-lapse video covering several months at various locations around the Indianapolis Airport. The video will be screened on the large screen in the main terminal.
April 2013: Zanne Andrea (UK): Underneath a StereoScopic Moon
Zanne uses a variety of found and made objects to create a site specific installation that addresses historical illusion.
April 10, 2013: Double Visions: Multi-Channel Video Art Festival
Held at Herron School of Art and Design, this multi-channel video art festival will feature short video art from around the globe in a unique screening style showing. Works must have at least two concurrently running videos, many will have many many more.
May 2013: Simon Frillici (Italy)- July 30th,1945
Inspired by the USS Indianapolis’s tragic fate, this site specific installation will become an audio-visual path that invokes the memory by an artist removed in time and space from the events.