UT Transmedia Showcase
Bill Lundberg, one of the pioneering artists in film and video installations, will join UT colleagues Bogdan Perzynski and Michael Smith at Cinescapes' UT Transmedia Showcase.
By Michael May, Fri., Feb. 28, 2003
Stepping inside an art installation, or viewing performance art, is often like visiting an alternate universe. The objects are familiar, but the arrangement foreign and mysterious. Take the work Wash, currently on exhibit at the Arthouse at the Jones Center. Three sinks in a row. Into the basin of each is projected a video of water running from the faucet and a pair of hands. The hands are wrinkled with age, and they wash slowly, carefully. Each pair lathers itself, and then rinses the soap away. Their washing is rhythmic, eternal, and glowing. The piece evokes undeniable emotions in the viewer -- a hint of loneliness, a smudge of regret. But what did the artist mean by it?
Bill Lundberg, creator of Wash and founder of UT's Transmedia program, is happy to explain. Lundberg, one of the pioneering artists in film and video installations, will be sharing the ideas behind Wash and several of his other pieces at the Transmedia Showcase this Monday night. He will be joined by fellow artists and Transmedia faculty members Bogdan Perzynski and Michael Smith to describe how they turn ideas into media. Expect as much emotion as theory.
"I find it important," says Lundberg, "to explain something about human relationships in my art. These works are ultimately about what happens between people."
Cinescape and Cinemaker Co-op present the UT Transmedia Showcase, featuring the work of Bill Lundberg, Bogdan Perzynski, and Michael Smith, 7pm, March 3, at the Hideout (617 Congress). Admission is $3/general, $2/student.