UMBC Visual Arts Department
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Mission
The Department of Visual Arts carries out UMBC’s mission as a dynamic public research university. Our diverse, internationally acclaimed faculty are committed to guiding future artists and design professionals to think independently, work imaginatively, and implement creative solutions to real world problems. By providing an environment of collaborative research and interdisciplinary learning, we enable experimentation across media. Our BA, BFA and MFA curricula equip students to push beyond disciplinary parameters as they move skillfully between technologies, processes, and modes of thinking.
Vision
The department seeks to become an international model for art and design programs within a public research university that stresses cross-disciplinary activities. We envision students as agile, flexible thinkers and civically engaged leaders in a rapidly changing world.
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Item Tout est interrelié : Perspectives nouvelles sur l'histoire des ordinateurs et les communautés des usagers(UMBC, 2011-12-15) Moren, LisaItem Mirror mirer, 1999(Lisa Moren, 2010-05-29) Moren, LisaLike the xerox of a xerox, I reread the output of speech recognition software, until I got these results. I started with 4 anecdotal narratives about mirrors and surveillance. © Lisa Moren, 1999.Item 10 TRIES, 100 POEMS (TAKE 1) :: KYLE BOOTEN :: FIELD NOTES :: PSYCHOTECHNOLOGIES OF CARE, ALGORITHMS OF ATTENTION(Medium, 2018-09-20) Booten, KyleThis Field Notes entry by poet and researcher Kyle Booten marks the first installment of ‘10 Tries, 100 Poems,’ a Field Notes mini-series wherein poets document their participation in experimental workshops that use poetry as a means of resistance to contemporary forms of distraction, deception, and distortion. The workshops, conducted by digital media literacy advocate Alexandra Juhasz, are part of a larger project, #100hardtruths-fakenews, which attempts, in Juhasz’ words, to “understand, combat, or teach about the crisis of fake news.” Read more about the idea behind the workshops in the Series Introduction. [2018 series editor: Adrian Silbernagel]Item Nonument Group in njihova prva umetniška akcija(RTV 365, 2018-02-20) Jerman, Nina; Tomsic, Neja; Moren, LisaPredvajaj RTV vsebine, vsak dan!Item With augmented-reality app, artists (virtually) revive the demolished McKeldin Fountain(Baltimore Fishbowl, 2018-05-17) McLeod, EthanEighteen months ago, construction crews reduced the Brutalist concrete fountain at the heart the Inner Harbor's McKeldin Square plaza to rubble, making way for green space and some additional seating at the corner of Pratt and Light streets. But it lives again—if you have a screen handy.Item This augmented reality app creates a virtual monument to McKeldin Fountain(Technically Media, 2018-05-17) Babcock, StephenNONUMENT 01::McKeldin Fountain, which launches at event on May 19, recreates the fountain and its role as a public space.Item Mutek Forum 2020(Lisa Moren, 2020-09-11) Grenier, Emilie F.; Moren, Lisa; Barr, ChrisItem Baltimore’s McKeldin Fountain returns as an app(BaltimoreBrew, 2018-05-18) Shen, FernA virtual monument celebrates the civic gathering place that city leaders demolished in 2016.Item a conversation, Hansel + Gretel, 1994(Lisa Moren, 2010-05-21) Moren, LisaThis is an early interactive CD Rom. Click on him or her to reveal what happened in the forest. Voices by Carol Hobson and Louis Hock. © Lisa Moren, 1994.Item Lisa Moren(Printemps numérique, 2020-10-03) Moren, Lisa; Bachvaroff, TsvetanItem Family Tree, an HTML painting(Lisa Moren, 2011-06-15) Moren, LisaThis was an attempt to make a time-based experience using early web browser flaws. Many of these were produced and lost into the Internet ether from 1995-1998. This one happened to be documented to VHS. Lisa Moren, 1998.Item Lisa Moren's "Deep Star" for ISEA2024 Brisbane(Lisa Moren, 2024-06-04) Moren, LisaA narrated PowerPoint presentation.Item la_alma, 9min., 1999(Lisa Moren, 2010-12-22) Moren, LisaViewers are invited into a dialog with the interactive book " la_ alma." Montage imagery of ticking machines, microfiche, obsolete handwriting, and the palimpsestual nature of former East Berlin, all reveal a lost time in the life of a woman who has nearly forgotten language. The viewer is invited to touch the book where they may begin the process of retrieving a random narrative. The linear narration describes that speaking with Alma was like "jumping through a word search for remember." Over 100 small movie clips were produced based on 80 found family letters and documents from 1860s-1880s Berlin to Brooklyn. This 8 min. example is a few movies in la_alma's archive. Voice over by Aliyah Baruchin, piano by Carole Swaim and production assistance by Gilles Alliume and Tom DeMeyer who programmed Imag/ine at STEIM, Amsterdam.Item Dedos, Interactive Hand Creme, 2000(Lisa Moren, 2010-05-21) Moren, LisaThe hand creme is made out of beeswax, lemon balm from my garden and almond oil. Anyone was invited to try it with me. © Lisa Moren, 2000Item Récord, recórd, recollection, 2003-2008(Lisa Moren, 2010-12-22) Moren, LisaLike the magnetic head of tape recorder reading a cassette tape, viewers are invited to draw on the portraits to retrieve voices from the portraits they are drawing on. By the end of the exhibit, the portraits will fade leaving a documentation of the viewers listening. These exhibited portraits are of people who have contributed to an audio archive describing their memories of obsolete socialist monuments in central European capitals.The portraits are made from unfixed van dyke prints and are of people who have contributed to an audio archive describing their memories of obsolete socialist monuments in Central Europe. Each portraits has between 6 and 12, 7x7 force sensing resisters (FSRs), or flat track pad-like sensors undernearth them; the sensors are attached to an analogue to digital converter (Gluion), hand-made by Sukandar Kartadinata, that converts the FSR signal to OSC protocol on an Apple G4, with Isadora software programmed by Mark Coniglio, triggering and manipulating the audio files. This project is grateful for the support of J William Fulbright Association, CEC Artslink International, the Imaging Research Center at UMBC and the Department of Visual Arts.The first project was made in Berlin of former East Berliners remembering the Friedrichstrasse, a north/south inner city, mitte, road that divided the city just to the east of the wall. Also, a project by New Yorkers remembering what the WTC looked like prior to 9/11, including folks who worked there. This documentation focus' on the archive built in Prague and Budapest.Variations on the installation have been exhibited in St. Petersburg, Russia; New York, NY; Prague; Australia and the University of Utah.© Lisa Moren, 2003-2008Item bare, stripped bride(Lisa Moren, 2011-01-12) Moren, LisaNo editing was done on this found footage from Poses, 1971. I originally couldn't find a projector that would play, so I began to process the 8mm film strip.Item Cleaning: Kinetic and interactive Objects(UMBC, 2006-05) Moren, LisaItem Lemons Making Their Own Lemon Meringue Pie, CLEAN and Dedos(Lisa Moren, 2011-02-24) Moren, LisaItem Analog Waves, 2009(Lisa Moren, 2010-12-22) Moren, LisaThis is the last hour of analog tv playing with an HD video of the atlantic ocean projected onto a 300lb block of ice. This documentation is day 2 of the installation when half of the ice is partially melted. © Lisa Moren, 2009Item VIDEO ARCANE Mining a Bowling Alley at the North Avenue Market(Lisa Moren, 2010-05-13) Moren, LisaVideo Arcane is an interactive exhibition where the audience was invited to create a live mix of video and animation projected on the back walls of an abandoned bowling alley where the pins used to fall. The exhibition highlights part of Baltimore Citys treasured passed. Until1988, the upper floor of the North Avenue Market held a thriving duck pin bowling alley. In order to explore these nearly forgotten treasures,10 artists mined the bowley alley while animating, documenting and extracting audio and video from the site. The artists are Fellowship students from UMBCs Imaging Research Center, mentored by interactive artist and Professor Lisa Moren. The students built light sensors that were attached to found objects scattered amongst bowling lanes, and viewers were invited to explore the dark space with flashlights. As light found its way to an object, a horizon of video began to mix and layer images and sounds where the bowling pins used to be. These sensors triggered 4 video projections along the wall where the pins used to fall. In addition to the flashlights triggering light sensors, a drum set and trumpet were rigged with trackpads and light sensors. When a drum was struck or a trumpet button was pressed, an audio clip from the archive was played over speakers. Technical:-Flat trackpads and photocells, which were handmade and manufactured from Infusion Systems and Making Things.-Gluion and Open Sound Control (OSC), produced by Sukandar Kartadinata.-Isadora interactive mixing software, programmed by Mark Coniglio.Mentored by Lisa MorenIRC Fellowship Students:Agnes AsplundElena DeBoldEvan DevineAlex EhrensbergerDan FrickFrank OrellanaErnest PowellAbbey SalvoTommy TruongMegan ZlockThis exhibition was made possible with the generous support from UMBCs Imaging Research Center. We wish to also thank UMBCs Department of Visual Arts Film/Video Cage for additional equipment.Very special thanks to Michael Shecter and Carolyn McGuire-Frenkil.© Lisa Moren, 2008