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Spring 2014 orientation: Get the 411 on all things Art Center

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This week, Art Center welcomes new students to a week of orientation activities organized by the College’s Center for the Student Experience.

“New student orientation is the moment in which students’ first impressions and experiences are made,” says interim Dean of Students, Kendra Stanifer. “The orientation helps students to create connections to the College and to each other that will build the community they live in for the next 3 to 4 years.”

Here’s the lineup of activities designed to immerse new students in Art Center culture and maximize their experience here, both in and out of the classroom.

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Williamson Gallery Presents: WORLDS

The latest exhibition at the Williamson Gallery, WORLDS, continues the theme of superimposing two domains traditionally imagined to be distant and estranged—art and science. WORLDS is a medley of objects, images, sounds, and videos exploring celestial phenomena by examining the products of art and science.

The opening reception and program for WORLDS will be Thursday, Oct. 13, featuring a presentation by Caltech astronomer and author Mike Brown titled Worlds of Fire, Worlds of Water.

The event is free and open to the public. A wine reception will follow the program at 9 p.m. RSVP to events@artcenter.edu. Don’t miss it!

WORLDS Opening Reception and Program
Thursday, Oct. 13, 8 p.m.
Ahmanson Auditorium, Hillside Campus

Business Dialogue Series Kicks Off Tuesday

The Summer Term Business Dialogue Series kicks off tomorrow. Presented by Art Center’s Art Center’s Office of Career Development, the hour-long presentations introduce students to the diversity of opportunities available in the fields of art and design.

Each term, leaders of design firms and studios come to campus to create awareness of their businesses, showcase their work and engage in conversation with students.

The give-and-take in these one-hour sessions exposes students to details about a variety of fields, to opportunities they didn’t know existed and to the expectations of employers.

The sessions are held at the Hillside Campus Boardroom, and free and open to current Art Center students.

Tuesday, May 31
MIKE MURPHY
: Hollywood, Calif.
Guest Speaker: Mike Murphy, Animation Director

Tuesday, June 7
CRISPIN PORTER BOGUSKY
: Boulder, Colo.
Guest Speaker: Matt Walsh, Vice President of Experience Design

Tuesday, June 14
NIKE:
Beaverton, Ore.
Guest Speaker: David Schenone, Director of Design and Innovation

Tuesday, June 21
BMW GROUP/DESIGNWORKS USA
: Newbury Park, Calif.
Guest Speaker: Chris Chapman, Director of Automotive Design

Tuesday, June 28
ENTREPRENEURSHIP with KILLSPENCER
: Los Angeles
Guest Speaker: Spencer Nikosey, Creator

For more information about the Business Dialogue Series, contact Art Center’s Office of Career Development at jobs@artcenter.edu or 626.396.2320.

Project Kicks Off with LAYAR DAY L.A.

Layar is sponsoring a project at Art Center this upcoming Summer Term, which kicks off with a symposium open to all.

LAYAR DAY L.A. will be Friday, May 20, and will include a workshop and symposium at Hillside Campus. LAYAR DAY L.A. will be a full day of hacking space and time with augmented reality. Join us as we seek inspiration from visionary thinkers and street-level artists—and help Layar make some cool AR in the process.

Meet the Layar team at 10:45 am at the Geffen Contemporary for an informal visit to the Art in the Streets exhibition of street art. MOCA opens at 11 a.m., and admission is $10 at the door.

At 1:30 p.m., the program moves to Art Center, where artist Sander Veenhof and Layar’s Gene Becker will lead a hands-on workshop teaching how to make augmented reality experiences on the Layar platform. Street art, public AR art exhibitions and historical layers will be used as examples of hacking space and time.

Following the workshop at 3 p.m., there will be a symposium featuring some of the world’s most visionary and creative minds in augmented reality. The incredible lineup of speakers includes noted author and former Art Center visionary-in-residence Bruce Sterling, Layar co-founder Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, Scott Fisher of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and Dutch artist Sander Veenhof.

The symposium and workshop are free but space is limited, so reserve your spot at both today!

Postmodern Suicide: The intersection of Peter Saville Factory Records and Joy Division

Don’t miss a special guest lecture and discussion on graphic design history focusing on the influence of designer Peter Saville and Factory Records on postmodern design, along with an examination of the music and ideas that made this design phenomenon possible. The talk will lurch from Situationism in France in the late 1960s, to protopunk and punk rock in the ’70s , to the post-punk and new wave era of Joy Division, The Durutti Column, Cabaret Voltaire and New Order.

Guest lecturer Eric Mathias is a California-based graphic designer and Graphic Design alumnus. Born in San Francisco, Mathias is a creative consultant, art director and designer who operates his own design firm (National People’s Gang) and has served as frequent guest lecturer on Apple and Adobe products. In addition, he is a published news writer, editor and award-winning designer. His clients include AT&T, PBS and Disney.

The event is free and open to the public.

Postmodern Suicide: The intersection of Peter Saville Factory Records and Joy Division
With Eric Mathias
Thursday, March 24, 7 p.m.
L.A. Times Media Center


Distinguished Filmmakers Series: David Gale

Film Department instructor Lee Rosenbaum will host a discussion with MTV Films founder David Gale about current trends in new media today at 12:30.

Under Gale’s visionary leadership, MTV Networks became a leader in the creation and distribution of new media content. He is currently executive vice president of MTV New Media.

Gale’s producing credits include Beavis and Butthead Do America, Varsity Blues, Election, The Original Kings of Comedy, Orange County, Jackass: The Movie, Couch Carter, The Longest Yard, Aeon Flux and many more. The event is open to all Art Center students, faculty and staff.

Distinguished Filmmakers Series: David Gale
Wednesday, Dec. 8, 12:30 p.m.
L.A. Times Media Center

Countdown to 4 Hours Solid

Join us Wednesday evening for 4 Hours Solid, an evening of work and ideas from Art Center’s graduate programs. Art Center’s Art, Broadcast Cinema, Industrial Design and Media Design departments will offer four jam-packed hours of exhibitions, screenings, discussions and presentations.

The event will feature “Screen/Culture,” a panel discussion of the ubiquity of screens in our everyday lives and their impact on makers of design, art and film. Panelists include Scott Watson, chief technology officer of Walt Disney Imagineering R&D; Kevin Mack, artist and Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor of What Dreams May Come; Mackenzie Wark, chair of culture and media at Eugene Lang College and author of Gamer Theory and Hacker Manifesto; and Anne Bray, founding director of Freewaves, a global arts organization dedicated to collecting and connecting innovative and culturally relevant independent new media.

The free event will offer an array of programming throughout the evening along with food from the Flying Pig Truck, Grilled Cheese Truck and Coolhaus. Yum! Find out more at the 4 Hours Solid Facebook page. See you there!

4 Hours Solid
Wednesday, April 21, 6-10 pm
South Campus

On Campus: Marian Bantjes

Don’t miss artist, typographer, designer and writer Marian Bantjes, who will speak at Art Center Thursday.  Working from her home on a small island off the west coast of Canada, her personal, obsessive and sometimes strange graphic work has brought her international recognition. Following her interests in complexity and structure, she is known for her custom typography, detailed and lovingly precise vector art, obsessive handwork, patterning and ornament.

Marian Bantjes
Thursday, February 18, 7:30 pm
Ahmanson Auditorium
Hillside Campus

(Pictured: Influence Map, Marian Bantjes)