The University Art Museum (UAM) at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) has announced three upcoming exhibitions, “Chockablock,” “Significant Ordinaries” and “I AM UAM,” running from Jan. 26 through April 14, 2013. Admission is free.
“Chockablock” is a group exhibition that shows how the influence of the digital activities of surfing, sampling and aggregating can be discerned in the creative process and the visual characteristics of artwork, social practice or performance by the participating 16 regionally based artists. Participating artists include Anthony Carfello, Alice Clements, Evan Higgins, Roya Falahi, Amir H. Fallah, Asad Faulwell, Janice Gomez, Julia Haft-Candell, Ashley Hagen, Jonathon Hornedo, Ichiro Irie and Lucas Kazansky, Anna Mayer, Prumsodun Ok, Lisa Tchakmakian, Devon Tsuno and Jemima Wyman.
“Significant Ordinaries” is an exhibition from the Museum and Curatorial Studies CSULB Graduate Program. Curated by David De Boer, Eamonn Fox and Mary Grace Sanchez and organized as a part of the graduate program, Significant Ordinaries explores the practices of artists that use curatorial techniques in their artwork and invites visitors to participate in the story, connect the dots and complete the artworks.
“I AM UAM” is an ongoing engagement research project that will be displayed in an exhibition space designed as a casual “think tank” reading room. For the duration of the exhibition, visitors will be invited to review, respond and contribute new data in “real time” and become important participants in the research. In October 2012, the UAM gave a survey to more than 770 undergraduate students at CSULB, asking them to share what they thought about art and their experiences at art museums. The goal of the survey was to better understand how museumgoers, especially the “millennial-age adults, engage in the arts. Ultimately, the intention is that the data from the I AM UAM survey will help the UAM to “think about the best ways to devise innovative exhibition, interpretive and educational programming to enhance visitor experiences in the future,” according to the UAM.
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