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John M. Anderson Endowed Lecture Series hosts visiting artist Woodman

A Charlie Woodman performance documentation from viDEO sAVant at the New Genres Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2013. Credit: Charles WoodmanAll Rights Reserved.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Penn State School of Visual Arts (SoVA) announced a visit by artist Charles Woodman as part of its John M. Anderson Endowed Lecture Series. Woodman integrates the dynamic beauty of video with the live intensity of music and performance.Free and open to the public, Woodman’s performance will take place at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, in the Arts and Design Research Incubator, 16 Borland Building. For complete details about the John M. Anderson Endowed Lecture Series, and an entire listing of events, visit http://sova.psu.edu/anderson.  

Woodman's performance, titled "viDEO sAVant presents: The Drowned World" will be a live cinema music improvisation. Performers include Tom Cody, guitar; Jonathan Dexter, cello; Robert Nairn, bass; Trevor Rosten, percussion; Agatha Wang, flute; and Charles Woodman, images.

Woodman creates multi-image, “live cinema” video installations that integrate video with life performance, often in collaboration with musicians and dancers. His films have been screened at venues including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Block Museum of Art in Chicago, the Black Maria Film and Video Festival in Edison, New Jersey, the American Dance Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the San Francisco Cinematheque. Woodman was a founding member of the video performance group viDEO sAVant, which performs in venues across the country. Woodman has been a professor of fine arts at the University of Cincinnati since 1999.

This event is co-sponsored by Penn State School of Visual Arts and Arts and Design Research Incubator, in collaboration with the School of Music.

 

Last Updated September 23, 2014