Carnegie Mellon School of Art
CMU 2016 MFA thesis Exhibition: Self-Driving Car
CMU 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Co-organized by CMU School of Art
March 19 – April 10, 2016
Artists: Dan Allende, Zhiwan Cheung, Nima Dehghani, Ada-Scarlett Hopper, Jesse Kauppila, Tucker Marder, and Daniel Pillis
March 18, Fri. 6-8pm: Reception + Performances
March 24, Thurs. 6-9:30pm: Critique with Brian Boucher, Senior Writer, Artnet (Nima Dehghani, Ada-Scarlett Hopper, Zhiwan Cheung, Daniel Pillis)
March 31, Thurs. 6-9:30pm: Critique with Eric Shiner, Executive Director, The Andy Warhol Museum (Dan Allende, Tucker Marder, Jesse Kauppila)
March 24, 31 + April 7, Thurs. noon: Mask Making & Belly Dancing Workshop w Dan Allende in the gallery. Learn how to turn your body into a mask through plaster casting followed by belly dancing workshop. 1.5 hrs. Bring clothes that are able to get dirty.
March 21 - April 8, Mon. - Fri. 12-6pm: Virtual Newell/Simon Simulation Contact Daniel Pillis mrpillis@gmail.com for private appointments in his office, Doherty Hall Room C317.
DAILY Tues-Sun, 4-6pm: DECOMPENSATION by Nima Dehghani. Or schedule appt email nima.dm@gmail.com
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
"Travellers’ Tales
The unpredictability of the MFA program at CMU is one of its strengths and joys. It is a three year journey of exploration led by student curiosity, experiment and adventure.
In this final year MFA exhibition, we will experience: a belly aching performance full of gut wrenching bathos; a heartfelt search for identity within and beyond ethnicity; concern with exile, diaspora, displacement and virtuality; the body in extremis, biologically, physically and philosophically; intellectual gamesmanship, exploring the relationship between technology and craft; surprising collisions between human culture and animal behavior; and the interface between personal and technological histories, emotional and artificial intelligence.
Having had attentive instructors over the last three years, they have ultimately found their own sense of direction, and are now totally into self-driving mode. I am sure that the road ahead is filled with wonder and discovery, and I look forward to the travellers’ tales, which will come back over the years. Congratulations and bon voyage to the MFA class of 2016."
- John Carson, Regina and Marlin Miller Professor, Head of the School of Art
CMU 2016 MFA thesis Exhibition: Self-Driving Car
CMU 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Co-organized by CMU School of Art
March 19 – April 10, 2016
Artists: Dan Allende, Zhiwan Cheung, Nima Dehghani, Ada-Scarlett Hopper, Jesse Kauppila, Tucker Marder, and Daniel Pillis
March 18, Fri. 6-8pm: Reception + Performances
March 24, Thurs. 6-9:30pm: Critique with Brian Boucher, Senior Writer, Artnet (Nima Dehghani, Ada-Scarlett Hopper, Zhiwan Cheung, Daniel Pillis)
March 31, Thurs. 6-9:30pm: Critique with Eric Shiner, Executive Director, The Andy Warhol Museum (Dan Allende, Tucker Marder, Jesse Kauppila)
March 24, 31 + April 7, Thurs. noon: Mask Making & Belly Dancing Workshop w Dan Allende in the gallery. Learn how to turn your body into a mask through plaster casting followed by belly dancing workshop. 1.5 hrs. Bring clothes that are able to get dirty.
March 21 - April 8, Mon. - Fri. 12-6pm: Virtual Newell/Simon Simulation Contact Daniel Pillis mrpillis@gmail.com for private appointments in his office, Doherty Hall Room C317.
DAILY Tues-Sun, 4-6pm: DECOMPENSATION by Nima Dehghani. Or schedule appt email nima.dm@gmail.com
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
"Travellers’ Tales
The unpredictability of the MFA program at CMU is one of its strengths and joys. It is a three year journey of exploration led by student curiosity, experiment and adventure.
In this final year MFA exhibition, we will experience: a belly aching performance full of gut wrenching bathos; a heartfelt search for identity within and beyond ethnicity; concern with exile, diaspora, displacement and virtuality; the body in extremis, biologically, physically and philosophically; intellectual gamesmanship, exploring the relationship between technology and craft; surprising collisions between human culture and animal behavior; and the interface between personal and technological histories, emotional and artificial intelligence.
Having had attentive instructors over the last three years, they have ultimately found their own sense of direction, and are now totally into self-driving mode. I am sure that the road ahead is filled with wonder and discovery, and I look forward to the travellers’ tales, which will come back over the years. Congratulations and bon voyage to the MFA class of 2016."
- John Carson, Regina and Marlin Miller Professor, Head of the School of Art