‘Drawing As Monument and the Material of Memory’ organised and curated by Stephanie Owens, Head of School Arts + Media at Plymouth College of Art

From the 9-20 November 2020, the PS1 Gallery Space on campus played host to the exhibition ‘Drawing As Monument and the Material of Memory’, a display of frottagés by our School of Arts + Media students, organised and curated by Stephanie Owens, Head of School Arts + Media. The exhibition was the culmination of several workshops celebrating the launch of […]

Owens Leads Networked Digital Sculpture Studio in Venice and Ithaca

Owens Leads Networked Digital Sculpture Studio in Venice and Ithaca

July 28, 2016 By Patti Witten Stephanie Owens, visiting assistant professor in art and Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) director, led a studio workshop in July at the Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV). The workshop, titled Object Empathies: Networked Digital Sculpture Studio, was the first step in developing her new project, Mare Nostrum (Our Seas), and […]

Critique and Compassion are “Side by Side” in Osorio’s Work for CCA Biennial

Critique and Compassion are “Side by Side” in Osorio’s Work for CCA Biennial

May 10, 2017 by Patti Witten Race. Class. Determination. The tension and conflict within social systems. A point of contact between them is empathy. This is the context of Side by Side, an installation by multimedia artist and educator Pepón Osorio, unveiled in April in Rand Hall and on display until May 26. Osorio is […]

Cornell Council for the Arts 2016 Biennial to focus on empathy

Cornell Council for the Arts 2016 Biennial to focus on empathy

Cornell Chronicle Aug. 25, 2016 by Danial Aloi The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) 2016 Biennial, “Abject/Object Empathies,” will feature 12 new projects by invited artists, Cornell faculty members and students. Most of the works will be presented on campus between Sept. 15 and Dec. 22, all on the theme of the cultural production […]

Art series highlights creative discovery in ‘A Needle Woman’

Art series highlights creative discovery in ‘A Needle Woman’

[12/1/2015 by Daniel Aloi, Cornell Chronicle] An innovative creative project by Korean-American artist Kimsooja with Cornell scientists and students is the subject of a new Art21 documentary. “Kimsooja: Collaboration on Campus – Nanotechnology & Contemporary Art” will be shown Dec. 3 at 6 p.m. in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art’s sixth-floor conference room, with a reception […]

Biennial’s art and science collaborations earn acclaim

Biennial’s art and science collaborations earn acclaim

Feb 12, 2015 by Daniel Aloi Cornell Chronicle A temporary art installation on campus, part of the Cornell Council for the Arts’ (CCA) inaugural biennial last fall, will be the subject of an upcoming PBS documentary. Biennial artist-in-residence Kimsooja’s A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, created in collaboration with Cornell materials scientists and […]

kimsooja pierces cornell university campus with needle-shaped pavilion

kimsooja pierces cornell university campus with needle-shaped pavilion

[Oct 25, 2014 Nina Azzarello, Designboom] As part of the 2014 CCA biennial, korean-born conceptual multimedia artist, kimsooja has created a 46 foot high, 4.5 foot diameter needle-shaped steel structure, piercing the landscape at cornell university’s arts quad in ithaca, new york. ‘a needle woman: galaxy was a memory, earth is a souvenir’ has been made in close collaboration […]

2014 Biennial to explore nanotech as artistic medium

2014 Biennial to explore nanotech as artistic medium

Cornell Chronicle Dec. 5, 2013 by Daniel Aloi A campus-wide exhibition next fall will explore the cultural and human consequences of seeing the world at the micro and macro levels, through nanoscience and networked communications. Full article.