Exhibit allows students to "Interact" with visual art
Autumn Spurck
Issue date: 1/12/10 Section: Entertainment
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Lynn Lukkas and Cynthia Pachikara display their visual art in galleries throughout the Midwest. Interact is an exhibit utilizing both of these artists' work.
In Interact, Lukkas showcases her work "Touch Me/Don't Touch Me," which uses interactive digital media to trigger video and audio based on the viewer's heartbeat.
This is the sixth work in the BioSensor Series, which Lukkas started in 2001. This series of interactive media uses the relationship between mind and body to create art.
Lukkas is a media artist and an associate professor of experimental and media arts in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota. She works with video installation, filmmaking, interactive media and photography to showcase the human experience.
Lukkas has showcased her work both nationally and internationally. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, as well as a Bush Foundation Fellowship and Jerome and McKnight Foundation Fellowships.
Pachikara received training in architecture before she began creating art, and has a love for dimension and space.
Her work, "Vertical Horizon(tal)" features a screen with images of headlights, streetlights, windshield wipers, rain, etc., to invite the viewer into the piece. She uses theater lighting techniques to cast the viewer's shadow onto the screen. The viewer then uses his or her shadow to create a puzzle about spatial boundaries. There becomes a new image within the shadow. The viewer finds him/herself immersed in the work as a "shadow body."
Another work of Pachikara's, "Shadow Catching," will be featured, as well. The work features a city represented solely on shadows captured.
Pachikara is an associate professor of art and design at the University of Michigan. She has exhibited her work internationally, including in the Mackintosh Museum of Glasgow, Scotland.
The Interact Series is sponsored by the UNO Art Gallery, the Department of Art and Art History at UNO and Echotrope.
Echotrope is co-founded and co-directed by Jody Boyer and Russ Nordman, who are both faculty in the Department of Art and Art History. Since forming in 2005, Echotrope's goal has been to exhibit works in galleries that feature new media contemporary art throughout the region.
There will be an opening reception on Jan. 15 from 6 p.m to 8 p.m., and an artist lecture on Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. on the first floor of the Weber Fine Arts Building.
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