Artists - Past and Present
On several occasions, Stony Brook University has had the pleasure of hosting an artist at the Philosophy and the Arts Conference to present artworks and provide a lecture on a range of issues concerning art and philosophy. We are honored to have had such distinguished artists from the contemporary world of art speak at our conference.
Quartet Collective
2013
Quartet Collective brings together four artists across disciplines as equal partners in a shared endeavor: dancer/choreographers Rachel Bernsen and Melanie Maar, and musician/composers Taylor Ho Bynum and Abraham Gomez-Delgado. The group investigates principles of roles, crafts, pleasure, story, risk and meaning in performance, practicing spontaneous action as a way to experience and share composition and choreography live. The Collective puts all of the performers in new and different contexts than they’d be in as dancers or musicians; it blends disciplines in a space that adheres to the rules of neither but draws from both.
In the year and a half that the ensemble has been working together, they have explored multiple structures and developed a set of shared principles. They have worked rigorously in rehearsal and performance to find and exploit both commonalities and differences, developing a heightened collective consciousness; unmasking a transdisciplinary understanding of risk, exchange, relationship, dialogue, intention, and meaning. Included in this are considerations of time, space, and composition.
See the 2013 Keynote Speakers page for more information on Quartet Collective or view their webpage.
2013
Quartet Collective brings together four artists across disciplines as equal partners in a shared endeavor: dancer/choreographers Rachel Bernsen and Melanie Maar, and musician/composers Taylor Ho Bynum and Abraham Gomez-Delgado. The group investigates principles of roles, crafts, pleasure, story, risk and meaning in performance, practicing spontaneous action as a way to experience and share composition and choreography live. The Collective puts all of the performers in new and different contexts than they’d be in as dancers or musicians; it blends disciplines in a space that adheres to the rules of neither but draws from both.
In the year and a half that the ensemble has been working together, they have explored multiple structures and developed a set of shared principles. They have worked rigorously in rehearsal and performance to find and exploit both commonalities and differences, developing a heightened collective consciousness; unmasking a transdisciplinary understanding of risk, exchange, relationship, dialogue, intention, and meaning. Included in this are considerations of time, space, and composition.
See the 2013 Keynote Speakers page for more information on Quartet Collective or view their webpage.
Reynold Reynolds
2012
Influenced early on by philosophy and science, and working primarily with 16mm as an art medium, Reynold Reynolds has developed a film grammar based on transformation, consumption and decay. Detailed evolving symbols and allusive references create a powerful pictorial language based on Reynolds’ analytical point of view. His depiction of people often makes us aware of the small frames we use to understand reality.
By subtly altering the regular conditions of life and watching their effects, he transfers the experimental methods of science to filmmaking, where he frames reality in his laboratory and changes one variable at a time to reveal an underlying causality.
Photo and biography courtesy of Artstudio Reynolds.
More info at www.reynold-reynolds.com
Upcoming events via Artstudo Reynolds on Facebook
Influenced early on by philosophy and science, and working primarily with 16mm as an art medium, Reynold Reynolds has developed a film grammar based on transformation, consumption and decay. Detailed evolving symbols and allusive references create a powerful pictorial language based on Reynolds’ analytical point of view. His depiction of people often makes us aware of the small frames we use to understand reality.
By subtly altering the regular conditions of life and watching their effects, he transfers the experimental methods of science to filmmaking, where he frames reality in his laboratory and changes one variable at a time to reveal an underlying causality.
Photo and biography courtesy of Artstudio Reynolds.
More info at www.reynold-reynolds.com
Upcoming events via Artstudo Reynolds on Facebook
Yevgeniy Fiks
2011
Yevgeniy Fiks is a contemporary conceptual artist and painter. Born in Moscow and having trained at the V.I. Surikov Art Institute, Yevgeniy Fiks moved to New York in 1994. His work is inspired by the collapse of the Soviet bloc and deals with issues concerning how we, as people from both the East and the West, remember and conceptualize the history of the Communist movement. Through the exploration of historical microcosms, conspiracy theories, and the narratives of people displaced by the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Yevgeniy Fiks' work entices us to reexamine that which has been shelved and suppressed in the "post-Soviet" atmosphere of forgetfulness.
Yevgeniy Fiks' work has been shown internationally, including solo exhibitions at Winkleman Gallery and Common Room 2, both in New York (USA); Contemporary City Foundation, Marat Guelman Gallery, and ARTStrelka Projects in Moscow, and the State Museum of Russian Political History, St. Petersburg (Russia); and the Lenin-Museo, Tampere (Finland). His work has been included in the Biennale of Sydney (2008); Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007); and Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2009, 2007 and 2005).
Photo courtesy of Jesse Jiryu Davis.
More info at www.yevgeniyfiks.com
Yevgeniy Fiks is a contemporary conceptual artist and painter. Born in Moscow and having trained at the V.I. Surikov Art Institute, Yevgeniy Fiks moved to New York in 1994. His work is inspired by the collapse of the Soviet bloc and deals with issues concerning how we, as people from both the East and the West, remember and conceptualize the history of the Communist movement. Through the exploration of historical microcosms, conspiracy theories, and the narratives of people displaced by the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Yevgeniy Fiks' work entices us to reexamine that which has been shelved and suppressed in the "post-Soviet" atmosphere of forgetfulness.
Yevgeniy Fiks' work has been shown internationally, including solo exhibitions at Winkleman Gallery and Common Room 2, both in New York (USA); Contemporary City Foundation, Marat Guelman Gallery, and ARTStrelka Projects in Moscow, and the State Museum of Russian Political History, St. Petersburg (Russia); and the Lenin-Museo, Tampere (Finland). His work has been included in the Biennale of Sydney (2008); Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007); and Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2009, 2007 and 2005).
Photo courtesy of Jesse Jiryu Davis.
More info at www.yevgeniyfiks.com
Seth Kim-Cohen
2010
Seth Kim-Cohen is an artist and theorist working within the realms of conceptual, performance, and sonic art. His work is situation-specific, occurring less in physical space than in the bleeding between the material presentation and the thoughts, feelings and memories of individuals. Seth Kim-Cohen is currently the Director and Assistant Professor of Art and Theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.
Seth Kim-Cohen's work has been presented around the world at galleries and museums including Tate Modern, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery, Peer Gallery, and Reception Space in London; PS 122, Chez Bushwick, Parkside Lounge, and CBGB in New York; Firehouse 12 and Grand Projects in New Haven; and the Zentrum for Kunst und Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has curated exhibitions in the U.K. and the U.S.
No photo available.
More info at www.kim-cohen.com
2010
Seth Kim-Cohen is an artist and theorist working within the realms of conceptual, performance, and sonic art. His work is situation-specific, occurring less in physical space than in the bleeding between the material presentation and the thoughts, feelings and memories of individuals. Seth Kim-Cohen is currently the Director and Assistant Professor of Art and Theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.
Seth Kim-Cohen's work has been presented around the world at galleries and museums including Tate Modern, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery, Peer Gallery, and Reception Space in London; PS 122, Chez Bushwick, Parkside Lounge, and CBGB in New York; Firehouse 12 and Grand Projects in New Haven; and the Zentrum for Kunst und Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has curated exhibitions in the U.K. and the U.S.
No photo available.
More info at www.kim-cohen.com
