Professor Kenneth John Verdugo is scheduled to install two solo exhibitions in 2012 – one in Dallas at the LuminArte Gallery in March/April; which has been specifically scheduled to coincide with the Dallas art walk. There will also be a follow up to that reconfigured for a new space in late April/May at UNT on the Square. At both venues, he will be performing with composer/collaborator Jeffrey Gascon Bello at the opening and closing of each show.

The exhibit is specifically scheduled to coincide w/ the Dallas Art Walk (April 21).
Two additional performance dates are scheduled for April 21st at 4:00 and 6:00 pm.  

LuminArte -- 1727 E. Levee St., Dallas, TX, 75207

http://www.youplusdallas.com/cityblog/lower-oak-lawn/2012/03/color-your-week-with-two-art-exhibit-openings-in-lol/

http://artgroupsdfw.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=4925

http://research.unt.edu/faculty-resources/intramural-funding/faculty-research-grant-program/recent-reg-awardees

http://untonthesquare.unt.edu/industrial-american-dirge

As Verdugo explains: “The installation is my response to Jeffery Gascon’s compositions. In turn, I will be performing on percussion – within an environment that is designed to serve as a percussion studio – meaning: in effect I will be playing the room. There will be multi-media to support the performance. And once the musical piece is finished, the residue of performance will remain and the installation will be a stand-alone work on its own. A portion of this will be funded by a UNT research supported REG grant. We are currently in the rehearsal process. I am currently beginning to design and construct the environment for the work in progress.”

Aside from this list of items, Verdugo will be showing in Los Angeles in Dec at LACDA. He is also continuing to teach a course in digital imaging within the department of Dance and Theatre (Photoshop for Theatre / THEA 1700) and is currently involved with the opening of a UNT theatrical/movement piece about the Poet Federico Garcia Lorca, Lorca in a Green Dress (by playwright Nilo Cruz). The play opens Nov 9 and runs through Nov 13, 2011. He is the scenic designer /scenic charge-painter of record.

In her recent art and technology teaching and research, Professor Jennifer Way chaired the first ever research session featuring undergraduate students’ creative research in art and technology for UNT Scholars Day. In addition, she mentored the publication of one students’ art and technology projects and accompanying essay in The Eagle Feather, UNT’s interdisciplinary research journal featuring high quality undergraduate research. Dr. Way has completed a thirty-page essay contextualizing the project in the history and present state researching women and technology in the visual arts, with emphasis on feminist methods in history of technology research. It is in press as “Back to the Future: Women Art Technology,” in Radhika Gajjala, editor,Cyberfeminism Digital Formations Series (Peter Lang, 2012). Also, she presented a lecture, “Back to the Future: Women Art Technology,” at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC), Dallas and served as a manuscript reviewer for the UK organiztion CHart, Computers and the History of Art 's publication, Chart Yearbook.

Dr.Way is presenting her paper, “Women Art Technology: subjects of convergence,” in the session, 'Feminisms of Multitudes', at the annual conference of the Association of Art Historians, UK. The session will look at the new alliances imagined, pursued and actualized by contemporary feminism in the fields of art practice, art theory and history, curating and activism.

Since the start of the Fall semester, professor Jon Nelson has received honorable mention in two international composition competitions. His work "Just After the Rain" was selected as a finalist in the Joensuu Soundscape Composition Competition 2011 (Joensuu,Finland) and his "Turbulen Blue" received honorable mention in Portugal's Electroacoustic Competition Música Viva 2011. This work, which makes extensive use of Nelson's recent research forays into physical modeling, was also performed on September 22 at the Channel Noise V Festival at Georgia Southern University. It was also presented in concert along with his work "objet sonore/objet cinétique" at the October 24 Cinema for the Ears concert at Louisiana State University where he served as a guest composer.Nelson's percussion quartet and tape work "Other Terrains" is being presented in concert by the IRAMA Percussion Ensemble at UNT on October 31 and by the Sibelius Academy Percussion Ensemble in Helsinki, Finland on November 1.

Nelson is also working to complete two new compositions: "Bebop in the Forest of Lonely Rhythms" for flute and interactive electronics and "Inside a Cloud of Butterflies" for guitar and interactive electronics. These two works swill be premiered during Spring of 2012.

Professor David Schwartz has signed a contract with Routledge, UK to publish his next book: Strangest Thing: An Introduction to Electronic Art through the Teachings of Jacques Lacan. The book explores a wide range of electronic art through the writings of Jacques Lacan. There are four chapters: 1) bodies, 2) voices, 3) eyes, and 4) signifiers. The art works include videos, 3D animations,  installations, screen-based applications, ubiquitous / physical computing, and  sound art. The psychoanalytic references are from Lacan’s seminars and collected writings, in addition to works of other psychoanalysts / writers.