Gale Memorial Lecture Series
The Gale Memorial Lecture Series was established in memory of Dr. David Gale and his wife Sylvia whose generosity made the series possible.
Since the establishment of the David and Sylvia Gale Endowment in 1993, the Visiting Artist Lecture Series has thrived, and many students have benefitted from the scholarship. Lectures are free and open to the public.
Gale Memorial Lecture Series Spring 2025
Pippin Barr
https://pippinbarr.com/
Artist Talk: Thursday, February 6, 2025, 5:30 pm
ARTSLab, 131 Pine St. NE
Pippin Barr is an Associate Professor and department chair in the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal, where he is also a member of the Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) Research Centre. Barr has collaborated with artists like Marina Abramović and @seinfeld2000, creating games on diverse topics such as airplane safety, chess, and parenting. Barr holds a Ph.D. focused on video game values and an M.Sc. on user-interface metaphors from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He is the author of The Stuff Games Are Made Of from MIT press.
Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson
https://dubbin-davidson.com/
Artist Talk: Thursday, February 20, 2025, 5:30 pm
ARTSLab, 131 Pine St. NE
Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson are artists based in Brooklyn, New York. Together they have co-authored works across a variety of mediums. Dubbin and Davidson apply collaborative processes in their practice and engagement with materials. Their works are characterized by transformations of the biological and mechanical; gemstones record, metals have memory, sounds are given shape and fluids hydrate machines. Their recent projects explore relations between the environment, computing and artificial life forms.
In 2022 Dubbin and Davidson were each awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Their work was recently featured in rīvus, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2022), BioMedia, The Age of Media with Life-like Behavior at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany (2021-22) and IF THE SNAKE, Okayama Art Summit, Okayama, Japan (2019). In 2020/21 they were artists-in-residence at EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne, Switzerland. Their work is held in several private and public collections including a recent acquisition by the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Aaron S. Davidson (b. 1971 Madison, Wisconsin) received an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College and a BA from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Davidson teaches at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
Melissa Dubbin (b. 1976 Las Cruces, New Mexico) is a graduate of the Masters Program of Experimentation in Art and Politics (SPEAP) at SciencesPo, Paris and received a BA from the College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dubbin teaches at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Elaine Buckholtz
https://elainebuckholtz.format.com/
Artist Talk: Thursday, April 3, 2025, 5:30 pm
ARTSLab, 131 Pine St. NE
Elaine Buckholtz is a Light Installation Artist operating in the space between installation, architecture and landscape with interests in public revelation, physical and metaphorical transformation and the technologically sublime. Her work transforms environments and sites into quiet spectacles, inducing a sense of wonder by activating architectural forms and spaces with moving light, sculptural elements and sound. Buckholtz has shown work nationally and internationally and is currently a professor at The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in The Studio for Interrelated Media.
Gale Memorial Lecture Series Fall 2024
Triton Mobley
https://www.tritonmobley.com/
Artist Talk: Thursday, September 26, 2024, 5:30 pm
ARTSLab, 131 Pine St. NE
Triton Mobley is a new media artist and researcher known for his interventionist works and guerrilla performances, exhibited at prestigious venues such as Art Basel Miami and CURRENTS Virtual Festival. His practice combines critical making methodologies across performative installations and speculative design, addressing digital perceptions and cultural optics, particularly the en/coding of anti-blackness in digital technologies. Mobley, who holds an MFA from RISD and a PhD from USC, is currently an Assistant Professor of New Media Art + Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
Events Presented by:
• Gale Memorial Lecture Series
• ARTSLab 20th Anniversary
August Muth
https://www.augustmuth.com/
Artist Talk: Thursday, November 14, 2024, 5:30 pm
ARTSLab, 131 Pine St. NE
For over 30 years, Muth has been an internationally recognized artist, pioneering the use of light through holography, a passion that began in his teens. After studying art and physics, Muth moved to New York City, where he began exploring holography in 1980, eventually building studios in Telluride, Colorado, and later Santa Fe, New Mexico. In Santa Fe, he pushed the boundaries of large-scale holography, developing innovative techniques to create groundbreaking works that explore the light-space-time continuum.
Presented by:
• Gale Memorial Lecture Series
• UNM Research + Discovery Week
• ARTSLab 20th Anniversary