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Art In Tandem Lecture Series

presents Richard Blackwell, Artist and Automator

Join us for the forth entry in the Art in Tandem Lecture series, Featuring Australian Artist and Automator, Richard Blackwell.

Event Details

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Noon – 1 p.m. CST

Room 116, Lowe Center for the Arts and virtually on zoom

Join us for the fourth entry in the Art in Tandem Lecture series, featuring Australian artist and technician, Richard Blackwell. Attendees are welcome to join us in person in Room 116 of the Lowe Center for the Arts or join virtually via the following zoom link: https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/91296119510 

Centered between sculpture and print-media, the interdisciplinary practice of Richard Blackwell involves a network of objects, a collage of marks, observations, and processes, representing his felt experiences of the city. Parsed by printmaking, robotic fabrication, and advanced manufacturing technology, produced through idiocractic systems of and automation, Blackwell’s work analyses the changing mechanics of human labour, considering the ways in which human limitations can be transcended by creating systems of production that supplant manual labour. His work, largely, reflects what it means to make physically and digitally, in the context of the urban landscape.

Created from Solid Surface Material, using robotic engraving and gestural directional spray-painting technique, his recent relief works deal with ideas of modularity, fusing individual experience with architectonic space. Grappling with the unknown ways in which virtuality is changing our social reality and collapsing geographical space, the works function as urban cartography, and yet they also map the complicated, lonely virtual spaces that are rapidly subsuming contemporary (Western) existence.

More of Blackwell’s work can be found on his website: https://www.richardblackwell.net/ and Instagram: @richardblackwell.studioRichard Blackwell is an Australian Artist and Technician, Richard is a co-founder of Studio Studio, a collective studio in Canberra ACT.

Art in Tandem is a collaborative printmaking and design project that connects professional, working artists with student artists at the University of Wisconsin- La Crosse. Through the project students and artists collaborate to create a print edition, catalog, and exhibition highlighting the artistic products achieved through this unique partnership. This accompanying lecture series allows the collaborating artists to share their art practices with the greater art, campus, and La Crosse communities. Art in Tandem is created and organized by Zachary Stensen, Assistant Professor of Art, and Marc Manke, Assistant Professor of Art, and has been made possible by generous support from the UWL College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities small grant program and the Department of Art.

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When

Past occurrences (1)

  • Noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 10

Where

116 Lowe Center for the Arts

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University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Lowe Center for the Arts

Contact

For questions about this event or to request disability accommodations , contact Marc Manke at 608.785.8330 or mmanke@uwlax.edu.

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