Digitally Inclined at the new Student Union Gallery

The Digital Art Mob (DAM) is proud to host Digitally Inclined, its first student art show, juried by Ryan Buyssens (Digital Fabrication Lab Administrator for the College of Arts + Architecture) and Jae Emerling (Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art + Art History).

Digitally Inclined will be on view from February 10th through March 3rd 2010 at the new Student Union Gallery at UNC - Charlotte. A reception will be held on Wednesday, February 17th from 5:00 to 7:30pm and is free and open to the public.

The Digital Art Mob is an informal group of students, faculty and staff interested in the intersection of digital technologies and the arts. Those interested should visit http://digitalartmob.ning.com to find out about upcoming events or contact Heather D. Freeman, Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Art + Art History at hdfreema@uncc.edu or 704-687-0184.

All students in the College of Arts + Architecture were invited to submit work, although any student in the university community was eligible to apply. The jurors reviewed 191 artworks from 46 artists. The show features 30 works by 23 artists including digital prints, videos, animations, interactive works and mixed media works. DAM asked Buyssens and Emerling to choose works that demonstrated high aesthetic and conceptual refinement, as well as a range of techniques as they related to digital technologies. While some works were completed constructed in programs like Adobe Photoshop or Final Cut Pro, others combined both digital and traditional technologies. The video art ranges from non-linear abstractions to documentary-style narratives and the two interactive works include a meditation on Dia de los Muertos and a game in which the user interacts with a voodoo doll.

The artists included in the exhibition are Nicole Anderson, Christian Anzola, Diego Arocha, Austin Ballard, Stew Cantrell, Amelia Fletcher, Maya Hazelett, Damon Hood, Adam Iscrupe, Bethany Kern, Melissa MacDonald, Ryan Tyler Martinez, Lauren McClure, Abby Moize, James Noland, Elizabeth Ashley Owens, Karen Pierce, Brim Soh, Jessica Soss, Der Vang, Kayla Whitmore, Yanting Zheng and Lina Zuluaga.














Paucity by Lina Zuluaga. Still from Video.