“Cowboy Cruising” was a multi-media and multi-projector piece which exploited the way men look at each other in classic Western films—where the gaze takes on clear homoerotic and homosocial connotations.
Joan Hawkins, author of "Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avante-Garde"
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Consideration of several aspects of space — cinematic, cultural and sexual — are directions that I have taken with my work in various digital art mediums. In some instances the intersection of these directions reveals faults and cracks, fissures that need to be exposed and re-evaluated. The slippage that occurs along these faults suggests new ways of looking at space and the ways in which we experience and negotiate space.
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expectations.
of panic.
film of the same name.
Christopher
Lowther is Assistant Professor of Time-Based Media at the University of
Alabama-Birmingham. He also holds a secondary faculty appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UAB, and serves as co-director of the Leonardo Art & Engineering Interdisciplinary Program. He teaches Video, animation, interactive design,
and 3D modeling/animation. Lowther is the recipient of the prestigious College Art Association Professional Development Fellowship (funded by
the National Endowment for the Arts) in recognition of his innovative
use of space and video projection to reference stereotypes of
masculinity in Hollywood film. Lowther's videos and installations have
exhibited both nationally and internationally.
News
A $12,000 NEA grant proposal that I co-wrote for Space One Eleven has been awarded.
Dr. Bharat Soni, Chair of Mechanical Engineering, and I are
spear-heading a brand new interdisciplinary certificate program between
Art & Engineering. We are calling it Leonardo and it has been approved and will start fall 2011. You can download
the brochure here. And you can view an article in UAB Magazine on Leonardo here.
Current Project
"Cão Sem Dono" the animation is complete. Please check photos above.
Upcoming Projects
I am starting a new suite of works entitled, "New World Disorder: Disaster & Desire." I will be finishing this up in the early part of 2012. Brett Levine, Curator of the San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, and Joan Hawkins, Associate Professor and Director of Film & Media Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington and Editor for Culture, Theory and Critque are writing essays for the exhibition catalogue. Check back for progress.
Current Exhibitions
November 10 - 23, 2011: SECAC (Southeastern College Art Conference) 2011 Juried Exhibition,
Gutstein Gallery, Savannah Georgia. Juror: Dan Cameron, founding Director of Prospect New Orleans and former Senior Curator at the New Museum (1995-2006).
November 20 - January 15, 2012: Alabama's Finest, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden Alabama.
January 22 - March 2, 2012: Tennessee Valley Art Association's Art of the State traveling exhibition, Tuscumbia Alabama. Juror: Nandini Makrandi, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Hunter Museum.
March 15 - May 23, 2012: Tennessee Valley Art Association's Art of the State traveling exhibition, Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden Alabama. Juror: Nandini Makrandi (see bio above).
June 5 - July 2, 2012: Tennessee Valley Art Associations's Art of the State traveling exhibition, Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy Alabama. Juror: Nandini Makrandi (see bio above).
August 15 – October 31, 2012: Tennessee Valley Art Association's Art of the State traveling exhibition, Fayette Art Museum, Fayette Alabama. Juror: Nandini Makrandi (see bio above).