New Media Curator and Artist to Give Public Lecture

March 25, 2008

Marisa Olson, new media curator, critic and artist, will give a free public lecture at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 1, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art, on the University Park campus. The Penn State School of Visual Arts’ John M. Anderson Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series sponsors Olson’s lecture.

A native of Germany, Olson studied fine art at Goldsmiths College in London, history of consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. Her work combines performance, video, sound, drawing, and installation to address intersections of pop culture and the cultural history of technology, as they affect the voice, power, and persona. Olson’s work has been presented by national and international venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, British Film Institute, and New York Underground Film Festival. She has organized exhibitions and programs at the Guggenheim, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Getty, White Columns, Artists Space, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In addition, Olson has written for Wired, Afterimage, Flash Art and Art Review. For more information, visit http://www.marisaolson.com.

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Contact: Ann Shostrom, ashostrom@psu.edu