Sculptor to Give Public Lecture
March 25, 2008
Michael Rees, digital artist and sculptor, will give a free public lecture, “Problems and Ambiguities,” at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 3, 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 Rees’s lecture.
Rees, professor of sculpture at the Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, combines sculpture and animation as a means to explore the moral implications of artificial life. He has pioneered the use of computers in sculpture, employing both animation-modeling programs and computer-aided manufacture devices to create his work. Rees has exhibited in private and public venues in the United States and Europe, such as the 1995 Whitney Biennial and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Edelman Foundation, Luzerne, Switzerland; the Science Museum in London, England; and the Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. Rees has also written and lectured widely about “art and rapid prototyping.” For more information, visit http://www.michaelrees.com.
Contact: Ann Shostrom, ashostrom@psu.edu