The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists program welcomes Behnaz Farahi and Andy Cavatorta as a featured artists and presenters at the Mid America College Art Association Conference, October 4-6. The lectures are free and open to the public.
As part of this year's Mid America College Art Association conference, Behnaz Farahi and Andy Cavatorta are two cutting-edge artists who are the keynote speakers. Each of their keynote lectures are also part of the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Behnaz will present her lecture on Thursday, Oct. 4 at 5:30 p.m.; Andy will present his lecture on Friday, Oct. 5 at 5:30 p.m. Both lectures will take place at the Embassy Suites Hotel at 1040 P St. in Lincoln, Nebraska. The lectures are free and open to the public.
Farahi, a designer and creative technologist based in Los Angeles, is an advisory council member for the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. Her lecture is titled "Emotive Matter from Fashion to Architecture." This presentation will address emotive material interfaces that respond to the behavior of the human body and its emotions through the implementation of emerging technologies.
Cavatorta is an artist and researcher working with physical sounds and robotics. His work explores technologically mediated emotions, opportunities to express the previously inexpressible, and how we make meaning with sound. This work is entirely new, but also part of a centuries-long tradition of exploring the artistic possibilities opened by every new technological or scientific development. His talk is about the surprising history of music and technology, his own work, the pleasures and perils of working in unexplored spaces, and the importance of fake rules.