Portfolio Center Blog Portfolio Center Blog: Show Off to Jason Salavon, New Media Artist | Oct. 8
New media artist Jason Salavon will review new media and interactive art (including gamers) on Thursday, October 8 from 10AM-1PM. Juniors, seniors, grad students and May '09 graduates are eligible to participate. Call 312.369.7280 to sign up for an appointment.
ABOUT SALAVON:
Jason Salavon is October’s featured artist for Chicago Artist Month and using software processes of his own design, he generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on the familiar. Though formally varied, his projects frequently manipulate the roles of individual elements arranged in diverse visual populations. This often unearths unexpected pattern as the relationship between the part and the whole, the individual and the group, is explored. Reflecting a natural attraction to popular culture and the day-to-day, his work regularly incorporates the use of common references and source material. The final compositions are exhibited as art objects, such as photographic prints and video installations, while others exist in a real-time software context.
Salavon, along with several artists, is participating in Columbia's art exhibition RE:figure, which explores the common ground between new and old media representations of the human form, as well as the different uses of figurative representation. (The Show will run from September 8 – October 30, 2009 in the Glass Curtain Gallery; 1104 S. Wabash Avenue, 1st floor)
WHAT IS SHOW OFF? Show Off is a program that gives students a chance to meet one-on-one with professionals during 20-minute appointments. You can use the time to have our guests give you feedback on your work. It's also a good time to discuss general issues about industry expectations. This is a low pressure way for you to practice interviewing, make connections and ease into the professional realm.