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A few nice visual art images I found:

ShenWei

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Shen Wei Dance Arts is internationally recognized for its interdisciplinary cross-cultural performances, which have been described as “breathtaking, powerful, and riveting” (The Boston Globe) and celebrated for their “gorgeous visual imagery” (The London Times). Each work unveils an original movement vocabulary combined with elements of film, theater, new media, and visual art.

The company has toured extensively on five continents, performing at such premier festivals and venues as the Venice Biennale, Het Muziektheater, and the Hong Kong New Vision Festival. In the U.S., the company has been presented five times by the Lincoln Center Festival; enjoyed a unique five-year performance residency at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC; and given the first dance performances on the concert stage at Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall in Los Angeles.

Shen Wei’s acclaimed touring repertory includes Folding (2000), Connect Transfer (2004) and the company’s most recent program-length touring work, Limited States (2011). In addition to his touring repertory, Shen Wei is known for his site-specific creations, including his choreographic response to Ernesto Neto’s serpentine art installation, built in the Park Avenue Armory’s Drill Hall (2007) and Connect Transfer II, installed at New York’s historic Judson Memorial Church, using paint-strewn bodies to create traditional ink paintings on a vast canvas used as the dancing floor (2008).

Recently, SWDA was featured at the Edinburgh International Festival, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in London. Shen Wei has also been commissioned to create a site-specific work within the Maramotti Gallery in Reggio Emilia, Italy, for performances on October 21 and 23, during the company’s fall tour to Italy and Slovenia. Shen Wei is currently the first choreographer to be honored as a Park Avenue Armory Artist in Residence (2010–11). This residency will culminate in the creation of a new work, generously commissioned by the Armory, and the restaging of two of the choreographer’s most renowned pieces, Folding (2000) and Rite of Spring (2003), which will be performed in the Armory’s vast Wade Thompson Drill Hall, capping the company’s 2011 New York Home Season (November 29–December 4).

For its 2012 season, Shen Wei Dance Arts has been selected for New York City Center’s inaugural Choreography Fellowship Program, a new initiative being launched in conjunction with the theater’s reopening season.

Quad Public Art Project – Film and Media Studies

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Seminar Class, Art 335: Studio Theory & Practice, created a public art project. on the quad. Working with archival images and texts, the students developed these stories into full fledged audio-visual presentations that were projected onto Pardee Hall. There was also a live music at the event, which took place on May 3, 2011.