Calendar Event
October 18, 2011, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Artist Lecture by Bob Gates
Last Transfer: Identity & Liminality
Syracuse Symposium™ Exhibition: Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center Gallery
Syracuse Sympoisum™ Artist Lecture: Tuesday, October 18, 7:00pm, Gifford Auditorium, H.B. Crouse Hall
Reception with Bob Gates: October 18, following artist's lecture in Panasci Lounge
Urban Video Project Special Presentation at Everson Museum of Art: Last Transfer, on view October 10–12 and October 17–19, dusk until 11pm. As part of this project, work from this series was installed in Connective Corridor buses in Syracuse.
Co-sponsors: Media Finishings, Light Work, and Urban Video Project
Bob Gates, photographer and SU English Department professor emeritus, studied photography at the University of Iowa School of Art and the Santa Fe Photography Workshops. His photographs have been exhibited widely, and have won numerous awards in regional and national competitions. His work has been published in PhotoLife, The Photo Review, Photographic, f-stop, File, Popular Photography, The Best of Photography Annual, National Geographic Traveler, Shutterbug, Stone Canoe, Dossier Journal, Apogee, and Pixels to Print.
Last Transfer: Identity & Liminality “ is the title of the exhibit of his latest photography sponsored by the SU Humanities Center for the 2011 Symposium Symposium: IDENTITY. As Gates comments: "In the ‘age of Facebook,’ we have become familiar with the fluidity of identity. Peter Steiner’s famous cartoon in which one dog says to another, ‘On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,’ is often taken to represent a ‘new truth’ but really represents an old truth: identities are always constructed, fluid, changeable, and difficult to read. This truth became very real to me when I undertook my current project, to create ‘a collaborative urban portrait’ of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse which is soon to disappear —the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina Street. The project began with a simple question of identity: who are these people?”
MORE INFORMATION
Urban Video Project (UVP) is a multimedia public art initiative of Light Work and Syracuse University that operates several electronic exhibition sites along the Connective Corridor in Syracuse, NY. The mission of UVP is to present exhibitions and projects that celebrate the arts and culture of Syracuse and engage artists and the creative community around the world. Light Work and UVP work closely with collaborative partner Everson Museum of Art in determining exhibitions and programming for that site. For more information visit www.urbanvideoproject.com.
Light Work is a nonprofit, artist-run organization dedicated to the support of artists working in photography and electronic media. Light Work and UVP are members of CMAC, the Coalition of Museum and Art Centers at Syracuse University.
For more information about this video and special program, please contact Jessica Reed at Light Work, 315-443-1300 or
