Visual Voices is a Professional Lecture Series offered by Mason Exhibitions and the School of Art at Mason. Speakers are chosen with faculty guidance to represent leading and emerging talented practitioners, as well as artists whose work lies beyond the subject areas of the program offerings.
The purpose of the lectures are to broaden students’ exposure and vocabulary to professional work being created today. It also provides an opportunity for Art & Design students and members of the public to interact with speakers via a Q&A following their lecture, giving them the chance to exchange ideas and pose questions to the guest speakers.
If you miss the live presentations, recordings of the lectures will be available one week after the live event. Recordings of the lectures will be available at https://masonartsamplified.gmu.edu/soa
Visual Voices events are free to attend and open to the public. Registration is required!
For more information, please contact: Jeffrey Kenney - jkenney5@gmu.edu
Thursday, February 8, 2024 @4:45pm - 6:30pm
TAEKYEOM LEE
Hybrid Event
Taekyeom Lee is an educator, maker, and designer whose research explores unconventional materials and digital methods to graphic design, to create 3D type, graphics, and even designed objects. This research began with two questions: Where does typography belong in the post-digital age? How do we bridge digital and physical experiences?
(In-Person) This event will be held in Center for the Arts Lobby on the GMU Fairfax campus
Thursday, February 22, 2024 @ 4:45 pm - 6:30 pm
MARIA GASPAR
Maria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist negotiating the politics of location through installation, sculpture, sound, and performance. Gaspar’s work addresses issues of spatial justice in order to amplify, mobilize, or divert structures of power through individual and collective gestures. In collaboration with George Mason University’s data mapping and art history scholars, Gaspar will continue to realize her goals of abolishing carceral spaces by adding prints of current prisons, jails, and immigrant detention facilities in Virginia to the Disappearance Jails project, which will ultimately be obscured through perforations by exhibition visitors.
Thursday, March 21, 2024 @ 4:45pm - 6:30 pm
LATE COMEBACK PRESS
Late Comeback Press is a Northern Virginia micropress run by Rachna Soun and Caroline Kim, specializing in avant-garde zines. Communication and existentialism are the center of their art, flourishing in the space before choices are made, when the possibilities can seem paralyzingly endless or distinctively finite.
Thursday, March 28, 2024 @ 4:45 pm - 6:30 pm
MENDI + KEITH OBADIKE
Hybrid Event
Mendi + Keith Obadike are artists, composers, and writers. Their works sit at the intersection of art, music, and language and draw upon histories of experimental media art and performance. Their early collaborative works were pioneering pieces for the Internet.
This event will be via Zoom and in the Johnson Center Cinema on the GMU Fairfax campus. RSVP is required to receive Zoom link.
Visual Voices lectures are now available to watch online! Mason Arts Amplified has a new look and platform to make watching and browsing arts content even easier. This online platform is a digital stage and learning space featuring curated arts experiences including livestreamed concerts, releases of previously recorded content, behind-the-scenes talks with artists, and more. It requires a free registration.
Past speakers have included:
Ellen Lesperance / Bahia Shehab / Jon Henry / Silas Munro/ Sadie Barnette / Sharif Bey / Rodrigo Carazas Portal / William Christenberry / Sonya Clark / James Elkins / Ann Fessler / Sam Gilliam / Steve Heller / Leslie Hewitt / Steve Kurtz / Lucy Lippard / Ellen Lupton / J.J. McCracken / Dorothy Moss / Alyce Myatt / Laurel Nakadate / Lori Nix / Eddie Opara / Adriana Ospina / PARABOLA Architecture / Michael Rakowitz / Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz / E. Carmen Ramos / Wendy Red Star / Dario Robleto / Mia Eve Rollow / Phyllis Rosenzweig / Mario Rossero / Amanda Ross-Ho / Rozeal (formerly Iona Rozeal Brown) / Paul Rucker / Carrie Schneider / Simon Schwartz / Kuiyi Shen / Renee Stout / Siebren Versteeg / Angela Washko / Robert Whitman / Daniel Wickerham and Malcolm Lomax / Bruce Willen / Deborah Willis / Krzysztof Wodiczko / Agustina Woodgate / The Yes Men