The Grossman Gallery, in the Williams Visual Arts Building, is a block from the Delaware River and sits directly over Bushkill Creek, both of which have overflowed their banks in recent years. Knee Deep and Risin’, created by Jim Toia and Noah Vawter, is a multimedia installation of video and audio feeds from both waterways. Infrared sensors, triggered by visitors’ moving the exhibition screens, activate live and recorded video and audio, simulating flood events from fresh perspectives. Knee Deep and Risin’ is an interdisciplinary project by Lafayette College’s Department of Computer Science, Department of Art, Grossman Gallery,  Community-Based Teaching Program, and the Lehigh Valley Performing Arts High School.

Round table discussion: Thursday, Nov. 20,  4:30–5:30 p.m.
Reception for the artists: 5:30–6:30 p.m.

Brown bag lecture by Noah Vawter: Friday, Nov. 21, noon, Williams Center108.

Noah Vawter, Creator of Ambient Addition and co-creator of Knee Deep & Risin' (Grossman Gallery through Dec. 20) will discuss his work at a Brown Bag lunch.

Vawter creates sonic spaces using his skills in electronic music and instrument design. Vawter explores, conceptually and aesthetically, the landscape between acoustic order and disorder. Vawter's work has been featured in the New York Times, the Sundance Film Festival, Wired magazine, IEEE Spectrum, and Discovery TV (Canada), and shown in Rio de Janeiro, New York City, Berkeley, CA and Los Angeles. He has taught numerous workshops on music synthesizer design and audio art around the world. A third-year PhD candidate, he received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and his master’s degree in media arts and sciences from MIT's Media Lab.

Dance performance choreographed by Kimberly Maniscalco and performed by students from the Lehigh Valley Performing Arts High School: Dec. 5 & 6, 5:30 p.m. in the Grossman Gallery.

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Miguel Haruki Yamaguchi ’11 (Akashi, Japan) spent the summer using his expertise as a computer science major to help put together the multimedia exhibit Knee Deep and Risin' running through Dec. 20 in the Grossman Gallery. He worked as an EXCEL Scholar under the guidance of Chun Wai Liew, associate professor and head of computer science, and Jim Toia, director of the art department’s Community-Based Teaching program.

Moe Brooker, Temple Visiting Artist
Moe Brooker
Listen With Your Eyes
January 30–February 28, 2009

Artist Talk: Wednesday, February 18,
4:10 p.m., Williams Center 108.
Reception for the artist to follow.

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Kay WalkingStick, Grossman Visiting Artist
works on paper: 1981-2000

Public talk: March 11, 4:10 Williams 108
Reception for the Artist to follow.

The works in this exhibition were completed over a 20-year span and directly relate, often as value studies, to the paintings made at the same time.

When I look at these works, I see and remember different chapters of my life, various states of mind. My mind. Drawing is the most direct medium; it is as immediate as dance, and often as vigorous. Each of these series of works represents one of four rather distinct periods, expressed very directly in marks, like a journal. The earliest are emblematic of the minimalism of the New York art world, and my involvement in it. The colorful group of oilstick works from the 1980s reminds me of my travels in the Southwest; the dark charcoals of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s speak of loss and redemption; and the final charcoal drawings tell of my life in Rome and the possibility of refound love. These drawings are a chronological representation of my life.

Kay WalkingStick
March 2009