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First Year in Review

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Photo Credit: Justin Botz

Tomorrow I will have my final presentation of the year, and with that presentation I will have pretty much completed my first year in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Media M.F.A. program. Below, I thought I would share some of the highlights and ways that my art practice has evolved/improved over the course of the year.

First Year in Review

Tomorrow I will have my final presentation of the year, and with that presentation I will have pretty much completed my first year in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Media M.F.A. …

Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA Justin Botz, justin.botz@loop.colum.edu
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

Oron Catts and Biopolitics

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The Tissue Culture and Art Project

In the class Art & Science Collaborations we have been studying some amazing work that blurs the line between art and science. Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr are doing some fascinating work with biological materials. The Tissue Culture and Art Project is re-appropriating tissue engineering for artistic material. they are actually making sculptures out of living tissue. “We coined the term ‘semi- living objects/products/sculptures’ to describe things that are both animate and inanimate, both part of an organism and outside of it.”

Oron Catts and Biopolitics

In the class Art & Science Collaborations we have been studying some amazing work that blurs the line between art and science. Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr are doing some fascinating …

Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA Justin Botz, justin.botz@loop.colum.edu
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

It Will All be Over Soon – Final Performance

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it will all be over soon

it will all be over soon

Last monday, I gave my final performance for the class Media performance and I think it went really well. My final performance was a piece called It Will All be Over Soon, which resulted from combining a few of my projects from the class together. Here is a brief history of the evolution of the performance from conception to final presentation.

It Will All be Over Soon – Final Performance

Last monday, I gave my final performance for the class Media performance and I think it went really well. My final performance was a piece called It Will All be …

Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA Justin Botz, justin.botz@loop.colum.edu
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

Edible 3D Printed Sculptures

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photo credit Laurie Segall

photo credit Laurie Segall

As mentioned in a previous post, I have been learning a bit about grant/proposal writing in our class art as practice.

My friend and 2nd-year Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA candidate Chelsey Shilling and I have been looking for and writing grants recently to get funding to build our own 3D printer to print food and biological material.  That’s right—we are going to print food. Yes, that is awesome. There is already some really interesting work being done in this area. Some have dubbed 2013 the year of the 3D printer, and in a recent article by Smartplanet.com it was projected that 3D printing will enter the mainstream soon.

Edible 3D Printed Sculptures

As mentioned in a previous post, I have been learning a bit about grant/proposal writing in our class art as practice. My friend and 2nd-year Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA …

Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA Justin Botz, justin.botz@loop.colum.edu
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

Work and Play and Spring Break

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Old Band

Old Band

I propose we call spring break something else. The name is a little deceptive.  The word “break” suggests some time to relax. That’s just not the case. It is a week to work on big projects, which where due today and yesterday.

But it hasn’t been bad really. It’s actually been a bit of a refreshing break with time to relax, refocus, and refresh.  Whether I had time or not, I decided to schedule some “me time” anyway, and it was great.

Work and Play and Spring Break

I propose we call spring break something else. The name is a little deceptive.  The word “break” suggests some time to relax. That’s just not the case. It is a …

Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA Justin Botz, justin.botz@loop.colum.edu
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

Crit Week!

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Crit week 2013

Crit week 2013

Last week was my first Crit in the Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA program. It was great! It was great not only to present and give feed back but also to see so much interesting work from all of my colleagues.

Crit Week!

Last week was my first Crit in the Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA program. It was great! It was great not only to present and give feed back but also …

Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA Justin Botz, justin.botz@loop.colum.edu
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

People on a Stage

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Photos by Chip Duggan

Photo by Chip Duggan

My friend and colleague Alexa Rittichier is currently working on her thesis project, People on a Stage.

People on a Stage is a performance ensemble made up of Lydia Feuerhelm, Jenny Garnett, Emily Rose, Courtney St.Clair, Michael Chad St. John, and Don Widmer. The performers make interdisciplinary performance work grown from the experience of being together as a collective through time. The process of making performance work each week is a form of artistic cross-training with a physical activity—examples include acroyoga, rock climbing, Butoh, modern dance, and cardio weight lifting.

People on a Stage

My friend and colleague Alexa Rittichier is currently working on her thesis project, People on a Stage. People on a Stage is a performance ensemble made up of Lydia Feuerhelm, …

Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA Justin Botz, justin.botz@loop.colum.edu
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

The Artist Statement

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Crit week is coming up in a week and a half. This is the time of the semester where every student talks about their art.

The Artist Statement

Crit week is coming up in a week and a half. This is the time of the semester where every student talks about their art.

Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA Justin Botz, justin.botz@loop.colum.edu
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

Artist Lecture: Chris Salter

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This last Thursday I had the privilege of hearing a lecture on campus by visiting artist Chris Salter, the Director of the Hexagram Concordia Centre for Research-Creation in Media Art and Technologies and Associate Professor of Computation Arts in the Department of Design and Computation Art at Concordia University, Montreal.

Salter is the author of a number of publications regarding technology and performance. His most recent book, Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance, has been brought up in many conversations in the Interdisciplinary Arts Department recently.

Artist Lecture: Chris Salter

This last Thursday I had the privilege of hearing a lecture on campus by visiting artist Chris Salter, the Director of the Hexagram Concordia Centre for Research-Creation in Media Art …

Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA Justin Botz, justin.botz@loop.colum.edu
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

The Graduate Experience

Trying on the gown
Trying on the gown
Poets are my Heroes
Poets are my Heroes
Manifest
Manifest
Changing With the Seasons
Changing With the Seasons
My view for the past month.
My view for the past month.
Student Artwork!!
Student Artwork!!