R. Luke DuBois – Now

Museum of Art Museum of Art

Exhibition: R. Luke DuBois – Now

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Location:

Shaw Ruddock Gallery, Boyd Gallery
The exhibition presents a survey of the work of Luke DuBois, a New York based composer, computer programmer, filmmaker, and installation artist

Selected Works

"Fashionably Late for the Relationship," video still, 2008, Blu-Ray DVD video, by R. Luke DuBois.
"Vertical Music (for twelve musicians filmed at high speed)," 2012 by R. Luke DuBois
"Self-Portrait," 1993-2004 by R. Luke DuBois
"Sergey Brin and Larry Page," 2013, by R. Luke DuBois
"Play," 2006 by R. Luke DuBois
"A More Perfect Union: Kinky," 2011 by R. Luke DuBois
"Self Portrait, Facebook," 2015 by R. Luke DuBois

About

The exhibition presents a survey of the work of Luke DuBois, a New York based composer, computer programmer, filmmaker, and installation artist. Operating at the intersection of the visual, performative, and time-based arts, DuBois explores what it means to live in today’s data-saturated world of globalized information. The exhibition includes video, sound, and print-based works ranging from the late 1990s through today. Luke DuBois—Now was organized by the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida.

Events

An Artist's View: R. Luke DuBois

March 30, 2016 | 4:30 PM |Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center

R. Luke DuBois, a New York-based "new media" artist who works as a composer, computer programmer, filmmaker, and installation artist, will speak about his art in conjunction with the exhibition R. Luke Dubois-Now at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Spring Open House, featuring  R. Luke DuBois-Now

March 30, 2016 | 5:30-7:00 PM | Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Gallery Conversation: R. Luke DuBois–Now with Erin Johnson

April 5, 2016 | 12:00 noon | Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Erin Johnson, Visiting Artist, leads a discussion within the exhibition R. Luke DuBois-Now.

R. Luke Dubois: On Art and Performance

April 7, 2016 | 4:30 PM | Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center

Matthew McLendon, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ringling Museum, who organized the exhibition R. Luke Dubois-Now, will speak to the performative aesthetic of DuBois's work and the powerful model the practice of performance provides for the development of new media work and collaborative art practices today.

Gallery Conversation: R. Luke DuBois-Now with Crystal Hall

4/19/2016 | 12:00 noon | Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Crystal Hall, associate professor in the digital humanities, leads a discussion in the exhibition R. Luke DuBois-Now, focusing on the artist's use of digital media.

"Collecting Time"

April 28, 2016 | 4:30 PM | Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center

Jon Ippolito, co-founder of the University of Maine's New Media Department and Still Water, a new media research and development laboratory, and Richard Rinehart, director, Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, discuss the work of artist R. Luke DuBois in the context of the broader history of new media art, addressing what it means, from philosophical and technical standpoints, to collect, exhibit, and preserve new media art today.  They are the co-authors of Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory (2014).