Subject to Change Daniel Eatock Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Marry Harris Auditorium on the campus of the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design RMCAD's Visiting Artist, Scholar, and Designer Program introduces the first lecture of the fall 2013 and spring 2014 lecture series titled Interventions. These lectures look at the possibilities and types of interventions that exist in the cultural realm today. Interventions are ruptures in systems or moments of directional change that often create new perspectives -- like a New Year's resolution or a political revolt. Interventions are important to consider as they offer moments for reflection and opportunities to change the construct of the world around us. Historically art and design interventions have run concurrently, and sometimes led, new ways of seeing the world. London-based artist and graphic designer, Daniel Eatock, is an impassioned design documentarian and a champion of democratizing information systems. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Eatock worked at the design department at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis before returning to England to launch the design firm Foundation 33, which he later merged with the creative agency Boymeetsgirl. In 2003, he started Eatock Ltd., through which he builds and maintains his database of photographic projects and completes work for a range of entertainment and cultural clients, including Samsung and Channel 4. Eatock's artistic research will take an emblematic form in a lecture performance that looks at the medium of the artist/designer lecture format itself. As a hybrid of past research, lecture, and performative narrative techniques, Eatock's lecture will intervene in the traditional lecture structure in order to address the key questions of producing and framing creative knowledge. Subject to Change is an extension of Daniel Eatock's exhibition titled An Empty Room: The Sequel in the Philip J. Steele Gallery on the RMCAD campus. An Empty Room: The Sequel September 10 -- October 10, 2013 curated by Cortney Lane Stell The Philip J. Steele Gallery on the campus of the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design An empty room is an oxymoron. If a room exists, it must contain at least the things that allow it to be defined as a room, walls, ceilings, and doors. This paradox is precisely where we start the exhibition, An Empty Room: The Sequel. All the equipment, display furniture, lighting etc. is left in position from the previous show, the architectural elements of the gallery are captioned, all photographs and exhibition announcements from the previous exhibitions are displayed, the gallery attendant hiring process has been revisited, everything is undone yet still somehow left in its place. The revelation here is awareness, both awareness of social constructs and physical space. An Empty Room: The Sequel features a new group of works by British artist Daniel Eatock, in which Eatock devises a dynamic, experiential staging of objects, archives, and processes that are already present at every exhibition, but often tucked away or hidden in plain sight. An Empty Room: The Sequel is inspired by an exhibition mounted this past May in Strasbourg, France. In the predeceasing exhibition the artist collaborated with a group of graphic communication students to both produce and organize a unique, mini-retrospective of his work. Since the mid 1990s, Eatock's artworks revel new relationships to familiar situations, objects, and environments. His oeuvre can be situated on the threshold between fine art and design practices by deliberately working in a query and play based experimental process, never fearing to come up with designed "solutions" through art making. Thus, Eatock's new works can be approached in various ways because of their ability to raise questions, instigate awareness, and foster aesthetic appreciation of the familiar. Additionally, the exhibition can be easily broken down into three main focuses: the gallery space itself, the concept of the archive, and play. VASD The Visiting Artist, Scholar, and Designer Program is an interdisciplinary initiative that is culturally inclusive, intellectually expansive, and ultimately enriches the RMCAD experience and the greater community. An integral part of the educational mission of RMCAD, the VASD Program fosters vision, creativity and innovation by bringing leading national and international artists, scholars and designers to campus each year. The Program provides direct access to contemporary art, design and culture through an inspiring comparative framework by creating a forum for appreciation and critical inquiry of diverse and challenging artistic visions. Sign up for the VASD mailing list by sending a request to vasdprogram@rmcad.edu Follow us on Facebook www.facebook.com/pages/Vising-Aritst-Scholar-Designer-Program-at-RMCAD For more information visit www.rmcad.edu

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