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Oct.
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"Imaginary Homelands": Woodstock
Exhibit Represents Work of Rensselaer Students
The Center of Photography in Woodstock, N.Y.,
will present "Imaginary Homelands," a digital art exhibit
being organized by Rensselaer digital artist Kathleen Ruiz and
featuring the work of four Rensselaer students.
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Thomas Griffin
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The exhibit, on display Nov. 2-Dec. 22, is the
work of nine artists from Ghana, Latvia, Israel, Malaysia, Spain,
America, Brazil, and Bulgaria. It comprises digital photography,
video, and a Web-based interactive sculpture. The Rensselaer students
are Kofi Amponsah, Anuar Ayob, Rachelle Menshikova, and Lazarina
Todorova.
"The theme is coping with change and preserving
culture in today's world through digital media," says Ruiz,
the project's curator and assistant professor of electronic arts
at Rensselaer.
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The artwork's centerpiece is a wooden 4-foot-by-6-foot
sculpture of an Asante loom designed by Kofi Amponsah, a textile
designer and artist earning his doctorate at Rensselaer. In the
center of the loom is a laptop computer. Viewers can learn traditional
African weaving by clicking a few buttons to activate the projection
of a simulated loom on the sculpture's surface.
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