Video Artist Chip Lord Joins Panel Discussion, Offers Student Critiques

Renowned video artist Chip Lord visited The Art Gallery for a panel discussion and graduate student critiques as part of fall exhibition program Sept. 23, 2014.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, SEPT. 26, 2014

COLLEGE PARK—Renowned video artist Chip Lord visited The Art Gallery as part of a panel Tuesday to discuss his career as well as how artists should adapt their practices in order to remain relevant in the face of constantly-evolving technology.

The visit was part of the gallery’s fall exhibition program. Lord is a California-based artist who helped cofound the Ant Farm, an avant-garde design, architecture and art collective, in 1968. Videos made by Lord between 1977 and 1984 are currently on display at the gallery until October 17.

California Institute of the Arts professor Norman Klein participated in the discussion via Skype. The discussion, which was held at the gallery in partnership with CalArts’ Center for Integrated Media, allowed students from Maryland and CalArts to interact and discuss the current state of time-based media arts with two of the field’s leading figures. Exhibition curator Taras W. Matla moderated.

Lord also visited Department of Art graduate student studios during his visit. Each graduate student was afforded 45 minutes to show Lord their work, followed by an informal critique.

"It is always a great critique when you come away with both encouragement and critical analysis of your work, and that is what Chip Lord offered me during my studio visit," graduate student Zach Benson said.

In addition to working as an artist, Lord is a professor emeritus in the Department of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 

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