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University of California, Berkeley

February 13 - February 13, 2012

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Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Kianga Ford
Kianga Ford is a artist whose projects, which combine installation and site-specific strategies, often highlight the intersections between media and space. Her work engages sounds inherent capacitiesfor creating immersive fields and technologies, like Max MSP, that have been specifically designed toenhance the spatial dimensions of media work. Though her current concerns gravitate organicallytoward sound, her training, teaching, and practice have all focused on concept-directed forms, andshe continues to work across a broad range of media, from more traditional new genres, like videoand performance, to collaborations in mathematics and new architectural media. Most recently, shehas received grants to support new projects from the LEF Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council,the Harpo Foundation, California Community Foundation, and Creative Capital. The grant fromCreative Capital supports her largest scale project to-date: Walking Home is a cross-country walkfrom Southern California to her childhood home in Central Florida that brings Kianga into directconversation with communities across the U.S. Ford is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts/New Genres at Parsons The New School for Design, before which she was at Massachusetts Collegeof Art where she was Assistant Professor in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM). She holds an MA and ABD from the University of California, Santa Cruz, MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA from Georgetown University. Location: 160 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley