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"A Nite with Mike." Photo from Michael Smith's website, 1998.
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Michael Smith
Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired 12/4/09
Host Michael Rush in conversation with artist Michael Smith who has been producing videos, performances, and installations for over three decades, often via his performance persona, Mike. MICHAEL reveals how he and Mike have more in common than we realize. For Performa09 a collaboration called Camp Kid Friendly featured Malcolm Stuart’s hoop dance troupe, Color Wheel, together with friends, performing with Baby IKKI at SculptureCenter. Manipulating hoops, fire, and other objects, the dancers activate Mike Kelley’s and Michael Smith’s video installation, A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, with a carnivalesque performance (33 minutes).
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Amy Goldin: Art in a Hairshirt
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Critics Robert Kushner and Dominique Nahas join Michael Rush in discussing Amy Goldin's contributions to post-war art criticism. The insightful critic's essays, taken from the pages of Artnews and other prestigious publications, are also discussed.

Though her star shone only briefly (she wrote from 1964 until her death in 1978), Amy Goldin made several original contributions to post-war art criticism, including admitting the decorative arts into larger painting-dominated criticism. Artist and...

Originally aired 5/7/12
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Eve Sussman & Jeff Wood, White on White
Hosted by Michael Rush
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Filmmaker Eve Sussman (Rape of the Sabine Women, 89 Seconds at Alcazar) and actor Jeff Wood discuss there new film, White on White: Algorithmic Noir, a computer assisted, abstract experience about an everyman in a post-apocalyptic no-man's land.

Filmmaker Eve Sussman (Rape of the Sabine Women, 89 Seconds at Alcazar) discusses her new film, White on White: Algorithmic Noir, a computer assisted, abstract experience about an everyman in no-man's land. Accompanied by lead...

Originally aired 10/31/11
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Niklas Goldbach
Hosted by Michael Rush
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Video artist Niklas Goldbach turns controversial spaces (Nazi public swimming baths; a bombed-out discotheque in Corsica) into personal landscapes where his own digitally multiplied body occupies the space and redefines it.

Video artist Niklas Goldbach turns controversial spaces (Nazi public swimming baths; a bombed-out discotheque in Corsica) into personal landscapes where his own digitally multiplied body occupies the space and redefines it. He's like one of Robert...

Originally aired 6/27/11
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Andrew Kuo
Hosted by Michael Rush
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The multi-tasking painter and sculptor whose "music reviews" (graphs and charts of his assorted observations experiences at concerts) have wowed New York Times readers discusses his connections to Modernism, alternative rock and the art world.

Host Michael rush speaks with multi-tasking artist Andrew Kuo whose "music reviews" (painted graphs and charts of his thumbs up/thunbs down experiences and observations at concerts) have wowed New York Times readers. Kuo, a serious painter...

Originally aired 5/23/11
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Form From Thought Symposium: Art, Science, & Technology
Hosted by Michael Rush
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On March 30-31, 2011 the Michigan State University Dept. of Art and Art History's Electronic Art & Intermedia program hosted the Form From Thought Symposium to discuss the intersections among art, science and technology. Moderated by Michael Rush.

On March 30-31, 2011 the Michigan State University Department of Art and Art History's Electronic Art & Intermedia program hosted the Form From Thought Symposium to discuss the intersections among art, science and technology--which included the...

Originally aired 5/9/11
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Grayson Cox
Hosted by Michael Rush
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Grayson Cox, emerging from Columbia's MFA program just a year ago, takes on NY with a fully formed exhibition at Chelsea's Gasser & Grunnert Gallery, through 23 April , 2011. Refreshingly sane and realistic.

Grayson Cox, emerging from Columbia's MFA program just a year ago in 2010, takes on NY with a fully formed exhibition at Chelsea's Gasser & Grunnert Gallery (through 23 April 2011). The artist talks candidly with Rush about his early success in...

Originally aired 4/18/11
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Carolee Schneemann, Kinetics
Hosted by Michael Rush
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Pioneering multimedia artist Carolee Schneemann is as tireless as ever in exploring new forms. In the first week of 2011 she checked in with host Michael Rush to speak about about her new kinetic works, her experimental films, and much more.

Pioneering multimedia artist Carolee Schneemann is as tireless as ever in exploring new forms. In the first week of 2011 she checked in to the Clocktower with host Michael Rush to speak about about her new kinetic works. She also offered some...

Originally aired 1/14/11
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Julia Draganovic & Manon Slome, No Longer Empty
Hosted by Michael Rush
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Curators Manon Slome and Julia Draganovic discuss No Longer Empty, a moveable artist feast that has already transformed numerous abandoned spaces into thriving temporary artist sites.

It is no longer a secret that times of economic stress can afford opportunities for artists and curators who like to work with artists, especially when it comes to space. Curatorial entrepreneurs Manon Slome and Julia Draganovic, both veterans of...

Originally aired 1/7/11
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Robin Parness Lipson, NJ MoCA
Hosted by Michael Rush
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Bruce Springsteen, Meryl Streep, pollution....all from the state of New Jersey! And now contemporary art has arrived. The Garden State sprouts a new museum of contemporary art and host Michael Rush (also a native of guess where?) speaks with NJMoCA...

Originally aired 12/17/10
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