Studio for Interrelated Media

Studio for Interrelated Media's stencil-style logo

The Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) is an academic concentration within the Multimedia and Performing Arts Department at the Massachusetts College of Art [1]. It was founded by Harris Barron [2] in 1969 .

"The artists in The Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) combine the study of many media by pursuing the representation of their ideas with the most appropriate media for each idea. This process often results in the extending, reshaping, and breaking of boundaries. SIM is project- and concept-centered and depends on the exchange of experience, knowledge and curiosities of a diverse community of students and faculty."^[1]

SIM is an incubator. It is a place that generates the kinds of ideas with the potential to grow into entirely new art forms. The artists in The Studio for Interrelated Media[SIM] study many media with the goal of expressing their ideas through the most appropriate media for each concept. This process often results in the extending, reshaping, and breaking of boundaries. SIM is project- and concept-centered and depends on the exchange of experience, knowledge and curiosities of a diverse community of students and faculty. In SIM, students gain practice in articulating their ideas, experience the planning needed to realize them, and learn the power of critique and collaboration.

SIM art overlaps and intersects with many other disciplines in order to encourage students to invent and develop experimental art forms, new directions, and unusual contexts. Each semester SIM provides a selection of courses in many media, such as: web art and digital distribution; video editing and production; interactive media and computer-controlled installations; dance techniques, choreography and improvisation; performance art and spoken word; the interrelationship between art and science; theater production and stage lighting; sound performance, composition, recording, and editing; event planning and production.

The SIM program manages a digital sound studio, a digital video editing suite, a 350 seat flexible performance space, and a store-house of analog and digital equipment ranging from a theremin and a mirror ball to the latest in HD video hardware. SIM students also have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience curating, designing, and producing by annually re-inventing the Eventworks experimental arts festival and managing SIM's Godine Family Gallery.

Eventworks

Eventworks is a festival of multimedia and performance arts run by the SIM program.

In 1977, SIM students conceived of and held the first Eventworks, then an international festival of film and music. It was founded to provide venues for new experimental art and to create a link within the college environment and the professional art world. In the twenty-three years since, Eventworks has presented over three hundred artists working in music, installation, film, video, performance, dance, sound and more. ^[2]

The annual Eventworks festival is a completely student-run nonprofit organization for the arts. Students produce this month-long, city-wide festival in which they curate the work of emerging and established artists and scholars while also running all aspects of the production: curating, technical operations, publicity and fundraising.

Each year, Eventworks producers are self-selected and elected (if need be) among the students in the SIM program. Producers receive academic credit from the college. Funding for the Eventworks festival is provided by the MassArt Student Government Association, the Studio for Interrelated Media program, and fundraising efforts throughout the year.

Godine Family Gallery

The Godine Family Gallery serves as an educational tool for students in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) who are interested in curatorial work and event production - much like Eventworks. Since its inception, the Godine Gallery has been entirely student-run. Because of the direct involvement of students, the space reflects the conversations present within the institution as well as the larger creative world. Additionally, the Godine Family Gallery has exhibited works of MassArt visiting artists, including interdisciplinary artist Marguerite Kahrl (www.kahrl.com) and sculptors and installation artists, the de la Torre Brothers (www.delatorrebros.com).

The Godine Family Gallery is one of several student-run galleries on the Massart campus. As a professional gallery set in an educational institution, the Godine Family Gallery is a means by which students can fully realize the potential of their artistic practice. The gallery is set apart by its focus: beyond merely acting as a means of showing work, the gallery serves as a nexus point where students, faculty, practicing artists, and other members of the community can take part in an intellectual, cultural and creative exchange. Because of its liberal approach to the institutional definition of the gallery’s role, the space is structurally organic, moving from exhibition to event, 2d and 3d work to performance. The Godine Family Gallery is an ever-changing and dynamic setting, growing and developing with each year of student involvement.

References

1. ^ "About SIM Description". http://sim.massart.edu/sim/aboutsim. Retrieved on 2006-05-08. 
2. ^ "Eventworks". http://kate.massart.edu/at_massart/academic_prgms/media/eventworks.html. Retrieved on 2006-05-10. 

External links

• http://sim.massart.edu Studio for Interrelated Media, Official Website.
• http://www.massart.edu Massachusetts College of Art
• http://eventworks.massart.edu/ Eventworks' Website
• http://godinegallery.org

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