Chico MacMurtrie
UC Regents Lecture
Since the late 1980s, Chico MacMurtrie has explored the intersection of robotic sculpture, new media installation, and performance. MacMurtrie’s work investigates organic life from deep within, finding geometry in all living systems. Chico MacMurtrie and his interdisciplinary collective Amorphic Robot Works/ARW have received numerous awards for their experimental new media artworks, including five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, VIDA Life 11.0, and Prix Ars Electronica. Chico MacMurtrie was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2016.
MacMurtrie/ARW’s works have been presented in major museums and cultural institutions around the world including the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing; Hayward Gallery, London; Museo de la Reina Sofia, Madrid; Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Mexico City; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; Shanghai Biennale; Tri Postal, Lille, (retrospective exhibition), Muffatwerk, Munich (Pneuma World); Ex-Dogana, Rome, and ZHI Art Museum, Chengdu.
Upcoming exhibitions include: Useless: Machines for Dreaming, Thinking, and Seeing, curated by Gerardo Mosquera, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Mundos Alternos, Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, Queens Museum, New York in 2019.
This event is presented by the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts.
Event Date: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 6 p.m.
Venue: Broad Art Center, EDA
Price: Free
The Broad Art Center is located in the northeast corner of campus, off of Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue.
Parking is available in Lot 3 and the nearest ride-hailing pick up and drop off location is UCLA MacGowan Hall.
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