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Jan. 26, 2015

Electronics Alive VIII Opens at UT Tuesday, Jan. 27

Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 27, The University of Tampa’s Scarfone/Hartley Gallery will present Electronics Alive VIII, a biennial invitational exhibition of computer animations, digital video, interactive digital work and virtual spaces from around the world. The exhibition will run through March 6 and is free and open to the public.The exhibition features works by UT professors as well as artists from across the globe, including Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Japan, Iran, Israel, Netherlands, Poland and the UK.Dozens of short and experimental films will be on continuous view throughout the exhibition, including a one-night only viewing of the French short film Lune et le Loup by Tomas Leroux, Patrick Delage and Olivier Pinol on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 6 p.m.In addition, several exhibiting artists will offer lectures or presentations during the exhibition:

Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 27, The University of Tampa’s Scarfone/Hartley Gallery will present Electronics Alive VIII, a biennial invitational exhibition of computer animations, digital video, interactive digital work and virtual spaces from around the world. The exhibition will run through March 6 and is free and open to the public.

The exhibition features works by UT professors as well as artists from across the globe, including Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Japan, Iran, Israel, Netherlands, Poland and the UK.

Dozens of short and experimental films will be on continuous view throughout the exhibition, including a one-night only viewing of the French short film Lune et le Loup by Tomas Leroux, Patrick Delage and Olivier Pinol on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 6 p.m.

In addition, several exhibiting artists will offer lectures or presentations during the exhibition:
  • Thursday, Jan. 29, 6 p.m., Gallery Talk by Danny Olda, art critic, Toward a New Fountain: How Digital Art Could Rebuild the Art World by Destroying It; showing of Lune et le Loup.
  • Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2 p.m., Gallery Talk by David Andrade, What It’s Like Running an Animation Studio
  • Thursday, Feb. 5, 1 p.m., Gallery Talk by Evan Meaney, Glitches
  • Thursday, Feb. 12, 7 p.m., Electronics Alive VIII Animation Festival, special event at Hillsborough Community College Performing Arts Building, Mainstage Theater, Palm Avenue and 15th Street
  • Feb. 15–19, times TBA, showing of Walking Drawings by Everton Wright
  • Monday, Feb. 16, 1 p.m., Gallery Talk with film projection
  • Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1 p.m. Workshop with Kendra Frorup, UT associate professor of art
  • Tuesday, Feb. 24, 3 p.m. Gallery Talk by Mikhail Mansion, new media artist, musician, engineer and educator, Displaced Seismic Rays (interactive sculpture)
The gallery is located at the R.K. Bailey Art Studios, 310 North Boulevard, and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. There is no charge for admission.

For more information, go to http://ealive.utarts.com or contact Dorothy Cowden, gallery director, at dcowden@ut.edu or (813) 253-6217.