Ingenuity Fest

The Cleveland Institute of Art continues its long partnership with Ingenuity Fest to highlight the changing role of technology in the arts and art education. Featured faculty and departments this year will include Scott Ligon, Kasumi, Bruce Checefsky and work from CIA’s biomedical art students.



Scott Ligon
Through CIA's Digital Canvas Initiative—where all first-year students are provided iPads as a tool for creative collaboration and curriculum development—our faculty and freshmen have explored how this evolving digital tool can be used to create and collaborate. Scott Ligon, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Foundation Digital Art and Design, is pursuing the idea of digital collaboration at Ingenuity Fest, creating a series of digital feeds from across Cleveland and the country.

Kasumi
Video and photography professor Kasumi will be presenting a Cleveland premier of her work The Drowning. This award-winning 3 screen experimental film explores the impressions running through a man’s mind in the moments before his death: the sensation of time slowing down, of heightened bodily perceptions, and the simultaneous unreeling of an internal cinema of images that create an unconscious narrative of personal history and emotion.

Bruce Checefsky
The Director of CIA's Reinberger Galleries, Bruce curates a film/video presentation of Feed Your Food, an array of short animations and films. Featuring fleeting glimpses of the reproductive habits of marine animals, musings about cultural and sexual identity, along with childhood trauma, Feed Your Food will be presented inside an abandoned bus within the warehouse.

Biomedical Art
CIA's biomedical art department has been redefining the role of art, technology, and science. Biomedical artists apply their knowledge of media art and science to visual materials that educate the public in science and medical information. CIA will present an exhibition of illustrations and animations of work in human and plant biology.

Kristen Baumlier
As part of her ongoing project, Food Font, Baumlier will participate in Local Food Ignite Talks. Organized by the City of Cleveland Office of Sustainability, 10 local food champions will speak about their ideas and personal or professional passions, accompanied by 20 slides. Each slide will be displayed for 15 seconds, and slides will automatically advance.

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