Tracked Prints, Layered Sounds
Themed Portfolio Exchange organized by Ry McCullough and Nick Satinover as small_bars
Description
There are a myriad of structural and aesthetic similarities between printed imagery and recorded music. Many printers are also musicians and if not players themselves, many artists draw influence from the recorded music of others. Notable Kent State University alumni, Mark Mothersbaugh along with members of the punk group DEVO provide perhaps the most exemplary fusion of image and aural practice.
Additionally, Northeast Ohio has a long history as an incubator of music, political activism and DIY ethics which this portfolio seeks to reflect. As makers of multiples we seek to consider the notion of self-publication, private press recordings, and editioned prints as parts of an ecology of ideas and practice. We seek community members who make both Tracked Prints, Layered Sounds.
This portfolio will collect the visual and audible work of artists both as printed editions and an edition of collaborative lathe-cut vinyl records. Like handmade prints, a lathe-cut record is made by physically cutting audio files into the vinyl in real time. Each record captures an impression of the audio, and like a print, each record is made one at a time. This portfolio seeks artists who work between audio and visual and whose work considers the intersections of commercial and fine art, personal and political, individual and collective.
Each artist will submit an edition of prints and an audio file. Each artist will receive a portfolio of prints along with a case including their copy of the collected recordings of all participants on vinyl.
About the organizers
Ry McCullough and Nick Satinover are interdisciplinary artists whose collaborative practice explores the structural authority of their band name moniker, small_bars. This ambiguous name serves as an all-encompassing banner which simultaneously references pixels on a screen, lines of type of a letter press, halftone processes, and the physical clubs and venues their former bands played.
This collaborative effort seeks to use the form of a band-like entity to create a space where the acts of publishing, printing and performance co-exist. McCullough and Satinover both hold BFA degrees from Wright State University and MFA degrees from the University of Georgia, and Illinois State University respectively. McCullough resides in Tampa Florida where he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tampa. Satinover resides in Murfreesboro, TN, where he is an Associate Professor Middle Tennessee State University.
Participants
Nick Satinover and Ry McCullough as small_bars, Felicia Cannon in collaboration with Ryan Paluczak, J. Chalet Comellas-Baker, Terry James Conrad, Katie Garth, Chauncey Hay, Robert Howsare, Andrew Kozlowski, Nick Mendoza, Carrie Scanga in collaboration with Ron Harrity, Mike Sonnichsen, Edward Steffanni, Greg Stone, Jon Vogt, Daisy Wiley
Hours
9am-6pm Thursday-Saturday
9am-12pm Sunday
Reception
1:30-3:30pm Thursday October 13
Location
Dr. Richard S. Trump Critique Area
Center for Visual Arts 1st floor
Kent State University
Wearing face coverings and being up-to-date on Covid-19 vaccinations are strongly recommended at this location.