The Rutgers University-Camden Digital Studies Center is proud to announce both the launch of a website and the premiere of a documentary for:
Visions of Place
Complex Geographies in Contemporary Israeli Art
» The website was designed by Michael Russo of the DSC using responsive HTML5 and subtle patterns. It features much of the art currently on exhibit at the Stedman Gallery at Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts.
» The Visions of Place Documentary, directed and narrated by the DSC’s Robert A. Emmons Jr., is available for free and is currently streaming on the DSC YouTube page.
Info About the Exhibit
Israel offers a unique opportunity for a major exhibition of contemporary art and extensive, related programming, providing a series of lenses through which to view and to better understand the complexities of the country. Geography, in its physical, personal, religious, intellectual, political, existential, historical, economic and other manifestations, is an inescapable part of Israeli life, its psyche and art, and issues in relation to geography in this broad sense are some of the most pressing ones in the contemporary world. This exhibition includes the work of contemporary artists, all Israeli citizens, who deal with this central aspect of Israeli art in ways that speak to these vital concerns from a variety of diverse perspectives. Although focused specifically on Israel, the issues raised by the exhibition have wide interest and applicability in the broader contemporary world, and many of the artists in the exhibition exhibit their work internationally. The exhibition demonstrates the richness, complexity and diversity of perspectives in contemporary Israeli art, and by extension, Israeli society. It provides a rich artistic experience and can catalyze a broader, more open dialogue relating to the important issues raised by Israel’s contemporary artists.