Department Archives: School of Visual Arts and Design

UCF alum Metrah Pashaee’s new experimental video Talking Me was selected from 350 international submissions to screen at the Microscope Gallery’s now what program in Brooklyn. Talking Me is a cinematic Dadaist collage comprised of appropriations from online videos. By subtly manipulating preexisting pieces and choreographing these images to a distorted soundtrack, the film creates […]

Associate Professor E. Brady Robinson’s documentary “Desks as Portraits: An Inside Look at the DC Art World” has been featured in the launch of Art Photo Index which includes nearly 3,000 vetted photographers and photo-based artists from 85 countries with 12,000 images. Art Photo Index is owned and operated by Photo-Eye and was conceived by […]

On the evening of December 5th, students in UCF’s Bachelor of Design in Architecture program presented the final projects from their Design Studio 5 courses to a panel of local professionals, graduate students from UF’s CityLab, and UCF faculty, including Provost Tony Waldrop and Dean Jose Fernandez. Held in the Gallery at the Center for […]

Associate Professor E. Brady Robinson will have a photograph from her series “Transfer” included in the 9th Annual Transformer Art Auction, on exhibit tonight, Nov. 30th 2012 at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The auction is presented by Diplomatic Chair, The Ambassador of Spain, His Excellency Ramón Gil-Casares and features over 160 […]

When Pablo Picasso presented his first cubist paintings to the world, even most educated people thought them hideous and irrational, yet his peers saw them to be ingenious. Likewise, Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity was equally baffling to the uninitiated. But to those who were knowledgeable about both art and physics, parallels would have been […]

The work of David Haxton is featured in a new solo exhibition at Gavlak Gallery in Palm Beach. David Haxton: Selected Films and Videos, 1970 – 2012 is on display through December 12 with an opening reception on November 24. In the early 1970s, Haxton began making 16 mm films in his San Diego studio […]

UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design and the Theatre Department are collaborating for an event themed around the theatre’s production of Side Show, a play based on conjoined twins. “The Sideshow of Side Show” is an exhibition of student-created and sideshow-themed artworks that will be displayed throughout the run of Theatre UCF’s production of Bill […]

Remember those 50-year-old home movies collecting dust in the garage, or that box of old 8mm films in the closet? Now is the time to brush them off so they can be viewed and archived at the University of Central Florida’s fifth annual Home Movie Day on Oct. 20. The event is held in conjunction […]

The UCF film department is set to merge with the College of Arts and Humanities’ School of Visual Arts and Design this fall. The merger will be complete by the end of the 2013 spring semester and will swell the undergraduate body of SVAD to 2,052 and graduate students to 54, Film Interim Chair Stephen […]

New works by 30 faculty members of UCF’s School of Visual Arts & Design will be on display Oct. 18-Nov. 16 at their annual show in the UCF Art Gallery. The exhibit will present diverse ideas in a variety of media by professional artists and designers of national and international reputation. An opening night reception […]