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[dalycetexas]

schoolin

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[suzannetownsend]

GENERATOR: USFCAM presents inaugural exhibition SUPERFLEX

Inside the GENERATOR gallery doors is the first piece of the exhibition which also bears its title.

The University of South Florida’s College of the Arts Contemporary Art Museum now straddles Tampa Bay. Since 1989 the USF Tampa campus has filled its Contemporary Art Museum with both visiting artist and student exhibitions, and now on the other side of the bay USF St. Petersburg hosts an extension of the museum in Harbor Hall called GENERATOR. The goal for this branch is to function as an incubator of ideas and a place for expanded artistic experimentation. 

The inaugural exhibition at GENERATOR is “SUPERFLEX: This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg”, curated by Sarah Howard and on loan from the Danish artist group SUPERFLEX and Galería OMR in Mexico City. This immersive installation is made up of large-scale mixed-media designs aimed to prompt reflection on the reality and consequences of climate change. Issues like these are particularly relevant to residents here in South Florida, many of whom live mere feet above sea level. 

Gallery assistant Neha Mitra explained that it is a two-piece exhibition. Upon entering the gallery doors viewers find themselves facing a glowing neon blue sign bearing the title of the exhibition. Through the curtains just beyond visitors stand in a dark room where a video plays. “As you enter the space you see an animation of a thing that not many people know what it is. It’s a siphonophore, this kind of jellyfish-like creature and essentially what it does is it comes up to the surface at night and cleans up all the carbon in the atmosphere. It's bioluminescent so sometimes if you go out in the harbor you can see it if you’re lucky,” Mitra said. Excess atmospheric carbon levels are one of the main driving forces behind global warming. This is why the siphonophore’s role of removing CO2 from the atmosphere is vital not only for oceanic but global ecosystems alike. “They are super crucial for our survival,” said SUPERFLEX co-founder Bjørn Christiansen during a lecture delivered at Harbor Hall last month.

The video, titled “Vertical Migration,” was originally projected 500 feet high onto the United Nations Secretariat Building in New York City during the 76th United Nations General Assembly in 2021 in order to highlight the critical nature of biodiversity and more generally the importance of recognizing and acting upon the issue of climate change. “The topic (of the UN meeting) was biodiversity. Humans cannot just sit there alone and discuss biodiversity. So we took one of those creatures that we met…We went down and filmed at night and decided we wanted to create an animation based on real footage,” Christiansen said.

‘Vertical Migration” and the Tip Of The Iceberg exhibition are truly at the intersection of art and activism. To experience the installation yourself head over to Harbor Hall before the exhibition leaves on November 22.

[paraparaparadigm]

[fleekpoint]

Bachelor of Science in Accounting . . . #graduate#graduate2020#graduation#graduation2020#commencement#rockythebull#usfsp#usf#menswear#stylish#ootd#simplydapper#me# https://www.instagram.com/p/CBI-I-thVT0/?igshid=1holnvaol1eit

[david-brodosi]

Where can I get one? visiting Epcot which  is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, Experiences and Products division.

[usfgirl]

Officially a college student

[siodymph]

On one hand this campus is fucking gorgeous On the other hand I now have to resist the constant urge to just go submerge myself in fluids

[psychnerd47]

Meant to be a Haunted Mansion inspired look, but I think I ended up looking like an anime vampire waitress lol #hauntedmansion #animewaitress #vampirewaitress #cosplay #animevampire #bulloween #usfsphab #usfsp #universityofsouthflorida #harborsideactivitiesboard https://www.instagram.com/p/BpVtkBQAVm-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=162r86t0x9tkj

[suzannetownsend]

SHINE Mural Festival turns campus into canvas

A view of Fluid Structures from the University Student Center.

This year the SHINE Mural Festival is shining on the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus. At the intersection of Second Street and Sixth Avenue South you can now find the campus’s latest public artwork titled “Fluid Structures.”

The SHINE festival has been keeping St. Petersburg vibrant since 2015. It is produced by the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance with the mission of “revitalizing areas, inspiring dialogue, and uniting our community.” This year visiting graphic arts Professor Jay Giroux and a team of eight students and two of Giroux’s team members were a part of it. On Oct. 14 you could find the group hard at work stenciling, priming and painting the road outside of the University Student Center.

One of the participating students is RJ Martin, an architecture major who helped out on the project. “It’s fun planning…I cut the stencils for it. It’s a good feeling to be able to point out to people, ‘Hey I worked on that,’” Martin said in a USF Newsroom video.

The oxymoronic title “Fluid Structures” is appropriate for the work’s modernist motif which includes abstract geometric and curvaceous shapes in green, orange, red and white. Giroux explains that these big shapes are simple and easy on the eyes.

“A lot of direction for all these street murals, as far as the way that we take, it is built with efficiency, so everything’s kinda gotta be on a grid, everythings gotta be relatively simple to not only draw out but paint.”

Giroux also points out that an added benefit of the artwork is that it is traffic calming. “Not only is it a beautiful mural but it will help calm traffic and prevent any kind of pedestrian accidents.”

“Fluid Structures” will now join the other campus murals that can be found on the Harbor Hall and Piano buildings.

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[armstrongheartsong]

A week and a half to go 🎓⚖️ #usfsp #criminology #graduation #summergraduation #honorsocieties #sigmaalphalambda #greenandgold #gobulls #imissitalready #stophashtaggingandgetgroceries (at Providence at Palm Harbor) https://www.instagram.com/p/BlqzqZKB2y5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dvplzv7kklcv

[tampabaylibraryconsortium-blog]

Enjoying the beautiful view at @usfstpetersburg and interviewing @floridalibraryassociation ‘s Librarian of the Year, Tina Neville! Stay tuned! 📚🎬. #usfstpete #videoproduction #floridalibraryassociation #librarianoftheyear — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2Gne681

[david-brodosi]

Bayboro Harbor near #USFSP. #naturephotography #flowers #brodosi #david

[starvethenuns]

Zoom zoom ya gurl did something new! 🚔 #silkscreen #art #drawing #digitalart #digitaldrawing #digitaldesign #graphic #graphicart #graphicdesign #car #cute #cheesy #white #tshirt #print #printing #tshirtprint #ink #fabricink #usfsp https://www.instagram.com/nie_milena/p/BvieQbIlf-W/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ec80vwrchbqa

[siodymph]

Ok this is by far the the coolest/grossest thing to happen to me today! I was hanging outside when i smelled something horrible, at first i just assumed someone had left their food out like all day or something. But then i saw a bunch of flies around and got curious and low and behold I find these little guys! I dont remember their name but im pretty sure theyre a type a plant (either that or a fungus maybe? Looks weird enough to be fungi lol) But yeah if anyone knows what theyre called let me know!