UMD Annual Student Show Jurors:
Scott Stulen (artist and curator) and Bud Rodecker (graphic designer)
will talk about their creative work as part of the Visual Culture Lecture Series.
The VCLS lectures are free and open to the public.
Tuesday April 10, 2012
6:00pm in Montague Hall 70
University of Minnesota Duluth
See Bud Rodecker's Portfolio and work with THIRST
http://budrodecker.com/
http://3st.com/
At Thirst, Rodecker helped create Gather Give Grow, a six-minute short highlighting the program of Archeworks' Mobile Food Collective (MFC). The film premiered at the U.S. Pavilion of the Architecture Exhibition at the 2010 Venice Biennale.
http://3st.com/#/clients/design_educators/archeworks_mfc
More about Scott Stulen's projects and artwork here:
http://www.scottstulen.com/works.html
Studio: Scott Stulen, Walker Art Center
"My work encompasses the entirety of my professional activities as a curator, programmer, writer and studio practice. This wide range of artistic production is united by an exploration of how shared cultural memory, in particular memory based on specific images, texts, and popular media can slip into fiction or fabrication, creating a partial truth recalled as authentic memory or experience. I am interested in how popular culture bonds with fragments of memory to create unexpected connections and points of entry, which linger decades later. I am fascinated in how familiar, yet isolated references can be combined to create a new experience, which is both personal, but strangely out of context. I view my role much like a DJ, sampling fragments of pop culture, personal and collective histories and false memories and combining them into a singular work. The key is in selecting, remixing and dropping of the appropriate sequence of samples, thus leading the audience to find meaning
in unexpected places."
Graphic Design: Bud Rodecker
Bud Rodecker is a graphic designer, photographer, artist, thinker, talker, and jokester. He collaborates with John Pobojewski, Tinne Van Loon and Rick Valicenti at Thirst. Mulitidisciplinary, and often experimental, Bud's work is unified by an emphasis on typography and strong graphics.
At Thirst he designed Archeworks's publication Works, along with AW--a custom typeface based on Akzidenz Grotesk and inspired by Bell Centennial. Works played an important role in Archeworks's acceptance into the 2010 Venice Architectural Biennale. To follow up the success of Works, Thirst was asked to create a film to showcase in Venice. Directed by Valicenti and animated by Pobejewski and Rodecker, Gather Give Grow represented Archeworks and Chicago in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Biennale. Rodecker's poster work has been accepted into the Chicago Design Archives, the Chicago Poster Biennial, and has earned a platinum award from Graphis.
Outside the office Rodecker continues to explore design and the process of creativity. He's created political t-shirts and posters that have been featured in print, online, and at Chicago's Printervention show. With RicharDaily, a personal project initiated in 2010, Rodecker set out to generate a light's worth of art and design exploration (with a daily deadline). The exploration resulted in several pieces that were awarded a place in Typeforce 2. Rodecker has participated in numerous design-related talks, workshops, and panels--sharing his unique perspective on design and the creative process.
Rodecker earned a degree in Graphic Design with a minor in photography from the University of Minnesota Duluth. From 2005-2007 he was president of the Student Design Organization (SDO). Immediately following graduation in May 2007, he came to Chicago to begin his career at 3st with Pobojewski and Valicenti.
