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Ventifact Rocks at the Hughes Glacier Taylor Valley, a photograph by Doug Quin PHOTOGRAPH USED WITH PERMISSION OF DOUG QUIN
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One Oberlin Artist Finds Another—by Accident
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Festival 2000
(See Oberlin
Online news story.)
NOVEMBER 17, 2000-- Patrick Lichty, a conceptual media artist and cultural theorist, curated an exhibition, Through the Looking Glass: Technology and Creativity at the Beginning of the Next Millenium, this past spring at the Beechwood Center for the Arts, near Cleveland. Logan Fry '66, a weaver and painter in Richfield, Ohio, was one of the artists represented in the show. Helping install the works in the physical part of the exhibition, Fry heard Lichty bemoan the absence of an artist from Antarctica. All the other continents were represented in the exhibition.
Fry, as he tells it, "got on the browser and found Doug Quin who has done extensive sound recordings and photography in Antarctica." (Close enough to count, Fry thinks, observing that no one lives permanently on Antarctica.)
"To my surprise, Fry says, "I found that Doug was an Obie grad, Class of '80! And an art major."
Fry communicated his find to Lichty, and for the virtual-gallery part of the exhibit, Quin's work is exhibited. Images of the works Fry exhibited in the physical gallery are also on line.
"[Fry] did a great job on the exhibition, and I was delighted that we hooked up," says Quin.
Fry calls Quin's Antarctica web site "extraordinary," and recommends going there to "listen to the sounds of a glacier breaking up, or a mother seal calling her pup."
Quin has just returned from another trip to Antarctica and has, he says, "a few new projects brewing, including another broadcast for West German Radio and my new CD with David Rothenberg, Before the War."
Fry has just completed a video interview and time-lapse movie sequence of a weaving for Sharing Art, a program of the Kent, Ohio, PBS station WNEO/WEAO. His article "CyberFiber" will appear in the January/February issue of Fiberarts Magazine. His current projects include weavings about computational technology and artificial intelligence.
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Microchip Series 2: Poly, a weaving by Logan Fry PHOTOGRAPH USED WITH PERMISSION OF LOGAN FRY |
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