PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHEAL EBLE
"Tsk, Tsk, Tsk," from
Eble's collection, Beats of Haiga
PHOTO BY RICHARD ANDERSON
Lynn Lukkas with "The Biosensor
Projects"
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Painting
Prose
We all know that artists can specialize in a variety of fields,
and Michael Eble, assistant professor of studio art at Morris, is
no exception. Eble created a series of paintings that blend poetry,
calligraphy, mark making, and painting into Beats of Haiga,
a new body of work inspired by the haiku poems of American beat
poet, Jack Kerouac.
A central emphasis of these paintings is the process in which Eble
references the Japanese art of Haiga—literally meaning haiku-paintings—where
the poem and painting converge to add layers of meaning to one another.
“As an artist I see this as a new and inventive approach to
my creative research…it is a process of forming a relationship
with the written word that is compelling, and it is the inventiveness
of Kerouac that has drawn me to use his haiku as a catalyst
for these paintings,” says Eble.
A Body of Work
For Lynn Lukkas, associate professor in the UM Twin Cities
Department of Art, exploring seemingly disparate disciplines is
the heart of her current work. The Biosensor Projects and
The Oculus Projects delve into the intellectual relationship
between art and research in neuroscience, biomedical engineering,
bioethics, geo-political relations, and economics.
Lukkas’ Biosensor Projects utilize the viewer’s
breathing, heartbeat, and brainwaves to “poetically collapse
the distance between mind and body,” externalizing these interior
functions
via computer generated imagery using biomedical monitoring
technology and mapping software.
In a different vein, The Oculus Projects fuse global positioning
system coordinates with audiovisual footage from Lukkas’ worldwide
travels to create digital installations that examine geo–political
boundaries, ideology, and economic globalization—going outside
the body to consider the individual’s
relationship to place."
“I have thought of these two thematic strains of my creative
work as human experience formed by biology on the one hand
and by sociology on the other,” says Lukkas.
Lukkas received a grant from the Institute for Advanced Study, which
promotes interdisciplinary scholarship, scholarship that Lukkas
says “bridges the gap between the arts, sciences, and the
philosophical questions that lie at their intersection.”
By Andria Peters
Excerpted from Research,
an annual publication of the Office of the Vice President for Research.
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