Laleh Mehran
eMAD: Electronic Media Arts Design

CO-LAB

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Installation Art: Graduate Student Gallery

November 2008 - February 2009

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DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT | GALLERIES OF DENVER
terminal East | Sixth Level

NO PLACE LIKE HOME
an art exhibition exploring memories of transition, comfort, farewells and returns

NO PLACE LIKE HOME is a multi-faceted art installation that explores memories of transition, migration, journey, comfort, farewells and returns. Four individual artists intertwine their experiences, thoughts, concerns, and reflections about traveling to and from home. Layers of imagery, maps, movement, and playful objects illustrate the transition from one home to the next, the illusion of home, and various notions of what home is, was, or will be. Each artist explores these notions in unique ways with individual attention to media, materials, and their own specific approach to the theme. A cohesive whole emerges from these disparate elements in much the same way that our memories of home blur, soften, expand and remix themselves over time.
This exhibition is the result of a collaborative project between Denver International Airport and the graduate Installation Art course in Electronic Media Arts Design, led by Professor Laleh Mehran at the University of Denver, School of Art and Art History.

eMAD Graduate Students:
David Fodel
Brigid McAuliffe
Allie Pohl
Sarah Soriano

Digital Video Art: Student Gallery

BodyCam project description:
Students created a video revealing an extended point of view from their person. In an increasingly observed world and mediated cyborgian lifestyles, with cell phones, PDAs, personal computers etc. -- a camera attached to your personal being, simultaneously reflects a "naturally," extended point of view, as well as surveillance of the personal and the public.
With the camcorder attached to their body, students recorded approximately 60 minutes of footage and edited down to 2 minutes without cutting out any material - the footage was simply sped up or slowed down for emphasis.
Aaron Feight from lmehran on Vimeo.

Allie Pohl from lmehran on Vimeo.

David Fodel from lmehran on Vimeo.

Adam Butler from lmehran on Vimeo.