FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 24, 2004
FOR MORE INFORMATION: please call (512) 322-2099
Hana Hillerova, Director, Creative Research Laboratory

HEYDAYS
at the Creative Research Laboratory

The Creative Research Laboratory at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin is conducting an experiment. The ‘Heydays’ at the Creative Research Laboratory will focus on process-based activities happening at the actual space. Everyone is welcome to participate.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2 , 10 am - 10 pm
Drawing Across Disciplines Marathon
A collaborative project fusing art, design, architecture and convergent media.
LINE-WEB-COCOON-DWELLING - made in twelve hours by students and teachers from the UT community and YOU. Please bring your pencils, markers, brushes, scissors, glue guns.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 8 pm
The Department of Art and Art History’s Transmedia students will have a HAPPENING for themselves and for YOU. Organized by Karen Skloss and Bill Lundberg.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 12 noon -
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 12 noon
HEYDAYS - a 24 hour art marathon put on by the undergraduate students from the Department of Art and Art History. If you want to feel what art is, we think we can show you. Come early and stay late, bring your friends and family. Please bring your art tools and materials to make stuff with. Some fuel provided.
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 14, 8 pm
The Department of Art and Art History’s Transmedia students of Michael Smith present CONVENTION, just for YOU. This activity coincides with Ryan Junell’s RNC Video Project 2004, to be screened in the parking lot of Flatbed Press. Visit http://www.junell.net/ for more information about the video.
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Drawing Across Disciplines on October 2 is an interdisciplinary cross pollination over a compressed period of time, a marathon of communal activity put on by artists, designers and architects in the fields of Studio Art, Design, Architecture, Theater Set design, and Radio- Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. These include faculty members Melissa Miller, Canay Tulunay, Samantha Krukowski, Karen Maness and Hana Hillerova. Drawing Across Disciplines is a continuation of a program started last year. We asked "What is drawing? Why study it? Why teach it?" and exhibited student’s work from various disciplines across campus produced in separate situations, examining the utility of drawing. This year we set up a 12 hour activity at the CRL space, where students and teachers from the UT community will spin a drawing covering the entire floor of the gallery space into a three-dimensional immersive environment. We are interested in the set of questions that the experimental immediate interaction of widely divergent modes of thinking will suggest. Please bring your pencils, markers, scissors and glue guns.

The core of HEYDAYS is a 24-hour marathon orchestrated by the undergraduate students from the Department of Art and Art History. We want to tap into their energy and give them a chance to show us what this is all about. This activity starts on Saturday, October 9, 12 noon and runs until 12 noon on Sunday October 10. Come early and stay late, bring your friends and family. You can draw, collage, paint, make puppets, buttons and costumes, lift weights, hula-hoop, win an MC battle or watch students’ artsy videos. Sing songs and listen to DJs during the day and Totally Wreck bands at night. There will be an exhibition of student work as well. Please bring your art tools and materials.

On the Thursdays of October 7 and 14 at 8 pm there will be happenings staged by the Transmedia students from the Department of Art and Art History. The October 14 happening CONVENTION coincides with Ryan Junell’s RNC Video Project 2004, to be screened in the parking lot of Flatbed Press. http://www.junell.net/

The activities of the Department of Art and Art History and the Creative Research Laboratory are free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome to participate or just observe the process. Creative Research Laboratory is located in East Austin at 2832 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, inside Flatbed World Headquarters. There is ample free parking and bus service available on Capitol Metro's route 18. Or you can always bike. www.jollylox.com/austinyellowbike/index.shtml

Thanks - and do come !

Hana Hillerova
Director: Creative Research Laboratory
2832 East Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Austin, Texas 78702
phone: (512) 322-2099
email: crlab@uts.cc.utexas.edu
website: www.utexas.edu/cofa/a_ah/crlab.html
normal gallery hours: Tues.-Sat., 12-5 p.m

HEYDAYS at the Creative Research Laboratory

HEYDAYS
at the Creative Research Laboratory