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Oliver Herring (b. 1964, Heidelberg, Germany) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, England and an MFA from Hunter College, New York. In 2002 Herring created the improvisatory art event TASK, an ongoing series of events, workshops and parties in which participants of all ages and demographics collectively dream up instructions and carry them out with the materials provided. Increasingly, TASK is becoming a tool in classrooms and communities to access contemporary art in a way that is experimental, open-ended, and accessible to anyone. Herring’s work has been exhibited widely. In the United States, his work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of Art, NY; Performa 09, NY; the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; and the Denver Art Museum, CO. Elsewhere, he has exhibited at the Camden Art Center, London, England; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; The Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan; the Xth Lyon Biennale, […]

Presented by Artist Board Member Mark Hirsch, Tat2 is a sound driven tattooing machine. Tracking the frequency and envelope (volume) of your voice, the tattoo gun travels upon a canvas and draws the sound as you talk, sing, hum, whistle, whisper and make any other noise you please. Some canvas will be available to make your own personal sound-tattoo art, and feel free to bring other materials to try—t-shirt, tablecloth, wedding dress, you name it. Just no skin…yet. Mark Hirsch describes himself as an InterArtist, communicating in languages of sound, film, code, and design to realize his ideas. Through his work, Hirsch seeks to use experimental technology to create new connections to the important, personal aspects of our lives. A native of the American Midwest, Hirsch currently resides in Houston, teaching New Media Technology in the Arts at St. Stephen's School, creating art, and playing in the ol' softy punk band Money Bear. DiverseWorks on Wednesdays is sponsored in part by Saint Arnold Brewing Company and Topo Chico USA.

Portland - Houston: Dance in Two Cities A CONVERSATION WITH TAHNI HOLT, ALLIE HANKINS, AND EZRA DICKINSON, (PORTLAND) & JHON STRONKS (HOUSTON), AND DANCE SOURCE HOUSTON RESIDENTS ALISA MITTIN AND LORI YUILL Tahni Holt is a choreographer, teacher, curator and organizer based in Portland, Oregon who has been creating performances for the past 18 years. She is deeply invested in the ecology of her field. Holt is inspired by how colleagues in other parts of the world situate themselves depending on the political climate of where they practice. All of Holt’s endeavors are shaped by her beliefs and convictions which invigorate proactive projects of artist-driven empowerment. Allie Hankins is a performer & performance maker, teacher, and researcher currently residing in Portland. She is an inaugural member of FLOCK, a new dance center & creative home to Portland’s experimental dance artists, and a founding member of Physical Education, a critical & casual, reading & researching, drinking & dialoguing, dance & performance body comprised of herself, keyon gaskin, Taka Yamamoto, and Lucy Lee Yim. She was most recently seen performing in works by Taka Yamamoto & Tahni Holt, and in her own solo Like A Sun That Pours Forth Light but Never Warmth. Her new endeavors include a project […]

DiverseWorks on Wednesdays (DWOW): Come and meet the members of THE HUE, as they present behind the scenes knowledge of their process and journeys. Members will talk about their hit single "Slick" and the visual campaign behind it; and will also speak on the future of The HUE and what it means for Space City. Moderated by Robert Hodge (DiverseWorks Artist Board member) with Special Guests Nathaniel Donnett and and Damien Randle FREE Sponsored by Saint Arnold Brewing Company and Topo Chico THE HUE: What happens when you bring together a space hop juggernaut with a spacey electro-soul outfit? THE HUE collective, hailing from Space City, is the aftermath of combining the critically acclaimed groups H.I.S.D. (Hueston Independent Spit District) with their cosmic kinsmen and rising sensation Radio Galaxy. Their mission is to explore the creation of music with no boundaries. Conceived in 2013, this futurist soul hybrid consists of songstress/femcee Spacebunny Jefferson, emcees Scottie Spitten, Equality, and Savvi, along with producers King Midas and DJ Cozmos. Coming off of stellar projects, H.I.S.D.'s 'The Weakend' and Radio Galaxy's 'We Come in Peace', the aptly titled collaborative sequal, 'Aurora' marks a new beginning in the ongoing mission to end the weak […]

  an artist talk about making art through the lenses of data, computation, and the history of painting Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on the familiar. Though formally varied, his projects frequently manipulate the roles of individual elements arranged in diverse visual populations. This often unearths unexpected pattern as the relationship between the part and the whole, the individual and the group, is explored. Reflecting a natural attraction to popular culture and the day-to-day, his work regularly incorporates the use of common references and source material. The final compositions are exhibited as art objects, such as photographic prints and video installations, while others exist in a real-time software context. Based in Chicago, Salavon returns to Houston to unveil a new private commission titled "The Master Index (v.Wade)", which is an organized list of the 5 million most visited English language Wikipedia articles from 2007 to 2013. Salavon was raised in Texas and earned his MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BA from The University of Texas at Austin. He has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions at the Taubman […]