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Traction: Art Talk with Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

Portrait Cardiff & Miller, 2012. Photo: Zev Tiefenbach
Friday, April 6, 2018 - 7:00pm
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108
Presented by: 
Institute of the Arts and Sciences

Canadian artists ​Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are internationally recognized artists known for their immersive multimedia sound installations and their audio and video walks. They join us for Traction: Art Talk preceding the opening of their stunning, 22-channel audio piece, FOREST (for a thousand years ...) in UC Santa Cruz's Arboretum and Botanic Garden. 

TRACTION: Art Talk with Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
April 6, 2018
7-9 p.m.
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108
This event is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available in the Performing Arts lot (pay at the on-site vending machine).​

FOREST (for a thousand years ...) Exhibition Opening
April 6, 2018
3-5 p.m.
UC Santa Cruz Arboretum and Botanic Garden
This event is FREE and open to the public. More information is HERE.

Cardiff and Bures Miller's recent solo exhibitions include: 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, (2017); ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (2015) ; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2015); The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2015). Recent group exhibitions include Being Modern: MoMA in Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2017); 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and dOCUMENTA (13). In 2011, Cardiff and Miller won Germany’s prestigious Kathe Kollowitz Prize. They also represented Canada at the 2001 Venice Biennale, for which they received the Biennale's Premio Speciale (Special Prize) and the Benesse Prize.​