Christopher Scoates Background

Education

Scoates has an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in graphic design from the University of Florida. o Cranbrook Academy of Art is a graduate school and offers Master of Architecture and Master of Fine Art degrees only, and is located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Scoates also studied at Salisbury College of Art in the Film and Photography program.·

Career

Scoates was formerly chief curator for the University Art Museum at UC Santa Barbara.§ Announced February 2002o

When he came to CSULB in July 2005, he had 20 years’ experience as a curator.o Was also acting director of UC Santa Barbara’s University Art Museum. He served as the director of the Atlanta College of Art Gallery.

His writings have appeared in New Art Examiner, Sculpture, and Art Papers magazines.o He has published numerous exhibition catalogues including Nosegays and Knuckle Sandwiches: Work By Thomas Woodruff; Green Acres: Neo Colonialism in the US; On Translation: The Games; and Mining Culture in Technicolor.

2005: “I believe the mission of a university art museum is to pursue the margins, explore unknown territory, rediscover the familiar and take risks,” said Scoates. “It is my goal to guide the UAM with the conviction that contemporary art is a vital social force that extends beyond the art world and into the broader culture.”

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art/tapes/22 Gallery Talk with curator Alice Hutchison and artist Simone Forti

In honor of its new exhibition art/tapes/22, the University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach hosted a gallery talk on Sept. 16 with Alice Hutchison and artist Simone Forti.

Forti, 73, a former dancer, discussed the inspiration for the dance movements she performs in on of the art videos in the exhibit.

Forti had an apartment near the zoo when she lived in Rome for two years and it was then that her interest in the animals' movements fueled her creative desire to experiment with those naturalistic and primal movements.

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"As a dancer, I was interested in how my body moved - the vertebrae."

"There's a beautiful sense of frailty," Forti said of the segments of film in which she appears nude.

The exhibit features the works of various artists displayed on a range of equipment including televisions from the 1980s to the present.

It also marks the first time that artist Daniel Buren's 1974 video installation appears in its newly restored version.

art/tapes/22, a video production company, produced film art in Florence, Italy from 1973 to 1976.

Forti became involved with art/tapes/22 when she met and began working with Charlemagne Palestine, one of the artists who contributed to the visual media exhibit.

The exhibit came to CSULB because Bill Viola, who was technical director of the art/tapes/22 studio from 1974 to 1976, is based in Long Beach.

art/tapes/22 runs from Sept. 4 through Oct. 19, 2008 at the University Art Museum.