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SAVE THE DATES! Some cool Pratt DDA events coming up: (1) MFA & BFA Interactive Arts & Imaging Thesis Exhibition at Pablo’s Gallery, opening April 30th (2) "Best of DDA" featuring MFA & BFA 2D Animation, 3D Animation & Motion Arts Thesis Projects screening at Alamo Drafthouse NYC on May 1st (3) ALL MFA & BFA 2D Animation, 3D Animation & Motion Arts Thesis Projects screening at Pratt Institute Higgins Hall on May 9th. More info coming soon!!

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HAPPENING TOMORROW (Rescheduled)!! >> WILLIAM D. CABALLERO Wednesday, February 15th, 6:30-7:30pm, Film/Video Building 550 Myrtle Ave., Katharine L. McKenna Screening Room (102)

Multimedia filmmaker and Pratt Alumnus, William D. Caballero, will join the Departments of Film/Video and Digital Arts to discuss his creative process and unique approach to filmmaking. Caballero's directorial work can be seen on HBO, Univision, and PBS, and has been screened at over 75 film festivals, including Sundance and Slamdance. Excelling in the art of telling "big stories using small figures," his recent accomplishments include a host of short films and several web-series featuring 3D-miniature-printed protagonists. An eclectic artist, capable in working in diverse media, Caballero has devoted himself to creating compelling art that empowers, enlightens, and expresses his creativity, culture, and curiosity. In 2015, he developed a web-series titled Gran'pa Knows Best, featuring 3D printed miniatures of his Puerto Rican grandfather, offering quirky advice to millennial viewers. The series was quickly licensed by HBO for two seasons, and debuted in September 2015. Caballero's latest short film, Victor and Isolina, will debut at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

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❄️ ❄️ ❄️ Happy Holidays! ❄️ ❄️ ❄️

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Digital Muscle: MFA Practicum Exhibition DDA Gallery Myrtle Hall, 4th Floor Opening Tuesday, December 6, 2016 5-7pm December 6-January18th

Digital Muscle: MFA Practicum Exhibition is an exhibition that showcases first year Fall 2016 DDA graduate students. The exhibition title coincides with their ambitious growth in this new stage of their development at Pratt. They have created conceptual work in various digital media while building critical discourse around contemporary digital practices. Students have worked to explore new vocabularies, take risks, embrace hybridity, and bring their strengths to individual studio projects culminating in a group show.

Digital Muscle includes works by students in Interactive Arts, Digital Imaging and 3D Animation & Motion Arts. Featured are works in installation, animation, game, video, sculpture, drawing by Anqi Yang, Bainian Chen, Baris Bilge Alten, Erica Kwon, Garrett McGale, Hathaison Gerdprasert, Hui Du, Jeung Eun Park, Jiajun Liu, Jonathan Ellis, Karl Munstedt, Kather ine Mooney, Linfeng Yang, Lingyi Zhang, Linlin Qu, Mataquiya, Mengni Feng, Nur Ipek Ozel, Qianyu Xie, Seong Hoon Park, Tianjiao Qiao, Tse-Yi Wang, Xintong Li, Xinyan Wang, Yanjia Zhang, Yihan Sun, Yijun Wang, and Zsa Zsa Wen.

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Pratt DDA MFA Candidate Caroline Voagen Nelson is included in TRANSFORMATIONS, a group exhibition curated by Brian Metzger at Sotheby's Institute of Art, OPENING TOMORROW, Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 7pm - 8:30pm!

*Please RSVP here to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-night-transformations-…

This exhibition assembles diverse practices that incorporate painting, video, photography and textiles as a way to take common, everyday ideas and form them again in a new and unfamiliar way.

MAYA MASON lives and works as an artist in New York City. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 2015 with a B.A. in Visual Art (with Honors) and English. She is currently an MFA candidate in Painting at the New York Academy of Art. She has also completed additional coursework at the Rhode Island School of Design.

CAROLINE VOAGEN NELSON is a New York-based artist working in collage, photography, and animation. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and printed in publications nationally and internationally. As an editorial photographer for over ten years, she uses her photographic training to create cinematic stop motion animations. She is currently an MFA candidate in Digital Arts at Pratt Institute

HANNA WASHBURN is an artist living and working in New York City. She graduated magna cum laude from Kenyon College in 2014 with a BA in Fine Art and English. She is currently an MFA candidate at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Curated by Brian Metzger, 2016 Masters Candidate at Sotheby's Institute of Art

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Don’t forget is  TODAY! Visiting Lectures Series of Fall 2016, Pratt Institute's Digital Arts Department presents:

SOPHIA BRUECKNER on Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 12:45 PM, Myrtle Hall 4E-3 Lecture Room Free and open to the public

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Don't forget TOMORROW :)

Visiting Lectures Series of Fall 2016, Pratt Institute's Digital Arts Department presents: SOPHIA BRUECKNER 

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016, 12:45 PM, Myrtle Hall 4E-3 Lecture Room 

Free and open to the public

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Don't forget TOMORROW :)

Visiting Lectures Series of Fall 2016, Pratt Institute's Digital Arts Department presents: RICHARD O'CONNOR on Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 12:45 PM, Myrtle Hall 4E-3 Lecture Room Free and open to the public

Richard O'Connor is a New York based animation producer, critic and teacher. With a small team at Ace & Son Moving Picture Company, Richard O'Connor makes lots of things. This year he produced 12 minutes of animation for Penny Lane's Sundance award-winning documentary "Nuts!" and a dozens of sequences for the documentaries "Third Mind Blues" (about Ray Manzarek of The Doors) and PBS's "Nikola Tesla". Currently he's in production on Storycorps' "Who We Are" series with Upworthy, a short music film for the holidays and some other stuff. He's been doing things like this since the mid-90s

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As part of its Visiting Lectures Series of Fall 2016, Pratt Institute's Digital Arts Department presents:

ANDY KENNEDY on Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 

12:45 PM, Myrtle Hall 4E-3

Andy Kennedy is a filmmaker, animator, and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated with a BFA in Film / Animation / Video. His films "Slow Wave" and "Accumulonimbus" have screened in film festivals around the world. Andy is interested in visualizing sound in unconventional ways. Working primarily in 3D computer animation, he deforms everyday objects in playful and unsettling ways.

Free and open to the public 

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Today!! As part of our Visiting Lectures Series of Fall 2016, Pratt Institute's Digital Arts Department presents:

Candy Kugel Lecture Room 12:45-1:45 Myrtle Hall, 4th Fl Free and open to the public

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As part of its Visiting Lectures Series of Fall 2016, Pratt Institute's Digital Arts Department presents:

Clement Valla, Wednesday September 21st, 12:45 pm, Myrtle Hall 4E-3

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Thanks to everyone who attended to our DDA Faculty/Staff Exhibition and welcoming 1st year MFA students and returning MFA students.

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The Pratt Dept of Digital Arts Faculty/Staff Exhibition opens TONIGHT from 5-7pm. Free & Open to the Public. 

The exhibition will be on view until September 30. 

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Thanks Cao Fei for the lecture! Cao Fei is a Beijing-based artist that mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, references to Surrealism, and documentary conventions in her films and installations. Cao Fei has participated in a number of international biennales including the Shanghai Biennale, Moscow Biennale, Taipei Biennale, and 50th, 52nd, and 56th Venice Biennales. She has also had her work exhibited at numerous prestigious institutions and museums around the world. Cao Fei’s most recent projects include her first retrospective at MoMA PS1 and BMW Art Car #18. She is a recipient of the 2006 Best Young Artist Award by Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA).

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Robert Lyons’s films were recently selections of the "Sweet As Film Festival" in Quebec, Canada. "Explicit" a film that was one if his first films in his "Artists in Motion" documentary series, and a winner of the Platinum Award at Worldfest Houston for "Best Work in Progress, Short". "Scratchorama" (Cameraless Cinerama) was another, and "The Money $hot" was the third one.

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"A Static Revolution" curated by Everett Kane and including Peter Patchen, Claudia Herbst Tait, David Chalk & myself is Editor's Pick on Thursday's ARTCARDS. Hope to see some of y'all there tonight! http://artcards.cc/

Everett Kane [DDA Faculty], Claudia Herbst-Tait [DDA Faculty], Peter Patchen [DDA Chair/Faculty], Carla Gannis [DDA Asst Chair/Faculty]

A STATIC REVOLUTION opens TODAY!

ONE ART SPACE Gallery, 23 Warren Street NYC Reception: Thurs., Aug 4 from 6-9pm On View Aug 4 - Aug 15

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Pengpeng Du’s (Dupp Du) thesis animation, “Cage”, has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Student Academy Award competition. Of 1,749 films submitted worldwide, only 39 were selected as finalists in the various categories. Dupp's animation is one of seven finalists in the Animation category. Congratulations Dupp!!!

http://www.oscars.org/news/2016-student-academy-awards-finalists-announced