Elliott Earls to Visit U of M Feb. 13-14
For release: February 5, 2004
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

In a blending of technology and the arts, multi-media artist and performer Elliott Earls will be in residence at the University of Memphis' FedEx Institute of Technology Feb. 13 and 14. Earls will perform Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Institute's Zone. He will give a workshop for students in interactive arts media Feb. 14 at 10 a.m. in the Institute's Center for Media Arts. The event, which are free and open to the public, are part of a new initiative called Technology, Arts and Performance.

Earls is artist-in-residence at the Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit. He was appointed designer-in-residence and head of the 2-D Design Department at the Academy in 2001. After graduating from Cranbrook in 1993, Earls' experimentation with nonlinear digital video, spoken work poetry, music composition and design led him to form the Apollo Program. The program's commercial clients include Elektra Entertainment, Nonesuch Records, Scribner Publishing Co. and the Cartoon Network of the United Kingdom.

His current multi-media exhibition at Cranbrook, "The Bull and the Wounded Horse," fuses painting, sculpture, design, video and performance.

Catfish, a 55-minute film released in 2002, traces Earls' work from the lab to the stage in a digital film incorporating animation, stop motion photography, drawing, typography and live action in a seamless performance documentary.
Earls has been a designer in residence at Fabrica, Benetton's studio and research center in Treviso, Italy. He also has taught typography, design and multimedia at the State University of new York at Purchase. Earls has visited numerous American universities and given workshops on design, culture and new media in Europe and the U.S. In 2001 he was a finalist for the Chrysler National Design Award in New Media.

Earls' visit is sponsored by the College of Communication and Fine Arts and the Center for Media Arts. For more information, call 678-2350.

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