Journey to the Artic: An Artist's Experience

About this event

Join Derek Haffar as he discusses his journey on a scientific expedition with The Artic Circle Residency last May. His practice incorporated photography, Super 8 film, and sound exploration, employing custom made music box motions. The piece created from this experience will now be shared at the GEEC in an audience participatory format paired with slides and remanences of the residency with discussion and questions. Derek Haffar is originally from upstate NY, received an MFA from Bard College and is currently part-time faculty at Parsons School of Design and Adjunct professor with CCE at Pratt Institute. He has worked for several name artists as fabricator, assistant, for Mathew Barney, Red Grooms, Tom Otterness among others. His work for the Wildlife Conservation Society as an exhibit specialist has had a lasting impact on the way that his work is constructed as well as how industrial art practices impact the environment. His work is iterative nature with an emphasis on sustainability. He is an interdisciplinary artist combining and overlapping mediums, themes and techniques. This event is paired with a display exhibition of Mr. Haffar's Arctic photographs.

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