Benjamin Rosenthal, Marcos Serafim to present in Wednesday Artists’ Speaker Series

ALFRED, NY— The Weekly Wednesday Artists’ Speaker Series at Alfred University continues on Wednesday, March 2, at 7 p.m. in Holmes Auditorium, Harder Hall, with a lecture by artists/educators Benjamin Rosenthal and Marcos Serafim.

In the Weekly Wednesday Artists’ Speaker Series guest artists present short talks on their creative practice outside of the classroom. During the Fall 2021 semester, faculty and staff in the School of Art and Design/Performing Arts Division, gave the weekly presentations. The series aims to engage the Alfred community by creating a unique sharing space focusing on the arts.

Rosenthal holds an M.F.A. in studio art from the University of California, Davis, and a B.F.A. (Electronic Time-Based Media) from Carnegie Mellon University. His work across media explores what he theorizes as queer “technosexuality” and challenges the supremacy of physical contact in a technocultural age. Rosenthal is associate professor of expanded media in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas, where he has been since 2012. He teaches video art, performance art, experimental animation, graduate seminar and interdisciplinary practices.

Serafim is an artist and researcher working with film, video, and sound across the theatrical exhibition, installation, and performance. Harnessing documental, sensorial, and generative strategies, he examines matters such as social identity, media and necropolitics. Whether coming from an ethnographic or non-human perspective, his works offer critical and poetic experiences for reflection on otherness. Since 2020, Serafim has been assistant professor of photography/video/imaging at the University of Arizona, Tucson, He holds a B.A. in film and video from Parana State University in Brazil, an M.A. in studio art from Eastern Illinois University, and an M.F.A. in studio art from Michigan State University.

The lecture is sponsored by the Alfred University School of Art and Design, Division Expanded Media, and the Fosdick Nelson Gallery.