Artist Lectures

Meg Mitchell
Meg Mitchell is a former student of USF that graduated few years ago with a BFA in sculpture. Currently she is a faculty member at Florida State University where she teaches digital media.
She creates diverse work from performance pieces to video and mechanical installations. Her early work was collaboration with another artist. Together they crated alter egos called “Ian and Jan.” They used their bodies as creator of meaning, expressing how they felt about art and inserting themselves into art history. The performance piece was recreated in an installation where Meg Mitchell and her partner in this project used objects and videos from their performances. Another project of hers that I found to be very intriguing was the Base Pair Browser. She used programming to show the difference of avian genome data in different bird or animal species.
Meg Mitchell uses different systems of representation to express the image and the meaning. What I found most intriguing about her was her thirst to learn something new. Mitchell experiments a lot and that is what helps her create new art. She keeps on teaching herself new things and applying them in her work. The way she works is by combining different systems and materials into one piece. I’m glad I saw her lecture it was fun and I learned from it to be open minded and that everything can be used as art. Moreover, she coming to our class afterwards and giving us objective feedback was very helpful. It was motivating and valuable to see someone outside our class critic our work.