Artist Werner Klotz to give lecture Nov. 20

Werner Klotz will give a lecture about his work at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in Fine Arts Room 238 on the Western Washington University campus. Klotz is on the WWU art faculty this fall.

Klotz, an American born in Germany, is an internationally active artist working in the fields of installation and public art. He works within site-specific and interactive contexts using a variety of materials and strategies including: light, sound, video and mechanics. He creates installations that engage viewers in ways that address their orientations towards a site, and serve as instruments for perception into what makes each site, and each viewer, a unique point of view.

Klotz’s projects include: Le Milieu du Monde, a permanent multimedia installation onboard the three new Staten Island Ferries in New York City; Anemone, an interactive kinetic installation permanently on view at the San Francisco International Airport; and Flying Sails, a kinetic light installation at Seattle’s SeaTac Airport. He was recently commissioned, together with artist Jim Campbell, to create a large-scale kinetic light installation at Union Square Station in San Francisco.

Klotz is the recipient of the New York City Art Commission award for excellence in Public Art and the Marler Medien Kunst Preis Raum-Medien, Germany's most respected Media Art Award. He has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, at CAC in Oakland and at the Hochschule der Kuenste in Saarbruecken, Germany. He lives and works in New York City and Berlin.

This event is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the C Lots after 4:30 p.m.