Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Please join us for an upcoming art exhibit. From Thursday, May 1st through
Saturday May 3rd, Hunter College will be hosting *IMAterial*, the sixth
annual new media exhibit from students and faculty of Hunter College's
Integrated Media Arts MFA program. We hope that you will be able to stop by.
Please see the following press release for more information.

  Sincerely,
-- 
EYEspeak
the student group of the IMA-MFA @ Hunter College

IMAterial: Spring Show 2008
May 1-3
Hunter College Black Box
for info: www.eyespeakima.org

*For Immediate Release*

CONTACT:
Phone: 917-443-2818
Email:  [log in to unmask]

**IMAterial**- *Annual Showcase of Interdisciplinary and New Media Art from
Hunter College's Integrated Media Arts MFA Program *

PLACE:      The Black Box Gallery
                  Hunter College North Building, 5th floor, Room 544N
                  695 Park Avenue
                  New York, NY 10021
DATE:        May 1st–3rd, 2007
TIME:         Thursday & Friday 6–9 PM; Saturday 1–5 PM


On Thursday May 1st through Saturday May 3rd 2008, *IMAterial*—the sixth
annual showcase of Hunter College's MFA in Integrated Media Arts program
(IMA-MFA)—will open in Hunter College's Black Box Gallery. This year, the
three-day exhibit will highlight the body of digital and new media art,
including video, interactive, installation, performance, games and web-based
art, produced by students and faculty of the IMA-MFA program.

The show's title—*IMAterial*—refers not only to the body of work produced by
the Hunter College's Integrated Media Arts MFA program, but to the physical
intangibility of new media and digital work; the challenge of
interdisciplinary and new media artists to make their artistic and political
work both relevant and of substance; and, finally, to the underlying spirit
that drives the artistic production and practice of the students and faculty
in the IMA-MFA program.

This event is sponsored by the Hunter College Integrated Media Arts MFA
program and EYEspeak, the graduate student organization. The MFA in
Integrated Media Arts is a unique graduate program that focuses on the
creative production of media with a social orientation. Based in New York
City—the global hub of old and new media technology—the IMA-MFA program
encourages students to explore a wide variety of existing and emerging forms
and communicate their messages in the rapidly evolving contemporary media
environment. Projects by students in the program have ranged from public
exhibitions, performances and screenings to online networked game
environments to rich media for PDAs and cell phones. From intimate personal
stories with universal human appeal to global collaborative networks to
in-depth media critique, IMA-MFA students work to bring resonant messages to
the medium.

Admission to *IMAterial *and light refreshments will be free to the public.

For more information on listing this show or for press coverage, please call
917-443-2818 or email [log in to unmask]


*IMAterial* is sponsored by the Film & Media Department's Integrated Media
Arts Program at Hunter College of the City University of New York (IMA/MFA),
and EYEspeak, its graduate student association. For more information, please
visit www.eyespeakima.org. <http://www.eyespeakima.org>


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-- 
EYEspeak
the student group of the IMA/MFA @ Hunter College

IMAterial: Spring Show 2008
May 1-3
Hunter College Black Box
for info: www.eyespeakima.org