Nostalgia For Neverwas

Nostalgia For Neverwas Opening Reception: Friday, October 3, 2008 from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm in the ARTSWorcester Gallery at the Hanover Theatre, 2 Southbridge Street in downtown Worcester. This occasion is free and open to the public.

Nostalgia For Neverwas is a mixture of old and new technologies and styles; it is a joining and a recombinant hybrid of a fictionalized past and an idealized future. Antiques spliced with modern technology, video portraits, moving image loops, projections, and virtual-space art installations are the latest works of digital artist, Joseph Farbrook. Images, animation, and sound are presented as an exploration into the consciousness imbued throughout time in animate, organic, and technological objects. Joseph Farbrook received his M.F.A. in Media Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2004 and graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2001 with his B.A. degree in English and Creative Writing. Farbrook's extensive arts career includes exhibitions at The Gallery of School of Fine Arts, Yinchaun, China; Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; La Fabrica Arte Contemporaneo, Guatemala City, Guatemala; The International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine; Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede, Medallin, Colombia; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado, in addition to dozens of other exhibitions within the United States and Canada.

Since 2001, Joseph has been involved with several art and experimental film screenings, reviews, interviews, and is the recipient of the Sally Bishop Award, Mark Addison New Media Grant, Professional Development Grant from the University of Colorado Graduate Program, Jacob Lamont Scholarship, and the SAAVY Award. Currently, Joseph Farbrook is an assistant professor of Interactive Media and Game Development at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

This exhibition is funded in part by the Marie Lepore Program Fund