In a groundbreaking fusion of art and music, visual artist Emily Ward Bivens and musician Josh D. Reed have joined forces in their new exhibit, “Human, Robot, Human.” The immersive experience opens to the public July 29 at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe’s Prim Library with an artists’ reception and talk on August 1 at 6:00 p.m. The exhibit, in Tahoe Gallery, is located on the third floor of the Prim Library.
The Holman Arts and Media Center’s Gallery Visiting Artists, Reed and Bivens, have spent the summer transforming the Tahoe Gallery into an experimental collaborative research residency. Bivens from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Reed, assistant professor of jazz trumpet in the School of Music at the University of Nevada, Reno, have been paired together to research, create, collaborate and perform their exploration of the visual art and music. The two met for the first time in June and together explored the natural landscapes of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada, recording sounds and capturing images to inspire and be used in the exhibit. The artists hope to inspire a sense of awe in visitors.