Everyday Splendor, a media arts exhibition guest curated by Joanna Raczynska, celebrates the commonplace, private time, and the familiar through the work of five artists who use video, film, household objects and personal spaces in their work. What happens when one works alone with appliances, hobbies, pastimes, diaries, privacy, and the vitality or boredom of solitude? This exhibition includes modified electronic objects, documentation, and videos by internationally recognized artists Kelly Dobson, Igor Krenz, Laure Drogoul, Scott Puccio, and Corinna Schnitt.

Kelly Dobson grew up in a junkyard. From the age of four she was doing odd jobs such as smashing windows. Through her recent PhD work at MIT Media Lab, she has developed a method of personal, societal, and psychoanalytical engagement termed Machine Therapy. She builds emphatic machines, some of which will be seen in this exhibition. Examples will include Blendie, an interactive, sensitive, intelligent, voice controlled blender with a mind of its own. Other adapted objects will include a modified toaster, an iron, and a sewing machine.

Igor Krenz lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. He is a co-founder of "Photo Service" and "Azorro" groups, art collectives that perform and circulate images. He has made over 60 films that have been presented at the Centre for Contemporary Art and Raster Gallery in Warsaw, GB Agency in Paris and Tate Modern in London. For Everyday Splendor, Krenz has compiled six of his White Wall Videos, all of which document simple actions the artist performs for the camera alone within his studio. According to Krenz, these films “are a result of experiments about commonly accepted ideas. Presented in a different context, these ideas change their ascribed meaning. And then, absurdity comes in…” In addition, Krenz’s reconstruction of two 1985 Solidarity led interventions over official Polish TV broadcasts will also be included in the exhibition as examples of creative ruptures of the everyday.

Laure Drogoul is a sculptor and installation artist who also works with performance and the Internet. In Baltimore, she is best known as founder and artistic director of the 14Karat Cabaret, Maryland Art Place's performance space/cultural laboratory. Her piece Apparatus for Orchestral Knitting is a sculptural object, a musical instrument, and a knitting circle’s companion, where the repetitive nature of the craft opens up to produce not only textile but also sound and community.

Films About Buffalo by Scott Puccio is a collection of 101 silent short films shot in and around the city of Buffalo. Part personal diary, part observation, these films are an evocative homage to the lost moments of daily life. A Buffalo native, Scott recently screened his work The Film of a Thousand and One Nights and a Night (Vol. 2) during the 2007 New York Film Festival’s Views from the Avant-Garde program.