Ithaca College

Art professor Raymond Ghirardo and television-radio associate professor Megan Roberts have been invited by the artisans, designers, and artists of the Fiskars Cooperative to exhibit a new site-specific sound/video installation, "Cascade," as part of a large international exhibition, Transparent, at the Granary in Fiskars, Fiskars Village, Finland.

Artists from more than 15 countries have been invited to participate; the exhibition runs from May 12 through September 30, 2007.

The exhibition's concept: "Transparency is a topical phenomenon of our age. It is widely used in social discourses to denote openness and honesty. The concept also has a powerful visual impact on our environment. Transparency has created a new aesthetic norm: it reveals both abstract and tangible structures and puts what was secret into the public domain.

"Transparency is a consequence of the splintered nature of the modern world, where constant change has made chaos an ever-present aspect of everyday life. Transparency tends to highlight pluralism, most visibly in the media. The media reality, the simultaneous presence of truth and illusion, has obscured the nature of what is actually real. Mercifully, this has coincided with an increased public awareness of the structures of democracy and the impact of the media."