Nicolas Lampert
"Oil Soldier"; collage, 8.5" x 11"; 1999
Nicolas Lampert is one of the co-organizers of the Drawing Resistance art show.
He views the Drawing Resistance show as a valuable resource for artists and activists to find each other throughout North America and help build a community of resistance culture.
Primarily, Nicolas Lampert is known for his collage art. He began working with the collage medium in 1994 and has exhibited his work internationally in art galleries, independent press magazines (Z Magazine, Food and Water, New Art Examiner, What if? - A Journal Of Radical Possibilities, Rethinking Globalization, All the Days After: Critical Voices in Poetry and Artwork), cd/record covers and various slide show tours. His series, "machine-animal collages", which began in 1995, justapose machine and animal parts. The collages are a broad based statement on the extinction of the animal world due to industrialization and scientific tampering. His more direct social and political collages use the same technique of juxtaposing two different elements to create a new meaning. In all of his work, he leaves the interpretation open to the viewer. Some of his collage images are further explored as 16mm animated films. A web page of his collage work is located at: www.machineanimalcollages.com
His writings have been published in Clamor Magazine: New Perspectives on Politics, Culture, Media and Life (Ohio). www.clamormagazine.org He wrote the introduction, contributed to the chapter text and was a contributing editor for Peace Signs: the Anti-War Movement Illustrated , a collection of over 200 international posters and graphics against the war in Iraq in 2003. The book is a full color graphic art book published through Gustavo Gili (Spanish language edition) and Edition Olms (English, German, and French language edition.) www.theantiwarposter.com. Presently he is collaborating with John Couture on a political art history survey book entitled A People’s ART History of the United States.
Musically, Nicolas Lampert creates experimental soundscapes generated by guitar and effects processors. Presently, he plays in the Wisconsin-based experimental band, Beneath the Lake. The recordings "The Inside Passage" and "Silent Uprising" can be found on the Seattle independent label, Glass Throat Recordings www.crionicmind.org/gtr. From 1995-1999 he played in the Oakland-based experimental noise band, Noisegate, which performed extensively in the US and Canada in the D.I.Y. punk scene. Recordings can be found on the San Francisco independent label, Tumult (www.tumult.net).
Nicolas Lampert teaches at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD). He teaches elective courses in the Liberal Studies Department that include "The Critical Vision: Artists Address the Environment, Politics and the Culture Wars"; "A People’s History of the United States"; "Contemporary Political Art". In the Foundations Department, he teaches "Basic Drawing".. At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he teaches "Basic Drawing" in the Foundations Department.
He is volunteered in the past for Food Not Bombs, Free Radio Berkeley, The Wireless Virus and the Independent Media Center .
contact: animaltrap@yahoo.com P.O.Box 1090 Milwaukee, WI. 53201