About

William Clayton Bodenhamer

Experiments with Module & Manipulation A.R.C. (Bob Scagliotti with guitar)

( Ice cream factory) HQ 1968-'69

'Pepe' Poros

Wall Graphic 17th & Walnut T.M.S. & Group Associates KCMO 1991

Experiments with Reflection & Refraction 820 E 48th KCMO 1971-'72

The constructive approach the oldest in modern plastic expression is still the youngest today. Joost Baljeu

Jon B. Thogmartin 2012

Jon B. Thogmartin 2012

Experiments with Module & Manipulation A.R.C.

( Ice cream factory) HQ KCMO 1968-'69

Opening A.R.C.Group HQ KCMO 1968

ART RESEARCH CENTER
Dedications For Our Losses:

" Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting." Wm Gibson

T. M. Stephens 2005

Photo Courtesy Darko Fritz Zagreb

Mo-can Bldg Wallgraphic redo ( WestSide volunteers ) T.M.S D.C.C '95

Leo Kirkorian 2 Paintings 4 prints(Carlos Setien steel Constructs) '94

TMS with Origin Photographs Music City KCMO; photo by Merl F. Brown 1983

GEOMETRIC CLOWN PARODY DANCE at MATRIX Intrntnl

A.R.C./KCMO '71-'72 (R. Blackman Print)

LIZ WILLMOTT photo-collage T.M.S 2008

N.A. Stephens & T.M.Stephens (Painting J.B. Thogmartin) ANONIMA Gallery NYC '68

photo by Edwin Mieczkowski

J. Harrison, E. Mieczkowski, M. Stephens, D. Willmott, E. Willmott, Z. Blaezje

RECONSTRUCT RETREAT Owen Sound Ont'96

Photo Courtesy Darko Fritz Zagreb

Wall Graphic Sketch for City Bank 2 Linear Golden Rectangles Overlapped 1981

Detail A.R.C.Group (7 artists) Section of I.G.S.A.A. '89

Jack Kirby Fantastic Four 1964

Experiments with Reflection & Refraction 819 E 48th KCMO 1971-'72

T. M. Stephens 2010

Jay Hueser

⦁ Gary Rice Theoretician/Programmer/Co-Founder Art Research Center
⦁ Norton Nelkin Philosopher/Educator/Co-Founder Art Research Center
⦁ Andreas Weininger Bauhauser/Bauhaus Band, Theatre/Painter/A.R.C. Advisor
⦁ Member Milton Smith Poet/Experimental Writer/A.R.C. Associate
⦁ Virgil Salvanu Structural Artist/Prof: Instt Plastic Arts Cluj /Dplmt UNESCO/A.R.C. Advisor
⦁ Dale Eldred Sculptor of Structure & Light/Educator KCAI Sculpture Dprtmnt/A.R.C. Advisor
⦁ Max Mahlmann Structural-Systematic Artist/Educator/Mentor/A.R.C. Advisor
⦁ John Baird Photographer/Experimenter of Kinetic Light/A.R.C. Member
⦁ Will Elton Pianist/Abstract Painter/Mentor A.R.C. Associate
⦁ Jan (Johnna) Tvedten A.R.C. Intern/A.R.C.Group Member/Geometric Abstract Artist
⦁ Virginia Hillix Painter/History of Art/Educator/A.R.C. Member
⦁ Zbigniew Blazeje Structural, Luminal: Public Works Artist/A.R.C. Associate/Advisor
⦁ Jaya James Kern Structurist Artist/A.R.C. Associate
⦁ John Abbick Structural Artist/Experimenter/Original A.R.C. Member
⦁ Dennis (Corky) Goodden Attorney, Collector/Friend of A.R.C.Group
⦁ Samella Gates National, Civic/Rights Leader/A.R.C. Advisor
⦁ David Barr Structuralist Artist/Constructer: Public Art/ Educator/Collector/A.R.C. Advisor
⦁ Ted Otteson UMKC English Professor/Actor/Performer/A.R.C. Associate
⦁ Bill Cozad Attorney/Systematic Geometric Artist/Theoretician/ A.R.C. Member
⦁ Gudrun Piper Systematic/Structural Artist (Partner,Wife Max Mahlmann) A.R.C. Advisor Hamburg
⦁ Larry Bowser Artist/Graphic Designer/ Original Member New Center USArt Co-Op Gallery KCMO
⦁ Eva Weininger Bauhauser/Anni Albers’ Student (Wife of Andor Weininger) Friend of A.R.C.Group

⦁ Robert Blackman Systematic Painter, Designer/Educator(also w/ NewCenterUSArt 1963)* (d.2018)

⦁ Ronald Roberts Musician/Bassist, Composer,Writer/Novelist A.R.C. Associate Member

⦁ Stanley Tigerman Architect/Designer/Theoretician/Educator, 1st Individual Survey Exhibition/Residency

⦁ Lawrence Alton Writer/Editor/ Publisher/Designer (Screenwriter/Educator) (d.2019)

⦁ Leif Brush Sonal/Ecologcial Artist Advisor (d.2021)

⦁ Prof/Dr Donald Willmott Sociologist/Peace Advocate/Leader, US Hero of Chinese Resistance WWII.

A.R.C. Advisor (d.2021)

⦁ Prof/Dr Herbert W. Franke , Writer/Theoretician, Computer Artist, Photographer A.R.C. Advisor (d.2022)

⦁ Arthur Boles Kinetic Artist-Designer/New Bauhauser/Educator/Mentor
⦁ R. Buckminister Fuller Dymaxian Theoretician/Engineer/Designer/Inventor/Writer/Educator
⦁ Naum Gabo Constructive Artist/Writer: THE REALISTIC MANIFESTO/Builder Public Art/Theoretician
⦁ Gyorgy Kepes Experimental Artist/New Bauhauser/Writer/Editor/Educator/Founder CAVS/MIT

⦁ Max Bengis Photographer, Abstract Artist (Holocaust Survivor)
⦁ Homer Wadsworth Founder/Director Kansas City Association of Trust & Foundations
⦁ Joseph Shipman First President/Director Linda Hall Library of Science & Technology
⦁ Gianni Columbo Kinetic Artist, Co-Founder Gruppa T & New Tendencies
⦁ Alexandr Srnec Graphic Artist/Designer, Co-Founder New Tendencies
⦁ ivan Picjl Structural Artist/Curator Co-Founder New Tendencies
⦁ Frank Hewitt Abstract Painter, Co-Founder ANONIMA Group
⦁ Stan Vanderbeek Modern Cinematic & Media Experimentor/Filmmaker
⦁ Joost Baljeu Constructive Artist/Designer/Theoretician/Writer/Editor/Mentor
⦁ Jim Steritt Abstract Sculptor/Educator: University of Kansas & Washington University
⦁ Ken G. Wilson Architect: Collaborative PhaseOnePlus/C POP Architects/Partner
⦁ Richard Hollander Pioneering KC Abstractionist Sculptor
⦁ Miriam Gabo Partner/Wife/Widow of Naum Gabo
⦁ Vincent Roark Geometrician: Polyhedral Modeler/Draftsman
⦁ David Perkins Poet (Co-Editor HARRISON STREET REVIEW) Editor CHAUTEAU REVIEW
⦁ Clarence Kivett Architect: Founder Kivett & Meyers Archtcts/Arts Sponsor: KC Arts Commission
⦁ Ernst Benkert Abstract/Systematic Painter, Co-Founder ANONIMA GROUP
⦁ John Lawrence Daw Architect: J.L.Daw & Asscts/Arts Advisor/KCMO Arts Commission
⦁ Wilfred Arnold Biochemist/Arts Writer/Arts Sponsor (Researcher/Educator KU Medical Center)
⦁ Kevin Whelan Geometrician/Theoretician/Polyhedral Modeler
⦁ Charles Hess Structurist Artist/Theoretician/Mentor (Oakland/CA Cercle ‘e Carre Gallery)
⦁ Corma Baljeu Partner and widow of Joost Baljeu
⦁ Leo Kirkorian Abstractionist Painter/Founder: “THE PLACE” ‘Beat Bar’/Paris/Fresno
⦁ Charles DiJulio Structural-Field Painter/Co-Founder/Co-Editor CRISS CROSS Group/MAGAZINE

⦁ Bruce Ricker Attorney, Jazz and Blues Documentarian, Collaborator with Clint Eastwood Jazz & Blues
⦁ Otto Piene Co-Founder GROUP ZERO/Kinetic, Luminal, Inflatable Artist/2nd Director CAVS/MIT

⦁ Ed Mieczkowski, Abstract/Systematic Painter, Co-Founder ANONIMA GROUP
⦁ Francois Morellet Kinetic, Luminal, Systematic Artist/Theoretician/Co-Founder: GRAV/ NT 1-5

⦁ David Peeples Architect,Sculptor,Poet; Collaborative PhaseOnePlus/C POP Architects/Original Partner

⦁ Hartmut Böhm Reductive/Organizer of Systematic Art Groups/structural artist (d. 2021)

⦁ Clark Richert Contemporary artist,Geometric painter Co-Founder Drop City & CrissCross Magazine Group (d. 2021)

⦁ Gosia (M) Kosciellak Associate Artist/Designer (Young Polish Constructivists ‘89) (d. 2021)

Also: A.R.C. , Art Research Center Group, A.R.C.Group

Not-for-Profit Structural Artists Organization: State Chartered, 1969; Federally Tax Exempt 501-C3 Educational and Charitable Organization, 1970.

Subsidiary Activities: D.C.C. - Designers Collaborative Consortium 1993

N.C.P. - New Circle Publications 1976

I.S.A. - The International Institute For Modern Structural Art 1987

New Structures Gallery 1983

Evolved from New Center USArt, cooperative artists gallery. KCMO- 1963-64; Interdisciplinary Discussion Group, KCKS-KCMO 1964-66. Officially began with 1st Exhibition, KCMO- October, 1966 - January 1967.

[Greatly inspired by laboratory-like "Institute of light" suggested by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at close of his last book Vision in Motion, 1945-1947.]

Art Research Center:

A.R.C. Group both historically and contemporaneously always a core of A.R.C. cadre/collective of 3-18 individual members and/or associates: artists, theoreticians, writers, composers, musicians, performers, designers, architects, scientists, technicians, et al.. or combinations therefrom; who were/are directed toward particular experiments, perceptual and educational events/exhibitions/ performances/presentations demonstrative of structural and abstract creative principles / models/ exemplars; producing aesthetic objects/events for individual/public participation.

Original A.R.C. Group 1st Exhibition Members:

Michael Stephens Constructive Artist/Designer/Lecturer *

Nancy A. Stephens Artist/Designer

Skip Godley Assistant/Intern'63-'69 Musican/Composer/Bassist *

Jon B. Thogmartin Architect/Structural Artist ***

Dr Norton Nelkin   Wittgensteinian Philosopher/Theoretician (d. 1986)

Gary Rice Theoretician/Computer Programmer * (d. 1975)

Prof Philip J. VanVoorst   Artist, Graphic Designer

John Abbick   Artist/Conceptual Modeler * (d. 2011)

Harold Chase Systematic Artist **

A.R.C's initial Guest Exhibition was by Chicago's Architect/Structurist Artist Laurence Booth 1967;

Next Guest Exhibitions were by Toronto Luminal Artist Zigniew Blazeje & Chicago Architect/Artist Stanley Tigerman 1st Retrospective with/visit/events,1968.

Examples; Exhibitions, Presentations and Lectures/Symposia also include:

A.R.C. 3rd Exhibition and Symposia on Art Science and Technology, Linda Hall Library of Science
and Technology KCMO 1968 A.R.C.#3 Magazine published for Events

A.R.C. #4 Magazine & 4th Exhibition at Anonima Studio, NYC Opening 1968 (previous symposium)

1) Experiments with Module and Manipulation 1968-69

2) Experiments with Reflection and Refraction 1971-72

3) Experiments with Light and Color 1978-79

4) Experiments with Threshold of Perception/LIMEN 1981

Construction/Lecture/Performance of A. Weininger's 1923 theater The Mechanical Revue 1971-1972

Series of New Music Concerts 1977-1989

Series of Film and Abstract Animation presentations 1979

Experimental Theater Events 1971-1986

Alternative Educational and Lecture Series 1976-1986

MATRIX International Exhibition/ Performance events 1972-1973

A.R.C.’s Space Net National AIA ‘City in Celebration’: 2,500 balloons 10 acres Volker Park 50-100'h; 4 days, programmed lights; sound; transducer - wired-trees by Lief Brush. Final night: 12 dancers each with 2-3’sparklers twirled by BlackBallet Theater Dancers running/tumbling/dancing 300yds to Fountain/display of pyrotechnics & electronic/live music for audience of 2,000+ KCMO 1979.

PROCESS EXHIBITION Series 1973-1994

TELIC / International Exhibitions/Events I, II, III 1977,1983,1986

SONOLUMINAL Concert/ Performance, Inetrrelation of Light & Sound: I 1995, II 1996

Related to A.R.C.: CONSTRUCT Studio**C POP ARCHITECTS***T.M.STEPHENS DESIGN ASSOCs

NEW MEXICO STREET NEWS / Comix Writer/Artist/Editor/ Publisher Peter Clapp

"ASPECTS OF POPULAR CULTURE" Column by T.M. Stephens, Syndicated Alternative Papers

MIDWEST MODERN Aesthetic Essays Column T.M. Stephens, Syndicated Alternative Papers

'CERCLE et CARRE' Magazine and Gallery Clay Bodenhamer, Editor/Publisher/Director

GEOM Alliance: Liz/Don Willmont, J.Harrison, Ed Mieczkowski, T.M.Stephens, W.C.Bodenhamer...

HARRISON STREET REVIEW Writer/Co-Editor/Co-Publisher Larry Alton (also Co-Editor MATRIX)

Additional A.R.C. Members/Associates/Interns and Advisors since 1967

Robert Scagliotti Double Bassist/StringTeacher, Composer (also w/ NewCenterUSArt 1963)*

Prof Robert Blackman Systematic Painter, Designer/Educator

(also w/ NewCenterUSArt 1963)*

(d.2018)

Patrick Manley Associate, Electronic Music Composer (1966-1969)

Kenneth Berger Associate, Graphic Designer (1967-1969)

David Garrison Associate Buffalo, Chemistry Technician, Computer Artist 1968

David Desmond Associate, Structural Artist (1967-1969) (Co-Founder CONSTRUCT Studio)**

Joseph Ziegler Associate, Computer Technician (1966-1970)

Lawrence Alton Writer/Editor/ Publisher/Designer 1969

(Screenwriter/Educator) (d.2019)

Peter Clapp Graphic Designer, Editor, Comic Artist 1968

Steven Conard Luminal Artist, Designer 1971

Toni Johnson Associate, Artist (1968-1973)

Gerard Eisterhold Associate, Graphic Designer 1970

Frank Millich Associate, Chemist, Educator (1967-1969)

Zbigniew Blazeje Associate, Toronto Luminal Artist

1968 (d. 2010)

Laurence Booth Associate, Chicago Architect/Structuralist Artist 1967 (Advisor 1969-1989)

Denise Childers Intern, Associate, Artist Assistant (1968-1974) Member Artist 1972

Prof Ted Otteson

Associate,Theoretician/Educator, Writer, Actor 1971-1989

(d.2015)

Jay Hueser Systematic Artist, Graphic Designer/ Event Designer, IT Consultant 1974

Patricia Schubert Editor, Publisher (1976-80)

Dorothy Moss Concrete Engineer Curator/Gallery Drctr/Theater Dsgnr, 1972

Elizabeth Willmott Associate,Advsr Structurist Artist, Photographer, Writer 1973

Merl F. Brown Associate Photographer, Connoisseur 1973

Catherine Emily Program Writer, Curator 1972

Prof Virginia Hillix Painter, Educator, Curator 1976 (d. 2008)

Carlos Setien Structural Artist, Steel Fabricator/Engineer 1977

Stephen Black Intern Ohio/New York Graphic Designer (1977-78)

David Shoemaker Intern, Associate, Sound Technician 1978 - 1983

Essex Garner Intern 1979 Associate Delineator 1983

Member Artist 1989

William Cozad Associate Artist, Designer Associate (1976-85)

d. 2015

Jan Tvedten Graphic Artist, Co-Curator 1976 d. 2012

Pamela Guftavson Associate Fabric Artist 1980

Wayne Yockey Micro-Tonal Composer, Educator, Musician 1977

Steve Paul Associate (1977-1981) Journalist, Writer/Editor

John Baird Photographer, Luminal Artist

1977 (d. 2006)

Kathryn Oliver Howard Writer, Photographer 1979

Sue Scott Associate Curator (1983-85)

Yvonne Ellsworth Photographer. Co-Curator 1984

Ralph Feik Systematic, Artist, Designer 1981

Jamie Yates Associate San Francisco, Poet, Art Assistant (1981- 93)

Thomas North Photographer, Engineer 1988

Eleanor Feik Associate Curator, Art Assistant (1983-1996)

Michael Corbett Associate Pianist, Composer 1972

Bob Travaglione Associate Photographer, Broker/Realtor 1977

Clay Bodenhamer Structural Artist, Publisher/Editor, Gallery Director 1987

Robert McConchie Associate Multi-Media Technician 1987

Dr Richard Murphy Associate Physicist, Educator 1991

Ron Roberts Associate Composer, Bassist Musician 1989 d. 12/'18

Clifford Singer Associate Painter, Mathematician, Educator 1988

Steven Collins Structural Artist, Performance Designer 1981

Prof Dennis Sander Associate Architect, Educator 1986

Dwight Frizell Intern Media Artist (1983-85)

Jay Mandeville Intern '77/Associate '83-Presaent: Poet, Editor/Publisher

Michael Zagalik Associate Photographer 1981

Prof Bobby Scroggins Associate, Artist 1988

Kathleen van Voorst Associate, Graphic Artist 1992

Brent Collins Associate Geometric/Structural Sculptor 1998

Caleb Roy Intern (2007-2010) Historian, Media Technician

Megumi Yorozu Associate Cultural Representative Japan 2013

Joshua Sherrill Technical Assistant: Communications/Web Design 2016

Gosia (M) Kosciellak Associate Artist/Designer (Young Polish Constructivists ‘89) Chicago 2016

Judith Cisneros Associate Spectral Painter/Light Experimentor

Buenos Aires 2016

Prof Rebecca B. Alston Associate Architect/Interior Designer/Structural Artist Chicago/NYC 2016

Amarie Bergman Associate

Reductive Artist/Journalist/Curator

Sydney/Perth, 2017-2022

Anna-Maria Bogner Associate

Reductive/Concrete Artist

Graz/Au, Düsseldorf De 2016

Gerda Kruimer Associate
visual artist / curator

Amsterdam/scavnavion 2016

Roland Kuit Associate Composer, Sonal Experimenter,Performer

The Hague Area/NL, NO 2016

Karin Schomaker Associate Visual/Graphic Artist

Amsterdam/NL, NO 2016

Barbara Höller Associate

Systematic Artist

Vienna/At 2018

John Aslanidis Associate

Sonic-Wave Painter/Music Collaborator

Melbourne Area/Au 2017

Alexandra Roozen Associate Structural Drawing Artist Amsterdam/NL 2018

Dr Judith Duquemin Associate

Structural/Systematic Artist
Doctor of Philosophy University of Sydney

Brisbane/Au 2019

Joseph Buis Associate

Structural Painter

Brittany/Fr 2020

Inés Silva Associate

Geometric Artist

Miami FL 2023

Erdem Küçükköroğlu

Artist/Mathematician/Geometric Abstract 2024

ADVISORS

Andreas Weininger Originally Hungarian Bauhauser 1923-1927; New York 1968 (d. 1986)

Prof David Barr Associate Detroit, Structuralist Artist, Educator

(d. 2015)

Dr, Prof Herbert W. Franke

Auf Munchen, Writer/Theoretician, Computer Artist, Photographer

Prof Howard Jones New Orleans, Printmaker, Educator

Prof Max Mahlmann Hamburg, Structuralist Artist/Educator/ Theoretician (d. 2000)

Gudrun Piper Hamburg, Structuralist Artist/Theoretician

(d. 2016)

Prof Haresh Lalvani Sculpture, Design, Architecture, Morphogenomics

Richard Kostelanetz Writer, Experimental/Concrete Graphics/Texts, Presenter/Lecturer

Waldo Balart Madrid Systematic Structuralist Artist/Theoretician

Robert Colomb Sydney, Cyberneticist, Urban Planner

Manfred Mohr New York/Paris, Systematic/Structural Computer Artist

Prof Virgil Salvanu Cluj, Constructive Artist, Educator, Diplomat (d. 1983)

Prof Donald Willmott Owen Sound, Ontario, Sociologist/Ecologist
Prof Dale Eldred Structural Sculptor/Luminal Artist, Educator (d. 1993)

Laurence Booth Chicago, Architect, Structuralist Artist

Duane Benton Architect/

Designer, Entrepreneur, Inventor Samella Gates Public Administrator, Community/Civic Organizer

(d. 2015)

Dr Charles Wheeler Pathologist/ Entrepreneur, Civic/State Leader/ Official

John Evans Pharmacist, Bibliophile, 2010 Board Chair 2012

Dr Louise Arnold Associate University Educator Psychology 2015

Emanuel Cooper Director Euphrates Gallery/EGI 2015

Prof Lief Brush Sonal/Ecological Artist Duluth MN

Paul Cremoux W. Mexico city,
Architect,Interior & Landscape Designer, 2017

Dr Susanne Paech Cultural & Scientific Commentator

EUTV,HYPERRAUM/De 2017

Examples of ARC Group Peripatetic Activity:

3 A.R.C. Artists at with works of 11, NT4 Zagreb 1969; 2 A.R.C. Artists with works of 7 artists Toronto/Montreal 1967; Buffalo, Boston, NYC 1967; 4 A.R.C. Artists with works of 8 during PLUSXMINUS Buffalo (Organized Conference on Group Activity) 1968; 2 A.R.C. Artists with works of 14 at NT5 / BIT International Zagreb 1973; Art Research Center Group at ArtTransition, CAVS, MIT with event Kressge Mall & Group’s Coordinator on CAVS guest/presentation panel 1976: Detroit,Ft Wayne, Buffalo, Amherst; 1977 - 1978

2 A.R.C. Artists with works of 8 at International Conference and Exhibition of Constructive, Geometric and Systematic Art, Madrid 1989; 3 A.R.C. Artists with works of 6 at BRIDGES & ART/MATH Winfield KS, Berkeley & Vallejo 1998; recent conferences/meetings (ie: ReConstruct/GEOM Owen Sound Ontario 1996; Lake Ozark MO 2008; Kansas City KS & Kansas City MO 2011-15).

A.R.C. Group is currently archiving at ZKM Center for Art and Media/Karlsruhe as participants in the New Tendencies and BIT International Exhibitions and Publications, since 2008-12.

A.R.C. was recently cited as 'pioneering' for "Artist's Spaces" by the Kansas City MO Charlotte Street Foundation involved in FRONTIER with graphics and interviews. In preparation for upcoming lectures and exhibitions; their 'Living Archives Project' is digitizing A.R.C. documents, etc.. which will go to The Smithsonian's Archives of American Art and The Library of Congress.

Preparing smaller exhibitions proposals for several other Ntnl/Intrnl Foundations/Institutions and a major Retrospective Exhibitions/Events Series: historic and new works of 1st, 2nd-current generations' Members, Associates, Interns, Advisors and Colleagues. 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

New Center USArt Co-op Gallery 1963-'64 A.R.C.

FIRST EXHIBITION A.R.C.10/1966-'67

A.R.C. ANNIVERSARY 10/2016 - 20

[tours '17-'20]

A.R.C.Group First Exhibition (J. Thogmartin) 1966