CHAMPAIGN – Valerie Oliveiro, resident photographer at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, has always had a thing about space – not outer but social and physical – as well as time and memory.

So when she heard from musician Mikel Rouse that the Merce Cunningham-John Cage home at 18th Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan would soon be gutted, she decided to photograph it.

"I talked to the director of the John Cage Trust. It took a while, but she finally said OK," said Oliveiro, who photographed the loft space Jan. 6 and 30 – just in time. The trust handed the keys back to the landlord Feb. 1.

Now Oliveiro will show the Cunningham-Cage home photographs and photographs of local sites, among them the Orpheum Children's Theatre and two area farms, in the exhibition "Transient/Transmissions." Also part of the show are installations by Jeff Kolar, a University of Illinois senior in new media.

The exhibition at the Indi Go Artist Co-op in downtown Champaign will be open for viewing Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The show at Indi Go will feature 10 photos from the Cunningham-Cage home. Cunningham, a major figure in modern dance, died in July 2009 at his home at age 90. Cage, an influential Minimalist composer, died in 1992, at age 79. Both had visited the UI as artists in-residence.

Other photographs in the exhibition document a road trip from Illinois to Indiana; the final hours of the Orpheum before restoration; a harvest at the Keller farm in Sydney; and the Warfel farm near Tolono.

Kolar will show "What Hath God Wrought," which was inspired from the first electronic telegraph communication by Samuel Morris, and "Balloon Creations," a mixed-media installation.

Oliveiro, who can often be seen taking photographs at Krannert Center, has had two careers, one as an artistic collaborator/performing arts stage manager – she has an MFA from Yale – and the other as a photographer.

One of her best-known pieces is a series of photographs taken on a journey with three Cambodian royal classical dancers, tracing their flight from Phnom Penh after the coup led by Pol Pot.

Using the camera as a collector, Oliveiro is interested in the dynamics and shifts that exist between space, time, memory and the human experience.

Kolar is an artist, writer, video, sound and interaction designer. Alternative art galleries, online art spaces and experimental theater venues have presented his interdisciplinary sound and video works, which examine the poetics in information and communication technologies.

Kolar believes there is harmony between technical circuits and the social world that results in a shared frequency. He said he explores through modes of reception and transmission the ambiguity of that frequency.

He has been a resident at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center; a Brooks and Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory scholar; a researcher for the Public Policy and Advanced Communication Technology Laboratory; and assistant editor for The Bear Deluxe Magazine.

If you go

What: Valerie Oliveiro and Jeff Kolar present photographs and mixed-media installations in an exhibition titled "Transient/Transmissions."
When: Opening reception, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Where: Indi Go Artist Co-op, 9 E. University Ave., C.
Admission: Free.