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New Media Artists

  • Agricola De Cologne
    Born 1950 in Germany, Agricola de Cologne is an artist-curator working with networking technologies in an effort to demonstrate facets of collective memory and environments, and their parallels between the personal and the global. He is also a multidisciplinary media artist and creator and founder of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne, operating from Cologne, Germany. As an artist he had more than 100 solo exhibitions in cooperation with more than 70 museums throughout Europe. As a curator he organized several cultural projects in Europe between 1989 and 1994 and, since 2001, has curated the net based New Media projects of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne. He is participating in a variety of media exhibitions and festivals around the globe with his online and offline multi-media works. His net-based works received several prizes.

    http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org
    http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de/bio/bio_agricola1.htm

  • Fernando Garcia-Dory
    Fernando García-Dory studied Fine Arts and Rural Sociology in Madrid, Spain. Interested in the harmonic complexity of biological forms and processes, his work addresses connections and cooperation, from microorganisms to social systems, and from traditional art languages such as drawing to collaborative agroecological projects, actions, and cooperatives. Garcia-Dory has carried out interventions throughout Spain (Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, 2001; Complutense Fine Arts University Madrid, 2002; Casas y Calles Madrid, 2004; Medialab Madrid, 2005; Ethnographic Museum of Zamora, 2005; as well as in Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ecuador and India. A grant from the Youth Commission of the European Union was awarded from 2003 to 2005. Garcia-Dory is developing cultural discourse on agriculture as a way to empower rural communities, presently with the mountain shepherds of north Spain. Garcia-Dory lives and works between Madrid and Asturias.

    http://www.ourproject.org/

  • Processing
    Ben Fry and Casey Reas Ben Fry recently completed his doctoral degree at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on methods of visualizing large amounts of data from dynamic information sources. His dissertation, "Computational Information Design," examines methods for combining the disparate fields of Computer Science, Statistics, Graphic Design, and Data Visualization as a means for understanding complex data. As an area of application, this work studied methods for understanding the data found in the human genome. His work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial in 2002 and the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial in 2003. Other work has appeared in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria and in the films Minority Report and The Hulk.

    Casey Reas is an artist and educator exploring process and abstraction through diverse digital media. Reas has exhibited and lectured in Europe, Asia, and the United States and his work has recently been shown at Ars Electronica (Linz), Kunstlerhaus (Vienna), Microwave (Hong Kong), ZKM (Karlsruhe), and the bitforms gallery (New York). Reas received his MS degree in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT where he was a member of the Aesthetics and Computation Group. He is an assistant professor in the Design|Media Arts department at UCLA.

    http://www.processing.org/

  • Christina McPhee
    Christina McPhee is a multimedia and new media landscape artist working in Los Angeles and the central coast of California, where she does field work at seismically active terrains along he San Andreas Fault. Her current installations transpose California's seismicity within topologic and time based work in documentary and performance digital video, large scale digital montage, photography and drawing. Born in LA, she grew up on the Great Plains, and studied painting with Philip Guston at Boston University. Addressing amnesia and traumatic memory, she investigates cultural response to ecological disaster. She addresses the scale of 'big data' and the sublime through cybernetic landscapes, that mesh painterly, architectural and technological detail within an atmosphere of chiaroscuro and baroque complexity. Her series on carbon absorption and global climate change, Slipstreamkonza, won a James A Phelan Award in Printmaking from the San Francisco Foundation. A study of the space of the net as a live subject, or cyborg-topology, Naxsmash has been included in festivals and electronic media archives around the world. She is a noted writer on new media, architecture, and the aesthetics of the sublime in new media art, most recently in print for Life in the Wires: A CTheory Reader, edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker (VIctoria, BC, 2004). She moderates the Australian digital arts and culture list, empyre-. Her work has shown museums and festivals around the world, among them Whitney Museum of American Art/Artport, prog:me Rio de Janeiro, ICA London, Deutsches Theatre Bauhaus-University Weimar, and FILE Sao Paulo. Her work is represented by Sara Tecchia Gallery Roma New York.

    Marc Herbst is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. He is currently working on a site-specific photo-and text collage project involving neighborhood demographic statistics entitled "Your stars will abandon you, and you will kick me out of your house." He is a co-editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and a visiting professor at several southern California colleges. He would love the opportunity to explore beyond the Tehachapi Mountain Range.

    http://www.c-level.cc/geocaching.html

  • Amy Franceschini/Free Soil
    Amy Franceschini is a new media artist and educator. Her work is pervaded with images of growth: reminding us that both nature and our own creative natures are precious commodities that must be nurtured and sustained whether it is on the web or in our own backyards. Amy founded Futurefarmers in 1995, as a means to bring together multidisciplinary artists to create new work. She is currently teaching Media Theory and Practice courses at Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute.

    http://www.futurefarmers.com/survey

  • Lillian Ball
    Lillian Ball is an artist and activist working in New York. She has received numerous awards including a New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Computer Arts, a John-Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts, and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Sculpture. Ball has exhibited internationally, including shows at the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna, the New Museum, the Queens Museum, MAMCO in Geneva, and at the ICA in London. Her new media installations have been exhibited most recently at the Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh. A multidisciplinary background in anthropology, ethnographic film and sculpture inform her working methods. Issues pertaining to Social Sculpture, interactive informational games and environmental collaboration now generate the images.

    http://www.lillianball.com
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  • Christina Ulke
    Christina Ulke is an artist based in Los Angeles. Her practice is located at the intersection of public, conceptual and media art. Much of her work analyzes hidden ideologies of particular urban sites and presents specific iconography in unique forms that often lead to the creation of newly revealed meanings. Her public art installations utilize technology to create participatory spaces that open up possibilities for discourse. Ulke is also a co-editor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and a co-founder of beta-level (former c-level) in Los Angeles's Chinatown. She recently gave birth to Anselm.

    http://www.ulkeprojects.com/closeencounters.html


  • Marc Herbst
    Marc Herbst is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. He is currently working on a site-specific photo-and text collage project involving neighborhood demographic statistics entitled "Your stars will abandon you, and you will kick me out of your house." He is a co-editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and a visiting professor at several southern California colleges. He would love the opportunity to explore beyond the Tehachapi Mountain Range.

    http://www.ulkeprojects.com/closeencounters.html


  • Aviva Rahmani
    Aviva Rahmani's work is grounded in a multi-disciplinary formal, approach and an activist ethic. She collaborates with teams of scientists, policy makers and others, following a progression from the micro to the macro. A California Institute of the Arts graduate with a Masters in Multi Media and Electronic Art, Rahmani's collaborators have included scientists at the Wells (Maine) National Estuarine Research Reserve, Allied Whale at the College of the Atlantic, and the University of Southern Maine. Her earliest professional marks were made in performance during the late sixties, as Director of the American Ritual Theatre based in San Diego. Recent museum installations include a one person exhibit at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, inclusion in Imaging the River (2003) at the Hudson River Museum, and Ecovention (2002) at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. Rahmani's public art projects include Confluence: Eagle's Rest, a landscape and graphic installation for Metro Arts in Transit at the St. Louis train stations.

    http://www.ghostnets.com