| MONTHS OF THE YEAR BEGIN WITH JANUARY AT BOTTOM
MAY 2008
- Claire Beynon artist] & Sam Bowser [scientist] are exhibiting "InterfaCE," an installation about their multi-year, continuing collaboration concerning their research trips to Antarctica; May 1, 2008; Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY; this summer it will travel to New Zealand. http://www.asci.org/artikel978.html
- Erika Blumenfeld has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2008 in the field of Creative Arts for an environmental-based installation, the Polar Project. https://www.thepolarproject.com
- Ellen Jantzen's digital print, "Singularity," is included in the exhibition, "In Your Dreams" at the Naomi Silva Gallery, Atlanta, GA; May 2 - June 20, 2008; Opening Reception: Friday, May 2, 2008 [7:30 -10:00 pm]. http://www.naomisilvagallery.com
- Alyce Santoro has work included in the "Second Skin" exhibition at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA; April 25-Sept.7, 2008. http://www.exploratorium.edu/2ndskin/
- Rachel Simmons has won a McKean Award and she will soon be off to Antarctica with a group of 100 other artists and scientists.
http://web.mac.com/rsimmons4/rachelsimmons.net
- Devorah Sperber's "After Magritte" commission for the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines' maiden voyage May 2008. http://www.devorahsperber.com/
upcoming_exhibitions/index.html
- April Vollmer's current news:
* Demonstrates Japanese woodblock printing from 3:00 to 4:00 in the Steinhardt Gallery, at The Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Sakura Matsuri, the annual Cherry Blossom Festival; May 3-4; and will show new work for sale. http://www.bbg.org/exp/cherries/sakura.html
* work to be included in Belgrade, Serbia exhibition; May 7-22, 2008; the Akademija FLU Centre for Graphic Art & Visual Research. After the reception and lecture-demonstrations, she will travel to the Siveco Art Colony for a week of art-making.
* her "Voyage to Italy" exhibition at Square One Gallery closed to rave reviews. Photos are at: www.aprilvollmer.com/voyage
* her print, "Crossing Ground," won Honorable Mention in the Center for Contemporary Printmaking’s First "Footprint International" print exhibition; thru May 31 in South Norwalk, Connecticut.
* she recently traveled to the Southern Graphics Council meeting in Richmond, VA.
* she is giving three workshops around the country on Japanese block printing [see her website]
- Anna Dumitriu & "The Institute of Unnecessary Research" will be participating in the "Brussels Meets Brighton" extravaganza of multimedia performance, gigs and installations in the Shunt Lounge space under the London Bridge tube station, London; thru May 3, 2008. http://web.mac.com/annadumitriu/IUR/
Brussels_Meets_Brighton.html
- Stefano Calgo's GUINEA PIG is a solo exhibition of a mixed media project that investigates toxic additives that pervade both toys and food by interpreting them as a symbol of our human fragility and exposing how they influence, compel and deceive us; Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, NYC; thru 17, 2008.
http://www.priskajuschkafineart.com/
exhibitions.php?id=88
- Neva Setlow's collage "Can We Be More Than We Are?" will be included in the "Art Envisions Science" exhibition at the New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th Street, Queens, New York. It will be on display from May 17 to July 13, 2008. The artists' reception is Sunday, May 18 from 3-5pm.
- Marianne Petit has created an online animated "bookfomercial" for a newly published book: "How Not To Write A Book" by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocvlo3XG8aY
- Lois Goglia's solo exhibition "X-RAYS: LIGHT AND DARK" at the Alexey Von Schlippe Art Gallery, the University of Conneticut's Avery Point Campus' Branford House Mansion; thru June 8, 2008; phone: 860-405-9052; Directions at: http://www.averypointarts.uconn.com
- Eva Lee's animation piece, Discrete Terrain: Windows on Five Emotions, is included in the DeCordova Museum's 2008 Annual Exhibition; May 10 - Aug 17, 2008. http://www.decordova.org/decordova/
exhibit/2008/2008%20Annual/lee.htm
- On Saturday, May 3, 2008, Christopher Janney's classic work "HeartBeat" will be performed by the famed a capella group, The Persuasions,as part of the Power to End Stroke Conference in Atlanta, GA. http://www.janney.com
- Ralfonso is President of the international Kinetic Art Organization (KAO). http://www.kinetic-art.org
APRIL 2008
- Ursula Freer is showing her digital print, Luminous Photon, in the ART EXPRESSION IN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE exhibition; opening March 28, 2008; The Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
- "Estrogen Tales, the Story of Nine Molecules & How They Bonded" exhibition by Mara Haseltine & Dr. Hyun K. Kim; April 8: Artist Talk; show thru April 29, 2008; Skybridge Gallery (3rd floor passageway), Eugene Lang College at The New School, 65 W. 11th Street, NYC.
- Susan Latham's artwork is also included in the ART EXPRESSION IN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE exhibition [above].
- Deborah Cornell, in collaboration with her husband, had the NYC premier of their "Tracer" piece at the InCite Festival, Town Hall, NYC; March 13, 2008.
- Chris Twomey's artwork up-date for March 28-30, NYC:
* "Chambre de Commerce" at the Chelsea Hotel (Pool Art Fair)
* "BROADTHINKING: Entropic Renovators" at the Art Now Fair; at Hotel 30/30. http://www.broadthinking.org
* and in the "IDES OF MARCH: Collaboratives and Collectives" exhibition at ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street, NYC; part of the Broadthinking collective. http://www.abcnorio.org
- Jim Pallas was commissioned this winter by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to make six sculptures that would encourage visitors to make donations that will be used to support activities that improve wild amphibian habitats. Jim created interactive sculptures [large toads] that respond to the actions of donations being put into the mouth of the toad with a repertoire of frog and toad related quips, sound effects, and music samples. The Detroit Zoo has had a Pallas' talking toad, since 2000. It generates about $2000 each year for the A.Z.A.'s Amphibian Taxon Advisory Group.
http://www.ylem.org/artists/jpallas/toad/
AZA_toads_press_page.html
- Julian Voss-Andreae's sculpture is included exhibitions and magazines:
* "To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary Art" exhibition at The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; April 19 - June 22, 2008. http://www.heckscher.org/futureexhibitions.htm
* a solo show, "Inspired by Life" at Rutgers University, New Jersey, curated by Christine Zardecki; Feb.17-23, 2008;
* article by UK science writer, Philip Ball, in the March 2008 British Chemistry World magazine. http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2008/
March/ColumnThecrucible.asp
- Erika Blumenfeld's "Polar Project" enters its first phase of development. Learn about this environmental art project's mission to preserve image and sound of the Arctic and Antarctica regions and to inspire awareness and change now; and how you can help.
https://www.thepolarproject.com/#/about/
- Eric Singer's news about LEMUR's up-coming events/participation:
* Dangerous Music festival at Proctor's Theater in Schenectady, NY on Saturday, April 5, 2008.
* Issue Project Room on Thursday, April 10, 2008; http://issueprojectroom.org
* performs "Man with a Movie Camera" at Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY; April 11th; http://www.monkeytownhq.com
http://lemurbots.org
- Ellen Jantzen has digital prints included in the "Wild Life/ Wildlife: An Artist's Response" group exhibition at The Gallery at Mount Ida College; Newton, MA; thru May 4, 2008. http://www.mountida.edu/sp.cfm?pageid=2509
- Nina Sobell's "The Long Performance: Internal Message Search" presents the artist-in-studio as spectacle, allowing the audience to share the private rituals of the art making process; at Location One, NYC; Artist's Reception: April 24, 2008, 6-8pm. Webcast: 4/19-26 at: http://www.location1.org/nina-sobell/
- Devorah Sperber's current announcements include:
* "Mirror Universe: New Series Debut" at Caren Golden Fine Art, 539 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, NY; thru April 26, 2008.
* Solo Installation at PULSE NY Art Fair, Pier 40; Caren Golden Fine Art Booth E13; March 27 - April 30, 2008.
* Solo traveling show, "The Eye of the Artist: The Work of Devorah Sperber;" MASS MoCA; March 27 - Sept.1, 2008.
* "Art, Image and Warhol Connections" exhibition; The Jewish Museum, NYC; thru August 18, 2008.
* "Brainwave: Common Senses" exhibition at Exit Art, NYC; thru April 19, 2008.
March 2008
- Christopher Janney had an article, "Mr. Multimedia: Music + light + architecture = ingenious art" by Sara Shay, published in MIT's Technology Review (Jan./Feb. 2008 issue). http://www.technologyreview.com/article/19931/
- Jeanette May has a solo show of her photographic project "Fertility in the Age of A.R.T." at Roosevelt University's campus in Schaumburg, Illinois; Feb 18 - May 2, 2008. http://www.jeanettemay.com/
Fertility/FertilityPage.html
- Ursula Freer has had an artwork included in the 2007 NanoArt online international exhibition. http://tinyurl.com/yrk5h5
- Devorah Sperber & Suzanne Anker's work is included in BRAINWAVE: COMMON SENSES exhibition at Exit Art, NYC; thru April 19, 2008. http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/
exhibition_programs/brain/index.html
* "Mirror Universe" by Devorah Sperber at Caren Golden Fine Art, NYC; March 20 - April 26, 2008
* "2nd Lives: Remixing the Ordinary" exhibition includes Devorah's work; Museum of Arts & Design Inaugural Exhibition, Two Columbus Circle, NYC; Sept.2008 - March 2009
- Dennis Summers' recent news includes:
* One of his Phase Shift Videos (http://www.phase-shift.org), called "One Again" will play on a large outdoor video screen in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA as part of the Lumen Eclipse Media Arts Project (http://www.lumeneclipse.com/) for the month of February.
* A special digital print documenting the first eight Crying Posts (http://www.thecryingpostproject.org) has been accepted into the Common Ground's International Touring Exhibition that will premier at the 2008 Olympics in China and then travel to other parts of the world encouraging art on behalf of our environment. http://www.commonground2008.com/gallery/touring.html.
* His Phase Shift Video called "Filament" will play at the Museum of Modern Art at Toluca, Mexico as part of the Computer Art Congress 2008 (http://europia.org/CAC2/) from March 26 through April 6.
* And finally, if all goes well, the ninth Crying Post will go up in Ushuaia in late February, in the southernmost city in Argentina, to memorialize the ozone hole over Antarctica and the correlated increased rates of skin cancers in southern South America, and of course the increased ice melting due to global warming.
- Debra Swack reports on two current projects:
* She is currently collaborating with the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland on a project exploring emotions and the brain. http://rhizome.org/profile.php?1040643
* and music from her "Birdsongs: the Language Gene" will be part of the Sonic Fragments soundart festival at Princeton University March 28-29th. http://music.princeton.edu/~bb//sonicfragments/
- Robert Buelteman's photographs are included in a two-person show, FLUX; the Walker Fine Art Gallery, Denver, CO; Opening Feb.29, 2008. http://www.buelteman.com
- Helen Glazer is exhibiting a relief sculpture created by translating a photograph of a cloud into sculptural form using 3D digital imaging software; part of the "Selections from the Washington Project for the Arts ArtFile"; thru March 23, 2008; the Katzen Arts Center Museum, American University, Washington, D.C. http://www.american.edu/
cas/katzen/event_description.cfm?event=657
- Ellen Jantzen had a 6-page interview on her work and creative process published in "Trendsetter" Magazine [December 2007 issue] out of Turkey; including 8 digital images [3 full-page]. http://www.ellenjantzen.com/
- Joshua Freed performed his RADIO WONDERLAND, Feb.28, 2008 at the Nomad World Pub Minneapolis, as part of the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. http://spark.cla.umn.edu/mission.html
- Paul Friedlander is presenting a smaller version of his "Timeless Universe Installation" as part of this year's EXIT FESTIVAL in Creteil [a Paris suburb] at the Maisons des Arts, France. http://www.paulfriedlander.com
- Amy Ione's review of the "Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson" exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Exhibition [will travel to New York's MoMA & PS#1 from April 20 - June 30, 2008]; was published in Leonardo Electronic Almanac Volume 15, Number 11 - 12, 2007.
- Michael Wright was interviewed by the The New Media Consortium and featured at their "Teachers Buzz" session on the Otis Island in Second Life with his "Virtual World Project." http://sl.nmc.org/2008/02/17/otis-student-art/
- Melissa Fleming's winter 2008 exhibition schedule includes:
* "Grace," the Peer Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, Suite 209, NYC; thru March 8, 2008.
* "Science Rocks," New York Hall of Science, Walter Le Croy Gallery, 4701 111th Street, Queens, NY; thru April 27, 2008
* "The Topography of Nature" at The Kaufmann Arcade Gallery; 139 West 35th Street, NYC; March 13 - April 25, 2008.http://www.melissafleming.com
- Marco Villani exhibited in the "3rd Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave," 15-17 February 2008; New Delhi, India; curated by Shankar Barua and the Academy of Electronic Arts. http://www.marcovillani.net
- Maida Withers' film short "Tukuhnikivatz I - Passage (TUK I)," conceived and directed by her, will be screened on March 15, 2008 at 10pm as part of the DC Independent Film Festival; Jack Morton Auditorium, George Washington University in Washington, DC; Info & tickets at: http://www.dciff.org
- Claire Beynon's solo exhibition, FATHOM, is at The Art House, Christchurch, New Zealand; March 5-23, 2008. http://www.clairebeynon.co.nz/
current_exhibition/index.html
- Abigail Doan's artwork has been included in the following:
* The 15th Environmental Art Festival in Iran on Hormoz Island in the Persian Gulf (January 2008) along with artist Barbara Roux. The event was organized by Dr. Ahmad Nadalian of the Paradise International Art Center in Iran.
* "Treading Lightly" at the Waterfall Arts Center in Belfast, Maine as well as at the Ninth Street Gallery in Washington, D.C. Both exhibits are to benefit non-profit arts organizations and their environmental outreach efforts.
* Digital artwork touring during 2008 - 2009 as part of the Common Ground Touring Collection which will open at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing (http://www.commonground2008.com/).
* Environmental fiber installation work was also recently featured in the Winter issue of NRDC's OnEarth Magazine: http://www.onearth.org/article/
knitting-in-a-winter-wonderland
- Alyce Santoro's news:
* recently commissioned by People Magazine "Hollywood Daily" edition, to create a sonic fabric dress for Bjork, which became the "radio tower ensemble." http://www.sonicfabric.com
* a couple of her sonic fabric pieces are in the exhibition, "evolution/revolution: the arts and crafts in contemporary fashion and textiles" at the RISD Museum, including her "silence dress" that is infused with sound, but with a patch of voidness; on view until June 15, 2008. http://www.risd.edu/museum_exhibitions.cfm?
type=upcoming&onview=museum_onview_111.cfm
- Cheryl Safren gave the Keynote presentation, "Chemistry for Art's Sake," on Feb.29, 2008 at the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium; Adelphi University, Garden City, NY. http://admissions.adelphi.edu/jshs/schedule.php
- Mary Neubauer's work is included in "Post-West: Reimaging the Desert Southwest," a group show of experimental media; free to the public at The Ice House, 429 West Jackson Street, Phoenix, Arizona; Reception March 7th,7-10 pm; exhibition remains open thru March 11, 2008. http://theicehouseaz.com
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2008
- Joseph Giannetti has been commissioned by the neutrinos physics laboratory in Soudan, Minnesota, to create the world's largest underground mural.
http://www.giannetti.com/pages/mural.html
- Shoshannah White photographic, encaustic work was at Photo L.A.2008 represented by The Benham Gallery.
AND...she has two pieces in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition of her grandfather's artwork, "Alex Steinweiss: Creator of the Album Cover"; thru Feb.12, 2008 at the Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA.
http://www.robertbermangallery.com/
robertbermangallery/exhibitions.htm
http://www.shoshannahwhite.com
- Joshua Fried's RADIO WONDERLAND news:
* performs on Feb.4, 2008 at NYC's Little Theatre Series at Dixon Place; 8pm. $10.
http://www.dixonplace.org
* performs on Jan.30, 2008, at 10pm for DJ Shakey and Moldover's monthly party: WARPER (2 rooms of omnidigital DJs and Bbiomorphic musicians); at the Supreme Trading;Williamsburg Brooklyn, NYC; FREE!
http://www.warperparty.com
- Daria Dorosh has received a PhD from the University of East London for her thesis "Patterning: The Informatics of Art and Fashion." She is now a senior researcher with SMARTlab at the university.
- Stephanie Strickland’s news:
* latest collaborative hypermedia work is slippingglimpse, http://slippingglimpse.org, made with Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo and Paul Ryan. It was first shown at e-Poetry 2007 in Paris and published in hyperrhiz: new media cultures.
* published "Quantum Poetics: Six Thoughts in Media Poetry: An International Anthology, edited by Eduardo Kac;
* published a collaborative essay, "Dovetailing Details Fly Apart All Over, Again, In Code, In Poetry, In Chreods," in electronic book review, http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/
enfolded/dovetailing
* co-edited The Iowa Review Web issue, "Multi-Modal Coding: Jason Nelson, Donna Leishman, and Electronic Writing," with Marjorie Luesebrink, Fall 2007, http://research-intermedia.art.uiowa.edu/tirw/vol9n1/
* co-edited the first Electronic Literature Collection, published by the Electronic Literature Organization, with N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, and Scott Rettberg. http://collection.eliterature.org/1
- Ursula Freer's "Plankton" image was just chosen for Common Ground's International Touring Exhibition that will premier at the 2008 Olympics in China and then travel to other parts of the world encouraging art on behalf of our environment.
http://www.commonground2008.com/exhibit/
exhibition.html
- Benbow Bullock has seven of his solar-activated, kinetic, glass sculptures installed in the new Parc Parisien entry of the Saint Supery Winery, 8440 Hwy 29, Rutherford, California; thru March 31, 2008. http://www.artnut.com/borrego.html
- Abigail Doan's work, described as "tactile maps, floating topographies, and in situ souvenirs that highlight the delicate nature of our environs and the degradation of spirit that results from our repeated abuse of natural resources and shared terrain," was featured December 1, 2007 in the NRDC's online publication, "onearth."
http://www.onearth.org/article/knitting-in-a-winter-wonderland
- Elaine Whittaker's work is included in a new genomic art website curated by Holly Longstaff and Jordan Miller has been relaunched that includes a 2007 exhibition, "Allegories of the Genome" in Winnipeg, Canada.
http://www.genomic-art.com
- Alison Cornyn [and her team at Picture Projects, NYC] designed and produced "In Our Own Words," an interactive exhibition at the Brooklyn Historical Society, the first exhibition to be installed in the Society¹s new Oral History Gallery, it is an introduction to the Vietnam War unlike any other.
http://brooklynhistory.org/exhibitions/in_our_words.html
http://www.picture-projects.com
- April Vollmer's "Voyage to Italy: Large Format Digital Pigment Prints" show is on display in NYC thru March 15, 2008; at the architectural office of Thomas A. Fenniman; call: 212-677-5691 or email: "april [at] aprilvollmer [dot] com", or view the exhibition online at: http://www.aprilvollmer.com
- Chris Twomey's news:
* her "TRIUMPH of the XX, XX & XYm," mixed media on aluminum foil piece is included in the show, "PEACE 2008"; thru Feb. 24, 2008; SIDESHOW GALLERY, 319 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY; 718-486-8180
* "I AM LEGEND" feature film (starring Will Smith and currently playing in theatres near you) 30 minutes into this film, you see Will Smith study the framed drawings of Chris Twomey which hang on the wall of an apartment he breaks into!
* her print, "CheeriOpus 5, In an Era of Extremes," is in the collection of FRONTROOM Gallery - Multiples and Editions, Vol. 2 curated by Ethan Crenson; 147 Roebling St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY; 718.782.2556
* her work is included in "METAMORPHOSIS OF IDENTITY" (a three-person show); Feb. 28 - March 30, 2008 (opening Feb. 28, 5-7pm) in the Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery; Georgetown College; Georgetown, Kentucky.
http://www.christwomey.com
- Rachel Simmons invites you to visit her Ocean Art site to see the final collaborativeart pieces in the OCEAN ART PORTFOLIO.
http://www.rachelsimmons.net
- Hilary Lorenz began a 6-week adventure on Dec.16, 2007 living in an isolated beach shack on Cape Cod’s National Seashore with the Atlantic Ocean on one side and sand dunes on the other, while working on "Tracing Nature," a drawing and print project that visually translates the physical and visceral experience of living and hiking remote landscapes. Follow her blog entries:
http://adventureartist.wordpress.com
- Roz Dimon invites you to "Drawing in the Age of Information," a solo exhibition of her digital drawings hosted by Applied Arts of Amagansett, NY and co-sponsored by Wacom Technology. Dimon will be giving free drawing demonstrations using Wacom’s state-of-the-art equipment throughout the six week show which runs from Feb.16 - March 28, 2008. http://www.appliedartsschool.com
- Bill Byrne gave a lecture/presentation at Bloomfield College, New Jersey/USA as part of their Visiting Artist Lecture Series; discussing his work, digital photo-montages, animation, sound art and professional projects; Nov.14, 2008; an MP3 file of his talk is posted online at: http://www.billbyrne.net/byrneaudiolecture.mp3
- Gregory Paulson, a scientist, shares the art-science electron-microscopy collaborative work he does with an artist/professor at his university.
http://webspace.ship.edu/gspaul/Art%20and%20Science%20Collaboration.html
- Michael Wright recently took three classes of his Otis College of Art and Design (California) digital art students into the virtual world of "Second Life" where they collaborated, and created content based on a class-developed theme. The results of this project can be viewed in world, Second Life, at the Otis Island (128,128,0).
- Julian Voss-Andreae recently completed a new sculpture, "Birth of an Idea," a commission from Nobel Laureate Rod MacKinnon (Rockefeller University/NYC). The artwork portrays an ion channel, a key ingredient of our brain and the very structure whose elucidation earned MacKinnon the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry. For an image of the sculpture and more info:
http://www.julianvossandreae.com/new.html
- Shane Hope's paintings are included in the "Replicant" exhibition at Virgil Voldere Gallery, NYC; his work presents a visual nexus of speculative nanotechnology, extreme bioengineering, technology breakthroughs, and artificial intelligence; thru Feb.16, 2008.
http://www.virgilgallery.com/v2/?ikDirId=443
http://shanehope.info/
- Robert Buelteman's current solo photography exhibition, "A Matter of Scale," explores the impact of scale on the viewer's perception of imagery; thru Feb.23, 2008 at Spur Projects, 888 Portola Road; Portola Valley, California; phone: 650.529.2040
http://www.buelteman.com
- SAm Tomasello: "SciencePiction and Gardening with Children" is an exhibition featuring her illustrations for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden book, "Gardening with Children," as well as her own personal artwork concerning science and spirituality; at the Grand Army Plaza Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, in the first floor Youth Wing; thru April 15, 2008. http://www.sciencepiction.com
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