Role
Lecturer in Fine Art
Research Coordinator for K/AST (Kurator & Art and Social Technologies)
Member of the Gender and Equality Sub committee Faculty of Arts
Qualifications & background
University of California, Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts-emphasis Film and Video, 1990.
State University of New York at Buffalo, Master of Art in Humanities-emphasis Media Studies and Poetics, 1997.
State University of New York at Buffalo, Master of Art in English, 2000.
Dartington College of Arts, PhD In Fine Art (Contemporary Practices),
Thesis Title: Performing a Practice: Narrative • Translation • Live Installation • Urban Intervention 2006
Research interests
Film and Video Practices in the Digital Arena • Participatory Practices • Constructions of Narrative • Translation • Distribution Methods • Art and Tourism • Bureaucracy and art
Other research
Grants & contracts
2007
Grants For the Arts, Arts Council England for With Heartfelt Gratitude for the Painless Treatment
At Home in Europe, three month residency at InterSpace, Sofia, Bulgaria
2006
Small Wonders, Picture This Bristol
2004
PVA Media Lab LabCulture Residency at Vivid in Birmingham
Artist-to-Artist International scheme. Henry Moore and Visiting Arts grant to develop projects with Croation artist Maja Kalogera.
2003
NY ARTWORKS! Artist Bursary and Residency at CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2001
Best Folklore Experiment for Grandma Baba and Little Boris from The Festival of Actual Kino, Novosibirsk, Russia
2000
Performance Writing Artist in Resident, Dartington College of Arts, Devon, England
1995
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Grant for the Emerging Artist
Creative practice & artistic projects
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2011
E-Poetry(2011) International Digital Language/Media/Arts Festival, Buffalo, NY
2009
DA Festival, National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
2008
With Heartfelt Gratitude for the Painless Treatment, Picture This Atelier, Bristol and Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
2007
At Home in Europe, Book and DVD, commissioned by InterSpace, funded by European Commission Culture 2000 Fund via At Home in Europe
2006
Art and Activism, Mejan Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
Blurr5 Biennial for Performance Art, Center for Conetmporary art, Tel Aviv, Israael
BEWARE! POLITICS! Alytus Bienniale, Lithuania
STAR RADIO - commission to develop a radio programme www.starradio.org.uk
2004
Writing Space. Curators: Phillip Warnell, Sean Watkins, and
Claire MacDonald, Fine Art Gallery, George Mason University, Washington
D.C., USA
PARA SITES
Screening as part of an exhibition on site, displacement and the
'foreign body' curated by Brigid Mc leer Bridport Arts Centre,
Bridport, UK.
VIDEOMEDEJA 8th International Video Festival, October 1-3, The Museum of Voivodina, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro. Catalogue.
OMSK ROAM, Art not in a building. OMSK paves the way for a six hour collaborative event on Geffrye Street in London, UK.
Art: What is it good for? Two days of talks, screenings,
arguments and debates asking what is socially engaged art practice now?
Organised by Tracey Warr and Roddy Hunter. Dartington College of Art,
Totnes, UK.
Out Video International video art festival in public places,
National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Catalogue.
Vilnius Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
Text 04 Festival of Writers and New Writing, Pheonix Arts Centre, Exeter, England
LimeOMSK Film Video Performance Sound Mayhem Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK
2003
Next Five Minutes Festival of Tactical Media, Amsterdam, Holland.
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY. The White Bear and other Unwanted
Thoughts, collaboration with Lara Odell. Installation commissioned for
gallery�s windows on Main Street.
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema at Collective Unconscious, New York, NY. Screening of single channel videos with Lara Odell.
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY. Screening of single channel videos with Lara Odell.
4 x4 at 291 Gallery, London UK, group screening and event.
Taxi Gallery, Cambridge, UK Taxi Noir Slap Red a site-specific video installation. http://www.taxigallery.org.uk
HUMO (Huge and Mobile images) with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and
Brain Massumi. Based at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. Created images
which were projected on a large scale around the environs of Linz.
Catalogue.
2002
Fix02 Biennial Festival of Performance Art, Catalyst Arts,
Belfast, Northern Ireland. Catalogue.
http://www.catalystarts.org/fix02/
EXAMINANTS Curated by Caroline Koebel
Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV)
Habana Vieja, Cuba part of a screening of single channel videos. http://concretestream.umbc.edu/
Crossing Time International Artists Meeting, Dartington College of Arts Gallery, Totnes, Devon.
Augustart 2002, Raw Space, New York, New York, curated by Melissa Uto
Dartington College of Arts Gallery, Totnes, Devon first
performance/installation of In the Day the Bear Sleeps, In the Night
the Bear Dreams. Commissioned for Crossing Time series. Curators Roger
Bourke and Alan Boldon.
Publications
2008
With Heartfelt Gratitude for the Painless Treatment, Ed. Anthony Caleshu, Short Fiction, Volume 2 Fall 2008
2004
Economising Culture Ed. with Joasia Krysa and Geoff Cox. First of a series of critical readers (DATA browser) on digital art and technology. Autonomedia 2005. www.data-browser.net
2003
Abandoned Silos, with John Levack Drever, Ed. Rhama Kazam, Earshot Time and Visibility II: Essays on Sound and Architecture, December 2003.
2002
Trans-e-lation by the Tran-satlantic Journey, Eds. Ric Allsopp and Caroline Bergvall, Performance Research, Vol. 7 No. 2, Summer 2002
2001
Infinite Fracture , a web essay, Ed. Ann Vickery, How2, Vol. 1 no.5, March 2001 http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2/intro.html
1999
Things Do not Connect; They Correspond, Guest Ed. Chris Alexander, Jacket # 7, April 1999, http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket07/index.html
I Saw King Kong at the Grain Elevators in Buffalo, NY, “The CEPA Journal Special Issue: Ruins in Reverse Time and Progress in Contemporary Art”, Ed. Grant Kester, Winter/Spring 1999.
Reports & invited lectures
2012
Exhibiting Video Conference, University of Westminster Presentation : The Problem of the Hard Bench
2011
Portland State University, Portland, USA, Artist Talk
2010
York St Johns, York, Artist Talk
2009
Journal of Media Practice 10th anniversary Conference Presentation: With Heartfelt Gratitude for the Painless Treatment.
(The Necessity of Imaginative Acts)
Everybody Hates a Tourist, Cadaval, Portugal
2008
Cardiff School of Art and Design, Artist Talk
2007
Arnolfini, Bristol, Artist Talk
National Academy of Art, Sofia, Artist Talk
Art and Ethics: What Action Should be Taken, colloquium with Gustav Metzger, Dartington College of Art
2006
Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and Transformation, University of Sheffield. Presentation: Working Steel
2005
Dartington College of Art, Urban Media and Intervention
INTERFACING: Theory and Practice Conference, Mistranslation as a Mode: Subtitles as a Third Text,
University of Exeter
2003
SUNY at Buffalo, Department of Art, part of the Visual Studies Speakers Series.
Conferences organised
2011
(with Dr Geoff Cox and Dr Joasia Krysa) Reclaiming Criticality: Digital Cultures and Social Tensions in Precarious Times
2010
(with Malcolm Miles and Joasia Krysa) Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency: Beyond the Relational Aesthetic Paradigm
2007
Social Hacking, a Kurator project, a series of commissions for Plymouth, UK focusing on computing and physical spaces.
2003
Another Cinema: Screening the True Independents A series of film, video, and multimedia screenings at Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter, UK, including Alia Syed, Darrin Martin, Miranda July, and Socket.
2002
Co-organizer with Joasia Krysa (University of Plymouth) of Hybrid Discourse, a program of guest lectures examining the impact of the latest digital media on the concept of Culture Industry. www.i-dat.org/projects/hybbrid
