A once a month magnet group for new media artists working in the Seattle area that aims to gather, promote, critically discuss, and present Seattle new media work through 911 Media Arts Center. 911 artists2artists invites artists/curators/thinkers to anchor events, which in turn become launching points for making connections in the Pacific Northwest.

Transcontinental
911 Media Arts Center Theatre Space
Thursday July 13 at 7pm
Winebar at 911 after event

Initiating the 911 artists2artists group we begin by extending our focus outward: across geographical, political, and cultural terrain. For artists working in the public and site specific domains, this encompasses the inquiry of what we coin public and how this notion of public relates to its site and its surrounding. For artists concerned with approaches to bridging, extending, and expanding, we address questions of origin, distance, direction, power, emerging systems of non-site, and the spanning across invisible boundaries. We invite you to share a night with us!

This evening of artists presentations and topic discussions is centered around the theme of Transcontinental. Invited artists will be asked to present a 15-20 min. presentation of their work.? We invite a guest moderator to establish connections between artists and open discussions up for audience response as basis for an evolving dialogue.

Moderator:Carrie Scott
Local art critic, curator, and gallerist, Carrie E. A. Scott comes to Seattle via Manhattan, Connecticut, London and Oxford before that. Her local writing credits to date include Visual Codec, The Stranger, and Seattle Magazine.? She is also the Curator of Visual Arts at the Lee Center for the Arts and was, soon after finishing her Master's at the UW, hired by James Harris Gallery.

Artists: Vaughn Bell, James Coupe, Yuki Nakamura, Karolina Sobecka

Vaughn Bell's work focuses on our attention and attachments to the environment around us. In works such as Portable Environments, Landscape Adoptions, and Personal Biospheres she has created humorous installations, actions and objects that reflect our need to possess, control, and care for our environment.

James Coupe is an artist whose work deploys methodologies borrowed from computer science, bioengineering and nanotechnology to build art systems that are self-organizing, inter-connected encounters, revealing a fascination with the strategies we use to make sense of our highly mediated social and cultural environments. He is currently based in Seattle, USA, where he is a Research Fellow at DXARTS, University of Washington.

Yuki Nakamura is a Japanese-born sculptor working with ceramic medium combined with new materials to create sculptural and installation pieces relating to physical spaces.

Karolina Sobecka works with interactivity, installations, video, animation and other new and old media. Her artistic interest is strongly stimulated by the advances in science, technology and philosophy that shape our understanding of ourselves and our world.

Vaughn Bell - Still from "The Personal Home Biosphere", 2004

James Coupe, The Difference Engine (2005)

Yuki Nakamura, Suspended (2006)
Porcelain, Neon Wire, AC Driver, Wood
108 x 88 x 56 inch
Courtesy of the artist and Howard House