Collaborative Projects Challenge Boundaries
Between Visual Art and New Media Art
911 MEDIA ARTS CENTER PRESENTS: NEW WORKS LABORATORY 2006
Opening Reception: Tue, Sept 12, 6-9pm
Exhibition hours: Monday thru Friday, Noon-6pm, Sept 12 – Oct 27, 2006
Check out Opening Reception Photos
Jen Graves, The Stranger “one of the most ravishing new works I've seen in several months”
Regina Hackett, Seattle PI "Sculptor Yuki Nakamura and video/light technician Robert Campbell triumph with an installation at 911 Media Arts Center that merges their abilities, and the fusion is electric."
Sue Peters, Seattle Weekly "The piece (Floating Plaster/City Motion) is both contemplative and visually stunning..Both results are intriguing."
Henry Art Gallery announces selection for final exhibit
Responding directly to the many challenges facing visual artists and new media artists, 911 Media Arts Center in collaboration with the Henry Art Gallery, created the inaugural New Works Laboratory in 1998. The intention with this intensive residency program is to pair visual artists working in traditional media with digital media artists experimenting with new technologies to co-create and exhibit new and innovative works of art.
This year’s collaborating teams who were selected through a juried process in May 2006 are:
- Robert Campbell/Yuki Nakamura and
- Carrie Bodle/Margie Livingston
Both teams have been working and experimenting together over the past five month using 911’s fully equipped artist-in-residence suite for production purposes. The artists work will be on view between September 12 and October 27 (Mon-Fri, Noon-6pm) at 911 Media Arts Center with an opening reception on Sept 12 from 6pm until 9pm. At least one project will be selected for subsequent development and final exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery in November 2006.
Robert Campbell and Yuki Nakamura: Floating Plaster/City Motion
Campbell and Nakamura present a multi-media installation comprised of video and cast sculpture incorporating multiple video projectors and programmable matrix switchers. The work integrates sculptural formal aesthetics with architectonic video projections of animated imagery toward the creation of an evocative and dynamic installation. Activating a physical Z-axis with projections, image becomes sculpture, and sculpture image through the dynamic interplay between image, motion and form.
Floating Plaster/City Motion
(Still from Installation)
Collaboration: Robert Campbell and Yuki Nakamura
9 x 12 x 16 ft
Hydrocal, DLP Projectors, DVD Players, DVD, Laser
2006
Photo: Robert Campbell
Carrie Bodle and Margie Livingston: The Flattening and Opening of Space
The collaboration between Bodle and Livingston explores the combination of their two practices — installation art and painting — to investigate the boundaries between 2-dimensionality and 3-dimensionality. Their project incorporates drawing, sound, and projected imagery to create the experience of being inside a perspective drawing. By opening what is usually flat, and flattening what is usually spatial, Bodle and Livingston challenge the viewer’s preconceptions of space.
The Flattening and Opening of Space (work in progress)
(Still from Installation View)
Collaboration: Carrie Bodle and Margie Livingston
Dimensions Variable
Metal, String, Blacklight, Video, Sound
2006
Photo: Carrie Bodle
Artist Bios:
Carrie Bodle's work explores notions of history, memory, and social dialogue in architectural contexts through artistic interventions. Recent works include Sonification / Listening Up (2005), Oscillations (2004), and Boltworks (2002) which take the form of temporary large-scale public art installations that explore multi-channel sound set-ups.
Recently she was an Artist in Residence at the IBM Watson Collaborative User Experience Group through the Boston Cyberarts Group with her piece, Wikipedia / Soundscape (2005) exhibiting at the DeCordova Museum. Her work has also been shown at the Location One Gallery in NYC and was webcasted internationally by radioartemobile through the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, CAVS, at MIT.
Bodle received her Master's of Visual Studies from the MIT Visual Arts Program in 2005 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from The Ohio State University in Art and Technology in 2002. She is currently working on a sound piece for Tryon Creek State Park in Portland, Oregon and has been selected for the New Works Laboratory, an artist residency jointly sponsored by 911 Media Arts Center and the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle.
Margie Livingston is a painter whose work explores the interplay of representation and abstraction. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Washington in 1999. Her works were featured in solo exhibitions at the Greg Kucera Gallery in 2004 and 2005. Artist Trust gave Livingston two awards in 2004: a“GAP Grant” and an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship. In 2005, she was given the University of Washington’s School of Art Alumni Award. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2001 and spent a year living and working in Berlin. Livingston’s work resides in the permanent collection of the Tacoma Art Museum and appeared in the museum’s Northwest Biennial 2004. She has taught at the University of Washington and the Seattle Academy of Fine Art. She has been a member of the Soil Artist Collective since 2000.
Robert Campbell: Bob works as an installation artist, digital printmaker, documentary filmmaker and video artist in Seattle, Washington. Since 1984, he has exhibited internationally in Europe, Japan, Canada and the U.S., including the WRO 90 Festival in Poland, Montbeliard International Video Competition in France, the Tokyo International Video Festival in Japan and IMAGE Film and Video Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 1992 his collaborative video-for-dance work has been seen in Seattle’s On The Boards’ New Performance Series, Northwest New Works Festival Series, and Artist Access Series. His collaborators include The Maureen Whiting Company, Veronica Lee and The Three Yells, and Mary Sheldon Scott/Jarrad Powell Performance. His dance-on-video work has been presented in the Dance on Camera Festival at New York’s Lincoln Center, and in Seattle’s New Dance Cinema Festival and Jack Straw Artist Support Program. His documentary projects have taken him to the Ukraine in 1987, and to Africa twice since 2003, portions of which have been included in the PBS series Journey To Planet Earth.
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. Her upcoming projects include a collaboration project 2006 New Works Laboratory organized by the 911 Media Arts Center and the Henry Art Gallery, a solo show at Peeler Art Center at DePauw University (Greencastle, IN) in Spring 2007 and a publication project entitled Simple Fragility. Nakamura is the recipient of the Joshibi Excellent Work and Research Fellowship (Tokyo), the Artist Trust Fellowship (Seattle, WA) and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (New York). Other honors for Nakamura have included residencies at Novara Arte Cultula (Italy), La Napoule Art Foundation (France) as well as Centrum Creative Residency (Port Townsend, WA). Nakamura is represented by Howard House Contemporary Art (Seattle, WA).
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