[-empyre-] another lurker

Mon Jul 1 05:34:49 EST 2013

Dear All,

Below is a collaged biography from various sources. 

[I am a very active lurker, always on the verge of writing in response to postings, but never feeling the responses are ready for public scrutiny ... with one exception of actually writing when I was an invited by Alan Sondheim to be one of the  -empyre-  guests in October 2012. I delved then into the subject of Lament as it is explored my my recent work, and as related to ancient traditions of ritual performance of  group lamentation reenacted in the space of the City today:
http://www.mail-archive.com/empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/msg04651.html]

BIOGRAPHY:
Monika Weiss is a Polish-American transdisciplinary artist based in New York City. She works primarily with installation, video projection, public performance, sound and drawing. As a systematic inquiry into the relationships between history, postmemory, public space and the space around the body, the work of Monika Weiss addresses the performative act of drawing as related to speech, trace, erasure and disappearance. In the words of British art critic Guy Brett, Weiss’ performative installations “provide an alternative experience of space and time, which is not end-driven but steady and enduring, establishing and deepening a human presence. Her art is a unique combination of technological media (video projection) and the ancient activity of drawing. Sound is also an important element, meticulously composed by the artist it lifts silent filmed actions into another realm of meaning." Educated first as a classical musician and pianist, Weiss continues to compose sound environments in her installations and cinematic works. “The artist is renowned for the use of her own body as a vehicle of artistic expression and for incorporating the presence of others directly within her work. 

Conducting often an intensive research, she collaborates with historians or archivists and incorporates historical documents, archival objects, abandoned sites and marginal narratives. Her current work considers aspects of public memory and amnesia as reflected within the physical and political space of the City and evokes ancient rituals of lamentation as traditionally performed in response to war”. Weiss’ work has been exhibited in over twenty solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions internationally. In 2005, Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, organized and published a retrospective of the artist’s work to date, Monika Weiss: Five Rivers. In 2006, Weiss was commissioned to create Drawing Lethe at the World Financial Center, a large-scale public project curated by The Drawing Center in New York. Recent and upcoming solo museum exhibitions include Monika Weiss: Sustenazo at CSW Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2010) and Monika Weiss: Sustenazo (Lament II) at Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile (2012-2013), which will travel in 2014 to The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami. Her work has been also featured at Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO, Miami (Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art, 2007; The Prisoner’s Dilemma, 2009), and she was part of Prague’s Muzeum Montanelli (MuMo)’s inaugural show in 2010. Some other notable exhibitions include Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand at North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks (2006); On the Absence of Camps at Kunsthaus Dresden (2006); POZA: On the Polishness of Polish Contemporary Art at Real Art (2008); and Frauen bei Olympia at Frauenmuseum, Bonn (2009). Weiss has exhibited alongside and collaborated with artists such as Francis Alys, Mona Hatoum, Carolee Schneemann, Alan Sondheim and Stephen Vitiello, among others. She has given lectures on her work at institutions internationally and her writings have appeared in numerous publications, including New Realities: Being Syncretic (Springer, Wien/New York) and Technoetic Arts (Intellect, London). Her work has been featured among others in publications such as Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art, I. B. Tauris, UK. 

Affiliated with Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, UK, Weiss currently divides her time between New York and St. Louis where she is professor of hybrid media/graduate program in Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and faculty affiliate in the Performing Arts Department.

A FEW LINKS:

http://www.artisttalk.eu/monika-weiss-us/

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/monika-weiss-performing-the-drawing.html

www.monika-weiss.com

http://www.lehman.edu/vpadvance/artgallery/gallery/WeissbyGuyBrett.HTM

Monika Weiss

On Jun 29, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Lynn Hershman wrote:

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> New Project:INFINITY ENGINE will be film project consists of an interconnected and intertwined landscape of feature film, installation, performance, social sculpture, social media, science, documentary and fiction.
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> The INFINITY ENGINE is the installation chapter of the multiplatform INFINITY ENGINE film project. Both will  enact narratives of a not too distant future in which organs can be manufactured and banked, lost limbs can be regenerated from the inside out, skin can be printed on an ink jet printer, and human life can extend to 130 years . . . all of which expose complex physical, psychological and philosophical possibilities for human evolution and our newly programmable DNA.
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> Lynn Hershman Leeson an artist, educator and film maker. 
> She is a recipient of the 2010-2011 d.velop digital art Lifetime Achievement Award, the most prestigious award in the field of digital arts, as well as a  2009 Siggraph Lifetime Achievement Award and a  2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
> Her four feature films- Strange Culture, Teknolust, Conceiving Ada and !Women Art Revolution – A Secret History are all in distribution and screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Toronto Film Festival and The Berlin International Film Festival, among others 
> Work by Lynn Hershman Leeson is featured in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art NewYork, the William Lehmbruck Museum, the ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Tate Modern, The National Gallery of Canada, the Walker Art Center and the University Art Museum, Berkeley, in addition to the celebrated private collections. 
> Recently honored with grants from Creative Capital and the National Endowment for the Arts, Nathan Cummings Foundation and she is also the recipient of a Siemens International Media Arts Award, the Flintridge Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, Prix Ars Electronica, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Prize for Writing and Directing.  A catalogue and retrospective is being planned at the ZKM Museum Karlsruhe and MdM Museum Salzburg in 2014.
> Hershman Leeson is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis , was an A.D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University, former Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute and will be Distinguished Director in 2013-14, at the New School for Social Engagement, New York.
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> dear all,
> greetings from another lurker ...since 2007!
> I think I posted a couple of times, but usually i am shy when it comes to sharing things publicly.  seeing a lot of familiar names coming out of their "lurk-ness" is encouraging.
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> My name is Roberta Buiani, I am a researcher, activist and media artist based in Toronto. I am the co-founder of the ArtSci Salon at theFields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (University of Toronto) and act as program advisor and, sometimes, curator, for the Subtle Technologies Festival.
> My work balances theoretical and applied research at the intersection of science, technology and creative resistance. My recent itinerant community project The Sandbox Project, challenges concepts of sustainability in face-to-face and online collaborations in network and social media configurations. You can read my work in Fibreculture, Invisible Culture, Cultural Studies and Digicult.
> I am fascinated by anything small and/or invisible. I am fascinated by viruses as biological, informational, and cultural agents. waiting to hear when/if my book on this topic will be published.   I also love insects. I have started a new project on entomology, synthetic biology and sustainability. let's see where this takes me. In the meantime, I am increasingly enjoying the practice of insect rearing, an activity I initiated to verify (actually to disprove) some very hyped claims regarding the sustainability of entomophagy (see the cicada craze in NJ). But this practice has turned out to evoke much more complex issues: issues of care and affect, eugenics, my anthropocentric biases etc...
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> you can find my projects here:
> http://atomarborea.net
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> and my ento-blog here:
> http://atomarborea.tumblr.com/
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> best to all!
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> roberta
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