[-empyre-] ArtTechFood: Week 2

Sat Mar 12 02:46:44 AEDT 2016

Thanks Stefani, Marina, Hernani, and Renate, for getting us started on our month of discussion about all things art + food + technology.

Sorry, all, that it was a bit of a bumpy start. Here in the US its been a busy week for academics and in new york in particular, a kooky art world week of fairs, commerce, and art world gatherings.

Plus today will be the final day of the food nostalgia exhibition I currently have up at Radiator Gallery (there was a bit of a snafu at the gallery, so if any of you new yorkers did plan to come along to check out the show: do come TODAY!). http://publicartaction.net/food-nostalgia/

Hopefully we can continue some of the conversations we began about mapping, data visualisation, access, urban agriculture, and hardware hacking.

This coming week, Shu Lea Cheang, Mary Mattingly, and Amy Lipton will join the discussion. I hope it might make for a nice segue to discuss matters of art + agriculture, as well as hacking food systems more generally, as all three have a great deal of experience as artists, activists, and cultural provocateurs in this area. I look forward to reading about their work, past, present and future!!

Of course I hope that Stefani, Marina and Hernani can continue to contribute to the discussion, and talk to some of their other research and projects as their calendars also free up a little towards the end of the month.

I'm re:posting our newly joined discussants bios for reference below.

regards
Amanda

Shu Lea Cheang  (TWN, US, FR) is an artist, filmmaker, networker; Shu Lea constructs networked installation and multi-player performance in participatory impromptu mode. She drafts sci-fi narratives in her film scenario and artwork imagination. She builds social interface with transgressive plots and open network that permits public participation. Engaged in media activism for two decades (the 80s and 90s) in New York City, Cheang concluded her NYC period with the first Guggenheim Museum web art commission/collection BRANDON (1998-1999).  Since her relocation to Eurozone in 2000, she has been staging large-scale performative works in collaboration, founding collectives as cross-disciplinary research platforms and taking on installation art projects. Currently situated in post-crash BioNet zone, Shu Lea takes on viral love, bio hack in her current cycle of works.
http://mauvaiscontact.info

Mary Mattingly (US) creates sculptural ecosystems in urban spaces. She is currently working on a floating food forest for New York called “Swale” and recently completed a two-part sculpture “Pull” for the International Havana Biennial with the Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Mary Mattingly’s work has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, the Seoul Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and the Palais de Tokyo. With the U.S. Department of State and Bronx Museum of the Arts she participated in the smARTpower project, traveling to Manila. In 2009 Mattingly founded the Waterpod Project, a barge-based public space and self-sufficient habitat that hosted over 200,000 visitors in New York. In 2014, an artist residency on the water called WetLand launched in
Philadelphia (now being utilized by UPenn's Environmental Humanities program); and urban Flock Houses were deployed in Omaha, Nebraska (where ongoing urban community gardens grew from the project). She also recently installed a partially under-water bridge in Des Moines. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, the Harpo Foundation, NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, and the Art Matters Foundation. Her work has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Artseries titled “Nature” and edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Triple Canopy’s Speculations, the Future Is... published by Artbook, and Henry Sayre’s A World of Art, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc.
http://marymattingly.com

Lipton Arts is an online endeavor by Amy Lipton (US) who has 25 years of professional experience working in the contemporary art world. Lipton Arts initial project was a pop-up gallery exhibition titled Being There, which took place at Elga Wimmer Gallery in Chelsea during February-March 2014. Since closing her SoHo, NY gallery in 1996, Lipton has been an independent curator and co-director of ecoartspace, a non-profit organization that creates opportunities for addressing environmental issues through the arts. Lipton curates exhibitions for museums, galleries, sculpture parks, environmental centers and in the public realm. She writes for books and publications, organizes panel discussions and lectures on art and its relationship to the natural environment. Her curated museum exhibitions include; Ecovention: Artists Transform Ecologies at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, OH; Imaging the River at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY and Body, Line, Motion at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz. Recent gallery exhibitions include Beyond the Horizon at Deutsche Bank 60 Wall Gallery, New York City and It’s the End of the World as We Know it (and I Feel Fine) at Ramapo College Galleries, Mahwah, NJ. Her curatorial public art project BiodiverCITY was part of the 5 x 5 Project in Washington D.C., presented by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the National Cherry Blossom Festival in 2012. Her public art project TRANSported took place in May 2013 in conjunction with The New Museum’s, Ideas City Festival and Arts Brookfield at the World Financial Center Plaza and at Sara D. Roosevelt Park in New York City.
http://www.liptonarts.com