[-empyre-] Art Tech Food: Week 4
Amanda McDonald Crowley
amandamcdc at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 07:05:50 AEDT 2016
Hello again!!
So I know I am a bit late off the mark to introduce our final two discussants. The cat is doing well, for anyone interested. And thanks for the off list suggestions about diet -- you know who you are ;)
Yesterday I ruminated a little about art-as-life, or life-as-art and how artists who (among other things) address issues of food systems in their practice, in a sense directly affected by their lived experience.
I am also still deeply interested in ideas of collaboration and more specifically cross disciplinary practice in this field of inquiry.
In our final week, I am delighted to introduce Natalie Jeremijenko and Shilpa Rangnekar, two conceptual artists who have a long history of working with food. We have heard from several artists who prepare and serve food as part of their practice, as a methodology for engaging audiences directly in a larger discussion. I hope that Natalie and Shilpa might build on that conversation in a discussion of some of their projects where they literally invite their audiences to consume their art, as acts of environmental inquiry, generosity, and sharing in ways that only food can do!
Marina Zurkow and Stefani Bardin, in week one, began a discussion of their NYC food mapping project. In this final week, I hope they might also share more information on some of their own art projects that address our food systems (that they didn't have the bandwidth to share during week one, due to other commitments).
And of course, I hope that any of our other discussants, as well as any of you on the list who wish to follow up on any conversations you would like to have more feedback on, or on which you would like to add commentary, or other writing or work that you would like to draw to our attention, might also pipe in.
As a reminder, I am re:pasting Natalie and Shipa's bios below.
best
Amanda
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Natalie Jereminjenko (AUS, US) is an Associate Professor in the Visual Art Department, NYU <http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Natalie_Jeremijenko> and affiliated with the Computer Science Dept. and Environmental Studies program. In 2014 VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards Pioneer Prize was awarded to Natalie Jeremijenko “for her consistently brilliant portfolio of work over the past two decades.” (a prize only awarded once before to Laurie Anderson). She was also granted Most Innovative People award in 2013, most influential women in technology 2011 <http://www.fastcompany.com/women-in-tech/2011/brainiacs/natalie-jeremijenko>, one of the inaugural top young innovators by MIT Technology Review and 40 most influential designers Jeremijenko directs the Environmental Health Clinic <http://environmentalhealthclinic.net/farmacy/>—facilitating public and lifestyle experiments that can aggregate into significant human and environmental health benefits.
Shilpa Rangnekar (IN) is an Indian conceptual artist working with a multidisciplinary approach for socially engaged art and research practices. She is particularly interested in observations of everyday life and associated behaviors, which either comes out in the form of utilitarian Art, food performances or very expressive and engaging community oriented projects. She has post graduated from Hyderabad Central University in 2008 with MVA in Painting and holds a BFA in Painting from M.S.U, Baroda (2005). Since 2010, Shilpa has been working as a coordinating artist for Sandarbh Artist Residency- a context for experimenting with artistic processes, and exploring new modalities of viewership and public participation in art. Arts Network Asia, the Asia Europe Foundation and Trans Europe Halles generously supported one of her recent project Equilibrium. She has participated in residency programs in Germany, South Korea, and India and recently at the Bemis Center for Contemporary arts in USA. Rangnekar lives and works in Jaipur, India.
http://shilparangnekar.com
http://theprojectequilibrium.wordpress.com
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Amanda McDonald Crowley
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