New Climates

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2. Contributing Artists
Work by these artists will appear in the New Climates exhibition between February and May 2007. Please subscribe to this weblog and stay tuned.

Artists Contributing New Work Made For New Climates:
(AMERICAN OR EUROPEAN artists)

Michael Alstad
Anthony Discenza (DATA)
Peter Eramian
Futurefarmers
Jane D. Marsching (DATA)
Mary Mattingly
Joe Milutis
Cary Peppermint & Christine Nadir
Andrea Polli (DATA)
Giles Revell & Matt Wiley
Brooke Singer
Thomson & Craighead
Trumbull & Simon
Gail Wight
Lisa Young

Artists Contributing Existing Work:
Ben Engebreth (DATA)
Michael Mandiberg


BIOGRAPHIES
Artists Contributing New Work Made For New Climates:


MICHAEL ALSTAD is a Toronto based artist and curator working in installation and digital media. He is a founding member of the Canadian artist collectives Year Zero One and Symbiosis. Alstad has coordinated several site-specific projects in Toronto including The Clinic, The Bank of Symbiosis, The Hoarding Project, the Transmedia video billboard exhibitions, Teletaxi and Geostash. His recent interactive installation MELT, exhibited at the Surrey Art Gallery in British Columbia, addressed the extreme climate change in the Canadian Arctic and our technologically mediated experience of the natural world. His web, video and interactive works have been included in many international media arts festivals and online exhibitions.
year01.com/alstad.

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ANTHONY DISCENZA is a digital media artist exploring the production, dispersal and consumption of mediated images in today’s society. Often working with material appropriated from mainstream, commercial media sources, he creates new meanings and modes of viewing from this recycled information. In addition to various individual projects, he participates in HalfLifers—an ongoing collaboration with video artist Torsten Z. Burns. Discenza’s solo and collaborative work has been shown at numerous national and international venues, including The New York Video Festival, The Pacific Film Archive, The Impakt Festival, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the 2000 Whitney Biennial. He lives and works in Oakland, CA.
anthonydiscenza.com.

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PETER ERAMIAN is currently completing his BA in Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths College in London. He is from the south of Cyprus but of Armenian origin. He has exhibited in recent exhibitions throughout Britain as part of the Noise Festival and in a group show in Deptford, London, which he co-organised as part of Deptford X. Eramian is primarily concerned with the manipulation of video-time and the symbolic values that may stem from such tinkering. Without ever dismissing the fact that video can only represent time in time, and never actually reproduce it, he creates scenes inspired by philosophical texts, often referencing established symbols such as the sun and light, and explores their aesthetic relationship to time.
peter_eramian@yahoo.co.uk.

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FUTUREFARMERS, formed by Amy Franceschini in 1995, is a San Francisco based new media construct specializing in the creative investigation and development of new work. Franceschini is an artist and designer working with notions of community, sustainable environments and the conflicting rituals of humans and nature. Her work manifests on and offline in the form of dynamic websites, installations and printed matter. Since 1998, she has been collaborating with Josh On, Sascha Merg and Michael Swaine to realize projects such as Holding Patterns, They Rule and Communiculture. Their work was among the first websites to be collected by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
futurefarmers.com.

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JANE D. MARSCHING is a Boston based photographer, sculptor and new media artist working with issues of belief, representation, science, perception and climate change. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art. Marsching’s work has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, CEPA Gallery in Buffalo and the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, among many other spaces. She was recently selected as a Foster Prize Finalist at the ICA in Boston, where she showed Arctic Listening Post, a project that combines prints of computer-rendered arctic landscapes, a remixed web-cam video of the North Pole, and Climate Commons, an interactive weblog discussion on climate change.
janemarsching.com.

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MARY MATTINGLY uses photography, new media projects and writing to imagine possible futures for our civilization. In digitally created composite photographs, she depicts post-industrial landscapes in which nomadic “navigators” create and utilize adaptive survival mechanisms, merging fashion, architecture and fine art. Mattingly’s richly imagined future also includes an online religion, a new method of calculating time, and an invented lexicon of words and symbols. Her work has been exhibited widely in the US and internationally. She is the recipient of a Yale School of Art Fellowship, a Scope Artist Grant, and an Opal Filteau Photography Scholarship. She has been published in Photo District News, The Photo Review, Photograph Quarterly, and Archis Magazine. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
marymattingly.com.

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JOE MILUTIS is a sound, radio and digital media artist. He is a visiting Assistant Professor of modern culture and media at Brown University. His recent projects include The Idea of South, a psychogeographical video tour of southern ruins, and the weblog project New Jersey as an Impossible Object. Milutis is the author of the book Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything, published by the University of Minnesota Press, which examines ether’s technological, cultural and artistic history. His writing has appeared in such publications as ArtByte, Wide Angle, Film Comment, and Cabinet. He currently lives and works in Providence, RI.
joemilutis.com.

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CARY PEPPERMINT and CHRISTINE NADIR are conceptual artists working with digital technologies and performance.

Peppermint is known for his website Restlessculture.net which serves as a platform for his ongoing series of networked performances. His latest works explore how new media technologies both limit and expand our conceptions of nature and the environment. Cary has curated international exhibitions of digitally infused eco-art, including Technorganic and Wilderness Information Network. He has received numerous awards, including grants from Franklin Furnace, the Experimental Television Center and NYSCA. His work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Rhizome.org, The Whitney Museum of American Art and Computer Fine Arts. He is assistant professor of digital art at Colgate University and is based in Hamilton, NY and New York City.
ecoarttech.net.

Nadir is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University where she is completing her dissertation entitled “Need, Function, Nature: Social Ecology and the Principle of Organic Economy in Modern Environmental Literature and Thought.” She has taught theory, literature, and expository prose at Columbia University and Oneonta State College and has presented her work internationally at conferences and universities including the American Comparative Literature Association, the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature and Colgate University.

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ANDREA POLLI is New York City based digital media artist and director of the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program at Hunter College. In her work, she addresses issues related to science and technology in contemporary society, often collaborating with artists and scientists from various disciplines. Her recent project, Heat and the Heartbeat of the City, presented a series of sonifications of projected climate change in Central Park. With N. Polli created an ongoing, evolving audio-visual composition derived from near real-time Arctic data. She has exhibited, performed and lectured nationally and internationally. Polli was recognized by the UNESCO Digital Arts Award in 2003, and presented work in the 2004 Ogaki Biennale in Gifu, Japan and at the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland.
andreapolli.com.

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GILES REVELL and MATT WILEY are designers living and working in London. Having gained valuable experience at a number of small design studios, Wiley joined internationally acclaimed studio Frost Design where he was appointed Creative Director in 2004. A year later, he co-founded Studio8 Design with Zoë Bather. In 2006, he collaborated with Revell to produce the photographic series At This Rate for a publication by the Rainforest Action Network. The project is designed to raise awareness of the rapid destruction of rainforests, which, given the current rates of devastation, will have vanished completely by 2060.
studio8design.co.uk.

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BROOKE SINGER is a digital media artist living in New York City. Her most recent collaborations have utilized wireless communications (Wi-Fi, mobile phones and radio frequency identification) to initiate discussion and positive system failures. She is currently Assistant Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York, and co-founder of the art, technology and activist group Preemptive Media. She recently created AIR, a public social experiment in which people are invited to use Preemptive Media’s portable air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots. Singer will collaborate with Brian Hubbard on an upcoming feature documentary about the EPA and government accountability for health and the environment.
bsing.net.

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THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD are London based artists working with video, sound and electronic, networked spaces to create gallery and site-specific artworks and installations. Their more recent web-based work, such as Light From Tomorrow, Weather Gauge and BEACON, explores the ways in which global communications networks are changing the way we perceive our world. They have exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, including at the Tate Britain and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Jon Thomson lectures at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Alison Craighead is currently a researcher at the University of Westminster.
thomson-craighead.net.

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TRUMBULL & SIMON is the artist duo Sarah Simon and Mat Trumbull.

Simon will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, in May 2007. Her film, video, installation, drawing and performance work often revolves around the intersections of history and memory, and the oscillating borders separating fiction and nonfiction, with an emphasis on spatiality and scale. Her current work-in-progress, Domestic Taxonomies and The Space Between, questions the various ways in which we collect, preserve, organize and display objects belonging to our personal histories and memories. Simon has exhibited and screened her work in Gallery TK in Northampton, Goldsmiths College in London, and the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Coagula Gallery at the Brewery Art Complex and Ghettogloss Gallery in Los Angeles.
s.simon9@gmail.com.

Trumbull received his Bachelor’s degree in Forest Ecology from Hampshire College in 2006. He lives in Northampton, MA, near the fairgrounds and the airport. He makes music, bad landscape paintings and thinks about gardens.
mat.trumbull@gmail.com.

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GAIL WIGHT is a conceptual artist investigating natural and biological phenomena and the history of science and technology. She is on the faculty of Stanford University’s Art Department, where she runs the studio for Experimental Media Art. She has lectured and exhibited her work internationally, including shows at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands, Exit Art in New York City and the O.K. Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria. She is the recipient of several honors, including the Wired Magazine Rave Award Nominee for Art and the Wallace Gerbode Visual Arts Award. In 2008, she will collaborate with paleontologist Liz Hadly to create an interactive video environment focusing on climate change and extinction. Wight lives and works in Berkeley, CA.
notochord.org.