Drawing Contemporaries

Eyebeam
540 W. 21st St.
New York, NY

Drawing Contemporaries
through June 9

"... curated by Eyebeam senior fellow Michael Mandiberg, is an exhibition of work on paper made by a peer group of new media artists who all create drawings, both as a primary object and as an experimental process. For many of the artists, the use of computers and algorithms are the focus in their work. While a number of the artists are Eyebeam affiliated, all are contemporaries whose influences upon each other can be traced in this exhibition."

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[text and graphic from Eyebeam website.]

Craft Hackers

Fri, Dec 12, 2008 | 7:30 PM
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002



Craft Hackers
Modertated by Marisa Olson

$6 Members, $8 General Public

Craft Hackers is a panel discussion among artists who use crafting techniques to explore high-tech culture and the relationship between needlework and computer programming. Panelists include Cat Mazza, who translates moving images into stills knit in yarn; Christy Matson, who uses Jacquard Looms (some of the earliest computers) to knit landscape images from computer games; Ben Fino-Radin, whose witty needlepoint sculptures translate the World Wide Web into yarn and plastic, one pixel at a time; and Cody Trepte, whose embroidery of retired computer punch cards rekindles an old-fashioned love affair with the hand of the artist.


[graphic: embroidered punch card by Cody Trepte]

We Interrupt Your Program

Mills College Art Museum
through March 16, 2008

Organized by Marcia Tanner, Guest Curator

Continuing its commitment to the work of women artists and curators, The Mills College Art Museum presents We Interrupt Your Program: a group exhibition of video and new media works by fourteen emerging and mid-career female artists.

The works in We Interrupt Your Program intervene in, reconfigure, augment, and/or re-contextualize dominant narratives of war, power, science, technology, and gender from what are arguably distinctively female and feminist perspectives. Spanning a range of media and aesthetic strategies, the exhibition includes computer-manipulated video, digital animation, video installation, interactive sculpture, and photography.

All of the artists in We Interrupt . . . respond to contemporary mainstream media—including network television, mass market feature films, instructional science videos, and online communication platforms such as email and chat rooms—interrogating them as restrictive vocabularies and structures that routinely exclude the female voice and point of view. Their work, which often formally refers to art historical precedents like minimalism or landscape painting, as well as popular visual culture, is powerfully expressive, conceptually complex, and relevant to our cultural moment.


February 20th, 7:30pm
Mills College Visiting Artist Samara Halperin in conversation with Anne Walsh and Gail Wight

March 12th, 7:30pm
Lecture by Marisa Olson

All programs are in Danforth Lecture Hall, Art Building

Viewers interested in this exhibition might also like to visit Small Things End, Great Things Endure at New Langton Arts, which features works by Akosua Adoma Owusu, Maja Bajevic, Andrea Bowers, Zoe Crosher, Eve Fowler, Wynne Greenwood, Anna Maltz, Ali Naschke-Messing, Emily Roysdon, Jen Smith, Jonathan Solo, and Matilde ter Heijne, on-view through March 15, 2008.

[Image from exhibition press release: Shannon Plumb, Olympics, 2005 Single–channel video.]