PAST RESIDENCIES
JUNE 2010 - NoiseFold
NoiseFold is a live cinema and interactive installation group founded by interdisciplinary artist-performers, David Stout and Cory Metcalf. Originally an ensemble in residence at the College of Santa Fe, NoiseFold presented their world premiere at the Festival Internationale d’Art Video in Casablanca, Morocco in spring 2006. The duo utilize sensor activated computer systems and complex audio-visual feedback circuitry to synthesize a mesmerizing array of bio-mimetic visual forms that generate sound. Critics have described the result as “a powerful synaesthetic experience where noise, music and image interact on a symphonic scale.” NoiseFold routinely performs in wildly different contexts from concert halls, museums and art-house film theaters to planetariums, and botanic gardens. Their performances, which have included the UNESCO Creative Cities Summit, the New York Electronic Arts Festival, Interactive Futures in Victoria, BC and “Chinati Weekend” in Marfa, Texas have garnered enthusiastic reviews and a growing audience. Stout & Metcalf began their seminal work in Santa Fe, New Mexico, renown as an art center and lesser known as the birthplace of Artificial Life (A-Life). Currently the pair are developing several installation projects including Archipelago, a distributed networked installation in the form of a “live” artificial ecosystem. The NoiseFold residency at the Center for Contemporary Art is devoted to the development of a new 3-Screen network performance environment designed to allow virtuosic instrumentalists to interact and play within a virtual audio-visual system.
Cory Metcalf presently resides in Colorado where he is pursuing graduate studies in Electronic Media Art & Design at the University of Denver. David Stout is a Professor and coordinator of the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA) at the University of North Texas located in the Denton-Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2009
JENNY POLAK
GREEN IN TRANSLATION
SEPTEMBER 27 - OCTOBER 9, 2009
Jenny will meet and conduct interviews with Spanish-speaking local immigrants who work on the land, as gardeners or builders or on farms around Santa Fe. The exchanges will attempt to explore a less affluent, more uprooted population's understanding of sustainable energy and environmental protection. Conducted in Spanish despite her relative ignorance of the language, the efforts to communicate will be recorded by Polak and the resulting audio and documented vocabulary will become an installation.
Jenny Polak is an artist making architectural installation, drawings and web projects. Her designer alter ego, Design For The Alien Within, promotes hypothetical hiding and dwelling places for people without immigration documents. Her furnishings, infrastructural elements, maps and building kits are mutated by the dangers of today’s immigration and border politics. Yet these fictitious solutions for immigrant-citizen struggles are brought to you in the cheery terms of interior design consumption. Polak comes from England and family histories of hiding and migration are behind her preoccupation with illegal assistance of undocumented and stateless people.
Jenny Marketou
Bubbles
October
Jenny Marketou conducts workshops installs a video camera attached to a weather balloon that records aerial data of the region. Marketou engages principles from aeronautics, aerial surveillance, ballooning, recreation, landscape, architecture, video and surveillance narratives, data collecting and streaming and to re-think the way we experience space and the environment, and how we relate to one another.
Jenny Marketou was born in Athens, Greece. Since 1984 she has lived and worked in New York. She has been awarded grants and artists residencies worldwide and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She has lectured extensively and has taught as an adjunct professor Photography and Interdisciplinary studio art at The Cooper Union School of Art and Science in New York City. She is the author of the book “The Great Longing: The Greeks Immigrants of Astoria, Queens” Kedros Publishing. Marketou’s 2008 exhibitions included: Le Grand Palais, Paris; Chelsea Art Museum, New York; Fiacs3 Biennial International of Contemporary Art of Seville; Tina_B Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art of Prague; Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt/Maine; Ileana Tounta Art Center Gallery, Athens; Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach; Strozzina Center of Contemporary Art, La Fondacione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen Mannheim.
MAY 2009 - Gardner Post
CCA presents Gardner Post and his Baby Grand Master which will become a long-term community outreach program installed in the moving image lab.
When you first touch the controls of the Baby Grand Master™, be prepared to experience an entirely new sensation. Unexpected power suddenly fills the room. You immediately notice the rich fullness of the video and sound. The controls respond almost intuitively to your fingers. Designed to take advantage of the latest high technology, the Baby Grand Master™ interface is remarkably intuitive. It's understandable that no video instrument in modern history has ever made itself seen and heard so immediately, or so dramatically.
It began as a challenge: could a new kind of video instrument design eliminate the compromises and complexities in most audio visual devices? Even with sophisticated computer modeling to speed each breakthrough, the process required six years. All designs for the Baby Grand Master™ are unique. Playing the Baby Grand Master™ is proof that technology can indeed be taught to enhance performance, not compromise it.
APRIL 2009
ANTONINO D'AMBROSIO
In Sun and Shadow
Presentation April 30, 6:00pm
Antonino D'Ambrosio, a writer/filmmaker/photographer/musician based in New York and San Francisco, is the author of the critically acclaimed Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer. His writing appears in The Nation, Monthly Review, The Progressive, The Believer, among many other publications. A frequent guest on TV and radio, D’Ambrosio has hosted radio shows on WBAI and East Village Radio. Award-winning actor and director Tim Robbins is executive producing a documentary based on Let Fury Have the Hour. Directed by D’Ambrosio, the documentary is being produced by AIM, a strategic partnership with Amnesty International. Musicians Radio 4 are composing original music that include music from Chuck D, Ted Leo and Antibalas. The film traces the movement of world citizenship through art and culture as a powerful vehicle for democratic change and human rights. His upcoming book is A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitters (Basic Books, 2009), which looks at virtually unknown controversial Native rights folk record Johnny Cash recorded with folk musician Peter La Farge. Artist Shepard Fairey is contributing original art to both D'Ambrosio new book and upcoming film. D’Ambrosio’s most recent film is No Free Lunch starring comedian Lewis Black, part a series of films produced with SEIU that addresses economic injustice in America.
D’Ambrosio is also the founder/executive director of La Lutta NMC, Inc.(www.lalutta.org), a production and new media non-profit (selected by The Nation of one of top independent media groups in the U.S.) and thhe New York Times described it as “bold [and] courageous…creating true democracy.” With La Lutta NMC, D'Ambrosio has produced a series of creative-activist events and performances including Speak the Words the Way You Breathe featuring the pioneering hip-hop group The Last Poets. La Lutta NMC has worked with more than 800 groups around the world on various media projects and maintains a membership of over 20,000.
Chuck D of Public Enemy describes him as “the voice of a new generation-passionate, intelligent and fierce- whose work educates and inspires.” In 2005, D’Ambrosio was Artist-In-Residence at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, and he has lectured extensively at universities and colleges throughout the country. In 2006, he became New York University’s Gallatin Lecturer, an honor bestowed upon a contemporary artist creating innovative and social engaging work. In 2007, D'Ambrosio created the multimedia oral history program Project 843, a youth led documentary series. In 2008, he was award a Nation Institute Investigative Fund grant for A Heartbeat and A Guitar.
FEBRUARY 2009
EDWINA WHITE
The Way The Wind Blows
February 6 - March 5, 2009
Presentation and Reception Thursday, March 5 at 6 PM
Edwina White’s delicate drawings on found vintage papers of menus and books, etc. are often enhanced with collage and text and present multiple narratives. Her whimsical escapades are built from memory and injected with gentle, often wry humor. Her subjects are distinctive in character, melding classical elements of expression and detail with a raw modern sensibility.
Born in Sydney, Australia, Edwina White graduated in Visual Communications, following a spell at Brighton University, England. Her drawings, installations and animations have been exhibited in the United States, Australia and the UK.
The Center for Contemporary Arts [CCA] will hold a small reception / screening to showcase Edwina White’s latest work at 6pm Thursday, March 5. White will present the work created during her residency—a stop
motion animated short, “The Way the Wind Blows”. The handpainted and charmingly absurd characters that feature in the film will also be on view in the studio.