Diane Willow is a multi-modal artist. Working at the nexus of art, technology, science, and architecture she experiments with hybrid media to explore the poetic dynamics of nature, technology and community. Her public installations, interactive environments and evocative objects involve media as eclectic as bioluminescent plankton, embedded computers, found sound and time-lapsed video. By any medium necessary best describes her process. Focused on art as the experience, she invites people to engage in multi-sensory explorations as participants and choreographers rather than as viewers. Diane is interested in exploring the subtle ways that we express empathy with one another, with other life forms, with sensing objects, and with responsive environments. She is particularly interested in the ways that we develop and transform our sense of place and how this process is influenced by our contemporary views of nature, technology and community.
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Experimental and Media Arts
Dates:
Thu Mar 12, 2009 00:00 - Sun Mar 08, 2009
The twenty-one artists participating in the Experimental and Media Arts exhibition have in common their participation as faculty, graduate students, and alumni in the UMN Department of Art’s Experimental and Media Arts area during the years 2004 to 2009. Dispersed throughout the Twin Cities, and further a field with connections to cities that include Budapest, Los Angeles, Quito, Montreal, Boston and Beijing, these artists share an attraction to an artistic realm that is mutable, permeable and elastic in character. Drawn to a variable focus on experimental arts, media arts and the intersection of the two, this exhibition includes media that may be described as film, video, performance, interactive installation, responsive sculpture, performed costume, kinetic art, tangible media, sound art, socially engaged, experiential, hybrid, new and emergent.
Included are artists whose journeys have taken them on waterways in the Miss Rockaway Armada, the Badlands with the mobile projections of Minneapolis Art on Wheels, amidst wildfires in the forests of the Pacific coast, into the expanses of the southwestern desert, to Maker’s Faire in the Bay Area and within the West Bank Shop’s 50-day project in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Among the participants are artists who have been recognized as Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Bush, McKnight, Jerome, Art(ists) On The Verge, and Osher Fellows. The Experimental and Media Arts exhibition, at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery from February 24 to March 26, 2009, presents the following artists:
Christopher Baker | TJ Barnes | Bruce Charlesworth | Cheryl Wilgren Clyne | Stephen Eakin | Marjorie Franklin | Travis Freeman | Katinka Galanos | Jonathan Kaiser | Suzanne Kosmalski | Jana Larson | Gudrun Lock | Colleen Ludwig | Lynn Lukkas | Abinadi Meza | Ali Momeni | Steve Paul | Greg Scranton | Yui Tanabe | Meng Tang | Diane Willow
March 12, 2009
Steve Dietz will give a public talk that is part of the Visiting Artists and Critics Series and a highlight of the Experimental and Media Arts exhibition.
Steve Dietz is a serial platform creator. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Northern Lights. He was the Founding Director of the biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge in 2006 and is currently Artistic Director of its producing organization, ZERO1: the Art and Technology Network. He is the former Curator of New Media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he founded the New Media Initiatives department in 1996, the online art Gallery 9 and digital art study collection. He also co-founded, with the Minneapolis Instite of Arts the award-winning educational site ArtsConnectEd, and the artist community site mnartists.org with the McKnight Foundation. Dietz founded one of the earliest, museum-based, independent new media programs at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1992.
Exhibition catalyst and contact person: Diane Willow, willow@umn.edu
Included are artists whose journeys have taken them on waterways in the Miss Rockaway Armada, the Badlands with the mobile projections of Minneapolis Art on Wheels, amidst wildfires in the forests of the Pacific coast, into the expanses of the southwestern desert, to Maker’s Faire in the Bay Area and within the West Bank Shop’s 50-day project in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Among the participants are artists who have been recognized as Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Bush, McKnight, Jerome, Art(ists) On The Verge, and Osher Fellows. The Experimental and Media Arts exhibition, at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery from February 24 to March 26, 2009, presents the following artists:
Christopher Baker | TJ Barnes | Bruce Charlesworth | Cheryl Wilgren Clyne | Stephen Eakin | Marjorie Franklin | Travis Freeman | Katinka Galanos | Jonathan Kaiser | Suzanne Kosmalski | Jana Larson | Gudrun Lock | Colleen Ludwig | Lynn Lukkas | Abinadi Meza | Ali Momeni | Steve Paul | Greg Scranton | Yui Tanabe | Meng Tang | Diane Willow
March 12, 2009
Steve Dietz will give a public talk that is part of the Visiting Artists and Critics Series and a highlight of the Experimental and Media Arts exhibition.
Steve Dietz is a serial platform creator. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Northern Lights. He was the Founding Director of the biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge in 2006 and is currently Artistic Director of its producing organization, ZERO1: the Art and Technology Network. He is the former Curator of New Media at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he founded the New Media Initiatives department in 1996, the online art Gallery 9 and digital art study collection. He also co-founded, with the Minneapolis Instite of Arts the award-winning educational site ArtsConnectEd, and the artist community site mnartists.org with the McKnight Foundation. Dietz founded one of the earliest, museum-based, independent new media programs at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1992.
Exhibition catalyst and contact person: Diane Willow, willow@umn.edu
culturing nature :: culturing technology
The artists participating in the culturing nature :: culturing technology exhibition include:
Kelly Dobson, Sheila Pinkel, Andrea Polli, Sabrina Raaf, Gail Wight, Diane Willow, Amy Youngs
Kelly Dobson, Sheila Pinkel, Andrea Polli, Sabrina Raaf, Gail Wight, Diane Willow, Amy Youngs
culturing nature :: culturing technology
Dates:
Fri Mar 21, 2008 00:00 - Sat Mar 15, 2008
The seven artists participating in the culturing nature :: culturing technology exhibition have in common their propensity for working among disciplines and across media to realize their ideas. Collectively these artists have collaborated with other biological life forms, engaged with machines as companion species, traveled near and afar from the continent of Antarctica to unseen local neighborhoods. All have invented their own processes or expanded the scope of contemporary art genres to realize their concepts, installations, photographs and interactive artworks. Each approaches the dynamics of culturing nature and culturing technology from a unique perspective.
The metaphor of culturing expands the space for dialogue about the cultural context of art and technology and introduces the concept of culturing in contrast to that of control. This exhibition offers us an opportunity to reflect upon our shifting relationships with nature and technology. These artists invite us to consider contemporary conceptions of nature that are accessed and made intimate with technology as well as emerging ideas of technology that nurtures.
The metaphor of culturing expands the space for dialogue about the cultural context of art and technology and introduces the concept of culturing in contrast to that of control. This exhibition offers us an opportunity to reflect upon our shifting relationships with nature and technology. These artists invite us to consider contemporary conceptions of nature that are accessed and made intimate with technology as well as emerging ideas of technology that nurtures.
