Rachel Clarke
Since 2003
Works in Sacramento, California United States of America

BIO
Rachel Clarke (born UK) is an artist, writer, curator and and educator living in Sacramento, CA. Clarke is Professor of New Media in the Art Department at California State University, Sacramento.

Her work – intertwining themes of nature, culture, and technology – has been shown in galleries, museums, new media art festivals and film screenings nationally and internationally. She has recently shown work at ISEA, Vancouver BC; Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA; Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria; Aggregate Space, Oakland, CA; WORK Detroit, MI; and Currents International Festival of New Media in Santa Fe, NM.

Working in collaboration with Sacramento Metropolitan Art Commission she was artist and co-curator for an NEA funded augmented reality virtual public art project located in the Broadway Corridor in Sacramento in fall 2014: http://www.broadwayaugmented.net

Clarke is the founding editor of Media-N the CAA New Media Caucus’s international journal of digital and media arts. She served as Editor-in-Chief of Media-N from 2005 – 2011, and is a current Board Member of the New Media Caucus.

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Under Fire: 3D Animation Pedagogy


Dates:
Thu Jun 23, 2011 22:40 - Thu Jun 23, 2011

The summer 2011 edition of Media-N originates from the panel, Under
Fire: 3D Animation Pedagogy and Industry Complicity in New Media
Education, at the College Arts Association Conference in Chicago, in
2010. It was co-chaired by Claudia Hart (Associate Professor,
Department of Film, Video, New Media, Animation at the School of the
Art Institute, Chicago) and Rachel Clarke (Associate Professor of
Electronic Art at California State University, Sacramento).
Each of the panelists at the conference addressed the topic from the
perspective of their role as 3D animation educators, and also as
practicing artists in the field. Many of the challenges brought up in
the panel resurface for further investigation in this edition: the
authors expand on the issues they face, discuss the ways they deal with
the notion of “industry complicity,” and posit various ideas for
rethinking the 3D animation curriculum.
Contributors: Rachel Clarke, Claudia Hart, Gregory Little, Michael Rees, Bruce Wands, Shane Mecklenburger, Claudia Herbst-Tait and Joshua Mosley. Additional papers by Daniela Krautsack and Shannon McMullen.


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Media-N Conference Edition, Chicago 2010


Dates:
Thu Jun 17, 2010 00:00 - Thu Jun 17, 2010

This edition of Media-N celebrates the successes of the New Media Caucus at the 2010 CAA Conference in Chicago, featuring image and video documentation of the events, papers from the panels, a review from the Live Cinema Summit, and an outline of the Tenure Track Roundtable. The expansiveness of topics and diversity of offerings reflects upon the growth of the Caucus itself, and its emerging leadership role in representing the multi-faceted, complex and ever-changing character of the new media field in education, research and practice. Special thanks to all involved: Paul Catanese, NMC President, the NMC executive team and event organizers, NMC and CAA members who attended the events, and the panel chairs and authors who contributed to this edition.

Please also note our new Call for Papers:

http://www.newmediacaucus.org/html/journal/issues.php?f=papers&time=2010_summer&page=call

Dynamic Coupling
Total immersion in new media practice: What happens when a shared life blurs with shared research?

Guest Edited by Jessica Westbrook

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Thursday, September 16, 2010

DESCRIPTION:
There is a history to artists coupling domestically and collaborating professionally: John Cage and Merce Cunningham, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Charles and Ray Eames, Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Christo and Jean Claude, Gilbert and George, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely, Annelise and Joseph Albers are just a few examples of couples sharing a life and sharing a practice. This level of commitment and collaboration brings with it not only an air of romance and intrigue, but also points out the obvious potential for collaboration (broadly speaking) and interpersonal connection to produce something substantial (dialogue, skill, intensity, ambition, outcome) that is exponentially greater than individual parts. How has this kind of "dynamic coupling" translated into current new media practice? This call for submissions asks for insight on new media couples who share a practice and share a life. How immersive can it get? What do these new media couples make, and how do they work? What happens when a shared life blurs with shared professional research? Are there philosophical motivations in the decision or inclination to work as a couple/collaboratively (e.g. feminist, open source, post-structural perspectives, etc)? How do couples present and talk about projects? Does this shared practice extend into the classroom and/or inform a teaching/co-teaching philosophy?

Authors and artists are invited to submit articles, papers, case studies, interviews, and project documentation in response to the theme. Notice of acceptance and/or further requests will be made in late September 2010.

Jessica Westbrook, Assistant Professor, Department of Contemporary Practices, School of the Art Institute of Chicago jessicajessicawestbrookcom


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agriART: Companion Planting for Social and Biological Systems


Dates:
Mon Dec 28, 2009 00:00 - Mon Dec 28, 2009

Location:
United States of America

This edition of Media-N, “agriART: Companion Planting for Social and Biological Systems” evolves out of an exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery, George Mason University, Virginia in spring 2009. These artists and researchers investigate “agri-Art”, a field emerging out of bio-art, and a term coined for artwork that “critically engages with cultures of food production and consumption as a specific site of biopolitics” (Mark Cooley and Ryan Griffis). Presenting startling revelations about the nature of agribusiness and food production, what characterizes the artists and projects featured is the commitment to utilize a relational model - one that repositions art practice and redefines its purpose - employing the transformative power of art to effect social change.
Special thanks to Mark Cooley and Ryan Griffis for guest-editing this thought-provoking edition of Media-N.

Rachel Clarke
Editor-in-Chief, Media-N (journal of the New Media Caucus)
Vice President for Publications, New Media Caucus


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Media-N journal New Media Caucus CAA Conference Edition, 2009


Dates:
Tue Aug 11, 2009 00:00 - Tue Aug 11, 2009

Location:
United States of America

The New Media Caucus continues to go from strength to strength! The summer 2009 edition of the NMC journal, Media-N, focuses on the three outstanding panels and a ground-breaking exhibition (entitled “@”), all sponsored by NMC at the College Arts Association conference in Los Angeles, February 2009:
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/journal/issues.php?f=papers&time=2009_summer&page=front

Panel chairs Lindsay Kelley, Belinda Haikes and Mike Salmond were invited to choose the approach by which their panel reports were presented in the journal, to reflect the individual character of the panel and style of the presentations. The reports include documentation/contributions/papers by Lindsay Kelley, Wafaa Bilal, Joseph DeLappe, Elizabeth Losh and Krista Genevieve Lynes (for the panel “Mail Away: War Correspondence at Home and Online”); Belinda Haikes, Robert Gero, Peter Baldes and Jenn Figg (for the panel "Space: The New Frontier"); and Mike Salmond, Eddo Stern, Ben Chang and Jon Cates (for the panel "Video Games as Medium, Future Paradigms and Practices"). Also featured is a review of the “@” exhibition by E. Marie Robertson; the show connected a physical exhibition of works at SCI-Arc, LA and a parallel exhibition in the Second Life metaverse.

We are delighted to present these reports that show the high level of new media discourse at the CAA conference and the strength of presence demonstrated by the New Media Caucus.

Rachel Clarke
Editor-in-Chief, Media-N (journal of the New Media Caucus)


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“Foreignness and Translation in New Media”


Dates:
Fri Apr 24, 2009 00:00 - Sat Apr 25, 2009

Announcing the publication of media-N spring edition 2009; “Foreignness and Translation in New Media”, guest edited by Pat Badani, Professor of Integrated Media at Illinois State University. The collected essays provide a thought-provoking expansion on the themes of “foreignness” and “translation”, subjects habitually explored through the lens of identity. The edition expands the discourse to examine different kinds of identifications, translations and geographies and explores the ways evolving technologies are being used by cultural practitioners to re-interpret and incorporate these notions.

http://www.newmediacaucus.org/journal/issues.php?f=papers&time=2009_spring&page=front