Stay tuned for details on Pixilerations [v.6]!
Highlights from Pixilerations [v.5]
Opening night reception, Pixilerations [v.5] Exhibition
Thursday, October 2
6-9 pm: GALLERIES OPENING RECEPTION
--AT--
The Sol Koffler Gallery (169 Weybosset Street) and
The 191 Westminster Street Gallery (a block away)
6p: Reception in Sol Koffler, continues until 9p
7p: Guest artists Gail Wight and Heidi Kumao speak about their work in a public conversation at the 191 Westminster Gallery.
8p: Possible surprise performance by Butch Rovan+ to follow.
The Pixilerations [v.5] Exhibition is on view October 3-12, daily from
12-6pm in two galleries:
The Sol Koffler Gallery (169 Weybosset Street) and
The 191 Westminster Street Gallery (a block away)
FREE.
Visitors will enter Entanglement Witness, a virtual world created by Todd Winkler and Cindy Cummings; follow anonymous romances from Craigslist.org in Cristobal Mendoza’s text sculpture Missed Connections; let Matthew Williamson’s Video Analyzer decide whether a DVD is boring; and play Balance, a physical “video game” by Danqing Shi, designer of an interactive installation for the Bird’s Nest stadium at the Beijing Olympics and much more from these remarkable artists: Abby Donovan, Andrew Ames, Ashley John Pigford, Betsy Connors, Edrex Fontanilla & Robert Goldschmidt, Erik Conrad, Jamie Jewett, Heidi Kumao, Gail Wight, Lucky Leone, Martina Mrongovius, Paulina Sierra and Yana Sakellion.
GUEST ARTIST BIOS:
The Pixilerations [v.5] exhibition features work by two guest artists, Gail
Wight and Heidi Kumao.
HEIDI KUMAO
Heidi Kumao is an interdisciplinary artist who creates video and machine art
to explore ordinary social interactions and their psychological
undercurrents. Emerging from the intersection of sculpture, theater and
engineering, her “performative technologies” generate artistic spectacle in
order to visualize the unseen: psychological states, emotions, compulsions,
thinking patterns, and dreams. These works are designed to re-enact an
event, perform a task for the viewer, or mediate her roles as a woman.
Through the creation of kinetic and electronic sculpture, interactive
installations and digital animations, she seeks to heighten awareness of our
everyday experiences such as childhood play, family dynamics, television
news, and even the wearing of clothes. She is currently an Assistant
Professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor.
see: website
GAIL WIGHT
Artist Gail Wight investigates issues of biology and the history of science
and technology. Her work engages the cultural impact of scientific practice,
and plays with our constant redefinition of self through our
epistemologies. As an artist, Wight traces the ways in which those tools
carry their ideologies with them, moving from the scientific to the social
sphere and impacting the art-making process. Recent projects often involve
other living organisms, inviting them to become co-authors in the finished
work of art. Wight holds an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art
Institute where she was a Javits Fellow, and a BFA from the Studio for
Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art. Wight has exhibited her
work internationally, including venues such as the Natural History Museum of
London, Ars Electronica (Austria), and Exit Art (New York). She is on the
faculty of Stanford University’s Department of Art & Art History, where she
directs Experimental Media Arts and the graduate program in Art Practice.
see: website
