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Web of Exhibitions and Discussions Highlighting
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Bridging the Binaries: Panelist Biographies Jackie Brookner; New York City Jackie Brookner works collaboratively with ecologists and earth scientists on water remediation/public art projects in the U.S. and abroad, with ongoing projects near Dresden, Germany; in St. Louis, Missouri; in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in New York City. Her most recent solo exhibitions include "Native Tongues" at The Miro Foundation in Barcelona, Spain and "Of Earth and Cotton," which traveled throughout the United States from 1994-98. Her installations and writing focus on relationships between Western attitudes toward human dependence on the environment and ideas about physical matter and death. Brookner was Guest Editor of the 1992 issue of the Art Journal on Ecology. She teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York, lectures internationally, and will be teaching at Harvard University in 2002. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including The New York Foundation for the Arts in both Sculpture and Drawing, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The Nancy Gray Foundation for Art in the Environment. She holds M.A. and A.B.D. degrees from Harvard University. Over the past three decades, Josely Carvalho has assembled a body of work which gives eloquent voice to matters of memory, identity and social justice. Carvalhošs work consistently challenges the boundaries between artist and audience and between politics and art. Her evolving work entitled "Book of Roofs" is a living text, part history, part metaphor. It brings together many of the themes that Carvalho has been developing for decades--shelter, as a political and metaphorical issue; displacement, and the intersections between personal recollection and collective consciousness. First shown as a video installation in 1997, Book of Roofs was composed of three thousand clay roof tiles, onto which digital video images were projected. It has since evolved to include an interactive web site and various video installations. Josely has received numerous grants, most recently from the New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) and the Creative Capital Foundation. Last year, she was a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation, Beluga International Study & Conference Center in Italy, and this year she is an artist-in-residence at Harvest Works in New York City, an organization dedicated to media artists. Mo Dawley; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Mo Dawley has been active in the field of art since the 1970's in the capacities of artist, librarian, educator and curator. Her academic credentials include a BFA in Painting, BA and MA degrees in Art History and an MLS (Master of Library Science) degree. Her interest in earth sustainable practices and the arts spans many years. In the past decade, her advocacy in this area includes development of the Carnegie Mellon University collections in art, ecology and related areas within her present appointment as Art and Drama Librarian, and co-authoring, with Ann Rosenthal, the Green Arts Web resource. Mo is also currently teaching an interdisciplinary course with Cheryl Casteen at Carnegie Mellon on environmental theory and art practice. Beverly Naidus received an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design ('78) and a BA, cum laude with Distinction in Studio Art, from Carleton College ('75). Her work has been exhibited internationally and has been written about in books by Suzi Gablik, Lucy Lippard, and Paul Von Blum. Examples of her recent projects dealing with the topics of environmental illness, cultural identity, and body image can be viewed at www.artsforchange.org Beverly has taught at several museums in New York City , and she taught Intermedia and New Genres, Drawing and Painting, and "Art and Social Issues" at California State University, Long Beach where she received tenure in 1993. She has been teaching "Activist Art in Community" and media literacy workshops at the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont during their summer session since 1991 and at Hampshire College during their winter session. Beverly is currently on the faculty of Goddard College's low-residency, off-campus interdisciplinary arts MFA program. She received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist's Grant in Photography in 2001. Aviva Rahmani's Ecological Art focuses on the healing environmental effect of cumulative individual actions. Together with scientists and policy makers, she works internationally from the micro, restoring a salt marsh, to the macro, "Cities and Oceans of If." Rahmani strategizes specific solutions to water degradation, and urban and rural life to create an alternate future for large landscapes. Evolving from work on feminist issues, her projects now focus on environmental degradation. A California Institute of the Arts graduate with a Masters in Multi-Media and Electronic Art, Rahmani's collaborators include scientists at the Wells (Maine) National Estuarine Research Reserve, Allied Whale at the College of the Atlantic, and the University of Southern Maine. Most recently she is working with St. Louis Arts-in-Transit on a public installation: "Eagle's Rest". Susan Leibovitz Steinman; Berkeley, California Susan Leibovitz Steinman salvages materials directly from community waste streams to construct public art installations that connect common daily experiences to broader social issues. Projects include conceptual sculpture gardens that meld art, ecology and community action. A 2-acre temporary, 3-year installation of recycled freeway materials and native plants on West Oakland's Mandela Parkway, "Mandela Artscape," symbolizes positive urban regeneration on new-found but degraded open space where the '89 earthquake collapsed an elevated freeway. It involved the unique cooperative participation of community residents, Caltrans, the City of Oakland, Merritt College and the Museum of Children's Art. This project is one of the many permanent and temporary site works by this artist. In addition, Steinman is CoPublisher-Editor of the Women Environmental Artists Directory (WEAD), and she recently produced an ecoart exhibition and symposium at JFK University in San Francisco. Nell Tenhaaf; Toronto, Ontario Nell Tenhaaf is an electronic media artist and writer based in Toronto. She works in interactive computer-based installation and backlit digital photos. She has exhibited across Canada, in the U.S. and in Europe, and has published numerous reviews and articles. Tenhaaf has been represented in group shows such as Digitized Bodies/Virtual Spectacles in Budapest and Ljubljana, LikeLife at the Brighton Media Centre in Brighton, UK, The Body In Question at the Salina Art Center in Salina, KS, and Odd Bodies/Corps Etrangers at the National Gallery of Canada. Her textual and visual work addresses the cultural implications of new technologies, focusing on representational developments in the biosciences, in Artificial Life, and on the Internet. She is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department (New Media) of York University, and is represented in Toronto by Paul Petro Contemporary Art.
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