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Initiating the 911 artists2artists group we begin
by extending
our focus outward: across geographical, political, and cultural
terrain. For artists working in the public and site specific
domains,
this encompasses the inquiry of what we coin ‘public’ and
how
this notion of public relates to its site and its surrounding.
For
artists concerned with approaches to bridging, extending, and
expanding, we address questions of origin, distance, direction,
power, emerging systems of non-site, and the spanning across
invisible boundaries. We invite you to share a night with us!
This evening of artists presentations and topic
discussions is centered
around the theme of Transcontinental. Invited artists will be
asked
to present a 15-20 min. presentation of their work. We have invited
a guest moderator to establish connections between artists and
open discussions up for audience response as basis for an evolving
dialogue.
911 Media Arts Center Theatre Space
Thursday July 13 at 7pm
Winebar at 911 after event
Moderator: Carrie Scott
Local art critic, curator, and gallerist, Carrie E. A. Scott comes
to Seattle via Manhattan, Connecticut, London and Oxford before
that. Her local writing credits to date include Visual Codec, The
Stranger, and Seattle Magazine. She is also the Curator of Visual
Arts at the Lee Center for the Arts and was, soon after finishing
her Master's at the UW, hired by James Harris Gallery.
Vaughn Bell's work focuses on
our attention and attachments to the environment around us.
In works such as Portable Environments, Landscape Adoptions,
and Personal Biospheres she has created humorous installations,
actions and objects that reflect our need to possess, control,
and care for our environment.
James Coupe is an artist whose
work deploys methodologies borrowed from computer science,
bioengineering and nanotechnology
to build
art systems that are self-organizing, inter-connected encounters,
revealing a fascination with the strategies we use to make
sense of our highly mediated social and cultural environments.
He is
currently based in Seattle, USA, where he is a Research Fellow
at DXARTS, University of Washington.
Yuki Nakamura is a Japanese-born
sculptor working with ceramic medium combined with new materials
to create sculptural and
installation pieces relating to physical spaces.
Karolina Sobecka works with
interactivity, installations, video, animation and other new
and old media. Her artistic
interest
is strongly stimulated by the advances in science, technology
and philosophy that shape our understanding of ourselves
and our world.
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