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| SCANZ Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand July 3-16 2006 New Plymouth New Zealand Aotearoa http://www.scanz.net.nz Fax +64 6 757 3232 |
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Project TeamThe Project Team are co-ordinating the project and selected artist projects.
Ian M Clothier (lecturer, Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki)Ian Clothier is an artist writer and lecturer at WITT. In 2005 Clothier has had work selected for the online show Public Assembly curated by Steve Dietz for ZKM in Germany, exhibited at prog:me the First International Festival of Electronic Media in Rio de Janeiro, was a finalist in the Vodafone Digital Art Awards, was an international jury member selecting projects for the Interactive City strand of ISEA 2006, the paper Created identities: hybrid cultures and the internet was accepted by the peer reviewed UK journal Converge, he was awarded a Human Interface Technology Lab NZ Artist Fellowship from the University of Canterbury and the ezine he edits was included in Wayleave at Magazzini Generali in Rome. His work was selected for ISEA 2004 and he attended the Solar Circuit in Tasmania.http://www.art-themagazine.com http://www.art-themagazine.com/ian
Trudy Lane (independant organizer, art director/designer for digital media)Trudy Lane works as a digital media designer for the art and museum industries. Both her personal and professional work reflect her interest in interweaving participatory art, online educational resources and social contexts. Online exhibitions, collection archives and educational projects created while working at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis with curator Steve Dietz, gained her international design and museum industry recognition. After leaving the US for Croatia, several online works were created as a part of a multidisciplinary team of philosophers, artists, sociologists and programmers based in Zagreb named MAPA headed by the artist Andreja Kulunčić. These works have been internationally exhibited at festivals such as Big Torino, Manifesta, Documenta, VIPER, Medi@terra, EMAF, and FILE, among others. Trudy's recent work with various cultural organizations in South Eastern Europe, has helped produce a new socio-cultural contemporary art magazine online named ART-e-FACT, based in Zagreb, Croatia.http://artefact.mi2.hr/ (contemporary art and theory magazine) http://www.distributive-justice.com/ (MAPA)
Mercedes Vicente (curator, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery)Mercedes Vicente (Spain, 1964) was previously an independent curator and art critic living in New York City. She studied at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and was 2001-2002 Helena Rubinstein Whitney Curatorial Fellow, co-curating “Empire/State: Artists Engaging Globalization (The Graduate Center, NYC 2002). Among her exhibitions, she has curated “This Is What It Is”, on American conceptual and postminimal drawings from the late 60s and 70s (Center for Curatorial Studies, 2000); the exhibitions on contemporary drawing “Un/Ruled” (Exhibit A, NYC 2001) and “The Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought” (Bronx River Arts Center, NYC 2003); and most recently, “Slowness” (Dorsky Curatorial Programs, NYC 2003 and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, 2004). As the US correspondent for the magazines EXIT, Exitbook and Exit Express and a regular contributor to Lápiz, La Vanguardia and other periodicals, she has reported art news, written extensive essays on artists such as Andrea Fraser and Martha Rosler, as well as interviewed such figures as Harold Bloom, Robert Storr and Rosalind Krauss. She is co-editor of the anthology of writings by Benjamin D. H. Buchloh titled Formalismo e historicidad, (Akal, Spain 2004). At the moment, she is working on an anthology of writings around the subject of curatorial studies and practice, and has a contributing article in Manifesta Journal #4 on the subject of teaching curatorship.
Deborah Lawler-Dormer (director, Moving Image Centre, Auckland)Video artist, Curator and Organizer, Deborah has headed the Moving Image Centre of Auckland for the last 10 years, having in that time has worked to promote and support a dynamic and growing culture of media-arts practise in Auckland and New Zealand. Supporting an environment of innovation in which the fusion of art and technology are developed and nurtured, Deborah has organized countless exhibitions, workshops, symposia and screenings, as well as hosting many international visitors. MIC is a "drop-in" resource/access centre for artists, designers, programmers and filmmakers and is an environment in which cross-fertilisation between new media, art, audio and performance occurs.
John Fairclough (former lecturer, The National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, University of Auckland)John Fairclough’s interest in the potential of computers as an art-making tool developed in the 1980s and since 1988, after completing an MA at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Computer Aided Art & Design, Middlesex University, London, his media of choice have been almost exclusively digital. His images, animations and interactives, were some of the first computer-based visual art made in New Zealand and his work has been included in national and international survey exhibitions, including ISEA98, UK; CyberCultures – Sustained Release, Australia; Up:date//The Active Eye: a survey of New Zealand Photography; TechnoMaori, New Zealand. He is currently based in Auckland and lectures at Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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