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| Adam Ansorge Brooklyn, NY TITLE: That Hand Film, 2009 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: A martial arts-style fight between human hands. BIO: Starting with stop-motion Legos back in the early 1980s, Adam has been drawing, animating, and making films ever since. Mason Gross School of Visual Arts (New Brunswick NJ, 1998) BFA, Film & Video and School of Visual Arts (NYC, 2005) BFA, Character Animation. When Adam is not animating for others, he creates independent animated short films that have appeared in various film festivals including: Animation Block Party, ASIFA-East, Worldfest Houston, Red Bank International, Miami International, BeFilm Underground, and Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted. |
| Anita Arliss New York, NY / Atlanta, GA TITLE: Associates, 2009 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: This video is about the role social networking for artists and the state of solitude in making art. BIO: Anita Arliss is a multiple media artist, creating her recent work with a cell phone camera. With a Masters in Creative Arts from Hunter College, she studied with artists including Robert Morris, Mary Miss and Robert Barry. Arliss also painted sets in films for Robert Redford and other filmakers. Her art works have been exhibited nationally, as well as Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center, Whitespace Gallery and Eyedrum Gallery. She is winner of the 2004-2005 New American Paintings Competition, 2008 Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Finalist, as well as a 2008 Featured Culture Pundits Artist. Arliss' recently completed large scale public art "Propulsion" is permanently installed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport. |
| Signe Baumane Latvia/NY, NY TITLE: The Very First Desire Now and Forever, 2007 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: Do you remember your first desire? BIO: Signe was born in Latvia and educated in Moscow. She has BA degree in Philosophy. Although she was a published writer since age 14, philosophy inspired Signe to turn to an animated story telling. She started to work at Riga's Animated Film Studio at the lowest possible position - cell painter. In few years she gained enough experience to write, direct, design 3 animated shorts, produced at the studio on government grants. The films were recognized at the international festival circle. Signe had a good reputation as a new Latvian animation director. Longing for a stronger challenge and a bigger pond, Signe left Riga in 1995 for New York, where she started to work at independent animation star Bill Plympton's studio at the lowest possible position - cell painter. In few years she gained enough experience of the wild capitalism to start producing film on her own and in 2002 she left Bill's studio to start her own small studio. Since her arrival to New York she has produced and co-produced, written, directed and designed more than 14 independent animated shorts. Signe has also continued her collaboration with Latvia's leading animation studio - Rija Films where she directed 2 of her own stories since 1995, and Pierre Poire Productions that produced her most successful films "Teat Beat of Sex" and "Birth". Her films have been screened at such prestigious festivals as Annecy, Tribeca, Sundance, Berlin, Ottawa, Venice and they have received numerous awards. Signe is a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a Fellow in Film from the New York Foundation for the Arts. |
| Robin Bernat Monroe, LA / Atlanta, GA TITLE: i want to be improbable, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: This video minute is about self-examination and self-portrayal, scrutiny and discomfort, beauty and acts of aggression. BIO: Robin Bernat is an experimental filmmaker and poet whose work explores beauty and feeling and their provisional qualities. Images tinged with nostalgia collectively create evocative narratives with both personal and universal meaning. Her work appeared in the 2000 Whitney Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art; she has exhibited her work nationally at the Kemper Museum of Art, the Cheekwood Museum, the Masur Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA-GA). Her work is represented in several museum, corporate and private collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kemper Museum of Art, The Weatherspoon Museum and the High Museum. She is the co-director of “Big Ideas Better World,” in partnership with the Martin Luther King National Historic Site, a post-partisan lecture and performance series bringing artists, writers, scientists, performers, entrepreneurs, innovators and once ordinary individuals to share their stories of their lives work and what led them to lives of action in solving the world's problems. She is an art and film educator emphasizing the possibilities for social action within artistic practice. She currently is the facilitator of two film discussion groups sponsored by the Atlanta Film Festival, one entitled Viva La Revolucion!: class consciousness, the power elite and revolution. She is also a member of the art collective kaikoö. She is currently represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| Amber Boardman Atlanta, GA / Brooklyn, NY TITLE: More Feeling, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: Verdi Requiem Variations. BIO: Amber Boardman was born in 1981 in Portland, Maine USA. She received a BFA in painting from Georgia State University. Her paintings and animation were featured in a solo show at Barbara Archer Gallery in Atlanta in 2004. In 2009 she received her MFA in fine art from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Boardman's work explores the ways people communicate and express sentiments while fusing musical, digital, and handmade elements. Boardman has worked as an animator for broadcast television series appearing on the Cartoon Network and Comedy Central. She is represented by Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, GA. |
| Matthew L. Burge Chicago, IL / Atlanta, GA TITLE: Fluxuation, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: Heavily influenced by the temporal work of Fluxus. I have recontextualized the element of time and the expectation of order within the piece. The piece is about fulfillment. BIO: Matthew Burge was born in 1968 in Dever, Colorado USA. He received a BA in painting from the University of South Florida and an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is both a traditional and digital artist. His digital works have been shown in galleries and museums in South Florida (Boca Raton, Maimi) and Chicago. Burge's work comments on current trends in society and the artmaking process. Currently Burge is the Associate Chair of Motion Media Design at SCAD Atlanta. |
| Osborn Brown Atlanta, GA TITLE: Mike Washing a Window, 2009 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: We recontextualize the Mundane in order to value the Real. BIO: Osborn Brown is a collaboration of two digital media artists who also work independently as “old School” painters. Brett Osborn was born in Lima, Ohio but spent most of his career in Los Angeles, CA working as Special Effects Miniature Model Maker for the film industry while supporting his painting addiction. His paintings are represented throughout the world. He presently is the Dean of Fine Arts at The Savannah College of Art and Design. Michael Brown was born to a truck driving nurse lover in rural upstate New York where he discovered his desire to create other worlds through drawing and painting. He received his BFA in Painting from SUNY New Paltz and his MFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. His work has been shown nationally and internationally including New Orleans, New York, California, Tel Aviv, London and can be seen currently at the Sarah Bain Gallery in Anaheim, Distinction Gallery in Escondido and Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra California, Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Rymer Gallery in Nashville Tennessee.His current work is informed by Greek mythology, cultural, economic and social Eugenics, Contemporary Imperialism, the Oedipus complex and the search for the resemblance of reason in the futility of human existence. He currently resides in Atlanta Georgia and teaches undergraduate and graduate painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design Atlanta campus. |
| Katie Cercone Santa Rosa, CA / Brooklyn, NY TITLE: Girl on the Treat Tip, 2009 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: The Grand Stop, Bushwick, Brooklyn Fall of 2009. BIO: Katie Cercone received her BA from Lewis and Clark College with the self-designed major, Gender Studies and Art: The Aesthetics of Resistance. She has shown her interdisciplinary collage, installation and performance work in Washington D.C., Portland, OR, New York City and her most recent body of work produced in residence at Residencia Corazon, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has published critical feminist writing in Bitch Magazine, the Utne Reader and U.K.-based feminist art journal N.Paradoxa. |
| Zoe Chan Melbourne, Australia / New York, NY TITLE: Woodchips, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: This project is a part of an ongoing project that explores transformative experiences, storytelling and retelling. In this body of work Chan has documented stories of transformation, the first experience of death and the first kiss. It is the archive of an experience. A translation of emotion into a measurable unit of time - one minute. BIO: Zoe Chan was born in 1971 in Melbourne, Australia. She received a BFA in graphic design from Swinburne University in Melbourne. In 2009 she received her MFA in fine art from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. |
| Tre Chandler Landstuhl, Germany / New York, NY TITLE: a scene from Night Sweats: “Breakable 2: BREAKIN’!”, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: The character Elijah Price AKA “Mr. Glass” from the 2000 film Unbreakable (dir. M. Night Shyamalan), is portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson. Blondie’s 1979 song “Heart of Glass” plays in the background. Lesson: a dude descending a staircase needs to look before he weeps. BIO: Tre Chandler was born David Chandler, III in Landstuhl, Germany, 1984. He received his BFA from Ohio University in Athens, OH in 2006 and his MFA from School of Visual Arts in New York, NY in 2009. His work resides where absurd personal narratives, satire, cultural critique, race theory and queer desire intersect, using video, drawing, writing, collage, and installation. In 2009, his video Dallas was featured on ArtSlant.com. Also in 2009, his site specific drawing installation A Narrative of Ga(Y)zes was included among the works of legendary artists such as Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt and Nancy Spero in “Then and Now”, an exhibition held at The Gay Center in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots sponsored by Artforum, The Keith Haring Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. |
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| Brandon Davey Las Vegas, NV / Brooklyn, NY TITLE: Pop Quiz Hot Shot, 2010 BIO: Born 1982 MFA 2009 School of Visual Arts Currently Living and working in New York City. |
| Kate Davis Caldwell New York, NY / Boston, MA TITLE: Loading Docks, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: Primarily concerned with painting and drawing, I have frequently shot photographs and video to inform my work. This is the first video I have done that combines appropriated sound, and it is the first that others have seen. BIO: Kate Davis Caldwell was born in 1976 in New Jersey. She currently lives and works in New York and Boston, and is a 2010 MFA Fine Arts candidate at the School of Visual Arts. She is represented by Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia. |
| Tina DeRamus Houston, TX / Brooklyn, NY TITLE: I like to Draw, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: I’m drawing while listening to THE SWORD. BIO: Tina DeRamus was born in Louisiana in 1971 but spent most of her life growing up in the suburbs east of Houston. She moved to New York City to attend the School of Visual Art’s MFA fine arts program in 2002. She currently lives in Brooklyn and spends most of her time drawing. |
| Paulo Dos Santos Geneva, Switzerland TITLE: The Monkee's Pledge, 2006 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: An old boudhist monk tale says that we all have a monkee inside us jumping everywhere. If you want to transcend yourself you have first to catch the monkee, then sit the monkee and finally speak with him. The monkee's pledge is my first step in the path, trying to catch my inner monkee. BIO: Paulo dos Santos (1973) works since 10 years as an actor. Since 2005 he have been directing his own theater pieces, including: »The monkee«, 2006, »20 min. plus tard«in 2006 and »Saudades ofParadise« in 2007, for the famous La Bâtie Festival, “GDEO Swiss-korean project, Portable Life? In 2009. In his work he has always been working with film & video installations, directing them himself or together with other directors e.g Rindelaub Britta. He also works in parallell as an actor for theater & cinemaHe has been selected in 2006 to the Berlinale Talent Campus with the Monkee's Pledge. |
| Maria Jose Duran Steinman Santiago, Chile / New York, NY TITLE: The Suicide, 2009 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: Thinking about "Leap into the void" by Yves Klein BIO: Maria Jose Duran Steinman was born in Santiago, Chile on September 10th 1982. She received a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts at Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile in 2006 and also the license to high school visual arts education at the same University. In 2008 she received the Fulbright scholarship (2008-2010) and the Chilean National scholarship (2008-2010) to develop her investigations in the School of Visual Arts MFA Fine Arts program. She currently lives in New York city and is an 2010 SVA MFA Candidate. |
| Sarah Ferguson New York, NY TITLE: The Outtakes, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: A video mix of photographs of the artist used to make the photo-collages for the book "Hillary & I" (2008) BIO: Sarah Ferguson was born in New Orleans, LA and studied art and mathematics at Rice University before earning a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Houston. In 2002 she left her career as a college professor to focus on her art. Her work has shown at Cooper Union, OK Harris, PS 122, Millenia Fine Art, Marymount Manhattan College and the School of Visual Arts. She was a 2005 Fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a resident of the Vermont Studio Center on full fellowship (2006) and is currently a resident in the PS122 Project Space Program. In 2008 she earned her M.F.A. in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York and had her first solo show in 2009 at Coup d’Oeill Art Consortium in New Orleans. She lives and works in Manhattan. |
| Nicholas Fraser Gowanus, NY TITLE: Mapping Project #6, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: Mapping Project #6 is the first sketch for a longer video that layers maps of America found through online image searches. My purposely ridiculous premise is that in layering many maps covering a myriad of subjects, it would be possible to eventually have mapped and understood everything there is to know about America. BIO: Nicholas Fraser (b. 1969, UK) lives and works in Brooklyn. He earned an MFA from the School of Visual Art and completed a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2008. His site specific installations were recently included in the Art in Odd Places Festival (New York). The Indianapolis Museum of Art will present his Mapping Projects series in the spring of 2011. His work has recently been exhibited at Jack the Pelican Gallery (Brooklyn) and Brain Factory (Seoul), and Eyedrum Gallery (Atlanta). |
| Marysia Gacek Poland / New York, NY TITLE: lovemelove, 2009 BIO: Marysia Gacek was born in 1986 in Poland. In 2009 she received her BFA in fine art from the School of Visual Arts. She is represented by Vagabond Schmarotzer gallery in New York. |
| Bill Gerstenmaier Michael Murrell Danbury, CT / Atlanta, GA TITLE: Suitman, 2004 BIO: Michael Murrell has had 132 exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Central America since receiving his MFA in 1982. Working primarily in wood and metal and mixed media, Murrell's creations focus on ecological issues, endangered species, and man's relationship with nature. New York based producer Bill Gerstenmaier has numerous credits in broadcast, corporate, commercial, feature film, and theatrical productions. |
| Ragnheidur Gestsdottir Reykjavik, Iceland / Brooklyn, NY TITLE: Life and Death inside a Zoom Gong House, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: This minute is an invented memory. 16mm, color, 1 min. BIO: Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir (1975, Reykjavík, Iceland) is an artist and an independent filmmaker. She received an MA in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths College in London in 2001. Her alternative documentary films have been shown in television in Iceland and abroad (incl.MTV) and screened at numerous international film festivals. Those include SilverDocs, Hot Docs in Toronto and CPH:DOX in Denmark. Her filmography includes three official films on musician Björk and a feature length documentary on the contemporary art scene in Iceland (Steypa). She is currently working on a film about artist Ragnar Kjartansson (As If I Existed) and an experimental film with and about artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson (A While). Ragnheiður is the founder and editor of Icelandic DVD-magazine Rafskinna and has worked for British DVD-Magazine SpecialTen and the Icelandic National TV. She has taught visual anthropology and film making at the University of Iceland, Iceland Academy of the Arts and at Goldsmiths in London. She is currently studying in the MFA fine arts graduate program at the School of Visual Arts. |
| Edgar David Grana New York, NY TITLE: Leonardo Dreams, 2009 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: Leonardo Da Vinci invites me know that the music is not the message..... BIO: Edgar Grana was born 1944 in Harrisburg, Pa USA during the height of the Second World War. He was rejected from music school at Carnegie Mellon University when it was Carnegie Tech. He returned to music through multimedia where he worked in Iowa and New York City. He won the Chicago International Film award for best student film while a grad student at the Writers Work Shop in Iowa and received a MFA in writing from The Writers Work Shop at the University of Iowa. In 1983 he received his Masters in Music composition from the Juilliard School at Lincoln Center. His work has never been about music. It is about the amalgam of real time with real music. He began his career with the composition 'Moments' an epitaph for Jose Limon commissioned by Martha Hill former head of the Juilliard Dance department. Edgar Grana teaches in the grad department of computer arts at the School of Visual arts and the undergrad department at the Fashion Institute of Technology both in New York City. |
| Carrie Hawks Kansas City, MO / New York, NY TITLE: Swarm, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: Currently, my work addresses aspects of aggressive female sexuality. I have made other collage drawings using women's arms. Looking at catalogs and magazines, the arm seemed to be a neutral or often dormant part of the model. I re-contextualized their limbs to explore aggression. I am researching the goddess Kali, often cited as the essence of feminine energy, sakti, as well as other forms of feminine power. BIO: Carrie Hawks grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated with a B.A. in Art History with Visual Arts concentration from Barnard College in 2001. She earned her BFA in Graphic Design from Georgia State University in 2008. She has participated in solo and group shows in Atlanta, Tokyo, Ontario, and Kansas City. Her most recent work addresses aggressive female sexuality. Currently she works as a graphic designer in New York. |
| Theresa Himmer Denmark, New York www.theresahimmer.com contact@theresahimmer.com TITLE: Untitled Movie, excerpt, 2009 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: From an investigation of the space between form and no form, meaning and no meaning. BIO: Theresa Himmer was born in 1976 in Denmark. There, she received her Candidate Degree in experimental building design from Aarhus School of Architecture, before moving to Reykjavik, Iceland, that has been her base since 2005. While drawing houses and landscapes at architectural studios during the daytime, at night she would enter her own space, where an interest in challenging the perception of everyday phenomena met with a sense of humor and poetry. Through works ranging from photography and collage to video and installations, she is investigating the field between art and architecture, dream and reality. Her work is represented in private collections in Denmark and Iceland, as well as in the public space of London, Copenhagen and, most significantly, Reykjavik, where The Mountain Series (three large-scale installations) has been part of the urban landscape since 2008.Theresa is currently pursuing an MFA degree in Fine Arts at School of Visual Arts, New York. |
| Ryan Johnson Atlanta, GA TITLE: Catwalk, 2004 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: This is a film short documenting my good friend Luz De Cielo's adventure with her cat named Legolas on a beautiful day in Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia. Catwalk was shot on 8mm black and white film, converted to digital video and edited in After Effects. BIO: Ryan Johnson was born in Atlanta, GA in 1975. He has experimented with technology, art, and photography since a young child. Ryan was with the first class through Creative Circus studying design, art direction and photography. Currently heading the digital department for Ogilvy & Mather's Atlanta office, he spends free time on side art projects and traveling abroad. |
| Mark Kessell Perth, Australia / New York, NY TITLE: Specimen Box, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: The 1-minute animation displayed in “Give Me A Minute” is a small segment of a much larger installation. Specimen Box is a combination of photographic works in a “room-within-a-room” construction with a live video feed and a recorded animation. Pinned like insect specimens to the interior walls, floor and ceiling of a small interior room, the “Specimen Box”, are hundreds of small images showing the inexhaustible variety of living species. During his/her tour of discovery inside the Specimen Box, the viewer is videoed by multiple cameras hidden within each of the interior surfaces. These cameras feed to monitors outside the Specimen Box, so that viewers in the outer room around the Box see the activity inside from multiple viewpoints. The Specimen Box itself is surrounded by large-sized images of additional species, and an animated wall-projection of all the species inside.Specimen Box considers our species’ tendency to overestimate itself within the biological world. Every creature in the installation is dead, with one exception: Homo sapiens. That species is alive inside the Specimen Box. BIO: Mark Kessell is an Australian-born medical doctor and professional artist working in New York. He is represented by Kim Foster Gallery in Chelsea. Most of his work has a biological or scientific focus, directed towards a deeper understanding of what it means to be human. He has created series about the development of personality, the lifecycle of the human species and, most recently our biological and emotional relationship to animals. His work has been exhibited and acquired by museums and institutions in the USA and Europe, and has been the subject of a documentary feature film, several books and a New York Times article. Mark Kessell’s images have been used in movie posters, magazines and newspapers. |
| Gary Leib New York, NY TITLE: Unnatural History of Wallstreet ABOUT THIS MINUTE: The animated evolution of commerce in lower Manhattan, with baritone sax and cartoon beavers. BIO: Gary Leib is an animator and cartoonist working in New York. Gary has created comics and illustrations for The New Yorker, New York Observer and Fantagraphics books. Marrying technology to artistry he founded Twinkle animation studio in 1993 and has produced animation and titles for film, TV series, music videos and websites. Twinkles clients include MTV, HBO, PBS, VH1 and many others. In 2003 Twinkle designed animation and graphics for the award winning film American Splendor. Gary is a graduate of RISD and has taught in the graduate computer animation department at the School of Visual Arts. He is currently working on an original animated series “Concrete Jumble” for the New York Times Online. Leib's “Unnatural History of Wallstreet” piece for that series Won an ASIFA East award in 2009 for excellence in design. |
| Mark Leibert Honalulu, Hawaii / Atlanta, GA TITLE: Player, Piano, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: In this segment of stop-motion images of a piano player, I am interested in how the mind provides a soundtrack to the moving image of a musical act. How would this improvisation on the viewer’s part evolve over time? I liken this to the act of reading a short story or novel. Upon subsequent readings the setting or physical appearance of characters in a novel will become more elaborate over time. BIO: Mark Leibert was born and raised in Honolulu. His practice includes drawing, painting, installation, and time-based works. His work explores the intersection of nature, human culture, and the built environment. Leibert will have a solo show at Sandler Hudson Gallery this December. Leibert also has a background in dance, tai chi, theater, and surfing. He has taught at SCAD Atlanta and James Madison University. He received a BA from University of California, Berkeley and an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. |
| Gregg Louis Saint Louis, MO/ Brooklyn, NY TITLE: One Minute Intermission, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: sit back and relax BIO: Gregg Louis was born in 1983 in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2009 he received his MFA from School of Visual Arts in New York City. Through appropriating forms, designs, or spaces he playfully creates seemingly ordinary images or situations that blend into the monotony of everyday life, and unexpectedly provoke a sense of existential anxiety. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. |
| Eric Lundquist Glen Rock, NJ / Brooklyn NY TITLE: I've Got Twenty-Five Cents, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: A man on the train was acting erratically and I thought maybe I'd catch something interesting. But, you can't prejudge people. When someone else was in need, he was the first to come to her aid. BIO: Eric Lundquist is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared in group exhibitions in New York, Denver and Los Angeles. He is currently an MFA candidate in the Fine Arts department at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. |
| Maggie Frank / Stephen Maine Da Nang, Vietnam / Syracuse, NY / New York, NY TITLE: I’m Filming, 2008 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: It’s only 44 seconds. Sorry. BIO: Maggie Frank was born in Da Nang, Vietnam in 2002 and is growing up in Syracuse, NY. |
| Justin Mata Seattle, WA TITLE: Victory Dance, 2009 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: It’s only 44 seconds. Sorry. BIO: Justin Mata was born in 1979 in Woodland, CA. He received his BFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2001 and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Mata currently lives in Seattle, WA. He is a member of the Artist Pension Trust, New York chapter. |
| Suzanne McClelland Brooklyn, NY TITLE: Reload in 60 seconds, 2010 TITLE: Tear in 60 seconds, 2010 |
| Sean McCormick Atlanta, GA TITLE: Untitled, 2010 BIO: Eric Lundquist is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared in group exhibitions in New York, Denver and Los Angeles. He is currently an MFA candidate in the Fine Arts department at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. |
| Alexandra Mein Brussels, Belgium TITLE: La pleureuse 4, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: Is about the Les Pleureuses; professional mourners who were asked to cry at funerals. I filmed one of these 4 sculptures called Les Pleureuses that I made in 2008. It’s the sculpture that was the toughest of the 4, it’s a sculpture with wounds. I liked the contradiction of the coldness of a sculpture and the fragility of the inside filled with wounds. Because it’s filmed so closely it becomes a landscape almost as if under water. BIO: Alexandra Leyre Mein was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1979. She received a master in fashion design in 2004 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp. She did a sculpture residency at the School for Visual Arts in New York City in 2008. |
| Michi Meko Florence, AL / Atlanta, GA TITLE: Endurance, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: A rapid fire of thoughts and ideas that constantly mashing up and stream with in the mind of the artist. Every three to four frames there is an even shorter coded narrative within the minute. This work is about conditions both physical and psychological. BIO: Michi Meko - a skilled multi-disciplined artist and colorful personality that has established himself as a pre-eminent creative, with an uncanny ability to inspire an urbanized aesthetic that is innovative, challenging and thoughtful.Graffiti influenced, expressionist paintings, often including coded text and images from popular culture. Many of the works are assembled from neglected objects, old boards, and furniture.The works allude to conditions both physical and psychological. His work is a proclamation of strength, perseverance and remembrance. Michi is a member of the collective Sunday Southern Art Revival and the collaborative duo TindelMichi. Michi's works have been comissioned and included in many private and corporate permanent collections including Scion Toyota Motor Company,Project Alabama,King & Spalding and the CW Network. |
| Steven Mitchell San Antonio, TX / Lincoln, MA TITLE: Steve and Q Vanish, 2009 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: My dog, Q and I make videos of our daily routines. Our walks. Our mundane adventures in the wilderness, on foot or skis. I'm his pal. He's my associate producer. We add original scores from The Bastards Of Blues and post on Youtube. This makes us happy. We consider these existential exercises. BIO: Steve Mitchell attended Ringling School of Art, and Stadts Akedemie for Kunsten in Maastricht, the Netherlands. He is currently a member of The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center of Rutland, Vermont. Steve has received a grant for painting from the Massachusetts Artist Foundation and has received other awards. Steve's work has been shown in many New England Museums and he's had one person exhibits at The Basement Gallery, Gallery 52, Genovese, and Zoe Gallery in Boston, where he was a member until it's closing. Steve is currently not affiliated with a gallery. Steve has paintings in many public and private collections across the country and around the globe. Steve paints, sculpts, composes music, and builds some of his own instruments at his fortress of solitude in Lincoln, MA. Steve's nom de plume is The Bastards Of Blues, where he plays all the instruments and sings all the parts, acting as his own engineer and producer. Steve is currently working on music videos with related small works on paper and small stone sculptures. Some music videos and art can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/thebastardsofblues |
| Stan Narten Sofia, Bulgaria / Long Island City, NY TITLE: Urban Yeti, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: My minute shows the beginning and the end of a shepherds day. I like to reported about animals like them. BIO: EDUCATION 2008 - MFA FINE ARTS, SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, NEW YORK, NY 2003 - DUAL BS, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE, TN SOLO EXHIBITIONS APRIL 9th 2009 - KRAVETS|WEHBY GALLERY, NEW YORK, NY TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS JUNE 19th - AUGUST 1st 2008, STAN NARTEN AND BONNIE COLLURA, KRAVETS WEHBY GALLERY, NY NY SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS FEB 29th - MARCH 15th 2008, A NUMBER OF THINGS, MFA THESIS EXIBITION, VISUAL ARTS |
| Brigitte Neufeldt Bad Liebenzell / Monakam, Germany TITLE: visiting sheepworld, 2009 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: My minute shows the beginning and the end of a shepherds day. I like to reported about animals like them. BIO: Brigitte Neufeldt was born 1947 in Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony, Germany . She received her Diploma in Arts from the Hbk Saar- University of Arts, Saarland in 2001. In 2005 she received her Master of Arts from the Martin -Luther- University of Halle/ Saale , Germany. Neufeldt's work is very multifaceted and she had exhibitions in South Korea, France and Germany. She is curator of the "baum.welt" exhibitions since 1999 and there were in the meantime five shows at prominent places -like the Umweltbundesamt ( the Federal Environment Agency). Since 1998 she is working in digital media. |
| Amjad Olabi Amman, Jordan / New York, NY TITLE: Man Hunt ABOUT THIS MINUTE: A boy must hunt an ancient beast in order to become a man. BIO: Amjad Olabi was born in Amman, Jordan in 1980 then moved to Atlanta, GA in 1990. He graduated with a BA from Georgia State University in Studio Art. Whilst in college Amjad began working as a Graphic Designer which he continued for six years. During which, he worked on various short films and competed in the 48 Hour Film Festival three years running. In 2005, he moved to New York and earned his MFA from the School of Visuals Arts in Computer Art with a primary focus in 3D animation. There he created Man Hunt for his thesis project which was an official selection and nominee at the Action on Film Film Festival 2009. |
| Eun-Ha Paek Seoul Korea / Brooklyn, NY TITLE: Hunger Like the Wolf, 2009 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: A very short animation about love, transformation, and heartbreak. Inspired by the book, Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow - a story about werewolves in modern day Los Angeles. With music by Sébastien Tellier. BIO: Eun-Ha's animations have screened at festivals and venues such as Sundance Online Film Festival, ResFest, the New York Expo of Short Film and Video, the Black Maria Film Festival, Comedy Central and Sundance Channel. She was born in Seoul, Korea and spent her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Los Angeles. She then attended highschool in New Jersey and studied Animation at Rhode Island School of Design. |
| Todd Redner Atlanta, GA TITLE: Animo! ABOUT THIS MINUTE: A boy discovers his inner animation. BIO: Todd Redner is a animation director that works on all of your favorite shows. (Hoping you like the few he has done) |
| Ondrej Rudavsky Hermosa Beach,CA TITLE: Cosmic Honeymoon, 2008 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: A futuristic vision of how aliens make sex on their earthly honeymoon BIO: Ondrej Rudavsky is a renaissance artist in the truest sense of the word. He works in a multitude of media outlets (film, animation, photography, video installation, digital art, illustration, jewelry, costumes, sculpture and music) all of which allow him to create a universe of captivating and compelling subconscious worlds that are both hypnotic and dream-like. His film works has been shown at XLVII Venice Biennial; EXPO in Hanover; Museum of Arizona; Los Angeles International Biennial; Museum of Modern Art/New York, Sundance Film Festival, Slamdance, Annecy, Bronx Museum; etc. |
| Jes Schrom Minneapolis, MN / Ruston, Louisiana TITLE: Reconstructive Memory, 2006 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: This minute is a 1-minute video excerpt from a larger installation. Original video is 6:11 minutes long, looped. Reconstructive Memory The video portion of Reconstructive Memory was inspired by conversations with my father. I can still hear his descriptions of the majestic pheasant- the graceful movements, the beautiful feathers. If one were ever near the road, he would stop the truck and watch the bird until it flew away. I never understood this tender love for the very thing that he would later kill while on a hunting trip. I became interested in the notion of what I thought of as "loving something to death". A tender and genuine affection coupled with acts of domination or destruction. I began to notice variations of this phenomenon in the way my dog giddily extracted the stuffing of her toys and ripped out the eyes, the art of taxidermy, relationships, zoos, and war. Compelled to explore further, I collected stuffed animals, at one time well loved, protected, and cherished, with the intent of destroying them.Once I had a stockpile of stuffed animals, I ventured into rural North Dakota with a few experienced hunters and was shown how to use a shotgun properly. I had never touched a gun before, and the experience was frightening- and exhilarating. After a few hours of shooting, I was so comfortable with the gun that I forgot the very real damage it could do. After all, I was blowing up inanimate objects and watching the beautiful display of their insides float through the air. Afterwards, I was left with a video of the destruction and a studio littered with injured animals missing eyes, arms, and legs. A strong desire to put the animals back together formed almost immediately. So, I began the labor-intensive process of sewing up all of the buckshot holes, salvaging stuffing, and sorting out appendages for the original owners. This incredibly time-consuming act of attempting to "fix" what I had done reflected my initial vigor now mixed with latent regret. The mending of the disfigured plushies was laborious, but fostered a new and intimate relationship with the animals. It became important that the stitches were visible with threads hanging, illustrating the sympathetic gesture of repair. I realized that Reconstructive Memory narrates a story repeated throughout history; the story of destroying something without a realistic notion of consequence, regretting it, and then attempting to fix the unintended consequence. The photographic portion of Reconstructive Memory displays my failed effort to restore what I had forever altered. BIO: Jes Schrom received a BA in Visual Arts from Minnesota State University Moorhead and an MFA from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis). Her artwork has been exhibited at Soo Visual Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), University of Wisconsin (LaCrosse), Intermedia Arts (Minneapolis, MN), Torpedo Factory Art Center (Alexandria, VA), Bejing Film Academy (China), and the North Dakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks), among others. Schrom joined Louisiana Tech University’s School of Art (Ruston) as Assistant Professor of Photography in 2008. She also serves on the Board of the Society for Photographic Education, South Central Region, as Secretary and Newsletter Editor. |
| Stacy A. Scibelli Brooklyn, New York TITLE: "These Streets Will Make You Feel Brand New", 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: I live in New York City... with these people. BIO: Stacy Scibelli currently lives and works in Brooklyn NY. She holds a BFA in Fashion Design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Stacy's work combines fashion, art, design, and craft and weaves between performance, installation, sculpture and wearable art. She is concerned with social interactions and the literal and metaphoric space that exists between all people. Stacy's work can be viewed at www.stacyascibelli.com. |
| Ronen Shai Tel Aviv, Israel / Brooklyn, NY TITLE: ---, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: --- --- --/ BIO: Israeli-born composer Ronen Shai holds a Master’s degree in composition from Manhattan School of Music, New York, and a Bachelor’s degree in composition from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Israel. In 2008 he was granted a scholarship from the America Israel Cultural Foundation, and in 2007 and 2008 he received scholarships from Manhattan School of Music. Recent compositions by Ronen Shai have been performed in New York City by the Glass Farm Ensemble in Baryshnikov Arts Center, Mia Elezovic at Yamaha Piano Salon, Connor Nelson at Tenri Cultural Institute, and Joushua Modney at The Tank. Ronen has collaborated with choreographers, filmmakers, and performance artists, and gained theoretical and practical training in fine arts. Ronen is also a certified Alexander Technique teacher and has been teaching the technique since 2004. |
| Olive Shaner Atlanta, GA TITLE: 100 Strokes, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: A glimpse into the obsessively vain grooming process I indulge in daily. Passed on for generations, the 100 strokes serve as a bit of feminine folklore. Squeezed into the space of one minute the pleasure of brushing becomes frustratingly painful. BIO: Olive Shaner was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1980. She received her BA in Studio Art from Agnes Scott College and studied for a year at the Universitat de Barcelona. She lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| Cameron Stuart Sarasota, FL / Atlanta, GA TITLE: I Love Zombies in One Minute, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: I produced "I Love Zombies" in 2005 while attending Florida State University. The final product was a comprehensive three hour film and a fifty page research paper, "The Limits of Allegory in Genre: Zombie Films." The project has not had much of a life since then due to the length of the video.The original film is an exhaustive inquiry into how genre in films impacts meaning. When I first made it, I felt that each minute of the final three hour product was necessary. I decided to edit it down to one minute to see how much of the impact of the original film would be retained. I'm quite pleased with the results. |
| Brett W. Thompson Tallahassee, FL / Atlanta, GA TITLE: Fluidtoons on Paper for a Minute, 2010 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: In putting together a portfolio for an application to the Experimental Animation MFA program at CalArts, Brett needed some recent work. He took experiments done on paper with markers (the kind for kids that you can find at the drugstore or grocery store) and put them to music recorded with his friends during spontaneous jam sessions. The animation itself was also done spontaneously, with no storyboarding or coherent planning, mostly during ASIFA-Atlanta "Animation Draw" events, in which Brett brings light tables, paper, and markers to the WonderRoot community art center in Atlanta and shows anyone who comes how to make animation on paper. In between helping others, Brett also drew during this monthly event, and this animation is the result. BIO: Brett W. Thompson is currently president of ASIFA-Atlanta, a chapter of the worldwide animation society, ASIFA, founded in France in 1960. His animation has been shown at festivals in Atlanta, Florida, and Costa Rica, as well as around the world for ASIFA's International Animation Day film exchange. In November 2009, he gave a talk about early American animation at an animation festival in China. He has just applied to the Experimental Animation MFA program at CalArts (wish him luck!). Brett has just put together his first book of drawings, "Fluidtoons Sketchbook One", available at lulu.com (downloadable for free). You can see his work at fluidtoons.com and fluidtoons.blogspot.com. He would love to hear what you think! |
| Curver Thoroddsen Reykjavik, Iceland / Brooklyn, NY TITLE: Living Room, 2010, 16mm, color/silent, 1 min. ABOUT THIS MINUTE: Playing around with stop motion with my son Timi at home. Bringing domesticity into art and vice versa. BIO: Curver Thoroddsen (1976, Reykjavík, Iceland) has with his “real life-performances” and the help of the Icelandic media reflected his everyday life. Older pieces include refurbishing his apartment, eating hamburgers for a week at previously advertised locations and hours, a month long diet using Herbalife and selling "Puffin Pizza"' in the most western lighthouse in Europe under the name Sliceland. Our own reality gets a new meaning when transferred to the realms of art and news media. Curver has been working extensively with his own identity, like his decision to change his given name to “Curver” (an international plastic container company) shows. Curver received BFA from Iceland Academy of Arts and his MFA from The School Of Visual Arts in 2009. His works have been featured in The Living Arts Museum and The National Gallery of Iceland. He has taught sound art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and BHS College. Alongside art making Curver has been very prominent in the Icelandic music scene for well over a decade, most recently with his experimental group Ghostigital [Ipecac Recordings]. |
| Angeliki Tsotsoni Greece / New York, NY TITLE: The Kiss, 2009 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: A kiss remains the same in time. In this short piece Tsotsoni creates a collage with a still from her grandmother posing in her early 20's (1924) and a moving image of herself (2009) sending a kiss to the viewer. BIO: Angeliki Tsotsoni was born in 1981 in Greece. She received a BFA in painting from the Academy of Venice, Italy where she had the opportunity to participate a few times in the Venice Biennial. In 2009 she received her MFA in Video from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Tsotsoni's work reflects the struggle of identity formation/alteration; calling attention to the introspection necessary to identify oneself, to the openness required to engage with otherness, and the daunting sense associated with losing one's identity. |
| Yi-Hsin Tzeng Taipei, Taiwan / Atlanta, GA TITLE: The Length Of One Breath, 2008 BIO: Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Yi-Hsin Tzeng received her BFA from National Taiwan Normal University. In 2007, Tzeng relocated to the United States and attended the Savannah College of Art and Design where she was awarded a Full Tuition Fellowship in the MFA painting program. Tzeng continues to investigate the shape and the color of human desire using various mediums, including painting, video, installation and sculpture. Recently, her works were featured in the latest New American Paintings magazine, MOCA-GA (Atlanta), Irvine Contemporary Gallery (Washington DC), and SOHO 20 gallery (NYC), as well as residency at the prestigious Elizabeth Foundation |
| Yonatan Ullman Rehovot, Israel / Brooklyn, NY TITLE: Magic, 2009 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: One late night in my studio, I discovered something magical - it is was so beautiful that I wanted to share it with the world… BIO: Yonatan Ullman was born in Boston Massachusetts in 1982. He grew up in the creative atmosphere of the Weitzman Science Institute, Israel. He completed his full military service as an explosive ordnance disposal navy diver. Immediately after his released from military service Yonatan went on to earn a BFA in studio art from Bezalel the Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem. His work is featured in permanent collections at the “Mandel foundation” and “Bank Leumi” and “Mamuta”. He is one of pioneer artists of the “S T Art” venture. Yonatan is currently residing in New York and pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts Fine Arts program. |
| Kurt Gilbert Wahlstrom Brooklyn, NY TITLE: sleepskit, 2008 ABOUT THIS MINUTE: How far will parents go in a desperate attempt to wake up their son? A bizarre split screen scenario features a mom and dad acting out a frustrating morning ritual, while their exact actions and behaviors are simultaneously mocked by their son. Through the use of wigs, mustaches and other props, the synced-up execution of the video results in an uncanny portrait of a suburban family, exaggerated and comedically fictionalized. BIO: Kurt Gilbert Wahlstrom is a Brooklyn based video artist/photographer (born in MA). He is a graduate of the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, and has exhibited and screened work in various galleries, museums, film festivals, and on various public access television stations. Kurt recently won "Best Audience" in the Renderyard One Minute Film Festival (December 2009) as well as receiving a Juror's Prize in the Attleboro Arts Museum HOME exhibit (July 2009). In 2006 he was the nominee in the "Entertainment Variety" category for the Hometown Video Awards (local cable's largest video awards) for his TV show "Project Kuret". Kurt is also a musician who frequently performs in various indie rock and reggae/ska acts in and around NYC (when he's not composing/recording behind his Mac)."Kurt Gilbert Wahlstrom creates charmingly low-tech videos that incorporate his family and friends in vignettes that work as metaphors and encapsulations of his relationships. Interchanging roles, Wahlstrom and his mom and dad alternately portray themselves and each other with telling details that paint a sweet and quirky portrait." -- Laura Donaldson, Former Director/Curator, Mills Gallery @ Boston Center for the Arts. |
| Lee Xi China / New York, NY |
| Shai Zurim Jerusalem, Israel / New York, NY Possibility of a Drawing, 2010 BIO: Shai Zurim was born in Israel, and earned his BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1999), and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts MFA Studies in Fine Arts, New York, USA (2009). Zurim’s work encompasses myriad forms and is drawn from both his intellectual pursuits and spontaneous reactions to the nuances of everyday life. His work was recently the subject of a solo show at the Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2009, and a solo show at the Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2008. Zurim has won several prizes and awards, including Eugen Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Art 2009, International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award (2008), and Isracard and Tel-Aviv Museum of Art Prize for an Israeli Artist (2008). He was a finalist for the prestigious Gotesdiner Prize (2008), and has been in numerous group shows, including at the Vivian Horan Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY (2006), and at the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum of Art, Berlin, Germany (2005). Zurim published a book of drawings, entitled Real Flowers, Real Gifts, to accompany his 2005 solo show at Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery in Tel-Aviv. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. |