A Tool Is A Mirror - Artist’s Biographies

Aerostatic: Terry Golob, Michelle Darling, VADE, (Anton Marini)

http://www.aerostaticmusic.com

Based in Brooklyn, New York, Composer/Performers Terry Golob & Michele Darling AKA Aerostatic have been working with music and technology since 2004. Utilizing artifacts of sound generated by digital and analog processing in conjunction with a variety of interactive technologies, they compose a hybrid style of electronic music for films, installations and music performance.

Aerostatic’s music has been featured in venues, museums, festivals and performances in the United States, Serbia, Argentina, England, Austria, Italy, Canada and Australia.

Aerostatic’s Music and Sound Design clients include Sesame Street (Sesame Workshop), Moshi Monsters, HBO, The Learning Channel, Four Kids Entertainment, Treanor Brothers Animation and the Criterion Collection.

VADE: Anton Marini (vade) is a video performance artist, programmer and video engineer specializing realtime video systems, glitch aesthetics and visual effects. His work explores designing software environments and systems for realtime video as well as performing abstract visualizations and urban video collages. Anton Marini is a former researcher in residence at NYU's Brooklyn Experimental Media Center and has taught at Parsons/New School Design and Technology Department. He has performed at events such as Live Performers Meeting, Club Transmediale, Ultrasound festival, Vancouver New Music Festival, Gli.tc/h,  BAP, Anyware, Eyewash, Rake, Share, Warper, as well as leading several workshops in new media programming environments. His work has been featured and performed in music videos airing on MTV, Comedy Central, on DVD and in venues across the globe.

Sheila Gallagher http://www.shegallagher.com

Sheila Gallagher is a multi-media artist living in Boston whose work explores the nature of perception, belief and different modes of representation. Her work takes many forms including video, flower installations, smoke paintings and computer aided drawing. Widely exhibited in New England, Gallagher's work has been shown at such venues as The Institute of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Boston Center for the Arts and Wellesley College.

Gallagher received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. She is a Trustee of Saint Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish where she is the chairman of the contemporary exhibitions committee. She has taught at Wellesley College, the Art Institute of Boston , and is currently an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Boston College. She is Co-Director of The Becker Archive at Boston College. Gallagher is represented by the Judy Rotenberg Gallery and lives and works in Jamaica Plain.

Dennis Hlynsky - http://www.risd.edu/templates/facultydetail.aspx?id=4294970352

Dennis Hlynsky is an artist living in Providence RI and is the head of the Film/Animation/Video Department at RISD. He began making video works in the mid 1970’s and has experienced a morphing of electronic tools. Starting with ½ open reel videotape through to high definition digital formats and many software versions... the tool set has advanced in precision, multiplicity and method.  As these tools change through yearly updates he has observed many artists are using similar software. Where traditionally the tool had defined the practice; Dennis observes the artist tends to align practices with identities. It is the continual evolution of tool sets which triggers Dennis to believe digital artists are like reptiles; periodically crawling between virtual rocks and shedding digital skins - the animal remains the same.
 
With Birds of a Feather – Flight Paths;  Dennis has recorded local flocks of birds and through simple digital processing made flight paths visible. Wing and atmosphere being common it is the small decision of direction  and purpose that mark one group from another.

Brian Kane – http://www.briankane.net

Brian Kane is the CEO of General Design, LLC. He is a designer, artist, and thinker. The amount of projects and interesting work that he has generated since graduating from RISD boggles the mind. Please check out his website: http://blog.slashboing.com/bk/

Duncan Laurie – http://www.duncanlaurie.com

Duncan Laurie was born December 7. 1947, in Detroit, Michigan.
He has an M.F.A., B.F.A. Sculpture. University of Pennsylvania, 1970 – 1973 and a B. A., Art & Literature of the 20th Century, University of Pennsylvania.
He has been exploring and writing about semiotics and the relationship of subtle energy technology (psychotronic and radionic) to art; devising sonic plant and mineral communication experiments for artistic presentation (with Gordon Salisbury and others) since that time.

Rupert Nesbitt – http://www.rupertnesbitt.com

Rupert Nesbitt graduated from The Cooper Union with a BFA in 1991 and received his MFA from Vermont College in 2007. In the early 1990’s his work involved documenting the performative and exploratory practice of climbing New York City’s numerous bridges. That roving sensibility resulted in extensive international travel in the developing world. This included nine summers spent in Egypt as an illustrator on archaeological digs. That experience resulted in illustration work in the field of toy design, ultimately resulting in multiple trips to Hong Kong and China as a designer and animator of robotic toys. During this time, Nesbitt co-founded a public art organization in Newport, Rhode Island and produced, curated and participated in numerous temporary outdoor exhibitions. Currently his practice interrogates issues of power and representation through the medium of digital animation.

Erik Sanner – http://www.eriksanner.com

Erik Sanner is a media artist living and working in New York City. He began exhibiting in Tokyo in the late nineties, where he was given his first solo show in 1998. His work has been presented at galleries, museums, academic institutions, company offices and alternative spaces. Sanner has been awarded corporate commissions and public art projects.  Sanner's work is held in over one hundred private collections.

Sanner was awarded a Manhattan Community Arts Fund (MCAF) grant in 2007 for his public art project “Chess", and a second MCAF grant in 2009 for “How to Enjoy Traffic Cones” – an exhibition curated by Sanner, featuring work by several artists treating traffic cones as aesthetic phenomena.

Sanner integrates traditional media with contemporary methods of creative production. He frequently works with other artists, finding that collaborating on projects leads to outcomes neither individual would have anticipated. Recent collaborators include Lisa Kellner, James Merrell, and Kazue Taguchi.

Tangential to his studio practice, Sanner co-founded the APE (Aesthetic Purposes Exploration) discussion group, which meets four times a year to address the question “What is the function of art?” He is also a founding member of LISA (Leaders In Software and Art), where he sits on the Steering Committee. Additionally, he maintains a personal blog sharing his creative process. He has given a number of artist talks in New York City and elsewhere, covering the driving themes which run through his work as well as practical
considerations.

Sanner’s overarching goal in all his work is to expand our experience of painting by utilizing technology.

Elizabeth Keithline – http://www.elizabethkeithline.com

In 1990, curator and artist Elizabeth Keithline invented a sculpture technique called Lost Box, wherein wire is woven around a form which is burned out, leaving behind a wire ‘memory’ of the object. She has exhibited at NYU, Real Art Ways, the Newport Art Museum, Craft Alliance, and the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, among others. Keithline has curated and administered many art initiatives including The Apartment At The Mall, The Shadow Show and Providence Art Windows. Her most recent body of work, Smarter, Faster, Higher, opens at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA on May 8.

February 14, 2011