Art in Odd Places: Hyperdentity 5 - 14 October 8-9pm
Keep a close eye on 14th Street this week: As part of the annual Art in Odd Places Festival more than 100 artists will stage projects across the busy thoroughfare. We picked 5 of the best to watch out for:
Follow @hyperdentity to find Georgie roxby Smith's six computer generated talking portraits projected onto building walls, subway entrances and alleys along 14th st. Begging onlookers to "Like Me", "Friend Me", Tag Me" and "Follow Me", each portrait speaks to our search for public validation through social media.
Time Out New York
Employing three-dimensional computer graphics, networked spaces, live performance, installation and projection Georgia Roxby Smith explores the increasingly blurred border between materiality, reality, virtuality and fantasy in contemporary culture.
Art in Odd Places 14th Street Manhattan, New York New York 10001 United States of America
Georgie Roxby Smith is an Australian visual artist working across a range of disciplines exploring new pathways between virtual and physical worlds. Employing a variety of tools - including 3D graphics, live performance, shared virtual spaces, installation and projection - these works explore the increasingly blurred border between materiality, reality, virtuality and fantasy in contemporary culture.
Georgie received a Bachelor of Media Arts from Deakin University in 2004. Her graduate studies include a Master of Fine Arts (by Research), Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts and Master of Visual Arts (by Coursework) from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. In 2010, Georgie developed her multi disciplinary work ‘Reality Bytes’ at The Watermill Center Spring Residency Program selected from over 130 applications by an international selection committee of cultural leaders consisting of John Rockwell, Alanna Heiss, Nike Wagner, Marie Claude Beaud, Sherry Dobbin, Jörn Weisbrodt and Robert Wilson. The work was subsequently presented at Rearview Gallery in Melbourne Australia. As well as exhibiting at multiple local galleries and public screens. Georgie was also part of Linden Centre for Contemporary Art Innovators Program 2010 and Melbourne International Arts Festival including ‘Navigators’ 2006, ‘John Cage’s Musicircus’ 2007 and, in 2008, contributed to ‘Longing Belonging Land’ on opening night.
Awards and grants include the Nellie Castan Award, Australian Postgraduate Award, Creative Research Activity Grant, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Artstart, Friends of VCA, Dame Joan Sutherland Fund and the Eldon and Anne Foote Trust Travel Grant.
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