ATC @ UCB: Nina Katchadourian, Mon 7:30pm

Nov. 18, 2003

Type: discussion

ATC@UCB:

Every Single Thing Around You Could Be Trying to Tell You Something:
Talking Popcorn and other Mildly Paranoid Ideas Sprung Largely from
the Everyday

Nina Katchadourian, Artist, New York

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Mon, 24 November, 7:30-9:30pm: UC Berkeley,
Location: 160 Kroeber Hall
All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public.

In Nina Katchadourian's work, technology comes into play in ways that are
strongly connected to her processes of dissection, restoration, and
translation. The technological realm is conventionally thought of as a
place where translation happens seamlessly and without residue, but
Katchadourian seeks out places that hold the promise of minor breakdowns
and potential misunderstandings. Her diverse practice includes
photography, sound, video and sculpture. Katchadourian often locates her
subject matter in the colloquial; in recent years she has also looked to
"nature" as concept, construct and site. Activities which engage
technology, in both low tech and hi tech ways, have included mending
broken spiderwebs; restoring loose, discarded audio and video tape found
on the streets of different cities; creating car alarm systems based on
bird sounds; and inventing a talking popcorn machine that uses a Morse
Code program to translate the sounds of popping popcorn and turn it into
spoken language.

Nina Katchadourian lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She exhibits with
Debs and Co. gallery in New York and Catharine Clark Gallery in San
Francisco, where her exhibition "Animal Crossdressing, Uninvited
Collaborations with Nature, and One Small Act of Endurance" will be on
view until January 3, 2004. She has exhibited at PS1/Moma,
SculptureCenter and Artists Space in New York, the Berkeley Art
Museum, the Serpentine Gallery in London, and she is currently
developing a new piece with Vivid, Birmingham's Center for Media
Arts. She has been the recipient of awards from the Tiffany
Foundation, the Peter S. Reed Foundation, and most recently from the
Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation. She is currently Adjunct Professor
in the visual art department at Brown University.

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