Rhizome Curator Marisa Olson in Owego

The Experimental Television Center and the International Summer Workshop program of the Institute for Electronic Art at the NYSCC, Alfred University will host a presentation on new media and internet art by Marisa Olson, a San Francisco-based artist, critic, and curator.

The event will take place on Thursday June 8, 2006 at 7 pm at the Ti-Ahwaga Performing Arts Center, 42 Delphine Street in Owego. The event is free and open to the public.

This is a wonderful chance to get a personal introduction to the exciting new world of Web art and the artists who create it. You'll participate in a guided tour of Web-based art from Rhizome and around the world.

Marisa Olson is an Editor at Rhizome.org, an online platform for the global new media art community. Rhizome programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. Rhizome is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

Marisa will provide an introduction to new media art and art on the Web. Marisa will also show work live on the Web, using the state-of-the-art projection facilities at the Ti-Ahwaga Performing Arts Center, which have been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Mildred Faulkner Truman Foundation.

Marisa is in Owego as a guest participant in the International Summer Workshop held at the studio of the Experimental TV Center. Since 1996, ETC and the Institute for Electronic Arts have sponsored the International Summer Workshop, a two-week accredited course of intensive media arts-making and study. Artist and educator Pamela Hawkins established the program in 1996 and serves as faculty along with Hank Rudolph, Arts Coordinator at ETC.

Marisa has most recently performed or exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and the international Futuresonic, Electrofringe, Machinista, and VIPER festivals. While Wired has called her both funny *and* humorous, the New York Times has called her "anything but stupid."
Marisa's essays on contemporary art and visual culture have appeared in Wired, Afterimage, and many other publications.

She has also written on new media for the Walker Art Center, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Eyebeam, the Getty Information Institute, and the numerous foundations. Before working for Rhizome, Marisa held the positions of Associate Director at SF Camerawork and Curator at Zero:One. She has also curated exhibitions and special programs at the J. Paul Getty Museum; FILE in Brazil; the American Film Institute; the Gifu Museum in Japan: the Uffizi Gallery, Italy; and SFMOMA, where she served, for four years, on the media arts advisory committee, as program chair and founding editor of the zine, 'SMAC!'

Marisa has been a visiting scholar or artist in residence at the University of London, the Smithsonian Institute, Northwestern University, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She holds MA's in the History of Consciousness, from UCSC, and Rhetoric from UC Berkeley, where she is currently completing her PhD in Rhetoric/Film & Digital Media.

This exhibition is made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Presentation Funds Program of the Experimental TV Center.

We hope you can join us.

The Experimental Television Center was founded in 1971, and provides support and services to the international media arts community.



The Center's programs are supported by the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts; Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology; the Media Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts; mediaThe foundation; The National Television and Video Preservation Foundation; NYS Challenge Grant Program; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the New York Foundation for the Arts; the Media Action Grant Program of Media Alliance; the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University; Everson Museum of Art; IMAP; BAVC; VidiPax; and by corporate support from Dave Jones Design and Black Hammer Productions and by the contributions of many individual artists.


Contact: Sherry Miller Hocking, Assistant Director, Experimental TV Center
607 687.4341