BIO
Christina McPhee http://christinamcphee.net
Tesserae of Venus: Christina McPhee at Silverman Gallery SF
Dates:
Thu Oct 22, 2009 00:00 - Thu Oct 22, 2009
http://silverman-gallery.com
http://silverman-gallery.com/artist/seriesview/1615/355
http://silverman-gallery.com/exhibition/view/1770
Silverman Gallery is pleased to present Tesserae of Venus, a new body of work by Christina McPhee (KCAI painting 76) on view from October 23 - December 5, 2009. Opening reception: October 23, 7-10 PM.
Tesserae of Venus imagines a strange future through dynamic photomontages of energy-producing landscapes and related drawings.
McPhee borrows from the tectonics of Venus-tesserae, or ‘complex ridged folds,’ in order to structure her images of imagined future sites and present a spatial and political critique of our toxic, increasingly-carbon saturated environment. The photomontages are sourced on location in remote parts of California where biological systems clash with technological landscapes, such as natural gas installations in the Sacramento River Delta, geothermal plants in the Salton Sea, and the San Ardo oil fields in the Salinas River Valley. Rendered through her fractured images these sites become haunting, science-fictive visions of a possible future.
As both futuristic fantasy and documentary reality, Tesserae of Venus proposes a disturbing and radical observation of contemporary and future landscapes in the transition from petroleum to alternative energy production. At the same time, McPhee’s works constitute compelling studies of the mechanics of abstraction in the age of computer technology.
Christina McPhee’s artistic practice is centered in and around landscapes where human and natural assemblages meet and clash. McPhee works across a number of media, including time-based media, site-specific sound, networked media, drawing, painting, photomontage, and performance. A native of Los Angeles, she lives and works in California’s central coast. After arts and literature studies at Scripps College Claremont, she studied painting at Kansas City Art Institute (BFA) and Boston University School for the Arts (MFA). Ongoing projects include “The Pharmakon Library,” a series of graphic folios and “Carrizo Diaries,” an exploration of earthquake terrains as seismic memory and “Flaming Debt,” performance collages about debt. Her films have screened nationally and internationally and are currently being showed at Cinema by the Bay (San Francisco Film Society) and VIBA Buenos Aires. Solo exhibitions include Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries at American Unversity Museum, Washington DC, Cartes Center Espoo (FI) and Bildmuseet (SE). Her most recent film commission is "La Conchita mon amour" for Thresholds Artspace, Horsecross, Perth (SCT) and is a featured artists studio on Turbulence.org. She was a participating editor and artist in Documenta 12 Magazine Project (2007). Museum collections of her prints, paintings and drawings include Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Taylor Museum/Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Her new media and video work has been commissioned for Thresholds, Scotland; and is in the collections of the Experimental Television Center (NY); Rhizome Artbase at the New Museum, Whitney Museum Artport, and the Rose Goldsen Collection of New Media Art at Cornell University.
http://silverman-gallery.com/artist/seriesview/1615/355
http://silverman-gallery.com/exhibition/view/1770
Silverman Gallery is pleased to present Tesserae of Venus, a new body of work by Christina McPhee (KCAI painting 76) on view from October 23 - December 5, 2009. Opening reception: October 23, 7-10 PM.
Tesserae of Venus imagines a strange future through dynamic photomontages of energy-producing landscapes and related drawings.
McPhee borrows from the tectonics of Venus-tesserae, or ‘complex ridged folds,’ in order to structure her images of imagined future sites and present a spatial and political critique of our toxic, increasingly-carbon saturated environment. The photomontages are sourced on location in remote parts of California where biological systems clash with technological landscapes, such as natural gas installations in the Sacramento River Delta, geothermal plants in the Salton Sea, and the San Ardo oil fields in the Salinas River Valley. Rendered through her fractured images these sites become haunting, science-fictive visions of a possible future.
As both futuristic fantasy and documentary reality, Tesserae of Venus proposes a disturbing and radical observation of contemporary and future landscapes in the transition from petroleum to alternative energy production. At the same time, McPhee’s works constitute compelling studies of the mechanics of abstraction in the age of computer technology.
Christina McPhee’s artistic practice is centered in and around landscapes where human and natural assemblages meet and clash. McPhee works across a number of media, including time-based media, site-specific sound, networked media, drawing, painting, photomontage, and performance. A native of Los Angeles, she lives and works in California’s central coast. After arts and literature studies at Scripps College Claremont, she studied painting at Kansas City Art Institute (BFA) and Boston University School for the Arts (MFA). Ongoing projects include “The Pharmakon Library,” a series of graphic folios and “Carrizo Diaries,” an exploration of earthquake terrains as seismic memory and “Flaming Debt,” performance collages about debt. Her films have screened nationally and internationally and are currently being showed at Cinema by the Bay (San Francisco Film Society) and VIBA Buenos Aires. Solo exhibitions include Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries at American Unversity Museum, Washington DC, Cartes Center Espoo (FI) and Bildmuseet (SE). Her most recent film commission is "La Conchita mon amour" for Thresholds Artspace, Horsecross, Perth (SCT) and is a featured artists studio on Turbulence.org. She was a participating editor and artist in Documenta 12 Magazine Project (2007). Museum collections of her prints, paintings and drawings include Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Taylor Museum/Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Her new media and video work has been commissioned for Thresholds, Scotland; and is in the collections of the Experimental Television Center (NY); Rhizome Artbase at the New Museum, Whitney Museum Artport, and the Rose Goldsen Collection of New Media Art at Cornell University.
The Internet as Playground and Factory
Dates:
Thu Oct 08, 2009 00:00 - Thu Oct 08, 2009
Location:
United States of America
“THE INTERNET AS PLAYGROUND AND FACTORY”
A CONFERENCE ON THE CHANGING FACE OF LABOR IN THE DIGITAL AGE
November 12—14, The New School, New York
New York, October 12, 2009—On November 12 to 14, Eugene Lang College The
New School for Liberal Arts will host an international conference, "The
Internet as Playground and Factory," which will explore the meaning and
changing face of labor in the digital era....
The conference will be comprised of discussions, panels,
presentations, a film screening, a playroom, a conference game, and a
re-enactment of Facebook by a performance artist...
Internationally visible authors, activists, and artists
including Mark Andrejevic, Michel Bauwens, Jonathan Beller, Patricia
Ticineto Clough, Gabriella Coleman, Sean Cubitt, Jodi Dean, Ursula
Endlicher, Alexander Galloway, Pat Kane, M. Christopher Kelty, Nick
Montfort, Lisa Nakamura, Christiane Paul, Howard Rheingold, Douglas
Rushkoff, Fred Turner, McKenzie Wark, and Jonathan L. Zittrain will
address issues of digital labor from various disciplinary standpoints.
The conference will take place at The New School campus in
Greenwich Village. On Thursday, November 12, the conference will begin
with a film screening of Sleep Dealers, a widely celebrated science
fiction film about virtual labor, followed by a discussion with the
director, Alex Rivera. The screening will begin at 5:00 p.m. in Room 404
of 66 W. 12th Street and be followed by a reception at the Eugene Lang
Café at 7:30pm. On Friday, November 13, at 10:00 a.m., New School
President Bob Kerrey will open the conference, which will run events in
three parallel tracks. At 6:00 p.m. on Friday, performance artist Ursula
Endlicher and Burak Arikan will perform “Facebook Re-enactments,” a
piece about networked structures, identities, and online behavior. On
Saturday at 10:00 a.m. at 66 Fifth Ave in Room 101, presenters include
Harvard Professor Jonathan Zittrain, cultural critic Brian Holmes, media
theorist Mark Andrejevic, and Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science
at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Erasmus Professor of the
Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University.
To view the full conference agenda and list of participants, please
visit http://www.digitallabor.org.
A CONFERENCE ON THE CHANGING FACE OF LABOR IN THE DIGITAL AGE
November 12—14, The New School, New York
New York, October 12, 2009—On November 12 to 14, Eugene Lang College The
New School for Liberal Arts will host an international conference, "The
Internet as Playground and Factory," which will explore the meaning and
changing face of labor in the digital era....
The conference will be comprised of discussions, panels,
presentations, a film screening, a playroom, a conference game, and a
re-enactment of Facebook by a performance artist...
Internationally visible authors, activists, and artists
including Mark Andrejevic, Michel Bauwens, Jonathan Beller, Patricia
Ticineto Clough, Gabriella Coleman, Sean Cubitt, Jodi Dean, Ursula
Endlicher, Alexander Galloway, Pat Kane, M. Christopher Kelty, Nick
Montfort, Lisa Nakamura, Christiane Paul, Howard Rheingold, Douglas
Rushkoff, Fred Turner, McKenzie Wark, and Jonathan L. Zittrain will
address issues of digital labor from various disciplinary standpoints.
The conference will take place at The New School campus in
Greenwich Village. On Thursday, November 12, the conference will begin
with a film screening of Sleep Dealers, a widely celebrated science
fiction film about virtual labor, followed by a discussion with the
director, Alex Rivera. The screening will begin at 5:00 p.m. in Room 404
of 66 W. 12th Street and be followed by a reception at the Eugene Lang
Café at 7:30pm. On Friday, November 13, at 10:00 a.m., New School
President Bob Kerrey will open the conference, which will run events in
three parallel tracks. At 6:00 p.m. on Friday, performance artist Ursula
Endlicher and Burak Arikan will perform “Facebook Re-enactments,” a
piece about networked structures, identities, and online behavior. On
Saturday at 10:00 a.m. at 66 Fifth Ave in Room 101, presenters include
Harvard Professor Jonathan Zittrain, cultural critic Brian Holmes, media
theorist Mark Andrejevic, and Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science
at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Erasmus Professor of the
Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University.
To view the full conference agenda and list of participants, please
visit http://www.digitallabor.org.
digital "painting"
hi Jeffrey-- well sometimes they stay 'in' the computer, but, luckily sometimes they sneak out as photomontages , backmounted to dibond and facemounted to plexiglas....and end up 'sold'.
When i sell some work , i get to tear up my credit cards, in performance, then put the performance into a digital painting. I only get to make a 'flaming debt' when i've sold one.
Flaming Debt 2007 to present http://www.christinamcphee.net/flaming_debt/index.html
When i sell some work , i get to tear up my credit cards, in performance, then put the performance into a digital painting. I only get to make a 'flaming debt' when i've sold one.
Flaming Debt 2007 to present http://www.christinamcphee.net/flaming_debt/index.html
Queer Relational
I just have learned that Judith Rodenbeck will be joining us this month, too. Judith Rodenbeck holds the Noble Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History at Sarah Lawrence College. Her book, Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings, is forthcoming from MIT Press. A recovering performance artist, she last appeared in Jennifer Montgomery & Peggy Ahwesh's "Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms" at the Park Avenue Armory for the Whitney Biennial of 2008.
Queer Relational
Dates:
Fri Jul 03, 2009 00:00 - Thu Jul 02, 2009
Please join us in July 2009 on -empyre- soft-skinned space....
"Queer Relational"
with -empyre-'s special guests Micha Cardenas (US), Felipe Zuniga (MX/US), Emily Roysdon (US/SE), Marc Léger (CA), Virginia Solomon (US/CA), Tara Mateik (US), Amy Wiley (US), and Robert Summers (US).
https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2009-july/
How might queer theory and practices inflect/torture/distort or otherwise improve 'relational aesthetics'- ? Is the relational aesthetics meme often complicit, if accidentally, with heteronormativity? How does queer practice and theory politically develop the space of the democratic 'violence of participation"?
Please join us! subscribe at http://subtle.net/empyre
----------------------->Micha Cárdenas / dj lotu5 / Azdel Slade is a transgender artist, theorist and trouble maker. She is an Artist/Researcher at the Experimental Game Lab at CRCA and at Calit2 University of California-San Diego. Her interests include the interplay of technology, gender, sex and biopolitics. She blogs at TechnoTrannySlut.com. http://bang.calit2.net/tts/
------------------->Felipe Zuñiga is a visual artist, independent art promoter, and art facilitator. Zuñiga lives and works between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, U.S.A. He is part of the artist-run space, Lui Velazquez Space, http://www.luivelazquez.com/old_site/pr/lasse/index.html
------------------>Emily Roysdon is a New York and Stockholm based interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR. Roysdon's work has been shown at Participant, Inc. (NY); Generali Foundation (Vienna); New Museum (NY); Power Plant (Toronto); and Studio Voltaire (London). She is a recipient of a 2008 Art Matters grant and 2009 Franklin Furnace grant. She is currently curating an exhibition on 'ecstatic resistance' at Grand Arts. http://www.emilyroysdon.com/
-------------------->Marc James Léger is an artist, writer and educator living in Montreal, Canada. He has published essays on critical cultural practices in Afterimage, Parachute, Art Journal, C Magazine, Etc, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and the Canadian Journal of Film Studies. Forthcoming : Spleen: Institutions of Contemporary Art Practice, a collection of essays on political dissidence in the context of the neoliberalization of cultural institutions. http://www.joaap.org/6/another/leger.html
----------------------->Virginia Solomon is an art historian and critic completing a doctorate at the University of Southern California. She considers the work of Canadian artist group General Idea as an archive of queer avant-garde art practices in the context of politics and subjectivity. Virginia was a Helena Rubenstein fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program 2007/2008 and is a 2009/2010 Canadian art research fellow at the National Gallery of Canada. She was a co-curator of the recently closed Tainted Love
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02EEDF173CF93AA25755C0A96F9C8B63
----------------------->Tara Mateik is an artist and educator living in New York City. In 2002 he founded The Society of Biological Insurgents (SBI). Mateik’s work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, Project, Reena Spaulings, LACE, British Film Institute, Oberhausen Film Festival, and Museu de Arte Moderna São Paulo. He writes for Felix: A Journal of Media Arts and Culture, LTTR, North Drive Press #2, and Art Fancy. Awards include a fellowship at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Creative Capital Foundation film/video, an Electronic and Film Art Grant/Experimental Television Center, and a BCAT/BRIC Rotunda Gallery Video Residency. http://www.taramateik.com/
-------------------------->Amy Wiley is a scholar of performance theory and rhetoric. Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, U. C. Davis, 2001, and teaches at California Polytechnic State University Dept of English. She develops applications of performance theory to textual analysis; theories of state/domestic terrorism, separatism, violence, and identity formation. Co-author, with Christina McPhee, "Bare Life and the Traumatic Landscape" (Documenta 12 Magazine Project, 2007). http://magazines.documenta.de/frontend/article.php?IdLanguage=1&NrArticle=1740
----------------------->Robert Summers is a lecturer in art history and visual culture at Otis College of Art, Los Angeles. A board member of Telic and The Public School (LA) he wrote "Vaginal Davis _Does_ Art History" in _Jonathan Harris's Dead History, Live Art_ (University of Chicago Press). His essay "Intersectional Queer Visualities" was presented recently at the Association of Art Historians (AAH), UK. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=toc&bookkey=168958
------------------------->California-based visual and media artist Christina McPhee (moderator) is an artist and filmmaker working with landscape, memory and spatial practice. Her current project Tesserae of Venus opens in October 2009 at Silverman Gallery San Francisco. http://www.silverman-gallery.com/artist/view/1615. She is featured Sharon Lin Tay's forthcoming "Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices," Palgrave/Macmillan 2009 https://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=305775 . http://christinamcphee.net
Founded by Melinda Rackham (AU) in 2001, -empyre- is hosted at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, and is organized each month by an international moderating team currently based in North America and Australia. http://www.subtle.net/empyre
"Queer Relational"
with -empyre-'s special guests Micha Cardenas (US), Felipe Zuniga (MX/US), Emily Roysdon (US/SE), Marc Léger (CA), Virginia Solomon (US/CA), Tara Mateik (US), Amy Wiley (US), and Robert Summers (US).
https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2009-july/
How might queer theory and practices inflect/torture/distort or otherwise improve 'relational aesthetics'- ? Is the relational aesthetics meme often complicit, if accidentally, with heteronormativity? How does queer practice and theory politically develop the space of the democratic 'violence of participation"?
Please join us! subscribe at http://subtle.net/empyre
----------------------->Micha Cárdenas / dj lotu5 / Azdel Slade is a transgender artist, theorist and trouble maker. She is an Artist/Researcher at the Experimental Game Lab at CRCA and at Calit2 University of California-San Diego. Her interests include the interplay of technology, gender, sex and biopolitics. She blogs at TechnoTrannySlut.com. http://bang.calit2.net/tts/
------------------->Felipe Zuñiga is a visual artist, independent art promoter, and art facilitator. Zuñiga lives and works between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, U.S.A. He is part of the artist-run space, Lui Velazquez Space, http://www.luivelazquez.com/old_site/pr/lasse/index.html
------------------>Emily Roysdon is a New York and Stockholm based interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR. Roysdon's work has been shown at Participant, Inc. (NY); Generali Foundation (Vienna); New Museum (NY); Power Plant (Toronto); and Studio Voltaire (London). She is a recipient of a 2008 Art Matters grant and 2009 Franklin Furnace grant. She is currently curating an exhibition on 'ecstatic resistance' at Grand Arts. http://www.emilyroysdon.com/
-------------------->Marc James Léger is an artist, writer and educator living in Montreal, Canada. He has published essays on critical cultural practices in Afterimage, Parachute, Art Journal, C Magazine, Etc, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and the Canadian Journal of Film Studies. Forthcoming : Spleen: Institutions of Contemporary Art Practice, a collection of essays on political dissidence in the context of the neoliberalization of cultural institutions. http://www.joaap.org/6/another/leger.html
----------------------->Virginia Solomon is an art historian and critic completing a doctorate at the University of Southern California. She considers the work of Canadian artist group General Idea as an archive of queer avant-garde art practices in the context of politics and subjectivity. Virginia was a Helena Rubenstein fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program 2007/2008 and is a 2009/2010 Canadian art research fellow at the National Gallery of Canada. She was a co-curator of the recently closed Tainted Love
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02EEDF173CF93AA25755C0A96F9C8B63
----------------------->Tara Mateik is an artist and educator living in New York City. In 2002 he founded The Society of Biological Insurgents (SBI). Mateik’s work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, Project, Reena Spaulings, LACE, British Film Institute, Oberhausen Film Festival, and Museu de Arte Moderna São Paulo. He writes for Felix: A Journal of Media Arts and Culture, LTTR, North Drive Press #2, and Art Fancy. Awards include a fellowship at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Creative Capital Foundation film/video, an Electronic and Film Art Grant/Experimental Television Center, and a BCAT/BRIC Rotunda Gallery Video Residency. http://www.taramateik.com/
-------------------------->Amy Wiley is a scholar of performance theory and rhetoric. Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, U. C. Davis, 2001, and teaches at California Polytechnic State University Dept of English. She develops applications of performance theory to textual analysis; theories of state/domestic terrorism, separatism, violence, and identity formation. Co-author, with Christina McPhee, "Bare Life and the Traumatic Landscape" (Documenta 12 Magazine Project, 2007). http://magazines.documenta.de/frontend/article.php?IdLanguage=1&NrArticle=1740
----------------------->Robert Summers is a lecturer in art history and visual culture at Otis College of Art, Los Angeles. A board member of Telic and The Public School (LA) he wrote "Vaginal Davis _Does_ Art History" in _Jonathan Harris's Dead History, Live Art_ (University of Chicago Press). His essay "Intersectional Queer Visualities" was presented recently at the Association of Art Historians (AAH), UK. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=toc&bookkey=168958
------------------------->California-based visual and media artist Christina McPhee (moderator) is an artist and filmmaker working with landscape, memory and spatial practice. Her current project Tesserae of Venus opens in October 2009 at Silverman Gallery San Francisco. http://www.silverman-gallery.com/artist/view/1615. She is featured Sharon Lin Tay's forthcoming "Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices," Palgrave/Macmillan 2009 https://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=305775 . http://christinamcphee.net
Founded by Melinda Rackham (AU) in 2001, -empyre- is hosted at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, and is organized each month by an international moderating team currently based in North America and Australia. http://www.subtle.net/empyre
