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Heather Dewey-Hagborg
Works in Brooklyn, New York United States of America

BIO
Heather Dewey-Hagborg is an information artist who is interested in exploring art as research and public inquiry. Traversing diverse media ranging from algorithms to advertising, her work seeks to question fundamental assumptions underpinning perceptions of human nature, technology and the environment. Examining culture through the lens of information, Heather creates situations embodying concepts, freed from the artist's hand.

Heather has displayed work at Third Ward, Galapagos, The Texas Firehouse Gallery, Fotofono, The Gowanus Studio Space, and the Tisch School of the Arts in New York, Artist Television Access, California College of the Arts and Dorkbot in San Francisco, Bennington College in Vermont, and Sculpture Space and SUNYIT in Utica, NY.

Heather has received grants from the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the Bennington Student Endowment for the Arts. She received a National Science Foundation award for the RESNA student design competition and ITP/TSOA as well as Tisch Achievement Scholarships from New York University. She has also been awarded artist residencies at the General Store gallery in Elk Horn Iowa and Sculpture Space in Utica New York where she was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Heather has a BA in multimedia arts from Bennington College and a Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s Totem: Opening April 24th 7pm at Issue Project Room


Dates:
Sat Apr 24, 2010 00:00 - Mon Apr 19, 2010

Visual artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s Totem is a new installation created for Issue Project Room exploring language as an act of power and a force of control. Drawing inspiration from surveillance culture, artificial intelligence, and the research of Julian Jaynes on the origin of consciousness, Totem assumes the form of a ritual icon, eavesdropping on the conversation in its vicinity.

Drawing only on patterns of sound in its immediate environment Totem defines its own language: a grammar and lexicon based on machine intuition, an inductive bias that shapes what is heard. Divorced from their original context words assume new character, meaning and intentionality. Totem transforms overheard conversation and incidental noises into a constantly evolving composition of sound.

Totem is the second in a series of new body of work Dewey-Hagborg has created in the past year dealing with the politics of listening. The first, Listening Post, was installed in downtown Buffalo for five months as part of the Conversation Pieces exhibit at CEPA Gallery.

The opening reception will be held on 4/24 at Issue Project Room, 232 3rd St. in Brooklyn NY at 7pm. The installation will remain on view through June 2010. The exhibit will be accessible Mon-Fri 9-5 and later on evenings of performances at Issue Project Room.

Totem was made possible by generous contributions from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the support of Issue Project Room.

More information is available on the artist’s website: www.deweyhagborg.com


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