BIO
Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian performance and media artist, transplanted in Brooklyn. Her work has been shown most recently at Moti Hasson Galery in New York, La Sala Naranja in Valencia, Spain, ArtMoving Projects and Vertex List in Brooklyn, Paved New Media in Saskatoon, Video Pool in Winnipeg, and 1708 Gallery in Virginia.
Mcdonald teaches Digital Art at Pace University in NYC and is co-director of Pace Digital Gallery. http://www.pace.edu/digitalgallery
Website: http://www.jillianmcdonald.net
Mcdonald teaches Digital Art at Pace University in NYC and is co-director of Pace Digital Gallery. http://www.pace.edu/digitalgallery
Website: http://www.jillianmcdonald.net
WoodEar by Peter Traub at Pace Digital Gallery and Turbulence
Dates:
Tue Apr 16, 2013 17:00 - Tue Apr 16, 2013
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Pace Digital Gallery and Turbulence.org present WoodEar (Turbulence@PaceDigitalGallery3)
Peter Traub in collaboration with Jennifer Lauren Smith
Opening April 16th, show runs through May 3rd
Commissioned specifically for Pace Digital Gallery "WoodEar,” the installation, expands into the gallery the software that launched on Turbulence in September 2012.
The work attempts to merge the dynamic qualities of the biological network of a tree -- roots gathering water and nutrients; leaves using sunlight to produce food; and phloem and xylem moving water and nutrients across the structure -- with the digital network of the Internet. A series of sensors attached to the tree stream data on the state of its environment – light, temperature, air pressure, and wind. This live data, merged with images and recordings of the tree’s immediate surroundings, is made audible and visible in the gallery.
Turbulence@PaceDigitalGallery is generously supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts
Peter Traub in collaboration with Jennifer Lauren Smith
Opening April 16th, show runs through May 3rd
Commissioned specifically for Pace Digital Gallery "WoodEar,” the installation, expands into the gallery the software that launched on Turbulence in September 2012.
The work attempts to merge the dynamic qualities of the biological network of a tree -- roots gathering water and nutrients; leaves using sunlight to produce food; and phloem and xylem moving water and nutrients across the structure -- with the digital network of the Internet. A series of sensors attached to the tree stream data on the state of its environment – light, temperature, air pressure, and wind. This live data, merged with images and recordings of the tree’s immediate surroundings, is made audible and visible in the gallery.
Turbulence@PaceDigitalGallery is generously supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts
Great Outdoors! at Pace Digital Gallery, April 10th
Dates:
Tue Apr 10, 2012 17:00 - Tue Apr 10, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to present
Great Outdoors!
Screening / Reception Tuesday, April 10th, 5PM - 7PM
Screening 5pm, reception to follow, full-colour catalogue available to attendees
Exhibition runs through May 8th
3rd floor, 163 William Street
Pace Digital Gallery, Pace University
New York, NY
http://pace.edu/digitalgallery
An exhibition of performances for video featuring artists Jacob Dahlgren (Stockholm), Terrance Houle (Calgary), The Icelandic Love Corporation (Reykjavik), Shana Moulton (New York), Jon Sasaki (Toronto), and Steven Yazzie (Phoenix)
Jacob Dahlgren, who also enacts his signature daily performance of wearing striped t-shirts, stages a peaceful protest through an idyllic California mountain trail, where a small group carries pole-mounted recreations of Swedish abstract painter Olle Baertling’s works. These paintings become signs, and those who bear them participate in both “protest” and absurd juxtaposition. Known for hijacking stereotypes to hilarious effect, Terrance Houle exploits his First Nations identity, donning traditional costume and performing a set of translated hand signs as he takes us on a personal and cultural mini-tour of street, beach, and park. The Icelandic Love Corporation re-imagine themselves as three ladies of luxury, reposed in the final days of a global ice melt - here we find them amidst a stunning landscape singing, hunting, and enjoying the finer things. Shana Moulton’s alter ego, a middle-aged recluse named Cynthia, finds comfort in the magic of Avon branded crystals and palmistry, which free her from her doldrums and send her on a rapturous multi-coloured romp through the forest. Jon Sasaki’s “everyman” drives his car on the highway, unfolded map in hand. This activity seems quaint in the age of smartphones and GPS, but, when he fails to watch the road ahead and his car does not collide, his protection is suspect; we can’t help but wonder - what is the trick? Steven Yazzie’s handmade go-cart trails into Monument Valley, where man and vehicle become a veritable drawing machine. The result, frenetic line renderings of the iconic landscape, are fraught with tension not unlike that heaped upon the historically charged landscape itself.
Great Outdoors!
Screening / Reception Tuesday, April 10th, 5PM - 7PM
Screening 5pm, reception to follow, full-colour catalogue available to attendees
Exhibition runs through May 8th
3rd floor, 163 William Street
Pace Digital Gallery, Pace University
New York, NY
http://pace.edu/digitalgallery
An exhibition of performances for video featuring artists Jacob Dahlgren (Stockholm), Terrance Houle (Calgary), The Icelandic Love Corporation (Reykjavik), Shana Moulton (New York), Jon Sasaki (Toronto), and Steven Yazzie (Phoenix)
Jacob Dahlgren, who also enacts his signature daily performance of wearing striped t-shirts, stages a peaceful protest through an idyllic California mountain trail, where a small group carries pole-mounted recreations of Swedish abstract painter Olle Baertling’s works. These paintings become signs, and those who bear them participate in both “protest” and absurd juxtaposition. Known for hijacking stereotypes to hilarious effect, Terrance Houle exploits his First Nations identity, donning traditional costume and performing a set of translated hand signs as he takes us on a personal and cultural mini-tour of street, beach, and park. The Icelandic Love Corporation re-imagine themselves as three ladies of luxury, reposed in the final days of a global ice melt - here we find them amidst a stunning landscape singing, hunting, and enjoying the finer things. Shana Moulton’s alter ego, a middle-aged recluse named Cynthia, finds comfort in the magic of Avon branded crystals and palmistry, which free her from her doldrums and send her on a rapturous multi-coloured romp through the forest. Jon Sasaki’s “everyman” drives his car on the highway, unfolded map in hand. This activity seems quaint in the age of smartphones and GPS, but, when he fails to watch the road ahead and his car does not collide, his protection is suspect; we can’t help but wonder - what is the trick? Steven Yazzie’s handmade go-cart trails into Monument Valley, where man and vehicle become a veritable drawing machine. The result, frenetic line renderings of the iconic landscape, are fraught with tension not unlike that heaped upon the historically charged landscape itself.
Pace Digital Gallery present Codings, an exhibition opening Feb 28th
Dates:
Tue Feb 28, 2012 17:00 - Tue Feb 28, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to present Codings
~Curated by Nick Montfort, MIT
Feb 28th - March 30th, 2012
panel with the artists and curator, and opening reception, Tuesday, Feb 28th, 5 - 7pm
Works by: Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil), Commodore (USA/Canada), Adam Parrish (USA), Jörg Piringer (Austria), Casey Reas (USA), Pall Thayer (Iceland/USA)
Codings shows the computer as an aesthetic, programmed device that computes on characters. The works in the show continue and divert the traditions of concrete poetry and short-form recreational programming; they eschew elaborate multimedia combinations and the use of network resources and instead operate on encoded letters, numbers, punctuation, and other symbols that are on the computer itself.
~Curated by Nick Montfort, MIT
Feb 28th - March 30th, 2012
panel with the artists and curator, and opening reception, Tuesday, Feb 28th, 5 - 7pm
Works by: Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil), Commodore (USA/Canada), Adam Parrish (USA), Jörg Piringer (Austria), Casey Reas (USA), Pall Thayer (Iceland/USA)
Codings shows the computer as an aesthetic, programmed device that computes on characters. The works in the show continue and divert the traditions of concrete poetry and short-form recreational programming; they eschew elaborate multimedia combinations and the use of network resources and instead operate on encoded letters, numbers, punctuation, and other symbols that are on the computer itself.
Lee Arnold and Jonathan Ehrenberg at Pace Digital Gallery
Dates:
Tue Nov 08, 2011 17:00 - Tue Nov 08, 2011
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to present a lecture and exhibition by artists Lee Arnold and Jonathan Ehrenberg. Exhibition, featuring HD video and photography, runs Nov 8th to Dec 2nd, 2011.
Info, artist bios, map and directions available on our website. Join us!
Info, artist bios, map and directions available on our website. Join us!
LoVid and Jill Magid at Pace Digital Gallery, Oct 4
Dates:
Tue Oct 04, 2011 17:00 - Tue Oct 04, 2011
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Pace Digital Gallery presents LoVid and Jill Magid exhibition with internet and video works on view. Exhibition runs Oct 4th to Oct 28th, 2011. Please join us for the opening reception!
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More Fog Rolls in
Some images from the last of the fog fakery this week, and my last hikes (for now) through the woods surrounding Dufftown. Four more sleeps till Brooklyn…
The Fog
Starting new work, which I’ve been wanting to shoot for ages. Just worked out the details, locations, and the weather is finally (on April 4th) warm enough to linger outside without full Arctic gear. Here are some stills from the footage of two days filming.
The Fog…
New drawing… snapshots…
I completed a drawing this week that features all the ghostly masked figures in Valley of the Deer. Yet to be titled and photographed properly. These are studio details…
Drawing is 88″ X 29.5″ or 224cm X 75cm.
The Hatch – Production
On location on The Cabrach, Morayshire, Scotland
Test shots, The Hatch, 2 channel video
Test shots, The Hatch, 2 channel video
Valley of the Deer Documentary on CBC’s IDEAS with Paul Kennedy… January 25th
Paul Kennedy captures audio on location, Rothimay, Scotland
Tune in January 25th or download the podcast later!
VALLEY OF THE DEER
“Canadian video artist Jillian McDonald spent much of the past year as ‘artist in residence’ at Glenfiddich Distillery, in the highlands of Scotland. As a Burns’ Night tribute to both Art and Whisky, IDEAS host Paul Kennedy visits her in Dufftown, and watches while she makes single-malted art.”
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