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BIO
Will Pappenheimer is an artist and professor at Pace University, NY and a founding member of the Manifest.AR collective. Individually and as part of Manifest.AR he has exhibited in solo shows at the ICA in Boston, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul, the DUMBO Arts Festival, Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, PA, Pace University and Pocket Utopia Gallery in New York, and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, MI. Together with the Manifest.AR collective, he staged two highly publicized interventions at the Museum of Modern Art, NY and the 54th Venice Biennial. His work has been included in numerous group shows nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Exit Art, Florence Lynch, Postmasters, Vertexlist, DUMBO Arts Festival in NY, San Jose Museum of Art in ISEA 06/ZeroOne, Kunstraum Walcheturm in Zurich, the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Ireland for ISEA 09, FILE 2005 at the SESI Art Gallery, Sao Paulo and Xi’an Academy of Art Gallery in China. His grants include an NEA Artist Fellowship, Traveling Scholars Award from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Turbulence.org, Rhizome,org at the New Museum, Lights On Tampa 2009, and FACT, Liverpool. His work and participation in Manifest.AR has been reviewed in Art in America, New York Times, WIRED, the Boston Globe, EL PAIS, Madrid, Liberation, Paris, NY Arts International, Art US, the New, Magazine Électronique du CIAC, Montreal, MSNBC.com and ZedTV, Canadian Broadcasting. The artist’s works are discussed in Christiane Paulʼs recent historical edition of “Digital Art” and a chapter of Gregory Ulmerʼs theoretical book “Electronic Monuments.” He has presented his work at the Eyebeam Atelier, the New Museum, the ITP Graduate Program, New York University and the College Art Association, empyre online discussion list, and ETH Computer Systems Institute, Zurich, Switzerland. For March, 2013, he is organizing a solo exhibition of the ManifestAR collective at FACT, the Foundation for Art and Technology in Liverpool, UK.
RTests
Dates:
Thu Nov 05, 2009 00:00 - Mon Nov 02, 2009
RTests"
Will Pappenheimer
Choate Gallery, Pace University, Pleasantville, New York
November 5- November 21, 2009
Opening Reception: November 5, 2:00-5:00PM
Gallery Hours: Mondays-Wednesdays, 12:00PM-4:00PM
Thursdays, 12:00PM-6:00PM and
Saturdays, 12:00PM-4:00PM
Choate Gallery House
861 Bedford Road
Pleasantville, NY 10570
Phone: 914-773-3673
The Choate Gallery at Pace University presents “RTests” by artist and
Pace Professor, Will Pappenheimer. The show title refers to a
selection of his artworks which feature processes resembling or
following Herman Rorschach’s Psychodiagnostic directives for the
inkblot tests. Using the media of online networks, communications and
data exchange, a system or participatory call is set out to test the
psychological conditions of a situation. The testing ground
includes the intersection of virtual and physical. The situation is
often, but not always, collective. The resulting emotional states are
tied to or pass through the body politic, individual psyche, RSS news
zeitgeist, ecological signs, institutional messaging and media
evolution. As quasi-scientific experiments the prescription, the
process and the results are all equally important to each work.
Collaborations with artists:
John Craig Freeman
Kristin Lucas
Chipp Jansen
Image: http://www.willpap-projects.com/Work_File_Downloads/RTests_Image2.jpg
Will Pappenheimer
Assistant Professor, Digital Art
Pace University, New York
wpappenheimer@pace.edu
http://www.willpap-projects.com
cell: 347-526-5302
Will Pappenheimer
Choate Gallery, Pace University, Pleasantville, New York
November 5- November 21, 2009
Opening Reception: November 5, 2:00-5:00PM
Gallery Hours: Mondays-Wednesdays, 12:00PM-4:00PM
Thursdays, 12:00PM-6:00PM and
Saturdays, 12:00PM-4:00PM
Choate Gallery House
861 Bedford Road
Pleasantville, NY 10570
Phone: 914-773-3673
The Choate Gallery at Pace University presents “RTests” by artist and
Pace Professor, Will Pappenheimer. The show title refers to a
selection of his artworks which feature processes resembling or
following Herman Rorschach’s Psychodiagnostic directives for the
inkblot tests. Using the media of online networks, communications and
data exchange, a system or participatory call is set out to test the
psychological conditions of a situation. The testing ground
includes the intersection of virtual and physical. The situation is
often, but not always, collective. The resulting emotional states are
tied to or pass through the body politic, individual psyche, RSS news
zeitgeist, ecological signs, institutional messaging and media
evolution. As quasi-scientific experiments the prescription, the
process and the results are all equally important to each work.
Collaborations with artists:
John Craig Freeman
Kristin Lucas
Chipp Jansen
Image: http://www.willpap-projects.com/Work_File_Downloads/RTests_Image2.jpg
Will Pappenheimer
Assistant Professor, Digital Art
Pace University, New York
wpappenheimer@pace.edu
http://www.willpap-projects.com
cell: 347-526-5302
Virta-Flaneurazine Clinic Relaunch
Dates:
Fri Aug 07, 2009 00:00 - Tue Aug 04, 2009
Location:
Ireland
Virta-Flaneurazine relaunches the clinic first at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Ireland for ISEA and then with an installation clinic at the ISEA Conference at Waterfront Hall. We have on hand a new version of VF. This one is quicker to take effect but does have some new side effects. But these can be brought under control a bit later. This is a rare picture the test subject JC Priestman. It actually shows him as he sees himself in the moment. Not as we would see him.
Image: http://www.willpap-projects.com/VF/images/JCP-visions-10c-sm.jpg
For information and participation in the clinical trials:
http://virtaflaneurazine.wordpress.com/
Blog Post: New Dose for the Belfast Clinic
"ISEA: The Exhibition", curated by Kathy Rae Huffman, Friday, August 7th
7 pm UTC/GMT, 2 pm EST, 11 am LT continuing through September 6th
http://www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/
ISEA Conference, Waterfront Hall, August 26 -29, 2009
http://www.isea2009.org/wordpress/?page_id=36
Will Pappenheimer
Assistant Professor, Digital Art
Pace University, New York
wpappenheimer@pace.edu
http://www.willpap-projects.com
Image: http://www.willpap-projects.com/VF/images/JCP-visions-10c-sm.jpg
For information and participation in the clinical trials:
http://virtaflaneurazine.wordpress.com/
Blog Post: New Dose for the Belfast Clinic
"ISEA: The Exhibition", curated by Kathy Rae Huffman, Friday, August 7th
7 pm UTC/GMT, 2 pm EST, 11 am LT continuing through September 6th
http://www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/
ISEA Conference, Waterfront Hall, August 26 -29, 2009
http://www.isea2009.org/wordpress/?page_id=36
Will Pappenheimer
Assistant Professor, Digital Art
Pace University, New York
wpappenheimer@pace.edu
http://www.willpap-projects.com
Tampa Public Mood Ring at Lights On Tampa
Dates:
Sat Jan 10, 2009 00:00 - Sat Jan 10, 2009
Location:
United States of America
The Tampa Public Mood Ring
Will Pappenheimer and Chipp Jansen
A gradient project in art, steel, sports and blogspace.
images: http://www.willpap-projects.com/Work_File_Downloads/TPMR_Images_lr.zip
The Tampa Public Mood Ring(TPMR) is a combined internet and spatial artwork installation which allows an online news community to display the emotional condition of public news stories as color hue. It is based on the wearable "mood ring" which chemically changes color according to body temperature. For the Lights On Tampa program, the ring concept draws on the local and national sports community propelled by NFL fanaticism leading to the mega event, Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa. Online stories featured on TampaBay.com's NFL blogs link participants to the capability of sending a comment-mood, encapsulated in color, to the lighting of a 25 foot steel sculpture of a Super Bowl championship ring at Cotanchobee Park in downtown Tampa. The ring has been designed by Pappenheimer and built by Gerdau Ameristeel, an international company headquartered in Tampa and a wholesaler of recycled steel. At its physical location, as visitors walk through the oversized ring structure, they are immersed in its light. Ephemeral messages from remote participants become enveloping onsite light transitions. The TPMR is an Internet monument to the collective instinct of network culture and its gradients of personalized customization. It enacts the growing energies of an active virtual audience transforming the boundaries of traditional media.
Lights On Tampa:
Chris Doyle
Casa Magica
Carlton Ward Jr.
Will Pappenheimer and Chipp Jansen
Marina Zurkow
http://www.lightsontampa.org/
January 10 - February 1, 2009
Lights On Tampa is a public/private partnership that bridges Tampa’s commitment to the arts, technology, and education and offers free access to artistic excellence. It is a cultural and aesthetic event designed to engage, entertain, and educate Tampa’s visitors and diverse community. Lights On Tampa is a biennial program that brings major contemporary artists to downtown Tampa. By focusing on art that is experiential and includes both “low” and “high” tech materials, Lights On Tampa also puts the spotlight on Tampa.
Will Pappenheimer and Chipp Jansen
A gradient project in art, steel, sports and blogspace.
images: http://www.willpap-projects.com/Work_File_Downloads/TPMR_Images_lr.zip
The Tampa Public Mood Ring(TPMR) is a combined internet and spatial artwork installation which allows an online news community to display the emotional condition of public news stories as color hue. It is based on the wearable "mood ring" which chemically changes color according to body temperature. For the Lights On Tampa program, the ring concept draws on the local and national sports community propelled by NFL fanaticism leading to the mega event, Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa. Online stories featured on TampaBay.com's NFL blogs link participants to the capability of sending a comment-mood, encapsulated in color, to the lighting of a 25 foot steel sculpture of a Super Bowl championship ring at Cotanchobee Park in downtown Tampa. The ring has been designed by Pappenheimer and built by Gerdau Ameristeel, an international company headquartered in Tampa and a wholesaler of recycled steel. At its physical location, as visitors walk through the oversized ring structure, they are immersed in its light. Ephemeral messages from remote participants become enveloping onsite light transitions. The TPMR is an Internet monument to the collective instinct of network culture and its gradients of personalized customization. It enacts the growing energies of an active virtual audience transforming the boundaries of traditional media.
Lights On Tampa:
Chris Doyle
Casa Magica
Carlton Ward Jr.
Will Pappenheimer and Chipp Jansen
Marina Zurkow
http://www.lightsontampa.org/
January 10 - February 1, 2009
Lights On Tampa is a public/private partnership that bridges Tampa’s commitment to the arts, technology, and education and offers free access to artistic excellence. It is a cultural and aesthetic event designed to engage, entertain, and educate Tampa’s visitors and diverse community. Lights On Tampa is a biennial program that brings major contemporary artists to downtown Tampa. By focusing on art that is experiential and includes both “low” and “high” tech materials, Lights On Tampa also puts the spotlight on Tampa.
Virta-Flaneurazine
Dates:
Sat Sep 06, 2008 00:00 - Wed Sep 03, 2008
Virta-Flaneurazine at Fringe Exhibitions
Will Pappenheimer and John Craig Freeman
Exhibition Dates: September 6 - October 4, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6, from 6-9 PM
Virta-Flaneurazine(VF) is a potent programmable mood-changing drug for Second Life (SL). It is identified as part of the Wanderment family of psychotropic drugs because it automatically causes the user to aimlessly roam the distant lands of online 3D worlds. As the prograchemistry takes effect, users find themselves erratically teleporting to random locations, behaving strangely, seeing digephemera and walking or flying in circuitous paths. Many users report the experience allows them to see SL in a renewed light, as somehow reconfigured outside the everyday limitations of a fast growing grid of virtual investment properties. VF derives from a formula which the authors of this study, Dr* JC Freeman and Dr* WD Pappenheimer, synthesized some time ago. The clinical study will include an exhibition that dispenses and evaluates the drug for volunteer subjects. The installation includes a comfortable multi-position mechanical chair, exam area, a waiting room and live SL projection screens for patient and public viewing.
Virta-Flaneurazine is a 2007-08 Rhizome Commission.
For more information and images please see: http://virtaflaneurazine.wordpress.com/
Call for Participants: http://virtaflaneurazine.wordpress.com/call/
Fringe Exhibitions: http://www.fringexhibitions.com/
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 613-0160
Will Pappenheimer and John Craig Freeman
Exhibition Dates: September 6 - October 4, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6, from 6-9 PM
Virta-Flaneurazine(VF) is a potent programmable mood-changing drug for Second Life (SL). It is identified as part of the Wanderment family of psychotropic drugs because it automatically causes the user to aimlessly roam the distant lands of online 3D worlds. As the prograchemistry takes effect, users find themselves erratically teleporting to random locations, behaving strangely, seeing digephemera and walking or flying in circuitous paths. Many users report the experience allows them to see SL in a renewed light, as somehow reconfigured outside the everyday limitations of a fast growing grid of virtual investment properties. VF derives from a formula which the authors of this study, Dr* JC Freeman and Dr* WD Pappenheimer, synthesized some time ago. The clinical study will include an exhibition that dispenses and evaluates the drug for volunteer subjects. The installation includes a comfortable multi-position mechanical chair, exam area, a waiting room and live SL projection screens for patient and public viewing.
Virta-Flaneurazine is a 2007-08 Rhizome Commission.
For more information and images please see: http://virtaflaneurazine.wordpress.com/
Call for Participants: http://virtaflaneurazine.wordpress.com/call/
Fringe Exhibitions: http://www.fringexhibitions.com/
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 613-0160
Invisible Influenced
Vijay,
These are great comments and you might well have been a ghost sitting in on our meetings as the project developed. It's true that there are many ways we could represent influence and geographical data. Each require we both project focus and plenty of programming. Since we had to choose a few issues to accomplish within this project, we chose them and then built a real-time database that we can use for future projects. The reason for using the US outline here was the idea of Rorschach inkblot, its shape being the most important for interpretation and diagnosis. But inkblots have plenty of interior tonal variation so that leaves more possibilities for future iterations.
The algorithm processing for the Twitter and Flickr feeds might indeed be a bit simplistic. The magnitude of the tweet being the magnitude of the influence, the number of images taken around a location being an interest level indicator. However faced with processing many influences we sometimes had to take simple roads. This gets into questions of the balance between accuracy and artistic gesture, an issue that is important to data visualization art. Twitter feeds were so interesting to us that the area calls for its own project!
We discussed the idea of whether we could and should register influence at the state level, affecting the physics of the US interior rather just its boundaries. This is very appealing to us but again a bit challenging to start out with in our given time constraints. In this case presenting the States as a monolithic entity points towards it's self image as "the greatest nation on earth." (Not exactly our position.) As this emblem begins to drift, it calls that notion into question, not the that this is a particularly new revelation. We have set things up so we can work with any country, so starting with the US was a choice about this moment in national consciousness where I think the US populace is beginning to wonder about its supremacy and vulnerability.
Look forward to more discussion...
Will
These are great comments and you might well have been a ghost sitting in on our meetings as the project developed. It's true that there are many ways we could represent influence and geographical data. Each require we both project focus and plenty of programming. Since we had to choose a few issues to accomplish within this project, we chose them and then built a real-time database that we can use for future projects. The reason for using the US outline here was the idea of Rorschach inkblot, its shape being the most important for interpretation and diagnosis. But inkblots have plenty of interior tonal variation so that leaves more possibilities for future iterations.
The algorithm processing for the Twitter and Flickr feeds might indeed be a bit simplistic. The magnitude of the tweet being the magnitude of the influence, the number of images taken around a location being an interest level indicator. However faced with processing many influences we sometimes had to take simple roads. This gets into questions of the balance between accuracy and artistic gesture, an issue that is important to data visualization art. Twitter feeds were so interesting to us that the area calls for its own project!
We discussed the idea of whether we could and should register influence at the state level, affecting the physics of the US interior rather just its boundaries. This is very appealing to us but again a bit challenging to start out with in our given time constraints. In this case presenting the States as a monolithic entity points towards it's self image as "the greatest nation on earth." (Not exactly our position.) As this emblem begins to drift, it calls that notion into question, not the that this is a particularly new revelation. We have set things up so we can work with any country, so starting with the US was a choice about this moment in national consciousness where I think the US populace is beginning to wonder about its supremacy and vulnerability.
Look forward to more discussion...
Will
