| Participating
Artists for Longwood Cyber Residency and Exhibition Program for 2002- 2003 |
| // Akiko Ichikawa |
Akiko Ichikawa’s installations have been shown at Andrew Kreps and Midway Contemporary Art in St. Paul (Minn.) They have also been exhibited at Momenta Art, P.S. 122 Gallery, and in several self-curated shows with other artists. Ichikawa holds an MFA from Hunter College in New York and has been awarded a proposal commission from the Public Art Fund and an Independent Projects Grant from Artists Space. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Playing on the common practice of showing work online, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is a theater of specularity created through the simplest of means. The site invites visitors to engage in a dialectic between the internet “imagined” and the built “actual,” the real and the represented. Conceptually speaking, the piece could be seen as an extension of my brick and concrete installation series into the internet: it realizes in cyberspace the idea of rendering interchangeability (here with images of past installations) by means of which the weighty sequence was started in the first place. Courtesy of the Longwood Cyber Residency, this is my first work online. |
| // Valerie Atkisson |
| Valerie
Atkisson, an artist living and working in New York City. She has exhibited
her work widely in the city in such venues as Artist's Space, the Bronx
Musuem of the Arts, The Queens Museum of Art, and the d.u.m.b.o. art center.
She works in a variety of media, but this is her first digital work thanks
to the Longwood Cyber Residency Program. William Edward Curtis is my great great-grandfather. He was from Tennessee. Among some of his surviving documents is the letter of proposal he sent to his future wife dated 1864. The tenderness of the letter brings to mind a time gone by. The animation brings the letter to life. |
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Florine Demosthene
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Florine Demosthene is a Haitian born artist
who resides in Brooklyn. She works in a variety of media that explores
racial iconography and how visual signs commodify and fetishize black culture.
She has exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Project: The 'Inverted Shotgun' project is an investigation of the historical significance of Seneca Village. |
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| //Mwalim |
| Mwalim
is a storyteller and digital filmmaker, born in the Bronx and raised
in
both the Bronx and Mashpee, Massachusetts. He is currently a professor
at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he teaches video
production,
drama and oral tradition. Mwalim has won several awards for his short,
experimental films and documentaries, including the Martin Luther King,
Jr. Artists Fellowship,
Polaroid Artists Grant. Mwalim holds a B.A. in Music and an MFA in Film
from Boston University. “ In these “Visual Essays” I combine digital video images with music and text to give the viewer a sense of the visual and emotional experience of the essay’s subject. The inspirations for this kind of process are two fold: 1) Watching scenery go by the car window when taking trips as a kid. 2) Charlie Chaplain’s ability to tell stories without dialogue in his films.” |