EXHIBITIONS:
Tea Shack
Art by the Sea Trap Shed, Provincetown, MA, 8/18/2008
A site-specific extension of the Provincelands dune shacks and the Japanese teahouse, including a modified version of the Japanese tea ceremony, adapted to the landscape and culture of Provincetown.
The Woodlands Project
The Porches Inn at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, 2/2007-08
An interactive installation consisting of three apertures and a camera obscura installed in the woodland area.
Site Matters: Brooklyn
Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, 10/07
Brooklyn Obscura
Poetics of Nightsoil
11th Annual DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 10/07
LImit Cases, 8/07
Polar Inertia Issue #29
Online exhibition and publication of Limit Case postcards from 28 days
Colors of New York, 3/07
Chasham Gallery
Collaboration with the “Representation in the Media," course taught by Jennifer Heuson
Imagined Worlds
REDHEAD LMCC Space 3/07(curated by Jeanne Gerrity)
The Grid Becomes Else
Group exhibition of selected work by past Swing Space artists
East River Reverses: Becomes New York
10th Annual DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 10/14/06
A collaboration with the New York Kayak Company, using kayaks to signal the reversal of the East River’s direction.
Open Studio
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, New York, NY, 9/21/06
An exhibition documenting two projects:
Manhattan Stonehenge: The Grid Becomes Else
Moving Light: 9/11/06
Follow the LOVE in North Adams
Center for Detourism; Contemporary Artists Center,North Adams, MA, 6-7/2006
An interactive exhibition with experience capsules.
Channels: Emerging Media Publics
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 15 Nassau Space, New York, NY, 5/06
An exhibition of photographs documenting topographical signaling projects for New York.
Media, Movement and the City
Back to Nature
Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA, 5/06
A site-specific topographical signaling project for the opening night.
River Becomes Mill Becomes Art Becomes Else
Marconi Machines
WOMR, Provincetown Community Radio, Provincetown, MA, 1/27/06
Live radio broadcast and simultaneous web exhibition.
PUBLICATIONS:
Site Specific Pedagogy: Non-Compliant Learning through Art and Land Use Interpretation
for Public Pedagogy: Education and Learning Beyond Schooling, in progress, Routledge, 2009.
“Shelters of Exposure: Giving Form to Interdisciplinary Exchange,”
Chris Drury: Mushrooms | Clouds—The Book, University of Chicago Press, in press.
Live blog from the Nevada Museum of Art, Art + Environment Conference, October 2008.
Live blog from the Whitney Museum’s Buckminster Fuller Symposium, September, 2008.
"Becoming Human / Artist: Moving in Accord with the Change that Makes the World”
Performance Paradigm #4, 2008.
“Limit Cases”
Polar Inertia Journal, Issue #29, August, 2007.
WORKSHOP DESIGN AND FACILITATION:
Web 2.0 Pedagogy workshop
Pennsylvania State University, School of Visual Arts, March, 2009.
The Prairie Persists- Exploring Connections
Co-facilitated with the Prairie Learning Centre, October 2005
Val Marie, SK, Canada
Exploratory Mapping, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Media Studies and International Affairs
Co-facilitated with Heather McRae-Woolf, October-December 2004
New School University, New York, NY
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
Parsons Design & Social Science Fund, The New School, New York, NY
Granted for Extrememediastudies.org, 2008
Faculty Development Fund, The New School, New York, NY
Granted for Extrememediastudies.org, 2008
Swing Space, WorkSpace
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, New York, NY, 5-10/2006
CONFERENCES:
“Mutual Contamination at the Limits: Becoming Human|Artist,”
Performance Format American Studies Association Convention, Albuquerque, October, 2008.
RESIDENCIES:
The Porches Inn at MASS MoCA
North Adams, MA, 2/2008
installation of a camera obscura in the woodlands of The Porches.
Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI)
SimpArch's Clean Livin', Wendover, UT, 4/2007
Research residency for Living Spaces, More without Excess project at CLUI's South Base
Sundance Preserve
Sundance Resort, UT, 4/2007
Research residency for Living Spaces, More without Excess project.
The Porches Inn at MASS MoCA
North Adams, MA, 2/2007
Installation of the Aperture project in the woodlands of The Porches.
C-Scape Dune Shack
Provincetown, MA, 8 & 9/2006
Swing Space WorkSpace
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY, 6-10/2006
COLLABORATIONS:
Gorgeous Food as Relational AestheticCollaborative Dinner Event 2/25/07
The Woodlands Project
The Porches Inn at MASSMoCA, North Adams, MA, 2/2007
A project curated by smudge studio offering week-long residencies to artists in exchange for their aesthetic responses to the woodland landscape surrounding the Porches Inn at MASS MoCA
The Big Fig, Event #1
11/15/06
An online 24-hour event launching creative exchanges for the collaborative economy.
Beige Moves Orange
C-Scape Dune Shack, Provincelands, MA, 8/30/06
A collaboration with Jay Critchley, Kam Chan, and Greg Lamb.
Manhattan Stonehenge: The Grid Becomes Else
Project of LMCC WorkSpace residency, New York, NY, 7/12-14/06
Collaboration between 27 photographers during Manhattan Henge phenomenon.
WEB-BASED PROJECTS:
extrememediastudies.orgElizabeth Ellsworth has a Ph.D. in Communication Arts (Film Studies) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984). She taught courses in video production and educational media at UW-Madison (1984-2001), where she co-produced and co-directed several documentary videos. In 2000, she joined a multidisciplinary design team in New York City called Rethinkinc. There, she co-designed web-based media, online interfaces, and written and visual content for a national educational portal that involved college students in peer health education and activism. In 2002, she joined Teachers College Innovations as Director of Education Programs, and co-produced multimedia and online environments for teacher education. As a designer of learning environments and experiences, she has served as principal for a user experience research partnership (EyeQuilt, Chicago); and consulted for museums (Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago) and an international user experience research project (Illinois Institute of Design). Currently, she is a consultant on the pedagogical design for an NSF-funded project (Phoebe’s Fields). This project uses media, storytelling, and interactive museum installations to teach science concepts to middle school girls. Her design work informs her ideas about aesthetics and the experience of the learning self, which she published recently in Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy (Routledge, 2005). She now teaches media theory and practice in the Media Studies Program at the New School University, and with Jamie Kruse is co-director of Smudge Studio Incorporated and its first project: www.earthshapes.org
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Jamie Kruse is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She is co-director and art director of smudge studio inc. a non-profit design studio. Their project is ExtremeMediaStudies.org. She received her MA in Media Studies from The New School (New York, 2004) and BFA in Visual Communication from Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, 2000). Her primary freelance design clients have been art, education, and health-related non-profits in the United States and Canada. Samples of her work can be found online at orangevector.com.
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