EXHIBITIONS:
NEW MEDIA
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 4/2010
Juried exhibition
Landscapes of Quarantine
Storefront for Art and Architecture, 3/2010
Exhibition and studio facilitated by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley
Worlds To Come
Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Red Hook, NY, 11/7/2009
(solo exhibition)
NURTUREart Benefit Show
Claire Oliver Gallery, 10/12/09
Jurors for the exhibition Yaelle Amir, Patrick Amsellem, David Humphrey, Joelle Jensen
Quaking Bog
Provincetown, MA, 10/2009
Signals from the Deep, a site responsive installation to the bio- and geologic forces that shape the deep past, present, and deep future of Provincetown's quaking bog.
Video Party
Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 9/5/2009
Three environment based works (Time Lapse, 2007, After Image, 2009, Ocean/Pond Year 2009)
Visionary Drawing Building
Visionary Drawing Building is concentrated on un-built (impossible or speculative) structures that exist on paper, 5/2009
conceived by Matt Bua and Max Goldfarb, exhbiited at MASS MoCA.
Poetics of Nightsoil
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, 10/2007
Brooklyn Obscura
Poetics of Nightsoil
11th Annual DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 10/2007
LImit Cases, 8/2007
Polar Inertia Issue #29
Online exhibition and publication of Limit Case postcards from 28 days
Colors of New York, 3/2007
Chasham Gallery
Collaboration with the “Representation in the Media," course taught by Jennifer Heuson
Imagined Worlds
REDHEAD LMCC Space 3/2007(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, 10/14/2006
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, 9/21/2006
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, 5/2006
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, 5/2006
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, 1/27/2006
Live radio broadcast and simultaneous web exhibition.
PUBLICATIONS:
"Touring the Nevada Test Site: Sensational Public Pedagogy"
for Public Pedagogy: Education and Learning Beyond Schooling, Routledge, 2009.
Live blog from the Albuquerque Museum, LAND/ART Panel, June 2009.
“Shelters of Exposure: Giving Form to Interdisciplinary Exchange,”
Chris Drury: Mushrooms | Clouds—The Book, University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Why We Travel, New York Times, September, 2009.
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.
WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS:
Geologic Time Viewer, poster session, humanities + digital visual interpretations Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 20-22, 2010
Artist Project, Worlds to Come: A Field Guide, distributed at Geo-Aesthetics in the Anthropocene Conference, Salisbury University, May 24-26, 2010
Visiting Artists, Invisible Pedagogies, Complutense University of Madrid, Faculty of Fine Arts; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid; University of Barcelona, Cultural-Pedagogies, April 2010
Visiting Artists, Being There: The Wendover Artist In Residency Program of the Center For Land Use Interpretation, Curatorial Practice program, California College of Arts, February, 2010
Web 2.0 Pedagogy workshop
Pennsylvania State University, School of Visual Arts, March, 2009
“Mutual Contamination at the Limits: Becoming Human|Artist,”
Performance Format American Studies Association Convention, Albuquerque, October, 2008.
Visiting Artists, Integrated foundations of media theory and design, New School Media Studies Program, February 2006
Visiting Artists, Narrative Research, Teacher’s College, Columbia University, March 2006
Designing Times and Places that Invite Learning
The Prairie Persists-Exploring Connections, Val Marie, SK, October 2005
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
RESIDENCIES:
Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI)
Wendover, UT 6/2010
Research residency
Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI)
SimpArch's Clean Livin', Wendover, UT 6/2009
Research residency
Nevada Museum of Art, Center for Art + Environment
Reno, NV 6/2009
Research residency with The Altered Landscape Collection
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
WEB-BASED PROJECTS:
Jamie Kruse is a designer, artist, and independent scholar. She is co-director and art director of smudge studio inc. a non-profit art and design studio located in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MA in Media Studies from The New School (New York, 2004) and her 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.
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Elizabeth Ellsworth is Associate Provost for Curriculum and Learning and Professor of Media Studies at the New School, New York. Her work focuses on cross-divisional and university-wide programs, with particular emphasis on new pathways and opportunities to both broaden and strengthen the academic experience through innovative ways of learning. Elizabeth’s research and teaching focus on the design of mediated learning environments, uses of media to teach about and across social and cultural difference, media and social change, and documentary media forms. Her scholarship addresses how media design creates possibilities for people to construct, share, and assess diverse ways of knowing. She is author of Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy (Routledge, 2004) and Teaching Positions: Difference, Pedagogy and the Power of Address (Teachers College Press, 1997). Her recent journal articles focus on projects that fuse learning with aesthetic experience, and public pedagogy. She translates results of her research and writing into media forms, exhibitions, and projects. Since 2000, Elizabeth has co-designed web-based media and content for a number of interdisciplinary online learning environments, including ExtremeMediaStudies.org. She has served as a consultant on pedagogical design for museums and design schools. She is co-founder, with Jamie Kruse, of a nonprofit media arts collaboration: www.smudgestudio.org. Elizabeth earned her PhD in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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