Exhibiting Artists
Alan Bigelow - Alan Bigelow writes digital stories for the web. These stories are created in Flash and use images, text, audio, video, and other components. These stories are created for viewing on the web, although they can be (and have been) shown as gallery installations.
Alan Bigelow's work, installations, and conversations concerning digital fiction have appeared in Turbulence.org, Rhizome.org, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, FreeWaves.org, FILE 2007/2008, Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus, E-Poetry 2007, Art Tech Media (CORDOBA 0.8), JavaMuseum.org, Electrofringe 2008, New River Journal, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, chico.art.net, and elsewhere. Recently, in addition to teaching full-time at Medaille College, he was a visiting online lecturer in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, UK.
You can see Alan Bigelow's work at http://www.webyarns.com.
David Sanchez Burr - Born in Madrid Spain, David has spent the last decade working as an artist both in education and professional practice. His work has consistently been an entanglement between experimental sound, electronic media and object based projects. The outcome of which is a series of collaborations and solo exhibitions that are cross-disciplinary and interactive. David recieved his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1993 and is currently seeking his Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has shown throughout the United States and around the world.
Carlos Castellanos - Carlos Castellanos is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. His research and art practice focuses on the effect of networks and intelligent systems on human bodily experience. Before pursuing his interest in research and the arts, Carlos was a web developer/designer in San Francisco. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and splits his time between Vancouver and San Francisco.
Elizabeth Deters - Elizabeth Deters stages scenes that explore myth, history, and identity using found objects and images, paint, digital media, sweets, people, and time. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Deters studied art history and film at Yale University. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Deters has exhibited at SFMOMA, Queens Nails Annex, City Hall, and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Ethan Ham - Ethan Ham is a sculptor and installation artist who often uses kinetics, electronics, and computers in his artwork. His projects include Tumbarumba and Self-Portrait (both commissioned by Turbulence.org), Anthroptic (commissioned by The Present Group), and Email Erosion (commissioned by Rhizome.org). Ethan is an Assistant Professor of New Media at The City College of New York.
Bryan Hewitt - Bryan Hewitt is an artist and independent curator currently living and working in Mill Valley and San Francisco, California. He has shown both nationally and internationally, most recently as part of the Litquake event A Night of “Intimacy” with the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto and Subversive Complicity at the LAB gallery in San Francisco, CA. Curatorial projects have included Overlap in Green co-curated with his wife Vita Hewitt and Sam Bower of greenmuseum.org at The Garage in San Francisco, CA and Food For Thought co-curated with Terri Cohn at the Chandra Cerrito Contemporary in Oakland, CA.
As a founding member of the art collective Mind Strata, he has been involved in the implementation of exhibitions and collaborations such as Mind Strata: Office Dreams in the I. Magnin building in Oakland, CA and Mind Strata: The Collision Point at Works San Jose in San Jose, CA. He has also been involved in the organization and mounting of The Garage Biennale in San Francisco, CA since it began in 2005. He has worked on several community-based collaborative pieces with his wife, Vita Hewitt, such as The Mask Project at the Canal Alliance in San Rafael, CA.
He is currently represented by Chandra Cerrito, Art Advisor. His work is included in the permanent collections of Yatoo, The Korean Nature Arts Association, and SF Recycling & Disposal.
Hewitt attended Southern Oregon University where he earned a B.A. in Art with a minor in Spanish Literature in 2000. He received an M.F.A. in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. Since that time he has held positions in the graduate and undergraduate faculty of the Memphis College of Art, the Art Institute of California-San Francisco and the Academy of Art University. He is currently working as a freelance photographer and as an Instructor in the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program at the UC Berkeley Extension Program and the Photography Department at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Vita Mei Hewitt - Vita Hewitt is an artist living and working in the Bay Area. Hewitt creates art by working within existing systems such as organic materials, biological organisms, and the stock market. She received her BFA from Southern Oregon University and her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Recent projects include Dinner with Chuck, A Night of “Intimacy” with the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto and Subversive Complicity at the LAB gallery in San Francisco, CA. Curatorial projects have included Overlap in Green co-curated with his wife Vita Hewitt and Sam Bower of greenmuseum.org at The Garage in San Francisco, CA, Plant Lives Co-Curated with Emmanuelle Namont Kouznetsov and JD Beltran at The Garage and Algorithmia at Root Division.
Ryan Jones - Ryan Jones, dubbed the "armchair mad scientist," is an artist living and working in San Francisco, California. His work, telling of the process by which it is made, often deals with numbers, weight, count, tally and other means of measure, engaging the viewer in a narrative in part determined by the materials themselves. The materials dictate at least some of the parameters for the making of finished objects.
Recent exhibitions include Sad Girl/Clever Boy at Patti and Rusty Rueff West Gallery at Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, Retractions at Root Division Gallery, Introductions: 13 Bay Area Emerging Artists at Root Division Gallery, and SFAI Now at Red Ink Gallery. Ryan received his MFA in Sculpture and Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 and his BA in English and History with a Minor in Photography from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2002, he attended the Visiting Scholar Program at the University College of London for English Literature. He is currently a resident artist at Root Division.
Emmanuelle Namont Kouznetsov - Emmanuelle Namont Kouznetsov is a conceptual artist who lives and works in San Francisco. After living in Russia, this former French financial consultant settled in San Francisco where she graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. With her migration came a diminished sense of belonging but also a unique position in which she is able to scrutinize pervasive systems of power, proclaimed values, and social conditioning.
Namont's work questions our behavior towards modern day living whether it involves our oblivious subservience towards technology and the power of the machine, or reveals the crude state of our closest relationships.
In her photography Namont uses the portrait as a tool to reassess the interplay of love and violence underlying intimacy. In her sculpture, Emmanuelle invokes the visceral to bring back our corporeal presence and the rawness of our human nature.
Kunsole - Kunsole is a wildly pragmatic avant-pop sound + image + performance vehicle driven by artists. Its members are interested in remedial exercises in publicness. Because repetition is the key to all good ritual.
K'sole collects and replays non-totalizing fragment wholes with the view to create transformative mental experiences in counter publics assembled from the vast mass of alienated plant life. Because potted plants need logo-therapy too.
K-ole projects a vision of equal parts distopia, hope, and slow-motion intensity through live sound performance, projected animations, and stage installations. Kunsole is the cathartic triumph of presence over abstract relations in a context of signal overload. Because the kunsthole always needs filling.
Conrad M. Meyers II - Conrad M. Meyers II is an artist and educator working in sculpture, installation, and new media. He works professionally in architecture and construction and has ten years of experience teaching and supporting 3D spatial design software. Meyers was born and spent the majority of his life in the North Eastern US' greater megalopolis; he now resides in San Francisco. His art projects, which derive from speculative medical scientific animation and exhibit, have been shown in Washington DC, Baltimore, and the Bay area. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Lauren Scime - Lauren is an artist and web designer/developer currently working in the San Francisco Bay Area, and co-owner of the web design firm Object Adjective located in the SOMA district of San Francisco. As a fine artist, she has shown her work extensively in throughout the United States, and is included in the permanent collection at the Griffis Sculpture Park in Ellicotville, NY. Lauren has co-directed a non-profit gallery, and has currated several shows and events in San Francisco, CA and Buffalo, NY (including Algorithmia). She has taught classes in painting, digital media and web design. She received her BFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work varies between being serious and reflective, comedic, sterile and scientific, and grotesquely hyperbolic. She is consistently involved in exploring the human psyche and the constructed limits we set between the self and other, and the real and virtual.
Luther Thie - Luther Thie is an interdisciplinary artist who seeks to spark debate by challenging viewers to assess their own biases and assumptions of appropriate uses of technology by experiencing the work’s ambiguities. Recently this work incorporates information technologies (real-time databases, biometrics, surveillance, interactive) to explore questions regarding privacy and security and how authenticity is threatened through technological mediation. His work’s diverse forms include a biometrics corporation, Acclair, that provides brain testing for security clearance and neuromarketing, and a real-time data-driven water fountain activated by highway accident information (LA Interchange). In 2006, he received the Emerging Artist juried grand prize at the ISEA 2006 ZeroOne Festival. He has an MA from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, an MFA from San Francisco State and a BFA from UCLA. Portfolio: lutherthie.com
Myriam Thyes - Thyes studied painting and video art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dusseldorf, Germany. 1990: grant, 6 months at 'Cité Internationale des Arts', Paris. Since 1994, Thyes participates in exhibitions and festivals internationally. Since 1999: focuses on videoart, animation and digital imagery. 2005: FLAG METAMORPHOSES funded by Swiss Federal Office of Culture; ASCENSION wins 'Depict! Award' at Encounters Festival, Bristol, UK. 2007: MALTA AS METAPHOR funded by Swiss Federal Office of Culture. 2008: grant, 2 months artist in residence at Glasgow.
Her themes deal with symbols, myths and visual signs from architecture, politics, films, or religions. Her artworks are explorations of their meanings, a questioning, reassessments, and creations of new associations. In order to undermine entrenched representations, She works directly with them, to develop them further, transform them and juxtapose them against new representations. She uses animation, abstraction, collage and found footage (video stills) to present critical views of the current political, (psycho-)social, cultural and religious systems. She reconsiders abstraction and graphical aesthetics as a means of critique in our over-saturated media culture, proposing that simplicity and imagination can still move us. Her works are conceptual and sensual at the same time.
Fernando Velázquez - Fernando Velázquez (1970) integrated different media like painting, drawing, photography and video in multimedia pieces and installations. Velázquez research is about privacy, monitoring and control like mediators on the creation of a self sense. He has a Master in Fashion, Art, and Culture from Senac University (Sao Paolo - Brazil), a post-graduation course in Video and Digital Technologies from Mecad (Barcelona-Spain)and a degree in Multimedia Design also at Senac University. He participate in different solo and group exhibitions like the Pocket Films Festival at the Pompidou Center in Paris in 2006 and he won the 2008 Culturas and Vida artificial 11.0 prize among others. For more information visit: http://www.blogart.com
