introduction

anonymous (nino rodriguez)

tara bethune-leamen

michael daines

frédéric durieu

jhave

wolf kahlen

lia

jillian mcdonald

brooke singer

carlo zanni

artists' bios

interviews

perspective

credits

archives

biennale de montréal



nino rodriguez

Nino Rodriguez's film, video and media works have been exhibited widely since 1988 and received numerous awards. Major venues in North America include the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum New York, and the Festival of New Cinema and Media Montreal.

International exhibitors include the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, the Bonn Videonale, and the European Media Art Festival. Additionally, Mr. Rodriguez's work has been included in virtual exhibitions organized by Alt-X Network, and broadcast on WNET in New York and CANAL+ in France.

Portrait of the Artist as a Home Page has been selected for the upcoming editions of L.A. Freewaves, and has been exhibited by The Open Museum, Incident.net, The Free Biennial, Free Manifesta, and Le Musée di-visioniste.

Web site:
  • www.pobox.com/~nino/bio.html

  • tara bethune-leamen

    Tara Bethune-Leamen is a Canadian director/videographer/editor/writer/new media artist. She recently worked as an editor on the Moby DVD Play the DVD, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Long Form Video. Bethune-Leamen just completed video interviews for Zed TV/CBC [the subject- the puppeteers/animators/performers dynamo-ville.com] and for Penthouse.com [subject- the Bindlestiff vaudeville burlesque rodeo Cirkus].

    Her new media piece Virus Corp was created during residency at StudioXX, a women's new media group in Montreal. Virus Corp was included in this year's Maid in Cyberspace Festival at Studio XX.

    Tara Bethune-Leamen's first job was as a co-writer [with sister Katie] for 'The Ozlets' [an Australian version of the Muppets] at age15. She founded her company 3V Corp in 1996. For 3V she has shot snowboarders for TSN, burlesque for Kitten Natividad, created promotional videos for Japan's Hysteric Glamour clothing company, and directed a music video containing a 3-d animated Japanese sex doll and skyblue lowriders for Virgin, Spain.

    Her work continues as a videographer/interviewer/editor-for-hire on a documentary concerning American foreign policy and the Middle East. 3V is currently creating a trilogy of short films.


    michael daines

    "Michael Daines is an 18-year old artist living in Calgary, Canada. But his precocious mastery of code and underhanded satire has earned him respect in his own right. His most popular work, The Body of Michael Daines, was one of the first auctions on Ebay that crossed the line into conceptual art.

    Not often does a kid from Canada get a chance to have his work in Artforum, no matter how talented he might be. But this is the utopian vision of the web at its best, the classic story that always seems theoretically possible but doesn't seem to happen often enough."
    (Eryk Salvaggio)

    Michael Daines also does professionnal Web design, at the following address (where one can also see his other Web works).

    Web site:
  • www.mdaines.com

  • frédéric durieu

    Born in Bruxelles in 1967, Durieu spent his childhood in the Belgian countryside. He was influence by his engineer father as a very young boy and became fascinated with science, nature, and everything to do with air and sky. He studied civil engineering (polytechnique) at Université de Louvain-La-Neuve. There, he discovered computers (Apple) and programming.

    He conluded his studies with a thesis on the production of a plant-growth simulation program. In 1993, Durieu met Yves Bernard, with whom he founded Magic Media, a multimedia production company in Bruxelles. He developed many widely acclaimed CD-ROMs, including Promenade dans l'Art du XXe siècle, Le violon des hommes et des śuvres, and L'art du Moyen Âge.

    In 1998, he met New York multimedia specialist Kristine Malden and settled in Paris. With Murielle Lefèvre and Jean-Jacques Birgé, he co-authored the Alphabet CD-ROM, which received 14 prizes worldwide. This is the first true work in which he could fully express himself, exploring all the possibilities of interactivity with utmost freedom.

    In 2000, Frédéric and Kristine invent SetSearch, a visual search engine based on set theory.

    Toward the end of 2000, he creates the multimedia production company LeCielEstBleu, whose associated Web site is an interactive art gallery: www.lecielestbleu.com.

    With Jean-Jacques Birgé doing the music, Frédéric produces an animated puppet bestiary called the zoo, in 2001. It is a phenomenal success, attracting over 400,000 visitors.

    Zoo was exhibited at Centre Pompidou during the summer of 2002.

    The site now allows visitors to make up their own animations with a tool called PuppetTool.

    Web site:
  • www.lecielestbleu.com

  • jhave (david johnston)

    David Jhave Johnston is a multimedia-poet currently living in Montreal. Among other artistic activities, he has exhibited site-specific installations with the Symbiosis Collective, written and directed multi-media theatre with the Collective Unconscious Collective, and recorded spoken-word electronica for the now-defunct underground ZOI label. He is currently contributing to a CD-ROM project entitled Navigateur, modifying video for the Transmedia2002 festival, working on a Kali-scope projection project, completing a music video for Brian Sanderson, speaking at conferences on webart, and studying computer science at Concordia University.

    Before devoting himself completely to digital creation in 1998, Jhave finished a six-year exploratory-font project of handwritten mixed-media which was entitled Book. The web project NomadLingo, a year long exploration of digitally-generated mobile-text work,-- was created from April1/2000 to April 1/2001 and exhibited as monthly installments at www.year01.com.


    wolf kahlen

    Wolf Kahalen is an intermedia artist, professor at Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Architecture.

    Born 1940, working in photography (since 1956), painting, drawing and printing (since 1960), video (since 1969), sound (since 1970), performance (since 1968), architecture (since 1972), ethnological documentary video (since 1985), working with all phenomena and materials, as well as animals and plants, all the elements. Founder of the Videoforum Berlin (1970/71), ADA (Aktionen der Avantgarde), together with Wolf Vostell and Jörn Merkert, 1973 and 1974, Architect and Director of Ruine derKuenste Berlin.

    Recent Solo Exhibitions:

  • Nichts als Staub, Video-, Photo-, Sound- and Dust- Installations, Peking Art Museum, 1996;
  • Turn Table Shanghai, Sound- and Dust-Installations, Shanghai Art Museum, 1998;
  • Black Holes and Turn Table Hong Kong, Goethe Institute Hong Kong, 1998;
  • 365 Zeit-An-Sagen (365 Answers on/in Time), Museum of Installation London, 1998;
  • Inhaling Time-Exhaling Space, video-, photo-, sound- and dust-installations, ITPark Gallery, Taipei,Taiwan, 1999;
  • Durch-blicken/Per-ceiving, Studio Huangrui, Osaka, Japan 1999;
  • 365 Zeit-An-Sagen (365 Answers on/in Time), DRS 2 (Schweizer Rundfunk), 1999.

    Recent Radio/TV/Internet works:

  • Wolf Kahlen- Tibet, Mongolia, China - Video documents, A Retrospective, Goethe Institute Hong Kong, 1998;
  • 365 Zeit-An-Sagen/ 365 Answers on/in Time, Sender Freies Berlin SFB3, ten and a half hours program, 1997;
  • On ephemeral and etherial arts, Internet Live Conference, Museum of Installation London, 1998.
  • Web site:
  • home.snafu.de/ruine-kuenste.berlin/wolf.htm

  • lia

    Lia, born in Graz, in Austria, now lives in Vienna. Works since 1995 with computers and is active as Grafikprogrammiererin ("Graphic Programmer"). She is part of the Web artists duo from Austria, Turux (with Dextro).
    Web sites:
  • www.silverserver.co.at/lia
  • www.re-move.org
  • www.turux.org
  • www.wofbot.org

  • jillian mcdonald

    Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian performance and media artist, transplanted in New York. Her web projects include Things are Okay and Home Like No Place which have been produced in residency at Trinity Square Video in Toronto and La Chambre Blanche Gallery in Quebec City. These projects have been shown on Kanonmedia (Austria), Emmedia (Calgary), Hive projects (Toronto), Rhizome (New York), DIAN (Germany), The Irish Museum of Modern Art's Net.Art Open, and S@lon (Mexico). Me and Billy Bob is featured in The Digital Pocket Gallery's July 2002 exhibition.

    Her videos have been screened recently in VideominutoPopTV in Firenze Italy; Exquisite Corpse: Little Sins, at White Box NYC; Second Sight, a curated alumni show at Hunter College Times Square Gallery; Truckfood and Unpacked, two exhibitions about food in NYC moving trucks and meatlockers; Straylight, an online exhibition from Dublin; Video Marathon at Art in General; and American Sandwich at Star 67 Gallery in Brooklyn.

    She has received a Canada Council for the Arts Grant for the creation of a body of performance work titled In the Public Eye. Seven performance projects have been installed in seven cities: including Ready to Play, a sidewalk game performance in Ottawa and Queens, NY; Tailor Made, a tailoring performance in MontrŽal and Toronto; Shampoo, a hair-washing performance for hair salons in Winnipeg and Toronto; and Borrowed Objects in New York City and upcomign in Ottawa. She performed Houseplant, a Houseplant adoption service, all summer long in New York, and will perform a series of temporary tattoo performances in Kitchener, Brooklyn, and Manhattan this Fall/Winter.

    Upcoming: Borrowed Clothes (Seams) for Looking In - a site-specific exhibition in Lower Manhattan storefronts; Advice Lounge - a web project for Videographe and Vitamin B in Montreal; Ivy League, a web-based performance intervention with Landscape architect Kelty McKinnon; and Infamy - an animation for Transmedia'2002, a site-specific program for a Toronto LED board.

    Mcdonald teaches Computer Art at Pace University and is co-curator of No Live Girls - a 60-artist video project for peepbooths at the Lusty Lady in San Francisco and Seattle: www.nolivegirls.org.

    Web site:
  • rand.pratt.edu/~mcdonald

  • brooke singer

    Brooke Singer is a new media artist living in New York City. Her interest in art began as a teenager when she began taking photographs.

    During college she studied Russian language and literature with the intention of one day becoming a spy. At graduate school, Brooke experimented with computers and the World Wide Web. Her current projects reflect her various interests in image making, espionage, and the Internet. She is interested in the effects of evolving, digital networks on experience in the physical, lived-in world.

    Some of Brooke's recent activities include writing for Rhizome's Net Art News and co-curating the Sculpture Now exhibition at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. She has exhibited at the University of Southern California's Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles, Chicago's Version>02 festival, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, SIGGRAPH 2002 in San Antonio, Texas, and São Paulo's File-2002.

    Web site:
  • www.bsing.net

  • carlo zanni, a.k.a. beta

    Carlo Zanni, was born in La Spezia, Italy, in 1975. He works between Milan and New York. He studied at the IED - European Institute of Design and has a degree in Web Master. His work has been shown at the PS1 Museum NY, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago and at the first Tirana Biennial, among other Net places. More recently he organized a three days chat based dialogue called "P2P_$: Peer to Peer $elling Processes for net_things" inviting more than forty worldwide speakers to discuss these subjects and their own ideas and experiences in the field. He is currently showing at Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva, presenting both desktop paintings and digital works: ICOn_portraits and a self-portrait as Wi-Fi connection.

     


    Carlo Zanni. Landscape, Untitled napster, 2001. oil on linen. 50 x 55 inch (128 x 140 cm.)

    Web site:
  • www.zanni.org

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