Exhibit Information
Digital Works, a national juried competition
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences (LBIF), Loveladies, NJ
June 23 - July 19, 2011
Juror: Christiane Paul, Associate Professor & Director of Media Studies at the New School and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of Art - both in New York, NY.
Digital Works, a national juried competition, encourages participation by emerging and established artist and seeks to showcase contemporary works of art created through digital processes that reflect innovative use of media, technical excellence, and personal vision.
Juror Christiane Paul is the Director of the Media Studies Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Media Studies at the New School, NY, and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has written extensively on new media arts and lectured internationally on art and technology. An expanded new edition of her book, Digital Art (Thames & Hudson, UK, 2003), was published in spring 2008 and her edited anthology, New Media in the White Cube and Beyond - Curatorial Models for Digital Art, was published by UC Press in December 2008. At the Whitney Museum, she curated the shows Profiling (2007) and Data Dynamics (2001); the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial; the online exhibition CODeDOC (2002) for artport, the Whiteny Museum's online portal to Internet art for which she is responsible; as well as Follow Through by Scott Paterson and Jennifer Crowe (2005).
Other recent curatorial work includes Feedforward - The Angel of History (co-curated with Steve Dietz; Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Spain, Oct. 2009); INDAF Digital Art Festival (Incheon, Korea, Aug. 2009); and Scalable Relations (Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, CA; as well as galleries at UCSD, UCLA and UCSB, 2008-09).
Dr. Paul has previously taught in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1999-2008); the Digital+Media Department of the Rhode Island School of Design (2005-08); the San Francisco Art Institute and the Center of New Media at the University of California at Berkeley (2008).
Text from Digital Works exhibit prospectus and The New School website.
Honorable Mention Award
"Theremin" was awarded one of two honorable mention awards.