Art & Technology interviews
sound and visual artists
Host Daniel Durning
First broadcast May 31, 2005
Daniel Durning interviews six members of The Digi Girls, a collective of professional
artists, curators, animators and filmmakers. The group ponders the conundrum
of digital art and talks about their work, careers, and the transition from
traditional materials to computer based technologies.
Kathleen Graves is a digital and video
artist from a painting and dance background. She makes images, video and 2D
video animatio ns and is a digital photographer, combining photography with
painting techniques and pixel principles on the computer.
Andrea Ackerman
is a New York artist who graduated from Harvard Medical School and trained
and practiced as a psychiatrist before pursuing a career as an artist. Ackerman
believes the synthetic is the new "nature".
Jerelyn Hanrahan is an artist,
sculptor and installation artist who is working with digital interactive media
and video installations. Her work has been exhibited at the Burning Man Festival
and she is part of a Digital Print Exhibition showing in Cuba in June, 2005.
Perry Bard is an artist who
works with electronic media and lives in New York. She has exhibited video
and installations internationally including in New York at P.S.1 and the New
Museum. Her upcoming exhibitions include an installation using a mobile truck
side billboard featuring artifacts stolen from the Baghdad Museum.
Lisa Crafts is a self-taught animator
and painter. Her work is characterized by richly rendered design and themes
concerning aspects of the human condition including sexuality, the role of
creativity, and the resilience of the human spirit.
Claudia Hart began showing her paintings
at Pat Hearn Gallery in New York in the late 80s. She is presently working
on Sleeping Beauty, a life-sized interactive touch painting in collaboration
with the artist and technologist Michael Ferraro.