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Edition #17: Carla Gannis and Jillian McDonald - listen | listen with RealPlayer
First broadcast May 8, 2006

In this edition of Art and Technology, host Daniel Durning brings into focus the video work and other projects of guests Jillian McDonald and Carla Gannis. Both artists look at contemporary media and culture through the lens of obsessive vision and creative work in video, online and other media.

Jillian McDonald is a Canadian born artist, living in New York. Her video project entitled Me and Billy Bob, exhibited at Jack the Pelican in Williamsburg, is an ongoing conceptual project in which the object of her obsession is actor Billy Bob Thornton. She teaches art at Pace University in NYC.

Carla Gannis, originally from North Carolina, currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Her video installation, Jezebel, will be shown by Claire Oliver at the LOOP video art fair in Barcelona... She received the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in Computer Arts in 2005. (30 minutes)