Art & Technology interviews
sound and visual artists
Host Daniel Durning
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)