Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who is interested in art as research and critical practice.
Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the New York Public Library, Ars Electronica in Linz, the Poland Mediations Bienniale, the Science Gallery Dublin, University of Technology Gallery in Sydney, Maison des Arts de Créteil in Paris, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Museum Boijmans and MU Art Space in the Netherlands, Jaaga art and technology center in Bangalore, and the Monitor Digital Festival in Guadalajara. She has exhibited nationally at PS1 Moma, the New Museum, Eyebeam, Clocktower Gallery, 92Y Tribeca, Issue Project Room, and Splatterpool in New York City, Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, and CEPA Gallery in Buffalo among many others. In addition to her individual work she has collaborated with the collective Future Archaeology, with video artist Adriana Varella and with artists Aurelia Moser, Allison Burtch, and Adam Harvey.
Her work has been featured in print in the New Yorker, New York Times, Arts Asia Pacific, Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, Newsweek, New Scientist, Popular Science, Il Sole 24 Ore, Science Magazine, Arts Asia Pacific, C Magazine, and on the cover of Government Technology, on television on CNN, Dan Rather Reports, the BBC World Service, ZDF in Germany, and Fuji and Freed Television in Japan, Channel One, RTR and Lenta in Russia, Norwegian Broadcasting, on the radio on Public Radio's Science Friday, Studio 360, and CBS News, and online in the New York Times Magazine, TED, the Guardian, Reuters, the New York Post, NPR, Wired, Smithsonian, Le Monde, Haaretz, The Creators Project, neural.it, Art Ukraine, Designboom, Capital New York, Artlog, Rhizome, Fast Company, The Verge, Motherboard, the Boston Globe, Huffington Post, Gizmodo and the Daily Beast, among many others.
Heather has given talks at schools, conferences and festivals including TEDxVienna, sxsw, Eyeo, the New School, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Bennington College, Middlebury College, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, the Woodrow Wilson Policy Center, TAGDF Mexico City, Bio-IT World, the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board and LISA.
Heather has received grants or residency awards from Eyebeam, MOMA PS1, Clocktower Gallery, Jaaga, I-Park, Sculpture Space, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, CEPA Gallery, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.
Heather has a BA in Information Arts from Bennington College and a Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is currently a PhD student in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Assistant Professor of Art and technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented in Chicago by Catherine Edelman gallery.
le Centre de la Photographie Genève est fier de vous annoncer la tenue de la 5e édition de la triennale 50JPG - 50 Jours pour la Photographie à Genève, et son exposition centrale CAMÉRA(AUTO)CONTRÔLE, du 1er juin au 31 juillet 2016.
Cet événement majeur plongera au coeur de la question des images automatisées, drones, selfies, réseaux sociaux, traitement de données et systèmes de surveillance, en articulant les démarches de plus de 60 artistes internationaux.
La manifestation se déploiera de plus à travers les programmations respectives d'une trentaine de lieux culturels de Genève et de ses environs, formant les constellations IN (en lien avec la thématique de l'éditio...
Fotomuseum Winterthur is launching a new exhibition format titled Situations, which allows to react more quickly to developments within photographic culture.
Ryan Trecartin, "Junior war", 2013
With Ryan Trecartin’s Junior War we enter the world of “the most consequential artist to have emerged since the nineteen-eighties” (New Yorker), virtually through the back door. The film was produced in 2013 as a frenetic re-montage of scenes that Trecartin shot with a handheld camera during his last year of high school. The night-vision lens transforms dancing, drinking, speeding, and joking adolescents into green, shimmering beings with spooky eyes that almost seem to be from another world. They are the radical and real precursors to Trecartin’s post-human, composite beings that later appea...
Concerns about identity have risen to the forefront, as more and more people worry about privacy in the age of the Internet. Additionally, more and more people are constricted by racial and sexual classifications that no longer accommodate an evolving society. Labels such as gay, straight, bi-sexual, transgendered, white, black, African-American, Latino, Hispanic, Asian, tall, short, thin, fat, Jewish, Catholic, Atheist, are used to define us, often found on census forms, marriage licenses and medical records. Our own government issues us social security numbers through which our identity is codified.
In today’s age of gender equality, multi-racial families, and increasing security breaches, more and more artists are looking at issues of identity and classification. Identify brings together five artist whose wor...