Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Donald Fels is a visual artist and writer. For the past twenty-five years he has followed the trade in commodities around the world. People have always exchanged goods, and in the process have forever swapped stories, traded hopes and ideas. He is currently at work on a graphic non-fiction book, Placing Color, which looks at the rather incredible history of the mordant alum. His book Water’s Edge, about a year he spent as artist in residence at a decommissioned steel plant in Southern Italy, is being readied for publication.

2011 Writers Program

2001/02 New Media Gallery: Plywood and Memory

Artist Support Program 1996

Maureen Whiting is a choreographer, dancer, and mathematician based in Oakland, California. Her work was supported in Seattle for over 20 years by On the Boards, Seattle University, Velocity Dance and ACT Theatre where she also developed “Ramayana” with nationally acclaimed directors. She taught dance at Seattle University’s Theatre Department for 3 years and has taught many workshops on improvisation and the creative process. As well as theatre work she has done installations in hotel rooms, outside in a military fort, and in galleries. Beyond the West Coast she performed her work in New York, Philadelphia, Alaska, and Europe. Company work expands to site specific pieces and films. Maureen created film and video projects for Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum and released a short as part of Seattle Women in Film in 2007. Maureen grew up a ballet dancer and trained in improvisation with Stephanie Skura (while dancing in her company) and Joan Skinner among others. She graduated with a degree in Mathematics in 1989 from Smith College and currently teaches mathematics.

Artist Support Program 2001: “And there was concrete skin for your face,” a dance, sound, and video work with Robert Campbell

Robert Campbell’s body of work includes video art, digital media, multi-media performance, installation, and documentary film. Since 1984, his single-channel video art work has been exhibited at festivals and exhibitions in the U.S., Europe and Japan. For the past 30 years his new media, installation and digital print work has been featured regionally and nationally at the Frye Art Museum, Whatcom Museum, Kittredge Gallery, Henry Art Gallery, 911 Media Arts Center, COCA, Fuel Gallery, SOIL Gallery, Kirkland Art Center, Peeler Art Center, Commencement Art Gallery, MOV-iN Gallery, Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Art, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Museum of Northwest Art, University of Arizona Museum of Art, and included in the 2012 International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) and nine of the past eleven annual Currents Santa Fe International New Media Festivals. His video/dance/music collaborations have been featured at On the Boards, Bumbershoot, Cornish Playhouse, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, MOXSonic Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival and Lincoln Center. He has produced documentaries in the U.S., Italy, Ukraine, Cambodia, Zambia and South Africa, with excerpts of his work in Africa selected for the Journey to Planet Earth series on the PBS network. He was the 2016 Astra Zarina Fellow with The Civita Institute in central Italy; Artist-In-Residence at: Pilchuck Glass School (2006, ’07) and Centrum (2000, ’05 and ’09) in Washington State; and Burren College of Art in County Clare, Ireland (2000). A core faculty member of the Art Department at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington since 1991, he has taught courses in video art, new media, documentary, animation, digital imaging, experimental cinema, video for dance, and video installation. In 2012 he founded the Institute of Emergent Technology + Intermedia (iET+I) at Cornish. Campbell received his BFA and MFA degrees from the School of Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts.

2001-02 New Media Gallery (with Maureen Whiting): and there was concrete skin for your face

Seattle artist Jim Pridgeon has over 25 solo shows to his credit. His artwork has been displayed in museums, galleries as well as public spaces across the nation. Jim has received both private commissions and commissions to work on design teams to develop Percent-for-Art public art projects. He has been awarded many national and local awards and fellowships including the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellow award and the Seattle Arts Commission “Seattle Artists” Fellowship award. Jim is a graduate of Stanford University (B.A. English) and is now on the faculty of the UW School of Medicine as a Teaching Associate in Neurological Surgery where he also holds the title Artist-in-Residence.

Jim’s art involves the suspension and placement of objects in temporary room environments. This enables the viewer to be surrounded by the work and to have access to various points of view. The metaphorical quality of the work comes from the use of situations and objects that are familiar.

Artist Support Program 2001-02: Perfect Pitch

Mark Polishook directed the music composition and theory programs at Central Washington University. He’s been a professor of jazz piano at the University of Maine at Augusta and a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the Crakow Academy of Music in Poland. Dr. Polishook has been a resident artist in the Aarhus Computer Science Department, at STEIM in Amsterdam, and at CREATE at the University of California Santa Barbara.

He has a DMA in Music Composition from the Hartt School of Music, a masters’ degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and the Manhattan School of Music. His undergraduate degree is from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Artist Support Program 2003: Record a composition consisting of computer-generated sound, trombone, and percussion.

New Media Gallery 2002-03 (with Lisa Hutton): Revisiting September 11, 19[72]

Lisa Hutton is a media artist working primarily in digital imaging, net.art, sound, and text. Hutton uses the internet as a venue for low-technology interventions which critique assumptions of truth, gender, and technology. Her work has been exhibited in diverse venues including the 5th and 7th New York Digital Salons,LA Freewaves at MOCA Los Angeles, the Downey Museum of Art in Downey, CA, the Walker Art Center’s Beyond Interface, the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts in Skopje, Macedonia, ISEA ’97 Chicago, and Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. Her net.art is supported by the Center for Research in Computing in the Arts (CRCA) in La Jolla, CA. Two works of net.art have received mentions. Woman Words was honored by the New Media International Design Festival, New York City in 1998 and Cyber*Babes was honored by Prix Ars Electronica in 1996. Hutton holds a BA (Summa Cum Laude) in Visual Art and Literature Writing from the University of California San Diego and an MFA in Visual Art from the same institution. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Art at Central Washington University. She has been getting along very well with computers since 1987 and is sometimes seen using rollerblades.

New Media Gallery 2002-03 (with Mark Polishook): Revisiting September 11, 19[72]