CURATORIAL PROJECTS
The exhibitions and experiences that I instigate often involve light and technology while guiding visitors to explore and move.
My curatorial approach seeks to provoke a sense of adventure, to enhance the artwork encounter and to enable the experience of ideas.
In structuring the environment to host artists to share their work with an audience I use techniques from my art practice and experience design.
Presenting holographic media and digital technologies there is alway a balance between magic and learning. I attempt to create multiple ways to experience the work while providing pathways to learn more about the artist’s conceptual approach and their process as well as the science and technology at play.
In addition to curating and producing exhibitions for institutions, I collaborate on participatory art projects often involving urban exploring and waterways.
Interference:
Coexistence
September 6 – October 19, 2013
HoloCenter at The Clock Tower of Long Island City
Queens Clocktower
New York, NY
Interference:Coexistence was an installation of holograms by outstanding artists from around the world. The holograms exhibited included classic pieces from the late 70s and early 80s that defined the art form as well as fresh visions by established and emerging artists.
Encountering holographic art makes us question perception. What we see occupies a space in an entirely different way from a physical object – the hologram is a sculpture of light. Using a range of holographic techniques these artists have created scenes of multiple and extended views, scenes we could not see directly but require the intervention of the holography.
Holographic Embodiment
August 31 – October 27, 2019
HoloCenter on Governors Island
New York, NY
The confluence of the physical and virtual body is explored by artists working with holographic media. The artworks create collective, emotive and fragmented visions of the self in states of coexistence. Light and information are shaped using various techniques to suggest the chimeral nature of consciousness and identity.
SPACE:LIGHT
2019-2021
Culture Lab LIC
New York, NY
This annual exhibition program at Culture Lab LIC was developed to give artists space, time and support to experiment and create light art installations.
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LIGHT WINDOWS
May 2020
Worldwide Installations
LIGHT WINDOWS began in New York City in 2020 as a way for artists to continue their practice. In May 2020 over 90 projects across 18 countries (including Antarctica) connected isolated artists through the shared action of projecting light art through their windows at night. Everyone was encouraged to join in and make light-art at home with activity kits distributed in New York.
Each project was a beacon of inspiration that brought art to hyper local audiences while forging international connection. A year later LIGHT WINDOWS 2021 was part of UNESCO’s International Day of Light on May 16 along with livestreams by artists around the world.