Make some sweet art.
Congrats Marisa.

Cheers,
Lee

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On 5/19/06 6:19 PM, "Sherry Hocking" <etc@experimentaltvcenter.org> wrote:

> The Experimental Television Center and the International Summer Workshop
> program of the Institute for Electronic Art at the NYSCC, Alfred University
> will host a presentation on new media and internet art by Marisa Olson, a San
> Francisco-based artist, critic, and curator.
>
> The event will take place on Thursday June 8, 2006 at 7 pm at the Ti-Ahwaga
> Performing Arts Center, 42 Delphine Street in Owego. The event is free and
> open to the public.
>
> This is a wonderful chance to get a personal introduction to the exciting new
> world of Web art and the artists who create it. You�ll participate in a guided
> tour of Web-based art from Rhizome and around the world.
>
> Marisa Olson is an Editor at Rhizome.org, an online platform for the global
> new media art community. Rhizome programs support the creation, presentation,
> discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in
> significant ways. Rhizome is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
>
> Marisa will provide an introduction to new media art and art on the Web.
> Marisa will also show work live on the Web, using the state-of-the-art
> projection facilities at the Ti-Ahwaga Performing Arts Center, which have been
> supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Mildred Faulkner
> Truman Foundation.
>
> Marisa is in Owego as a guest participant in the International Summer Workshop
> held at the studio of the Experimental TV Center. Since 1996, ETC and the
> Institute for Electronic Arts have sponsored the International Summer
> Workshop, a two-week accredited course of intensive media arts-making and
> study. Artist and educator Pamela Hawkins established the program in 1996 and
> serves as faculty along with Hank Rudolph, Arts Coordinator at ETC.
>
> Marisa has most recently performed or exhibited at the Whitney Museum of
> American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and
> the international Futuresonic, Electrofringe, Machinista, and VIPER festivals.
> While Wired has called her both funny *and* humorous, the New York Times has
> called her "anything but stupid."
> Marisa's essays on contemporary art and visual culture have appeared in Wired,
> Afterimage, and many other publications.
>
> She has also written on new media for the Walker Art Center, the Banff Centre
> for the Arts, Eyebeam, the Getty Information Institute, and the numerous
> foundations. Before working for Rhizome, Marisa held the positions of
> Associate Director at SF Camerawork and Curator at Zero:One. She has also
> curated exhibitions and special programs at the J. Paul Getty Museum; FILE in
> Brazil; the American Film Institute; the Gifu Museum in Japan: the Uffizi
> Gallery, Italy; and SFMOMA, where she served, for four years, on the media
> arts advisory committee, as program chair and founding editor of the zine,
> 'SMAC!'
>
> Marisa has been a visiting scholar or artist in residence at the University of
> London, the Smithsonian Institute, Northwestern University, and the Banff
> Centre for the Arts. She holds MA's in the History of Consciousness, from
> UCSC, and Rhetoric from UC Berkeley, where she is currently completing her PhD
> in Rhetoric/Film & Digital Media.
>
> This exhibition is made possible with support from the New York State Council
> on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Presentation Funds
> Program of the Experimental TV Center.
>
> We hope you can join us.
>
> The Experimental Television Center was founded in 1971, and provides support
> and services to the international media arts community.
>
>
>
> The Center's programs are supported by the Electronic Media and Film Program
> at the New York State Council on the Arts; Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art,
> Science, and Technology; the Media Arts Program of the National Endowment for
> the Arts; mediaThe foundation; The National Television and Video Preservation
> Foundation; NYS Challenge Grant Program; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the
> Visual Arts; the New York Foundation for the Arts; the Media Action Grant
> Program of Media Alliance; the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred
> University; Everson Museum of Art; IMAP; BAVC; VidiPax; and by corporate
> support from Dave Jones Design and Black Hammer Productions and by the
> contributions of many individual artists.
>
>
> Contact: Sherry Miller Hocking, Assistant Director, Experimental TV Center
> 607 687.4341
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