Emily Roysdon, Story of History (2009)
Continuing our
announcing the pairings of artists and technologists for
Seven on Seven:
Emily Roysdon &
Kellan Elliott-McCrea are teaming up. The artist and the technologist both explore a broad range of ideas in their work, from activism to collaborative works...
Emily Roysdon (1977) is a New York and Stockholm based artist and
writer. Her working method is interdisciplinary and recent projects
take the form of performance, photographic installations, print
making, text, video, curating and collaborating. Roysdon recently
developed the concept "ecstatic resistance" to talk about the
impossible and imaginary in politics. The concept debuted with
simultaneous shows at Grand Arts in Kansas City, and X Initiative in
New York. She is editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal
and artist collective,
LTTR. She is a contributing member with the
band
MEN. Roysdon completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2001 and an Interdisciplinary MFA at UCLA in 2006. Roysdon has received
grants from Art Matters (2008), Franklin Furnace (2009) and the Rhema
Hort Mann Foundation (2010). For six months in 2008 she was a resident
at the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS). Roysdon's work has been shown at the 2010 Whitney Biennial, Greater NY
at MoMA/PS1, Manifesta 8, Bucharest Biennial 4, Participant, Inc.
(NY); Museo Tamayo (Mexico City); New Museum (NY); and Power Plant
(Toronto). Recent solo shows include new commissions from Art in
General (NY), Konsthall C (Stockholm) and a Matrix commission from the
Berkeley Art Museum. Her videos have been screened widely, most
recently at the Berlinale; and the Images Festival (Toronto). Her
writings have been published in numerous books and magazines,
including the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Zehar, C Magazine,
and Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory.
Kellan Elliott-McCrea is the VP of Engineering at
Etsy.com. Previously he was the architect at Flickr.com. He's obsessed with projects and products that allow people to collaborate in new ways, that create more value then they capture, and that are self sustaining
without reference to broken advertising models and mass consumption of
late stage corporate capitalism. He speaks frequently on topics
ranging from scaling technical and social systems, open standards,
privacy, and data. Other projects include co-authoring the OAuth 1.0
authentication standard, and helping launch
Indymedia.org.