CURRENT CURATOR
Slated to curate in 2010, Jeanne Brasile is currently the Director at the Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, USA. She has been working in non-profit museums and galleries for almost twenty years in such venues as The Storm King Art Center, The South Street Seaport Museum and The Montclair State University Art Galleries.
In addition, she frequently curates independently and is also an Adjunct Professor of Museum Studies at Seton Hall University, where she teaches graduate students how to curate exhibitions and she teaches Art History to undergraduate students at Montclair State University. Jeanne is most interested in developing exhibitions that challenge visitors to re-think their perceptions about art, art-making and the role of the museum/gallery.
PAST CURATORS
2009 Curator: AOIFE ROSENMEYER. Aoife is a freelance writer and curator based in Zürich, Switzerland. For four years until the end of 2007 she was a curator with the London group Artwise, which realises site-specific commissions, exhibitions and other diverse projects in the public and private sectors; in this role she worked with artists, filmmakers and designers including Peter Greenaway, Idris Khan, Paul Veroude, Shilpa Gupta and Troika.
Since her move to Switzerland she has written for art publications such as Art World Magazine, ARTINFO, Saatchi Online Magazine, Art Review and Circa. Aoife recently curated a solo exhibition by Kilian Rüthemann at LOGE gallery, Bern, and will curate a group exhibition at K3 exhibition space in Zürich in October; this year she has also initiated a series of debates entitled Art & Argument.
Aoife's educational background includes: BTEC Foundation Art & Design Manchester Metropolitan University, 1987, BA Hons (First) Fine Art Sheffield Hallam University, 2000 and MRes Humanities and Cultural Studies, London Consortium, (Architectural Association, Tate Gallery, ICA and Birkbeck College), 2002
2008 Curator: DAMON LOREN BAKER. Damon is the Associate Curator of Art, Design, and Technology at the Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He directs the Intermedia Gallery/Lab which brings together artists from around the world to explore the opportunities provided by advances in science and technology, collaborates with researchers in laboratories at the Siebel Center for Computer Science, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the Beckman Institute, develops software for the creation of virtual reality art, and is part of the Cultural Informatics project of the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies.
2007 Curator: ROBB MITCHELL. As a curator, producer and event organiser, Robb Mitchell has had co-founding roles in the development of many interdisciplinary creative initiatives including The Chateau, Free Gallery, Machinista Glasgow 2004 and the new media / hacklab Electron Club at Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Glasgow. He is also a board member of Clydeside Initiative for the Arts (Studio Warehouse). With New Media Scotland he organised the Scottish node of the Upgrade! international network of art & technology gatherings.
2006 Curator: NATALIA VASQUEZ. Natalia Vasquez was born in Santo Domingo to a Dominican father and a Colombian mother and raised in Miami, Florida. In attempting to find a sense of self among three cultures, she has developed an intuitive, psychological, and humanitarian perception of the world around her.
Vasquez uses a camera as a means of connecting and communicating with the outside world. She enjoys relocating and experiencing different cultures, redefining her reality, and adapting to new surroundings - all of which usually yield invaluable learning.
Her last two years were spent in Prague where she was witness to the reality of a country in the midst of reconstructing itself. This inspires her tremendously and encourages her continued questioning of materialism, consumption, and excessive comfort.
2005 Curator: CYNTHIA BETH RUBIN. Cynthia began experimenting with digital media in the early 1980's. The transition from painting to the electronic arts provided the means and the impetus for a shift in the subject matter in her work. She was the recipient of the first individual artist's grant in New Media from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts and has also received numerous other awards, including grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the New England Foundation on the Arts, and various artist residencies. Rubin's work has been featured in exhibitions across North America and around the world. Recent and current exhibitions include ARCADE III, (and ARCADE II, which opened in England and traveled to Siberia and Belarussia), SIGGRAPH 2001(and 1999,1995), the New York Digital Salon 2001, and ISEA 2000 in Paris. She has also exhibited in Brazil, Australia, the Netherlands, and Canada.
Rubin is a native of Rochester, NY and holds degrees from Antioch College and the Maryland Institute, College of Art (BA and MFA). She has been on the faculty of Frostburg State College, Connecticut College, and the University of Vermont, and currently is affiliated with the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a vice-president of ISEA, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts.
Founder & 2005 Curator: COLLEEN TULLY As the founder of Pixel Pops! Colleen continues to savor her role as organizer of this uniquely organic series of traveling annual digital art exhibits. She works as a web developer and visual artist in Boulder, CO. She is a native of New Orleans and received a B.F.A. in painting and drawing from L.S.U. in Baton Rouge. She is connected to that region by invisible chains and emotional longing.
UPCOMING CURATORS
Slated to curate in 2011, Philip Tonda Heide is a visual artist and curator. After training and developing as an artist he found it necessary to have a more direct influence on the organization of exhibitions. He sees the boundary between art making and curating as a flexible one with the two occupations feeding each other.
Philip works with the exhibition space Souterrain Amsterdam where he is creating a group exhibition this summer (2009). He is also the founder of the art project space TPTP in Paris.
Philip was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, UDK Berlin and Dutch Art Institute (post graduate research). Being of a bohemian nature, he now works internationally.
Scheduled to curate in 2012, Carolina Vasquez is a multi-media artist exploring new technologies and mixing them with more traditional forms of expression. She believes that by being an artist it is important to also lead workshops, program exhibitions and help in the continual cycle of creative opportunities.
Her desire for investigating human behaviour and personal stories is repeatedly expressed throughout the work. The process of invention is integral, as are her narrative explorations and through this she creates and manipulates images.
She was born in the Dominican Republic, raised in Miami and now lives in Wales. She obtained an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in London and continues to exhibit internationally.