glass painted white on backside and black on front side with roofing paper.

SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS:

Main Gallery Exhibitions>>

Rudy Shepherd: Portraits

July 8-31, 2009
In “Portraits,” American Artist-in-Residence Rudy Shepherd presents a series of recent works that challenge and transcend traditional notions of who and what is a worthy subject of high-art portraiture, e.g., criminals, anonymous Taliban members, black heroes, or houses.The painted portraits in Shepherd’s “Criminal/Victim” series from 2009 depict both perpetrators and victims of the same crime side-by-side, visually blurring the line between innocence and guilt. By presenting the people first and the stories second a space is created for humanity to be re-instilled into the lives of people who have been reduced to mere headlines by the popular press (e.g. Timothy McVeigh).

Nicolas Grospierre & Kaeko Mizukoshi: Safe and Hymn.

28 Apr – 9 May 2009
Location One is pleased to present the first of its summer 2009 International Residency Program Exhibitions featuring the work of two outstanding emerging artists, Nicolas Grospierre (Poland) and Kaeko Mizukoshi (Japan). Artist Grospierre will present a photographic installation exploring the intricacies of NYC bank vaults, well timed in light of the global financial crisis. Artist Mizukoshi presents a video installation ste at a Los Angeles bus stop and focused on the dialog between a man, who rants indecipherably, and an awaiting passenger who responds with unrelated religious exclamations.

Rob Kennedy: I Relish Your Balderdash

June 25th, 2008
A video screening of Hapless, Helpless and Hopeless, by Rob Kennedy and Peter Dowling, 2008, (34 mins), with film screenings of Secondary Currents (1983, 17 mins) and The Gift (1994, 6 mins), by Peter Rose plus spoken texts, sounds and other paraphernaliaA screening/talk/reading presented by Rob Kennedy and Peter Rose concerning the absurdities, problems and possibilities of language, as affected by image, text, time, sense and nonsense.

Rashaad Newsome: Compositions

June 19 – July 26 2008
Have pop culture and globalization co-opted the wonderfully expressive gestures of the black America female? This is the question that Rashaad Newsome explores in video and photography in Shade Compositions, one of two new works in an exhibition opening on Thursday June 19th at Location One.

Daniel Andersson & Tseng Yu-chin: IRP Exhibition 2008

June 4-18, 2008
Location One is pleased to present new work by Daniel Andersson (Finland) and by Tseng Yu-chin (Taiwan), participants of the International Residency Program this year. The exhibited work was made at Location One as part of their residency and features multi-layered ink photographs and drawings.

Eric Siu & Luis Nobre

May 21, 2008
Optical Handlers – eeyee is a new interactive media project that consists of an optical goggle device constructed by the artist, which splits the vision into four channels. Hold It! is an installation that creates a fantastical, sometimes hallucinatory vision of nature, the city and the artist’s studio. Visual play is generated by overlapping layers of drawings, ephemeral sculptures made of paper and cardboard, light wire objects, all constructed by Nobre in-situ.

Nina Sobell: Internal Message Search – A Performative Installation

April 18-April 30, 2008
Nina Sobell will install her studio in Location One’s Project Gallery, which includes recent wax
sculptures, drawings, keyboard, guitar and mic.
Visitors to the gallery will be able to engage in a dialogue with the artist about this work, and may bring their own instruments to improvise with her live on the web.

Hermelinde Hergenhahn & Mafalda Santos: In the Location One Project Space

January 30th -February 9th, 2008
Hergenhahn’s installation will consist of a series of pencil drawings gathered from experiences of quotidian life, and a video projection and wall etching in the gallery. Santos plays with the architecture of the exhibition space to reflect on the particular conditions of being an artist temporarily displaced from her customary work space, while she also considers the evolution of her work in a hand-drawn map for a new website.

Hung Nguyen Manh: Special Sound Performance

Jan 11th, 2008, 7pm
“From Cricket to Airplane”, an experimental performance by Hung Nguyen Manh followed by 2 other short pieces. 3 solo pieces that transports the audience into hi-frequency (cricket) to lo-frequency (airplane) sound effects. Realized with an electric guitar, e-bow and effects Boss DS1 + PS5 + DD6.

Hung Nguyen Manh & Moira Ricci: In Location One’s Project Space

9th -19th January 2008
Central to Moira Ricci’s work is the world of the family home as the natural arena in which relationships are played out. Putting aside her own emotions, Ricci turns her personal narrative into fertile ground for thinking about the world we live in.

Katia Kameli & Kuba Bakowski: In Location One’s Project Space

December 13-22, 2007
With “Draft“, Katia Kameli continues her investigation into key issues that drive her film, video and installation practice, namely the construction of intersecting identities in a globalized world, hybridization, the notion of intercultural spaces and awareness of psychogeographical effects.

Nine International Artists Exhibit

June 2nd – July 28th, 2007
Location One presents the second IRP group show of the 2006-2007 season, featuring new work developed by our resident artists. The exhibition represents a diverse range of artistic approaches and many are works in progress.

Jeanette Doyle: StarLine Tours

April 13-May 25, 2007
Jeanette Doyle’s practice is primarily concerned with picture making. She is particularly interested in painting and its relationship to lens-based technologies. Her work is driven by conceptual concerns but is deeply engaged with the processes and mechanics of making, especially the production of images. Her works express a desire to crystalise complexity for a moment in an image which, on closer inspection, allows the fiction of coherence to dissolve. Disjunction between the image and text is a hint of this. This disjunction between word and image is a feature of the ‘StarLine Tours’ exhibition at Location One.

IRP Exhibition, Winter 2007

February 13-March 31st, 2007
Featuring: Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski, Teresa Henriques, Agnieszka Kalinowska,
Nina Katchadourian, Rie Kawakami, Alessandro Nassiri, Kaori Tazoe, Virginie Yassef
Location One presents the first of two exhibitions showcasing new work developed during their residencies by eight artists participating in the 2006-2007 International Residency Program. Featured works, some of which are exhibited as work-in-progress, represent a diverse range of artistic approaches.

Leesa & Nicole Abahuni: In the Sky

November 21, 2006 – January 27, 2007
An opening reception and performance will be held on Wednesday, November 29th from 6 to 8 pm.
The multimedia installation, which was commissioned by Location One, is entitled In the Sky, is an exploration into the sharing of the senses and the interconnectedness between perception and sensation as experienced through visual, aural, and physical realms.

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show II

June 1st – July 29th, 2006
Featuring: Leesa & Nicole Abahuni, Simo Alitalo, Andrew Duggan, Mayumi Nakazaki, Trine Nedreaas, Yuki Okumura, Lydia Venieri, Wang Ya-Hui.
On Thursday, June 1st, Location One opens its Summer exhibition, showcasing new work developed by resident artists from the USA, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Japan, Greece, and Taiwan who are participating in the Location One 2005-2006 International Residency Program. The show will be open to the public through Saturday, July 29th, 2006.

Andrew Duggan: ECHO

Thursday, May 18, 2006 – 6:30-8:30pm
Location One presents ECHO, a collaborative project created by visual/media artist Andrew Duggan and dancers Jonathan Kelliher and Joanne Barry of Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland. For one-night only traditional Irish dance will be transported from the South West coast of Ireland to Location One’s Gallery space in New York City. Impromptu street performances and filming will take place in NYC at undisclosed locations leading up to the event. The resulting project will be presented at Location One.

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show I

February 9th – March 4th, 2006
Featuring: Paololuca Barbieri, Isabelle Ferreira, Geka Heinke, Yoon-Young Park, Mariana Viegas.
On Thursday, February 9th, Location One presents the first of two Spring exhibitions showcasing new work developed by artists from Italy, France, Germany, Korea, and Portugal who are participating in the 2005-2006 International Residency Program. Featured works represent a diverse range of artistic approaches.

Paololuca Barbieri and art collective, ALTERAZIONI VIDEO: LIGHT WAVES live in NEW YORK

Wednesday February 15th – 7:00 PM
A concert-performance conceived as a one-night audio-video event. The project explores the relationship between light and sound, looking for the natural correspondence between these two elements, between visible and invisible, playing with their frequencies.

Martin Beauregard: Somnambulic

7 December 2005 – 4 February 2006
Location One is pleased to present Somnambulic, the first New York solo exhibition by Canadian artist Martin Beauregard. This new body of work highlights persistent themes for the artist revolving around the relation between dream, illusion, and reality. It also produces a “fantastical strangeness” that is characteristic of Beauregard’s work, as he explores modes of perception through play and creation.

Yumiko Furukawa, Kenny Hunter, Wu Ta-Kun, and Mariana Viegas: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 III

June 4th – July 30th, 2005
Tent for Poet (2005) (multimedia installation with tent, furnishings, video & DVD) is a work dedicated by the artist to a poet living in New York. Citizen Firefighter (2001) (resin sculpture), was conceived primarily to celebrate the men and women of Strathclyde Brigade in Scotland. The driving force behind Wu Ta-Kun’s varied body of work is expanding “ideas of sensibility”. Landscape is an entity –or a body– which is transformed by our presence and which, in turn, transforms us.

Martin Beauregard & Marlena Kudlicka: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 II

April 28th – May 28th, 2005
Location One is pleased to present the second of three Spring exhibitions showcasing the work of artists participating in its 2004-2005 International Residency Program. The two installations by Canadian artist Martin Beauregard, and Polish artist Marlena Kudlicka were developed during their residencies at Location One.

Nayda Collazo-Llorens and Santeri Tuori: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005

March 18 – April 23, 2005
Artists-in-Residence Nayda Collazo-Llorens (USA) and Santeri Tuori (Finland) will present video installations in Location One’s main gallery. With special thanks to NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts) and FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange)

Cécile Paris: 3 videos and 3 songs

Dec 15 2004 – Jan 29, 2005
Each video presents a singular character performing a simple action: a figure on a skateboard filmed from the back in a car, a young girl playing guitar on a traffic circle in the suburbs of Paris, a swimmer, a New York doorman as he progresses through the city at night.

Mark Themann: PASSED for EXPORT: an installation.

July 8 – July 31, 2004
PASSED for EXPORT, a site-specific installation by Mark Themann, raises questions about the American Landscape, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in times of political crisis. Two videos of monumental US landscapes are projected in unnervingly slow and steady takes on opposite walls. Any potential romanticism is forestalled by the cacophonous clashing of two audio tracks in which the narrators are each reading from the Amendments to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, reciting with an extreme stutter.

IRP Exhibition 2004

May 28 – June 30, 2004
Featuring:Koki Tanaka, Hsiao Sheng Chien, Mark Themann, Federico Muelas, Miguel Soares, Alexandra do Carmo, Vincent Lamouroux.
On Thursday, May 27, Location One presents its third annual artist-in-residence group exhibition. Eight works ranging from video, to sculpture, to robotic structures, to interactive installations were developed by emerging international artists during their stay. Featured in the main gallery, the show will be open to the public through Wednesday, June 30th, 2004.

Kurt Ralske: Re-Mapping 4 Dimensions: Three New Works

January-February, 2004
These three works explore time, and our perception of time. For me, one of the most interesting qualities of video is that it is in reality only a collection of still images. At 30 video frames per second, any 10 seconds of fluid movement can alternately be considered as a static collection of 300 related still images. Working in the digital realm in a real-time manner, there are endless possibilies for instantly treating a new video recording as a library of stills, then deriving new material by analyzing or modifying this library: reordering entries, comparing similarity or difference between entries, deriving a single image from multiple entries, etc.

Vesna Pavlovic: Casual Friday

December 10-30, 2003
Casual Friday will consist of several layers, only one of which will be photographic. Audio interviews, drawings and writings will constitute the other layers.
Collaborator and architect Srdjan Weiss, will address these themes through drawings of the layout and contents of the “perfect” office. He will do so through drawings, and will integrate into his work research on the history of the subject building, as well as information related to the taste and design of the architects who originally worked on the building.

Miguel Soares: Red Alert

November-December, 2003
“Do androids dream of electric sheep?” – Philip K. Dick
Gustavo is a robot that has been discarded in a black garbage bag. Out of this bag extends Gustavo’s motorized arm, with a laser that is carving a drawing on the wall. Do robots dream of being artists?

Saoirse Higgins and Simon Schiessl: Mechanism no.1: War

July 9 – August 2, 2003
This is an interactive video projection examining the critical moments leading to war. The visitor winds* up the mechanical toy drummer boy with the brass key. The action of the drummer boy correlates to a projected video that shows bombs dropping from the sky. The sound of the bombs keeps exact beat with the drum. The tighter the mechanism is wound the faster the bombs will drop. The visitor controls frequency of the bombing. Where are these bombs being dropped? What are the consequences?

Daniel Blaufuks, Isabelle Jenniches, Dominik Lejman, Javier Viver, and Jiun-Ting Lin: IRP Exhibition 2003

May 22, 2003-June 28, 2003
May 22, Location One, a not-for-profit multimedia arts organization, opened its second artist-in-residence group exhibition with multimedia work developed during their stay. Included artists: Daniel Blaufuks (Portugal), Isabelle Jenniches (The Netherlands), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Jiun-Ting Lin (Taiwan), and Javier Viver (Spain). This exhibition will be on view in Location One’s gallery through June 28, 2003 and will be streamed live on our website (www.location1.org).

Atsushi Nishijima, Erwin Redl, Laurie Spiegel and Heather Wagner: Signal to Noise

September 10 – October 19, 2002
Location One is happy to present “Signal to Noise“, a group exhibition featuring works that explore the relationship of sound and light waves. Not merely illustrations of audio-visual synaesthesia, several of the pieces act literally as transducers, that is, devices that convert input energy of one form into output energy of another.

Xu Tan: Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)

May 23rd – June 29th 2002
Xu Tan draws his inspiration from the teachings of philosopher Chuang-Tzu (circa 250 BC). Successor to Lao Tzu and a foremost proponent of Taoism, Chuang-Tzu presumed that no matter how alike two things are, a difference between them can always be found and, conversely, no matter how different two things are, one can find a similarity between them. Objective similarities and differences do not justify any particular way of distinguishing between things.

Francois Bucher: White Balance

January 10 – March 2, 2002
White Balance (to think is to forget differences) is an effort to uncover the geographies of power, the frontiers of privilege. It revisits this problem from different angles, creating short circuits of meaning which are hosted by improbable audiovisual matches. Media and internet footage is intermixed with images shot in downtown Manhattan before and after the September 11th attacks.

Atsushi Nishijima: Subtractive Creation/Visible Sound

December 8th – 29, 2001
“Sound does not exist without space and space is always filled with sound. Space represents sound as something visible, sound represents space as something audible. Our daily life is made of inevitable factors such as time and space. As for myself, that is a place where contemporary music exists.” –Atsushi Nishijima

François Bucher, Marta Deskur, and Ksenija Turcic: Irp Exhibition 2001

June 9-July 28, 2001
Museum of Mankind is a video installation depicting the statues that stand high on the roof of the Museum of Mankind in London. In a multimedia installation and web site project, New Baby?, Marta Deskur questions the significance of family today and the conflicting issues this question addresses. Ksenija Turcic presents a new multimedia installation, Phase, where she pursues her investigation of emotional space.

Katya Sander and François Bucher: RECORDERS

March 22 – April 21, 2001
“Recorders is an installation where a rotating camera and video projector interact with the visitor in a game of shadows and projection, images and text, narration and space, focus and blur. A pre-recorded conversation acts as voice-over for the entire set-up which is encompassed by a large image that resembles something like bits of information, white noise or a glittery seascape.

SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS:

Main Gallery Exhibitions>>

Rudy Shepherd: Portraits

July 8-31, 2009
In “Portraits,” American Artist-in-Residence Rudy Shepherd presents a series of recent works that challenge and transcend traditional notions of who and what is a worthy subject of high-art portraiture, e.g., criminals, anonymous Taliban members, black heroes, or houses.The painted portraits in Shepherd’s “Criminal/Victim” series from 2009 depict both perpetrators and victims of the same crime side-by-side, visually blurring the line between innocence and guilt. By presenting the people first and the stories second a space is created for humanity to be re-instilled into the lives of people who have been reduced to mere headlines by the popular press (e.g. Timothy McVeigh).

Nicolas Grospierre & Kaeko Mizukoshi: Safe and Hymn.

28 Apr – 9 May 2009
Location One is pleased to present the first of its summer 2009 International Residency Program Exhibitions featuring the work of two outstanding emerging artists, Nicolas Grospierre (Poland) and Kaeko Mizukoshi (Japan). Artist Grospierre will present a photographic installation exploring the intricacies of NYC bank vaults, well timed in light of the global financial crisis. Artist Mizukoshi presents a video installation ste at a Los Angeles bus stop and focused on the dialog between a man, who rants indecipherably, and an awaiting passenger who responds with unrelated religious exclamations.

Rob Kennedy: I Relish Your Balderdash

June 25th, 2008
A video screening of Hapless, Helpless and Hopeless, by Rob Kennedy and Peter Dowling, 2008, (34 mins), with film screenings of Secondary Currents (1983, 17 mins) and The Gift (1994, 6 mins), by Peter Rose plus spoken texts, sounds and other paraphernaliaA screening/talk/reading presented by Rob Kennedy and Peter Rose concerning the absurdities, problems and possibilities of language, as affected by image, text, time, sense and nonsense.

Rashaad Newsome: Compositions

June 19 – July 26 2008
Have pop culture and globalization co-opted the wonderfully expressive gestures of the black America female? This is the question that Rashaad Newsome explores in video and photography in Shade Compositions, one of two new works in an exhibition opening on Thursday June 19th at Location One.

Daniel Andersson & Tseng Yu-chin: IRP Exhibition 2008

June 4-18, 2008
Location One is pleased to present new work by Daniel Andersson (Finland) and by Tseng Yu-chin (Taiwan), participants of the International Residency Program this year. The exhibited work was made at Location One as part of their residency and features multi-layered ink photographs and drawings.

Eric Siu & Luis Nobre

May 21, 2008
Optical Handlers – eeyee is a new interactive media project that consists of an optical goggle device constructed by the artist, which splits the vision into four channels. Hold It! is an installation that creates a fantastical, sometimes hallucinatory vision of nature, the city and the artist’s studio. Visual play is generated by overlapping layers of drawings, ephemeral sculptures made of paper and cardboard, light wire objects, all constructed by Nobre in-situ.

Nina Sobell: Internal Message Search – A Performative Installation

April 18-April 30, 2008
Nina Sobell will install her studio in Location One’s Project Gallery, which includes recent wax
sculptures, drawings, keyboard, guitar and mic.
Visitors to the gallery will be able to engage in a dialogue with the artist about this work, and may bring their own instruments to improvise with her live on the web.

Hermelinde Hergenhahn & Mafalda Santos: In the Location One Project Space

January 30th -February 9th, 2008
Hergenhahn’s installation will consist of a series of pencil drawings gathered from experiences of quotidian life, and a video projection and wall etching in the gallery. Santos plays with the architecture of the exhibition space to reflect on the particular conditions of being an artist temporarily displaced from her customary work space, while she also considers the evolution of her work in a hand-drawn map for a new website.

Hung Nguyen Manh: Special Sound Performance

Jan 11th, 2008, 7pm
“From Cricket to Airplane”, an experimental performance by Hung Nguyen Manh followed by 2 other short pieces. 3 solo pieces that transports the audience into hi-frequency (cricket) to lo-frequency (airplane) sound effects. Realized with an electric guitar, e-bow and effects Boss DS1 + PS5 + DD6.

Hung Nguyen Manh & Moira Ricci: In Location One’s Project Space

9th -19th January 2008
Central to Moira Ricci’s work is the world of the family home as the natural arena in which relationships are played out. Putting aside her own emotions, Ricci turns her personal narrative into fertile ground for thinking about the world we live in.

Katia Kameli & Kuba Bakowski: In Location One’s Project Space

December 13-22, 2007
With “Draft“, Katia Kameli continues her investigation into key issues that drive her film, video and installation practice, namely the construction of intersecting identities in a globalized world, hybridization, the notion of intercultural spaces and awareness of psychogeographical effects.

Nine International Artists Exhibit

June 2nd – July 28th, 2007
Location One presents the second IRP group show of the 2006-2007 season, featuring new work developed by our resident artists. The exhibition represents a diverse range of artistic approaches and many are works in progress.

Jeanette Doyle: StarLine Tours

April 13-May 25, 2007
Jeanette Doyle’s practice is primarily concerned with picture making. She is particularly interested in painting and its relationship to lens-based technologies. Her work is driven by conceptual concerns but is deeply engaged with the processes and mechanics of making, especially the production of images. Her works express a desire to crystalise complexity for a moment in an image which, on closer inspection, allows the fiction of coherence to dissolve. Disjunction between the image and text is a hint of this. This disjunction between word and image is a feature of the ‘StarLine Tours’ exhibition at Location One.

IRP Exhibition, Winter 2007

February 13-March 31st, 2007
Featuring: Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski, Teresa Henriques, Agnieszka Kalinowska,
Nina Katchadourian, Rie Kawakami, Alessandro Nassiri, Kaori Tazoe, Virginie Yassef
Location One presents the first of two exhibitions showcasing new work developed during their residencies by eight artists participating in the 2006-2007 International Residency Program. Featured works, some of which are exhibited as work-in-progress, represent a diverse range of artistic approaches.

Leesa & Nicole Abahuni: In the Sky

November 21, 2006 – January 27, 2007
An opening reception and performance will be held on Wednesday, November 29th from 6 to 8 pm.
The multimedia installation, which was commissioned by Location One, is entitled In the Sky, is an exploration into the sharing of the senses and the interconnectedness between perception and sensation as experienced through visual, aural, and physical realms.

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show II

June 1st – July 29th, 2006
Featuring: Leesa & Nicole Abahuni, Simo Alitalo, Andrew Duggan, Mayumi Nakazaki, Trine Nedreaas, Yuki Okumura, Lydia Venieri, Wang Ya-Hui.
On Thursday, June 1st, Location One opens its Summer exhibition, showcasing new work developed by resident artists from the USA, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Japan, Greece, and Taiwan who are participating in the Location One 2005-2006 International Residency Program. The show will be open to the public through Saturday, July 29th, 2006.

Andrew Duggan: ECHO

Thursday, May 18, 2006 – 6:30-8:30pm
Location One presents ECHO, a collaborative project created by visual/media artist Andrew Duggan and dancers Jonathan Kelliher and Joanne Barry of Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland. For one-night only traditional Irish dance will be transported from the South West coast of Ireland to Location One’s Gallery space in New York City. Impromptu street performances and filming will take place in NYC at undisclosed locations leading up to the event. The resulting project will be presented at Location One.

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show I

February 9th – March 4th, 2006
Featuring: Paololuca Barbieri, Isabelle Ferreira, Geka Heinke, Yoon-Young Park, Mariana Viegas.
On Thursday, February 9th, Location One presents the first of two Spring exhibitions showcasing new work developed by artists from Italy, France, Germany, Korea, and Portugal who are participating in the 2005-2006 International Residency Program. Featured works represent a diverse range of artistic approaches.

Paololuca Barbieri and art collective, ALTERAZIONI VIDEO: LIGHT WAVES live in NEW YORK

Wednesday February 15th – 7:00 PM
A concert-performance conceived as a one-night audio-video event. The project explores the relationship between light and sound, looking for the natural correspondence between these two elements, between visible and invisible, playing with their frequencies.

Martin Beauregard: Somnambulic

7 December 2005 – 4 February 2006
Location One is pleased to present Somnambulic, the first New York solo exhibition by Canadian artist Martin Beauregard. This new body of work highlights persistent themes for the artist revolving around the relation between dream, illusion, and reality. It also produces a “fantastical strangeness” that is characteristic of Beauregard’s work, as he explores modes of perception through play and creation.

Yumiko Furukawa, Kenny Hunter, Wu Ta-Kun, and Mariana Viegas: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 III

June 4th – July 30th, 2005
Tent for Poet (2005) (multimedia installation with tent, furnishings, video & DVD) is a work dedicated by the artist to a poet living in New York. Citizen Firefighter (2001) (resin sculpture), was conceived primarily to celebrate the men and women of Strathclyde Brigade in Scotland. The driving force behind Wu Ta-Kun’s varied body of work is expanding “ideas of sensibility”. Landscape is an entity –or a body– which is transformed by our presence and which, in turn, transforms us.

Martin Beauregard & Marlena Kudlicka: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 II

April 28th – May 28th, 2005
Location One is pleased to present the second of three Spring exhibitions showcasing the work of artists participating in its 2004-2005 International Residency Program. The two installations by Canadian artist Martin Beauregard, and Polish artist Marlena Kudlicka were developed during their residencies at Location One.

Nayda Collazo-Llorens and Santeri Tuori: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005

March 18 – April 23, 2005
Artists-in-Residence Nayda Collazo-Llorens (USA) and Santeri Tuori (Finland) will present video installations in Location One’s main gallery. With special thanks to NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts) and FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange)

Cécile Paris: 3 videos and 3 songs

Dec 15 2004 – Jan 29, 2005
Each video presents a singular character performing a simple action: a figure on a skateboard filmed from the back in a car, a young girl playing guitar on a traffic circle in the suburbs of Paris, a swimmer, a New York doorman as he progresses through the city at night.

Mark Themann: PASSED for EXPORT: an installation.

July 8 – July 31, 2004
PASSED for EXPORT, a site-specific installation by Mark Themann, raises questions about the American Landscape, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in times of political crisis. Two videos of monumental US landscapes are projected in unnervingly slow and steady takes on opposite walls. Any potential romanticism is forestalled by the cacophonous clashing of two audio tracks in which the narrators are each reading from the Amendments to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, reciting with an extreme stutter.

IRP Exhibition 2004

May 28 – June 30, 2004
Featuring:Koki Tanaka, Hsiao Sheng Chien, Mark Themann, Federico Muelas, Miguel Soares, Alexandra do Carmo, Vincent Lamouroux.
On Thursday, May 27, Location One presents its third annual artist-in-residence group exhibition. Eight works ranging from video, to sculpture, to robotic structures, to interactive installations were developed by emerging international artists during their stay. Featured in the main gallery, the show will be open to the public through Wednesday, June 30th, 2004.

Kurt Ralske: Re-Mapping 4 Dimensions: Three New Works

January-February, 2004
These three works explore time, and our perception of time. For me, one of the most interesting qualities of video is that it is in reality only a collection of still images. At 30 video frames per second, any 10 seconds of fluid movement can alternately be considered as a static collection of 300 related still images. Working in the digital realm in a real-time manner, there are endless possibilies for instantly treating a new video recording as a library of stills, then deriving new material by analyzing or modifying this library: reordering entries, comparing similarity or difference between entries, deriving a single image from multiple entries, etc.

Vesna Pavlovic: Casual Friday

December 10-30, 2003
Casual Friday will consist of several layers, only one of which will be photographic. Audio interviews, drawings and writings will constitute the other layers.
Collaborator and architect Srdjan Weiss, will address these themes through drawings of the layout and contents of the “perfect” office. He will do so through drawings, and will integrate into his work research on the history of the subject building, as well as information related to the taste and design of the architects who originally worked on the building.

Miguel Soares: Red Alert

November-December, 2003
“Do androids dream of electric sheep?” – Philip K. Dick
Gustavo is a robot that has been discarded in a black garbage bag. Out of this bag extends Gustavo’s motorized arm, with a laser that is carving a drawing on the wall. Do robots dream of being artists?

Saoirse Higgins and Simon Schiessl: Mechanism no.1: War

July 9 – August 2, 2003
This is an interactive video projection examining the critical moments leading to war. The visitor winds* up the mechanical toy drummer boy with the brass key. The action of the drummer boy correlates to a projected video that shows bombs dropping from the sky. The sound of the bombs keeps exact beat with the drum. The tighter the mechanism is wound the faster the bombs will drop. The visitor controls frequency of the bombing. Where are these bombs being dropped? What are the consequences?

Daniel Blaufuks, Isabelle Jenniches, Dominik Lejman, Javier Viver, and Jiun-Ting Lin: IRP Exhibition 2003

May 22, 2003-June 28, 2003
May 22, Location One, a not-for-profit multimedia arts organization, opened its second artist-in-residence group exhibition with multimedia work developed during their stay. Included artists: Daniel Blaufuks (Portugal), Isabelle Jenniches (The Netherlands), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Jiun-Ting Lin (Taiwan), and Javier Viver (Spain). This exhibition will be on view in Location One’s gallery through June 28, 2003 and will be streamed live on our website (www.location1.org).

Atsushi Nishijima, Erwin Redl, Laurie Spiegel and Heather Wagner: Signal to Noise

September 10 – October 19, 2002
Location One is happy to present “Signal to Noise“, a group exhibition featuring works that explore the relationship of sound and light waves. Not merely illustrations of audio-visual synaesthesia, several of the pieces act literally as transducers, that is, devices that convert input energy of one form into output energy of another.

Xu Tan: Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)

May 23rd – June 29th 2002
Xu Tan draws his inspiration from the teachings of philosopher Chuang-Tzu (circa 250 BC). Successor to Lao Tzu and a foremost proponent of Taoism, Chuang-Tzu presumed that no matter how alike two things are, a difference between them can always be found and, conversely, no matter how different two things are, one can find a similarity between them. Objective similarities and differences do not justify any particular way of distinguishing between things.

Francois Bucher: White Balance

January 10 – March 2, 2002
White Balance (to think is to forget differences) is an effort to uncover the geographies of power, the frontiers of privilege. It revisits this problem from different angles, creating short circuits of meaning which are hosted by improbable audiovisual matches. Media and internet footage is intermixed with images shot in downtown Manhattan before and after the September 11th attacks.

Atsushi Nishijima: Subtractive Creation/Visible Sound

December 8th – 29, 2001
“Sound does not exist without space and space is always filled with sound. Space represents sound as something visible, sound represents space as something audible. Our daily life is made of inevitable factors such as time and space. As for myself, that is a place where contemporary music exists.” –Atsushi Nishijima

François Bucher, Marta Deskur, and Ksenija Turcic: Irp Exhibition 2001

June 9-July 28, 2001
Museum of Mankind is a video installation depicting the statues that stand high on the roof of the Museum of Mankind in London. In a multimedia installation and web site project, New Baby?, Marta Deskur questions the significance of family today and the conflicting issues this question addresses. Ksenija Turcic presents a new multimedia installation, Phase, where she pursues her investigation of emotional space.

Katya Sander and François Bucher: RECORDERS

March 22 – April 21, 2001
“Recorders is an installation where a rotating camera and video projector interact with the visitor in a game of shadows and projection, images and text, narration and space, focus and blur. A pre-recorded conversation acts as voice-over for the entire set-up which is encompassed by a large image that resembles something like bits of information, white noise or a glittery seascape.

ARTISTS

2010-2011

John Aslanidis (Australia)
Katy Dove (Scotland)
Phoebe Hui (Hong Kong)
Karolina Kowalska (Poland)
John O’Connell (Ireland)
Miler Lagos (Colombia)
Gonzalo Puch (Spain)
Lovisa Ringborg (Sweden)
Zina Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria/UK)
Zane Saunders (Australia)
Yasuko Toyoshima (Japan)
Joana Villaverde (Portugal)
Danh Vo (Denmark)
Sophie Hunter (UK)
Lyota Yagi (Japan)

2009-2010

Carolee Schneemann (Senior Artist-in-Residence)
Adel Abidin (Finland)
Alexandra Mota de Aguiar (Portugal)
Richard Bell (Fellow, Australia)
Wojtek Doroszuk (Poland)
Mattias Ericsson (Sweden)
Lyra Abueg Garcellano (Philippines)
Jesse Jones (Ireland)
Kwan Sheung Chi (Hong Kong)
Lucy Skaer (Fellow, Scotland)
Clare Stephenson (Scotland)
Zhou Tao (China)

2008-2009

Joan Jonas (Senior Artist-in-Residence, USA)
Nina Canell (Ireland)
Chen Ching-Yao (Taiwan)
Andrea Galvani (Italy)
André Gonçalves (Portugal)
Nicolas Grospierre (Poland)
Heta Kuchka (Finland)
Ivy Ma (Hong Kong)
Sophie Macpherson (Scotland)
Jane Philbrick (Fellow, USA)
Kaeko Mizukoshi (Japan)
Conrad Shawcross (Fellow, UK)
Rudy Shepherd (USA)
Brina Thurston (USA)

2007-2008

Laurie Anderson (Senior Artist-in-Residence)
Rob Kennedy (Scotland)
Yu-Chin Tseng (Taiwan)
Nina Sobell (U.S.A.)
Eric Siu (Hong Kong)
Jean Shin (U.S.A./Korea)
Mafalda Santos (Portugal)
Moira Ricci (Italy)
Rashaad Newsome (U.S.A.)
Hung Nguyen Manh (Vietnam)
Aoife Collins (Ireland)
Kuba Bakowski (Poland)
Daniel Andersson (Finland)
Hermelinde Hergenhahn (Germany)
Katia Kameli (France)
Luis Nobre (Portugal)

2006-2007

Martha Rosler (Senior Artist-in-Residence, USA)
Natalie Bewernitz / Marek Goldowski (Germany)
Jeanette Doyle (Ireland)
Cliff Evans (U.S.A.)
Krist Gruijthuijsen (Netherlands)
Teresa Henriques (Portugal)
Ruey-Hsiaan Hsu (Taiwan)
Agnieszka Kalinowska (Poland)
Nina Katchadourian (U.S.A.)
Rie Kawakami (Japan)
Alessandro Nassiri (Italy)
Miguel Palma (Portugal)
Bundith Phunsombatlert (Thailand)
Jani Ruscica (Finland)
So Youn Jeong (Korea)
Kaori Tazoe (Japan)
Eric Van Hove (Belgium)
Virginie Yassef (France)

2005-2006

Leesa and Nicole Abahuni (U.S.A)
Simo Alitalo (Finland)
Paololuca Barbieri (Italy)
Nayda Collazo-Llorens (United States)
Andrew Duggan (Ireland)
Isabelle Ferreira (France)
Geka Heinke (Germany)
Yuki Okumura (Japan)
Yoon-Young Park (Korea)
Mayumi Nakazaki (The Netherlands)
Trine Nedreaas (Norway)
Lydia Venieri (Greece)
Mariana Viegas (Portugal)
Wang Ya-Hui (Taiwan)

2004-2005

Martin Beauregard (Canada)
Yumiko Furukawa (Japan)
Kenny Hunter (Scotland)
Everett Kane (United States)
Marlena Kudlicka (Poland)
Cecile Paris (France)
Santeri Tuori (Finland)
Mariana Viegas (Portugal)
Wu Dar kuen (Taiwan)

2003-2004

Alexandra Do Carmo (Portugal)
Köken Ergun (Turkey)
Hsiao Sheng Chien (Taiwan)
Vincent Lamouroux (France)
Federico Muelas (Spain)
Vesna Pavlovic (Serbia)
Kurt Ralske (USA)
Miguel Soares (Portugal)
Koki Tanaka (Japan)
Mark Themann (Germany/Australia)

2002-2003

Daniel Blaufuks (Portugal)
Saoirse Higgins (Ireland)
Isabelle Jenniches (The Netherlands)
Dominik Lejman (Poland)
Jiun-ting Lin (Taiwan)
Javier Viver (Spain)

2001-2002

François Bucher (Colombia)
Marta Deskur (Poland)
Atsushi Nishijima (Japan)
Ksenija Turcic (Croatia)
Xu Tan (China)

Residency Artists News

(through Jan 2009) — former residents’ activities.

In 1993, Marlena received a BFA in painting at the College of Arts, Jaroslaw (Poland) followed by an MFA in painting and drawing at the Academy of Fine Art, Poznan, Poland (1998). Currently working on the research for the conference project ‘Post Image’ to be organized in cooperation with Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (Germany) durning the residency program in 2005 and in 2003, was a resident at Art Omi International Arts Center Program (NY).

Recent solo exhibitions include: 2007, NN, Institute in Glasspavillon, Berlin/with Anne Gathmann. 2004, ‘POINT OF VIEW’, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany and in 2002, ”oxygenation” (solo show), Municipal Gallery, Poznan.

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
The Image With No Shadow: Video Projection: Residents’ Exhibition Spring 2005

Online:
Video Interview with by Katherine Carl, assistant curator of contemporary exhibitions at the Drawing Center

Marlena’s residency at Location One is supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

C Magazine press on The Image with No Shadow

Fluid Sunset review part 1 & Fluid Sunset review part 2

English translation:

Marlena Kudlicka Fluid 08(54)2005
the space for words
text Alexandra Robakowska

Two glittering green words spread out along the 15 m long gallery wall. Sunset Sunset – the words are screaming. The colors are pulsating, passing through and infiltrating each other. The galley interior is immersed in a bright yellow, foggy glow. The words look self-assured; they allure and attract. The viewer’s attention is focused only on them. The enormous inscription is displayed on the wall from a video projector suspended on the opposite wall.

Sunset. Stop-frame. The projection of meanings is starting.

Marlena Kudlicka was recently a participant at the Location One Residency Program in New York. The project ’The image that emits no shadow/Sunset/’ was prepared for Location One Gallery. She has taken inspiration from the post-image trend. For her project, she selected a photograph by Steven Shore from a series dating from the 70s. The photograph shows a lonely cinema house with the letters SUNSET painted on the building facade. The building is located in a Texan desert landscape, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Marlena renewed the hand painted fonts and shifted the words into digital space. With great precision, almost a painting process, she worked pixel by pixel, faithfully reconstructing the font, replicating the word and giving it a new tint.

Sunset Sunset the artist extracted the framed word from its original drift. Unchaining it from narrow syntactic categories, she opened the word up to multiple meanings, meanings that are expanded by the individual viewer’s potential. And he or she in confrontation with Kudlicka’s works becomes co-author; actively playing with semantic/aesthetic imaginary juxtapositions.

Sunset – natural phenomena, glistening exposure on the day/night border, the colors dance continuously passing through one other, light and darkness this time stay on the same side. The image in a move, a portrait of fascinating transformation. The word is frozen; drifting in our mind.

An American dream, romance, space and cinematography.

The art-work is apparently full contradictions. Created by a Polish artist, it is soaked with an American touch and vibrating with dreams and meanings.

To visualize language and language becomes a visual landscape Marlena Kudlicka writes. She is a graduate of the Painting and Drawing Department at The Academy of Fine Art in Poznan, Poland. The artist uses language as a medium in her work. She creates highly aesthetic/semantic landscapes – open work- moving senses that are floating along intentions: of the author, of the text, of the viewer.

In Marlena’s work, words are shaped into images in a universe of juxtaposed meanings. Her painterly multimedia works appear almost as a kind of architecture. Strongly based on the context of the exhibition space, they create their own space and formulate new rules from the beginning. Because Kudlicka builds space for words

A year ago at Akademie Schloss Solitude the artist exhibited an installation titled ’POINT OF VIEW’. In that gallery space she built a 25m long curving wall; suspending 82 ’traffic circle’ street signs. The signs were arranged into a gigantic ’POINT OF VIEW’ inscription. The dark gallery space was lit only by two neon black lights. Viewers who entered the space were suddenly placed into the nonidentity of black space. After a while, the viewer’s senses adapted to these conditions and from the darkness white arrows on the blue surface of the signs started to glow: so that the viewer experienced a vibrating hypnotic suggestion.

In the turning point of our times, we often direct our attention to things in themselves and not on their meanings. Marlena Kudlicka reveals a scholastic dimension of reflection on words. Her work touches a formal mannerism while uncovering a basic code structure from existing contexts. It is paradoxical, like Umberto Eco’s conception of work as a discussion of its own poetic.

In Marlena Kudlicka text based works there is room for a broad spectrum of interpretations along with a simultaneous pointing to a code source; bright green flash light, the last beam of sunset, neon cinema light, Hollywood dream factory or pulsating blood vessel system highways. These readings are evident but not imposed. This is art that stimulates senses.

April 28th – May 28th, 2005

Location One is pleased to present the second of three Spring exhibitions showcasing the work of artists participating in its 2004-2005 International Residency Program. The two installations by Canadian artist Martin Beauregard, and Polish artist Marlena Kudlicka were developed during their residencies at Location One. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 pm on Thursday April 28th and the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, May 28th, 2005.

“Soap Operation”, single-channel video projection (6 minutes), by Martin Beauregard.
How do film and television modify our perception of reality. Martin Beauregard examines this question throughout his work by merging elements of popular imagery produced by the media, cinema and television, with events from his personal life. The formal and linguistic propositions that he sets forth investigate this terrain between fiction and reality (or autobiographical documentary), and the viewer is left unsettled.

In “Soap Operation” the artist draws from such televised series as Loft Story, Bachelor and Nouvelle Star, but the protagonist here is played by the artist himself, filmed in real life during a hospital stay. A cameraman, who was given specific screening instructions, follows him during an operation to the nose while under anesthesia, and then into the recovery room where he is in the company of his girlfriend. Beauregard reconstitutes the footage into a cinematographic document, giving particular emphasis to images that appear to have emerged from a fictional movie plot. The vapid and naïve dialogues between the patient and his girlfriend draw on elements from their love life and enhance the soap opera effect.

“The Image That Emits No Shadow”, video projections and photographs, by Marlena Kudlicka. Kudlicka’s installations create a state of mind that stimulate perception in a very special way. In her own words, she is interested in moments that are “ephemeral and fail to stay in our memory as a definable image.” In “The Image That Emits No Shadow,” the artist’s has taken the word “Sunset” from the wall of a 1950′s movie house and transposed it to our times. The word itself is meant to evoke the viewer’s own recollections and associations to the concept and to images of a sunset. Her intent is to “visualize these post image moments so that they can be recognized and questioned in every day life.”

Location One is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the convergence between visual, performing and digital arts in a time of rapidly changing technology. Location One’s International Residency Program is the central focus of its activities. It encourages collaboration by inviting artists from all over the world, and working in different media, to experiment with advanced technological tools and delivery systems, and to develop new work. Martin Beauregard’s residency is supported by the “Pamela Del Hierro Fellowship” and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres, Quïbec; Marlena Kudlicka’s, by the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

“Demotic” by Antoinette LaFarge and Robert Allen
a performance work about American Memory, a single character whose many voices are woven together into a complex texture of language, sound, and music to create a kind of covert national anthem.

“Demotic …of or pertaining to the current ordinary everyday form of a language; of or pertaining to the common people.”

All performances at 10pm EST (7pm PST)
Thursday, July 29
Friday, July 30
Saturday, July 31

How do we best portray the multiplicity underlying the American experience? In “Demotic,” artists Antoinette LaFarge and Robert Allen harness the Internet and the stage to create a performance work exploring American Memory. Made possible through the Beall Center’s high speed connectivity, the performance features a single live actor who draws on an ensemble of sound artists, dispersed performers, avatars, and the everyday experience of online citizens. From this tour-de-force improvisation emerges both a complex texture of language, sound, and music and a contemporary national anthem.

Live performances will take place at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, CA.

Admission is free but seating is limited. Reservations are suggested (949) 824-4339
Directions: http://beallcenter.uci.edu/directions/directions.htm

All performances of “Demotic” will be webcast live via RealAudio at this address http://media.nacs.uci.edu:8080/ramgen/encoder/demotic.rm

Co creators: Antoinette LaFarge + Robert Allen
Stage Director: Robert Allen
Online Director: Antoinette LaFarge
Sound Artists: Maria de los Angeles Esteves and Jeff Ridenour
Theater Actor: Tracey Leigh
Online Performers: Marlena Corcoran, Ursula Endlicher, Richard Foerstl, Lise Patt, Richard Smoley, Heather Wagner

The Internet as Author, Venue, and Performer
Conceived and created by Robert Allen and Antoinette LaFarge

8:00 PM
No Admission Charge

Direction by Robert Allen
Script by Antoinette LaFarge
Visual design by Antoinette LaFarge and Amy Kaczur in collaboration with Jon Winet and “Democracy-The Last Campaign”
Costumes by Nicole Evangelista
Character development & additional text by The Plaintext Players
Performances by Pathogen Arts: Kevin Keaveney and David Moo

Location One is pleased to present “Virtual Live”, a special streaming-video preview of The Roman Forum II: the will of the people and an accompanying online discussion of virtual performance.

Streaming Video Performance:

Two brief excerpts from the upcoming Roman Forum II will be streamed live on our website. The Roman Forum II is a neo-Vaudevillean performance work that focuses on the aftermath of the 2000 elections seen through the eyes of five Romans from the time of the emperor Nero. These excerpts feature live footage of an actor performing at Location One mixed in realtime with a preconstructed video environment using green-screen technology. These selections from Roman Forum II have a special relevance in the wake of the World Trade Center disaster as they feature meditations on the nature of our republic, the character of our president, and America’s “return to history”.

“Our goal is to give people some insight into the political machine that runs our lives,” say Robert and Antoinette. “We should not be tempted to marginalize the 2000 election fiasco in the face of the World Trade Center disaster. We are only now dealing with the long-term consequences of the decisions that put Bush into the White House instead of Gore, and as time distances us from the terrorist attacks, our ability to see things in a broader perspective only points more emphatically back to the issues raised in that election.”

All of the material in The Roman Forum II (both text and visuals) was developed from Internet resources, including virtual performances by the Plaintext Players (a pioneering Internet performance group directed by Antoinette), as well as chat rooms, bulletin boards, web pages, email and listservs, archives, webcams, etc.

Online forum:

Accompanying the streaming videos will be an online discussion on the nature of virtual performance led by the Plaintext Players using Location One’s Java chat client. The livestream/chat section of the site allows a seamless experience of “Virtual Live” by combining streaming video and live text in one window.

The five Roman characters of Roman Forum II — two of whom will be featured in the streaming video performances — were originally developed by The Plaintext Players in a series of online improvisations. In addition, a significant portion of the script for Roman Forum II is based on their online work.

The forum will begin with a brief improvisation by The Plaintext Players in their Roman characters, which will segue smoothly into an open discussion of avatars and online performance in which everyone logged in to the chat area will be welcome to participate.

Live Gallery Performance:
It will also be possible to attend “Virtual Live” in the flesh in our gallery space at 26 Greene Street where the video and forum will be projected live and a terminal will be provided for audience participation.

Note: The Roman Forum II was originally scheduled to premiere on the West Coast in November 2001 but was canceled by the producing venue in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Despite this, work on the project is continuing, with the premiere projected for fall 2002.

Biographies of the Artists

ROBERT ALLEN (director)
moved to the West Coast from New York, where his recent projects include How I Got That Story by Amlin Gray (August 2001, New York City), The Roman Forum (August 2000, Los Angeles), Dear Anton (Chekhov Now Festival, 1999), The Creditors (New York International Fringe Festival, 1999), “August in January,” a festival celebrating August Strindberg’s 150th birthday (Theater 22, 1999), Le MŽnage (LaMama E.T.C. 1998), Still Lies Quiet Truth (New York International Fringe Festival, 1998), and The Good Night (Theatre for the New City, 1998). In addition to Roman Forum II, upcoming productions include Twilight by Anna Deveare Smith (March 2002, Cal State Long Beach), The Measures Taken by Bertolt Brecht (April 2002, Los Angeles), and Ordnung und Unordnung (June 2002, Hellerau, Germany). Robert has an M.F.A. in Theater from Columbia University, where he studied directing with Anne Bogart. His work as a director is grounded in prior experience as a choreographer and performer in German Tanztheater, working with Reinhild Hoffmann (a contemporary of Pina Bausch) and other German directors. Robert also possesses an M.F.A. in modern dance from UCLA and a B.F.A. in visual art from the San Francisco Art Institute. He currently teaches at California State University, Long Beach, and Cypress College. His resume can be browsed online at http://members.loop.com/~hai.

ANTOINETTE LAFARGE (script/visual design/online direction)
is an artist and writer with a special interest in virtual realities and fictive worlds. She is the director of The Plaintext Players, an Internet performance group that uses net-based virtual worlds to stage their performances. She is also the founder-director of the Museum of Forgery, a virtual institute dedicated to the aesthetics of forgery. She is an associate of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, for whom she recently designed the book Benjamin’s Blind Spot (2001) and is the author of “Cylex,” a short fiction published in Wired 2.05, and a number of articles in Leonardo, Gnosis, and other magazines. In addition to Roman Forum II, upcoming projects include Reading Frankenstein, a multimedia theater work scheduled to premiere in 2003. She is an assistant professor of digital media at the University of California, Irvine, where she co-curated “SHIFT-CTRL: Computers, Games, and Art”, the inaugural exhibition of the Beall Center for Art and Technology (2000). She formerly taught at the School of Visual Arts, New York, where she received her M.F.A. in Computer Art. Her domain is www.forger.com.

NICOLE EVANGELISTA (costume designer)
currently freelances in the film and theater arena of New York City. Film and tv work includes: Saturday Night Live, Don’t Say a Word, Curse of the Jade Scorpion (dir. Woody Allen) and Third Watch. She has designed costumes for such productions as The Roman Forum (Side Street Live, LA, 2000), The Embraceable Me (Rachel Reiner Productions, NY, 2000), Richard IIFinding Louise (Oberon Theatre Ensemble, NY, 2000), Between Sets (Julliard Dance Division, NY, 2000), and Cherie (The Live Bait, Chicago, 1999), which earned her the Joseph Jefferson Award for Most Outstanding Costume Design of 1999. Nicole studied at the Julliard School and holds a B.F.A. in Costume Design from DePaul University. (The Eleventh Hour, NY, 2000),

AMY KACZUR (visual design/video editing)
is an interdisciplinary artist, currently working in video, film, and digital technologies. Recent works include White FlightDesire Dogs (2001), Effigy for a Good Life (2000), Hypnovator (2000), Snoots and Tales (1999), Nursing/Mother (1999). Recent exhibitions include Athens International Film and Video Festival (Ohio University, Athens); Film and Video Annual (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston); NO-TV & Movies #20 (RCTV, Rochester Community Television, the Media Center @ Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY); Narration: Emblem and Sequence in Contemporary Art (Hilles Gallery, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven); Centered on the Center (Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA); Indomitable (The Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California, Irvine). She received her B.F.A. from Tufts University (1983) and is currently an M.F.A. candidate at the University of California, Irvine (2002). (2001),

KEVIN KEAVENEY (Petronius Arbiter)
has been performing for several years in New York’s off-Broadway and downtown scene. the will of the people marks the sixth time he has worked with Robert Allen, previously having appeared in The Roman Forum (Petronius Arbiter, 2000), Strindberg’s Creditors (Gustav, 1999), The Secret History of the Lower East Side (1998), and Still Lies Quiet Truth (Baron Samedi, 1998). Kevin can also be seen as Orson Welles in the recent film Orson Welles Sells His Soul to the Devil. Kevin has a degree in theater from Yale University.

DAVID MOO (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
is a founding member of the Todd Theater Troupe and has performed a wide variety of roles, both large and small, in New York, around the country, and abroad. An aspiring director and playwright, he is currently collaborating with Robert Allen on several upcoming projects.

THE PLAINTEXT PLAYERS (character and script development)
are a collective of artists and writers who worked in a test-based virtual world to develop the characters and script of The Roman Forum. Founded in 1994, The Plaintext Players have presented their provocative shows at venues in the United States and Europe, including Literaturhaus München (Munich, 1999), Documenta X (Kassel, 1997), and the Venice Biennale (Italy, 1997). Plaintext Players taking part in The Roman Forum included Marlena Corcoran (Poppaea Sabina), Joe FerrariRichard Foerstl (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Lise Patt (Germania Servius), and Richard Smoley (Petronius Arbiter), together with Antoinette LaFarge as online director. (Quintus Roscius),