Slow Wave: Seeing Sleep
biographies:
Jennifer Hall
Jennifer Hall is an artist who has been working with interactive media for over twenty-five years. She is experienced in a variety of media related forms, and is currently engaged in the re-focusing of biological material as an art medium. Ms. Hall received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A) at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1980, and her Masters of Science in Visual Studies (M.S.V.S.) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 1985. Ms. Hall is the Founding Director of the Do While Studio, a Boston-based, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the fusion of art, technology, and culture. She has taught at the Visible Language Workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, the Institute de Arte de Frederico Brandt, Caracas, Venezuela, and is currently a Professor and Coordinator of the Masters of Science in Art, Education, and New Media at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. In 2000, Ms Hall received the first Rappaport Prize, the largest purse for an individual New England artist. In both 1984 and 1985, Ms. She received the IBM Home Computing Award administrated by the Media Lab at M.I.T. for developing gesture driven interfaces. In 1995 she received Woman of the Year from the Boston Chapter of the National Epilepsy Association for her work with Art and Epilepsy, and in 1998 was awarded the first Anne Jackson Award for Teaching from the Massachusetts College of Art. Ms. Hall has installed work at numerous international locations such as the Contemporary Museum of Sydney, Australia; the Museum de Belle Arts, Caracas, Venezuela; and St. Johns Island, Newfoundland. J. Allan Hobson received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, where he is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology Massachusetts Medical Center. His books include The Chemistry of Conscious States, The Dreaming Brain, and Sleep. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
J. Allan Hobson
J. Allan Hobson received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, where he is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology Massachusetts Medical Center. His books include The Chemistry of Conscious States, The Dreaming Brain, and Sleep. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe was born in 1962 in Paris, France. He attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (1982-85). Employing folly, leisure, adventure, and celebration in creating art, Huyghe’s films, installations, and public events range from a small town parade to a puppet theater, from a model amusement park to an expedition to Antarctica. By filming staged scenarios—such as a re-creation of the true-life bank robbery featured in the movie “Dog Day Afternoon”—Huyghe probes the capacity of cinema to distort and ultimately shape memory. While blurring the traditional distinction between fiction and reality, and revealing the experience of fiction to be as palpable as anything in daily life, Huyghe’s playful work often addresses complex social topics such as the yearning for utopia, the lure of spectacle in mass media, and the impact of Modernism on contemporary values and belief systems. He has received many awards, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Hugo Boss Prize (2002); the Special Award from the Jury of the Venice Biennial (2001); and a DAAD Fellowship (1999-2000). Huyghe has had solo exhibitions at Tate Modern, London and ARC, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2006); Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2004); Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (2004); Dia Center for the Arts, New York (2003); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2003); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2000); and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2000). The Public Art Fund commissioned Huyghe to create “A Journey that Wasn’t” (2006), which included an expedition to Antarctica, a performance in Central Park, and a video installation at the Whitney Biennial in New York. Huyghe lives and works in Paris and New York.
Rodney Graham
Rodney Graham was born in 1949 in Masqui, British Columbia, and studied art history at the University of British Columbia from 1968 to 1971 and at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver from 1978 to 1979. Beginning with a series of solo shows in the late 1980s, he has exhibited widely in North America and Europe, including in Documenta IX, 1992, and in the Biennale of Venice, 1997, where he represented Canada. His most recent museum exhibition was held at the Kunstverein Munich in summer 2000. Graham lives and works in Vancouver. In his films, videos, photographs, architectural models, books and musical scores, Graham explores the forms and devices determining our perception of art. He analyses the formal and narrative structures of different media in order to subvert them.
Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier was born in 1931 in Nashua, New Hampshire. He was educated in Nashua public and parochial schools, the Portsmouth Abbey School, Yale, and Brandeis and spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship. From 1962 to 1970 he taught at Brandeis, where he conducted the Brandeis University Chamber Chorus which devoted much of its time to the performance of new music. Since 1970 he has taught at Wesleyan University where he is John Spencer Camp Professor of Music. Lucier has pioneered in many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of performers' physical gestures, the use of brain waves in live performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media, and the evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes. His recent works include a series of sound installations and works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and orchestra in which, by means of close tunings with pure tones, sound waves are caused to spin through space.
Mr. Lucier performs, lectures and exhibits his sound installations extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia. He has visited Japan twice: in 1988 he performed at the Abiko Festival, Tokyo, and installed MUSIC ON A LONG THIN WIRE in Kyoto; in 1992 he toured with pianist Aki Takahashi, performing in Kawasaki, Yamaguchi and Yokohama. In 1990-91 he was a guest of the DAAD Kunstler Program in Berlin. In January 1992, he performed in Delhi, Madras, and Bombay, and during the summer of that year was guest composer at the Time of Music Festival in Vitaasari, Finland. He regularly contributes articles to books and periodicals. His own book, Chambers, written in collaboration with Douglas Simon, was published by the Wesleyan University Press. In addition, several of his works are available on Cramps (Italy), Disques Montaigne, Source, Mainstream, CBS Odyssey, Nonesuch, and Lovely Music Records.
In October, 1994, Wesleyan University honored Alvin Lucier with a five-day festival, ALVIN LUCIER: COLLABORATIONS, for which he composed twelve new works, including THEME, based on a poem by John Ashbery and SKIN, MEAT, BONE, a collaborative theater work with Robert Wilson. In April, 1997, Lucier presented a concert of his works on the MAKING MUSIC SERIES at Carnegie Hall and in October of the same year his most recent sound installation, EMPTY VESSELS, was exhibited at the Donaueschingen Music Festival in Germany. Recently, DIAMONDS for three orchestras was performed under the direction of Petr Kotik at the Prague Spring Festival, 1999.
In March 1995, REFLECTIONS/REFLEXIONEN, a bi-lingual edition of Lucier's scores, interviews and writings was published by MusikTexte, Koln.
Fernando Orellana
Fernando Orellana is currently an Assistant Professor developing an electronic art program at Union College in Schenectady, NY, Fernando Orellana uses new and traditional media as a way of transmitting concepts that range from generative art to social- political commentary. He has recently exhibited at the Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, The Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady, NY, Exit Art, New York, New York, LABoral, Gijon, Spain, The Tang Museum of Art, Saratoga Springs, NY, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL, The Ark, Dublin, Ireland, and The Biennial of Electronic Art, Perth, Australia.
His work is part of several art collections including the Richard and Ellen Sandor family collection Chicago, IL., Leslie Lerner Collection Kansas City, KS, The Ohio State University Student Union Collection, and The Western Michigan University Collection.
He has been reviewed in a variety of publications and catalogs including ARTnews, Digital by Design, EMERGENTES, Art in America, Art Review, Slashdot, We-Make-Money-Not-Art, Todayʼs Machining World, MAKE: Technology on your Time, Technikart Futur, Wired Online, CNN, and NPR, WBEZ.
He was recently awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (NYFA) in Digital/Electronic Arts. He received a Master of Fine Art from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Fine Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was born in El Salvador, San Salvador in 1973. For a complete CV and recent artwork see: www.fernandoorellana.com
Ana Rewakowicz
Ana Rewakowicz is a Polish-born, Ukrainian artist and researcher living in Montréal, Canada. She received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto and MFA from Concordia University, Montréal in 2001. She works with inflatables and explores relations between temporal, portable architecture, the body and the environment. Her inflatable clothes, site-specific installations and public interventions have been exhibited and experienced nationally and internationally in Mexico, France, Belgium, Estonia, Scotland, Bulgaria, The Netherlands, Germany and Finland. Recent solo exhibitions include “Travelling with my inflatable room” at HIAP, Cable Factory, Helsinki (Finland), “Dressware” at the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke , A modern-day nomad who moves as she pleases at Plein Sud in Longueuil and Ice Dome at Quartier Éphémère in Montréal (Canada). Her work has been also featured in group exhibitions at Kunstverain Wolfsburg, Germany, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, ISEA 2004 (Tallinn, Estonia), ALaPlage (Toulouse, France) and the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts (Montréal).
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. In 1945 he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) where he majored in pictorial design. Upon graduation, Warhol moved to New York where he found steady work as a commercial artist. He worked as an illustrator for several magazines, including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and The New Yorker and did advertising and window displays for retail stores such as Bonwit Teller and I. Miller. Prophetically, his first assignment was for Glamour magazine for an article titled "Success is a Job in New York."
Throughout the 1950s, Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Director's Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In these early years, he shortened his name to "Warhol." In 1952, the artist had his first individual show at the Hugo Gallery, exhibiting Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote. His work was exhibited in several other venues during the 1950s, including his first group show at The Museum of Modern Art in 1956.