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The Arts/Art Studies
Marc Adelman (2003-04)
Marc Adelman received his Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2007. His interdisciplinary practice incorporates video, installation, performance, and photography. He received his BA from San Francisco State University in 2001, and co-founded Flux Theatre Company the same year. He spent his fellowship year as an intern at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz with Sasha Waltz & Guests Dance Company. With a three month resumption of his fellowship, he will return to Berlin for the summer of 2007, where he will work on new video projects, including a piece that maps the history of state supported torture. marcj.adelman@gmail.com (5/22/07)
Cristina Ashjian (1995-96)
Art historian Cristina Ashjian is an independent scholar based in
New England. Over the past year, she has conducted historical research
on the Arts & Crafts estate 'Lucknow' located in Moultonborough,
New Hampshire. As a German Chancellor Fellow at the University
of Munich, Cristina completed archival research for her doctoral
dissertation "Representing 'Scènes et Types': Wassily
Kandinsky in Tunisia, 1904-1905" (Northwestern University 2001).
She earned her M.A. in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute
of Art, University of London (1992), and a B.S. in Languages (German
and Italian) from Georgetown University in Washington DC (1988).
(Write to info@americanfriends-of-avh.org
for email address.) (5/12/06)
Kathleen Forde (2002-03)
Kathleen is the Exhibitions and Program Coordinator at the Eyebeam
Center for Art and Technology in New York. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Kathleen worked as Curatorial Director for Live Arts and
New Media for the Goethe Forum in Berlin. She concurrently curates
on a freelance basis for various organizations and museums that
include Independent Curators International, VideoZone, Tel Aviv;
ATA Cultural, Peru; Kunstverein Düsseldorf; Kunstverein Cologne;
SFMOMA; the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fabric Workshop Museum
in Philadelphia. (5/5/05)
Eliza Garrison (2000-01)
Eliza is Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Architecture
at Middlebury College. As a German Chancellor Fellow, she conducted
research for her dissertation, "The Art Policy of Emperor Henry
II (1002-1024)." While in Germany, she was affiliated with
the Staatsbibliothek in Bamberg, where she conducted much of her
work for the dissertation project. She also conducted research in
libraries in Berlin and Munich. (5/6/05)
Julie Anne (Phaneuf) Hausmann (1998-99)
Julie lives in the Boston area, works as a fundraising consultant
for arts and cultural organizations, and performs with the Tanglewood
Festival Chorus. She has spent more than ten years working in arts
administration for the Boston Lyric Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
and Boston University, with a focus on fundraising and special events
management. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Julie worked in the
Press and Marketing Office at the Stuttgart State Opera, where she
researched the differences between American and German arts management
and funding. julie_hausmann@yahoo.com
(5/14/06)
Jessica Knapp (2006-07)
Jessica works as resident artist and volunteer studio
technician in the ceramics department at San Diego State University,
where she is also on the administrative staff in the Department
of English and Comparative Literature. She is completing
a large scale installation piece made of porcelain components for
a group show at the Oceanside Museum of Art, set to open in June
2006. As a German Chancellor Fellow, she will work on creative
projects at the Ceramic Center Berlin as a resident artist. In support
of her creative work, her teaching and her writing about ceramic
art, she plans to research German concepts of architectural and
natural environments, the history of the use of porcelain in Germany,
and contemporary German ceramic artists. Near the end of her residency,
she will exhibit the artwork at the Ceramic Center Berlin’s
gallery space. Jessica graduated from the University of Colorado,
Boulder in December 2003 with an MFA in Ceramics, and from Kutztown
University in Pennsylvania with a BA in English and a BFA in Crafts.
jknapp@mail.sdsu.edu (5/15/06)
Elizabeth Otto (2004-05)
As a German Chancellor Fellow in Berlin, Elizabeth completed two
interrelated projects which address the theory and practice of photomontage
in the interwar period. First, she curated the exhibition “Bauhaus
Photomontage: the Works of Marianne Brandt” at the Bauhaus-Archiv
(opening fall 2005). Second, she wrote on the essays of cultural
critic Siegfried Kracauer, who, on the eve of the Nazi period, was
particularly concerned with questions of visual media and political
activism. Elizabeth completed her doctorate at the University of
Michigan in 2003. Her publications include “Memories of Bilitis:
Marie Laurencin beyond the Cubist Context” (Genders
36, Fall 2002) and “Uniform: On Constructions of Soldierly
Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century Visual Culture” (forthcoming:
Kunst, Geschlecht, Politik: Männlichkeitskonstruktionen
in der Moderne, ed. Martina Kessel, Böhlau Verlag). She
is an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the
State University of New York at Buffalo. eotto@buffalo.edu
(4/21/06)
Gene Ray (1996-97)
Gene has been developing a collaborative practice that combines
critical scholarship with situational activism, art-making and cultural
performance. In the mode of critical scholarship, he writes about
issues at the intersections of art, politics and ethics. The editor
of Joseph Beuys: Mapping the Legacy (2001), he contributed
an essay to Territories (A. Franke and E. Weizman, eds., 2003) and
has published in Third Text, Yale Journal of Criticism, Afterimage,
Dissent, Freitag, and Alternative Press Review. His new book
of essays, Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory,
was published in 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan. tworays@mindspring.com
(5/9/05)
Christopher Salter (1993-94)
Christopher is a media artist, director and composer based in Montréal,
Canada, and Berlin, Germany. He develops and produces large-scale,
multi-media and interactive environments which merge space, vision
and sound. Christopher studied economics and philosophy at Emory
University and completed a Ph.D. in theater and computer-generated
sound at Stanford University. As a German Chancellor Fellow he
collaborated with Peter Sellars and William Forsythe at the Ballett
Frankfurt. In 1997, he co-founded the art and research organization
Sponge, an interdisciplinary
association of artists and researchers who are exploring the nexus
of investigative art, speculative design and techno-scientific research.
His large scale work “Chronopolis,” done in collaboration
with Erik Adigard, was shown in September at La Villette Numerique
in Paris and was attended by over 35,000 people. He has published
widely in areas ranging from responsive music systems, performance
and technology and German cultural politics. He was visiting professor
in Graduate Studies and Digital Media at the Rhode Island School
of Design (RISD) and Brown University from 2003 to 2005 and Media
Artist in Residence at Podewil, Berlin, in 2003. He is
a professor for computation arts in the Design and Computation Arts
Department at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. chris@clsalter.com
(8/26/05)
Carly Schmitt (2008-09)
Carly currently serves as owner, CEO, and lead artist of Artist @ Large, a nationally recognized mural painting business headquartered in Seattle Washington. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art and Communication Studies from Macalester College in St. Paul Minnesota. During her year as a German Chancellor Fellow, Carly will be working in alliance with the Bauhaus Universität in Weimar, and under the mentorship of admired public artist Liz Bachhuber. During the fellowship year she plans to realize at least two public art interventions, develop a greater understanding of the German public art system, and cultivate connections within the community of international public artists drawn to the Bauhaus. artist@carlyschmitt.com (4/14/08)
David Schutter (2005-06)
As a German Chancellor Fellow, David’s project was based on the phenomenological relationships built between seven 17th Century Dutch paintings that are part of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin collection. He saw these seven paintings as a metonym for Berlin and memory, and as a painter, he attempted to re-make them from memory, “each new painting serving as a metaphorical palimpsest to the original image, the institutional shadings of the collection, and the influence of memory on perception.” The paintings were exhibited alongside the original Dutch works at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. They were also shown in concurrent exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and TonyWight/Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery in 2007. David is a Visiting Artist Lecturer in the Department of Visual Art at The University of Chicago. nlbriggs@juno.com (5/22/07)
Clea Waite (1993-94)
Clea T. Waite is a research-artist whose computer animation, stereoscopic, multi-channel video-installation, hemispherical digital-film, and a collaboration with several hundred tropical spiders examine the meta-meanings found in unlikely correspondences between science and myth. As BUKA fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Clea produced "KUR", a four-dimensional film exploring the corporal perception of time in virtual and physical space. Native to New York City, she studied Electronic Optics (SB 1984) at MIT and 3D Computer Graphics and Animation (SM Visual Studies 1989) at the MIT Media Laboratory. Dividing her time between NYC and Berlin, she's held positions as Adjunct Asst. Professor - Computer Graphics, Pratt Institute, NY, and Assoc. Professor - Digital Artistic Montage, Academy of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" at Babelsberg. She was visiting artist at CICV Center for Video Creation Pierre-Schaeffer, Montbeliard, CERN Laboratory for Nuclear Physics, Geneva, the Verkehrshaus Planetarium, Lucerne, and the ISEA Artists-in-Residence program, Singapore, with fellowships from the NEA, the KHM Cologne, Artists-in-Labs HGKZ, Zurich, and the Harvard Film Study Center / Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her works have been exhibited and received numerous prizes internationally. http://www.clea-t.de; ctw@clea-t.de (1/17/08)
Alena Williams (2004-05)
Alena spent her year as a German Chancellor Fellow researching
the historical parameters of media theory and its relationship to
contemporary art and modernist artistic practice while in residence
at Bootlab e.V.– Forschungs- und Technologiezentrum, a not-for-profit
cultural institution in Berlin. Alena received her M.A. in 2004
from Columbia University in the Department of Art History and Archaeology,
where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in twentieth-century art
and theory. Subsequent to her graduation from Harvard University
in 1998, Alena was the ArtBase Coordinator at Rhizome.org, where
she managed an online archive of new media art. She is also a contributor
to a sourcebook on new media preservation, Permanence through
Change: The Variable Media Approach, published by the Guggenheim
Museum in collaboration with the Daniel Langlois Foundation for
Art, Science and Technology in Montreal (2003). alena@lowculture.com
(4/21/06)
Deborah Zafman
(1994-95)
Deborah Zafman opened her contemporary art gallery in Paris in 2004.
The gallery is devoted to discovering and promoting the work of
promising young artists through the production of exhibitions, catalogs
and videos of the artists. The small ground-floor space in the Marais
serves as a launch pad, while independently organized exhibitions
abroad serve to propel them onto the international scene. She has
published in Art Press and various exhibition catalogs. She earned
her doctoral degree in the history of art at the University of California
at Berkeley. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Deborah spent
the year in Berlin conducting dissertation research on the German
Romantic painter Franz Pforr and the relationship of his visual
art to Sturm und Drang literature. deborah.zafman@gmail.com
(5/14/06)
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