Drew Anderson, Ghosts Near Sugarloaf Mountain
Mike Hoyt, Poho Posit
Caly McMorrow, Status Update
Anthony Tran, Wire less
Aaron Westre, City Fight!
Pictures from the opening: AOV3
Over 500 people showed up for the opening of Art(ists) On the Verge at the Soap Factory last week. The show is up through April 15.
Artist talks are scheduled for March 23rd with Caly McMorrow and Aaron Westre and March 30th with Drew Anderson, Mike Hoyt, and Anthony Tran. All talks are free and begin at 8pm.
A related symposium Discourse and Discord: Architecture of Agonism from the Kitchen Table to the City Street takes place at the Walker Art Center April 12-14.
Submissions for the next round of Art(ists) On the Verge are due March 19.
AOV3 opening Saturday evening
We did a walk through of all the Art(ists) on the Verge projects this morning, and everything is looking good for the opening tomorrow at 7 pm at the Soap Factory. Above is a short vid of Caly McMorrow’s Status Update. Beautiful.
Great article in MN Daily about the show “Digital Immersion As Art.”
Tomorrow morning WCCO will do a couple of segments on AOV around 8 am and 8:30 am.
AOV3 – Metro Editor’s pick
Nice preview in Twin Cities Metro.
Opens Saturday at the Soap Factory.
If you’re interested in participating in Art(ists) On the Verge, proposals for the next round are being accepted through March 19.
Patricia Briggs to write for Art(ists) On the Verge
We’re thrilled that Patricia Briggs will be writing an essay for the Art(ists) On the Verge exhibition at the Soap Factory, opening on March 3. She was in town this past weekend visiting with the artists about their installations.
Drew Anderson, Near the Ghosts of Sugarloaf
Michael Hoyt, Poho Posit
Caly McMorrow, Status Update
Anthony Tran, Wire less
Aaron Westre, City Fight!
Patricia Briggs is an art historian, critic and independent curator. Her writing appears in Artforum International, Art Papers, Art on Paper, History of Photography, Public Art Review, Sense and Society and online at mnartists.org. She was named “Best Art Critic” of 2008 by Twin Cities-based City Pages. Follow her blog Scene Unseen at http://artsceneunseen.wordpress.com.
Art(ists) On the Verge 2011-2012
Northern Lights.mn/Jerome Emerging Artists Commissions
March 3 – April 15
Opening reception: March 3, 7-11 pm
Artist talks: March 23 and 30, 8 pm
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Applications for the next round of Art(ists) On the Verge now open.
Art(ists) On the Verge opens at The Soap Factory
Participating Artists: Drew Anderson, Michael Hoyt, Caly McMorrow, Anthony Tran, Aaron Westre
Northern Lights.mn presents the third edition of Art(ists) On the Verge (AOV3) at The Soap Factory. This exhibition features new work from five Minnesota-based artists. AOV3 is an intensive, year-long, mentor-based fellowship program for emerging artists working experimentally at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture with a focus on network-based practices that are interactive and/or participatory. Previous exhibitions of work by AOV fellows have been at the Weisman Art Museum (2009) and the Spark Festival at the University of Minnesota (2010).
Feel your heart race as you pull the trigger of Drew Anderson’s “shotgun projector” illuminating the point of view of an animatronic hunter in the north woods of Minnesota. Zero in on Mike Hoyt’s video paintings of the Powderhorn neighborhood and join the online civic dialog. Get on the horn and leave a status update for Caly McMorrow’s sound and light installation. See yourself and the world around you differently in Anthony Tran’s hertzian funhouse mirror. Make your mark on the environment with Aaron Westre’s urban planning video game.
A related symposium on creative solutions for public discourse, “Discourse and Dischord: Architecture of Agonism from the Kitchen Table to the City Street,” will be co-presented with and at the Walker Art Center, April 12-14.
Northern Lights.mn is a collaborative, interactive media-oriented arts agency from the Twin Cities for the world. It presents innovative art in the public sphere, both physical and virtual, focusing on artists creatively using technology, both old and new, to engender new relations between audience and artwork and more broadly between citizenry and their built environment.
Art(ists) On the Verge is generously supported by the Jerome Foundation.
AOV3 Fellows
Northern Lights.mn announces the recipients of the third round of Art(ists) on the Verge commissions (AOV3). AOV3 is an intensive, mentor-based fellowship program for 5 Minnesota-based, emerging artists or artist groups working experimentally at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture with a focus on network-based practices that are interactive and/or participatory. AOV3 is generously supported by the Jerome Foundation.
Drew Anderson
Michael Hoyt
Caly McMorrow
Anthony Tran
Aaron Westre
Congratulations from the jury: Steve Dietz, Artistic Director, Northern Lights.mn; Ben Heywood, Executive Director, The Soap Factory; and Amanda McDonald Crowley, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center. And from AOV3 Co-Director Christopher Baker.
AOV3 submissions due Monday, April 11
More about AOV3: http://tylerstefanich.com/clients/northernlights/projects/artists-on-the-verge-3/
Online submission form: http://review.northern.lights.mn/AOV3/
Art(ists) On the Verge 3
Northern Lights.mn announces a third round of Art(ists) on the Verge commissions (AOV3). AOV3 is an intensive, mentor-based fellowship program for 5 Minnesota-based, emerging artists or artist groups working experimentally at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture with a focus on network-based practices that are interactive and/or participatory. AOV3 is generously supported by the Jerome Foundation.
Deadline: April 11, 2011
Informational sessions (optional) will be held at the following times and locations:
- 1 pm, Saturday, March 12 @ Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Rm 410
- 5 pm, Thursday, March 24 @ IFP Minnesota Center for Media Arts
- noon, Friday, March 25 @ a site to be announced
- 5 pm, Monday, March 28 @ a site to be announced