Tag Archive for "Art(ists) On the Verge"
Drew Anderson, Ghosts Near Sugarloaf Mountain
Mike Hoyt, Poho Posit
Caly McMorrow, Status Update
Anthony Tran, Wire less
Aaron Westre, City Fight!
Applications for the Art(ists) On the Verge 2012-2013 program are due Monday, March 19 by midnight CST. The online submission form is here.
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.
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.
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!
Northern Lights.mn announces a fourth round of Art(ists) on the Verge commissions (AOV4). AOV4 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. AOV4 is generously supported by the Jerome Foundation.
Full call here.
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
More about AOV3: http://northern.lights.mn/projects/artists-on-the-verge-3/
Online submission form: http://review.northern.lights.mn/AOV3/
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.
“Where Stefanich’s and Philips’ pieces are inward-turning, looking at the relations of human beings to each other, to memory, to the past, the works of Arlene Birt and tectonic industries (Lars Jerlach and Helen Stringfellow) turn outward, to the social and commercial spaces that constitute the public matrix in which we all swim.”
“Electronica and virtuality bring us, again, to the root questions of humanness: Can we create our selves? Can we create our own world? Are we at the mercy of our creations? Are they, rather, under our control? What do we want from what we make?”–Ann Klefstad

Spark Festival. Regis Art Center. tectonic industries, Perhaps this is the only way of knowing if anything was ever important to you.
Arlene Birt, Kyle Phillips, Tyler Stefanich , and tectonic industries are presenting their Northern Lights.mn supported projects for Art(ists) On the Verge at the 8th Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, which opened Wednesday, September 29.
Art(ists) On the Verge will again be participating in the Art-a-Whirl Open Studio and Gallery Tour in the historic Thorpe Building on Central Avenue, this Friday, May 14 – Sunday, May 16.
Works-in-Progress

Arlene Birt - Visualizing sustainability.An in-store grocery products tracking system
Kyle Phillips – Empathetic Architecture. An interactive exploration of previous inhabitants in a space
Janaki Ranpura – Egg Alley Cat bike race. Interactive costumes
Tyler Stefanich – Exploring strategies for interpretation of the digital cultural archive
tectonic industries – The Oprah Winfrey Show. We watch so you don’t have to
Are you an emerging artist? Do you work experimentally at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture with a focus on network-based practices that are interactive and/or participatory Do you live in Minnesota? Would you like $5,000? I can help answer at least some of these questions. Come find out more about the new round of Art(ists) On the Verge grants.
http://northern.lights.mn/programs/aov2/
Information session – Influx, Regis Center, Univeristy of MN at 12 30 pm this Friday, October 9. Everyone welcome.

Christopher Baker, Murmur Study, Installation view, Art(ists) On the Verge, Weisman Art Museum. Photo: Rik Sferra
I can’t help but wonder when we will be able to stop writing about the art formerly known as new media primarily in terms of its technology – or how much it costs. Nevertheless, Christopher Baker, a recent Art(ists) On the Verge grantee received his due in a nice round up in City Pages: “Twin cities arts buzz: Meet the creatives and their productions.”
Chris Baker’s Murmur Study was tagged as “video of the day” by Flavorwire.
“Art(ists) on the Verge: 2008-2009 Northern Lights/Jerome Emerging Artists Commissions runs through August 23, and anyone who is anywhere near Minneapolis should take an afternoon to see it.”

Tomorrow night, Thursday, July 9, from 8-10 pm, there will be an opening reception at the Weisman Art Museum for Art(ists) On the Verge: Avye Alexandres, Aniccha Arts (Pramila Vasudevan, Mark Fox, Jennifer Jurgens, Mike Westerlund), Christopher Baker, Kevin Obsatz, Andrea Steudel, Krista Kelley Walsh
Opening Night Performances
8:30 pm Krista Kelley Walsh, Public Eye Action, Northrop Mall and Weisman Art Museum
9:00 pm Aniccha Arts will perform an excerpt of Cloud Turn, Weisman Art Museum
9:30 triquetera, an allegorical exercise. Andrea Steudel and David Steinman with sounds by John Keston present an original outdoor video performance on the facade of the Weisman Art Museum

Get your tickets for Cloud Turn, June 5-7. Cloud Turn reflects on current and future capabilities of human weather manipulation, a power one could consider to be Godlike. Aniccha Arts, renowned for their originality, brings detailed, sinuous, and percussive Indian based dance movement integrated with their highly manipulated media style. This performance is constructed with content from workshops conducted at various locations throughout the Twin Cities as well as from the blog at http://wecanchangetheweather.org.

Join Northern Lights and Forecast Public Art for the annual Art-a-Whirl event. We will be presenting previews of the Art(ists) on the Verge commissions and umbrella artwork for Forecast’s 2009 auction, along with other special events and programs.

The Weather Vein Project led by Pramila Vasudevan, and driven by Mark Fox, Jennifer Jurgens, and Mike Westerlund has launched a blog and website, which will feed into the performance of “Cloud Turn” at the Pillsbury House Theater June 5-7.
Northern Lights is pleased to announce that the recipients of the 2008 Art(ists) on the Verge grants for Minnesota-based, emerging artists working experimentally at the intersection and technology, with a focus on practices that are social, collaborative and/or participatory have been selected.


































