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Éric Alliez, is Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (Middlesex University, London).
His works include: Les Temps capitaux Capital Times, preface by G. Deleuze, Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota, 1997; The Signature of the World. Or What is the Philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari?, London: Continuum, 2005.
Most recent books : La Pensée-Matisse (with J.-Cl. Bonne) (Paris : Le Passage, 2005) ; L’Œil-Cerveau. Nouvelles Histoires de la peinture moderne (in collaboration with Jean-Clet Martin) (Paris: Vrin, 2007).
Forthcoming : Capitalism, Schizophrenia and Consensus. Of Relational Aesthetics ; Istanbul : Baglam Publishing ; 2010 (in English/Turkish)
He is currently working on Undoing the Image Of Contemporary Art.

Bernard Andrieu is a philosopher and faculty at UHP Nancy University in France. He researches the interaction of biology and subjectivity using concepts of hybridity, personal health and plasticity. Taking a position against technophobia and post-humanism, his philosophical project is to describe the interaction between the body and the world resisting the temptation of naturalization.
His research has been published widely and has been included in: “Touching Space, Placing Touch Edited by Mark Paterson and Martin Dodge (2010), “BiotArt And Beyond,” M.I.T. Press (2007) and Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Psychology and Arts, New York (2006).

Eric Anglès lives in Berlin and New York.

Kader Attia Lives and works in Berlin. Born in 1970 into an Algerian family in Paris, Kader Attia studied both Philosophy and Fine Art in Paris.
Attia gained international recognition at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and at the Lyon Biennale (2005), where he exhibited the work ‘Flying Rats’, an installation of life-size, birdseed sculptures of children being devoured by a flock of pigeons.
Recent exhibitions include La Force de l’Art, the Paris Triennial and the Havana Biennale. In 2010, Attia will take part in the Sydney Biennial and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program amongst other projects. Attia is also one of the winners of the 2010 Abraaj Capital Art Prize, an award granted specifically to artists working in the Middle East, North Africa or South Asia.

Elena Bajo‘s concept-generated practice is concerned with the social and political dimensions of everyday spaces, the strategies to conceptualize resistance, the poetics of ideologies, and the relationship between temporalities and subjectivities.
She has recently participated in projects at White Columns, New York (2009); Prague Festival, Prague (2009); Sculpture Center, LIC (2009); ISCP, New York (2009); Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2008), co-editor of issue 2, INPUT Journal and was one of the founders of the temporary art project EXHIBITION, New York (2009). Bajo holds an MFA from Central Saint Martins School of Art in London and a MA in Architecture from ESARQ, Barcelona, in 2006 she was granted a Fellowship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Future projects include her first solo exhibition in the UK at The Woodmill, London;

Through film, performance, and various media Lindsay Benedict presents us with fragments and gestures that examine and question social relations. She received a BA from Williams College, an MFA from UC Berkeley and was a studio fellow at the Whitney ISP. Lindsay lives in Brooklyn and has shown in NYC at Rotunda, Bose Pacia, and PS 122, and performed at The Tank, Dixon Place, and in the Movement Research 2009 Spring Festival. Her work was also exhibited/screened at the Berkeley Art Museum, the Emergency Biennial, the Detroit Museum of New Art (MONA), New Langton Arts, and the Pacific Film Archive.

Dubbed by L.A. Weekly as “Eye/Ear Explorer,” composer Nicholas Chase is known for integrating popular media into chamber music. His electro-acoustic compositions have been performed across the US and Europe, and his live video work has been acclaimed as “pushing the edge of audio/visual,” while his interactive installation “Transmission” was featured at the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
Chase returns to the US from Germany where he taught visual media at the Bauhaus University and collaborated with the BauhausFM Experimental Radio to work toward the PhD in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ngoma-lungundu-voice-that/id319306003

Seth Cluett (b. 1976, Troy, NY) is an artist, performer, and composer whose work ranges from photography, and drawing to video, sound installation, concert music, and critical writing. Engaging the boundary between the auditory and other senses, his work is marked by a detailed attention to perception and to sound’s role in the creation of a sense of place and the experience of time. The apparent tranquility of Cluett’s work – at once gentle and un-nerving – is concerned with the rapidly shifting sensory landscape of technological development and urbanization.

Zoe Crosher is an artist living in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Vancouver, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and New York City. In addition to her exhibition practice, she has a monograph, Out the Window (LAX), examining space and transience around the Los Angeles airport, and an upcoming monograph on her newest project The Unraveling of Michelle duBois, to be published by Aperture Books. Crosher recently served as visiting faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles, was an associate editor at the journal Afterall and is currently visiting faculty at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
www.zoecrosher.com.

Krysten Cunningham earned her BFA in 2000 from University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. In 2003 she received her MFA: University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. Her selected exhibitions include: “’3 to 4′”, Ritter/Zamet, London, 2010; “Krysten Cunningham”, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, 2010; TANGENTAL, Dispatch, New York, NY, 2010; “Time Machines”, Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home, Los Angeles, 2008; Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, 2008; Minimalism and After V, DaimlerChrysler, Berlin, 2007; Big Secret Cash, Angstrom Gallery, 2007; The Re-distribution of the Sensible, Magnus Muller, Berlin, Germany, 2007; Kairos, Cantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, 2007.

Yevgeniy Fiks was born in Moscow in 1972 and has been living and working in New York since 1994. Fiks has produced many projects on the subject of the Post-Soviet dialog in the West, among them: “Lenin for Your Library?” in which he mailed V.I. Lenin’s text “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism” to one hundred global corporations as a donation for their corporate libraries and “Communist Party USA,” a series of portraits of current members of Communist Party USA.

Dan Levenson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose central project, Little Switzerland, is an art-world mise en abîme involving painting, sculpture, photography, installation, performance and printed matter.
For this issue of Shifter he contributed the book layout and cover design and a short fiction inspired by the history of Futura.
www.danlevenson.com

Antje Majewski lives and works in Berlin. Her works have been shown internationally, including Kunsthalle Basel (Basel), Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), Joanneum (Graz), Galerie neugerriemschneider (Berlin), asprey jaques (London), ZKM (Karlsruhe) and Salzburger Kunstverein. She teaches as Professor for painting at Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.
“Entity” was first written for the exhibition “Dubai Düsseldorf” in Kunstverein Düsseldorf, 2009. This text is part of an ongoing body of works – paintings, objects, texts and a film – around the meaning of objects. The next part will be shown at Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt, and finally all parts of the piece will come together in the show “The World of Gimel” in Kunsthaus Graz, 2011.

T. Kelly Mason is an artist from Los Angeles. Mason has been exhibiting worldwide since 1990 and is currently spending time in St. Louis as a visiting professor of art at Washington University. The 2 projects are the result of the Centre du Monde residency on Belle-Île-en-Mer, France. This marks the second time Mason has lived across the street from a house that Claude Monet had inhabited. Though he spent a month alone on the island, he has yet to find a successful respite from everyday life and intends to keep looking.

Michele Masucci lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
Trying to make a living as an artist, writer, translator. Earning money from stipends, residencies, participaton in art shows and production of art shows and other immaterial services. Always looking to find a possible way out of an all encopassing economic mental and linguistic system built on competition, fear and generalised exploitation. Longing for the possibility of solidarity, trust and friendship through the formation of autonomous communities that manage to resist the numbing effect of capitalism and thus recreate the experience of human sensibility. Imagining an existence where mental presence and emotional vulnerability becomes a part of everydaylife.

Daniel Miller works in Israel and Palestine.

Seth Nehil is an artist, performance-maker, and composer with a practice that crosses between sound, performance-events and the visual arts. In recent years he has created large-scale sound performances, collaborated with choreographers including Liz Gerring (NYC) and Linda Austin (Portland, Ore), and has published music on various international labels, including Sonoris (France) and Senufo Editions (Italy). Seth Nehil has also been an editor of arts publications, an organizer of performance festivals and a curator of exhibitions. He currently teaches sound, video and art theory at WSU Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Warren Neidich is an artist and writer living between Berlin and Los Angeles whose work has been exhibited internationally. He is the recipient of the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, 2010. Selected future exhibitions include Bringing Up Knowledge, MUSAC, Leon, Spain, Book Exchange, Glenn Horowitz, East Hampton, Hidden Publics, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland, Love Letter for a Surrogate, Torrence Art MuseumTorrence, CA., and UKS-Unge Kunstneres Samfund/Young Artist Society, Oslo, Norway.
His recent monograph of drawings entitled Lost Between the Extensivity/Intensivity Exchange was recently published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Cognitive Architecture: From Biopower to Noo-power is forthcoming and will launch at this years Venice Biennial for Architecture at the Dutch Pavilion. He is currently Visiting Artist at the TU Delft School of Architecture, Delft, The Netherlands.

Susanne Neubauer is a curator and art historian. She was curator at Museum of Art Lucerne 2002-2009 and has curated numerous monographic exhibitions, including Anton Henning, Minnette Vári, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven as well as thematic exhibitions such as Documentary Creations, Projection (on the slide projection in art since the 1960s), Paul Thek Lucerne 1973/2005 and The Big Scene. Her recent and upcoming essays on Paul Thek and Ree Morton are published with MIT Press (2008), Generali Foundation Vienna and Whitney Museum of American Art (2010). She runs the online platform www.ptproject.net on the environmental work of Paul Thek and is currently finalizing a dissertation on the documentation of ephemeral spacial works of the 1970s.

Hans Ulrich Obrist was born in Zurich in May 1968. He became Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery in April 2006, joining Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery Director. Prior to this he was Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris since 2000, as well as curator of museum in progress, Vienna, from 1993 to 2000.
Obrist has curated and co-curated over 200 solo and group exhibitions and biennales internationally since 1991, including: World Soup, 1991; do it, 1994; Take Me, I’m Yours, 1995; Manifesta 1, 1996; Laboratorium, 1999; Cities on the Move, 1997; Live/Life, 1996; Nuit Blanche, 1998; 1st Berlin Biennale, 1998; Utopia Station, 2003; 2nd Guangzhou Triennale, 2005; Dakar Biennale, 2004; 1st & 2nd Moscow Biennale, 2005 and 2007; Lyon Biennale, 2007; and Yokohama Triennale, 2008.

Chloe Piene lives and works in New York City. She has exhibited internationally. In 2010 she has shows in galleries including: Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv; Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles; Rotwand Gallery, Zürich. She has also shown in Barbara Thumm Gallery, Artforum Berlin, Berlin; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris; Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nimes, France; Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York.
Her work in included in the collections of: Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco among others.

Recent interests in Linda Quinlan’s practice lend themselves to formation. She considers what we move through on the way towards the center of something, be it an action, form or utterance. Her work touches on the pleasure gleaned in the meeting of elements, allowing them to become molten, soften and stretch out, reaching for meaning and recognition and embracing new substances that emerge. Quinlan is Irish and studying at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Recent exhibitions include the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, AutoItalia, London, CareOf Gallery, Milan and the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin. In 2006 she was awarded the Allied Irish Bank Prize.

Patricia Reed is a Canadian artist living and working in Berlin. She has participated in the residency programs of the Centre for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Japan; CCA Jeleni, Prague; Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include: They go round and round, 0047 Projects, Oslo; First Nations/Second Nature, Audain Gallery, Vancouver; Territories of the In/Human, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart. She has contributed texts to the following publications: Shifter Magazine, Fillip, Art Papers, C Magazine and Framework: The Finnish Art Review.

Silva Reichwein is a painter. She was born in Zurich and lives and works in Berlin and Zurich. She studied at the Ecole Superieure d Art Visuel, Geneva, and at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. 1993 she received her diploma as master scholar with Anna Oppermann. The artist`s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands and Hungary. She has received various scholarships and her work is present in various public and private collections.

Barry Schwabsky is art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews at Artforum. His recent collection of poems is Book Left Open in the Rain (Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail). His poems in this issue of Shifter are part of a new project for which he has asked fellow poets to give him their “failed” or abandoned poems to work on.

Gemma Sharpe has a background in literature and art history. She is a writer and critic based in London, currently undertaking an MFA at Goldsmiths. Her recent work is concerned with experimental practices of art writing, collaborative writing methods and political and Feminist philosophy and theory. She is a founding member of art writing platform, antepress.

Amy Sillman is an artist who lives in Brooklyn. Her most recent solo show, “Transformer (…or, how many lightbulbs does it take to change a painting?)” will be on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co in NY from April 15-May 15, 2010.

Francesco Spampinato is a visual artist and art theorist who works with painting, performance, installation and sound. He holds two degrees in Art History from the University of Bologna and an MA in Modern Art: Critical Studies Track from Columbia University in New York. He regularly contributes to contemporary art magazines Flash Art, Impackt and Artlab and is visiting professor of Performance Art at NABA, Milano. Lives and works between Bologna and New York.

Tyler Stallings is the director of University of California, Riverside’s Sweeney Art Gallery. He was chief curator at Laguna Art Museum from 1999 to 2006. Since arriving at Sweeney in 2007, he has organized Your Donations Do Our Work: Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy (2009), Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art from China (2008), Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture (2008), and The Signs Pile Up: Paintings by Pedro Álvarez (2008), among others.
www.sweeney.ucr.edu.

Laura Stein has exhibited in the States and abroad, in both museums and galleries. She has been in over 80 group exhibitions including Aldrich Museum and the New Museum. She has had 9 solo shows in New York and Los Angeles as well as a project at PS1/Moma. She installed a public commission at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany and 2 large-scale projects at the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, Ohio. Her work is represented in numerous private, museum, and corporate collections including Disney and the Eli Broad Corporate collection. She has taught workshops at the school of the Museum Fine Arts Boston and the Staatliche Hochschule in Frankfurt. She has also lectured internationally at universities as well as museums.

Clarissa Tossin is an artist based in Los Angeles and São Paulo. Her work synthesizes place, economy, history and narrative into sculptural objects, installations, videos and performances. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2009 and BFA from FAAP, Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2000. She attended the Skowhegan residency in 2009. Her work has been shown at Redling Fine Art, Compact Space and Redcat, in Los Angeles, Galeria Vermelho in São Paulo, Brazil, La Ferme du Buisson, in Noisiel, France, and Kunsthalle Wien, in Vienna, Austria.
www.clarissatossin.net

Brindalyn Webster is currently living in Göteborg, Sweden, through the Independent Study Program at Valand Konsthögskolan. In 2009 she attended Skowhegan School of Art in East Madison, Maine, after receiving her MFA in Social Practice from California College of Art in San Francisco. In 2001 she received her BFA in Sculpture from Parsons School of Design in New York City. The output of each of Webster’s projects is slightly different, but providing space and attention through listening is an essential part of her work.
http://www.brindalyn.com

Lee Welch is currently undertaking an MFA at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. His work has been exhibited widely, including the solo exhibitions: At the still point of the turning world, Galway Arts Centre, Galway; Never Odd or Even, The LAB, Dublin and has been featured in the Clifford Irving Show, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; MISSING LINK, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest; Non-knowledge, Project Arts Centre, Dublin; COE, Claremorris curated by Lizzie Carey-Thomas. Welch has received the Dublin City Council Bursary, an Arts Council Bursary and Travel and Training Award as well as supported from Culture Ireland. He recently received the Banff Residency at The Banff Centre, Canada.

Olav Westphalen is a German-born artist. He currently lives in Stockholm, where he is a professor in performance art at the Royal Art Institute.

James Yeary lives in Portland, from where he co-publishes the My Day zine series, & curates readings & events for the Spare Room collective. He is also an experimental/ambient priest, & does weddings & fune

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This issue of Shifter was released in conjunction with a group show and series of lectures titled "On Certainty" curated by Sreshta Rit Premnath.

"Lack of clarity in philosophy is tormenting. It is felt as shameful. We feel: we do not know our way about where we should know our way about. And nevertheless it isn’t so. We can get along very well without… knowing our way about here."

"…In any serious question uncertainty extends to the very roots of the problem."

-from "Remarks on Colour," Ludwig Wittgenstein

“On Certainty” includes a group show, a new issue of the magazine Shifter (co-edited by the participating artists), and a series of public dialogues with economists, neurologists, physicists and writers. The participants contemplate the notion of certainty and its sibling, uncertainty: How and why do we constitute a unified self from which to speak and construe meaning in this world? When we say, "I know…" with certainty, what do we mean?

The title of the show, lifted from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s posthumously published book, signals our attempt not only to investigate knowledge and factuality, but furthermore, to interrogate the statement "I saw it with my own eyes." What is the position of the witness (who represents an event) and the authentic subject (who represents a group) in knowledge production?

The interdisciplinary programming of the lecture series reflects the curatorial desire to use the gallery as an intellectual commons. As Edward Said has said, specialization sometimes “means losing sight of the raw effort of constructing either art or knowledge,” and by opening up an interdisciplinary conversation we hope to investigate the “choices and decisions” that produce these knowledges, and their certainties.

The artists are: Lindsay Benedict, Joshua Hart, Abhishek Hazra, Pat Palermo, Sreshta Rit Premnath and Kiran Subbaiah.

Through film, performance, and various media Lindsay Benedict presents us with fragments and gestures that examine and question social relations. In her work, affect and raw emotion are often deployed to disrupt and destabilize any simple reading of human connections. A wide ranging temporality, from more deliberate and slowly conceived films and sewn texts to the more immediately gestural drawings allow a dense layering of material and narrative to unravel and intertwine simultaneously.

Pat Palermo‘s comic books and paintings often ruminate on the question of how and whether it is possible to communicate. Vacillating between the autobiographical subject and the object as subject we are placed within narratives and structures where the criteria for meaning production are, at best, trying. Although always at the center of artistic production, the autobiographical subject remains unsure of, and ever startled by his own position.

Like Kafka’s Josef K, Kiran Subbaiah‘s protagonists, are always caught in a narrative of paradox. Each time he (the protagonist? Subbaiah? The simulacrum presented to us on a screen?) attempts to unravel the knot of representation within which he is bound, we find that it only tightens. Ever more self-reflexively we are seduced through humor, narrative and visual trickery into this paradox of representation only to be reminded again and again: this is only a video.

In Joshua Hart‘s drawings and sculptural assemblages, forms slip and tumble down the chain of signification, constantly shifting from one thing to another – a camel becomes a soldier, a printed pattern mimics a reflection. Yet the object asserts its base materiality as if to also say, "I am only this." This mirage he draws us into not only makes his objects difficult to fix but also shakes the ground that stabilizes our view. When the body that names is itself unstable how does it go about naming?

Sreshta Premnath is engaged with forms of interrogation and representation. Often using fragments of historic material as anchors, he pieces together found or fabricated images, texts, video and film into installations. He employs strategies of negation, erasure, fracture, displacement and fiction, to explore moments of slippage – those cracks in language where meaning and representation, memory and history split.

Abhishek Hazra‘s close yet idiosyncratic study of the historiography of science has led him to examine various technologies of knowledge production and dispersion. His projects often settle on moments of technological dysfunction as nodes for narrative exploration. Taking the form of video installation, performance, prints and items for sale on ebay, his projects further complicate his questions by themselves engaging in various modes of production and dispersion of knowledge.

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March 14, 3pm
John Keene and Christopher Stackhouse

John Keene and Christopher Stackhouse presented a polyvocal performance reading with image and text projections from their collaborative book Seismosis (1913 Press). The book features drawings by Stackhouse and text by Keene in dialogic response to each other. The presentation is part performance, part lecture/reading. The audience has the opportunity to experience the drawings, text, and vocalizations of both writer and artist in this immersive setting.


Christopher Stackhouse



John Keene



John Keene & Christopher Stackhouse

March 21, 3pm
Christopher Perkins

The basic problem of looking for the unknown leads to questions regarding where to look and what to look for. New discoveries in the field of physics are based on previous discoveries but the problem remains of which leads to follow and which to abandon. Even once an avenue for further research is chosen, the scientists involved must design an experiment and decide whether or not this experiment is capable of finding what they are looking for, even before they know what they will find. All that can be done is to choose a subset of the parameter space that offers the possibility of new discovery. We will lead a discussion on the process that precedes the reporting of scientific results and how scientists believe an avenue of research is valid.


Christopher Perkins & Joshua Hart – ‘Guess and Check is Valid Math’ Pt. 1


Christopher Perkins & Joshua Hart – Guess & Check is Valid Math Pt. 2 Guess and Check is Valid Math –

March 28, 3pm
Arjun Jayadev
"We are seeing things that were 25 standard deviations moves, several days in a row". This was the comment that David Viniar, CFO of Goldman Sachs offered as his explanation for the crisis. In other words, bad luck– an awful lot of it– has brought the world to the edge of a recession.. How accurate is this statement, and what made Viniar, one of the central players in the financial system believe this to be true? How does one understand the crisis from the viewpoint of uncertainty in financial markets? And what does this mean for the future?



Uncertainty, Confidence and Crises – Arjun Jayadev, Pt 1


Uncertainty, Confidence and Crises – Arjun Jayadev, Pt 2

Uncertainty, Confidence and Crises – Arjun Jayadev, Pt 3

Saturday, April 4, 2pm-5pm
Organized by: Christopher Stackhouse
Thom Donovan
John Keene
Stuart Krimko
Katy Lederer

Thom Donovan coedits On: Contemporary Practice, a magazine for writing on one’s contemporaries, edits Wild Horses of Fire blog, curates PEACE events series and is an active participant in the Nonsite Collective. His poems, criticism, and scholarship have appeared variously.



Thom Donovan – Readings ‘On Certainty’

Stuart Krimko is the author of Not That Light (2005) and The Sweetness Of Herbert (forthcoming), both published by Sand Paper Press, Key West. In 2005 he received a grant from The Fund for Poetry.


Stuart Krimko – Readings ‘On Certainty’

John Keene is the author of the award-winning novel Annotations (New Directions, 1995), and of the poetry collection Seismosis (1913 Press, 2006), with artwork by Christopher Stackhouse. He has published his fiction, poetry, essays and translations in a wide array of journals, including African-American Review, AGNI, Encyclopedia, Gay and Lesbian Review, Hambone, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, New American Writing, and Ploughshares.



John Keene – Readings ‘On Certainty’

Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collection, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year. Her second poetry book, The Heaven-Sent Leaf was published by BOA Editions in the fall of 2008.


Katy Lederer – Readings ‘On Certainty’ Discussion:


Discussion ‘On Certainty’: Thom Donovan, John Keene, Stuart Krimko, Katy Lederer, Christopher Stackhouse Click here to read Thom Donovan’s statement



Discussion ‘On Certainty’ (contd.): Thom Donovan, John Keene, Stuart Krimko, Katy Lederer, Christopher Stackhouse

April 11, 3pm
Lawrence Liang
Truth technologies at the service of law from the Lie Detector to Narco-Analysis have made a sudden reappearance in the world after 9/11. In the Indian context, high profile cases including Abu Salem and Telgi’s have centered on highly performative extractions of the truth, which are often televised on television. This paper attempts to provide a philosophical and cultural history of technologies of lie detection. It looks at the ways in which truth and lies were rendered technologically accessible, and how the body simultaneously becomes the archive of the soul and in turn produces a new regime of physiological truth. Popular discourse on crime and detection are vital to the legitimacy of these technologies of truth, and in many ways lie detectors were legitimized through popular culture before the found acceptance in law. This paper will locate the re-emergence of lie detectors within the dynamics of secrets and lies in the hyper mediatised world that we live in.



Lawrence Liang – Rewiring the Soul: Technologies of the Truth (Part 1)


Lawrence Liang – Rewiring the Soul: Technologies of the Truth (Part 2)

April 18, 3pm
Kenneth Perrine (followed by discussion with Arani Bose)
In his presentation Dr. Perrine will discuss language and certainty, weaving together the questions posed by philosophers from Western (e.g., Wittgenstein, Bateson) and Eastern (Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism) traditions regarding language and subjectivity, with his research findings from performing the Wada test in which a sedative is injected into one hemisphere of the brain at a time. The effect is to shut down all functions in that hemisphere in order to evaluate the capabilities of the other, “awake” hemisphere. During this period of anesthesia he probes the neural mechanisms of memory, language and thinking in each hemisphere separately. He also performs Cortical Stimulation during awake neurosurgery to localize language and other cognitive processes by selectively disabling small (1 cm) cortical areas during cognitive testing. These procedures allow testing of hypotheses relating the neural bases of language, certainty, self-awareness and other mental functions to the questions posed by philosophers for millennia.


‘On Certainty’ Presentation #6 : The Neuroscience of Language and Certainty (Intro.)


Kenneth Perrine – The Neuroscience of Language and Certainty (Pt. 1)


Kenneth Perrine – The Neuroscience of Language and Certainty (Pt. 2)


Kenneth Perrine & Arani Bose – The Neuroscience of Language and Certainty (Discussion Pt. 1)


Arani Bose – On the difference between Animate and Inanimate reality (Discussion Pt. 2)


Kenneth Perrine & Arani Bose – The Neuroscience of Language and Certainty (Discussion Pt. 3)

Abhishek Hazra is a visual artist based in Bangalore. His work explores the intersections between technology and culture through animated shorts and performance pieces that often integrate textual fragments drawn from real and fictional scenarios. He is also interested in the social history of scientific practices in colonial India. A brief overview of some of his works can be found here: http://abhishekhazra.blogspot.com/

Joshua Hart (b. 1976) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from Bard College in 2007. www.joshuahart.org

Kiran Subbaiah (http://www.geocities.com/antikiran) was born in India. He has studied and worked at various art institutions in India and Europe.

His creative production consists of 3-dimensional objects, site/context-specific texts, short stories, videos, and proposals for utilitarian objects. He has been making computer-specific art-objects since 1999. http://www.geocities.com/antikiran/

Lindsay Benedict was born in Port Jefferson, New York, and currently lives in Brooklyn. She received a BA from Williams College, an MFA from UC Berkeley and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. Working in film, sound, performance, sewn text and photographic essay, her projects request exploration of social connections that demand a further examination of contemporary life. Often emotionally raw, the work is presented as a fragment, question, or gesture. Benedict has recently shown at PS 122 in Manhattan, the Berkeley Art Museum, and in the Emergency Biennial; she has screened at the Detroit Museum of New Art (MONA), New Langton Arts in San Francisco, and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA.

Pat Palermo is an artist and cartoonist currently living and working in Brooklyn. He received a BFA from Ohio State University and an MFA from Bard College in 2005. His comic book, Cut Flowers, was a 2005 recipient of the Xeric Grant for self-publishing cartoonists. His work has been exhibited at Monya Rowe Gallery (New York), Edward Mitterand (Geneva), and Sutton Lane (Paris). He is currently writing and drawing Live/Work, a serial comic book set in the contemporary art world.

Sreshta Premnath lives and works in New York City. He is the founder and editor of the magazine Shifter.

He received his BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art, his MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Art at Bard College and was a 2008 studio fellow at The Whitney Independent Study Program.

His work has been shown at Gallery SKE, in Bangalore (India), Rotunda Gallery, Art in General, Bose Pacia Gallery and Thomas Erben Gallery in New York City. http://www.circumscript.net

Vijay Iyer is a New York-based pianist, composer, improviser, producer, and occasional academic. He tours worldwide with his various projects, and has released twelve albums as a leader or co-leader. Most commonly associated with jazz, he has also composed orchestral and chamber works; scored for film, theater, radio and television; collaborated with poets and choreographers; and joined forces with artists in hip-hop, rock, experimental, electronic, and Indian classical musics. Iyer received the Alpert Award in the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, Creative Capital, the Cary Charitable Trust, American Composers Forum, Chamber Music America, and Meet The Composer. His writings appear in Music Perception, Current Musicology, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Critical Studies in Improvisation, Journal of the Society for American Music, and the anthologies Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies and Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture.

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Editors: Sreshta Rit Premnath, Avi Alpert

Shifter’s 13th issue focuses on the importance and impact of this philosopher, who, though unknown, seems to have been one of the most important thinkers of the late 20th and early 21st century. Belissop’s thought has been instrumental in changing the entire terrain of intellectual, artistic and activist practice over the past seven decades of her immense production. Her revolutionary work in activist “interventionism,” and her Marxist, materialist commitment never seemed to conflict with her important contribution to experimental poetry. Her philosophical treatises managed to comfortably accommodate both psychoanalysis and neuro-psychology while simultaneously problematizing both disciplines. Her expertise and influence in so many varied disciplines made her something of an Aristotle of our age. Of course, like Aristotle, she was not right in everything she said, but that she said it made so much of our own work possible.

Belissop was an untimely thinker – indeed a thinker whose true time has not come and perhaps never will. We are using this occasion as an opportunity to reflect on critical practice at the present time. The invention of Belissop (and her inventiveness) gives us the opportunity to explore concepts that have yet to be named or written, to test out ideas, to question the history of critical theory that has swept all fields of practice, to engage in a dialog with someone so capacious, so brilliant, that they could never really exist.

In this issue we present aphorisms, essays, interviews, letters of friendship and admiration, poems and artwork that grow out of the possibilities opened by her analyses. The aim of the issue is simply to continue Belissop’s legacy – to explore the multifaceted themes that her work touches on and helps animate within our own lives.

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Participants:
Avi Alpert
Kim Asbury
Lindsay Benedict
Karlotta Blöndal
Emil Madsen Brandt
Dion Farquhar
Alison Gerber
Joshua Hart
Jesal Kapadia
Philipp Kleinmichel
Yahia Lababidi
Lawrence Liang
Karl Lydén
George Monteleone
Huong Ngo
Morgan O’Hara
Annika Ruth Persson
Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
Adam Trowbridge
Anna Vitale
Ylva Westerlund

Editors:
Sreshta Premnath, Kajsa Dahlberg & Jane Jin Kaisen

Most libraries around the world use the Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDCS) to list and categorize books. The DDCS is a library classification system developed by Melvil Dewey in 1876. By categorizing items within a library it serves as a tool for people searching for specific knowledge. It was an attempt to organize all knowledge into ten main classes, which are further subdivided into 100 divisions and 1000 sections. This makes the DDCS appear purely numerical and infinitely rational. However, DDCS is regularly revised, reflecting how culture, ideology, and the perception of knowledge change over time. As a result of these changes and to provide for future alterations 89 of the 1000 sections in the system are classified as “ Unassigned.”

For this issue of Shifter we invited artists, writers, activists and scholars to comment on, disturb and restructure the logic of this system by adding new categories to fill the unassigned spaces. These comments, reflections, parasite systems or prosthetic extensions all expand on what is structurally “knowable” within the institution of the public library, by opening up the possibilities held within its undefined categories.

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SHIFTER11 : INTIMATE

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Participants:
Dorothy Albertini
Avi Alpert
Steve Ausbury
Jonah Bokaer
Karen Cunningham
Dorit Cypis
Elaine Gan
Stephan Hillerbrand
Mary Magsamen
Erin Ming Lee
Simon Leung
Matt Lipps
Chana Morgenstern
Sudha Premnath
C Premnath
Megan Piontkowski
Sarah Ross
Ann Stephenson
Anup Matthew Thomas
Soyoung Yoon.

Editors:
Sreshta Premnath & Steven Lam

The intimate is one of proximity and familiarity. As a relational category, intimacy is a quality of closeness, attachment, and belongingness. To be intimate with someone or some thing is to have an innermost connection. Intimacy, or intimus, designates interiority or an inward sensation, as in under one’s skin. To intimate is also to communicate with a hint, to imply subtly. This process requires a codified reception, a circle of acknowledgement and recognition. Intimacy not only designates issues pertinent to the discussion of home, sexuality, identity, the slippage between the private and public, but also relationships made out of kinship, friendship, and neighborliness.

What mobilizes an intimate attraction? What prompts someone to have such a deep connection? Can it be collectively produced? How can one locate intimacy in this time of hatred, fanaticism, and terror? Can intimacy arise out of estrangement? What role does the intimate have on the construction of belief?

Shifter’s 11th issue will attempt to re-route mechanisms of connectivity: it seeks to complicate notions of proximity, interiority, and attachment by inserting the concept of intimacy into a different economy of associations — one pertinent to the shifting language of globalization and its post-colonial realities. How can artists/theorists/designers, etc. remap a new thinking of intimacy pushing it away from a private emotional ideal frequently narrativized in consumer culture to a zone that seems capable of addressing our time of social upheaval marked by hatred, fanaticism, war, vulnerability, estrangement, and immobility?

Dorothy Albertini recently completed her MFA at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She works for Bard’s satellite campuses in New York state prisons and curates a reading series at kmoca (the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art). Avi Alpert is a writer and theorist living in New York City. His research of late has focused on Continental philosophy, inter-cultural contact, and the relationship between the two. He is currently a Helena Rubenstein Fellow in the Critical Theory section of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Studies Program. Steven Ausbury is an artist living in Brooklyn and Cairo, NY. His performance, visual art and media-based work has generally addressed the relationships between identity, language and space in everyday life. His work has been screened, performed and exhibited at the The New Museum, The Kitchen, Grey Art Gallery, The International Center of Photography, 303 Gallery, Barnsdall Artpark, Franklin Furnace, New Langton Arts, Banff Center for New Media, the Cannes Film Festival and Cinematexas among many other venues. His work is in the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum.  He holds a B.A. from Hampshire College, attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Jonah Bokaer is an award-winning media artist and choreographer. A graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts, Bokaer was hired as a professional member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (2000- 2007) at the unprecedented age of 18, and remains the youngest dancer ever hired in the 55-year history of Cunningham’s dance ensemble. Additionally, Bokaer has worked with John Jasperse (2004-2005), David Gordon (2005- 2006), Deborah Hay (2005), and has also interpreted the choreography of George Balanchine as restaged by Melissa Hayden. Karen Cunningham is a Scottish artist usually based in Glasgow but currently living in Amsterdam as artists in residence for the Scottish Arts Council. Her art education started with studying for a degree in Photography at Edinburgh College of Art, she then attended Mayland Institute College of Art in Baltimore as an exchange student in 1997 and then studied on the MFA program at Glasgow School of Art between 2001-2003. She is co-curator of ‘The OPen Eye Club’ – a series of one-off video/art events in Glasgow and Future exhibitions include a 3-person show with Babak Ghazi (London) and Luca Frei (Sweden) as part of Glasgow International – April 2008. Dorit Cypis, is an artist (MFA, Cal Arts, 1977) and a mediator (Masters of Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University, 2005). Since the 1980’s Dorit Cypis has employed strategies of photography, performance, installation, sculpture and social interaction to explore relationships between personal and social identity, questioning subjectivity in relation to corporeal, social, political and psychological spaces. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, International Center of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Orange County Museum, Walker Art Center, Musee d’Art Contemporain/Montreal, Musee des Beaux Arts/Bruxelles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Elaine Gan uses installation, performance, and digital media to study negotiations of power and movements of capital. Some of her works have taken visible form through the commitment of institutions such as New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Artists Space, Exit Art, and the New York Department of Cultural Affairs. Raised in Manila, Gan earned a degree in Architecture from Wellesley College, participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art – Independent Study Program, and lives in New York City. "Fast Car" is part of an ongoing series about globalization and cultural sites. http://www.ganstudio.com

Steven Lam is an artist and independent curator. Lam is currently a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and will premiere an exhibition co-curated with Angelique Campens and Erica Cooke in May 2008, entitled “For Reasons of State” at the Kitchen, NYC. He was the 2006-7 Lori Ledis Curatorial Fellow at Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn. Other exhibitions included ‘Spectral Evidence’ and ‘Eligible Traffic’ opens in early March in TX. As an artist Lam has exhibited in several non-profit venues including the Bronx Museum of Art, New York; PS122 Gallery, New York; Eyebeam, NY; Art Interactive, MA; Diverseworks, TX; Produce Gallery, Tyler School of Art, PA; The Windtunnel at Art Center College of Art and Design, CA; Aljira: Center for Contemporary Art, NJ as well premiering video/choreographic work for various performance venues. His work and exhibitions have been reviewed in the New York Times, Artforum.com, Flash Art, Art Journal, among others. He received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and currently teaches Art History and Theory at the School of Visual Arts. Simon Leung lives in Los Angeles. His latest work include “POE,” a video exhibited at Wave Hill in fall 2007; “three boys pose for a camera none of them are looking into,” a small book of fiction (Nothing Moments Press 2007); and the essay, “The Look of Law,” which won the 2008 Art Journal Award. 2008 is also his eighth year of gainful employment at the University of California, Irvine. Matt Lipps was born and raised in Northern California. He received his MFA from University of California, Irvine in 2004, and his BFA from California State University, Long Beach in 1998. He has been a part of such group exhibitions as Photography Unbound at the Robert V. Fullerton Museum, San Bernardino in 2006; The Libertine Society presents: The Nature of Excess at L2kontemporary Gallery, Los Angeles in 2006; Log Cabin, organized by Jeffrey Uslip at Artists Space, New York in 2005; Rendering Gender at Truman State University Art Gallery, Missouri in 2004; among others. The collaborative husband/wife team of Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand have been working together over the past several years. Their work has been included in group exhibitions and screenings nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Butler Institute of American Art and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. Their work has recently been in group exhibitions at The Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Boston Center for the Arts and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. They were awarded the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Residency in New York City at The Woolworth Building in 2003, a residency at the Experimental Television Center in 2004 and 2005 and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Creativity Award in 2005. http://www.maryandstephan.com Chana Morgenstern was born and raised in Jerusalem and now resides in Providence where she is working on her PhD in Comparative Israeli and Palestinian Literature at Brown University. She has her MFA in fiction from Bard College and is working on an upcoming novel. Chana is co-founder of the innovative reading series and literary arts non-profit, Artifact . Recent fiction of hers can be read in On our Backs Magazine, Marjorie Wood Gallery, Tantalum, and Encyclopedia. Megan Piontkowski lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of Montclair State University’s BFA program in 2003 and of Brooklyn College’s MFA program in 2006. Her work has been shown in New York, New Jersey, Toronto, Salzburg, Austria and the 2007 ArtNow fair in Miami, FL. Megan’s current projects in process are a sculptural installation of stuffed fabric aloe and jade plants, and a series of gouache, watercolor and ink works on paper of her alter-e C.Premnath has enjoyed working for over three decades in the field of audio communication. He currently assists in the Kaigal Education and Environment Programme.

Sreshta Premnath lives and works in New York City. He received his BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Art at Bard College. His work has been shown at Gallery SKE and Sumukha Gallery, in Bangalore (India), Rotunda Gallery, Art in General, Exit Art and Bose Pacia Gallery in New York City. He is currently a studio fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Sreshta is the founder and editor of Shifter. Sudha Premnath received her PhD in Ecology, from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. She has worked in the ‘Centre for Environment Education, Bangalore’ and presently teaches Biology and Environmental Sciences at ‘The Valley School’, Bangalore. She is deeply concerned with ecological restoration, wilderness conservation and environment education. She has established five schools for the children of the Tribal communities in Kaigal (AP), a seed bank and nursery for endangered tree species, and a livelihood programme for the community surrounding Kaigal village. Sarah Ross is an artist whose works focus on myths of health, safety and cleanliness that surface in the physical and visual structures of everyday spaces. She teaches at various institutions including Illinois State University and an Illinois state prison, and works with C-U Books to Prisoners, and Education Justice Project, an initiative to provide higher education in Illinois prisons. Ross is the recipient of a grant from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. She has exhibited work in Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, Chicago, Portland, Denmark and Romania. Ann Stephenson is a poet whose recent work appears or is forthcoming in Coconut, Combo, Forklift, Sal Mimeo, and TYPO. In 2006 she published her chapbook, Wirework (Tent Editions). She recently completed her MFA at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and relocated from New York City to Atlanta, Georgia. Anup Mathew Thomas is a photographer currently based in Kerala. His recent works explore the plural and syncretic nature of the state he grew up in. He had solo shows at GallerySKE, Bangalore and Gasworks Gallery, London in 2007. Soyoung Yoon is a Ph.D. candidate in the Dept. of Art & Art History at Stanford University, writing her dissertation, tentatively titled: “The Anarchic Archive: Re- conceptualizations of Collage and Montage in Post-war Avant- garde Cinema.” The dissertation argues for a fundamental shift in the post-war model of collage/montage – a shift from a spatial to a temporal paradigm – specifically as the avant-garde’s response to a waning of affect of the image and consequently, the weakening of our relationship to history, our sense of historicity, within the cultural dynamics of postwar Europe and the United States. In her other work, she analyzes the psychological and social function of the image in terms of a critique of ideology informed by Marxist aesthetics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, feminist and post- colonial theory, and media theory. A recent critical studies fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program (2006 ~ 2007), she is currently a Visiting Professor at the Film Program, Conservatory of Theatre, Arts, and Film in SUNY Purchase College.

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SHIFTER10 : TRANSPARENT WHITE

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Participants:
Eric Anglès
Kathleen Miller + Clifford Borress
Joseph Bradshaw
Mark Cooley
Melissa Dubbin + Aaron S. Davidson
Eric Gottesman
Branden Koch
Reuben Lorch-Miller
Matthew McAlpin
Kiki Petrosino
André Spears
Christopher Stackhouse
David Samuel Stern
Edwin Torres
Genya Turovskaya
Avinash Veeraraghavan
Ruben Verdu

Editor:
Sreshta Rit Premnath
Pieter DeHeijde

Transparent White

“Milk is not opaque because it is white, – as if white were something opaque. If ‘white’ is a concept which only refers to a visual surface, why isn’t there a colour concept related to ‘white’ that refers to transparent things?” -Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Remarks on Colour”

Things that can be imagined but not seen. Things that can be seen but not named. Things that can be imagined but not articulated, nor seen. Things that can be said but not seen or imagined. I think “Transparent White” belongs to the last of these categories.

Of course, I use words loosely here.

But imagine, for instance, contemplating a picture of a Martian landscape. We imagine a place, like a red desert. We look toward its hazy horizon as if we could actually see it. In a way, we imagine the object – the target of our gaze – knowing that we do not (cannot) actually stand on Mars. In fact the only way we can access the object is by seeing it in terms that are imaginable. We look from the wrong context, we are displaced, yet we transpose our horizon onto the picture’s and we see a desert. Desolate but nameable.
Can a word mean without representing something? Or can a word be understood if we do not know or have not seen what it represents?

Shifter’s 9th issue Ruin|Monument focussed on the way in which the empty ruin signifies. Like a vacuum it absorbs everything. Like a mirror it reflects back our pointing fingers. The Monument, it was proposed, is the past (memory) embodied, hurtling backwards towards the future.

If the “Ruin” is an absence, which is transformed into object by our projections, then “Transparent White” is fully formed language which does not stick to an object. In a way they are mirror images of each other. While the Monument like the ruin exists physically (it occupies space, we can walk around it, we can photograph it), “Transparent White” occupies a conceptual site of contention. One is not sure if/ what it could represent. Yet one can imagine using the phrase “Transparent White”, in a poem for instance, and meaning something.

Shifter’s 10th issue “Transparent White” will attempt to engage this untethering of utterances from straightforward representation.

Eric Anglès is a translator, constantly negotiating between four languages: Portuguese, French, German and English. His artistic and critical engagements are oriented towards the question: How is meaning produced by different groups of people as they interact with cultural objects? And more fundamentally, why this anxiety to produce meaning? Clifford Borress works in Brooklyn and currently pursues a master’s in photography at Bard College. Joseph Bradshaw is the author of The Way Birds Become (Weather Press, 2007). His poems and reviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Cannibal, Cranky, Cultural Society, Denver Quarterly, MiPOesias, the tiny, and Zafusy. He currently lives in Iowa City, IA. Mark Cooley is a new genre artist interested in exploring politics/economics, identity and visual rhetoric in American popular (and not so popular) culture. Mark’s work has been shown internationally in online and offline venues such as Exit Art, Postmasters Gallery, Furtherfield.org and Rhizome.org. Documentation of Mark’s work can be seen at his website at flawedart.net. Mark is an Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Technology at George Mason University. Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson have worked collaboratively since 1998. Their projects are multi-disciplinary in nature and include practices in video, sculpture, sound, performance, and works on paper. Dubbin & Davidson have exhibited internationally at Sadler’s Wells, London; 2004 Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; E-Flux Video Rental; Espace Paul Ricard, Paris; and the New York/Québec Interlacé Festival. They have exhibited in the United States at museums, galleries, and art centers including SculptureCenter, New York; Gigantic Art Space, New York; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Museum of Art & Design, New York; New Sound New York Festival. Melissa Dubbin was born in 1976, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She graduated with honors in Moving Image Arts from College of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Aaron S. Davidson was born in 1971, in Madison, Wisconsin. He received his degree in Photography from University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Davidson currently teaches at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Dubbin & Davidson live and work in Brooklyn, New York City. Eric Gottesman is a collaborative artist working with photography and video. For the last seven years, he has been working on a project with Sudden Flowers Productions, a children’s art collective in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that he helped found. Together, they have produced imagery that describes how the children’s lives have been affected by poverty and disease. They have shown the work locally in English and Amharic and recently toured a public exhibit around Ethiopia. Gottesman has exhibited and published his work from Ethiopia and from other projects in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America. His most recent exhibits were at ESpace SD in Beirut, Lebanon, Al Riwaq Gallery in Manama, Bahrain and Gallery Wedat in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. http://www.ericgottesman.net/

Branden Koch Lives/works – Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from Bard College. His recent solo exhibitions include: Rowland Contemporary April 2007, Chicago IL; High Energy Constructs, LA, CA November 2006. He organizes the series "One Night Stand" They are temporary exhibitions in his Brooklyn apartment. Reuben Lorch-Miller grew up in Washington State. He received an MFA in New Genres from San Francisco State University in 2001. He has been an artist-in-residence at The Headlands Center for The Arts (Sausalito, CA) and Medicine Factory (Memphis, TN). His work has been exhibited widely including venues in San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Lisbon. Using a variety of media, he integrates sculpture, installation, video, sound, painting, text and photography. The work often explores themes of power, fear, ambivalence and anti-heroics, typically placed within the context of cultural motifs, personal symbology and the landscape. He currently lives in New York City where he has only one cat and tries to grow vegetables on the roof. http://www.lorch-miller.com Matt McAlpin is a doctoral student in the English department at SUNY Stony Brook, more interested in freshman comp than anything else. His whole life, the big Other has been telling him to be the Master and a philosopher, he has recently come to the realization that he’s a sophist and a pervert. Kathleen Miller is a poet who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has kindly been featured in publications such as Shampoo Magazine and Bay Poetics Anthology, as well as "The Weather is Happening All Around Us," a chapbook from Delirium Press. Kiki Petrosino is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Best New Poets 2006, Unpleasant Event Schedule, POOL, Forklift Ohio, and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City, where she is a Post-Graduate Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa. André Spears is the author of Fragments from Mu (A Sequel) (First Intensity, 2007); his other works include Xo: A Tale for the New Atlantis (1983) and Letters from Mu (Part I), both of which are posted online at www.pangaeapress.com. Christopher Stackhouse is the author of a collection of poems, Slip (Corollary Press, 2005) and co-author with poet/novelist/professor John Keene on the collaborative book Seismosis (1913 Press, 2006) which features Keene’s text and Stackhouse’s drawings. He is a contributing editor for Fence Magazine, a Cave Canem Writer Fellow, a 2005 Fellow in Poetry New York Foundation For The Arts, and a Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, M.F.A. Writing candidate. David Samuel Stern uses photography to examine the relationship between vision and representation. He is originally from suburban Chicago and received an MFA in digital imaging & photography from Washington University in St. Louis. His work has been featured by the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City. http://davidsamuelstern.com

Edwin Torres of sightsound bits, of lingua stretched, across beaches and billow, by brix and books, of folio beards, of nubile bards, the poPedology of ambient language, the functions of external circumstance, of spooked devil, dusting day, of unions, the shock, the worker, the roof, holy kid, kills rock star, foundation, for contemporary, among others, performance, and art, and nyfa, in restless residence, lmcc, co-editor of dvd, stevens thundrous zeitgimp, radio rattattat rip, ps1, dot org, live theater, nude yip, double double you, dot, dit, lingoblip. Genya Turovskaya was born in Kiev, Ukraine and grew up in New York City. She is the author of Calendar (Ugly Duckling Presse 2002). And The Tides (Octopus Books 2007). Her poetry and translations from Russian have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, 6×6, The Germ, Aufgabe, A Public Space, Octopus, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is the Associate Editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse, and teaches writing and literary translation at Pratt Institute and NYU. Avinash Veeraraghavan Lives and works in Bangalore, India. He worked as a freelance graphic designer for several years before starting to make art work. His first project was a picture book titled ‘I Love My India. Stories for a city.’ His works have also been shown at Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore, GallerySKE, Bangalore, and Project88, Mumbai amongst few others. Ruben Verdu has devoted himself to fictionalize and ridicule some of the most boring aspects of our contemporary living experience. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. After receiving his MFA from CalArts, he moved to New York to attend the Whitney Museum ISP. He now lives an works in Barcelona, Spain, where he has just finished exhibiting at the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica. He will be part of the upcoming LOOP’07 festival. www.peepingmonster.com Sreshta Rit Premnath lives and works in NYC. He received his MFA from Bard College and his BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art. His work has been shown in various galleries including Rotunda Gallery Brooklyn, Bose Pacia, NY; Islip Art Museum, LI; Gallery SKE, and Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, India; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. He is the founder and editor of Shifter Magazine, as well as the founder of The Museum of Contextual Amputations. www.circumscript.net Pieter DeHeijde lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. He is known for his discreet text and image based interventions into Wikipedia and other public domain information sources. He is engaged in trying to understand the ways in which the notion of truth is performed, articulated and transformed in the public sphere. He is currently working on a book "The Rebirth of Myth in Contemporary Politics," to be published by Idelwilde Press in 2008.

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SHIFTER9 : RUIN|MONUMENT

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Participants:
Ben Colebrook
Nathan Haenlein
Valerie Hegarty
Jeremy Hovenaar
Tim Hutchings
Matt King
Branden Koch
Liz N Val
Caitlin Masley
Laura Marsh
Carlos Motta
Keiko Narahashi
Yamini Nayar
Patrick O’Hare
Jason Paradis
Carrie Paterson
Sharon Paz
Megan Pflug
Ben Polsky
Kristin Schaffenberger
Michael Schall
Maya Schindler
Holli Schorno
Bernhard Schreiner
Tucker Schwarz
Andre’ Spears
Derek Stroup
Ruben Verdu
Lisa Vinebaum
Jessica Westbrook

Editor: Sreshta Rit Premnath
Associate Editor: Gönner Heiliger Von Lügen
Critical Advisor: Pieter DeHeijde

Ruin|Monument

“..A spectral figure now appears before him – the “genius of Tombs and Ruins” – and spirits him high, into the air, from which lofty vantage he sees the globe spotted with deserts, fires, and fugitive and desolate peoples. It is a law of nature Volney surmises, that all things must fall into ruin. But the apparation corrects him: the hideous earthly vision above which he floats at a sublime distance, is not natural at all. It is, precisely, human history.”
-A description of a passage from Comte de Volney’s Les Ruines, ou Meditation, sur les revolutions des empire, (1792) – Excerpted from Brian Dillon’s essay “Fragments From a History of Ruin”

“A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.”
-Walter Benjamin, from “Thesis on the Philosophy of History”

The word monument derives from monere – to remind, warn. The monument as we think of it, the emblem which always points idealistically, emphatically towards utopia, a dream, is fatalistically anchored to a memory, that which has already been. Furthermore the monument is the memory of a dream, a failed utopia. As Svetlana Boym might say, the monument is the ruin of the future – the future that never happened.

I wonder if we can propose a re-reading of Benjamin’s proposition as follows: We are the angels of history. We look towards the ruin of past events formulating constellations (chains of events). We understand the future that is behind us through these constellations. The storm from Paradise which propels us towards the future is precisely the same as the storm which has destroyed our past. It is this contradiction which allows us to continue moving backwards as we imagine the future as the next ruin in our unfinished constellation. The ruin is the embodiment of the future – history. The Ruin is The Monument.

This issue of Shifter, Ruin|Monument will attempt to explore these questions – questions which are pressing as a city just built has been once again destroyed. The monument here? Religious dogma, Political power, Machismo. We the angels read our newspapers, the winds of paradise catching under our wings.

1) The fragmented | The unified
2) The fractured | The intact
3) The erased | The extant
4) The silence | The voice
5) The fleeting | The fallen
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Ben Colebrook The friction between a sense of optimism and a deeply felt skepticism provides the heat that drives my work, which can be described as low-tech solutions to the relentless escalation of consumer desire. In this case I have reproduced the most essential everyday objects in my life, which can also be seen as symbols of identity, capital, access and hope. Currently I am producing a long-term project titled “The Weekly Dead”, a project where the Iraq War meets Shopping. bcolebrook@yahoo.com www.whitedotstudio.com Nathan Haenlein was born in Michigan and now lives and works in Northern California. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. Haenlein’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and most recently he has had solo shows in Marfa, TX, Washington D.C., and Cleveland, OH (November 2006). His work is in the public collection of the Center for Visual Arts, Toledo, OH; Kalkograsski Ateijie Butkovic, Rijeka, Croatia; the Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; the National Palace of Art, Minsk, Belarus; the Tama Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; as well as many others. Haenlein’s current body of work explores ideas around consumption and new acts of drawing. Additionally he questions the concepts of patients, the digital age, and repetition. Valerie Hegarty lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has received numerous grants including a full scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for her MFA, A Graduate Fellowship grant, an Artists Fellowship Award from the Illinois Arts Council and a Community Arts Assistance Program grant. In New York, she has recieved a Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. In the past year, Valerie has show at the Nada Art Fair Miami, The Armory, White Columns, PS1 in the Greater New York Show, and Guild & Greyshkul. She is represented by Guild & Greyshkul Gallery in Soho and currently has her second solo exhibition on view. Valerie is also currently participating in the group show "Denial is a River" at Sculpture Center in Long Island City. Jeremy Hoevenaar lives in Brooklyn and shifts books at an undisclosed and conveniently located Barnes and Noble in Manhattan. He was born in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1977. He holds no degrees. He tries to consider this an asset. He could have been an alchemist. He could have been a blacksmith. Or an airline pilot. He is an untrained musician. He has no siblings. He used to like making pronouncements but has given that up. He tries hard to take things seriously. He has a weakness for heavy metal. He believes that everything is a monument to something. Timothy Hutchings lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He holds a BA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. He is represented by I-20 gallery, NY and has shown at various venues including Real Art Ways (hartford, CT), Cranbrook Academy of Art (MI), Art Basel Miami Beach, and the 1st Mocow Biennial. Matt King received his MFA from Bard College, after graduating from Cooper Union and the Whitney Independent Study Program. His work has been shown at Guild & Greyshkul, Lurhing Augustine, and Stefan Stux in New York and was included in Sculpture: Precarious Realism at the Vienna Kunsthalle in 2003. His recent project, primarily sculpture and drawing, is a series of psychological portraits that use traditional plaster life-casts in conjunction with re-situated everyday objects and materials. It continues his ongoing examination of the collision between momentary lived experiences and the imagined narrative of existence. He lives in Hobart, New York and teaches at Cooper Union. mking7@hotmail.com Branden Koch received his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a BFA in painting from The Cleveland Institute of Art. He has also studied abroad at the Edinburgh College of Art, in Scotland. Branden currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His first solo exhibition Discorporate is currently at High Energy Constructs, LA. www.highenergyconstructs Liz-N-Val The art team Liz-n-Val are known for their unique ways of art distribution and public art inter-Actions. They have invented Abstractrealism, the art of constructed reality. They run the MuseuM of Art After Art, alternately known by other thematic names such as: MuseuM of Advanced Art, MuseuM of Truth-N- Beauty, MuseuM of Something-N-Nothing, Museum of Anything, MuseuM of Everything and recently, ArtSites. They have worked together for over 25 years and have shown their work internationally, in a variety of venues from the streets of New York, Paris and Berlin to galleries and Museums. www.liz-n-val.net Caitlin Masley is a New York based artist. In 2005-2006 she will be exhibiting a series of new reconstruction/combination architectual installations, portable paper buildings and wall drawing projects in New York, Geneva, Toronto, Amsterdam, Trondheim, Zagreb and Auckland. In addition to these exhibitions, Masley has recenly completed artist projects Cabinet Magazine and Artworld Digest, plus reviews in Gloss Magazine amoung others. www.caitlinmasley.com Laura Marsh Born in the small town of Montrose, Pennsylvania (bordering the Southeast corner of New York State) in 1982, Laura Marsh began to question her roles as a woman, citizen, and contemporary artist. She found herself generally interested in social politics and gender issues, but in a subliminal and intuitive way. The subject of her work is rooted in locating American desire through implicating a consumer object and unveiling something awkward about its nature. The result of this process is often very stylized, low-tech, and sometimes illustrative work, which is more concerned with surface and pattern than conventional space or technique. The subject of her work takes form and continues to vary in tandem with her reactions to residing in urban environments. Marsh received her BFA at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2006, attended Maine College of Art in 2004, and Yale Norfolk Summer School for the Arts and Music in 2003. Carlos Motta is a New York based Colombian artist whose inter-disciplinary art practice explores the the construction of personal and social subjectivities in relation to language, vision, representation, memory and history. His projects attempt to resist and critically analyse hegemonic domination, and in particulat the effects of economic and political transnational intervention. A graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Motta holds an MFA from Bard College and a BFA from The School of Visual Arts, all in New York. His work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums world wide. www.carlosmotta.com

Keiko Narahashi uses things, mostly pieces from old work and objects that serendipitously materialize, to craft memorials to an imagined past as a hedge against a possible future. She can speak Japanese, her first language, only in dreams, or she imagines that she can – dreams are unreliable. This disjunction between past and present creates a sense of shame and longing, an anxiety of displacement that seems to lay bare the incommensurable gap between the tidal wave of history and a single life. Born in Tokyo, raised in North Carolina, she now lives and works in New York. Her exhibitions include The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a recipient of a studio grant from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation (2005-2006) and received a painting fellowship grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2006. keikonarahashi.com keikonar@yahoo.com Yamini Nayar is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her work been shown in New York, Detroit and Delhi, including the Queens Museum of Art, Onishi Gallery, Bose Pacia Modern, Rush Arts and the Studio Museum. Yamini holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York.<br><br> Yamini is interested in photographs and objects as ways to both remember and forget. Her recent works, color photographs of assemblages and constructed dioramas, explore ideas of fractured context, absence and trace within the image. </p> Patrick O’Hare lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He photographs cross-sections of our modern landscape, the stations of our lives and the silence between them. He searches for signs, portents and absurdities in a wasted but strangely beautiful world that occasionally offers slivers of redemption. He has had solo exhibitions at The Camera Club of New York and OK Harris Gallery. Group exhibitions include: Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY; Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Firehouse Gallery and PS 1, Queens, NY. His work has been published in such journals as Harper’s Magazine, Camera Austria, The Village Voice and Photo Metro. He attended Syracuse University and studied film history at SUNY Binghamton. This summer he was awarded an artist residency at St. Mary’s College of Maryland where he photographed the landscape of the Chesapeake Bay area. Jason Paradis is from Canada and now lives and works in the New York area. In his work, there is a sense of contemplation or of reverie that speculates on a fundamental mystery–this being the result of a lot of camping under an expansive sky in the northern Canadian wilderness. There, questions emerged regarding the existence of something much larger than the immediate world. He is very interested in a moment where the past, present, and future collide. His work has been displayed is several exhibitions in and around New York City as well as across the United States and Canada. Among these are New York area galleries such as White Columns, Jessica Murray Projects, Cynthia Broan Gallery, Marcus Ritter, OMNI Gallery, and Gallery @ 82. Other venues include the Islip Art Museum and the art gallery at Virginia Tech. He received a BFA from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, an MFA from Stony Brook University, and attended the selective Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program hosted by the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Carrie Paterson is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. She has published criticism, fiction, art reviews and catalog essays in a variety of art and culture publications and currently teaches in Graduate Studies at Cal State Fullerton’s Art Department. Her sculpture, new media and performance works have been seen in museums, universities, non-profit galleries and online spaces. She is an avid cyclist and advocate of alternative transportation. Sharon Paz was born in Israel. She received a MFA from Hunter College. Her work is part of the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. In 2005 Paz received a grant from the ³Haptstadkultorfounds 2005² in Berlin. Paz has taken part in the Irish museum of Modern Art residency program, in New Views: DUMBO, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, and was a resident at Skowhegan in Maine. She had a solo show in the Herzlyia Museum in Israel. She has exhibited in White Box Gallery, Artist Space and Sixtyseven, in NYC. Her work has been screened at Thomas Erben Gallery, Art in General, and Anthology Film Archives all in NYC; Paz work has taken part in numerous film and video festivals in Europe, Canada, Israel, and the United States. Paz work investigates ideas about human psychological perception of home, land, nation and culture. She explores her personal history in relation to the political and historical currents. www.sharonpaz.com Megan Pflug’s recent large-scale works on paper are inspired by fashion, poster art, minimalism, and avant-garde utopian art making traditions. She combines graphic textile inspired patterns with digitally manipulated images to explore the common ground that exists between figuration and abstraction. By utilizing materials such as Xerox ink transfers and drawing form a wide variety of “high” and “low” source materials her “collages” attempt to elevate craft, and reference the history of painting. Megan Lives and works in New York City. She has an MFA from Columbia University and BA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Megan has exhibited in New York, Chicago, and Washington DC. Ben Polsky had solo exhibitions at Luxe Gallery, New York, in 2005 and 2003. He has exhibited at Galleri S E, Norway (Singular, 2006) at The Drawing Center, New York, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn (Fifteen Paces, 2005) and Gallery16 in San Francisco. Polsky’s work has recently been featured in the books: Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight, (Gilbert, Alan – Wesleyan University Press, 2006) and Drawings on Geology, (Onnen, Serge – J&L Books, 2005) as well as The Newark Review of The New Jersey Institute of Technology. Polsky received The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2001) and two consecutive Fellowship Awards from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts and The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation (2000 and 2006). Polsky attended The School of Visual Arts in New York and the San Francisco Art Institute. He currently lives and works in Newark, NJ. www.benholli.com /benpolsky.htm Kristin Schaffenberger is a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and earned an MA in 20th Century Literature and its Contexts from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her academic work focuses on 20th Century American poetry, visual art, and theories of the avant-garde. Michael Schall was born in New Jersery, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He recieved his MFA from Pratt Institute and shows his work at Dam Stuhltrager Gallery in Brooklyn. His work has also been exhibited in group shows in New York, Seattle, Germany and The Netherlands. His graphite drawings deal primarily with the futility of our efforts to manipulate the surface of the earth. www.michaelschall.com

Maya Schindler was born in Jerusalem, Israel and lives and works in LA. She is a 2005 graduate of he CORE program, and holds an MFA from Yale University, School Of Art, and a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. She is represented by Anna Helwing Gallery, LA and has shown at various galleries in LA, Houston, TX, Jerusalem Israel and parts of Europe. www.annahelwinggallery.com /artists Holli Schorno’s recent solo show at Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York was reviewed in Art in America (June/July 06). She has also exhibited in Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Italy. Schorno received a 2006 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a New Jersey Council on the Arts Grant (2002). She also earned a Fellowship with the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper (2003). Her collage works were featured in The New Collage (catalog) and Collage: Signs and Surfaces (catalog) at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Structures of Knowledge at Raid Projects, Compelled at the Hunterdon Museum, Destroyer/Creator at the John Weber Gallery, Scripta Manent at Esso Gallery, and Lontano Da Dove? at Galleria Alberto Peola, Torino. Holli Schorno currently lives and works in Newark, New Jersey. www.benholli.com Bernhard Schreiner was born near Vienna / Austria; he currently lives in Frankfurt and Berlin. >From 1991 – 1998 he studied at the art academy / Staedelschule in Frankfurt, Germany, where he later became an assistant lecturer for Film/Video. Till 1999 he was primarily producing documentary-based, experimental S8mm and 16mm film works and curating film programs in Germany, Austria and Italy. In 2001 he has received a yearlong travel grant from Hessische Kulturstiftung. Stopovers in Italy, Portugal, Gibraltar … In 2004 he set up the label “feld-records” ( http://feld-records.com/ ). To date he deals mainly with photography, sound in general, composition, and video; often in a way that incorporates found materials. Tucker Schwarz received a BFA from the University of Georgia in 1994 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996.&nbsp; She shows regularly at numerous galleries through out the Bay Area and has most recently had a solo exhibition at Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco.&nbsp; She has also shown outside of the Bay Area in Philadelphia at Nexus Gallery and in New York City at White Columns, Sara Meltzer Gallery, and Priska Juschka Fine Art.&nbsp; She was a resident at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in the spring of 2004. André Spears is the author of Xo: A tale for the new Atlantis (Pangaea Press, 1983) and Letters from Mu (Part I) (Voix Editions, France, 2000), both of which can be read online at www.pangaeapress.com. Fragments from Mu (A Sequel), from which "Horn of Plenty" is excerpted, is due forpublication in 2007; other excerpts have appeared in First Intensity, FoArm, Arson and Pierogi Press (forthcoming). His doctoral work in Comparative Literature focused on the interrelation between literature and archaeology in the 19th & 20th centuries, and the shifting value(s) assigned to vestiges of the archaic. Derek Stroup earned a BA from Williams College and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. His work is in numerous public and private collections including The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, ArtCollTrust, Biograph, and the Artist’s Books Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Exhibition venues include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Cirrus Gallery, Quint Contemporary Art, PS 122, Roy Boyd Gallery and others. He is the author of three books: Field Guide (2002) Rope Swing Manifesto (2004) and Candy (2006). His books are distributed by Printed Matter, Inc. in New York. The online version of the Rope Swing Manifesto can be seen at www.ropeswingmanifesto.com. Other projects can be seen at www.derekstroup.com. He lives in New York City. Ruben Verdu has devoted himself to fictionalize and ridicule some of the most boring aspects of our contemporary living experience. His views reach the public through peepingMonster, an entrepreneurial platform that showcases some of his works. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. After receiving his MFA from CalArts, he moved to New York to attend the Whitney Museum ISP. He now lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. www.peepingmonster.com Lisa Vinebaum lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. She holds a BFA from Concordia University (Montreal) and an MA in Visual Art from Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). Her interdisciplinary art practice uses video, performance and photography, to explore gender, cultural identity, subjectivity and the Other. Her work has been included in exhibitions and festivals across Europe, North America, Asia, and on the Internet, most recently at Freewaves Festival of New Media Arts at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Scanners New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, the European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück, Germany), and the XXIième Manifestation Internationale d’arts vidéo et nouveaux médias (Clermont-Ferrand, France). She is completing a practice-based PhD in Visual Art at Goldsmiths, where she is researching the ideological performance of images produced and disseminated in the context of the war on terror and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jessica Westbrook is an artist and Professor of Photography, Design, and Web Media at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her photography and new media installation work explores the visual cues which describe, define, and reinforce her domestic orbit. Her images tend towards iconic and her presentation is modular. Westbrook received an MFA from Tyler School of Art. She is the co-founder of the design studio tw/co and a founding member of an artist collective SEED. Sreshta Rit Premnath lives and works in NYC. He received his MFA from Bard College and his BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art. His work has been shown in various galleries including Bose Pacia, NY; Islip Art Museum, LI; Gallery SKE, and Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, India; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. He is the founder and editor of Shifter Magazine, as well as the founder of The Museum of Contextual Amputations. rit.premnath@gmail.com www.circumscript.net Gönner Heiliger Von Lügen lives in Sudan, East Africa. She is a writer and curator and since 2006, Associate Editor of Shifter Magazine. Her most recent essay "Murders, Disappearances" was published by Yeszhu Presse for the Sudan Bienniel, 2006. Pieter DeHeijde lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. He is known for his discreet text and image based interventions into Wikipedia and other public domain information sources. He is engaged in trying to understand the ways in which the notion of truth is performed, articulated and transformed in the public sphere. He is currently working on a book "The Rebirth of Myth in Contemporary Politics," to be published by Idelwilde Press in 2007. pieter.deheijde@gmail.com

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Participants:
Mauro Altamura
Igor Baskin
Chris Bors
Cammi Climaco
Ben Colebrook
Sunoj D
Michael Eddy
Seth Ellis
Curtis Evans
Swetha Gowri
Benjamin Grasso
Alina Viola Grumiller
Vandana Jain
Sonia Jose
Misako Kitaoka
Miranda Maher
Alisdair McRae
Anne M. Platoff
Ana Prvacki
Kamya Ramachandran
Dan Levenson
Nora Schultz
Ruben Verdu
Anna Vitale
Bethany Wright
Joe Zane

Editor: Sreshta Rit Premnath
Associate Editor: Gönner Heiliger Von Lügen
Critical Advisor: Pieter DeHeijde

Rules and Representations

Possibilities:

4) Can rules that have been formulated for a specific purpose be appropriated, salvaged and put to unforeseen uses? What happens to this appropriated structure/ language? What is its relationship to the source structure/ language?

1) (How) Does the represented Subject use the rules of their given symbolic space to find and articulate their subjectivity within the rules of that space. Raising the question of where within the homogenized spheres of production and consumption in this globalizing society, are there spaces for subjective articulation? In the performance of everyday life? In revolt?

2) If the Subject is (I)tself constituted as a representation of these rules, are its articulations also a representation of the same rules? If so, must we remove the term “Subject” from the previous sentence?

3) If the Subject is amputated from language, who speaks? And who is spoken to?

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Michael Eddy from Halifax, Nova Scotia, lives in Frankfurt, Germany. Photo-based artist, with discursive exceptions. Works with Robert Knowles (Cheshire, U.K.) and Jon Knowles (Montréal, Canada) on Knowles Eddy Knowles projects. Proposes the following exercise: The violin imitates the drums. The drums imitate the harp. The harp imitates the trumpet. The trumpet imitates the piano. The piano imitates the oboe. The oboe imitates the cello. The cello imitates the singer. The singer imitates the violin. portfolioexhibition@googlemail.com Igor Baskin : Artist/ curator based in the St-Petersburg, Russia. Painting, photography, video, conceptual projects, performance. Member of National Union of Artists and Free Culture Foundation. Author of the ‘Program of Personification’, founder of ‘St Petersburg’s Transconceptualism. Conception of Personification (fragments). Part 2. NAME AND CREATION, MATERIAL AND IDEAL. …among the all creations of an artist only the name won’t be distracted…own name is going to become THE NAME as itself…the name, as an ideal substance, lives, gets and lose qualities, while public mind exists… http://igorbaskin.com Chris Bors received his MFA from School of Visual Arts. His art has been exhibited at PS1/MoMA, White Columns, Sixtyseven and Ten in One Gallery in New York, and in Berlin, Cyprus, the Netherlands, and Zurich. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Time Out New York, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, and featured in Razor. His digital collages are made from copying images found on websites, which Bors describes as virtual dumpster diving. http://www.chrisbors.com Curtis Evans lives and works in the Bronx. He currently teaches at a public school there. ccblow@lycos.com Miranda Maher I’m fascinated by the blind spots in our cultural psyche that cause our errors and idiosyncrasies (yet they continue, unexamined and uncorrected). This focus has prompted exploration of many themes in my work: from murder & war to epistemology & birds. But throughout, I use by- products of sabotaged method — usually labeled lapse, mistake or failure in traditional reasoning — to fashion my version of a personal epistemology: One that can include the anxiety, bewilderment and even the pleasure of living in a body, engulfed in the world. Alina Viola Grumiller was born in Vienna, Austria. She studied Film and Cooking in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. There friends and I founded the group and art space: Oskar von Millerstrasse 16. In 2001 she got an exchange scholarship to Bard College where she received her MFA. She currently still lives in NY and has just finished: “Behold three Moons”, a 60 min. documentary-lexicon filmed in Syria. Her work ranges from drawings, to installations, photography and film/video. www.utopiantongue.com Misako Kitaoka was born in Los Angeles, raised in Japan and in Australia, and currently resides in San Francisco. She holds a Bachelors degree in economics from Stanford University, and has recently completed her Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies at Columbia University, with her research focus on the discursive representations of Japanese culture in American anthropological literature. Misako currently works at a US-Japan entertainment company, working on the exportation of American entertainment properties in Japan and vice versa. mk2475@columbia.edu according to wikipedia: Joe Zane is an American artist born in 1971. He is best known for work that questions his own authenticity and his role as an artist. He often combines painting, sculpture, video, performance and printed material into a confusing array of interdependant works that describe a narrative questioning the truth of what the viewer is seeing. Often dealing with his relationship to art history, some of Zane’s best known works include 31 drawings of Conceptual Artists and most recently a series of paintings of famous art forgers. Zane currently lives in Cambridge, MA where he works at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies @ MIT. Anna Vitale lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She’s worked at a library and a bookstore and now drives a school bus. Her band, Melting Moments, made a big splash in the local music scene with their debut album, "There Is a Rat in Separate", in 2005. Most recently, Anna’s been reading "Dissonance (if you are interested)" by Rosemarie Waldrop. She also enjoys playing volleyball and dancing. http://annavitale.blogspot.com/

Sunoj D: My work involves the exploration, construction and narration of identities. I am particularly fascinated with the construction of ‘post colonial’, ‘multicultural’ and ‘multilingual’ identities (that I belong to) and how the same is socially validated. My ‘Identity’ teaming with ‘Ideological’ connotations, is brought about with images of the ‘self’ in my work. Graduation- Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore (2003) Last show- ‘Sunoj D – not dead since 1979’ at Gallery SKE, Bangalore (2005) Worked at printmaking studios at Kanoria Art centre, Ahmedabad and the Bharath Bhavan, Bhopal. Winner of the 4th Biennial Bose Pacia Prize for Contemporary Art, New York (2003) Currently living and working in Bangalore India. dsunoj@yahoo.com Vandana Jain’s work recontextualizes corporate logos and slogans, often through the use of playful rearrangement, creating new relationships with well known symbols. Since graduating from New York University with a degree in art in 1996, she has exhibited nationally at ABC No Rio, PS122 Gallery, Momenta, and the Queens Museum of Art, and internationally at Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, Canada and Future Prospects, Manila, Philippines. www.artcodex.org/vandana_jain Ben Colebrook The friction between a sense of optimism and a deeply felt skepticism provides the heat that drives my work, which can be described as low-tech solutions to the relentless escalation of consumer desire. In this case I have reproduced the most essential everyday objects in my life, which can also be seen as symbols of identity, capital, access and hope. Currently I am producing a long-term project titled “The Weekly Dead”, a project where the Iraq War meets Shopping. bcolebrook@yahoo.com www.whitedotstudio.com Seth Ellis has a BA from Yale University, and an MFA from Columbia University; he is currently assistant professor of digital design in the Department of Art at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His work is primarily an exploration of visual text. The final form of these projects is usually physical–digital prints and artist’s books–but the process behind them uses dynamic structures and computer programming to determine the shape and nature of both image and text. http://sethellis.org Benjamin Grasso lives and works in NYC. His recent paintings are exploring the idea of paranoia and the similarities of our current political climate to cold war propaganda. His work is not presenting something impossible or particular but instead representing something contingent, a re-imagining of what actually exists, a re-alignment of logic that makes plastic the anxiety underlying objects in the world. A house floating into space, a car accident that explodes into streamers, the USS Constitution firing at itself. Here we see the nonsensical apocalypse imminent in all things. Sonia Jose Graduated in Fine Arts from the Srishti School of Arts Design and Technology, Bangalore (2003). Had solo shows at The Kashi Art Gallery, Cochin and Gallery SKE, Bangalore (2005) Been interested in working with objects, media and materials that raise questions about issues like value, ownership, identity (both personal and collective) the past and the present. These questions are raised in context to my personal experience and the culture I am embedded in. Currently living and working in Bangalore India. soniajose@gmail.com Ruben Verdu has devoted himself to fictionalize and ridicule some of the most boring aspects of our contemporary living experience. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. After receiving his MFA from CalArts, he moved to New York to attend the Whitney Museum ISP. He now lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. ru@peepingmonster.com Nora Schultz lives and works in Berlin, Germany. From 1998 – 2005 she attended Staatliche Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Frankfurt. In 2000 she participated in exchange studies at Willem de Kooning Akademie, Rotterdam, NL. In 2005 she was Meisterschuelerin of Prof. Mark Leckey and won the Ermenegildo Zegna Scolarship. Since 2005 she is an MFA candidate at Bard College, NY, USA. Most recently she has shown at Johann König Gallery, Berlin. Nora.Schultz@gmx.de Bethany Wright is a poet, performance–installation artist and independent curator living and working in rural Valley Falls, NY. Author of three chapbooks (including Indeed, Insist (a mystery) from Ugly Duckling Presse), her poems appear periodically in journals or are pseudo-channeled through Wright and her coterie of birds and wells at places like The Brooklyn Museum of Art, PS122 and Zieher-Smith Gallery. She co–founded and continues to edit FO (A) RM magazine and recently co-directed the first annual Gilded Pony Performance Festival. swallowplaces@hotmail.com

Pieter DeHeijde lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. He is known for his discreet text and image based interventions into Wikipedia and other public domain information sources. He is engaged in trying to understand the ways in which the notion of truth is performed, articulated and transformed in the public sphere. He is currently working on a book "The Rebirth of Myth in Contemporary Politics," to be published by Idelwilde Press in 2007. pieter.deheijde@gmail.com Gonner Heiliger Von Lugen lives in Sudan, East Africa. She is a writer and curator and since 2006, Associate Editor of Shifter Magazine. Her most recent essay Murders, Disappearances" was published by Yeszhu Presse for the Sudan Bienniel, 2006. Sreshta Rit Premnath lives and works in NYC. He is an MFA candidate at Bard College and his work has been shown in various galleries including Gallery SKE, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, India; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. He is the founder and editor of Shifter Magazine, as well as the founder of The Museum of Contextual Amputations. rit.premnath@gmail.com www.circumscript.net Cammi Climaco Born in Cleveland, OH and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has had shows at Silo, New York, NY, Garden Fresh, Chicago, IL and Branch Gallery, Durham, NC. Her work is largely concerned with relationships and their residual emotions usually based on a network of love stories that end up in hope and despair, elation and misery.cammi@brightsunnyfutures.com Mauro Altamura lives and works in New Jersey where he was born. His work has been shown nationally and inter- nationally. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts among others. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, the Polytechnic Institute, Tokyo, Japan, the State Museum of New Jersey and the Jersey City Museum as well other public and private collections. He is an Assistant Professor at New Jersey City University. His recent work in photography, video, and text is concerned with peripheral lives, the un-accounted, the expendable. maltamura@njcu.edu Dan Levenson’s paintings investigate the spaces between things: borders, boundaries, crossroads, thresholds, horizons, holes in the ground, and the edges where one material bleeds into another. Designed in a 3-D modeling program, which allows for a flawlessly mathematical sense of perspective, they depict the markings that are painted on roads, and in particular the image of the crossroads. A graduate of London’s Royal College of Art, Dan Levenson is the recipient of numerous awards, and has exhibited widely including White Columns, Jack the Pelican gallery, and Columbia University. http://www.danlevenson.com Kamya Ramachandran is an architect and researcher, with a graduate degree from the College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley. Her focus varies from a curiosity into traditional contexts to sustainable architecture and the politics and power that moulds cities in todays’s era of neoliberal globalization. Her current research deals with the development of Bangalore, a southern city of India and more famously it’s "Silicon Valley". Her previous experience in working in rural India doing earthquake rehabilitation has shaped her career goals: to execute an environmentally and socially sustainable architecture. kamooz@hotmail.com Alisdair MacRae is an artist from the west coast of Canada, currently living in Brooklyn, and working in New Jersey.http://www.geocities.com/almacrae Ana Prvacki founded Ananatural Production in 2003. AP is an innovation and lifestyle consultancy that combines conceptual concerns, contemporary issues and various methods of communication with the goal of encouraging contortion, fun, play and space saving. AP is based in Singapore and New York. For more information visit:www.ananatural.com Swetha Gowri is an Architect and a Landscape Architect. She has graduated from RV College, Bangalore, India and from UIUC in Illinois. She is interested in concepts of community, sustainability, urbanism, representation, language, nostalgia and memory. Someday, she hopes she can work with her hands in a more tactile way, doing pottery, music and painting. gowri@uiuc.edu

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Participants:
Mary Jo Toles
Charles Mayton
Joshua Thorson
Chana Morgenstern
Valeria Cordero
Branden Koch
Christopher Landau
Priyanka Dasgupta
Martha Sakellariou
Paula Hayes
Benjamin Grasso
Carole Kim
Heidi Pollard
Andrea Moreau
Eric Sanchez
Dorothy Gambrell
Seth Fragomen
Crispin Webb
Michelle Murphy

Editor: Sreshta/Rit Premnath

Science Seance : Interior/Essence, Exterior/Extension

To put things simply:

Science, maybe, as a means or methodology or discipline using which one attempts to explain the essence of natural phenomena – Natural phenomena as those materials, occurrences and interactions that we experience through our senses. The Scientist, as one who is able to construct the most rationally plausible, elegant, experimentally verifiable, explanation of these phenomena.

Seance, meaning, a meeting, a session, a sitting. A meeting convened to receive messeges through a “medium” who senses phenomena that ordinary people cannot perceive. Who is able to translate these phenomena into material presence through extension.

Both pursuits having a preinscribed belief in a notion called “Truth” and through extension an obsession with “Falsity”.

This issue of Shifter, then, will attempt to once again address the question of projecting form onto the formless. Artists as Alchemists, Scientists as Mediums. The tenuous boundaries that circumscribe the notions of Fact, Myth and Falsity.

These are urgent questions to address in a world where we are intensely aware of the maleability of information and thus meaning. Today Media becomes Medium, bringing us distant Truths; constructing places, peoples and events that would otherwise be imperceptable to us. Search Engines and Remotes become our Oija Boards as we sift through information, constructing our own narratives of reality that begin to form the basis of our knowledge.

Carole Kim is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on performance-based video installation. Her practice in time-based performance/ installations combines digital/ new media technologies and the sensitivity of the improvisational live performer/ participant. The work emphasizes video¹s capacity as a live medium and the illusory architecture of layered video projection in space. The moving image is spatially mapped onto a site, compositing in real space. One is aware that the projections are being constructed in the moment. Recent venues include REDCAT/Disney Hall, the Getty Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art-Los Angeles, the Stanford Jazz Festival and Engine 27 (New York). caroleki@pacbell.net Chana Morgenstern was born and raised in Jerusalem and resides in San Francisco. She is the author of Touching New Jersey (Red Letters Press). For two years she served as the writer-in-residence at School of the Arts Creative Writing Department. Her plays and monologues have been performed at the New College Theater and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum. Currently, she is getting her MFA in fiction at Bard College and working on two upcoming novellas. Chana is co-founder of Artifact: a series of innovative writing, which she curates with Melissa Benham. She is the recipient of Miriam Ylvisaker Fellowship in Fiction and has recently published stories in Red Letters Journal, On our Backs Magazine, El Pobre Mouse and forthcoming in Blithe House Quarterly. chanamorgenstern@gmail.com Branden Koch lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Regarding his process he says "I like it when Painting keeps me on my toes: like a seductive lead on, perhaps a one-night stand. Dancing between a rough edge and a bad taste, a full belly and an experiment, a glancing observation and an improvisational cadence, where the process is never intended to fix itself and the outcome is a controlled experiment of the unexpected." brandenkoch@hotmail.com Valeria Cordero is a recent graduate of the School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited at various galleries including Artists Space and Exit Art, NYC; Galerie Galou, Brooklyn and AAC Studio South Beach, Miami, FL. v@valeriacordero.com Joshua Thorson is a videomaker living in Brooklyn who draws and paints. joshuathorson@hotmail.com Mary Jo Toles is a Professor of Photography, currently residing in Cleveland, Ohio. She has been working with high-voltage imaging since 1971, when she discovered an article in a Russian scientific journal on Kirlian photography, and built her first apparatus for imaging with the assistance of a translator and an electrician. Her work is an ongoing investigation through process and materials. These investigations through series provide an extensive format in order to scrutinize details and focus attention on aspects and relationships of bits of experience of this world; This work often involves language, dichotomy, paradox – a world in an active, engaging state of constant change and chaos. mjtoles@core.com

Charles Mayton lives and works in NYC. He is an MFA candidate at Bard College. He has a BFA from Ringling School of Art and Design and has attended the Yale-Norfolk Program as well as the New York Studio Program. maytongreen@yahoo.com Paula Hayes lives and works in NYC. She is represented by Salon 94 and R 20th Century, NY. Her work has been shown at various venues including Galerie fur Landschaftkunst, Hamburg, Germany, Ac Project Room, NY, Eigen + Art, Berlin, Germany, Fawbush Gallery, NY, and recently The Queens Museum of Art. paulahayes@paulahayes.com Eric Sanchez says regarding his project: "G.L.O. (Genetics, Light, Organisms) is an installation investigating cultural beliefs associated with biotechnology, control and access. G.L.O. is composed of bioluminescent bacteria, time-lapse video, and mixed media sculpture. Viewers are invited to interact with the installation by wearing latex gloves prior to seeing the room. The gloves are then disposed of in the biohazard container adjacent to the room. The bacteria Vibrio Fischeri, a naturally occurring marine bacteria, glowing gene has been isolated and injected in other bacterium and organisms to innovate research techniques. G.L.O. is an investigation the human desire to control and adapt our environment, Nature vs. Technology." ericsanchez@kala.org Heidi Pollard lives and paints in Brooklyn, NY. Her awards include grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, an Aljira: Emerge Fellowship, and residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Ucross Foundation. Pollard has exhibited her paintings in venues across the United States, including: Tyler School of Art, and Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; AS 220, Providence, RI; The Albuquerque Museum, 516 Artspace and The Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM. hepchen@earthlink.net</p> Martha Sakellariou is a multi–disciplinary conceptual artist working in the field of art, architecture, sound and as a creative in environmental campaigning. Born in Athens,Greece she completed her MA in Fine arts at the Royal College of Art London. She has been exhibiting in the UK, Europe, New York, and collaborated with creative groups and individuals on a variety of projects ranging from sound, interactive installations, industrial design, environmental and architectural projects. Her focus is human existence (behaviour and emotions) in various contexts: space, psyche, corporeality, sexuality, memory, exoerience.. She uses video, drawing and digital media to create multimedia installations or theoretical/conceptual artwork in the form of research projects. marsa@aylogence.com Crispin Webb was born in charleston WV in 1977 and resides in Mt Vernon Ohio. Mail art, video, performance, photography, mechanical electronic, web-based collaborations, and ephemeral timebased objects describe the overall focus of his work over the past 2 or 3 years. He is attending the milton avery graduate school of the arts at bard college, during the summer and has exhibited in the US, germany, and belguim. http://www.crispinwebb.com

Christopher Landau is an MFA candidate at U Michigan at Ann Arbor. He has shown at various galleries including Jean Paul Slusser Gallery and 555 Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI; Tsing Hua University, Beijing, China and Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH. cmlandau@umich.edu Priyanka Dasgupta Originally from India, currently resides in New York City, working in video installation. She has recently completed the AIM (Artists in the Marketplace) Program at the Bronx Museum, a residency that culminated in an exhibition of her work. Her videos have been screened and exhibited at multiple venues including the 2:13 Festival in Athens, the LOOP Video Festival in Barcelona, Video Dictionary at the Impakt Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands, New Screen Television in Florida, Video Formes in France, and The Island Art Film and Video Festival in London. letitbepriyanka@gmail.com Dorothy Gambrell was born in Illinois, and educated at Illinois College and Union College of Law. She was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895, during which time she became the leader of the free silver movement. Dorothy negotiated 30 treaties of arbitration with foreign countries as secretary of state before resigning in 1915 in protest against the Wilson administration’s hostile attitude towards Germany. Her later years were devoted to the advocacy of fundamentalism, most notably as a prosecutor during the Scopes monkey trial. dorothy@catandgirl.com Seth Fragomen lives and writes in New York City.sef2008@columbia.edu Benjamin Grasso lives and works in NYC. His recent paintings deal with the idea of environment; how people organize what they want to be around them in a space. He’s been looking at lawns, particularly in queens "because they’re small and funny, but also unique. gnimajneb@hotmail.com Andrea Moreau was born in Elmhurst, Illinois in 1974. She has exhibited her work in various group shows in Ohio and Rhode Island and is now looking for an apartment in New York, where she plans to continue her studio practice. This past year, Andrea received her M.F.A. from the Ohio State University, where she worked as a graduate assistant to Ann Hamilton. She received her undergraduate education from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota and from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received her B.F.A. in Painting. andreagmoreau@yahoo.com Michelle Murphy received her BFA in photography and digital media from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2004. Since graduation she has been with RS Information Systems at the NASA Glenn Research Center as a Photographer, Digital Imaging Specialist, and Videographer. Murphy combines her interest and experience in contemporary art and science. She uses a variety of objects (including screen-printed t-shirts for sale) and projected imagery to explore the world of genetically modified plants and animals. michelle.m.murphy@grc.nasa.gov Sreshta Premnath lives and works in NYC. He is an MFA candidate at Bard College and his work has been shown in various galleries including Gallery SKE, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, India; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. He is the editor of Shifter Magazine. rit.premnath@gmail.com

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