Mark Lee Koven– December 2016
The project: The Utah-based artist used the residency to continue working on his traveling project Taking One's Temperature comprising of an interactive and participatory installation that integrates scientific data collection, contemporary educational models, and technology with the arts. During his time in Miami the artist collected footage for a film exploring Miami's natural environment and its challenges to be featured as an immersive 360-degree surround sound and video within a mobile planetarium.
Biography: Since earning a Masters of Fine Arts in digital media from the University of Miami in 2005, Mark Lee Koven has worked as an interdisciplinary artist whose research merges materials and processes of art with those of science. Mr. Koven’s work has shown in over 100 exhibitions and venues such as the New York Science Museum; StoreFront for Art and Architecture, New York; Miami Science Museum. His work is also included in various public and private collections including the Perez Art Museum, the Frost Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Mr. Mark Lee Koven is currently an Assistant Professor in the Applied Sciences and Technology department at Utah State University and Director of ARTsySTEM, a program that focuses on collaboration and integration between the Arts and STEM fields.
Blanca de la Torre - July/August 2017
The Project: During her residency de la Torre continued her investigations related to Eco-aesthetics that have recently been her main interest. The residency enabled the curator to better understand how climate change is impacting the South Florida waterways. She is working on a book as a result of her findings.
Biography: Blanca de Torre is an independent curator and art critic born in Spain with an international presence. She was Chief Curator at Artium, Basque Museum-Center of Contemporary Art (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain) until 2013. As an independent curator she organized shows at MUSAC, León; LAZNIA, Gdansk, Poland;EFA Project Space, New York, NY; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico; among many others. Her critical writings have been included in several international publications among which the catalogues for the Spanish Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial and the Greek Pavilion for the 2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.
Simon Faithfull - August 2017/January 2018
The Project: During the residency Faithfull has taken advantage of his interaction with scientists to research the tropical environment and particularly humans' effects upon it. The artist explored the Everglades National Park, Big Cypress as well as South Florida coastal and interior environments and created a series of absurd performative actions (recorded on video) that cast a figure from the post-anthropocene adrift in the tropical landscape.
Biography: Based in Berlin, Simon Faithfull’s work has been exhibited extensively around the world. Recent exhibitions include Elsewhen at Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset till 30 June, and An Arbitrary Taxonomy of Birds at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin till September. Faithfull was born in Oxfordshire, UK, studied at Central St Martins (London) and then Reading University. He is a Reader in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London. His practice takes a variety of forms – ranging from video, to digital drawing, installation work and writing. Faithfull’s practice has been described as an attempt to understand and explore the planet as a sculptural object – to test its limits and report back from its extremities. Within his work Faithfull often builds teams of scientists, technicians and transmission experts to help him bring back a personal vision from the ends of the world.
Caecilia Tripp & Kerwin Rolland - June 2019
The Project: During their residency Tripp and Rolland captured original audio across bleached, colonized reefs, and healthy coral reefs to investigate and document regional impacts of manmade global warming. The artist has partnered with nonprofit organization Rescue a Reef and the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science to gain further understanding of the adaptive response of reef corals to climate change and ocean acidification. The recordings were used to create The Coral Sonata, a new musical score and ringtone that will be used to bring awareness to the destruction of coral reefs and the ability to use sound to repopulate dead and artificial reefs.
Click here for more information about The Coral Sonata Kickstarter campaign and here to hear the Sonata.
Biography: Caecilia Tripp lives and works between Paris and New York City. Her practice includes film, photography, sound, and performance. Tripp describes her work as a transformative process of togetherness in “making history" through dialogic imagination. Her work has been presented in numerous exhibitions, museums, and biennials across the world at venues including MoMA PS1 (New York), Center for Contemporary Art (New Orleans), De Appel (Amsterdam), Museum of Modern Art (Paris), Brooklyn Museum (New York), Clark House Initiative (Mumbai), Dakar Biennial (Senegal), the 2019 Sharjah Biennial and the 2019 Toronto Biennial.
CHRISTINA PETTERSSON
- Jan 2021-Dec 2022
The Project:
Water Ecologies for our Shared Future is a book Pettersson will be illustrating with her drawings. The project brings together organizations and individuals involved with art, history, science and activism to collaborate in the creation of a bilingual (English and Spanish) publication compiling a list of essential terms in context to climate change scenarios specific to South Florida. The project is a collaboration with ARTSail 2017 alumna Blanca de la Torre, who will be writing most texts, well as with the non-profit Friends of the Everglades, the water-quality advocacy group Bullsugar.org, and scientists from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at UM to ensure scientific accuracy of the selected terms.
Biography:
Born in Stockholm, Sweden, Christina Pettersson has lived in Miami, FL most of her life. Thus her most recent solo exhibitions reflect her lifelong passions in her hometown. Recent shows include Locust Projects, the Deering Estate, the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Girls Club, Fort Lauderdale; the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL; Launch F18, New York, NY. She has exhibited at other museums, particularly in the South, such as the Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, Columbus Museum of Art, GA, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, Wiregrass Museum of Art, AL, and the Naples Museum of Art, FL. Her work is in major collections locally, such as the PAMM, Martin Z. Margulies at the Warehouse, Deborah & Dennis Scholl, Frances Bishop Good & David Horvitz, and throughout the country. She has received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship thrice, the largest regionally sponsored grant in the US. She received a Fulbright Grant to return to Sweden in 2000, attending the Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg.
Photo credit: Eli Peck