Palindrome at Night Lights

                                                                                                 Palindrome, 2006

Palindrome exhibited twice in Boston in the year it was made. I changed course a little after that, and moved, and traveled, and did the Fulbright thing, so along with my other video sculptures, it was effectively shelved until this January, when John Jota Leaños selected Palindrome for his exhibition at Headlands Center for the Arts. I was pleased as punch then, and likewise now that Dorothy Santos included it in her curatorial bids for last nights Night Light Multimedia Garden Party at SOMArts. My thanks to the both of them for bringing it back... and inciting more...

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Signal Mountain

                                       Signal Mountain, Helen Scarsdale | Oilly Oowen 2013

  

Signal Mountain-- Jim Haynes and my single-channel edit of our 30-minute expanded cinema performance @ SFMOMA-- somehow headlined a pretty impressive line-up last weekend at Other Cinema. An intense capper on an otherwise playful evening, she sure got a lot of nice compliments! (View linked image above.) John Davis + Craig Baldwin's live 16mm / sound performance was top-shelf to say the least.
Artist Television Access, thanks for having us.

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Reporting From Spring, 2013

Few transmissions coming from OOwen Labs these days, I know. Things have been a lit-tle busy...
So first things first:

Coming up this weekend, 04.20.2013:

    

Jim Haynes + I will be screening a world premiere of a single-channel video based on our recent performance at SFMOMA. At Other Cinema / Artist Television Access. 

The following weekend, 04.27.2013:

My videosculpture, Palindrome, will be part of SOMArts' annual multimedia garden party.

Among the good things below, I’m proud to announce that I’ve just been awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. This support will make it possible to complete my project, The Beginning Was The End, including Lukman Aris’ translation of my diagrams into Javanese and the polishing of my Hypercube sculptures in Los Angeles, not to mention the mounting of the exhibition. My supreme gratitude to everyone at the SFAC! to Kevin Chen at Intersection for the Arts! and, of course, to all of you.

My aforementioned diagrams went directly from a show at Headlands Center for the Arts to a 3-month-long exhibition at Stanford University's Institutefor Computational Mathematics + Engineering; details on the opening soon come.

Now without further ado: a brief review for you of what I have been up to…

Recent + Upcoming news:

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November 15, 2012  – January 31, 2013 | Convergence/Divergence, Single-channel Video
Los Medanos College Gallery
Pittsburg, CA
December 8^th | Roundtable Symposium in conjunction with WATERWHEEL

January 15 – May 16, 2013 | Youth Advisory Board, Teaching Artist: Experimental Video
Southern Exposure
San Francisco, CA

January 21 – February 24, 2013 | Translocura, Diagrams + Videosculpture
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA

February 19, 2013 | One Night Stand
Cemeti Art House
Yogyakarta, Indonesia

March, 2013 | Individual Artist Grant: The Beginning Was The End
San Francisco Arts Commission
San Francisco, CA

March 15 – June 15, 2013 | Strange Loops + Matrices: Diagrams from The Beginning Was The End
Stanford University
Institute for Computational Mathematics + Engineering
Palo Alto, CA

March 23, 2013 | PARADE, Annual Art Auction
Southern Exposure
San Francisco, CA

April 20, 2013 | Optronica, worldwide premiere, audio / video collaboration with Jim Haynes
Other Cinema
San Francisco, CA

April 27, 2013 | Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party , Videosculpture
SOMArts
San Francisco, CA

May 23 - 26, 2013 | Cultural Studies Association Conference, Paper Co-Authored with Josie E. Davis
Presentation to Environment, Space + Place Division
Columbia College  Chicago, IL
May, 2013 | San Francisco Artist Award Nominee
Gallery Wendi Norris
San Francisco, CA

TDB, 2013 | The Beginning Was The End, Solo Exhibition
Intersection for the Arts
San Francisco, CA

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