allisonHOLT | SUMMER 2014 : Oilly Oowen at Djerassi

Dear Friends,

This missive comes to you from OOwen Labs' new home on Oakland's 5th Avenue marina, where things remain at full steam. I am currently psyching up for a September Djerassi Artist Residency: I’ll be experimenting with projection mapped video on objects and materials– scientific glass, vapors, liquids, crystals– to create models of multi-dimensional reality and human consciousness. It was incredibly gratifying last month to see Andreas Siagian and Budi Prokosa there, my Javanese nominees for the inaugural art-science residency!

If you would like to help make this rare time at Djerassi possible for me, I welcome support of every stripe right here. With my deepest thanks, I hope to bring some excellent work to fruition.

CHOICE NEWS:
06 + 12.2014, Scott Stark + Oilly Oowen: our show at Austin's New Media Art + Sound Summit was a GAS, and Craig Baldwin has invited us to Other Cinema in December: The Texas Kick-Ass Sampler Show kicks off 30 years! of Artist Television Access.

06.2014, Bay Area Currents: Although Hypercube No. 1 was selected for this exhibition, I opted to premiere it alongside the full body of work it belongs to. More on this below.

11.2014, Mobius, Boston: This longstanding experimental art org is being very inticing at the moment. We are working on a November exhibition to premiere the fruits of my time at Djerassi.

Fall 2014, UCLA: Very excited to present to Victoria Vesna's class in the Art-Sci Department!

Spring 2015, Stanford: As part of a year-long event series at Stanford Art Institute, I've been invited to speak at a special LASER (Leonardo Art-Science Evening Rendezvous), "Imagining the Universe."

2015, Optic Flare, San Francisco: This experimental media collective-- Scott Stark, Kerry Laitala and yours truly-- has been hard at work all year on The City Luminous, a commemoration of the pioneering light shows at San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. We're creating a series of projected light and sound installations, performances, screenings, and lectures in partnership with The Exploratorium, California Historical Society and Insight Digital, that will include The Beginning Was The End. SF in 2015 will be SPECTACULAR.  

Thank you all for your support and I can't wait to see you out there.