Liena Vayzman’s hybrid artistic practice incorporates photography, video, and collaborative projects. As a curator of new media interactive art at Artists Television Access (ATA) in San Francisco, she organized “Captured Accidents: Valencia Street Live” by digital artist Tim Thompson, on view through Jan. 3, 2009. The installation uses a security camera rigged to a video game controller and software to capture, loop, and process footage by chance patterns or via Wifi. Vayzman co-curated two exhibitions/events at the Climate Theater, San Francisco in 2008:  “Chance Operations” and “Night Light: An Evening of Luminous Environments,” including artists Clint Imboden, Luis Maurette, Valerie Mendoza and others. She curated the 30-artist exhibition “HOME: The Aesthetics and Politics of Home in Contemporary Art” at Root Division, San Francisco in 2007. Vayzman’s self-portrait photographs and video work has been shown at Receiver Gallery, SF; Galerie Praz Delavallade, Paris; Glassbox, Paris; Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York; ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Georgia; Movies With Live Soundtracks, Providence; Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn; and the Fin de Siècle New York Festival in Nantes, France. Music projects include the DIY bands Jerk Alert and I Like Action! and a video/sound improvisation with trumpeter Elizabeth Meeker. She is currently at work on “The Lemon Tree Project” (a yearlong collaboration with a fruit tree) and a series of public clothing swaps. Liena Vayzman earned a PhD in History of Art at Yale University and a Post-Diplome at Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes. She teaches in the Photography Department at San Jose State University. http://www.lienavayzman.com

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Liena Vayzman