Runner Up BIO Xavier Cortada has created art installations at the North Pole (as a NYFA sponsored artist, 2008) and South Pole (through the National Science Foundation, 2007) to help address environmental issues at every point in between. In 2006, Cortada developed ...Read More
Honorable Mention BIO Works and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina Juan works with photography, video and installations. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship, Canadian Research Grant and UNESCO Awards among others. Her latest solo exhibition were at Chelsea Art Museum, New York; Candiani Center, Venice, Italy; Greenburger ...Read More
Honorable Mention BIO Erika Blumenfeld is an internationally exhibiting artist and Guggenheim Fellow with a BFA from Parsons School of Design. Awards include the Creative Capital Foundation and Polaroid. Artist residencies include ITASC in Antarctica (2009), and Ballroom in Marfa, TX (2004). ...Read More
Honorable Mention BIO Philippe Boissonnet was born in France in 1957. He is currently a full-time professor in Arts at the UQTR University (Canada). He has been recipient in 1998 of the Shearwater Foundation for the Holographic Arts Prize (New York) and ...Read More
First Place. BIO Andrea Polli www.andreapolli.com is a digital media artist, Associate Professor in Fine Arts and Engineering and Director of the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program at The University of New Mexico. Polli's work with science, technology and media has ...Read More
In October 2008 Artist Dread Scott spoke with students from San Jose State University regarding his historical works as well as his recent work portraying memorial posters of hurricane Katrina called Never Forget, Never Forgive: They Left Us to Die. Scott created ...Read More
Thomas Asmuth is an artist and educator currently at the CADRE Laboratory for New Media. His work is concerned with cultural criticism and theory surrounding science and technology. More: http://thomasasmuth.com Read More
As you might have taken notice, this month marks a kind of new resolution in the SWITCH Journal. After more than a decade major changes are a foot and I am considering a resolution of my own, a new start ...Read More
CADRE and 01SJ CALL FOR ENTRIES POLAR IDENTITY Global climate change has far reaching ramifications, the world as we know it will not be the world of 100 or perhaps even 10 years. Armed with a "new" awareness of how our actions impact ...Read More
In Fall 2008, I co-curated a one-night exhibition and performance event on the theme of chance. In this essay, I describe the projects in the show and present documentation, focusing on the innovative use of media and approaches to chance ...Read More