| Experience |
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|
1976-present:
Founding Director of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., a “virtual
institution” devoted to
variable media art-- artists’ books, performance art, temporary
installations, and works engaging the Internet as an art medium and venue-- www.franklinfurnace.org |
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|
| Grants
and Awards |
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|
| 2001 |
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Performance Art |
| 1993 |
Citation by Robert S. Clark, Nathan Cummings, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore,
Rockefeller and Andy Warhol Foundations for commitment to the
principle of freedom of expression |
| 1992 |
Bessie
Award for commitment to artists’ freedom of expression |
| 1992 |
Obie
Award for commitment to artists’ freedom of expression |
| 1991 |
Skowhegan
School Governor’s Award for Service to the Arts |
| 1983 |
National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Performance Art |
| 1978 |
National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Performance Art |
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|
| Teaching
and Lecturing |
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|
| 2002 |
“Live
Art on the Internet,” with Toni Sant, Tisch School of
the Arts, NYU |
| 2000 |
“Going
Virtual,” with Toni Sant, Tisch School of the Arts, New
York University |
| 1999-00 |
“The
Arts in New York City,” Baruch College, New York City |
| 1993-95 |
“Emerging
Performance Artists,” The New School for Social Research,
New York City |
| 1979 |
“Women
in the Arts,” Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax,
Nova Scotia |
| 1978 |
“Literary
Parallels to Modern Art,” School of Visual Arts, New York
City |
| 1975-76 |
Adjunct Lecturer in 20th century Art, Brooklyn College’s
New School of Liberal Arts |
|
1972-74 |
Adjunct Lecturer, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax,
Nova Scotia |
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|
| Editorial
and Volunteer Activities |
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|
| 2005 |
“What Franklin Furnace Learned from Presenting and Producing Live Art on the Internet, 1996 to Now” Leonardo, Volume 38 #3 |
| 2004,
05, 06 |
Guest
Editor, Leonardo, “Live Art and Science on the Internet” |
| 2003-04 |
Secretary,
Bezerk Productions |
| 2002,
03, 04 |
Treasurer,
Performance Studies International |
| 1997 |
Guest Editor, Art Journal, Winter, Vol. 56, No. 4, Performance
Art |
| 1991-96 |
Member of the Editorial Board, Art Journal |
| 1974-75 |
Assistant to the Managing Editor, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. artbook
publishers |
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| Education |
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|
| 1972 |
Fellowship at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| |
Completed
one year toward Ph.D. degree, English Literature |
| 1971 |
M.A.
English Literature, Dalhousie University |
| 1969 |
B.A.
cum laude, Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio |
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|
| Selected
Bibliography |
| |
|
| Wark,
Jayne, “Martha Wilson: Not Taking It at Face Value,”
Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies. Durham,
N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. |
| |
|
| Reckitt,
Helena and Peggy Phelan. Art and Feminism: Themes and Movements.
London: Phaidon Press, 2001. |
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|
| Stiles,
Kristine and Peter Selz, eds. Theories and Documents of Contemporary
Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings (Berkeley: University
of California Press) 1996. |
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|
| Jones,
Amelia, editor. Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s Dinner
Party in Feminist Art History (Los Angeles: University of California
Press) 1996. |
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|
| Lippard,
Lucy R. The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art
(New York: The New Press) 1995. |
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|
| Rosen,
Randy, and Catherine C. Brawer. Making Their Mark: Women Artists
Move into the Mainstream, 1970-1985 (New York: Abbeville Press)
1989. |
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|
| Goldberg,
RoseLee. Performance: Live Art, 1909 to the Present (New York:
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.) 1979. |
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|
| Selected
Performances and Exhibitions |
| |
|
| 2007 |
“WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
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|
| 2006 |
“The Downtown Show,” Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York |
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|
| 2005 |
“How American Women Artists Invented Post-Modernism,” Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| |
|
| 2003 |
“Separated
at Birth,” StART Festival, Judson Church, New York City |
| |
|
| 2002 |
“Personal
& Political,” Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New
York |
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|
| 2002 |
“Gloria:
Another Look at Feminist Art in the 1970s,” White Columns,
New York City |
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|
| 1994 |
“Tipper
Gore’s Advice for the 90s,” window installation
at Printed Matter, New York City |
| |
|
| 1992 |
“Barbara
Bush On Abuse,” Cooper Union, New York City |
| |
|
| 1985 |
“Just
Say No to Arms Control,” performance in the guise of Nancy
Reagan for Brother Ron’s Gospel Hour, New York City |
| |
|
| 1980 |
DISBAND
at Spazio Zero, Rome, Italy |
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|
| 1976 |
“Queen,”
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City |
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|
| 1975 |
“De-Formation,”
performance in Autogeography show, Downtown Whitney, New York
City |
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|
| 1973 |
“Transformance:
Claudia,” collaborative performance with Jacki Apple at
The Plaza Hotel, New York City |
