Amy Youngs
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Columbus Ohio USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
Through the intermixing of synthetic, natural, animal and human substances I explore the conflicted relationship our culture has constructed relative to nature. This was originally inspired by a nine-year experiment in selectively breeding my own specialized line of show rabbits. My obsession with the pursuit of the "perfect rabbit" was a way in which I could feel I was affecting the natural world. It was a powerful feeling; however, the fact that I was directly shaping these animals according to a human agenda was disconcerting. Selective breeding requires the "non-selection" of many animals. I quit the rabbit-breeding project long ago, but my interest in the desire to experience an idealized version of nature by technologically controlling it remains. My work engages viewers in a visual, tactile and auditory realm, to elicit a dialogue regarding the relationship between technology and our changing concept of nature and self. I am interested in the way that our increasingly enhanced and extended human capabilities allow us to perceive the world in micro and macro modes, explore it more thoroughly and even make attempts to remedy past ecological errors. That technology can simultaneously ruin, reveal, reinvent and repair nature is a paradox I investigate in my work. Filmography/Awards Info: Cleveland State University Art Gallery Cleveland, OH Nov 3 - Dec 13, 2003 Second Cleveland Biennale Juried Exhibition PAST EXHIBITIONS: Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH. Oct 2003 Ohio State University Faculty exhibition, New Works: Part One Spark Video: Beacon, Beacon, NY. Aug 2003 Fusion Media Video Festival - Programmer, Josh Katcher COSI, CityView Exhibition, Columbus, OH. June 27th – September 28th, 2003 Algorithmic Mash / Machinations - Curated by Ken Rinaldo and Amy Youngs Pace Digital Gallery New York, NY. April 2003 Digital Downtown – Curators, Jillian Mcdonald, Juliet Ann Martin and Bruce Wands California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA. Nov 18th, 2002 Postflesh: Visualizing the Techno-self Curated by Rachel Clarke Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH. Oct 14 - Nov 1 2002 New Works Faculty Exhibition University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI. Oct 7 - Oct 30, 2002 Synthetically Bred Kent State Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH. Sept 16 - Oct 18, 2002 Performative Objects, curated by Isabelle Farnsworth Experimenta, Melbourne, Australia. Sept 5, 2002 Prototypes Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia. July 3, 2002 BioFeel - Biennale for Electronic Arts Perth (see review in Realtime Arts Magazine) Artswatch, Louisville, KY. June 27, 2002 Plug ‘n Play - see pictures! John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, MI. Feb. 24th - June 9th, 2002. Organic/Mechanic Archetype Gallery, Dayton, OH. Nov 16, 2001. Jan 31, 2002 Intersculpt:Ohio Righton Gallery, Manchester Met. University, Manchester, England, U.K. Nov. 2001 Interface:01, Intersculpt:2001 Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH. Nov. 2001 New Works: Faculty Exhibition (click to see Columbus Dispatch review) Sala Alameda, Centro Cultural Provincial Malaga, Spain. July 25 -September 15, 2001 Universidad de Valladolid, Centro Cultural Buendia Valladolid, Spain. May 8 - May 30, 2001 Centro de Cultura "Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos" Gijon, Spain. February 15 - March 19, 2001(click to see a review - in Spanish) Circulo de Bellas Artes Madrid, Spain. January 19 - February 6, 2001 Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH. Jan. 2001 Visiting Artist/New Faculty Exhibition Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY. Nov. 6th - Dec. 9th, 2000 8th Annual New York Digital Salon Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL. Jan 1999 (click to see the Chicago Reader review) in::FORMATION - sine::apsis group show of art that makes art during the exhibition. Click here to see the catalog essay by James Huginin Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH. Sept 1999 Visiting Artist/New Faculty Exhibition Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL. Aug 1999 Whippersnapper: Emerging Artists G2 Gallery, Chicago, IL. May 1999 Hyperdomestic Cacti Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL. Nov 1998 Neurectopia - sine::apsis experiments group show. E.G.G. Gallery, Chicago, IL. Sept 1998 Exocytosis - An exhibition by the founding members of sine::apsis experiments Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. June 1998 Live, live - Exhibited Someone, Somewhere Else as part of an interdisciplinary, project between the Chicago Transit Authority, Robert Morris College and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Northern Illinois Art Gallery Museum, Chicago, IL. Jan 1998 Substance: A Corporeal Examination - Installed 30’ long human hair rug in this exhibition. 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA. May 1997 Ear-art - Exhibited Mnemonic Devicive in this International exhibition of sound art. San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA. March 1997 SIGGRAPH 50th Anniversary Show - Exhibited two interactive sculptures in the Art Pavilion of this computer symposium. San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA. Jan 1997 Eclectic Ecologies - Group show of artists’ responses to contemporary environmental issues in the Wallace Stegner Environmental Center of the Main Library. Blasthaus Gallery, San Francisco, CA. April 1996 Soundculture ‘96 - the Third Trans-Pacific Festival of sonic art. Works/San José, San Jose, CA. Jan 1996 (click for online review) Redemption Through Rubbernecking Gallery On The Rim, San Francisco, CA. Jan 1996 YLEM - Group show featuring artists utilizing science and technology. Canessa Gallery,San Francisco, CA. Oct 1995 Transitions 95: Art, Science and Technology ACME Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Sept 1995 Dis-M-Body - Two-person collaborative, multi-sensory, interactive, sculptural installation exploring the disembodied nature of information and messages This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. It is a historical archive of Microcinema International's activities. Inclusion in this database and archive in no way implies a continuing formal relationship or affiliation with Microcinema International or the Blackchair Label nor an endorsement of its activities by the Contact. Contact details are not displayed in order to protect privacy. If you wish to contact this artist please see their website as listed above or write Microcinema International and we will be happy to forward your e-mail.
Microcinema Interview/Article:
REVIEWS AND MEDIA SCREENINGS: METROPOLIS, Spanish Public Television Network, Nov. 22, 2001 "INSECTOS, INSECTOS, INSECTOS..." Lantern, Nov. 15, 2001 "Talkin' Head on Display at Hopkins Gallery" Columbus Dispatch, Nov. 19, 2001 "Show Serves Sampler Platter of Faculty Works" METROPOLIS, Spanish Public Television Network, Feb. 8, 2001 "8th Salón digital Nueva York en Madrid" The Chicago Reader, Feb. 11, 2000 "Technically Brilliant" Chicago Sun Times, Feb. 6, 1998 "Body's Mystery Explored in Art" Chico Enterprise Record, May 24, 1997 "An Art Show You've Never Heard Before" San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 12, 1997 "An American Original" Metro, Jan. 18, 1996, Vol. 11, No. 47 "Road Thrills" Artweek, March 1996, Vol. 22 No. 3 "Redemption Through Rubbernecking" |
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