Syndicate: Leonardo New Horizons Award for Barsamian and Harwood

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@transmediale.de>]

>Leonardo Electronic Almanac                 Volume 8, No. 11
>                                          November, 2000

><  2000 Leonardo New Horizons Award  >
>
>For more information about the Leonardo Awards Program, contact
>
>Leonardo/ISAST
>425 Market Street, 2nd Floor
>San Francisco, CA 94105, U.S.A.
>Email: <isast@sfsu.edu>
>URL: <http://mitpress.mit.edu/Leonardo/>
>
>Leonardo/ISAST is proud to announce the recipients of the 2000
>Leonardo New Horizons Award for Innovation in New Media: Gregory
>Barsamian and Graham Harwood.
>
>Gregory Barsamian creates dream-based animated sculptures --
>zoetrope-like machines that produce three-dimensional animations. In
>these works, he fashions narratives composed of images from the
>unconscious and presents them on spinning armatures in a darkened
>space. His most recent traveling exhibition, Innuendo Non Troppo, was
>shown in Tokyo and throughout the United States. He lives and works in
>New York.
>
>Graham Harwood is a member of the technological media group Mongrel,
>which focuses on collaborative, socially engaged products -- art,
>software and workshops. Harwood started out in the 1980s working with
>publications on such topics as working-class culture and new media in
>culture and society, moving on to studies and work in programming and
>education. Most recently he was commissioned by the Tate Gallery,
>London, to produce an exploration of the Tate collection, the history
>of Millbank and its prison and a "reversioning" of the Tate's website.
>Harwood lives and works in London.
>
>The New Horizons Award was established in 1986 to acknowledge the
>numerous challenges faced by artists as they strive for exposure and
>recognition. These challenges are amplified for artists working with
>new media and techniques -- especially artists pushing the boundaries
>of the integration of art and technology. With the New Horizons Award,
>Leonardo/ISAST seeks to recognize emerging artists for innovation in
>new media.
>
>The 10 finalists for the New Horizons Award for 2000 were selected
>from a larger group nominated by members of the Leonardo/ISAST
>community around the world. These artists share a commitment to the
>incorporation of technology and to the achievement of significant
>imaginative content, yet employ many diverse types of media within
>dramatically different aesthetic results.
>
>The finalists were (in alphabetical order): Gregory Barsamian
>(U.S.A.), a sculptor whose kinetic and animated works probe
>fundamental dilemmas of human existence; Bruno Buesch and Tina Cassani
>(France/Switzerland), two multimedia artists who produce global radio
>network events; Jose Wagner Garcia (Brazil), who has employed a range
>of technology to create a multi-level installation probing
>environmental concerns in the Amazon basin; Graham Harwood (U.K.),
>whose interactive video fictions (e.g. Rehearsal of Memory) combine
>stunning aesthetics with a profound social conscience; Toshio Iwai
>(Japan), who creates vivid yet playful interactive audio-visual and
>sound pieces; Tran T. Kim-Trang and Karl Mihail (U.S.A.), two video
>artists who also create complex installation works that probe the
>ethical implications of science; Melinda Rackham (Australia), whose
>screen-based digital art, sculpture and online (Web) art (e.g.
>Carrier) examine a provocative range of subjects from identity in the
>digital world to online sex; Marie Sester (France), who blends
>architecture with sound and video art to force re-examination of
>modern environments; Igor Stromajer (Slovenia), a Web and performance
>artist whose work ranges from street performances to "megapathetic
>symphonies" and radiophonic sound/digital art; Fabian Wagmister
>(Argentina/U.S.A.), the creator of an enormous international Intranet
>project, Worship, which has resonant historical and social content.
>
>This year's New Horizons jury included: Donna J. Cox, professor,
>School of Art and Design/National Center for Supercomputing
>Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Herve
>Fischer, Daniel Langlois Chair in Digital Technologies and Fine Arts,
>Universite Concordia FIAM, and co-chair of La Cite des arts et des
>nouvelles technologies de Montreal; Ginette Major, chair of Le Cafe
>Electronique de Montreal and co-chair of La Cite des arts et des
>nouvelles technologies de Montreal; Roger Malina, astronomer and
>executive editor of Leonardo; Rejane Spitz, artist and professor of
>art at PUC-Rio University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Annette Weintraub,
>media artist and professor of art at The City College of New York;
>Benjamin Weil, Curator of Media Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern
>Art; and San Francisco Bay Area art critic Barbara Lee Williams.
>
>Past recipients of the New Horizons Award for Innovation have included
>Evelyn Edelson-Rosenberg (U.S.A.), Jean-Marc Philippe (France),
>Jaroslav Belik (Canada), Peter Callas (Australia), Patrick Boyd
>(U.K.), Christian Schiess (U.S.A.), I Wayan Sadra (Indonesia), and
>Kitsou Dubois (France).
>
>--------------------------------------
>History of the Leonardo Awards Program
>--------------------------------------
>
>The first Leonardo award, the Frank J. Malina Leonardo Award for
>Lifetime Achievement, was established in 1985 to honor artists who
>have melded technology and the visual arts over a lifetime. The
>initial recipient, Hungarian artist Gyorgy Kepes, was a founder of
>both the New Bauhaus (Chicago) and MIT's Center for Advanced Visual
>Studies. His art and life were dedicated to the advancement of new
>technologies and relationships among scientific discoveries and art.
>
>In 1987, Leonardo gave its first Leonardo Award for Excellence to
>recognize outstanding and particularly significant articles published
>in Leonardo. Recipients of this award have included composer and
>musician Alvin Lucier (U.S.A.), artist George Gessert (U.S.A.), artist
>and theorist Eduardo Kac (U.S.A./Brazil).
>
>The newest Leonardo award, the Makepeace Tsao Leonardo Award, was
>given to Herve Fischer and Ginette Major of La Cite des arts et des
>nouvelles technologies de Montreal. This award recognizes
>organizations and artists' groups that have increased public awareness
>of art forms involving science and technology, particularly through
>the sponsoring of exhibitions. The award is named for the late
>Makepeace Tsao -- biochemist, professor, gallery owner and artist --
>who served at various times as editorial board member, advisor and
>benefactor of Leonardo/ISAST.


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