Past Visiting and International Artists 2006

Australia
	Kieran Boland Multimedia Artist Kieran is an Australian artist based in Melbourne who makes drawings/ works on paper in conjunction with video/ films. The interests explored across the two mediums are narrative deconstruction, the politics of identity and representation, representation as manipulation or construct, and the role and place of locality within an artwork. The Face Radio Live project essentially reverses the film making process by presenting the final product (the film component) as a storyboard that encourages the audience to view the resultant drawings/ works on paper as a kind of performance or record of an activity within the studio, an activity that may also lead them to examine their own questions concerning identity, locality, representation. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>
	Antony Hamilton Installation Artist Antony Hamilton focuses his work on tales of the Australian outback. His installations incorporates both found and created objects which then transform into Australian bush myths. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

	Therese Ritchie Painter / Digital Artist Therese Ritchie is an animator, painter, photographer, and graphic designer whose works have been shown all around Australia since 1989, including the National Gallery of Australia. Her art deals mainly with racial relations and injustices in her hometown of Darwin. She uses a process of layering and compositing to create her images. VIEW MORE IMAGES \| READ INTERVIEW >>

	Brendan Lee Photo Artist The video installation artist and photographer, Brendan Lee, often looks at the associations that are made between notions of place, film and history. He explores the relationships between the filmic memory of significant cinematic locations and the interactions of individuals within their historical weighting. In the past several ears, Lee has focused on Australian film history and folklore and has zoomed in on his desire to determine how we identify and differentiate ourselves culturally from other people and regions. In 2006, Lee joined 18th Street after receiving a residency grant from the Australia Council for the Arts, and his work was exhibited with Patriot Acts: Future of Nations exhibit. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

Croatia
	Ana Devic Curator She is one of the founding members of an independent curatorial collective What, How & for Whom/WHW (with Ivet Curlin, Natasa Ilic and Sabina Sabolovic and designer and publicist Dejan Krsic) based in Zagreb, Croatia. WHW’s activities are exploring the potentials of critical curatorial practice capable of generating innovative models of self-representation and self-organization within the realm of contemporary art. Since May 2003 WHW has been running the program of Gallery Nova - non-profit city owned gallery in the center of Zagreb.

Czech Republic
	Stepanka Simlova Media Artist Stepanka currently lives and works in Prague. She is known mainly for her digital photo-montage work. She became exhibiting her works early while she was still a student, and is part of the female wave of artists in the forefront of the early 90s digital movement. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

	Jesper Alvaer Video Artist Jesper Alvaer was born 1973 in Copenhagen, grew up in Oslo, and is now living in Prague. Throughout his career he has exhibited his works in numerous one-man and group exhibitions all over the world. He has studied in Oslo, Kitakyushu, New York City, and Montpellier and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

Hong Kong
	Eric Siu Photo Artist Eric Siu is a young new media artist based in Hong Kong. Currently, he has funded by Lee Hysan Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, being a new media research artist in the United States. His video art and multi-media works have been shown both locally and internationally including USA, Australia, Japan, Korea, Germany, and Poland, amongst others. His video short “Sliding Whites” has received an honorable mention from the WRO 05, 11th International Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland. Currently he is a represented artist of Videotage, Hong Kong and was working as a Teaching Associate at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Kwun Tong) from 2005-2007. Eric has a broad interest in animation, video, installation and interactive art. He loves to create interesting spectacles and to transform human perception and experience to sensational levels by means of technology. He explores media in a raw and primitive perspectives. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

Israel
	Barry Frydlender Photo Artist Using a handheld digital camera, Frydlender accumulates dozens, sometimes hundreds, of individual shots, then assembles them seamlessly in a computer. This method yields two distinctive results: Although the camera is small, Frydlender's big prints are unusually sharp and precise. And, while the picture describes a unified swath of space, it is not confined to a uniform period of time. Clues to the passage of time (such as figures that appear more than once) disclose the artificiality of the image and invite careful scrutiny of its rich details. Frydlender's residency is funded by The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

Korea
	Jee Un Park Multimedia Artist The point of departure in Park Jeeun’s work is her respect for and awe of medicine. Park jeeun seems to be indulged in the mechanism of medicine with extraordinary familiarity and enormous curiosity. Due to these aspects, Park’s work appears to be hovering between alchemy, art and medicine. Departing from the use and purpose of medicine, Park develops it from different point of view and eventually completes it as a work of the visual arts. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

Mexico
	Diego Teo Media Artist Diego Teo is a mixed media artist based in Mexico City. His referential and detritus-like objects derive their meaning from a discourse based on everyday objects and the urban environment and the meanings they acquire inside a number of socio-cultural contexts that the artist explores. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

Poland
	Anetta Szylak Curator Aneta Szylak has worked as a curator and art critic based in Gdansk, Poland since 1985. Ms. Szylak is a Vice-President of the Wyspa Progress Foundation, a non-profit art organization established in 1994. In years 1998 Ms. Szylak founded the Center for Contemporary Art Laznia (Bathhouse) and was its Director until spring 2001. Currently she is a co-founder of the Wyspa Institute of Art - the intellectual environment for contemporary visual culture - in the former Gdansk Shipyard premises.

Taiwan
	Hsiao-Fang Lin Documentary Video Artist Hsiao-Fang Lin rethinks identity as a reflexive process of the artist. Her temporal films and photographs explore new experiences, absorption of culture, and encounter with self. The artist’s journey begins in hometown Taipei, Taiwan. Using her camera as an instrument of ethnography, she documents her travel to Indonesia, and then to the United States. The purpose of her work is to seek possible trans-cultural understanding through themes of: personal reflected in local, trans-cultural visual language, and the endless process of creating identity in relation to others. Hsiao-Fang Lin's work deals mainly with ethnography, immigration and other issues of Taiwan's road towards modernization, and her documentary works have won numerous awards in Taiwan as well as abroad. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>

	Ming Hsu Animation Artist/Painter Born in Taipei, multidisciplinary artist Ming Hsu creates animation, video, multimedia, and design works. After studying in Taiwan, he studied further in Germany, earning a certificate in Visual Media Art from Offenbach am Main College of Design. He is currently working on an underground animation called, "Republic of China, without People!" sponsored by National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan. VIEW MORE IMAGES \| WATCH VIDEO \| READ INTERVIEW >>

United Kingdom
	Liz Aggiss & Billy Cowie Dance / Media Artists Billy Cowie and Liz Aggiss work together in dance/theatre performance, screen dance and installation. They have made over thirty live performance pieces for their company Divas Dance Theatre, have toured Europe extensively and completed four major screen projects (two BBC Dance for Camera commissions and two ACE Capture projects). VIEW MORE IMAGES \| WATCH VIDEO INTERVIEW >>

U.S.A.
	Yoon Lee Painter Yoon Lee's paintings depict the tension between technological advancements of modern society and traditional art mediums, spiraling into interwoven highways of bright colors and chaotic yet structured explosions. Yoon Lee's knowledge in computer science, mechanical engineering, and philosophy has helped her gain the unique perspective she has which manifests through her artwork. VIEW MORE IMAGES \| READ INTERVIEW >>