CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION AWARDS 2006 GRANTS
NEW YORK, NY (February 8, 2006) – Creative Capital Foundation, the national arts organization that supports individual artists, announces the recipients of its 2006 grants. Sixty-one artists representing 43 projects in the performing arts, emerging fields, and innovative literature received initial awards of $10,000. As the projects develop, the foundation offers additional funds; projects may receive as much as $50,000 each through the tenure of the multi-year grant and at least $1 million has been committed to the 43 projects. (Read more)
Some NEWSgrist pals are among this year's new crop of Creative Captial Grantees:
Emerging Fields
Cory Arcangel (Brooklyn, NY) Digital Arts
D.I.Y.W.I.K.I. – An open-source website detailing methods of media intervention and hacking, embodying the ethic of openness and generosity among the closed field of hackers, home hobby programmers and new media artists
MTAA + RSG (Brooklyn, NY) Digital Arts
Want – A six-channel video installation using Internet peer-to-peer networks and actors portraying the obsessive desires of six types of common Internet users
Golan Levin (Pittsburgh, PA) Digital Arts
Observation as Interaction: Eye Contact Systems – A series of large-scale artworks from wall projections to robotic sculptures that play with the idea of surveillance by returning the viewer’s gaze using tracking software and a simulated return glance
Jane Marsching (Roslindale, MA) Digital Arts
About Here and Later: Data Mining the North Pole – A series of digital images and sculptures, exploring both scientific and myth-based impressions of The North Pole, while detailing the collapse of the area due to environmental changes
