Whispering Willows instal the new12/29/2023 ![]() I am confident in my ability to translate ideas into experiences. A creative and inclusive thinker, I focus on the personal as well as the collective, the ecology of the part and the whole. I choose to work with diverse groups of people, emerging technologies, my hands, and my imagination. I have had the good fortune to be an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium, Artist in Residence at MIT, Guest Professor of New Media Art at the Beijing Film Academy, Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab, and Creative CityMaking artist with the City of Minneapolis. My approach repositions a view of contemplation that is generally perceived of as solitary and removed from the flow of life into one that sparks a sense connection and community. Informed by contemporary views of nature, technology, and community, I explore the subtle ways that we express empathy with one another, with other life forms, with sensing objects, and with responsive environments. Focused on art as experience, my work takes form as an invitation to engage with people as choreographers of their experience of art. Seemingly divergent perspectives converge in my practice of art as a socially engaged mode of tuning our attention to common occurrences in everyday places. By Any Medium Necessary is also the title of a book in process with which I center artistic visions and the innovations and inventions made by women identified artists to realize them. This has become a mantra of sorts, a description of my process and an affirmation of an art practice that moves fluidly among media, material, site, and discipline - commonly appropriating and recontextualizing the modalities germane to architecture, science and technology. My response is that I create new work by any medium necessary. ![]() After years of trying to succinctly explain my work as a multi-modal artist, I developed my version of an elevator speech. ![]() In casual conversations, when I say that I am an artist, the follow up to the initial question posed as “what do you do” is typically “what kind of art do you make”. ![]()
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