MARK TRIBE
1994 MFA,
Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
1990 BA,
magna cum laude,
honors in Visual Art, Brown University, Providence, RI.
2005 - present Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies,
Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Research in Modern Culture and Media, Brown
University, Providence, RI.
2003 - 2005 Director of
Art & Technology, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY.
2001, 2003 MFA
Thesis Advisor, Photography and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York,
NY.
2002, 2004 Instructor,
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO.
2002 Visiting
Assistant Professor and Artist in Residence, Department of Art, Williams
College, Williamstown, MA.
Other Professional Experience
1996-2003 Founder and
Executive Director, Rhizome.org, New York, NY.
1997-2000 Co-founder and
Chairman, StockObjects, New York, NY.
1995 Web
Designer, Pixelpark GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
Work in Progress
Exhibitions, Commissions, and Art Projects
2008 “Democracy:
A National Campaign,” New York, NY. Port Huron Project installation to be exhibited by
Creative Time at the Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY.
2008 “Hopeless
and Otherwise,” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. Port Huron Project video and poster exhibited in
group show.
2007 “Teleculture:
Dreams at the Epicenter,” Zones Contemporary Art Fair, Edge Zones Contemporary
Art Center, Miami, FL. Port Huron Project videos included in group exhibition.
2007 “Teleculture,”
Pace Digital Gallery, New York, NY. Port Huron Project videos included in group
exhibition.
2007 “Pixilerations
[v.4]: Stories +/- Ornament,” FirstWorks Festival, Providence, RI. Port
Huron Project videos
screened in gallery.
2007 “Perpetual
Art Machine: Video Art in the Age of the Internet,” Chelsea Art Museum, New
York, NY. Port Huron Project 2: The Problem Is Civil Obedience video included in group
exhibition.
2007 Port
Huron Project 3: We Must Name the System. Washington, D.C. Public art event.
2007 “NeoIntegrity,”
Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY. Port Huron Project poster exhibited in group show.
2007 Port
Huron Project 2: The Problem Is Civil Obedience, Boston, MA. Public art event.
2007 “SocialDesignSite.com,”
Berlin, Germany. Port Huron Project and Carpark included in online exhibition.
2007 “Move!
Activate! Remember!” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. Port Huron
Project 1: Until the Last Gun Is Silent video screened in gallery.
2007 “NETworking:
Net Art from the Computer Fine Arts Collection,” Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa,
Israel. Revelation 2.0 included in group exhibition.
2006 NY
Art Book Fair, New York, NY. Port Huron Project 1: Until the Last Gun Is
Silent video
and poster presented by Creative Time.
2007 “Faculty
Exhibition 2007,” David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI. Port
Huron Project 1: Until the Last Gun Is Silent video installed in gallery.
2006 Port
Huron Project 1: Until the Last Gun Is Silent, New York, NY. Public art event
presented by Conflux Festival.
2004 Bodybuilder
Web Cam,
Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL. Splash page in collaboration
with Huong Ngo.
2004 “A
Small Look at Giganticism,” Gigantic Art Space, New York, NY. StarryNight included in group exhibition.
2003 Revelation
2.0, Computer
Fine Arts, New York, NY. Commissioned online art project.
2002 “Day
Jobs,” New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA. Rhizome.org included in online group
exhibition.
2002
7th
International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia. Revelation 1.0 exhibited at festival.
2002 “Shine02,”
New York, NY. Revelation
1.0
commissioned by Amnesty International and included in online group exhibition.
2002 “Maps,
Routes and Shortcuts,” The Media Centre, Huddersfield, UK. StarryNight included in group exhibition.
2001 “Imagine
2001,” Gävle, Sweden. StarryNight included in group exhibition.
2001 “seARchT
Engines: des(in)formation,” Video Festival of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. StarryNight
included in
group exhibition.
2001 “Interface
Explorer,” Public Netbase t0, Vienna, Austria. StarryNight included in group exhibition.
2001 “Re.
Duchamp Traveling Exhibition,” 7th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul,
Turkey and 49th Venice Biennale, Venice. Face Control included in independent
curatorial project.
1999 StarryNight, Rhizome.org, New York, NY.
Online art project in collaboration with Alexander Galloway and Martin
Wattenberg.
1999 “Net
Condition,” ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. Rhizome.org included in group exhibition.
1998 “Open
X,” Ars Electronica festival, Linz, Austria. Rhizome.org included in group exhibition.
1998 Face
Control, The
Tunnel, New York, NY. Art event in collaboration with Kerry Tribe included in
independent curatorial program.
1996 Line
Versus Color, 450
Gallery, New York, NY. Digital print included in group exhibition.
1995 Time
Game, Akademie
der Künste, Berlin. Public art event.
1995 Bad
Humor (Getting Closer to the Point), Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow. Video installation in
collaboration with Gia Rigvava.
1995 Traces
of a Constructed City, Computer Aided Curating, Berlin, Germany. Net art project included
in online group exhibition.
1994 Apparitions,
inSITE’94, San
Diego, CA. Member of collaborative group that produced virtual reality
environment and physical installation.
1994 Carpark, inSITE’94, San Diego, CA.
Public art event and installation in collaboration with Nina Katchadourian and
Steven Matheson.
1993 Keep
Back The Tide,
Coastal Project, Santa Barbara, CA. Public art event in collaboration with Nina
Katchadourian, Roman de Salvo and Olav Westphalen.
1992 Measurement,
Hochschule der
Kunste, Berlin. Public performance.
1991 Apocrypha, Cheap Art Store, San Francisco,
CA. Video screening.
2006 “theblackbox@arco06,”
ARCO, Madrid, Spain. Curatorial director of New Media art program for
contemporary art fair.
2005 “Tijuana
Calling,” inSite_05, San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico. Curator of
online exhibition of commissioned online art projects.
2005 “Black Box,” ARCO,
Madrid, Spain. Co-curator of New Media art program at contemporary art fair
with Omar Lopez Chahoud, Anne Ellegood, Shamim Momin, Agustin Perez Rubio,
Gerfried Stocker.
2004 “ArtBots:
The Robot Talent Show,” Harlem, NY. Co-curator of Robotic art exhibition with
Mary Flanagan and Douglas Irving Repetto.
2004 “Digital
Boundaries: Multiculturalism, Identity, and Awareness,” ACM Multimedia 2004
Conference, New York, NY. Member of curatorial committee for exhibition of
Interactive art.
2003 “Curating
Degree Zero Archive,” [plug.in], Basel, Switzerland. Featured curator in
touring exhibition about curating.
2002 “Agenda
for a Landscape,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY. Co-curator with
Anne Ellegood of New Media art installation.
2001 “net.ephemera,”
Chapman Gallery, Salford University, Manchester, UK. Curator of exhibition of
works on paper by Net artists.
2001 “Net
Games Now,” Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams,
Massachusetts. Co-curator with Alexander Galloway of exhibition of net-based
games.
2001 “net.ephemera,”
Moving Image Gallery, New York, NY. Curator of exhibition of works on paper by
net artists.
2000, 2001 “OpenMouse,”
FUN, New York, NY. Curator of performance series for Rhizome.org.
2000 “rhizome@newmuseum.org,”
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY. Co-curator with Anne Ellegood of
exhibition of art projects from Rhizome.org.
2002 “Rhizome
TextBase, Rhizome ArtBase, Rhizome Ephemera.” Interarchive: Archival
Practices and Sites in the Contemporary Art Field. Cologne: Verlag der
Buchhandlung Walter Koenig, 2002. 263-265.
2001 Foreword.
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.
2001 Untitled
transcript of lecture. B.Read /6: Curating New Media. Cook, Sarah, Beryl Graham, Sarah
Martin, eds.
Gateshead: Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, 2002.
2001 “Net
Games Now.” Game Show Catalogue. North Adams: MASS MOCA, 2001. 54-67.
2001 Social
Text, Vol. 19, No. 1. StarryNight featured on back cover.
2000 “Email
Performance,” Zing Magazine, issue 12. 180-194.
Invited Lectures
2008 “What
Does it Mean To Act Politically?” St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.
2008 “Zones
of Emergency” Lecture Series, Visual Arts Program, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA.
2007 “Reading
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries: An Ornithology of Digital Art,” Reading
Digital Literature: American-German Conference, Brown University, Providence,
RI.
2007 “Creativity
in the Public Domain,” Weiden and Kennedy, New York, NY.
2007 “Open-Sourcing
Public Art: Remaking History in the Public Domain,” American Association for
History and Computing Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI. Invited
presentation.
2007 “New
Media and the Art World,” University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Invited
lecture.
2007 “Thoughts
on Media and Art,” Medium ’07 PhD Seminar, Norwegian Seamen’s Church, New York,
NY. Invited lecture.
2006 “The
Blurring of Curatorial and Artistic Practices,” 404 Object Not Found Symposium,
Art Center Nabi, Seoul, South Korea. Invited lecture.
2006 Seminar
on Media Arts in conjunction with “Body Movies” Interactive Exhibition, Asian
Cultural Cooperation Forum (ACCF), Hong Kong. Invited to give lecture but
unable attend.
2006 “Tech
Art and the Value of Life,”
International Symposium of Taipei, Third Public Art Festival in Taiwan. Invited
to give lecture but unable to attend.
2005 “Open Source Teaching: New Media Pedagogy as Collaborative Research,” “Media,
New” Conference, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA. Keynote address.
2005 “High
Art, High Tech” Conference, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO. Keynote
address.
2004 Untitled,
“Mapping Intensities” Conference, Goldsmiths College, London. Keynote address.
2004 Untitled,
DATA (Dublin Art and Technology Association), Dublin, Ireland. Invited
presentation.
2004 “Art
and Technology,” University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning,
Columbia University, New York, NY. Invited lecture.
2003 “Rhizomatic
Practices,” Comparative
Media Studies Colloquium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Invited lecture.
2003 “From
Painting to Social Sculpture,” Department of Art and Art Professions, New York
University, New York, NY. Invited lecture.
2003 “Nodes
and Offshoots,” Dutch
Electronic Art Festival (DEAF), Rotterdam, Netherlands. Invited lecture.
2003 “A
Brief History of Open Source Culture,” University of Washington School of Law,
Seattle, WA. Invited lecture.
2003 “From
Painting to Social Sculpture,” University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Invited lecture.
2002 “From
Painting to Social Sculpture,” Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Corcoran College of Art and
Design, Washington, DC. Invited lecture.
2002 “Professional
Issues in New Media Art,” MFA Computer Art Department, School of Visual Arts,
New York, NY. Invited lecture.
2002 “Tendencies
in the Field of New Media Art,” Electronic Visualization Laboratory, School of
Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago. Invited lecture delivered
via video conference.
2001 “An
Institutional History of New Media Art,” Department of Design | Media Arts,
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. Invited lecture.
2001 “Unexpected
Trajectories,” Visiting Artist Lecture Series, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, Il. Invited lecture.
2001 “The
Assimilation of Net Art,” The Photographers Gallery, London, UK. Invited
lecture.
2001 “The
Institutionalization of Net Art,” Beall Center for Art And Technology,
University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA. Invited lecture.
2001 “Who’s
Afraid of Net Art?” Department of Art, Williams College,
Williamstown,
MA. Invited lecture.
2001 “The
Role of Text in Net Art,” Department of Art, New York University, New York, NY.
Invited lecture.
2001 “Nonprofit
Entrepreneurship in the Arts: Focus on New Media,” Arts Administration Program,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago,
Il. Invited lecture.
2001 “Net
Art for Teachers,” Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Il. Invited lecture.
2001 “Rhizomatic
Design,” MFA Design and Technology program, Digital Design Department, Parsons
School of Design. New York, NY. Invited lecture.
2000 “What
is Net Art?” Computer Art Department, School of Visual Arts,
New
York, NY. Invited lecture.
2000 “Not
Dot Com: Starting an Online Nonprofit,” Arts Administration Program, School of the
Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Il. Invited lecture.
2000 “What’s
New in Net Art,” Art and Technology Studies Department, School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Invited lecture.
2000 “Trickle
Up Theory: Recontextualizing Net Art,” Razorfish Inc.,
New
York, NY. Invited lecture.
2000 Rhizome
and Net Art, Donors Forum of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1999 “Introduction
to Net Art,” Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Program, Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, NY. Invited lecture.
1998 “Architecting
Online Communities,” Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge,
MA. Invited lecture.
1996 “Surf
Design: Web Development in Fluid Environments,” International Symposium on
Electronic Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Invited lecture.
Panels
2008 “Reflecting
Spectacle,” Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA.
2007 “Art
Networks” Panel, Share Festival, Turin, Italy. Invited to speak but unable
attend.
2006 4th
International Contemporary Art Experts Forum, ARCO, Madrid, Spain. Invited to
speak but unable attend.
2006 “Art
in the Time of War,” Artissima Scientific Committee, Turin, Italy. Invited to chair panel
but unable attend.
2006 Media
Studies Colloquium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Invited to speak but unable to attend.
2006 “I
Taught Myself Everything I Know: Autodidacticism in New Media Art,” American Folk Art Museum, New
York, NY. Organizer and moderator.
2005 “Scenarios:
Tijuana Calling,” Center for Research in Computing in the Arts, University of
California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA. Moderator.
2005 “Escenarios:
Tijuana Calling,” Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico.
Moderator.
2005 “Pop/Mass/Society,”
“Refresh! The First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art,
Science and Technology,” Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Canada. Speaker.
2005 “Share,
Share Widely” Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. Speaker.
2004 “New
Issues in Author Rights,” Columbia Law School, New York, NY. Speaker.
2004 “Narratives
of Open Source,” ISEA 2004, Helsinki, Finland. Moderator and speaker.
2004 “Social
Networks of Resistance,” ISEA 2004, Helsinki, Finland. Moderator and speaker.
2004 “The
Space of Information in Contemporary Art,” ARCO, Madrid, Spain. Speaker.
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