MARK TRIBE

 

Web site: http://nothing.org

Email: mark AT nothing DOT org

 

Born in 1966 in San Francisco, CA

Lives in New York City and Providence, RI

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Education

                             

1995                     Research Fellow, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

                

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.

 

Academic Appointments

                

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

 

Ongoing              Port Huron Project. A series of performance art events and videos based on protest speeches of the New Left. See <http://www.porthuronproject.net>.

 

 

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.

 

 

Curatorial Projects                                                                                                                                                                           

                             

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.

 

 

Books   

 

2006                     New Media Art. Cologne: Taschen, 2006. Co-authored with Reena Jana.

 

 

 

Contributions to Books

 

2008                     “Just What Is It that Makes New Media Art So Different, So Appealing?” (collective interview), in Domenico Quaranta, Yves Bernard (eds), Holy Fire: The Art of the Digital Age, exhibition catalogue, iMAL, Bruxelles, April 19 - 30, 2008. Brescia: FPEditions, 2008.

 

 

2006                     “Online Project: Tijuana Calling,”  in [Situational] Public, Osvaldo Sanchez and Donna Conwell, eds. Manitoba: Friesens Book Division, 2006. 387-392.

 

2005                     Untitled curatorial essay in ARCO’05 Catalogue. Madrid: ARCO/Ifema, Feria de Madrid, 2005. 697-700.

 

2003                     “The Global Media Art Community.” Web Fictions: Dispersed Presences in Electronic Networks. Fassler, Manfred, Ursula Hentschlaeger, Selko Wiener, eds. New York: Springer, 2003. 134-137.

 

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.

 

 

Contributions to Journals and Magazines

 

2006                     “Cory Arcangel: An Interview by Mark Tribe,” Uovo, no. 11, 2006. 252-265.

 

2005                     “Tijuana Calling,” Atopia Journal, October 2005. 69-75.

 

2005                     Untitled transcript of panel remarks, “Symposium: Metamorphosis of Artists’ Rights in the Digital Age,” Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts. Vol. 28, No. 4.

 

2001                     “Hot List,” ArtForum. March 2001.

 

2001                     Social Text,  Vol. 19, No. 1. StarryNight featured on back cover.

 

2000                     “Email Performance,” Zing Magazine, issue 12. 180-194.

 

 

Online Publications

 

2006                     “An Ornithology of  Net Art,” <http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/artofsleep/essay.htm>. Curatorial essay for Tate Online, the web site of the Tate art museums.

 

2006                     “A Wiki Directory of Academic Art and Technology Programs,” <http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/nothing/index.php/ArtAndTechPgms>. Co-authored with Michael Naimark.

                             

2005                     Eyebeam reBlog <http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog>. Guest editor, July 10-23, 2005.

                             

 

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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