Lucy H G - biography

LUCY Hg

biographical narrative
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Lucy H G is a media artist, a filmmaker, and the interdisciplinary research coordinator for the League of Imaginary Scientists. Her visual experiments, creative diagrams, and interactions fit in between realms, where microbiology mingles with geopolitics and mechanical engineering animates human biology.

EDUCATION

The Kitchen Summer Institute: Performance, Technology, and Text: 2002
Claremont Graduate University. M.F.A.: Multimedia: 2001
Armory Center for the Arts fellowship program: 2001
Boston College. B.A.: Philosophy, Studio Art: 1997
Universidad San Francisco de Quito: Fine Art: 1995

FILMS
Onsdag, 6:45 AM, filmed in Trondheim, Norway – 2007 (HG Solomon)
Wednesday, 2:45 pm, filmed in Sydney, AU - 2006 (HG Solomon)

INTERACTIVITIES/ INTERMEDIA

Course 20: Interactions with MIT. Interactive science at the Powerhouse Museum’s beta_space in Sydney, Australia: October, 2010.
Esther is Crawling. Interactive multimedia performance in development with choreographer Emma Nordanfors, funded by the Danish Arts Council and presented at Arhus Kunstbygning in Denmark: May, 2009.
Dream Assembly Line. Dreams constructed by the city of Tábor in collaboration with the League of Imaginary Scientists, at the Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor (CESTA) in the Czech Republic: 2008.
Finding Aurora. Interactivities developed with choreographer Emma Nordanfors and Carolina Bäckman, presented as a workshop at Tanz Fabric in Berlin in December, 2008, scheduled for presentation at the 2008 Milkbar Live International Film Festival in San Francisco and Electrofringe in Australia: 2008.
The Childhood Machine. Bicycle-powered interactive installation providing Idea Therapy for an ailing Western Civilization; presented at Babel Art Space in Trondheim, Norway: August, 2007.
thirty-seven isolated events. Immersive video and movement with choreographer paige starling sorvillo and imaginationandmymother, presented at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum in January, 2007, and at CounterPULSE for the 2008 San Fransisco International Arts Festival.
The League of Imaginary Scientists: visualizing undone history for the world. Interactive timeout machine and display of the League’s catalog of undone acts, as part of Command Z at the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, California: March – May, 2007.
Meta-physical. Remote physical and display of verbal narcotics developed by the League of Imaginary Scientists; presented by NewTown at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California: May, 2007.
A Live Diagram of the Human Condition (an Imaginary Science experiment). Interactive performance drawn with media by the League, movement by Blindsight, and sound by George Cremaschi; presented through MilkBar 2007 International Live Film Festival at CounterPULSE in San Francisco: 2007.
Blazar. Demonstration of the League of Imaginary Scientists’ dupliporter for teleporting objects; display of the League’s collection of artifacts at The Office in Huntington Beach, California: November, 2006.
Remote Tea Party. Real-time data interaction at California Institute of the Arts, in collaboration with Shane Hazleton, Miwa Matreyek, Jeremy Schwartz, and Jihyun Song: September, 2006.
Breathing with Someone. Interactive installation/ multimedia performance with Danish dance company E.K.K.O and Angela Chong at the Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor, Czech Republic: August, 2006.
Alpha Zuppa. Interactive, telematic performance feast in collaboration with Melissa Ramos, Rhys Turner, and Francesca Veronesi; developed and presented through the Johannes Birringer Physical Camera and Telematics workshop at Performance Space in Sydney: May, 2006.
Reworld. Live, interactive multimedia theater performed by Jamie Harrison and Ruth Sergel; developed and presented through the Troika Ranch workshops in New York: July, 2005.
Ghost in the Machine. Live, interactive multimedia composition, in collaboration with composer Matt McBane and the Calder Quartet; Carlsbad Music Festival 2005; Grand Canyon Music Festival 2005.
Sitting With Stern Ibolyka. Live, interactive video and theater with theater artist Yvette Feuer; presented at The Kitchen in New York (summer works in progress) and at Crazy Space in Los Angeles in 2002, Dixon Place in New York and Sarah Lawrence College in New York in 2003.

SELECTED NETWORKED EVENTS

ISEA2009 at MIT with global broadcast locations, GfP presentation on Open-Source Science, A Citizen’s Call to Synthesize: November, 2008.
Art is Good For You. Conversation Starters included in ISEA 2009 bluetooth project on Thomas Street in Dublin, curated by Mike Stubbs: November, 2008.
El Festival Internacional de la Imagen (Aether9) in Manizales, Colombia: April, 2008.
2008 Mapping Festival (Aether9) at Bâtiment d'Art Contemporain (BAC) in Geneva: April, 2008.
NetUser4 (Aether9) at the International Working Camp in Bulgaria: July, 2007.
Remote Fairytales (Aether9) at Maison d’Art Actuel des Chartreux (MAAC) in Brussels; the League of Imaginary Scientists in collaboration with the Aether9collective: June, 2007.
2007 Mapping Festival (Aether9) at Bâtiment d'Art Contemporain (BAC) in Geneva: May, 2007.
N-Avatar. Presentation of telematic work at the TAFE Gallery in Newcastle, Australia: September, 2006.
Avatar x. Live, interactive performance located simultaneously at the University of London and at Performance Space in Sydney: September, 2006.

SELECTED SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS and PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

Copenhagen, Denmark: Waterways collaboration with Paul D. Miller on Human Glacier, performed outside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen: November, 2009.
Brooklyn, NY: Waterways, a laboratory integrating chemistry, movement and sound on board the Waterpod in Brooklyn Bay in New York: August, 2009.
Rome, Italy: Rome’s Mobile Timeline, a bicycle tour and interactive audio archive for The Eternal Tour; created with Liz Kueneke and narrated by collaborators from places around the world named Rome, like Roma, Indonesia: July, 2008.
Oakland, California: The MilkBar; an interactive research project into the benefits and dangers of the many varieties of milk: created and performed in collaboration with Merlin Coleman for The Milk Bar #20 at The Biscuit Factory: April, 2008.
Newcastle, Australia: Climate Change is Happening, collaborative urban video installation, created and presented in conjunction with Electrofringe’s Sight/Sound/Site workshop: March, 2006.
Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Norway: H2O, video installation: February, 2005.
University of California, San Diego: alteration/enhancement of an existing physical network – the outdoor lighting system – as a nervous system: February, 2004.
Pomona, California: Living Large, collaborative guerilla video projection with Jacalyn Lopez-Garcia onto the wall of a bank in Pomona, California: January, 2004.
Centre Cívic in Barcelona: public art installation in Spain: September - October, 2003.
Japanese American National Museum: video installation in the Hirasaki Theater Gallery in Los Angeles: August, 2002.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Muse Event: video installation: April, 2002.
La Panaderia Gallery in Mexico City: video installation for Catastrophica, Mexico: January, 2002.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Course 20: Interactions with MIT. Interactive science and space at the Powerhouse Museum’s beta_space in Sydney, Australia: October, 2010.
League of Imaginary Scientists. Babel: Lademoen Kunstnerverksteders Visningsrom for Kunst in Trondheim, Norway: August – September, 2007.
Simple Cell > The League of Imaginary Scientists. Live portal to a black hole and collection of dematerialized matter at The Office in Huntington Beach, California: November – December, 2006.
Microdot. Imaginary Science video diagram at the University of Newcastle in Australia: May, 2006.
Una Ciencia de lo Imaginario (A Science of the Imaginary). Works from the Imaginary Science series, curated by Camilo Sanchez, exhibited through the Asociacion Colombiana para el Avance de la Ciencia in celebration of the World Year of Physics, at Museión in Bogotá, Colombia: October, 2005.
Beneath the North Sea. Interactive, immersive digital video installation at Gallery Blunk in Trondheim, Norway: February, 2005.
Through the Loophole. Video installation, digital constructs and digital wall drawings at the Harris Gallery at the University of La Verne in La Verne, California: April – May 28, 2004.
Window Currents. Video and photography exhibition at The Armory Center for the Arts at One Colorado in Pasadena, California: March, 2002.
Two Humps. Immersive video installations and photography at The Hatch Gallery in Los Angeles, California: November, 2001.
Content/Context. Thesis exhibition at Claremont Graduate University: April – March, 2001.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Lovely Weather. Climate Art installation, The Irish Rover: Looking for Mars off the Northern Coast of Ireland at the Letterkenny Regional Cultural Centre in Ireland: November, 2010.
Conflux 2009. Interactive laboratory for NYC’s festival integrating art and urban space, NYC: 2009.
Thessaloniki Bienalle. Interactive research at State Museum of Modern Art in Greece: May, 2009.
Lightwave 2009 at the Science Gallery in Dublin. The Grafting Parlour’s installation with interactive photo-responsive microorganisms based in the biological engineering laboratory at MIT: 2009.
Manifesta7, European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Bolzano, Italy; Command Z in The Shadow of Frequencies at ex-Alumix, curated by Agnese Trocchi for CandidaTV: Fall, 2008.
“This is the Time…This is the Record of the Time,” hybrid arts symposium in Perth, Australia: Fall, 2008.
Projections on Lake. Living Large included in public film program in Pasadena: November, 2008.
Electrofringe 2008. Finding Aurora at experimental electronic arts and culture festival in Australia: October, 2008.
Milkbar International Arts Festival. Finding Aurora in Oakland, California: September, 2008.
San Francisco International Arts Festival. Immersive intermedia at CounterPULSE; movement by Blindsight; sound by imaginationandmymother: May, 2008.
The Audacity of Desperation. Really Real Estate™ at the Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center in May and Sea and Space in Los Angeles in Fall, 2008.
Four Degrees: Artistic Views on Climate Change. Exhibition of Really Real Estate™ at the KIPP Gallery at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, showcasing the League’s campaign to vacate a warming planet and colonize space and sea: February, 2008.
Electrofringe. Screening of A Live Diagram of the Human Condition at emerging and experimental arts festival in Newcastle, Australia: September, 2007.
MAS (Multiplication of Art Spaces): Domocili en Permuta. Imaginary Science and siteology in Barcelona: May, 2007.
Command Z. Imaginary Science at The Torrance Art Museum in California: March – May, 2007.
Medical/Arts. Imaginary Science at The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California: May, 2007.
Artscene: 25, the Los Angeles Art Awards. Imaginary Science experiment on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA): April, 2007.
Dream Green. Imaginary Science at Cisco Home in Pasadena, California: April, 2007.
SANCTA. Imaginary Science installation at Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery: March – April, 2007.
Asian Fusion Gallery, Asian Cultural Center. Documentation from the League of Imaginary Scientists presented in conjunction with CGU/the College Art Association conference in New York: February, 2007.
MilkBar’s 2007 International Live Film Festival at CounterPULSE in San Fransisco: February, 2007.
Hausguests. The Brewery Project in Los Angeles, California: February – March, 2007.
Blips, Drips and Strips. Upfront Gallery in Ventura, California: December, 2006 – January, 2007.
Visualizing Trans. Imaginary Science at the Kupfer Center in Madison, Wisconsin: October, 2006.
Living Large at Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art: October – November, 2006.
Strach Vnímání a Logika (Sense of Fear). Art Festival of International Interdisciplinary Collaborations at the Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor (CESTA) in the Czech Republic: August, 2006.
IMAF 2006 (In)place of fear. Performance documentation of ReWorld; curated by Nenad Bogdanovic at the Multimedia Art Studio in Serbia and Montenegro: 2006.
Never Leaving Aztlan. Digital video at the Museo de las Americas in Denver: February – May, 2006.
Dwellings. Digital video at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles: September, 2005.
See You at Home. Digital video construct included at Grove Lane in London: October, 2005.
SoundWalk 2005. Survey of sound installations in Long Beach, California: August, 2005.
Eclectic Experimental Shorts. Film and Video screening at Gallery 825: August, 2005.
Off the Map. Digital video installations in Mount Washington abode in Los Angeles: July, 2005.
A Change in Temperature. Digital construct at the Market Gallery in Los Angeles: May, 2005.
Glass Sky, Celluloid Moon. Video construct included at Claremont Graduate University: August, 2004.
City Life Video Festival. Digital Animation screened at multiple venues in Los Angeles: 2004.
Impromptu: Improvisation with Digital Media. UCR California Museum of Photography: September, 2002 - January, 2003.
LA Freewaves 2002, Biennial Festival of Experimental Media Arts. Digital Video on view at UCR California Museum of Photography: November, 2002.

CONFERENCES/ TALKS/ WORKSHOPS
Americans for the Arts Half-Century Summit on Public Art. Waterways presented as one of the year’s 40 Best Public Art Projects by PAN (Americans for the Arts Public Art Network): June, 2010.
Lovely Weather Workshops. Presentation of Collections, Contraptions and the Cosmos: March, 2010.
UCLA Art|Sci. Converging practices in science and art at the Eli Broad Center at UCLA: June, 2009.
Farmlab. Participatory mapping in art for Farmlab’s public salon series: June, 2009.
e-MobiLArt symposium: Merging art and science; panelist on the collaborative process: May, 2009.
Trinity College Dublin: Talk on art and science, Interacting with Research: January, 2009.
Santa Monica College: Visiting lecturer for arts program: December, 2008.
ISEA2009 pre-symposium: GfP at MIT and the University of Ulster, Belfast: November, 2008.
Boston College: Which Way is North? Where Art and Science Intersect; November, 2008.
Hybrid Arts Symposium: Live Diagram in ElectroEtre at PICA in Perth, Australia: November, 2008.
Electrofringe: Presentation on Imaginary Science and inter-media collaborations: October, 2008.
Dorkbot Sydney: A Conversation on Blurriness with Carolina Bäckman in Sydney: September, 2008.
ISEA2008: Video contributor to discussion on collaborative remote media performances: July, 2008.
Electrosalon. TEAS Intercontinental Media Arts and Performance Discussion presented online through the Escape Artists in Vancouver, Canada: April, 2008.
The Gerrit Rietveld Academie: Remote participation in real-time performance and Aether9 in Amsterdam: March, 2008.
California State University, Northridge: Intersections between Interactivity and Public Art: 2008.
Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences: Really Real Estate™ unveiled in Prague, Czech Republic; organized by CIANT, Leonardo, and the Hexagram Institute: 2007.
Samand Íslenskra Myndlistarmanna (The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists): presentation of works by The League of Imaginary Scientists: 2007.
VJ Theory: Let’s Chat – What is Realtime Interaction? Intercontintental networked discussion on VJ Theory, Practice and Future Directions Locally and Globally, presented by The Escape Artists: 2007.
University of Wisconsin, Madison: Imaginary Science at TRANS Visual Culture Conference: 2006.
California Institute of the Arts: Presentation of Imaginary Science and interactive works: 2006.
Electrofringe (Newcastle, Australia): Telematic presentation on networked media and streaming technologies at Electrofringe: September, 2006.
University of London: Presentation on network (mis)communication at (re)Actor: The First International Conference on Digital Live Art: September, 2006.
Cultural Exchange Station (Tábor, Czech Republic): Artist talk: 2006.
University of Newcastle (Ourimbah, Australia): Presentation of videos and interactive works: 2006.
Los Angeles Municipal Gallery: Presentation of Dwellings, hybrid of technology and architecture: 2005.
Museión (Colombia): Presentation on video installations in the Imaginary Science series: 2005.
Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (Norway): “A Science of the Mundane,” a presentation on hybrid science and technology art works dealing with elements from everyday life: 2005.
Gallery Blunk (Norway): Artist talk: 2005.
Museum of Making Music (Carlsbad, California): Panelist for Live Program Notes, a discussion on collaboration for live multimedia: 2005.
University of California, San Diego: Artist/participant in Powering Up/Powering Down: 2004.
University of La Verne (California): Artist talk: 2004.
Los Angeles Mission College: Presentation of a series of workshops on Interdisciplinary Collaboration for faculty at Los Angeles Mission College: 2003.
Los Angeles Mission College: workshop series, A Career in the Arts and Multimedia: 2002.
Claremont Graduate University (California): Panelist for Theory and Practice: 2000.

RESIDENCIES and INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
Videotage FUSE new media art residency in Hong Kong: 2011.
Visiting artist at Dr. Natalie Kuldell’s Biological Engineering laboratory at MIT: 2008 – present.
Lovely Weather residency on Climate Art and Science in County Donegal, Ireland: 2010.
iLAB residency in NYC for interdisciplinary research through iLAND: 2009.
Creative researcher at e-MobiLArt in Greece, Finland, and Austria: 2008 – 2009.
Artist in residence at the Cultural Exchange Station in Tabór, Czech Republic: 2008.
Interactive researcher in interactive movement at Tanzfabrik in Berlin: 2007.
Artist in residence at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Trondheim, Norway: 2007.
Media Artist in residence with dance collaborative Blindsight: 2007
Artist in residence at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California: 2006.
Artist in residence at the Cultural Exchange Station in Tabór, Czech Republic: 2006.
Artist in residence at the Gunnery Studios in Sydney, Australia: 2006.
Artist at Troika Ranch Interactive Isadora Workshops in New York: 2005.
Guest Artist at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art: 2005.
Artist in residence at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Norway: 2005.
Artist at The Kitchen Summer Institute at The Kitchen in New York: 2002.