ANNA CAMPBELL
Using sculpture, site-specific installation and the design of ephemera, Anna Campbell’s work deconstructs signifiers of gender and heteronormativity. Appropriated and abstracted references to domestic spaces, gay bars and building construction are employed to access new attachments of possibility and desire.
Campbell’s exhibition record includes solo exhibits at BOSI Contemporary in New York, Tractionarts in LA, and the Window Into Houston at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Texas, as well as group exhibits at Seoul National University of Science and Technology in South Korea, AIR Gallery in Brooklyn, Gallery 400 in Chicago, and the Green Gallery at Yale. Her most recent solo exhibit, Dress Rehearsal for a Dream Sequence, on view at Participant, Inc in New York in 2022, was listed as an Artforum Must-See, featured in a Brooklyn Rail New Social Environment talk with Ksenia Soboleva, and reviewed in the New Art Examiner.
Her work has been featured in Queer Holdings: A Survey of the Leslie Lohman Collection (Hirmer Verlag, 2019), Erica Rand’s “Hip Openers: On the Visuals of Gendering Athleticism,” in Queer Difficulties in Art and Poetry: Re-thinking the Sexed Body in Verse and Visual Culture (Routledge, 2017), ASAPjournal.com, the Advocate.com, Hyperallergic.com, GQ.com, and the Chicago Reader. Campbell has been in residence at ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), FIAR (Fire Island Artist Residency), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Ox-Bow, and the Vermont Studio Center.
STEPHEN HILYARD
Stephen Hilyard is an artist and Professor of Digital Arts at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He creates artwork in a wide range of media both digital and traditional. A common theme in his work is the paradoxical nature of our impulse towards the profound – at once both sincere at an emotional level whilst remaining in every way mediated by our culture. In particular his work deals with the sublime experience and often presents nature and landscape as digitally manipulated simulacra. His art projects have involved travel to a number of remote locations, including diving in a frigid Icelandic lake and a number of expeditions to Svalbard international territory in the high Arctic.
MICHAEL PETERSON
Michael Peterson teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, writes about contemporary performance, and makes both performance art pieces and “social” performance works.
Areas of Interest: Politics of performance, particularly in the interplay between experimental theatre/performance art and popular performance
TIM PORTLOCK
Tim Portlock was born in Chicago which inspired his lifelong interest in the dialogue between place and the formation of identity. Educated primarily as a traditional visual artist Portlock has worked in the past as a community-based muralist as well as a studio painter. His current body of work is created using 3D gaming technology to simulate real world and imagined spaces based on the abandoned and foreclosed buildings in biking distance of his home in Philadelphia.
His current work simulates both real and imagined spaces using 3D gaming technology. His most recent solo exhibition, “Nickels from Heaven,” showed at Philadelphia’s Locks Gallery in 2021. Using both 3D animation software and drone footage of actual places, Portlock creates sublime compositions that both draw you in and push you away: juxtapositions of glass skyscrapers with rooftop gardens next to dilapidated, graffiti-covered brick buildings; futurist statues awash in the warmth of a sunset positioned behind a scene of shadowy demolition. “The work is not science fiction or futuristic,” Portlock told St. Louis Public Radio of the exhibit. “It’s actually describing what’s happening now.”
LAURIE BETH CLARK
Laurie Beth Clark is a Professor of Non-Static Forms in the Art Department of the University of Wisconsin where, since 1985, she has taught studio classes in Video, Performance, and Installations, as well as Special Topics like Collaboration and Relational Aesthetics and more than twenty different academic seminars in Visual Culture Studies. Clark was raised in Brooklyn, New York. She earned degrees in Art from Hampshire College (BA 1976), University of New Mexico (MA 1981), and Rutgers University (MFA 1982).
Since the 1980s, Clark has made large-scale, site-specific installations and solo and collaborative performances, single-channel and multi-channel video works, and virtual environments. Early on, her work was featured as historically significant venues including Franklin Furnace, Randolph Street Gallery, WARM Gallery, and the Cleveland Public Theatre Performance Art Festival. Since that time, she has done 150 shows and performances in 35 countries on five continents. Her work has been recognized with funding from the Art Matters, Arts Midwest, Film in the Cities, Jerome Foundation, McKnight Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Wisconsin Arts Board and roughly one hundred reviews in newspapers and periodicals. Clark has lectured all over the United States and in Argentina, Brasil, Croatia, Germany, Ghana, England, Indonesia, Korea, the Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, and Wales.
Over the years, the recurring themes in Clark’s work are gender and ethnicity, justice and memory, the nexus of employment and unemployment, and the persistence of material culture into the electronic era. Clark also collaborates with Michael Peterson under the group name Spatula and Barcode on creative projects that explore hospitality and discourse. Parallel with her creative practice, Clark has published critical and scholarly essays in print journals, electronic journals, and anthologies. Since 2001, Clark has been working on a global comparative study of trauma memorials called Always Already Again: Trauma Tourism and the Politics of Memory.
MEG MITCHELL
(b. 1979 Miami, FL) Meg Mitchell is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her early childhood years were spent listening to the operatic and choral performances of family and playing video games with teenage boys. Mitchell studied computer science at university, but ultimately followed her desire for artistic expression and creative fulfillment against her family’s better judgement. She received a BFA in Sculpture from the University of South Florida in 2005 and an MFA in New Genres from the University of Maryland College Park in 2008. Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Madison in 2011, she worked for 3 years as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Florida State University.
Meg Mitchell’s work operates at the intersection of the material, the textual, and the public sphere. Often referencing seemingly disparate things such as weather, data flows, plant sexuality and technological systems, the work seeks to reconcile the opposing forces used in its metaphorical construction. She uses humor to subvert formalist interpretations of her work, and to play with the boundaries between the conceptual and the physical spaces her work occupies. Mitchell borrows from a diverse range of sources such as historical archives, contemporary advertising, camp, cinema, art history, and historical representations of technological progress. The work takes on various and shifting forms such as sculptural installations, mobile applications, printed ephemera, horticultural installations, and public performances.
Mitchell has shown her work in numerous group and solo exhibitions domestically and internationally, at venues such as the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Conner Contemporary, the DC Art Center, the MAK (Museum of Applied Art) in Vienna, Austria and the International Waldkunst Zentrum in Germany. Her work has been featured in many publications, such as Art Papers, Art in America and the Washington Post.
In 2013, Michell was awarded an Expanded Artist’s Book grant from Columbia College Chicago for a project in collaboration with Denise Bookwalter, “Rain/fall”, a data driven artist’s book and mobile application that was published in 2015. That project has been shown in 10 exhibitions and been purchased by 14 public collections as of 2016.
DOUG ROSENBERG
His work in video and video installation has been shown both in the United States and internationally in museums, galleries, on Public Television and in festivals around the world.
Mr. Rosenberg has received numerous grants and awards including, an NEA Dance/Film/Video grant, (with choreographer June Watanabe), an NEA/Southeast Media Fellowship, two Zellerbach Foundation grants, a Painted Bride Art Center New Forms Grant, (co-recipient with Li Chiao-Ping), a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, an IZZIE award for his work with Ellen Bromberg and John Henry on “Singing Myself A Lullaby” and a Fellowship from The Project on Death in America for another project with Ms. Bromberg. His video dance, “My Grandfather Dances” with Anna Halprin was awarded the Directors Prize at the Jewish Video Festival, Judah Magnes Museum, in Berkeley.
He has been an artist in residence at The Institute for Studies in The Arts, Bates Dance Festival, and the International Festival of Video Dance in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his writing on dance for the camera has been published in journals including LEONARDO.
Recent shows include, Dance on Camera Festival, New York, Video Festival Riccionne Teatro Televisione, Riccione, Italy, The Contemporary Art Museum in Buenos Aires, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, Mostra de Vídeo Dansa de Barcelona, Spain. He was the Director of the American Dance Festival’s video archival program for over a decade and continues to direct ADF’s Dancing for the Camera Festival.