Amy Alexander
Exhibitions and Selected Publications
amy@plagiarist.org


The Multi-Cultural Recycler (1996-1999) - web project that performs image processing and compositing on live images pulled from Web cameras around the world, in a tongue-in cheek commentary on cultural recycling and cyberspace.
http://shoko.calarts.edu/~alex/recycler.html


unbroken pieces (1996) - abstract computer animated video in the category of visual music; thematically centers on the ambiguity of perception, definition, and coherence.

  • Encuentros Sobre Video, University of Salamanaca, Salamanaca, Spain, November 1998
  • Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, November 1997
  • ISEA '97, Chicago, September 1997
  • L'etrange Film Festival, Paris, September 1997
  • Toronto Festival of Short Films, Toronto, Canada, September 1997
  • Festival International Du Cinema D'Animation, Annecy, France, May 1997
  • Sinking Creek Film/Video Festival, Nashville, TN, November 1996
  • SCREAM '96/Fifth Annual International Film Music Conference, Los Angeles, October 1996
  • Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, September 1996
  • Anima Mundi Animation Festival, Rio de Janeiro, August 1996


ants under a mushroom (1996/1998) - Interactive installation in which the participant "paints" with moving and still non-fiction images. The piece addresses the role of both the imagemaker and the viewer in influencing the way an image is perceived.


four (1995) - abstract computer animated video, dealing in a playful manner with perception and aesthetic beauty.

  • Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, November 1997
  • FIVA Online Interactive Art Festival and CD-ROM. Winner - Public Award: Gallery. Montreal/Internet,
    November 1995
  • SIGGRAPH '95 Computer Animation Festival. Los Angeles, August 1995


5pm (1995) - live action video with analog image processing. Images from a city at rush hour are blended together to create a linear/non-linear continuity which underscores the interrelationship among seemingly disparate elements.

  • Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, November 1997
  • Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, September 1996
  • FIVA Online Interactive Art Festival and CD-ROM. Winner - Public Award: Gallery. Montreal/Internet,
    November 1995


I, Jacob Reed (1992) - live action 16 mm experimental narrative. The story of a man contemplating his own death as he writes his will.

  • Artists' Television Access Short Attention Span Film/Video Festival. San Francisco, June 1993


The Cage (1992) - live action 16 mm experimental narrative. A young man loses his individuality as he builds his career.

  • Clapham and Battersea Film Festival - "Best of the Fest" Screening, London, July 1992

OTHER RECENT PROJECTS

  • plagiarist.org (1998 - 1999)
    Web art projects made from raw materials "plagiarized" from the Internet. Satirical, frequently time-based pieces dealing with proprietorship, appropriation, and the infinite recursiveness of the web. Plagiarist.org and its projects have been featured in Internet art collections including Yahoo, The Somniloquy Institute, Detritus.net and Centrum Beeldende Kunst.

  • Turbulence.org's "Finding Time", Internet Performance, June 1999/January 2000
PUBLICATIONS - Work has been reviewed in publications including:
  • The London Times, October 1999.
  • The Art Book (journal), June 1999.
  • Boston Globe, March 1999.
  • Washington Post, March 1999.
  • USA Today, February 1999.
  • The Independent, January 1999.
  • ARTnews, April 1998.
  • Contemporary Art Association LšAngelot (Barcelona). Ars Telematica. 1998.
  • New York Times. December 14, 1997.
  • Leonardo, Volume 30 Number 5. 1997.
  • Bureaud, Annick. Leonardo (online French edition). Fall 1997.
  • Intelligent Agent magazine, New York. Fall 1997.
  • Leopoldseder, Hannes and Christine Schopf. CyberArts - Prix Ars Electronic a. 1997.
  • Planete Internet magazine, France. Winter 1997.