HEATHER DEWEY-HAGBORG
Born Philadelphia, PA 1982
Education PhD Candidate 2016 in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute M. P. S., Interactive Telecommunications, New York University BA, Information Arts, Bennington College
Grants/Awards 2014 Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Fellowship Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Raymond and Beverly Sackler Artist in Residence, University of Connecticut 2013 Special Mention, VIDA 15.0 Art and Artificial Life International Awards 2012 Rensselaer Fellowship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Artist’s Residency and Jerome Foundation Grant from Clocktower Gallery, NYC Spring/Summer Artist’s Residency and Grant from Eyebeam, New York City 2011 Fellowship from Jaaga, Bangalore, India. Fiscal Sponsor: Issue Project Room Grant from the Institute for Culture in the Service of Community Sustainability Grant from PS1 MoMA for Open Circuit 2010 Artist’s Residency at I-Park, East Haddam Connecticut Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York City to complete Totem installation at Issue Project Room 2009 Artist’s grant to work on Listening Post from CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY 2008 Artist's Residency and Grant from Sculpture Space, Utica New York Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pollock Krasner Foundation 2007 Summer Artist's Residency from the General Store, Elk Horn Iowa 2007-2005 Interactive Telecommunications Program Departmental Award 2007-2006 Tisch Achievement Scholarship 2006 National Science Foundation award for student design competition Nathan Cummings Foundation grant for research and development 2003 Bennington Student Endowment for the Arts grant
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2014 Stranger Visions, New York Public Library, New York City Stranger Visions, Saint Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH 2013 Stranger Visions, QF Gallery, Easthampton, NY Stranger Visions, Genspace, New York, NY Stranger Visions, Wilson Policy Center, Washington D.C. Ohm IV, at the Sight and Sound Festival, Montreal, Canada, with Future Page 2 / Dewey-Hagborg
Archaeology 2012 Stranger Visions, Eyebeam, New York, NY 2011 Jaaga Dhvani, Jaaga, Bangalore, India Open Circuit, PS1 MOMA, Queens, NY with Matthew Radune and Thomas Dexter Ohm, Splatterpool, Brooklyn, NY with Future Archaeology 2010 Canopy Assemblage No. 1, NTHCCC in Brooklyn, NY with Future Archaeology Totem Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY 2008 Who Owns You? Public Installation, Utica, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions 2015 Panopticon, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT Exo-Evolution and retooling, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Germany PLUNC festival, Lisbon, Portugal Hair exhibition, GRIMMWELT/GRIMMWORLD, Kassel, Germany EGO Update: About the future of digital identity, NRW Forum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany Stranger Vision, Mmuseumm, 4 Courtland Ct, NYC Situations, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Micro Macro Exhibition, Traveling Show, Martigues, Buenos Aires Stranger Vision, Article biennale 2015, Stavanger, Norway You Must Change Your Life, STUK Art Center, Leuven, Belgium Biometric exhibition, Anvil Centre, Vancouver, Canada Identify, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 Big Bang Data at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona Weird Science at Kunstahlle Projects Micro Macro at the Lille 3000. Euralille, France Micro Macro at the EXIT Festival. Maison des Arts de Créteil. Paris, France Micro Macro at the VIA Festival. Le Manège. Maubeuge, Mons, France 2013 Destroy Yourself. Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY Dataism. Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam Grow Your Own. Science Gallery, Dublin An Armory Show. Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY Signs of Existence: Biotech Art. SUNY Westbury Trace Recordings, University of Technology Gallery, Sydney Total Recall. Ars Electronica 2013. Linz, Austria Cyber Insecurities, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC TAGDF, Mexico City, Mexico Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY Eyebeam, New York, NY 2012 New Biologies, 92Y Tribeca, New York Mediations Biennial, Poznan, Poland with Adriana Varella Eyebeam, New York, NY Sys(x)tem, Splatterpool, Brooklyn, NY with Future Archaeology 2011 Monitor Digital Festival, Guadalajara, Mexico Page 3 / Dewey-Hagborg
Billboard Art Project, Chicago, IL Seaworthy, EFA project Space, New York Haptic Resonance, Pop up gallery in Detroit, MI The Festival for Ideas, The New Museum, New York Plugged In, Grounds For Sculpture, NJ 2010 Here and Now, part of BETA Spaces in Brooklyn, NY Bring to Light, Brooklyn, NY Art in Odd Places, New York, NY Flow/Slow, a site-specific installation for environmental art conference I-Park Open Studios, a site specific installation created at the Artist Enclave Williamsburg Walks, Brooklyn, NY 2009 Media Lounge, Brooklyn, NY Look At Me Look At Me (DON’T YOU FUCKING LOOK AT ME!), BETA Spaces in Brooklyn, NY Formless in context: a study of chaos and discourse, BETA Spaces in Brooklyn, NY Conversation Pieces, CEPA gallery in Buffalo, NY 2008 Alchemy, Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY Repetition, Texas Firehouse Gallery, Queens, NY Artists in Residence Show, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY Thomas Edison meets Mad Max, Ganette Gallery, SUNYIT, Utica, NY 2007 Spring Show, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York, NY 2006 BAPLAB, Third Ward, Brooklyn, NY. Collaboration with Thomas Dexter. 2005 Robots on the March!, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Performances/Talks 2015 Panelist at SXSW, Bioart: Melding Biotech and Art Panelist at the Visible/Invisible Symposium at the New Museum 2014 I Steal DNA from Strangers, TEDx Vienna Talk Stranger Visions workshop with bricobio at Studio XX, Montreal Keynote speaker at the Bio-IT World Expo, Boston Artist talk at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Speaker at sxsw, "Hacking Surveillance Culture" panel with Kyle McDonald and Adam Harvey Cameron Visiting Artist at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont Artist dialogue at the New York Public Library with curator Lindsay Howard 2013 A DNA portrait from a single hair, TED Talk Co-organizer of PRISM Break Up, a series of art and technology events dedicated to exploring and providing forms of protection from surveillance Speaker at Bioteknologinemnda Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board Guest Artist, Bennington College Visiting Artist Lecture Series Panelist at the New School on “Genes, Identity, and Biomedicine” Artist talk at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA Artist talk at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Poster at the SV 6.0 Synthetic Biology Conference London, England with Page 4 / Dewey-Hagborg
Genspace Speaker at TAGDF, Mexico City Speaker at the International Association of Privacy Professionals Conference Speaker at Eyeo Conference, the Walker Center Minneapolis, Minnesota Policy discussion of bioethical issues raised by Stranger Visions, Woodrow Wilson Policy Center, Washington D.C. and Genspace, New York Panelist at the Sight and Sound Festival, Montreal Canada 2012 Panelist at Eyebeam, “Eyebeam Artists in Conversation.” Guest Speaker at Leaders in Software Art (LISA), New York City Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY with Future Archaeology. Performed Ohm 2011 Commenced an ongoing series of interviews with women pioneers in sound art online: http://girrlsoundartists.blogspot.com/ Leading a series of field recording workshops in association with the Electronic Music Foundation’s annual Ear to the Earth festival of acoustic ecology Performance collaboration with the VOLUME quartet and Thomas Dexter at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY Future Archaeology performs Ohm at Millennium Film Workshop and participates in the Make Ready Panel at Harvestworks as part of the Index festival. Ohm is also rebroadcast on Time Warner channel 45 Artist talks at Grounds For Sculpture, NJ Hydrophony performance at the Parsons Urban Festival 2010 Guest speaker at Oberlin College Art Department Guest speaker at Ignite NYC 2005 Thought Patterns, Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY Dorkbot NYC, Location One, New York, NY Dorkbot SF, RX Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Print Media 2015 Grushkin, Daniel. Artist Turns DNA From Chewed Gum Into Sculptures. Popular Science. Tremblay, Elaine, Reinterpreting Portraiture Through New Forensic and 3D Printing Techniques. ETC MEDIA, no. 103 (October 15, 2014): 44–48 2014 Brodwin, Erin. New Generation of Bio-Hackers Make DNA Misbehave. Newsweek. 2013 Chin-Chin Yap. Genetic Expressionism. Arts Asia Pacific. Issue 86 Nov/Dec Cover of Government Technology. The Future of Forensic Identification? Wilkinson, Alec. Mask Crusader. New Yorker. Aldhous, Peter. Artworks Highlight Legal Debate over ‘Abandoned’ DNA. New Scientist. Featured in the Wall Street Journal, Art Emerges from DNA Left Behind. Featured in the New York Post, Brooklyn Artist Creates DNA Portraits. Barthélémy, Pierre. Ne laissez pas traîner votre ADN partout. Le Monde Passeur de Sciences. Enserink, Martin. Random Sample. Science. Volume 337 Number 6093. 2012 Edgington, Eloise. Indecent Exposure? Metal. 2011 Schwendener, Martha. Populism, Technology and Interactivity. New York Times. August: NJ13. Discusses Totem. Page 5 / Dewey-Hagborg
Hoen, Tory. Chance. Time Out New York. September 2010: 37. Discusses Hydrophony.
Radio & Television 2014 DNA Spoofing. TV Film. WMHT, August 4, 2014. Making Art From the DNA You Leave Behind. Flatow, Ira, Science Friday. 2013 Brian Lehrer Show. CUNY TV, September 23 Technovations. Video feature on CNN, September 4, 2013. Genetic Surveillance: Artist sketches face from DNA. Featured on BBC Magazine and World News, July 22. Aspekte. Featured on German Television show, ZDF. August, 2013. Featured on CNN International live June 1 Featured on CNN Sunday morning, live May 19 Featured on the Fuji Television program, “Ageru TV”. Japan. May 15 Featured on New York Public Radio’s Studio 360, “Making Portraits Out of DNA.” Feb. 9 Featured on TV program Dan Rather Reports episode “Cutting Edge”, Feb. 5 2010 Seeley, Thomas. “Art Uncovered,” June 1 2007 Planas, Alice, and Tim McNerny. “Yada Yada.” Open Engagement Conference
Books Warnier, C., D. Verbruggen/Unfold, S. Ehmann, and R. Klanten. Printing Things: Visions and Essentials for 3D Printing. Berlin: Gestalten, 2014. Parks, Bob and Make Magazine. Makers. Canada: O’Reilly Media Inc., 2006. Includes section on my robotic work.