JoAnn (Jody) Gillerman - Solo Show Proposal for El Cerrito ACC Gallery Space City Hall SOLO SHOW PROPOSAL 2018 For The City of El Cerrito's Arts and Culture Commission, Gallery Space in the El Cerrito City Hall JoAnn (Jody) Gillerman 950 61st Street, Studio B, Oakland, CA 94608 Phone: (510) 654-2880 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.joanngillerman.com ARTIST STATEMENT / THEME Artist and Professor JoAnn (Jody) Gillerman creates digital/media-based interdisciplinary work exploring the intersection of art, science, culture and technology. In a world moving toward extremes, where technology and paradigm shifts have potential to outstrip ethics, provocative creative art and science investigations can reach across boundaries, creating hybrids, collaborations and alliances increasingly more relevant as we become more ecologically aware and globally conscious. Her works combine electronic media, computers, sculptural elements, light and digital imagery to create (sometimes interactive) installations, video and images. Her works are in collections, and exhibited internationally in museums, science centers, galleries, video broadcast, Web and public venues. Inspired by passion and the temporal nature of natural phenomena, she travels the world producing works that capture change - recording events frequently related to total solar eclipses and active volcanic lava flows – universal, up-close, and personal. Social Practice works have explored bioethics, ecology, urban eco-literacy and environmental justice. Occasional cyber performances challenge boundaries of private and public space. Current works include immersive environments, virtual reality and BioArt combining live bioluminescent Dinoflagellates with technology. Professor: California College of the Arts, Oakland/SF, CA. Education: MFA/Chicago Art Institute, IL. BA/Duke University, NC THEME: In the Shadow of the Moon / NATURAL ELUSIVE sources of LIGHT / Art and Science Total Solar Eclipses are universal, specific, without geographical boundaries, and effective to place us in the cosmos! What ties these art works together are location and light, being in the shadow of the moon, in the path of totality, globally, culturally and environmentally. The unique and natural phenomenon - being in the moon’s shadow during total solar eclipse - is an extraordinary surreal event older than civilization, and one that will continue into the future. Works including visually dynamic images of active volcanic lava flows, bioluminescent single cell organisms, totalities of total Solar Eclipses around the world will be experienced through varied media and cultures. 1 JoAnn (Jody) Gillerman - Solo Show Proposal for El Cerrito ACC Gallery Space City Hall Solo Show. Number of works: 20-30 - varied sizes (most framed), a few larger works (not framed) ABOUT THE WORKS: Science and Art: Natural Elusive Light Sources on location during total solar eclipses TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES/SUN: Having recorded (video/photography)11 total solar eclipses around the world on 6 continents, these art works represent varied locations and cultures that have been in the shadow of the Moon during a total solar eclipse. Works reflect natural landscapes, surreal light during an eclipsing sun, the corona visible only during totality within a long but narrow path, local indigenous cultures, eclipse folklore/mythologies, and geological phenomena. Specific locations include: Hawaii, Bolivia, India, Venezuela, Turkey, Costa Rica, Libya, Siberia, Nevada/USA, Idaho/USA. BIOLUMINESCENCE: In Costa Rica for an annular solar eclipse, and while video recording a Ridley Sea Turtle laying 60 eggs on a remote beach, the ocean sparkled with Bioluminescence! Since then, live bio-cultures of Bioluminescent Algae that I grow in my studio provide source material and inspiration for current works in varied forms and format. These “biopets” have their own Circadian Rhythm and thus the name of this series. These images, hand drawn on computer, are visually based on color, properties, and the cellular structure of these live bioluminescent dinoflagellates cultured in my studio. These art works are digital paintings of bioluminescent organisms - they are not photographs. (Some of these works contain photographic or video elements shot on location when noted.) ACTIVE LAVA FLOWS/HOT LAVA: A rare and wonderful opportunity to record a total solar eclipse accompanied by simultaneously flowing lava at the Oceans edge occurred on the Big Island of Hawaii. Totality of this eclipse crossed paths with Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world. “Volcanic Eclipse” is a series of works combining these two amazing natural phenomena that overlapped for a brief moment in time. 2 JoAnn (Jody) Gillerman - Solo Show Proposal for El Cerrito ACC Gallery Space City Hall JoAnn (Jody) Gillerman Work Sample List 1. Title: Circadian Rhythm 2 - Bioluminescent Dinoflagellates Medium: Digital Painting Dimensions: 24" x 18" (framed) 2. Title: Circadian Rhythm 5 - Anemone Medium: Digital Painting with photographic element Dimensions: 24" x 18" (framed) 3. Title: Circadian Rhythm - Lava Medium: Digital Painting with photographic element Dimensions: 24" x 18" (framed) 4. Title: Spherical (VR) Total Solar Eclipse, Aug. 21, 2017 Medium: VR video and digital Image Dimensions: Variable (electronic or image) 5. Title: Totality, Total Solar Eclipse, Aug. 21, 2017, Idaho Medium: VR video and digital Image Dimensions: Variable (electronic or image) 6. Title: Corinthian Eclipse Squared, Libya Medium: Digital Print, Photograph, Collage Dimensions: 22.5" x 14.5" 7. Title: LAVA with Egg.Birth.Flow - 2018 Medium: Digital Print Photograph Dimensions: Variable (electronic or image) 8. Title: Libya Series: Blue Water Columns (~ 20 works/framed) Medium: Digital Prints Dimensions: 22.5” x 14.5” (framed) 9. Medusa Medium: Digital Prints Dimensions: 22.5” x 14.5” (framed) 10. Turkey Eclipse Medium: Digital Composite Print Dimensions: Post card 11. Tuareg Eclipse Medium: Digital Composite Print Dimensions: 11” x 14” (framed) (*larger image available not framed yet) * Most of these works are in digital forms and thus variable sizes (framed) and a few larger works are in process being printed. Most of these works can be accompanied by related video and virtual reality as appropriate. 3 JoAnn (Jody) Gillerman Artist / Professor / Digital / Media / Installation / Integrating Art and Science Websites: www.joanngillerman.com • www.vipervertex.com Email: [email protected] CURRENT EMPLOYMENT Professor Interdisciplinary, Digital / Media Arts, Art/Science, California College of the Arts / CCA (Formerly California College of Arts & Crafts / CCAC), Oakland / San Francisco, CA Founder / Director Viper Vertex - Integrating art, science, culture and technology Digital/Media Arts, Interactive Multimedia Exhibits for Museums, Science Centers, Public EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • Project Manager, Artist and Professor with unique multi-platform skill set integrating art, science, culture and technology • Experienced in Digital/Media/Video Production and Post Production for over 20 years • Creates Interdisciplinary interactive exhibits, multimedia installation and environments, video, Web, public art, and digital imagery • Presents work nationally and internationally in museums, science centers, galleries, broadcast, on-line, cultural centers, and in varied public venues • Travels the world recording/documenting total solar eclipses, active volcanic lava flows, natural phenomena and ethnography • Cultivates projects for social change, ecology, animal conservation, eco-literacy, sustainablility and environmental justice • Veteran educator for over 20 years / curricular course/content development • Committed to public outreach and bringing science through creative multimedia to a diverse global public PROJECT MANAGEMENT: EXHIBITS / PROJECTS (MUSEUMS, SCIENCE CENTERS, PUBLIC) Manages all aspects of the exhibit/project process from concept, research and production (content, software / hardware development, User Interface, interactivity) through install, initial maintenance and documentation to produce quality exhibits delivered on time and within budget. • Manages, oversees and tracks: budgets, vendors, fabrication, materials purchase, technical drawings specs, permissions/copyright, content and other duties as appropriate • Sets schedules and milestones. Green, LEED, and environmentally aware • Follows: safety regulations/requirements/ADA and style-guides/branding as appropriate • Assembles diverse teams of engineers, scientists, artists, specialists, others • Liaises with team(s), venues, fabricators, operations, architects, media, educators, others LIAISON - Chimp Finder (© 2005/2007) Outdoors Interactive Installation with Live Chimps Opened with Fragile Forest Exhibit 2005, Saint Louis Zoo, MO (Installed 2005 – 2009) Prototype/Commission (LIAISON: Live Interactive Animal Identification System & Observation Network™ custom electronic scope, exhibit HD/SW) Exhibit Description: Chimp Finder is an outdoors exhibit with Live Chimpanzees, designed to raise awareness of chimp conservation and the importance of saving these intelligent animals from extinction in the wild. Chimp Finder (first of its kind) is a liaison between Live Chimps and the public. Using a sophisticated LIAISON electronic observation scope (designed/developed by Viper Vertex), visitors glimpse into the chimp world, connecting with individual chimps through imagery, recognition, identification and interactivity. (http://www.vipervertex.com/Exhibits/exhibit_CF_content.htm)