Amanda McDonald Crowley is a New York-based Australian curator and arts administrator who has created exhibitions and events focused on new media art, contemporary art, and transdisciplinary work. She has served as the executive director of Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York City and as the artistic director at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.
Amanda McDonald Crowley | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | Australian National University; Sydney University; College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales |
| Known for | Curator and arts administrator |
Education
editCrowley has a B.A. from Australian National University, where she did a double major in Fine Arts and German.
Career
editCrowley began her career working with a range of arts organizations in Australia including the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Training Australia, and Electronic Media Arts Australia, which incorporates the Australian Video Festival.[1][2] From 1995 to 2000 she was director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), where she developed residencies for artists in settings ranging from contemporary art spaces to science organizations.[3] She also organized virtual residencies and master classes for artists and curators.[4]
Since the early 2000s, Crowley has become known for curating and organizing international new media and contemporary art events. Key themes in her curatorial work have been food and sustainability. In 2002, she was associate director of the Adelaide Festival, for which she also co-chaired the working group that curated an affiliated exhibition and symposium entitled "conVerge: where art and science meet."[5] In 2004, she went on to serve as the executive producer for ISEA2004, which was held in Tallinn, Estonia, and Helsinki, Finland, as well as on a ferry in the Baltic Sea.[6] In 2005, she became the executive director of Eyebeam Art +Technology Center in New York City, a position she held until 2011.[7][8][9] Crowley is credited with returning Eyebeam to its roots as an experimental workspace for artists and fostering its growing community of artists.[10]
In 2014-2015, she was Artistic Director at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.[11] In addition to long-term positions such as the one with Eyebeam, she has done shorter curatorial residencies around the world, including at the Banff Center for the Arts (Canada), Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), Helsinki International Artists Program (Finland), Santa Fe Art Institute (U.S.), and Sarai New Media Institute (India).[2]
Crowley occasionally writes for journals such as Artlink, RealTime, the Sarai Reader, and Art Asia Pacific.[12]
Crowley is a board member of NAMAC (National Alliance for Media Art + Culture).[13] She has also been a board advisor of the Seattle art space AKTIONSART since its inception in 2014.[14][15]
Curatorial projects and exhibitions
edit- "Agrikultura" (2017), a public art event in Malmö, Sweden
- "Invisible in Plain Sight" (2016), a permanent exhibit at the Senior Planet Exhibition Center[16]
- "Swale" (2016), a floating art barge and food forest by artist Mary Mattingly[17]
- "Food Nostalgia" (2016), at Radiator Arts, Long Island City[18]
- "GastroLabs" (2014), a program series developed with New Media Scotland for the Edinburgh Science Festival
- "CONSUME" (2013), a group show at Gallery@CalIT2, a joint project of UC San Diego and UC Irvine[19]
- "X-LAB" (2011), a group show at Eyebeam[20]
- "FEEDBACK" (2008), a group show at Eyebeam[21]
Publications
edit- "System X: Interview with Founding Sysop Scott McPhee." In Judy Malloy, ed., Social Media Archeology and Poetics. MIT Press, 2016.
- "Wildstyle: a story of 1980s New York graffiti through the lens of hip-hop culture." Artlink, 2014.[22]
- "Creative Encounters: The Art/Science of Collaboration." Sarai Reader, 2003.[23]
- "Cacophony + cramp for the sensory bundle." Artlink 22:4 (2002): 41.
- "Electronic art in Australia: do we have critical mass?." Artlink 16:2-3 (1996): 90.
References
edit- ^ Amanda McDonald Crowley CV, 2019
- ^ a b "Biography," Amanda McDonald Crowley's website.
- ^ "Amanda Crowley - NAMAC Alliance 2016". NAMAC Alliance 2016. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ Amerika, Mark. "The Organizational Game (with Amanda McDonald Crowley." META/DATA: A Digital Poetics. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. [An earlier version of this dialogue was published online on Rhizome.org in 1998.]
- ^ "Adelaide Festival of Arts | festival, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ "[ISEA2004] | ISEA Symposium Archives". www.isea-archives.org. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ "Amanda McDonald Crowley | eyebeam.org". archive.eyebeam.org. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ Cornell, Lauren. "Eyebeam Announces Amanda McDonald Crowley as Executive Director". Rhizome. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
- ^ Kingman, Kelly. "New media Powerhouse, Eyebeam, now a decade old." Chelsea Now, New York, 29 June 2009.
- ^ Goldberg, RoseLee, and Jennifer Liese. Performa: New Visual Art Performance', 2007, p. 145. - Page 145
- ^ "Press Release - Bemis Center". Constant Contact Archive. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ "ArtAsiaPacific: New Frontiers". artasiapacific.com. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ Amerika, Mark (1 January 2007). Meta/data: a digital poetics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262012331. OCLC 71005866.
- ^ "Leadership". AKTIONSART. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ "Introducing the Only Art & Technology Nonprofit in Seattle". AKTIONSART. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ "Invisible In Plain Sight". Amanda McDonald Crowley. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ "Team". Swale. 9 May 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ "Food Nostalgia | Radiator Arts". www.radiatorarts.com. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ Administrator. "About CURRENT". gallery.calit2.net. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ "X-Lab - Eyebeam". www.eyebeam.org. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ "FEEDBACK - Eyebeam". www.eyebeam.org. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ ""Wildstyle"". Artlink. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ "Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies". Sarai Reader. 10 October 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
Further reading
edit- Beryl Graham, New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences After New Media Art.
- Sarah Cook et al, A Brief History of Working with New Media Art: Interviews with Artists
External links
edit- Public Art Action, Amanda McDonald Crowley's website
- Angela Plohman and Melinda Sipos. "Out of the Lab: An interview with Amanda McDonald Crowley." In Beyond Data, pp. 90–100. Kitchen Budapest & Baltan Labs joint publication, 2012.