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NYC Discussion and Exhibition Walk-Through (GSNYC Panel)

May 27 Friday 2:15-3:00 PM HM 148

Join the artists of Game Show NYC for a conversation about their process, the intersection of art and games and their potential for education. This session will consist of a visit to the gallery for a hands-on exploration of the works accompanied by the artists who made them.

Co-presenter: Carol Cook Reid is a social artist. She is the designer, maker, and facilitator of Pathway Patterns, an interactive art medium and process that brings people and art together to explore visual and social relationships, discover pathways, and build patterns. Pathway Patterns has been shared with over thirty diverse community groups and presented in Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ms. Reid is also the designer and maker of Pathway Patterns Flip Parts, a creative non-competitive art game. She was born in Owosso, Michigan in 1942, and currently resides in Brownstown Township, downriver from Detroit. She received a BA in Art Education from Michigan State University, and taught elementary school art. Retiring in 2003, she resumed her education and art practice and is currently pursuing a Masters of Arts in Painting at Wayne State University in Detroit. Ms. Reid is represented by Biddle Gallery in Wyandotte, Michigan. Co-presenter: Amery Kessler is a multidisciplinary, New York City based artist whose practice often takes the form of an activity. He collaborates with visual artists, musicians, engineers, dancers, choreographers, film makers and educators. While the processes and mediums vary, Kessler consistently focuses on conceptual craftsmanship. His work and activities, exhibited in the streets, on stage, and in the gallery, explore themes of solitude, interconnection, human commonality, work, play, and psychic and social innovation. Co-presenter: M. Michelle Illuminato is the recipient of many awards and grants, among them the Key to the City of Aliquippa and Best Event in Pennsylvania. She has been featured on CBS Radio Network’s The Osgood Files. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and recently completed residencies at AreaOdeon in Monza, Italy and the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. Other exhibitions include: Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On, 523 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, Explor-art, International workshop of territory exploration, AreaOdeon, Monza, Italy, Wild Food Cook-Off, MK Gallery, Portland, Stations, CSMA and String Room Galleries, Ithaca, NY, To Let, Ithaca, NY, GUIDE/VODIC, Kontekst Galerija, Belgrade, Serbia, MIX: Musical Swap Meet, The Cube, Belgrade, Transit Art, PAT Bus Poster Project, Pittsburgh, Five +, James Gallery, Pittsburgh, Junk is Back! Due Settemani, Ballabio, Italy, Paradise Gardens, Vogelfrei 6, Kunstentdeckungen in Privatgärten, Darmstadt, Germany, Living Statues/Statue Vivante, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy, Live Video Karaoke, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Co-presenter: Mike Richison - Over the past several years, my process has involved collection and reassembly of discarded materials. A recurring theme that unites my work is reassigned (or voided) utility through a new context. This holds true across several media – sculpture, video, drawing and performance. My sculptural pieces are perhaps the most obvious manifestations of these ideas. The sculptures appropriate materials that once had a specific design and purpose. Through the remix, the components are assigned new meanings, or lose purposefulness altogether. Both the process and concept are carried over into my video work, where I collage visual and auditory elements from commercials and news footage. Often these video clips are presented in a VJ performance setting. Lately, my work has taken a new direction: a mash-up of video, performance, sculptural assemblage and custom electronics. The first attempt at this combination is a project entitled Simulsuck, which resulted in a rhythm-based improvisational musical performance. My latest piece, Wobble Tumble Slide, also combines video, performance and sculpture, but relies entirely on audience interaction; this new installation consists of three controllers, three video channels, and multiple performers. By picking up the sculptures and manipulating them by shaking, rocking, and otherwise interacting with the moving parts, participants alter and edit the sound and appearance of the projected video clips. Like Simulsuck, Wobble Tumble Slide is a performance, but a performance that requires the participation of the viewer. The audience member is simultaneously the viewer and performer. Co-presenter: Andy Malone holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Detroit Mercy, and has worked in the exhibit and custom furniture industry for over twelve years. From 2002 to 2007 he served as Vice President of the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID) Board of Trustees. Andy's whimsical machines, board games and drawings have been shown in over forty exhibitions since 1995, most notably in the 2002 Selecti show at Detroit Artist Market (chosen by Whitney curator Lawrence Rinder). He was a juror for the DEMF Public Art Exhibition (2003), Animate Object (2005) and Game Show Detroit (2006). Andy also curated the Bravo! Bravo! Exhibition at the Detroit Opera House in 2004 and 2005. Two of Andy's mini golf holes were displayed on the grounds of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) for summer and fall of 2007. He also had solo exhibitions of his work at the DIA in 2007 and 2010. In 2008, Andy won best in show at Re:Action, a kinetic sculpture exhibition at Ann Marie Gardens in Solomons, Maryland. In 2010, Andy was featured in //Make Magazine// (#23) and interviewed on American Black Journal. He won an Editor's Choice award at Maker Faire Detroit in 2010, and curated the Detroit Board Game Collective exhibition which also won an Editor's Choice award at the Faire. More information can be found at www.andymalone.com.