[bio] Julia Scher [e] ------- Author:   Christoph Pingel   Posted: 05.10.2001; 18:58:19 Topic: [bio] Julia Scher [e] Msg #: 206 (top msg in thread) Prev/Next: 205/207 Reads: 68710 *1954 in Hollywood; lives and works in Boston [USA] Julia Scher's work focuses on the subjects surveillance and cyber-sphere. Aiming at the exposure of dangers and ideologies of monitoring systems, Scher creates temporary and transitory web/installation/performance works that explore issues of power, control and seduction. She has lectured at Harvard University, Princeton University and Rutgers University. Solo Exhibitions | Group Exhibitions | Grants and Awards | Bibliography | Recommended Links Solo Exhibitions [selected] 2000 Schipper & Krome Gallery, Berlin [D] 1999 »Ameratherm«, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York [USA] [1999/2000] 1998 »Predictive Engineering 2«, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco [USA] [1998/ 1999] »wonderland«, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York [USA[ 1997 »Map the Gap«, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York [USA] [1997/98] »Security World«, Ghislaine Hussenot Gallery, Paris [F] 1995 »Julia Scher«, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York [USA] [1995/ 1996] 1994 »Don't Worry«, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne [D] 1992 »Buffalo Under Surveillance«, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY [USA] 1991 »I'll Be Gentle«, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York [USA] 1990 »Security Site Visits«, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis [USA] 1989 »Occupational Placement : [O.P]«, The Wexner Center, Columbus, OH [USA] [1989/ 1990] ^ Group Exhibitions [selected] 2000 »Quotidiana«, Castello di Rivoli, Torino [I] »Continuum 001«, CCA Glasgow [UK] 1999 »The American Century: art & Culture 1950-2000«, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [USA] [1999/ 2000] »Transmute«, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago [USA] 1998 »Fast Forward: body checks«, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hambug [D] 1997 »Heaven: Private View«, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York [USA] [1997/ 1998] »The Art of Detection: Surveillance in Societ«y, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA [USA] 1996 »Against: Thirty Years of Film and Video«, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London [UK] 1995 »The Telematic Room I«, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin [D] [1995/ 1996] »Das Ende der Avantgarde«, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Stiftung, Munich [D] »Fantastic Prayers«, Dia Art Foundation, New York [USA] 1994 »Toponimias«, Fundacio "la caixa", Madrid [E] 1993 »Aperto '93«, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice [I] »Aesthetics and Violence«, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz [A] 1989 »Whitney Biennial«, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [USA] ^ Grants and Awards [selected] The Bunting Fellowship at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA [USA], 1996 - 1997; Art Matters, Inc. [USA], 1993, 1989, 1987; National Endowment for the Arts [USA], 1992; Artists Space, Individual Artist Grant [USA], 1988; Grant of the Jerome Foundation [USA], 1987. ^ Bibliography [selected] Julia Scher: »Deconstruct This: Webcams: All me, All the Time«, in: The Chronicle Review, Section 2, December 15, 2000, p. B4; [Julia Scher interviewed by Paul D. Miller], in: Artbyte, 1, 4, October/November 1998, pp. 42-47; Der telematische Raum 1, exhib. cat., NGBK, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst Realismus Studio [ed.], 1997; Julia Scher: »Danger: Dirty Data & The Rodent Ship«, in: New Observations, 12, Fall 1996, p. 21; New Observations, exhib. cat., Franklin Furnace [ed.], New York 1996; Timothy Druckrey: »Telephobic Modernity and the Ecologies of Surveillance«, in: Art + Text, 54, May 1996, pp. 50-55; Julia Scher: »Don't Worry«, in: Camerawork, 2, 1, Spring/ Summer 1995, pp. 28/29; Noemi Smolik: »Julia Scher: Es gibt einen Wunsch, kontrolliert zu werden«, in: Kunstforum, 129, January-April 1995, pp. 228-233; Das Ende der Avantgarde – Kunst als Dienstleistung, exhib. cat. Munich 1995; Julia Scher: »Home-In-Security«, in: Gender and Technology: Rethinking Masculinity and Feminity in a World of Intelligent Machines, Bill Horrigan [ed.], Routledge, 1995; Laura Cottingham. »The Feminist Continuum: Art After 1970«, in: The Power of Feminist Art, Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard [eds.], New York: Abrams, 1994; Constance Penley: »Some Thing To Watch Over You: The Surveillance Art Of Julia Scher«, in: Mondo 2000, 9, February 1993, pp. 34-39; Julia Scher: »Mass Observation«, in: Ten. 8: Digital Dialogues, 2, 2, Autumn 1991, pp. 64/65; Techno-Culture, Constance Penley and Andrew Rose [eds.], University of Minnesota Press, 1991. ^ Recommended Links - > Interview with Julia Scher by Tilman Baumgaertel [rhizome, 20/08/2001] ° internet projects by Julia Scher :: - > Security Land [overview] - > Don't worry - > Konsent Klinik - > Wonderland - > Freaklab 101 - > Predictive Engineering 2 - > Insecurity by Julia ^