FALL 2003 HIGHLIGHTS | Follow links for more information
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Creative Capital News:
	Creative Capital congratulates our grantees who have recently won major awards and fellowships, including Alpert Awards (Carl Hancock Rux, Rennie Harris, and Vijay Iyer), Guggenheims (Reynold Reynolds, Paul Shambroom, Ray Thomas, and Igor Vamos), and others.
	The Department of Art at Austin Peay State University presents its 2003/04 Creative Capital Artist Lecture Series, featuring grantees James Luna, Beverly McIver, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Chris Doyle, Mel Chin, and Hirokazu Kosaka.
	Creative Capital announces the launch of The Creative Capital Channel - a new online venue for grantees - with a party at New York's Remote Lounge on July 24.
	Philip S. Solomon Film/video grantee Phil Solomon is exhibiting his films at the Toronto Film Festival. Also at Toronto, the ®™ark collective will be the subject of a documentary titled The Yes Men.

New on the Creative Capital Channel:
	A CHANNEL EXCLUSIVE: Creative Capital grantee Marie Sester presented her piece ACCESS at SIGGRAPH 2003. Toni Sant caught up with her for this exclusive interview during the final preparations. [Browse Channel Exclusives]
	WEBCASTS recently added to the Channel include video, audio, and e-art. Come listen to Shelley Hirsch's States, Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd's In What Language?, and experience other music and video from artists represented at PICA's Time-Based Art Festival. Other new webcasts include short films by Bill Brown and Vanalyne Green, spoken word by Miranda July, music by Jarrad Powell, video from Los Cybrids, and Jon Moritsugu, and e-art from Mark Napier. [Browse Webcasts]
	COMING SOON: A Channel Exclusive conversation between Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) Artistic Director Kristy Edmunds, NewMusicBox Editor Frank Oteri, and Creative Capital Program Director Esther Robinson. Listen to streaming audio (or read a printed transcript) of their discussion of PICA's Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival, and check out webcasts of TBA performers.

	Creative Capital Grantee Events:
	CREATIVE CAPITAL GRANTEES are busy as ever, with exhibits and performances scheduled throughout the country this fall. For listings, be sure to visit the Creative Capital Channel Arts Calendar. Pictured at left is Eddo Stern's Crusade (2002), now on exhibit at Postmaster's Gallery in New York.

In other news . . .

AMERI©AN DRE@M, a show which included 35 Creative Capital grantees, was recently reviewed in Parachute, a quarterly publication about contemporary art. A catalogue of this show will be available later this year.

The New York State Council on the Arts has recently given grants to Maya Churi (for her new web project Forest Grove), Alison Cornyn (for her installation project Food For Thoughts), Maria Elena González (for a catalog detailing a residency period in Switzerland), and Diane Nerwen (for a new video project). Maria Elena has also been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. She will be in residence there for one year beginning this September.

Sam Easterson was interviewed about his work on CNN in July and was featured on CNN.com.

The Weather Underground, film/video grantee Sam Green's Creative Capital funded project was reviewed in Time Out New York this summer. After opening with screenings in in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston, the film will continue to screen theatrically in cities across the country during the fall; and at the Vancouver Film Festival in September, and the Rio Film Festival and London Film Festival in October.

Vanalyne Green recently received a Richard H. Driehaus Foundation grant.

Emerging fields grantee Jessica Irish and her Creative Capital funded project Inflat-O-Scape were featured in The Independent magazine.

A new book about the work of Eduardo Kac called The Eighth Day: The Transgenic Art of Eduardo Kac has been published by The Institute for Studies in the Arts at Arizona State University with distribution by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP). Kac is also included in a book by Edward Lucie-Smith called Art Tomorrow, as well as a book by Christiane Paul titled Digital Art. The Sprint corporate art collection recently acquired a piece of artwork by Kac entitled Teleporting an Unknown State. www.ekac.org.

Zoe Leonard will be in residence at Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio to produce her untitled Creative Capital funded project. The photographic installation will be exhibited in the fall of 2005.

Beverly McIver has received the 2003 Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Residency, which includes an award of studio space in New York's TriBeCa.

Suzan Pitt's Creative Capital funded project El Doctor has received finishing funds from Independent Television Service (ITVS) and a licensing agreement for broadcast on PBS in 2005.

SubRosa's new book Domain Errors! Cyberfeminst Practices has been released and is available at www.autonomedia.org.

Basil Twist recently received a commission from The Japan Society in New York to create a new work for the Fall of 2004 and was awarded a travel grant from The Asian Cultural Council.

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