Biography:

Jordan Crandall is an artist and media theorist. Recent solo exhibitions include the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz; ARTLAB-Spiral Gallery in Tokyo; the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City; the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie; the Kunst-Werke in Berlin; the Kitchen in New York; and (in cooperation with V2_Organization, Rotterdam) the TENT Centrum Beeldende Kunst in Rotterdam. Group exhibitions include InSITE in San Diego and Tijuana; Net_Condition and CTRL[SPACE] at the ZKM in Karlshrue; Media Connection at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome and La Triennale, Milan; Greater New York at PS1 in New York; and Documenta X in Kassel. Crandall is currently preparing his fourth solo museum show, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki.

Drive, an anthology of Crandall’s projects and critical writing on technology and culture, will be published in 2002 by Hatje Cantz Verlag. Crandall’s current books are Suspension (Documenta X, 1997) and Interaction: Artistic Practice in the Network (New York: D.A.P., 2001), of which he is co-Editor. Crandall is also founding Editor of Blast (http://www.blast.org) and is currently developing a new journal called Positions, to debut in late 2002.

Crandall has written on technology and culture for a variety of media, including Artforum, Atlantica, TRANS>arts.cultures.media, Arconoticias, documenta documents, and CTHEORY. He lectures widely on the cultural and political dimensions of new technology, including such institutions as Columbia University in New York; Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Vienna; the Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran Museum in Washington DC; the University of Sao Paulo and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sao Paulo; the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris and the Université Paris 8; and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. He has participated in many international conferences including ARCO in Madrid; Artifices4 in Saint-Denis; Object vs. Pixels in Amsterdam; the film+arc Biennial in Graz; the Festival of Computer Arts in Maribor; the Conference on Internet and Society at Harvard University;Media Arts in Transition at the Walker Art Center, Global Circuits at the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), London; and the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium at UC Berkeley. He has organized many online conferences including Networks and Markets, in conjunction with the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA) in London, and Artistic Practice in the Network, in collaboration with Eyebeam Atelier in New York. He holds a seat on the Advisory Board of Social Movement Studies: a journal of cultural, political, and social protest (Routledge). He regularly serves as a visiting critic and has recently served as Visiting Professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

Crandall’s videos have been presented at many international film and media festivals including the World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam; the Transmediale International Media Art Festival Berlin; the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media; the Video Archeology Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria; the MIX Festival in New York City; the Berlin Biennial; the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruck, Germany; Cine y Casi Cine at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid; the Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest; and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Jordan Crandall
129 West 20 Street, 2A New York, NY 10011
tel: 212 924-5701
email: crandall@blast.org


Links:

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