Camille Utterback
Camille Utterback | |
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Born | 1970 (age 53–54) Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Williams College, New York University |
Known for | Installation Art |
Website | camilleutterback |
Camille Utterback (born 1970 in Bloomington, Indiana) is an interactive installation artist. Initially trained as a painter, her work is at the intersection of painting and interactive art. One of her most well-known installations is the work Text Rain (1999).
Biography
Utterback received her undergraduate degree from
Artwork
Examples of her work include Text Rain (1999),[1][2] created in collaboration with Romy Achituv, in which participants use their bodies to lift and play with falling letters projected on a wall, and Shifting Times (2007),[3] a public installation in San Jose, California that creates interactive projects based on the movements of pedestrians. Helen Lessick describes the latter as a "blending screens of twentieth and twenty-first century San José" in which the "images split and weave, shift between color and black and white, invoking loss and possibility, site and memory."[4]
Utterback's other works include media sculptures and public artworks such as Aurora Organ.[5]
Utterback says that she is interested in getting people to “think about the difference between something conceptual and something physical” and to “make a hypothesis, and then test it with their bodies.”[6]
Her work has been exhibited at galleries, festivals, and museums internationally including
Utterback created an installation called Precarious for the National Portrait Gallery exhibition Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now, which opened in May, 2018.[8][9]
Reviews
Text Rain was reviewed in #WomenTechLit as a landmark innovation [10]
Awards
She has received several grants and awards including the
See also
- Interactive art
- Surveillance art
- !Women Art Revolution - Utterback, among others, was interviewed for this film[14]
References
- ISBN 0-500-20367-9.
- ^ "Text Rain | Camille Utterback".
- ^ "Shifting Time — San Jose | Camille Utterback".
- ^ Lessick, Helen (Spring–Summer 2011). "Beta Test: Innovation in administration at San Jose, California's Norman Y. Mineta Airport". Public Art Review. 2. 1 (44): 55.
- ^ "Aurora Organ". New Music USA. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
- ^ "Text Rain". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ^ FelderS (2018-05-31). "Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now". npg.si.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
- OCLC 1004947475.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ #WomenTechLit. West Virginia University Press Computing Literature. p. 11.
- ^ a b "Camille Utterback | Department of Art & Art History". Stanford University. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Harmanci, Reyhan (2010-08-19). "For Digital Artists, Apps Provide New Palette". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ^ "Camille Utterback Vitae". Camille Utterback. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ^ Stanford University (25 August 2016). "Artist, Curator & Critic Interviews". !Women Art Revolution - Spotlight at Stanford. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
Sources
- ISBN 0-500-20367-9.
- Jeffrey Shaw and ISBN 0-262-69286-4.