LEESA AND NICOLE ABAHUNI
hello[at]abahuni.org, leesa_nicole[at]yahoo.com
   

EDUCATION             05

Goldsmiths College, University of London, MFA
   
01
Polimoda, Florence, Italy: Studied master drawings
   
00
School of Visual Arts, NY, NY: BFA in Computer Art
   
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES        08
AIR, CalArts, Center for Integrated Media, CA
   
 06
AIR, Harvestworks, NY
   
     06
AIR, Location One, NY, supported by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
   
04-05
International Postgraduate Scholarship
  Goldsmiths College, London, UK
   
                                             02
Finishing Funds Grant
  Experimental Television Center, NY
   
00
Alumni Scholarship Award, School of Visual Arts, NY
   
00
Award of Distinction, School of Visual Arts, NY
   
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS        08
 Conflux Festival with Artists Meeting, NY, NY
 
08
 2nd Annual Bronx Open Studios with Hedi Sorger and Eric Vigil, Bronx, NY
   
08
 Postmasters Gallery, NY, NY, YouTube Slam, with Artists Meeting,
 
07
 D.U.M.B.O. Arts Under the Bridge Festival,  with Artists Meeting,
  Brooklyn, NY
   
06-07
 Location One, NY
  In the Sky, Solo Exhibition with original sound composition by Elliott Sharp, commissioned by Location One
   
06
 Location One, NY
   Artist-In-Residence Group Exhibition, conductive agents Noah Landfield, and Nagisa Wada
   
 05
 Tate Modern, UK (unsolicited)
   Public Experiment #1
   
  05
New Art Birmingham, UK; MOT International, London
  Artist with Two Brains
   
          05
ICA, London, UK
  I.D.E.A.London
   
  05
Redux Projects, London, UK
  Coalesce: The Remix
  Installation in collaboration with 4-channel sound by Scott Hewitt
   
  05
Sonic Interactions, Electronic Music Conference
  Goldsmiths College, London, UK
   
                     03
ORB//REMOTE, Nwe Exhibition Space
  Copenhagen, DK
   
                     03
Great Hall, Christiania, Half Machine Festival
  Copenhagen, DK
  Installation in collaboration with sound by Benjamin Florencio
   
03
The Kitchen Street Fair, NY
   
03
6th International Arts Biennial of Sharjah,
  United Arab Emirates
   
03
Eyebeam Atelier, Artbots, NY
   
02
Gallery Mouri, ARTOY, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
   
02
D.U.M.B.O. Arts Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn NY
  Public installation in collaboration with sculptor Erik Guzman
   
02
The Kitchen Street Fair, NY
  Public installation in collaboration with sculptor Erik Guzman
   
02
Deep Listening Space, Listening Stations, Kingston, NY
   
01
D.U.M.B.O. Arts Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY
   
01
SIGGRAPH 2001 Festival
  Los Angeles Convention Center, CA
   
01
D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Pete & Repeat, Brooklyn, NY
   
01
67 Gallery, Amalgamated Fusion Spazz Aftermath
  Brooklyn,NY
   
00
New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
  Chaotic Robotic Synesthesia experiment #3:
  solo performance
   
00
Westside Gallery, 21st Street, NY
   
00
Chaotic Robotic Synesthesia experiment #3:
  solo performance, 17th St. and 5th Ave., NY
   
   
VIDEO COLLABORATION             03
The Paradise According to Jonas Mekas, Un Film de
  Guy Marc Hinant et Dominique Lohle Avec La
  Collaboration De Stephen Vitiello et Nicole Abahuni,
  Observatoire des musiques electroniques e/ome#4
   
PRESS/PUBLICATIONS             07
The New Yorker: Goings on in Art: Galleries Downtown
  "Leesa and Nicole Abahuni" 01-29-07
   
07
Flavorpilll, NYC: Weekly Cultural Stimuli, Issue #346
  Multimedia, Leesa and Nicole Abahuni: In the Sky
   
06
Art of the Digital Age, Bruce Wands, 2006
  Thames and Hudson
   
                                               05
New Art Birmingham, Artist with Two Brains
  British Satellite News
   
                                               04
4/04 Servo Magazine: "Robots are from Mars
  but these bots are from Venus"
  “Geerhead”, David Geer Vol. 2 No. 3
   
03
8/01/03 Wired.com, Michelle Delio:
  "Artistic Robots Augment Human Art"
   
  7/26/03 WNYC Radio, Studio-360
  Show 430 – "Can Art be Taught"
   
  7/03 Relax Magazine (Japan), Shin-Ichi Yokoyama
  “6th International Arts Biennial of Sharjah, U.A.E"
   
  10/03 CitadelTeknologi-Nummeret (Denmark)
  Julie Damgaard “CitadelKunst:
  Orb//Remote Wireless Gallery”
   
  8/19/03 Silikone, dr.dk P1, Danish Radio Denmark
  "Half Machine"
   
02
9/13/02 The New York Times, Laurel Graeber
  "The Kitchen is Cooking"
   
  4/1/02 Woodstock Times, Dakota Lane
  “Synching up the Senses”
   
01
1/01 Leonardo Journal, “ Ninth New York Digital Salon”
  Vol. 34,Number 5, 2001, MIT Press
   
  8/01 ACM SIGGRAPH, “Computer Graphics Annual
  Conference: SIGGRAPH Electronic Art & Animation
  Catalog,CD-Rom”
   
  6/01 Visual Arts Journal, Tracey Huger, ”TurboTwins”
   
  8/9/01 Time Out New York, Andrea Scott
  “Pete & Repeat”, Issue No.307
   
  8/13/01 The New Yorker, Brooklyn Galleries:
  “Pete and Repeat"
   
  7/5/01 Rhizome Digest, Marisa S. Olson
  “Searching for Repetition”
   
00
12/15/00 The New York Times, Holland Cotter,
  For Hikers Seeking Art, Brooklyn is a Left Bank
   
   
WORKSHOPS/LECTURES             06
Who's In Control, New Interfaces for Artistic Expressions
  Harvestworks, Hosted by Eyebeam Atelier, NY
   
 05
Contemporary Voices: Guest Lecturer
  MFA Computer Arts, School of Visual Arts, NY
   
       05
[Table ronde] Ensba : Espaces sonores de l’art contemporain
  École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
   
04
Artist's Presentation
  Dorkbot - London, UK
   
04
Video Techniques Workshop
  in collaboration with Treva Offutt, The Kitchen, NY (NA)
   
03
New Media Artists: Presentation and Lecture
  School of Visual Arts, NY
   
03
Robotics and Art: Presentation and Performance
  Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY