| leesa[at]abahuni.org / / nicole[at]abahuni.org | |
| 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 |
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11 |
D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| POP-UP, benefit for DAC; pencil on paper and vellum, drawings by Leesa Abahuni | |
11 |
D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| Monster Drawing Rally, benefit for DAC; ink, watercolor, pencil on paper, drawing by Leesa Abahuni | |
10 |
Verge Art Fair, NY |
| Art Machine by Artists Meeting, Sound art installation by Leesa Abahuni | |
09 |
Pulse Miami Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL |
| Art Machine by Artists Meeting, Sound art installation by Leesa Abahuni | |
09 |
THE STONE, NY |
| Leesa Abahuni and Nicole Abahuni with Ernesto Klar, Aaron Alden, Argeo Ascani, Elliott Sharp | |
| World Premiere composition by Elliott Sharp for 2 bassoons and processed bassoon: "Dulcinae" | |
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 Offsite Projects, St. Paul's Church, Birmingham. Commisioned by MOT International, London |
| The 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 Erik Guzman | |
| 02 |
The Kitchen Street Fair, NY |
| Public installation in collaboration with 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 | |
|
PERFORMING IN OTHER ARTIST'S WORK |
|
| 10 | Semiospectacle, created by Mashinka Firunts |
| PS122, NY, NY, 3/22/10 | |
| 09 | Andante, created by Kirstin Jones and Andrew Ginzel, |
| Curated by Nancy Spector, Presented at the 24-Hour | |
| Program on the Concept of Time, Guggenheim Museum, NY, 1/7/09 | |
08 |
Plazaville, created by GH Hovagimyan |
| Plazaville is a 2009 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., | |
| (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with | |
| funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Homesite | |
| http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/plazaville/index.html | |
05 |
Prune Flat, created by Robert Whitman |
| Directed by Pilar Whitman, performed with Hedi Sorger, Dia Center for the Arts, NY | |
04 |
A performance for Billy Klüver's Memorial, created by Robert Whitman |
| performed with Pauline Oliveros, Judson Memorial Church, NY | |
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 | |