ITERACTIVE INSTALLATION ART
Interactive Installation Art: (Wikipedia Definition): is a form of installation-based art that involves the spectator in a way that allows the art to achieve its purpose.
Amy is truely a pioneer in this form of art expression. To create one of her solo-biennial pieces it takes her 22 months. All of her exhibits require audience perpetuation. Her goal is to convey that we are all a part of a whole. That everyone and everything is connected and affected.
Exibits:
Retrospective: Experience, released in 2000, in a mill in the town of Lewiston Maine.
Movement: released in 2002, in a mill in the town of Westbrook, Maine
Change: released in 2004, in a mill in the town of Brunswick, Maine
Sound: released in 2006, in a mill in the town of Waterville, Maine
Light: released in 2008, in a mill in the town of Sanford, Maine
Time: will be released on October 9, 2010, town in Maine to be announced
Her future exibits will be: Space (2012), Matter (2014), Retrospective: Memory (2016)
2012 Exibit:
This is exibit is set for October 9-26, 2012, in a Maine location (tba). The exibit is open to the public. Amy does except donations. This exibit is called TIME. It will be held in a 15,000 to 30,000 square foot space. It will comprise nine interactive installation and new-media works, each a participant-activated experience. TIME will be open for participation on October (, 2010, for a total of 99 hours, in a once again re-animating a space unused for potentially many years. Like other solo-bienials, TIME is a 22 month process of conceptualizing, producing, drawing, fundraising, budgeting time and money, advertising, finding and perparing a space, querying for materials, buying insurance, curating, consulting engineers, transporting, installing, instructing art assistants and audience, and documenting. But the event once open to the public, is an ephemeral, contemplative interchange between artist, community, and environment.
Each Biennial becomes a tactile metaphor, conveying that we are all part of a whole, that everyone and everything is connected and affects no matter how long the duration of impact. Many of TIME's installations require participants' physical touch, effect, or perpetuation while others function through active and purposeful perception. Each installation is accompanied by instructions, an integral part of the experience. Audience is asked to manipulate, maintain, enter, notice, distinguish, recognize-- challenged to contemplate time in new ways. The audience is an aesthetic, conceptual, and collective part of the installation and the event as a whole, completing her work process. Community is also medium, becoming part of the work beyond assistance with labor and interaction at the exibit, the actions, voices, and faces of people she connects with over the course of her per-exibit exploration, oftentimes material for the work. With this long term solo-biennil project (which she began in 2000), She will explore our interconnectedness through balance of chaos, order, and repetition. She will examine these concepts in the context of broad related themes-experience, movement, change, sound, light, time, etc--so that in the end, her exploration might have been thorough, the total of all biennials' imagery a cohesive whole.
Amy is truely a pioneer in this form of art expression. To create one of her solo-biennial pieces it takes her 22 months. All of her exhibits require audience perpetuation. Her goal is to convey that we are all a part of a whole. That everyone and everything is connected and affected.
Exibits:
Retrospective: Experience, released in 2000, in a mill in the town of Lewiston Maine.
Movement: released in 2002, in a mill in the town of Westbrook, Maine
Change: released in 2004, in a mill in the town of Brunswick, Maine
Sound: released in 2006, in a mill in the town of Waterville, Maine
Light: released in 2008, in a mill in the town of Sanford, Maine
Time: will be released on October 9, 2010, town in Maine to be announced
Her future exibits will be: Space (2012), Matter (2014), Retrospective: Memory (2016)
2012 Exibit:
This is exibit is set for October 9-26, 2012, in a Maine location (tba). The exibit is open to the public. Amy does except donations. This exibit is called TIME. It will be held in a 15,000 to 30,000 square foot space. It will comprise nine interactive installation and new-media works, each a participant-activated experience. TIME will be open for participation on October (, 2010, for a total of 99 hours, in a once again re-animating a space unused for potentially many years. Like other solo-bienials, TIME is a 22 month process of conceptualizing, producing, drawing, fundraising, budgeting time and money, advertising, finding and perparing a space, querying for materials, buying insurance, curating, consulting engineers, transporting, installing, instructing art assistants and audience, and documenting. But the event once open to the public, is an ephemeral, contemplative interchange between artist, community, and environment.
Each Biennial becomes a tactile metaphor, conveying that we are all part of a whole, that everyone and everything is connected and affects no matter how long the duration of impact. Many of TIME's installations require participants' physical touch, effect, or perpetuation while others function through active and purposeful perception. Each installation is accompanied by instructions, an integral part of the experience. Audience is asked to manipulate, maintain, enter, notice, distinguish, recognize-- challenged to contemplate time in new ways. The audience is an aesthetic, conceptual, and collective part of the installation and the event as a whole, completing her work process. Community is also medium, becoming part of the work beyond assistance with labor and interaction at the exibit, the actions, voices, and faces of people she connects with over the course of her per-exibit exploration, oftentimes material for the work. With this long term solo-biennil project (which she began in 2000), She will explore our interconnectedness through balance of chaos, order, and repetition. She will examine these concepts in the context of broad related themes-experience, movement, change, sound, light, time, etc--so that in the end, her exploration might have been thorough, the total of all biennials' imagery a cohesive whole.
Artist: Amy Stacey Curtis
PICTURES
VIALS: 4,900 vials, 70 rows of 70 vials were filled with water precisely and gradually.
EGG CARTONS: 216 egg cartons, wer sewn together after first dying, painting and then adhering images within their cups. It took over a year and a half to do this.
POLY TUBING: Each seam in each verticle row holds exact amounts of water---progressively less from bottom to top----but variant amounts of air.
CARDBOARD TUBES, WOOD, & WIRE: The addience was invited to view piece".... from far away and inches away, moving side to side, up and down. back and forth.... Notice how your perception and persepevtive of light changes and moves."
Bio:
Amy recieved her MA in Art and Psychology from Vermont College. In 2003, she juried "Women, Trauma & Visual Expression," an international exhib featuring work by women who have experienced trauma, at Women Made Gallery in Chicago. She also wrote a book with this same title (that can be found on her website). It explores the hows and whys women artists' visual expression of personal, cultural, and collective trauma. Amy compares the lives and work of nine women artist.
Honors:
2009, 2007, 2005, and 2003, she has recieved grants and an Artist Fellowship, supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Maine Arts Commission.
2009- She recieved the Rebel Blend Fund, Coffee By Design
2004- "Fragile" introduces matries and linear equations in Discovering Advanced Algebra: An Investigative Approach, Key Curriculum Press.
1993- She recieved the Ruth Stebbins and Edmund G. Schildknect Art Honor
Amy recieved her MA in Art and Psychology from Vermont College. In 2003, she juried "Women, Trauma & Visual Expression," an international exhib featuring work by women who have experienced trauma, at Women Made Gallery in Chicago. She also wrote a book with this same title (that can be found on her website). It explores the hows and whys women artists' visual expression of personal, cultural, and collective trauma. Amy compares the lives and work of nine women artist.
Honors:
2009, 2007, 2005, and 2003, she has recieved grants and an Artist Fellowship, supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Maine Arts Commission.
2009- She recieved the Rebel Blend Fund, Coffee By Design
2004- "Fragile" introduces matries and linear equations in Discovering Advanced Algebra: An Investigative Approach, Key Curriculum Press.
1993- She recieved the Ruth Stebbins and Edmund G. Schildknect Art Honor
Amy has also, besides her own exhibits, been involved in numerouse Group Exhibitions, Curatorial endeavors, Bibilograhy/Media Articles. Selected Collections and Representations.
TYPE OF ARTIST:
Painter/Sculptor, and Writer
General Themes:
Environment, Feminum/Gender Issues, Mental Health/Psychology, Violence
Painter/Sculptor, and Writer
General Themes:
Environment, Feminum/Gender Issues, Mental Health/Psychology, Violence
Amy also makes drawings that come with sound. You can view some of her drawings here, and she also has many more on her site. In total she has 99 drawings with sound. Go to http://www.amystaceycurtis/99sounds.html
to view her drawing and listen to the sounds.
to view her drawing and listen to the sounds.
DRAWINGS
Computer
Refrigorator
Drain
Prokofiev (piano concerto No 3 in C Major
Hair Dryer
CONCLUSION: If you would like to read more about Amy Stacey Curtis, you can Google her name and/or check out her website and You Tube Videos. You can also click on the video at the top of this page to view more of Amys' art.
http://www.amystaceycurtis.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIcdnjaT_fc
http://www.amystaceycurtis.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIcdnjaT_fc
Note: I hope everyone enjoyed learning about this exceptional artist as much as I did writing about her. I hope everyone, who has the chance, will go to her upcoming exhibits. If you are able I hope you will donate, so she will continue bringing these amazing piece of art to fruition.
I'd also like to extend a personal thank you to Amy for allowing me to feature her amazing talent on my website. It's truely been a pleasure.
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