Your Custom Text Here
This documentary collection is an abstracted view of the variety and scope of Michael Holcomb's career. The documents, in no particular order, provide a small glimpse of the diverse initiatives required to forge a unique and successful practice in new territory where even the tools of discovery are being invented as one proceeds.
This documentary collection is an abstracted view of the variety and scope of Michael Holcomb's career. The documents, in no particular order, provide a small glimpse of the diverse initiatives required to forge a unique and successful practice in new territory where even the tools of discovery are being invented as one proceeds.
• Group Show, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana California, 2011 •
• Solo exhibition, Tucson Desert Museum, 2014 •
• Solo exhibition, Tucson Desert Museum, 2014 •
Visitor comments from Arizona Desert Art Museum exhibit:
“This is amazing.” “The exhibition is gorgeous... I love your art.”
“Breathtaking work.” “Nature through transcendental power.”
“Exquisite…everything is superlative.” “Intriguing.” “Fascinating.”
“Beautiful pieces, powerful, emotive and expansive.” “Wow!”
“Great work.” “Striking, smart.” “Inspiring.” “Fabulous.”
“Michael Holcomb’s work is incredible! Loved the exhibit.”
• Exhibit at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland Oregon, 1995 •
• EYECON VideoArts co-op Interview, KCTS TV Seattle 1972 •
• Produced "SCAN", first comprehensive exhibit of electronic technology arts in the northwest U.S. for Seattle's BUMBERSHOOT FESTIVAL. Attendence over one quarter-million, 1973 •
• SCAN Bumbershoot"73, TRUTHCO/ANTFARM, Interactive Video Performance Art •
• SCAN Bumbershoot '73, Real-time ensemble video sythesis: Bill Ritchie, Carl Chew, Norrie Sato •
• SCAN Bumbershoot '73, Early examples of computer generated 3D models •
• WORKPLACE GALLERY, Portland Oregon •
• Art Director/Designer/Animator, KCPQ TV Seattle/Tacoma, 1977-1984 •
• EMMY for Television Art Direction/Animation, 1978 •
• Produced VOLKSGRAPHICS for Seattle's BUMBERSHOOT '91, a national survey of the increasingly social uses of common imaging technologies: "networked techno-folk art" •
• Produced VOLKSGRAPHICS for Seattle's BUMBERSHOOT '91 •
• Exhibit, 411 Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 1997 •
Holcomb work featured: "This is a seminal contribution, a must-read for anyone interested in how computers are used in art and design." Andries van Dam, T. J. Watson, Jr.
• Residency in Computer Imaging Research, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, 1994 •
• Corporate Sponsorship •
• ELECTRONIC MUSIC INTERACTIVE was produced by teams of artists, designers and programmers led by Michael Holcomb as Director of the New Media Center, Riverfront Research Park, University of Oregon. It was awarded the Gold Medal Jury Award, 31st Annual New York Exposition of Short Film, Video and Interactive Multimedia...Print Magazine's National Certificate of Excellence in the Digital Art and Design Annual...ID Magazine's Interactive Design Distinction Award, presented at the National Center for Design/Smithsonian in New York... Included in the Wired Worlds Gallery of the British National Museum of Photography, Film and Television •
• Design & programming teams led by Director Michael Holcomb in the Treistman Center for New Media, University of Arizona: ARTSTREAM is a permanent internet gallery for the exhibition of interactive on-line works by artists. Invited presentation at the SIGGRAPH Conference, the largest computer arts/graphics event in the world. •
• Collaboration with Chantal Akerman: "From the Other Side", an interactive real-time media installation connecting the US/Mexico border to the prestigious DOCUMENTA Festival in Kassel, Germany •
"Chantal Akerman is arguably the most important European director of her generation."J. Hoberman, Village Voice
• University of Arizona MUSEM of ART, 2005 •
• Director of Treistman Center for New Media, Assistant Dean for Fine Arts Technology, College of Fine Arts, University of Arizona, 2000-2010 •
