the Grafting Parlour

Kelly Jaclynn Andres (Canada)
Kelly Jaclynn Andres is a interdisciplinary artist and researcher who uses the immediate environment as an active stage for investigation. Andres employs the technological apparatus of technology, portability, and location, from bicycles to communications devices, to convey highly subjective theories through humour, absurdity and sound. Andres’ art has been widely exhibited and in 2008 was a feature of M:ST Performance Art Festival in Canada, Free Radio Banff at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Babel in Norway, ISEA 2008 in Singapore, Signal and Noise in Vancouver, and CONFLUX 2007 in New York. Besides eMobiLArt, Andres has had residences at ISEA 2008, Studio XX, The Banff Centre and the Banff New Media Institute, and Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Norway.

Nurit Bar-Shai (US/Israel)
Nurit Bar-Shai is an inter-media artist who composes video and interactive, telematic mechanically live installations, thinks long-distance and streams locally. Her work has exhibited widely, including at the Brooklyn Museum, the OK-Center in Linz, The National Art Center in Tokyo, SESI Gallery in Sao Paulo, the Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro and The Center for Digital Art in Israel. Bar-Shai received a Prix Ars Electronica 2007 Honorary Mention, the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival Jury Award, and was commissioned an art grant with Turbulence.org, with funds from The Greenwall Foundation. In addition to eMobiLArt, Bar-Shai has held residencies at the Experimental Television Center, the Makor Steinhardt Center, and Harvestworks.

Lucy Hg / the League of Imaginary Scientists (US)
The League of Imaginary Scientists conducts everyday experiments through creative collaborative inquiry. Tin foil and bicycles are common components of the League’s participatory mega-media installations. League contributors range from mechanical engineers to synthetic biologists and include an imaginary boy from Norway. Experiments in Imaginary Science have exhibited widely, including at Colombia’s World Year of Physics, MAS in Barcelona, and Electrofringe in Australia, with collaborative networked interactions at El Festival de la Imagen, Mapping Festival at BAC in Geneva, MAAC in Brussels, and (re)Actor in London. Besides eMobiLArt, the League has held residencies at CESTA in the Czech Republic, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Norway, CalArts in the US, and at Gunnery Studios and Casula Powerhouse in Australia.

Saoirse Higgins (Ireland)
Saoirse Higgins is obsessed with natural disasters, conducts lengthy conversations over a megaphone, and candidly predicts doom: “the end is nigh.” Her mechanized interactive installations examine and measure the dismal. Yet her work is remarkably upbeat and mobile, with an emphasis on action and the auditory. Higgins is a coordinator of ISEA 2009, an official artist representative for Ireland, and a lecturer on digital media at the Institute for Art, Design and Technology in Dublin. She was featured in the 2008 404 festival, the 2007 DEAF festival, and the 2006 Space Shuttle Project. Besides eMobiLArt, Higgins has held residences at Disonancias in Spain, Location1 gallery in New York, the Centre for Digital Art in Dublin, and the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Antti Tenetz (Finland)
Antti Tenetz is equal parts artist and naturalist. He has filmed throughout the North, from the Ice Sea to Siberia, and as far south as South Thailand and Greece. His field recordings are the primary media source for science institutions in Finland, including the Arctic Centre, Science Center, and University of Lapland. Tenetz has contributed multimedia to science exhibitions ranging in subject from arctic reindeer herders to glacial movements. His interactive installations have exhibited in the Kuusankoskitalo Gallery of Finland, the Rovaniemen Art Museum (Ars Arctica), and the Karhu Gallery in Rovaniemi. Winner of three Finish national snow sculpting championships (1997, 2003, 2005), Tenetz personifies a melding of the artistic and arctic.