CAST Gallery and Stock-site.org.au present

Hunter_Gatherer

1st April - 1st June

J. R Carpenter

Robert Spahr

Jason Nelson

Curated by Scot Cotterell

This exhibition may contain material of a sensitive nature

Works (please select links)

J.R. Carpenter - The Cape

Robert Spahr - Cruft

Jason Nelson - Death Spin

Artist Biographies:

J.R.Carpenter

J. R. Carpenter is an award-winning author of poetry, fiction and
electronic literature. Born on a farm in Nova Scotia, Canada, she
has been based in Montreal since 1990. She studied Life Drawing
& Anatomy at the Art Students’ League of New York and Fibres &
Sculpture at Concordia University in Montreal. She is a two-time
winner of the CBC Québec Short Story Competition and a Web Art Finalist
in the Drunken Boat Panliterary Awards 2006. Her electronic
literature has been presented internationally at the Musée des beaux-arts
(Montréal) and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto) and has
been included in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume One, the
Rhizome ArtBase and the Web Biennial 2007 (Istanbul). Her short
fiction has been broadcast on CBC Radio, translated into French and
anthologized in Le livre de chevet (Quartanier, Montréal),
Short Stuff, Lust for Life and In Other Words (Véhicule,
Montréal), and has appeared in journals including Geist, The New
Quarterly, Blood & Aphorisims and Matrix. She has
been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, Ucross and the Banff New Media
Institute, and grants in literature and in new media from the Canada
Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du
Québec. She presently serves as President of the Board of Directors
of OBORO New Media Lab in Montréal. More information about her
fiction and electronic literature can be found online at:
http://luckysoap.com

Robert Spahr

Robert Spahr is a visual artist and educator, who produces generative art
programs, digital and analog images, objects, live art and time-based media.
He lives in New York City.
International exhibits: Computer Art Congress 2008, CAC.2, Mexico City
and Toluca City, Mexico, 2008; Media Exchange 2, VT Art Salon, as part
of the ACIA, Taipei, Taiwan 2008; Generative Art Conference, Milan,
Italy 2007; Online Gallery D-ART 2006, London, England and the CGIV 2006, Sydney,
Australia; Trampoline Event #19, Nottingham, United Kingdom; Hz Journal, Stockholm,
Sweden; 6th International Salon of Digital Art, Havana, Cuba.
Nationally his work can be seen in the online digital
media/art/video exhibition, "ubuntu.kuqala" curated by Dale Hudson & Sharon Lin Tay,
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College, 31 March–06 April 2008.
National past exhibits: "Adding Insult to Imagery?
Artistic Responses to Censorship and Media" at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
which then traveled to Central Missouri State University; recent edition of the refereed
on-line journal DrainMag.com; Solo show 'CRUFT' at Manifest Gallery;
festival and symposium "2006 Perform.Media"
hosted by Indiana University in Bloomington.
Teaching experience includes the University of the Arts,
Hartford Art School, Dowling College
and the State University of New York, Purchase College.
He has been a visiting artist at the
Art Academy of Cincinnati, and Xavier University.
http://www.robertspahr.com

Jason Nelson

interactive biography :

www.secrettechnology.com/jasonbio.html