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The Big RED & Shiny 2007 Annual features seven essays by nine of our best writers. These previously unpublished pieces explore a diverse range of subjects, and look to create a record of the conversations around art and culture that have dominated Big RED & Shiny for our first few years.
All for a mere $12! Featured writers include: Jane Hudson, Marrikka Trotter, James Nadeau, Meg Rotzel, Heidi Aishman, Steve Aishman and Benjamin Sloat, as well as Big RED staffers Matthew Gamber and Matthew Nash. |
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Jane Hudson is a video artist, who recently retired after more than 30 years as Video artist/instructor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She now lives with her husband Jeff Hudson, in North Adams. MA, home of Mass MoCA and their business North Adams Antiques. She has been exhibiting video art since the 1970Õs when she received two National Endowment of the Arts grants and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art. She has continued to exhibit internationally, and is currently producing a body of digital photography based in the Berkshires. Ms. Hudson has contributed articles and reviews to Big RED & Shiny, as well as to Brekshirefinearts.com. The piece contributed here was written within the current convergence of Ôthe creative economyÕ and the efforts to ÔrebirthÕ the old industrial city of North Adams. Ms. Hudson has experienced similar phenomena in the South End, South Station and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods of Boston as well as in the early development of Soho in NY City. |
| James Nadeau is an independent curator, video artist and writer based in Boston. He is a contributor to the online arts journal Big, Red and Shiny. He is a recent graduate of the Comparative Media Studies department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his undergraduate studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His video work has been screened internationally most recently in Venice, Italy. He has presented papers on media and film at conferences nationally. His article ÒSmile for the CameraÓ is included in the anthology The Inner History of Devices edited by Sherry Turkle and will be published by the MIT Press in 2008. This essay, ÒShifting Technologies: Digital Video Art and the Erasure of the Analog,Ó was originally presented at the Thinking Through New Media Conference held at Duke University in June of 2006. |
| Meg Rotzel is a founder, former director (2002-2006) and currently co-curator of the Public Art Incubator of the Berwick Research Institute. She is also Curatorial Associate at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT where she coordinates Fellow and Visiting Artist programs. Since graduating with her BFA from Tufts University and her Diploma in Studio Art from the Museum School, Rotzel has practiced as an artist, curator, collaborator, lecturer, and panelist locally and nationally. As an artist, Rotzel coordinates public projects and gives private gifts. Rotzel is currently a candidate for Brown UniversityÕs Masters in Public Humanities. |
| Benjamin Sloat is a Boston based artist and writer. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Sloat received his graduate degree from the Tufts University/SMFA program in 2005. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo shows in Boston, Brooklyn, NY and Oakland, CA. Reviews include those in the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Oakland Tribune. As a lecturer, Sloat has spoken at UC Santa Cruz, the Savannah College of Art & Design, Coker College, RISD, UMass Boston, the Association of Asian American Studies Conference, and the Society for Photographic Education National Conference. Having taught photography at the Massachusetts College of Art, Tufts University, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Sloat currently teaches at the Art Institute of Boston. |
| Marrikka Trotter is an architectural designer who lives and works in Boston. She teaches foundation design studio at the Boston Architectural Center, and has been a guest critic for the School of Architecture at Northeastern University. She has co-founded several art and architecture collaborations, and is currently researching urban architectural interventions which positively impact the public realm. |
| Matthew Gamber is currently a Professor of Photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design and is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston. He is an eight year member of the Benevolent Protectorate Order of Elks, Lodge No. 83 and has rocked the stage of the Middle East Upstairs - once. |
| Matthew Nash is half of the art-team Harvey Loves Harvey, who are represented in Boston by Judi Rotenberg Gallery. He is also an Assistant Professor of New Media at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, and an adjuct professor of graphic design at RISD. Nash is co-founder of Number Foundation, publishers of the Royal Flush comics anthologies, and was a part of the Art Showdown performances and television series. In the summer, he switches from whiskey to gin, just for a change of pace. |
| Steve Aishman is a curator/artist/professor/writer living in Atlanta, GA. His primary areas of interest include cultural hybridity and the cultivation of personal meaning in the contemporary world. |
| Heidi Aishman is a native of Connecticut, she received her Bachelors in Fine Art from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and her masters in Arts Administration for Boston University. Aishman is an internationally exhibiting artist and has exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Jose A. Mulazzi Museum in Argentina, as well as galleries and alternative spaces throughout the US. Aishman is an emerging independent curator, and regular contributor to Big Red and Shiny. AishmanÕs recent projects include The New Art Collective: Emerging Curators Select, Community Through Cameras: Photographs from Ghana and Argentina at the Hammond Gallery, Temporary Walls: The Visual Voices of Detained Youth, at the Rhys Gallery. Her recent exhibitions include Works on Paper at Lynn Arts, Size Matters at the Rhys Gallery, and being a contestant on Art Showdown. |
