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Marie Sester short bio

Education
1980  Architect DPLG Degree (M Arch), Ecole d’Architecture de Strasbourg, France

Academic Affiliations and Residencies

2011
2005
2004
2003

Adjunct Professor, Parsons The New School, Media, Arts and Technology, New York, USA
Artist Residency, California Institute of the Arts, Center for Integrated Media, USA
Artist Residency, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Artist Residency, Eyebeam, New York, USA
2003 Associate Artist/Researcher, The SMARTlab Center at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK
2001
2000
1999
1993
Artist Residency, IAMAS, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan
Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
Artist Residency, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, USA
Artist Residency, Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto, Japan

Awards and Grants

2011
2009
2005
2005
2004
2004
2004
2004
2003
2002

Recipient, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant, New York, USA
Nominee, Alpert Awards Film and Video, Valencia, CA, USA
Nominee, VIPER International Competition 2005, Basel, Switzerland
Nominee, Rockefeller New Media Fellowship 2006, New York, USA
Recipient, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant, New York, USA
Recipient, Franklin Furnace Fund Grant and Residency, New York, USA
Recipient, LEF Foundation Grant, California, USA
Recipient, Webby Award, Net Art category, USA
Honorary Mention, Interactive Arts, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Recipient, Creative Capital Foundation, Emerging Fields Grant, New York, USA

Select Solo Exhibitions and Acquisitions

2008
2008
2008
2007
2006
2005
2005
2004
2003
2002
2000

Niklas Belenius Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Public Gallery, West Bromwich, UK (commission/acquisition)
gallery@calit2, University of California, San Diego, USA
Fargfabriken, Laboratory of the Contemporary, Stockholm, Sweden
California Institute of the Arts, USA
ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (acquisition)
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA
The Kitchen, New York, USA
Eyebeam, New York, USA
Softopia Center, Gifu, Japan
with Alain Bublex Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, USA (commission)

Select Group Exhibitions

2011
2010/11

2010/11

2010
2009
2008
2008

« Architecture of Fear » Z33 - House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium (catalog)
« Uncertain Spectator » Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC),
  Troy, NY, USA  (Commission and catalog)
« Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870» SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), San Francisco, USA (catalog)
« Resurrectine » Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY, USA
« GLOW » Eindhoven, Netherlands (catalog)
Singapore Biennale 2008 (National Arts Council), Singapore (catalog)
The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (Media_City Seoul 2008), Seoul, Korea (catalog)

2008 « Teleport » Fargfabriken Norr, Center for contemporary art & architecture, Ostersund, Sweden (catalog)
2007
2007
2007
2006
2005
2004
Scope-Miami art fair, presented by Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery NY, Miami, USA
The Celebrity Media Mash-up, EYEBEAM 10th Anniversary Celebration, New York, USA
« Feedback » LABoral, Center for Art & Creative Industries, Gijon, Spain (catalog)
« ON/OFF » Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (catalog)
« Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht » ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
Villette Numérique Festival, Paris, France
2003
2003
2003
2001
« Beta Launch 03 » Artists in Residence exhibition, Eyebeam, New York, USA
« Ars Electronica 2003 » Interactive Art, Linz, Austria (catalog)
« SIGGRAPH 2003 » Emerging Technologies Exhibition, San Diego, USA (catalog)
« Blind Vision: video and the limits of perception » San Jose Museum of Art, USA (commission)
2000
2000
1999
« Light fantastic » curated by Constance Lewallen, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
« Home » Centre d’Art Contemporain de Pougues-les-Eaux, France
Rebecca Bournigault, Matthieu Laurette, Marie Sester: « Three French media artists explore the obvious and the unseen » New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA (commission)
1999
1999
1998
1998
« Souvenir Utopie » Stadthaus Ulm, Germany (catalog/commission)
« Pacaembù » Laboratoire, Sao Paulo, Brazil (catalog/commission)
« Renate Buser, Marie Sester, Elizabeth Wright » Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (catalog)
« Digital mapping: Architecture as media » curated by Hani Rashid, Artists Space, New York, USA (commission)
1997 Kwangju Biennale, co-curated by Julie Lazar and Richard Koshalek (LAMOCA), Korea (catalog/commission)
1996
1994
« Arcos da Lapa » Laboratoire, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (catalog/commission)
Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Select Press and Media
• Zimmerman, Emily. 'Interview With Marie Sester.' Uncertain Spectator. 2010
     http://uncertain.empac.rpi.edu/interviews/sester.html
• Waelder, Pau.'El arte de la conversacion aumentada.' Arte, cultura e innovacion. 2010
     http://laboralcentrodearte.uoc.edu/el-arte-de-la-conversacion-aumentada/
• Cameron, Andy. "Andy Cameron on ACCESS", V&A Magazine, Winter 2009
• Troika. Digital by Design. London:Thames & Hudson, 2009
• Debatty, Regine. 'Media_city Seoul, round one.' We Make Money Not Art. 2008
     http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/art_in_seoul/
• 'Meet Marie Sester.' Singaporebiennale.org September 13, 2008.
     http://www.singaporebiennale.org/blog/?p=359
• Hart, Hugh. 'Surveillance, a trend to watch.' LA Times. January 13, 2008.
     http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/13/entertainment/ca-surveillance13
• 'Marie Sester', El Niuton, Vol. 4. 2007.
     http://www.elniuton.com/erotismo/view_niuton.php?ed=04&pag=71
• Debatty, Regine. 'Interview with Marie Sester.' We Make Money Not Art. 2006
     http://www.wmmna.com/archives/2006/10/you-have-a-back.php
• ACCESS listed in the "50 Coolest Websites 2004" by Time Magazine Online Edition, USA
     http://www.time.com/time/techtime/200406/fun.html
Profile of Marie Sester by Holly Willis for the Creative Capital Foundation, December 2002

Select Publications
2003   L'Architecture du Paradis Artist Pages (p 33-34) appear in Leonardo Journal, Vol. 36, Issue 1 - February 2003, MIT Press, USA
2002   A. Pilpré, M. Sester, M, Naimark, J-C Terrillon, Y. Niwa, 2002, « ACCESS: A Video-based Tracking Spotlight.» In Proceedings of VSMM 2002, Korea
2000  

« Marie Sester - Quelque chose contraint quelqu'un» - book, with text by J.M. Gleize, published by Al Dante, Paris, France - available at Amazon.fr

1998 « Four Engines » in La Mazarine, Dec. 98, V118-V119, editions du treize mars, Paris, France
1997 « The Gate » in SuperUmbau n°2, edited by Ania Corcilius, New York, USA – Hamburg, Germany
1997 « Les Trois Cités » in Nioques n°1.3, edited by J.M. Gleize, published by Al Dante, Paris, France
1995 « Ex voto – Dans le paysage » artist book, with Anne Cauquelin, published by Collodion, Marseille, France
1994 « Elinkine en pays Diola », artist book, with text by G. Barrière, published by Voix R. Meier, Metz, France
1994 « Hotel Room » catalog, published by the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Rueil-Malmaison, Paris, France
1992 Réalisation vidéo « Mires, 1992 », Pittiwaf Nelson Production, Strasbourg, France
1990 « Le beau langage », film 16 mm, Pittiwaf Nelson Production, Strasbourg, France