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Marie Sester Profile by Holly Willis for the CC Foundation, December 2002

Marie Sester short bio


Studio based in Los Angeles, USA

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

Academic Affiliations and Residencies
2005 Artist Residency, California Institute of the Arts, Center for Integrated Media, USA
2004 Artist Residency, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2003 Thesis reviews, Interactive Telecommunication Program, NYU, New York, USA
2003 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   Artist Residency, IAMAS, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan
2000   Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
1999 Artist Residency, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, USA
1998  Workshop, Pratt Institute, USA
1997–   Faculty, Ecole d'Art de Annecy, France
1996   Thesis Reviews, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Marseille, France
1993   Artist Residency, Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto, Japan

Awards and Grants
2005 Nominee, BE[AM], VIPER International Competition 2005, Basel, Switzerland
2005 Nominee, Rockefeller New Media Fellowship 2006, New York, USA
2004 Recipient, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant, New York, USA
2004 Recipient, Franklin Furnace Fund grant and Residency, New York, USA
2004 Recipient, LEF Foundation grant, California, USA
2004 Listed, for ACCESS, in the "50 Coolest Websites" in the Time Magazine Online Edition, USA
2004 Recipient, Webby Award, Net Art category, for ACCESS, USA
2003   Honorary Mention, Interactive Arts, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2002 Recipient, Creative Capital Foundation, Emerging Fields grant, New York, USA
1996 Recipient, « Villa Médicis hors les murs » Award, AFAA, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany , New York, Los Angeles, USA

Select Solo Exhibitions and Acquisitions
2008 « ACCESS at the Public » Public Gallery, West Bromwich, UK (acquisition)
2008 « Exposure » gallery@calit2, University of California, San Diego, USA
2007 « Threatbox.us » Fargfabriken, Laboratory of the contemporary, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 Threatbox.us and BE[AM] previews, California Institute of the Arts, USA
2005

« ACCESS » ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (acquisition)

2005 BE[AM] Prototype Preview, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA
2004   « L’Architecture du Paradis » The Kitchen, New York, USA
2003  « ACCESS » private preview of prototype, Eyebeam, New York, USA
2002   « ACCESS » work-in-progress installation, Softopia Center, Gifu, Japan
2000   « Fictional cities » (with Alain Bublex) Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, USA
1997 « Apartment » Château du Grand Jardin de Joinville, France
1996 « Apartment » Centre d'Art Contemporain de Vassivière en Limousin, France
1995 « Hotel Room » Centre d'Art Contemporain de Rueil-Malmaison, Paris, France
1995 « Transfert de Paysage » Galerie Psyché, Martigues, France
1992 « Zafu » Galerie Jade, Colmar, France
1991 Merle-Portalès et Associés, Paris, France
1990 Galerie Arthème, Palma de Majorque, Spain
1990 Cloître des Dominicains, Guebwiller, France
1990 Claudine Bréguet, Paris, France
1989 Galerie Arthème , Palma de Majorque, Spain
1089 Merle-Portalès et Associés, Paris, France
1988 Galerie Luc Queyrel, Paris, France

Select Group Exhibitions
2008

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
2007 « MIRROR » Scope-Miami art fair, presented by Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery NY, Miami, USA
2007

The Celebrity Media Mash-up, EYEBEAM 10th Anniversary Celebration, New York, USA

2007 « Feedback » LABoral, Center for Art & Creative Industries, Gijon, Spain (catalog)
2006

« ON/OFF » Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (catalog)

2005 « Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht » ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004 Villette Numérique Festival, Paris, France
2003 « Beta Launch 03 » Artists in Residence exhibition, Eyebeam, New York, USA
2003 « Ars Electronica 2003 » Interactive Art, Linz, Austria (catalog)
2003 « SIGGRAPH 2003 » Emerging Technologies Exhibition, San Diego, USA (catalog)
2001   « Blind Vision: video and the limits of perception » San Jose Museum of Art, USA
2000 « Light fantastic » curated by Constance Lewallen, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
2000 « Home » Centre d’Art Contemporain de Pougues-les-Eaux, France
1999 Rebecca Bournigault, Matthieu Laurette, Marie Sester: « Three French media artists explore the obvious and the unseen » New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA
1999 « Souvenir Utopie » Stadthaus Ulm, Germany (catalog)
1999 « Pacaembù » Laboratoire, Sao Paulo, Brazil (catalog)
1998 « Renate Buser, Marie Sester, Elizabeth Wright » Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (catalog)
1998 « Digital mapping: Architecture as media » curated by Hani Rashid, Artists Space, New York, USA
1997 Kwangju Biennale, co-curated by Julie Lazar and Richard Koshalek, Korea, (catalog)
1996 « Arcos da Lapa » Laboratoire, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (catalog)
1994 Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Merle-Portalès et Associés, Uzès, France
1991 Salon de Montrouge, France (catalog)
1991 Merle-Portalès et Associés, Paris et Uzès, France
1990 Agora Saint Nicolas, Strasbourg, France (catalog)
1990 Ancienne Laiterie, Strasbourg, France
1990 « Façades imaginaires », Laboratoire, Grenoble, France (catalog)
1989 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
1989 Sélest'art, Sélestat, France (catalog)
1989 Sommet Européen, Palais des Congrès, Strasbourg, France
1988 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
1988 Galerie Jacques Girard, Toulouse, France
1988 Seigneurie des Guillot, Vaison-la-Romaine, France
1988 Kunstpodium, Schramberg, Germany (catalog)

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