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performance-based work by 2005-6 Center Fellow Pia Lindman looks at the
difference between mimesis and embodiment. In efforts to distinguish
biological and biomechanical realities of emotion from affect (the
social manifestation of emotion), Lindman performs reenactments of both
machines and humans. During Summer and Fall 2005, Lindman has been
"learning" the habits of the robots and their makers at the Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Media Lab. Her
work will be on view at MIT Museum's Compton Gallery during Spring 2006.
Born in Espoo, Finland, Pia Lindman received her MFA from the
Academy of Fine Arts in Finland, and then as a Fulbright scholar
received a Master of Science in Visual Studies from MIT’s Visual Art
Program where, in 2004-5, she was also a lecturer. In New York, Lindman
has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art; P.S.1 Contemporary Art
Center; Luxe Gallery; the lab gallery, and was in residency with the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She has also shown in Mexico,
Austria, Germany, Sweden, Lithuania, the UK, Norway, France, and Japan.
In New York she has performed with the LMCC, The Sculpture Center, and
the lab gallery; upcoming venues include Artists Space (PERFORMA 05),
Andrew Kreps Gallery, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics;
international performance venues include Galeria de Arte Mexicano,
Mexico City; Kunsthalle and Kiasma, Helsinki; AnnArt, Romania; Galleri
QQ, Krakow; and Jutempus, Vilnius, among others. Her video series
Thisplace is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Lindman has
lectured at Columbia University, Yale, NYU, RISD, and Institut
Française d'Architecture in Paris and has received numerous awards,
including those from Arts Council of Finland, FRAME (Finnish Fund for
Art Exchange), and the Council for the Arts at MIT. Her essay on her
artwork New York Times 09/02-09/03 was published 2005 in the book Art
in the Age of Terrorism: Gestures in the Space of the Unspeakable
edited by Graham Coulter-Smith and Maurice Owen. |
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