Saya Woolfalk

Born in Japan, Saya Woolfalk received an MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 and a BA in art and economics from Brown University in 2001. She was in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2004, the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2006, and the Studio Museum of Harlem in 2007. Woolfalk has received several travel awards, including an Art Matters Grant to Japan and a Fulbright IIE Grant to Brazil. In addition to participating in several group exhibitions, she has had solo exhibitions in galleries in Chicago, Buffalo, NY, Newark, NJ, and New York. Woolfalk currently resides in New York and Nashville.

Miranda July

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in two Whitney Biennials. July wrote, directed and starred in her first feature-length film,Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker, and her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. In 2002 July created the participatory website, learningtoloveyoumore, with artist Harrell Fletcher, and a companion book was published in 2007 (Prestel). Eleven Heavy Things, an interactive sculpture garden she designed for the 2009 Venice Biennale, is on view in Union Square in New York for the summer of 2010. Raised in Berkeley, California, she currently lives in Los Angeles where she is making her second feature film, The Future.
 

Paul Pfeiffer

Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1966, but spent most of his childhood in the Philippines. Pfeiffer relocated to New York in 1990, where he attended Hunter College and the Whitney Independent Study Program. Pfeiffer’s groundbreaking work in video, sculpture, and photography uses recent computer technologies to dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness. In a series of video works focused on professional sports events—including basketball, boxing, and hockey—Pfeiffer digitally removes the bodies of the players from the games, shifting the viewer’s focus to the spectators, sports equipment, or trophies won. Presented on small LCD screens and often looped, these intimate and idealized video works are meditations on faith, desire, and a contemporary culture obsessed with celebrity. Many of Pfeiffer’s works invite viewers to exercise their imaginations or project their own fears and obsessions onto the art object. Several of Pfeiffer’s sculptures include eerie, computer-generated recreations of props from Hollywood thrillers, such as “Poltergeist,” and miniature dioramas of sets from films that include “The Exorcist” and “The Amityville Horror.” Pfeiffer is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, most notably becoming the inaugural recipient of The Bucksbaum Award given by the Whitney Museum of American Art (2000). In 2002, Pfeiffer was an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas. In 2003, a traveling retrospective of his work was organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Douglas Gordon

Gordon was born in Glasgow and studied art first there (at the Glasgow School of Art) from 1984-1988 and later at the Slade School from 1988-1990 in London. His first solo show was in 1993. Much of Gordon's work is seen as being about memory and uses repetition in various forms.
In one early work, "Meaning and Location" (1990), a passage from the Gospel of Luke is given with a comma in different places, thus subtly changing the meaning of the sentence. "List of Names" (1990-present) is a list of every person Gordon has ever met and can remember. One version of this is applied onto the wall of a stairwell in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Some of Gordon's works are related to the films of Alfred Hitchcock. 24 Hour Psycho (1993) is Hitchcock's film Psycho slowed down so that it lasts twenty four hours. Feature Film (1999) is a projection of Gordon's own film of James Conlon conducting Bernard Herrmann's score to Vertigo, thus drawing attention to the film score and the emotional responses it creates in the viewer. In one installation, this was placed at the top of a tall building, referencing one of the film's main plot points.
He has also made a film about Zinedine Zidane (Zidane, un portrait du 21e siecle). Gordon has also made photographs, often in series with relatively minor variations between each individual piece. Gordon won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the following year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale.
In 2005 he put together an exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin called "The Vanity of Allegory". In 2006 there was an exhibition of his at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, called "Timeline"

Andrea Zittel

Andrea Zittel was born in Escondido, California, in 1965. She received a BFA in painting and sculpture in 1988 from San Diego State University, and an MFA in sculpture in 1990 from the Rhode Island School of Design. In the early 1990s she founded A-Z Administrative Services, which sells prototypes and designs that help individuals organize their domestic spaces. She has had recent solo exhibitions and installations at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Gallery Side 2, Tokyo; Boise Art Museum, Idaho; Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore; and International Print Center, New York.

 Zittel's work transforms everything necessary for everyday life into artful experiments in living.
Wearing a single outfit every day for an entire season, and constantly remodeling her home to suit changing demands and interests, Zittel continually reinvents her relationship to her domestic and social environment.
Seeking to attain a sense of freedom through structure, Zittel is more interested in revealing the human need for order than in prescribing a single unifying design principle or style.

Altering and examining aspects of life that are for the most part taken for granted, Zittel’s hand-crafted solutions respond to the day-to-day rhythms of the body and the creative need of people to match their surroundings to the changing appearance of life.

Project 5

Our final project was to create a 3d image using google sketchup, and place that image in google earth. I chose to do a robot because I would have been very bored making a house. It was difficult and didn't turn out exactly how I wanted. But as far as being my FIRST EVER attempt at a 3d character I don't think it was too bad.

Project 4

In this project we had to use Premier to edit together non copyrighted clips with sound. The idea was to give it a new meaning with editing and sound. I chose to do night of the living dead edited to pac-man sound effects and music. I used halo as well for the "hero" of the piece.