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Nurit Bar-Shai is an inter-media artist. She earned her B. F. A. from the Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Jerusalem and her Master´s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Bar-Shai´s main interest lies in exploring tensions between the mundane and the uncanny in everyday life. Emanating from her creative roots in fine arts, Bar-Shai employs video and new technologies to explore fundamental questions of presentation and representation, to reframe the familiar and turn audiences into foreigners in their own ontological domains.
Her work has exhibited widely, including at the Brooklyn Museum, the OK-Center in Linz, The National Art Center in Tokyo, SESI Gallery in Sao Paulo, the Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin, the Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, The State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki and The Center for Digital Art in Israel. Bar-Shai received a Prix Ars Electronica 2007 Honorary Mention, the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival Jury Award, ETC Finishing Funds award, funded by NYSCA, ARTIS - Contemporary Israeli Art Fund Grant, and was commissioned by Turbulence.org, with funds from The Greenwall Foundation (2006), and with funds from The Jerome Foundation (2009). Bar-Shai has held residencies at the Experimental Television Center, the Makor Steinhardt Center, Harvestworks and The European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Art (e-MobiLArt). Bar-Shai is currently working with the collective The Grafting Parlour.
EDUCATION
M.S. 2006 Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
B.F.A. 1999 Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Jerusalem (cum laude)
GRANTS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2009 Turbulence Commission, Funded by The Jerome Foundation
2009 Artis - Contemporary Israeli Art Fund Grant
2009 The Experimental Television Center Finishing Funds
2009 Israel Foreign Cultural Ministry, Embassy Ireland
2008 - 2009 The European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Art (e-MobiLArt)
2008 Experimental Television Center, Residency Program
2008 [11th] Japan Media Arts Festival, Jury Award, Art Dvision
2007 Experimental Television Center, Residency Program
2007 The Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention, Hybrid Art
2007 Israel Foreign Cultural Ministry, Embassy Austria
2007 Harvestworks, Artist In Residence Program, NY
2006 Makor, Artist in Residency Program, NY
2006 Experimental Television Center, Residency Program
2006 DIGit, Delaware Arts Alliance, Best Experimental Work
2006 Turbulence Commission, Funded by The Greenwall Foundation
2004-6 New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Merit Scholarship
2000 Bezalel Academy Distinction Grant, The Kiffer Grant Foundation
1998 Visiting student scholarship, Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2009:
The Mobile Archive, a project of the Israeli Center for Digital Art: Art in General, NY
Conflux Festival, DIYBio NYC, NY
The Lab Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
2nd Thessaloniki Art Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
FILE RIO 2009, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
LIGHTWAVE 09, Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
2008:
ISEA2009 pre-symposium, A Citizens Call to Synthesize! MIT, Dublin, Belfast, Finland, Jerusalem
Art Is Good For You, Dublin, Ireland
Unparalleled Luna Park, Tel Aviv, Israel
FILE 2008, Electronic Language International Festival, Fiesp Cultural Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil
UMAMI Festival, Roulette, New York, NY
[11th] Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
The Mobile Archive, a project of the Israeli Center for Digital Art: Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia; Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Magmart | Video Under Volcano, International Festival of Video Art, 3rd Edition, Naples, Italy
2007:
The Mobile Archive, a project of the Israeli Center for Digital Art: Inserts, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany;
WYSPA Art Institute, Gdansk, Poland
Leviathans, Tel-Aviv, Israel
CyberArts 2007, Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, OK-Center, Linz, Austria
MANifest, Makor Steinhardt Center, NY
Metropolis, Makor Gallery, Makor Steinhardt Center, NY
METROPOLY, The 8th Annual Makor Marathon, NY
2006:
Inport 2006: International video and performance festival, Tallinn, Estonia
Video >> Motion, The Archive, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
Turbulance.org and 3RD Ward, Brooklyn NY
DIGit, Delaware Arts Center, NY
Bushwick Art Projects [BAP], Brooklyn NY
Film Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Open Zone, Ocularis Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
BAC 40th International Film & Video Festival, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2005:
Loop: The Video Art Festival 05, Barcelona, Spain
39th International Film & Video Festival, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, ITP, NY
International Media Art Festival at Armenian Center Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia
93rd Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Atlanta [Vermeer in Greenaway, Greenaway in Vermeer]
2004:
Team Gallery, NY
38th International Film & Video Festival, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Ocularis Galapagos Art Space, NY
Winter Show, Parsons School of Design, NY
Fortnight-Kitchen New York, Online Gallery
2003:
Fortnight-Kitchen New York, Online Gallery
37th International Film & Video Festival, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2002:
Balagan: Experimental Films and Videos from Israel, The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Boston
2001:
Twenty Video Works, Gallery in Salame Street, Tel-Aviv
WAC, Williamsburg Arts & Culture Festival 2001, Brooklyn NY
TEACHING PANELS AND TALKS
2009 ISEA2009 Symposium, Belfast, Ireland
2009 The e-MobiLArt Symposium, Thessaloniki, Greece
2009 Artist's Talk, Emuna College, Jerusalem, Israel
2009 Artist's Talk, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2009 The Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
2009 Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology [IADT] Dublin, Ireland
2008 ISEA2009 Pre-symposium, A Citizen's Call to Synthesize! MIT, Dublin, Belfast, Finland, Jerusalem
2008 Artist's Talk, Boston College, Boston, MA
2008 Panelist, Experimental, Documentary, 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council [BAC] International Film & Video Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Artist's Talk, Harvestworks, NY
2007 Panelist, Makor Steinhardt Center, NY
2007 Fall, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Interactive Telecommunication Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
2006 Artist's Talk, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
2006 Fall, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
2006 Panelist, America-Israel Cultural Foundation