Perry Bard

Perry Bard (born in Quebec City, Canada) lives and works in New York City. She is an interdisciplinary artist who works with film, site-specific public art installation projects around the world, and on the Internet.

Many of her projects are collaborations with the public and selected communities. In 2011, her ongoing work Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake was chosen for inclusion in Google’s selected top creative uses of the Internet. In 2010 the project was named one of the Top 25 Videos for the Guggenheim Museum's YouTube Play Biennial of Creative Video. For the public participation project, Bard invited interpretations of Dziga Vertov’s classic 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera, through uploads to http://dziga.perrybard.net where software designed for the project archives sequences and streams a new film daily on the site. "The viewer sees two concurrent sets of images on a single screen: Vertov's original film and the remake of it that has been constructed on the Internet."[1] The film has been shown at the Moscow International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, at the Transmediale[2] Berlin and won awards at Ars Electronica, Liedts-Meesen, and Transitio_MX. The remade film "exists on the Web, at media festivals, and in the gallery and museum but also travels and is launched on outdoor public commons screens."[3] Evelin Stermitz quotes Bard in an interview in Rhizome: "The primary idea was to use global input via the Internet to generate multiple versions of one film to be screened in public space and on the web."[4]

Career

Bard created Status: Stolen, a public work focused on artifacts missing from Iraq’s Baghdad Museum in 2005. A mobile truckside billboard depicting the missing artifacts traversed New York City for thirty days in June 2005. "Bard's itinerant billboard served as an aide-memoire, reminding us that military victory and cultural conquest go hand in hand."[5] A number of magazine advertisements featuring the artifacts followed in issues of Art Journal in 2006.

Bard also writes often for Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, and has curated a number of exhibitions in the United States and abroad.

Bard earned a B.A. at McGill University, and an M.F.A. degree at the San Francisco Art Institute. She pursued doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin where she completed all but a dissertation in French Theatre studies. She moved to New York City in 1983. Bard has taught graduate and undergraduate art for many years in New York at the School of Visual Arts and the Pratt institute.

Early work

Collaborative work

Recent projects

Awards

Grants

Selected curated exhibitions

Further reading

Notes

  1. ↑ Feldman, Seth (Summer 2010). "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a constructivist: Perry Bard's 'The Man with the Movie Camera: The Global Remake'". Jump Cut: A review of contemporary media. No. 52.
  2. ↑ "Perry Bard | transmediale". transmediale.de. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  3. ↑ Suderburg, Erika (2012). Resolutions 3: Global Networks in Video, Chapter: "Database, 'Anarcheologie', the Commons, Kino-Eye, and Mash: How Bard, Kaufman, Svilova, and Vertox continue the revolution". University of Minnesota Press.
  4. ↑ Stermitz, Evelin. "Man with a Moview Camera: The Global Remake--Interview with Perry Bard". www.rhizome.org. Rhizome. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ Sholette, Gregory (2006). "Breaking and Entering". Art Journal.
  6. ↑ "Critical Writing Index Article | Vtape". www.vtape.org. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  7. ↑ "1ra Bienal Internacional". www.biaci.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  8. ↑ "Shorts Program: Giving Voice | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2016-03-05.

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