En Plein Air: Vassalage II (2014), Jacolby Satterwhite

Wednesday, December 10
6:30 pm

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
www.eai.org

Admission $7/ Students $5
Free for EAI Members
RSVP: rsvp@eai.org

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is pleased to present an artist talk and conversation with multi-disciplinary artist Jacolby Satterwhite. In dynamic video works that bring together 3-D animation, drawings, and live performance elements, Satterwhite explores themes of memory, desire, personal and public mythology. Creating fantastical digital landscapes that are populated with multiple costumed avatars of himself, Satterwhite engages with hand-drawn objects and text as extensions of the body, in a seamless exchange between live performance and constructed worlds. Satterwhite will screen new works in progress and discuss his practice and process in performance and digital animation, followed by a question-and-answer session moderated by artist and writer Carolyn Lazard. This event launches EAI's distribution of Satterwhite's moving image work.

___________________________________

Jacolby Satterwhite's video works bring together 3-D animation, drawings, and live performance to construct utopian digital worlds. Within this uncharted digital architecture, Satterwhite explores personal history, identity and memory. Satterwhite often incorporates personal sources such as his mother's drawings, which he hand-traces and imports into 3D animation programs to build lush, computer-generated landscapes. Into these digital realms he inserts multiple elaborately costumed avatars, whose kinetic gestures compose a sensual physical choreography. Fusing pop culture, subculture, and art history in his video work and performance, Satterwhite creates visually dazzling tableaux that reflect the changing spatial and bodily anxieties and desires of the digital world. Satterwhite's computer-generated realms densely layered with proliferating drawings, objects and performances encompass animated narratives of personal memory and identity.

Satterwhite was a featured artist in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and his work has been included in the following exhibitions, among others: The House of Patricia Satterwhite, Mallorca Landings, Mallorca (2013); The Matriarch's Rhapsody, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York (2013); Approximately Infinite Universe, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2013); AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum, (2013); Radical Presence, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2012-13); 3-D Form: Aboveground Animation, The New Museum, New York (2012); Park Side of the Moon, Socrates Sculpture Park, (2012); If There's No Dancing At The Revolution I'm Not Coming, Recess Activities, New York (2011); Weerrq!, MoMA P.S.1, Queens (2010); and multiple exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.

___________________________________

About EAI

EAI is one of the world's leading resources for moving image art. Founded in 1971, EAI is a New York-based nonprofit organization that fosters the creation, exhibition, distribution, and preservation of video and media art. EAI holds a major collection of over 3,500 new and historical media artworks, from groundbreaking early video by pioneering figures of the 1960s to new digital projects by today's emerging artists. EAI works closely with artists, museums, schools and other venues worldwide to preserve and provide access to this significant archive. EAI also presents public programs such as artists' talks, exhibitions and panels; extensive digital resources; viewing access; technical facilities, and educational services. EAI's Online Catalogue is a comprehensive resource on the artists and works in the EAI collection, and features expansive materials on media art's histories and current practices: www.eai.org

___________________________________

Electronic Arts Intermix
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
t (212) 337-0680
f (212) 337-0679
info@eai.org

EAI on Facebook
EAI on Twitter

___________________________________

EAI's Public Programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and are also made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. This program is also funded by New York State Council on the Arts' Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (www.NYSCA.org www.eARTS.org).