Jennifer Parker

Wed, 09/09/2009 - 7:21pm — petar
Associate Professor

Sculpture, Interactive Art, New Media, and Kinetic Art

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Jennifer Parker is a Co-Founder & Director of OpenLab 

Parker maintains a multifaceted art practice at the intersection of art and science. The conceptual framework of her research includes a literal, formal, and idiomatic approach to materials and a political, private, and metaphorically abstract attitude toward expression as it relates to information and creativity. This research approach animates a space of possibility by asking the viewer to pay attention to the overlooked details, juxtapositions and interdependencies of our physical and sensory experience in the world around us. To pull information out of pie charts and graphs, to look at, feel and explore ideas as new and innovative forms of expression.  

 For Parker, being an artist means being an activist, thinker, historian, and teacher who creates deployable art platforms for creating sound, and digital media with organic materials and traditional sculpture fabrication techniques to ask questions and to tell stories.

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Digital Art and New Media Program
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Education and Training: 
M.F.A. Rutgers University
B.A. College of Creative Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
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Jennifer Parker is a practicing artist living in Oakland, CA. Her work has been exhibited, performed and presented nationally in places such as the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF Camerawork, The LAB, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, and Southern Exposure in San Francisco, CA; Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA; ZER01, 10SJ Biennial and the Tech Musuem, San Jose; Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga; Kantor Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; CAF in Santa Barbara, CA; the Bessie Schöenberg Theater in New York; the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington. Internationally, Parker has shown at the de Baile in Amsterdam, Holland; The War Memorial Museum in Seoul, Korea; the World Trade Center in Osaka, Japan; the Iskra History Museum in Kazanlak, Bulgaria; Califia Galerie and Školská 28 Galerie in the Czech Republic; and the Sala de exposiciones Parque García Sanabria in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. She has been the recipient of visual arts fellowships from Art Matters, the New Forms Regional Grant administered by the Inter-Arts Program of the NEA, The New Jersery State Council of the Arts and the Kate Neal Kinely Memorial Fellowship Award.

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Interactive Art & Design, Performance, the Body, Sound, Kinetic Art, Video, Systems Thinking

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