SCOTT KILDALL    CV + statement

Resides:  California

 

I work at the intersection of media culture and human memory. My artwork depicts collapse: between producer and consumer, viewer and viewed and simulated and real. I appropriate material, bend rules of consent, restage events and invite viewers to alter my exhibited pieces. These acts and products reflect a shift in cultural production — where ownership dips into a zone of ambiguity and image and sound is widely recycled. 

I use video, installation, prints, sculpture and performance to express desires for human connection through a changing media landscape. In a recent project, I approached people at public events and asked them for a photograph. Instead, I took video. From these hundreds of clips, I compiled a 40-minute edit of strangers waiting in anticipation and smiling towards the unknown.

Lately, I have been using Second Life — an online world with simulated physical space — as a site for artistic inquiry. Here, I remediate iconic performances and realize “imaginary objects” as paper sculptures. Traditional and new media collide then recombine into a hybrid form. The notion of the original form sinks in wake of these acts. My work reveals how human express emotions in this new topography.

 

Education

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, M.F.A., Art & Technology Studies (2004-2006)

Brown University, Bachelor of Arts, Political Philosophy

        Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007  Crossing the Void, Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery, Ireland

        Imaginary Souvenirs, Mission 17, San Francisco

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008  Innovation and Imagination, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle

        The Art of the Found Object, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, Georgia

I feel that I am free but I know that I am not, SF Camerawork, San Francisco

        Open Ear in Cardiff, curated by Garrett Lynch, ATRiuM, Cardiff, Wales

        Close To You, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto

        Mediating Bodies, curated by Natalie Loveless, Western Front, Vancouver

        Sonic Residues, SAC Art Gallery, Stony Brook University, NY

        Mixed Realities, curated by JoAnne Greene, Huret & Spector Gallery, Boston

 

        2007  Close to You, curated by Sarah Quinton, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax

        Wrath of Kong: Second Front Performance, Performa 07, New York

        Tools of Culture, Koscielak Gallery, Chicago

        Chain Reaction, Art Engine, San Francisco

        Altered States, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley

        One Night Stand, San Jose Art Museum, San Jose

        CrossMediale 2, Koscielak Gallery, Chicago

        Retinal Reverb, Audio Cinema, Portland

        Resurfacing, Haskett Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus

        Zemos98, Official Selection, Sevilla, Spain

        AGYU Curated Video, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto

        A View With A Room, Myers Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma

        Stranger Than Fiction, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki

 

2006  DigitCircula, part of DUSK by Raul Zamudio, DIVA Art Fair, Miami

        Fresh, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley

        Yanaguana, Unit B Gallery, San Antonio

        CrossMediale 1, Koscielak Gallery, Chicago

        Grown Accustomed, Crawl Space, Seattle

        Space, Place & Interface, LiveBox Gallery, Chicago

        All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, Gallery 2, Chicago

        Obscure Memory, Gallery 2, Chicago

        The Man Box and Beyond, The Lab, San Francisco

        Six Flags, Commerce Street Space, Houston

 

2005  Mash-Up, Gallery 2, Chicago

        Aqua Art Sound Broadcast, Aqua Art Miami, Miami

        Manipulations, Gallery 2, Chicago

        Day Care Center, Galeria Noua, Bucharest, Romania, June

        Version>05 Invincible Desire, Heaven Gallery, Chicago

 

2004  Underfoot, START Soma Gallery, San Francisco

        The 2004 Fire Arts Festival, The Crucible, Oakland

        Mediums, The Canvas Gallery, San Francisco

 

2003  Wide Open, Cataclysmic Studios, San Francisco

        Back to Front, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco

 

2002  Art That Moves II, CELLSpace, San Francisco

        Art in a Browser and Other Electronic Oddities, Spanganga, San Francisco

        Raise the Frequency, DNA Lounge, San Francisco

        Containment, The Shipyard, San Francisco
 

Residencies and Awards

Extending Creativity in Digital Media, Anderson Ranch, 2008

Mixed Realities, Turbulence Commission, 2007

The Future of Idea Art, Residency at Banff Centre for the Arts, 2006

2006 Kala Fellowship Award, Berkeley California, 2006

 

Selected Press

        Virtual Work, Real World, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, April 2^nd, 2008

        Scott Kildall’s Memory Projects, NY Arts, January-February 2008

        In The Galleries, Jakki K. Spicer, The East Bay Express, August 15^th, 2007

        Spark Artist Profile, KQED Television, August 1^st, 2007

        Artist Profile: Public Radio Tulsa (NPR Affiliate), Rich Fisher, January 9^th, 2007

        Two Installations Offer Different Look, James D. Watts Jr., January 10^th, 2007

Yanaguana: Polvo, Est. 1996 at Unit B, Wendy Atwell, …might be good, October 6^th, 2006

Hidden Talent Sees Light of Day at Crawl Space, Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

July 1^st, 2006
The Masculine Mystique, Sharon Mizota, SF Weekly, April 26, 2006

        Every Man for Himself, Shelley Risk, SFist, April 14, 2006

        All Male Revue, Bob Calaway, Art Fever, April 14, 2006

        Version>05:Invincible Desire, Chicago Reader, April 22, 2005

        A Working-Class Do-It-Yourself World’s Fair, Chris Carlsson, Processed World, Issue 2005, Winter 2004-2005

        Hot Wheels, Scott Nicol, Bicycling, August 2004

 

         Writings and Talks

        “From Cinema to Machinima”, Panelist and Performance, moderated by Christiane Paul and Lynn Hershman, San Francisco Art Institute, April 2007

        “Real World Implications of Virtual Economies”, Panelist, Floating Point, Emerson College, Boston, February 2007

        “Digital Art Practices”, San Francisco State University, December 2007

        “Art Practice in a Simulated World”, Panelist, SLCC, Chicago, August 2007

        “Re-Collecting”, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, May 2007

        “Video Viewing”, Living Arts, Tulsa, January 2007

        “Anticipation and Electronic Media”, Art Institute of San Francisco, Artist Talk, December 2006

        “Second Frontier: A Virtual Geography”, Banff Centre, October 2006

        “Capturing Time”, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Artist Talk, March 2006

        “Urban Alterations”, Expo For The Artist and Musician, Summer, 2005

        “Urban Retrofitters”, Povlo Magazine, Spring 2005

        “NOW:Current Events and Art Practice”, Panelist, San Francisco Art Institute, March 2002