The following is a condensed version of Marie Sester’s résumé.
Education
1980 Architect DPLG Degree (M Arch), Ecole d’Architecture de Strasbourg, France
2023 Ph.D. in Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, USA
Academic Affiliations and Residencies
| 2011 | Adjunct Professor, Parsons The New School, Media, Arts and Technology, New York, USA |
| 2005 | Artist Residency, California Institute of the Arts, Center for Integrated Media, USA |
| 2004 | Artist Residency, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2003 | Artist Residency, Eyebeam, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Associate Artist/Researcher, The SMARTlab Center at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK |
| 2001 | Artist Residency, IAMAS, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan |
| 2000 | Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, USA |
| 1999 | Artist Residency, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, USA |
| 1993 | Artist Residency, Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto, Japan |
Awards and Grants
| 2011 | Recipient, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant, New York, USA |
| 2009 | Nominee, Alpert Awards Film and Video, Valencia, CA, USA |
| 2005 | Nominee, VIPER International Competition 2005, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2005 | Nominee, Rockefeller New Media Fellowship 2006, New York, USA |
| 2004 | Recipient, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant, New York, USA |
| 2004 | Recipient, Franklin Furnace Fund Grant and Residency, New York, USA |
| 2004 | Recipient, LEF Foundation Grant, California, USA |
| 2004 | Recipient, Webby Award, Net Art category, USA |
| 2003 | Honorary Mention, Interactive Arts, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
| 2002 | Recipient, Creative Capital Foundation, Emerging Fields Grant, New York, USA |
Select Solo Exhibitions and Acquisitions
| 2008 | Niklas Belenius Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2008 | Public Gallery, West Bromwich, UK (commission/acquisition) |
| 2008 | gallery@calit2, University of California, San Diego, USA |
| 2007 | Fargfabriken, Laboratory of the Contemporary, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2006 | California Institute of the Arts (Calarts), Valencia, CA, USA |
| 2005 | ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (acquisition) |
| 2005 | Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, USA |
| 2004 | The Kitchen, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Eyebeam, New York, USA |
| 2002 | Softopia Center, Gifu, Japan |
| 2000 | with Alain Bublex Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, USA (commission) |
Select Group Exhibitions
| 2015 | « Face2Face » A-part Festival International d’art contemporain Alpilles/Provence, France |
| 2014 | « Parcours Numérique » Centre Commercial Qwartz, Villeneuve la Garenne, France. Curated by Carine Le Malet, Le Cube Art Center, Paris. Permanent installation “ACCESS@Qwartz” (Collection Altarea-Cogedim) |
| 2011 | « Architecture of Fear » Z33 – House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium (catalog) |
| 2010/11 | « Uncertain Spectator » Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, NY, USA (Commission and catalog) |
| 2010/11 | « Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870» SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), San Francisco, USA (catalog) |
| 2010 | « Resurrectine » Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2009 | « GLOW » Eindhoven, Netherlands (catalog) |
| 2008 | Singapore Biennale 2008 (National Arts Council), Singapore (catalog) |
| 2008 | The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (Media_City Seoul 2008), Seoul, Korea (catalog) |
| 2008 | « Teleport » Fargfabriken Norr, Center for contemporary art & architecture, Ostersund, Sweden (catalog) |
| 2007 | Scope-Miami art fair, presented by Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery NY, Miami, USA |
| 2007 | The Celebrity Media Mash-up, EYEBEAM 10th Anniversary Celebration, New York, USA |
| 2007 | « Feedback » LABoral, Center for Art & Creative Industries, Gijon, Spain (catalog) |
| 2006 | « ON/OFF » Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (catalog) |
| 2005 | « Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht » ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2004 | Villette Numérique Festival, Paris, France |
| 2003 | « Beta Launch 03 » Artists in Residence exhibition, Eyebeam, New York, USA |
| 2003 | « Ars Electronica 2003 » Interactive Art, Linz, Austria (catalog) |
| 2003 | « SIGGRAPH 2003 » Emerging Technologies Exhibition, San Diego, USA (catalog) |
| 2001 | « Blind Vision: video and the limits of perception » San Jose Museum of Art, USA (commission) |
| 2000 | « Light fantastic » curated by Constance Lewallen, San Francisco Art Institute, USA |
| 2000 | « Home » Centre d’Art Contemporain de Pougues-les-Eaux, France |
| 1999 | Rebecca Bournigault, Matthieu Laurette, Marie Sester: « Three French media artists explore the obvious and the unseen » New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA (commission) |
| 1999 | « Souvenir Utopie » Stadthaus Ulm, Germany (catalog/commission) |
| 1999 | « Pacaembù » Laboratoire, Sao Paulo, Brazil (catalog/commission) |
| 1998 | « Renate Buser, Marie Sester, Elizabeth Wright » Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (catalog) |
| 1998 | « Digital mapping: Architecture as media » curated by Hani Rashid, Artists Space, New York, USA (commission) |
| 1997 | Kwangju Biennale, co-curated by Julie Lazar and Richard Koshalek (LAMOCA), Korea (catalog/commission) |
| 1996 | « Arcos da Lapa » Laboratoire, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (catalog/commission) |
| 1994 | Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
Select Press and Media
• Zimmerman, Emily. ‘Interview With Marie Sester.’ Uncertain Spectator. 2010 (http://uncertain.empac.rpi.edu/interviews/sester.html)
• Waelder, Pau.’El arte de la conversacion aumentada.’ Arte, cultura e innovacion. 2010 (http://laboralcentrodearte.uoc.edu/el-arte-de-la-conversacion-aumentada/)
• Cameron, Andy. “Andy Cameron on ACCESS”, V&A Magazine, Winter 2009
• Troika. Digital by Design. London:Thames & Hudson, 2009
• Debatty, Regine. ‘Media_city Seoul, round one.’ We Make Money Not Art. 2008 (http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/art_in_seoul/)
• ‘Meet Marie Sester.’ Singaporebiennale.org September 13, 2008 (http://www.singaporebiennale.org/blog/?p=359)
• Hart, Hugh. ‘Surveillance, a trend to watch.’ LA Times. January 13, 2008 (http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/13/entertainment/ca-surveillance13)
• ‘Marie Sester’, El Niuton, Vol. 4. 2007 (http://www.elniuton.com/erotismo/view_niuton.php?ed=04&pag=71)
• Debatty, Regine. ‘Interview with Marie Sester.’ We Make Money Not Art. 2006 (http://www.wmmna.com/archives/2006/10/you-have-a-back.php)
• ACCESS listed in the “50 Coolest Websites 2004” by Time Magazine Online Edition, USA (http://www.time.com/time/techtime/200406/fun.html)
• Profile of Marie Sester by Holly Willis for the Creative Capital Foundation, December 2002.
Select Publications
| 2003 | L’Architecture du Paradis Artist Pages (p 33-34) appear in Leonardo Journal, Vol. 36, Issue 1 – February 2003, MIT Press, USA |
| 2002 | A. Pilpré, M. Sester, M, Naimark, J-C Terrillon, Y. Niwa, 2002, « ACCESS: A Video-based Tracking Spotlight.» In Proceedings of VSMM 2002, Korea |
| 2000 | « Marie Sester – Quelque chose contraint quelqu’un» – book, with text by J.M. Gleize, published by Al Dante, Paris, France – available at Amazon.fr |
| 1998 | « Four Engines » in La Mazarine, Dec. 98, V118-V119, editions du treize mars, Paris, France |
| 1997 | « The Gate » in SuperUmbau n°2, edited by Ania Corcilius, New York, USA – Hamburg, Germany |
| 1997 | « Les Trois Cités » in Nioques n°1.3, edited by J.M. Gleize, published by Al Dante, Paris, France |
| 1995 | « Ex voto – Dans le paysage » artist book, with Anne Cauquelin, published by Collodion, Marseille, France |
| 1994 | « Elinkine en pays Diola », artist book, with text by G. Barrière, published by Voix R. Meier, Metz, France |
| 1994 | « Hotel Room » catalog, published by the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Rueil-Malmaison, Paris, France |
| 1992 | Réalisation vidéo « Mires, 1992 », Pittiwaf Nelson Production, Strasbourg, France |
| 1990 | « Le beau langage », film 16 mm, Pittiwaf Nelson Production, Strasbourg, France |
Speaking Engagements
| 2013 | Eyebeam – Art + Technology Center, New York, USA |
| 2013 | ITP – Inter Telecommunications Program, New York University, NY, USA |
| 2012 | “Syncretic Transcodings” Symposium, Hexagram|Ciam, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada |
| 2011 | Z33 – House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium |
| 2010 | Pratt Institute –School of Art and Design, New York, USA |
| 2010 | RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Dept of Art, Troy, NY, USA |
| 2009 | University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| 2008 | Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 2008 | Singapore Biennale, City hall, Singapore |
| 2008 | Gallery@calit2, University of California San Diego, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), San Diego, CA, USA |
| 2008 | University of California, Los Angeles /UCLA Department of Art and Design | Media Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| 2005 | CalArts (California Institute of the Arts), CIM – Center for Integrated Media, Valencia, CA, USA |
| 2005 | Rhodes Island School or Design (RISD), Digital Media Department, invited by Christiane Paul, Providence, RI, USA |
| 2004 | Eyebeam – Art + Technology Center, New York, USA |
| 2004 | ACT – The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, directed by Ken Goldberg, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA |
| 2003 | The Kitchen – Center for video, music, dance, performance, film, and literature, Discussion with McKenzie Wark, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Eyebeam, Art + Technology Center, panel with Dan O’Sullivan, New York, USA |
| 2003 | ITP – Inter Telecommunications Program, New York University, NY, USA |
| 2003 | School of visual Arts, New York, USA |
| 2002 | Inter Medium Institute (IMI), Osaka, Japan |
| 2001 | IAMAS – Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, invited by Itsuo Sakane, Ogaki, Japan |
| 2000 | Art Alliance Lab, San Francisco, CA, USA |
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