Experimental Media Arts' Artist in Residence Lecture Series: Camille Utterback and Heike Liss

Artist Talk: Camille Utterback and Heike Liss Camille Utterback is an internationally acclaimed artist whose interactive installations and sculptures engage participants in a dynamic process of kinesthetic discovery and play. Her exhibit history includes more than fifty shows on four continents. Awards include a Transmediale International Media Art Festival Award (2005), a Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship (2002), and a US Patent (2004). Collectors of her work include the Whitney Museum, Hewlett Packard, and the La Caixa Foundation. Utterback holds a BA in Art from Williams College, and a Masters degree from The Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. German-born artist Heike Liss studied Ethnology and Social Anthropology at the University of Tübingen. In 2002 she received her Master of Fine Arts from Mills College. Her work has been shown in Europe, Canada, and North and South America. She has collaborated with a variety of artists, which include choreographer François Verret, composers Fred Frith and Patrice Scanlon, artists Michael Trigilio, Ellen Lake and Nomi Talisman, as well as poet Lyn Hejinian. Liss works in video, photography, and site-specific installation and intervention to explore recurrent events of day-to day life. In recent years she has also acted as a curator.