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Thursday, 03 November 2005 |
Shannon Spanhake works at the intersection of
contemporary art, science, engineering, and urbanism. Her work takes
the form of public interventions, engineered organisms, and tangible
media installations. It investigates the transformative potential of
new technologies and reconfigured social ecologies to address issues
embedded within information politics, popular culture, and
geographic/cultural territory. An important part of Spanhake’s artistic
strategy is to enable public discourse by providing access to
information through the development of alternate modes of articulation
in the production of knowledge.
Spanhake has recently been nominated for the Emerging Designer Award
for 2005 through Rhode Island School of Design and is a recent
recipient of a funding grant through the Center for Humanities. She has
recently exhibited her work at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the MCA
in San Diego, in addition to galleries around the US and
internationally. She began her studies with a B.S. with honors in
Electrical Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, and went
on to receive a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She is currently working towards her M.F.A. at the University of
California, San Diego where she is a research assistant in both Milton
Saier’s molecular biology lab and in Ricardo Dominguez, B.A.N.G lab at
CalIT2. Spanhake also co-founded Lui Velazaquez, a research center in
Tijuana, Baja Mexico and is also the founder of the collective DoEAT,
Inc.
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