Camille Utterback
2011-12 Mohr Visiting Artist
The Stanford University Department of Art and Art History hosted San Francisco-based artist Camille Utterback during the winter 2012 term as the first Mohr Visiting Artist.
The Mohr Visiting Artist Program is supported by Nancy and Larry Mohr and administered by the Stanford Arts Institute.
Related Course
Artstudi 176: Time Shifts – Camille Utterback
Registrar’s listing: Examine how both individual perceptions and artistic representations of time have historically shifted with changes in technology. What are the current possibilities to extend/re-imagine how we represent time using digital tools? How do these possibilities, in turn, re-inform traditional media? This is a conceptual and experimental class with a studio focus. Examples are mainly from an art context, but include interaction design, information visualization, and scientific illustration of time-based events and processes. Students should have previous experience with a set of digital tools – Photoshop, FinalCutPro, AfterEffects, or a programming language that will allow you to digitally manipulate images. Assignments include exercises using traditional media, and digitally based projects. Occasional writing assignments also required.
About Camille Utterback
Camille Utterback is a pioneering artist whose interactive installations and reactive sculptures engage participants in a dynamic process of kinesthetic discovery and play. Her work explores the aesthetic and experimential possibilities of linking computational systems to human movement and gesture in playful, yet subtly layered ways, and focuses attention on the continued relevance and richness of the body in our increasingly mediated world. Utterback’s extensive exhibit history includes more than fifty shows on four continents. Awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2009), a Transmediale International Media Art Festival Award (2005), a Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship (2002), a Whitney Museum commission for their ArtPort website (2002), and a US Patent (2001). Her work is in the collections of The La Caiza Foundation (Spain), Itau Cultural (Brazil), 21C Museum (Louisville, KY), Hewlett Packard, The Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, and other private collectors. Recently completed public commissions include works for the City of St. Louis Park, Minnesota (2009), the City of San Jose, California (2010), and the Sacramento Airport, California (2011). Utterback holds a BA in Art from Williams College, and a Masters degree from The Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
