
Creative Collisions
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Creative Collisions is co-created by The University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative.
Creative Collisions is a new multidisciplinary feature of Tom Tom, bringing together talented professionals from across the arts, sciences and business in a week-long collaborative challenge leading to a final public performance piece. Dedicated to “Visioning the Future,” the program will challenge three teams to create a piece around one of three areas: Health & Education, Race & Identity, Environment & Sustainability.
Through their 20- minute performances, each group will be encouraged to create, explore, and express the individual and collective ideas emerging around the selected topic – helping to show us more about the world we should consider or aspire to inhabit.
Participants include: Claude Wampler, Mary Carroll-Hackett, Sigrid Eilertson, Katie Schetlick, Miller Susen, Rob Richmond, Matthew Slaats, Lindsey Hepler, Cassandra Fraser, Matt Trowbridge, Mark White, Bernard Hankins, Alexis Chaet, Tim Miano, and Adrash Ramakrishan.
PARTICIPANT BIOS
Alexis and Bijan were recently selected as winners of the Voto Latino Innovator’s Challenge, nation-wide tech competition is open to millennials ages 18-35 with projects addressing a need within the Latino community. The team is one of seven winners across the US who will share $500,000 in funds supported by the MacArthur Foundation. Their project involves installation of a tablet-based video-library and clinic connectivity device in migrant camps to bridge barriers of communication with local clinics and to empower farmworkers through health knowledge.
Alexis and Bijan were recently selected as winners of the Voto Latino Innovator’s Challenge, nation-wide tech competition is open to millennials ages 18-35 with projects addressing a need within the Latino community. The team is one of seven winners across the US who will share $500,000 in funds supported by the MacArthur Foundation. Their project involves installation of a tablet-based video-library and clinic connectivity device in migrant camps to bridge barriers of communication with local clinics and to empower farmworkers through health knowledge.
As an artist, Matthew engages in hybrid roles, as an artist, designer, teacher, organizer, and activist, focusing on a unique exploration of the complexities of the contemporary landscape. Situated in the public realm, Matthew’s work initiates ways of understanding the complexity of place, using culture, media, and technology as form for community engagement. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Bagabas Beach International Eco Arts Festival, Open Engagement, Conflux, Eyebeam, LA Contemporary Exhibitions, and the DC Arts Commissions 5×5 project. He has taught in the Urban and Environmental Studies program at Bard College and the Communications Department at Marymount Manhattan College. Matthew holds an MFA and MA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in Art and a BA in Archaeology from the University of Evansville.
Over the past few years Wampler has completed a commissioned installation and video project for the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and a new work for the theater, Present Absence, which premiered at the Kunstenfestival des Arts in Brussels at Kaaistudios. A solo show of her visual work was exhibited in Los Angeles at Richard Telles Fine Art, and in New York she staged a window installation, Bad Job/Cruel World: Stupidity 2001, Part II, US$700 Stunt with Wedgy, for the New Museum for Contemporary Art, as well as a performance/lecture, Richard Wampler, for The Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2002 Wampler created an installation/performance piece, Ambulance, at Diverse Works in Houston and a commissioned large-scale project, Infiltration, for the Museumsquartier in Vienna. She participated in media city seoul 2002 in Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea.
Most recently Claude Wampler mounted three new exhibitions: denislavant in Paris at Menagerie de Verre, Song and Dance (and a good movie) in Lisbon at the Gulbenkian Foundation Center of Modern Art, and Strategies for Stagefright at the Vooruit Arts Center in Gent, Belgium. Song and Dance (and a good movie) was later re-configured for the Rotterdam Film Festival and presented at T.E.N.T./Witte de Witt. This January she finished a new work, Stable (Stupidity Project Part 10), produced by the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts which premiered at Performance Space 122 in New York.
Team #1: Race and Identity
Mary Carroll-Hackett
Bernard Hankins
Tim Miano
Rob Richmond
Mark White
Team #2: Environment and Sustainability
Adarsh Ramakrishnan
Matthew Slaats
Miller Susen
Matt Trowbridge
Claude Wampler
Team #3: Health and Education
Alexis Chaet
Sigrid Eilertson
Cassandra Fraser
Katie Schetlick
Lindsey Hepler
Bijan Morshedi