Pat Badani

7631 N. Bosworth #2S
Chicago, Illinois
USA - 60626
Email: pbadani@ilstu.edu
http://www.ibiblio.org/pbadani

 

Education

- M.F.A -School of the Art Institute of Chicago ( USA )

- B.F.A. - University of Alberta ( Canada )

Areas of specialization: Inter-media / contemporary theory.

 

Biographical information

- Canadian artist, of Italian descent, born in Buenos Aires , Argentina .

- Lives and works in Chicago, Montreal and Buenos Aires.

- Assistant Professor (tenure track) Integrated Media, at Illinois State University, USA.

 

New Media Screenings / Events

(* indicates a publication accompanies the exhibition / screening)

2005

-*FILE International Electronic Festival & Symposium. Centro Cultural FIESP, São Paulo, Brazil.

-*Extasy - the final show / [R]-[R]-[F] 2005 – JavaMuseum. Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art.

Global networking project featured on occasion of Impact/ME/05 – Bethlehem/Tel-Aviv/ Cologne (Palestine, Israel and Germany).

2004

- *“Technography - Old and New Forms, New Forms Festival ‘04”, The Vancouver Art Gallery, BC , Canada .

In conference project presentation of "Where are you from?"

- *[R][R][F] 2004 [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork], Screened at the National Museum of Contemporary Art

Bucharest , Romania.

2001

*Net_Working, Watershed Media Center . Bristol , UK . Simultaneously screened at:

- “CHArt Annual Conference” ( Computers and the History of Art ) , British Academy . London , UK .

- “ 4th International Conference : New Technologies and Methodologies in Art, Media and Design”,

Rajabhat Institute Suan Sunandha, Bangkok , Thailand .

- * De-Globalizing-Re-Globalizing, Medi@terra , Art & Tech Micro-Museum traveling to Art Centers in

Greece , the Balkans and Germany , culminating in the Frankfurt International Book Fair.

- * NETaforas v3, MECAD Media Art Center , Barcelona , Spain .

2000

- * Revelations, ISEA 2000 (10 th International Symposium on Electronic Art) , Forum des Images, Paris ,

France .

 

Solo exhibitions

(Selection) (* indicates a publication accompanies the exhibition)

2003

1997

1994

1990

1988

 

 

1986

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- *Where Life is Better, I space, Chicago Gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , USA .

- * Tower-Tour , Canadian Cultural Center, Paris , France .

- * R'évolution des particules , Maison de l'Amérique Latine, Paris , France .

- Transferts, Art Conseil, Paris , France .

- Future text panel , Galerie Aubes, Montreal , Canada .

- * Textos posibles , Galeria Kahlo-Coronel , Mexico City, Mexico .

- * Ruinas de Olor Liquido , Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City , Mexico .

- * Image-Object , traveling exhibition to the following Art Centers and Museums in Mexico :

-Foro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City .

-Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, Toluca .

-Instituto de Cultura de Queretaro .

-Casa de Cultura de Morelia .

-Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes.

-Museo de Monterrey.

-Museo Francisco Goitea, Zacatecas.

-Centro Cultural de San Luis de Potosi .

1984

 

 

 

1983

1979

1978

- On the Wall , Connexion Gallery, Fredericton , New Brusnwick , Canada .

- * Border Space, Mount Allison University Owens Gallery, Sackville.

- * Cross-way puzzles, Galerie d'Art de l'Université de Moncton , New Brunswick , Canada .

- Cross-way puzzles, Dresden Gallery, Halifax , Canada .

- Boxed Works , Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Moncton , New Brunswick , Canada .

- * Moody Scapes, Dalhousie University Gallery, Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada .

- Moody Scapes, The New Brunswick Museum , St. John , New Brusnwick , Canada .

 

Group Exhibitions

(Selection) (* indicates a publication accompanies the exhibition)

2001

1997

1993

 

1990

- Synesthesia: The Next Generation in Art, Wood Street Gallery. Chicago , USA .

- *Géographiques , FRAC Corse et Pallazu Naziunale, Corsica , France .

- Livre Merveille , Galerie Isabelle Bongard, Halle aux Blés, Saint Malo , France .

- * Expressions Actuelles, Espace Chevreul, Nanterre , France .

- *Dibujo de mujeres contemporaneas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City .

- Artistas en residencia, Galeria de Artes Plasticas, Consejo para la cultura y las artes, Mexico City .

- Siete mujeres al acecho , Conjunto Ollin Yolitzli, Mexico City .

- Panorama 1, Galeria Expositum , Mexico City.

1987

1984

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- *Imagenes traspuestas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City .

- * 3D-NB-200. Traveling to the following Centers and Museums in Canada :

- Galerie Restigouche et Centre National d'Exposition, New Brunswick .

- Musée de Madawaska, Nouveau Brunswick.

- Confederation Centre Art Gallery , Prince Edward Island .

- Memorial University Art Gallery , Newfoundland .

- Saint Mary's University Art Gallery , Nova Scotia .

- Musée de Rimouski , Quebec .

- Musée de Bas Saint Laurent , Quebec .

1982

1981

1980

1979

1978

- *Shell Atlantic , Shell Centre, Calgary , Alberta , Canada .

- * Moncton Collects, Galerie d'Art de l'Université de Moncton , Moncton , Canada .

- *Young Contemporaries '80, London Regional Art Gallery , London , Ontario , Canada .

- * XVIII Premi International de Dibuix Joan Miro, Fondacio Joan Miro, Barcelona , Spain .

- * Young Contemporaries '78. Traveling to the following Centers and Museums in Canada :

- London Regional Art Gallery , Ontario .

- Art Gallery of Brant, Ontario .

- Peter Whyte Gallery , Nova Scotia .

- Surrey Art Gallery , British Columbia .

- National Exhibition Center , New Brunswick .

- Centennial Art Gallery , Nova Scotia .

- Memorial Art Gallery , Newfoundland.

 

Autonomous Interventions in International Public Zones

2005

 

 

 

 

2002 / 03

 

2002

1999

 

 

1997

1996 / 97

1990

- Where are you from? Where are you going? Inter-media Community event at "Metropolis"; Chicago , USA.

- North-South-East-West 5.0 - The Fire Ceremony. Transnational Webcast video performance:

Ottawa/Chicago in collaboration with New Media artist Graham Thompson,

exhibited as keynote presentation at the International Conference of the Creative Design Exchange of Aboriginal

Culture at the Chung Yuan Christian University of Taiwan (www.cycu.edu.tw)

- Where are you from?, Research interviews in Chicago , Mexico City, Buenos Aires , Montreal ,

Toronto and Paris .

- The Free Biennial, exhibition of non-monetary artworks held in greater New York City .

- Housebroken, Urban and Internet project involving medical specialists in Paris , France .

- Cultures & Ferments , Community project involving Bakers at “Poilane Bakery” in Paris .

- Urban Projects, Community project involving Bakers at “Poilane Bakery” in Paris .

- Metropolis , project conducted in Alicante , Spain .

- Borderlines , project conducted with "Snake" in various sites in Argentina , Canada , Italy , Spain and France .

- Robin-Hood Project , Community project involving a family of weavers in Oaxaca , Mexico .

 

Publications / Exhibition catalogues

2005

 

 

 

 

 

2004

 

2003

 

2001

 

2000

 

1997

 

1997

 

1994

1992

1991

1991

1989

1988

1986

1984

1984

 

1982

1980

1979

1978

 

- FILE International Electronic Festival & Symposium. Centro Cultural FIESP, São Paulo, Brazil.

Catalogue citation: page 99. Introduction by Cicero Inacio da Silva.

- Le pain par Poilane by Lionel Poilane. Cherche midi editor, Paris, France, 2005, pp.317-318.

- Contact Zones: Edge in ‘Portable Cities’ and ‘FragMental Storm’, by Melanie Swalwell, essay published in: 

New Zealand Electronic Text Center -2005. New Zealand Journal of Media Studies Vol. 9, Victoria University of

Wellington, New Zealand. My Research paper Where are you from? The Networked Sphere, is referenced in this essay.         

- Technography, Old and New Forms, New Forms Festival '04, The Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, Canada.

Catalogue citation: page 27. Introduction by K. Lee and M. Levy.

Where life is Better. I space, The Chicago Gallery of The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Solo exhibition catalogue. Introduction by Valerie Lamontagne.

- Mediaterra: De-globalizing / Re-Globalizing. Fournos Media Art Center , Athens . Introduction by

Catalogue citation: page 79. Introduction by Manthos Santorineos.

- ISEA 2000_Revelation , Forum des Images, Paris .

Catalogue citation: page 126. Introduction by Nils Aziosmanoff.

- Tower-Tour, Canadian Cultural Centre. Texts by C. Bédard and Ch. Domino.

ISNB -896940-04-8.

- Géographiques, FRAC Corse, Corte. Texts by A. Alessandri and Ch. Domino.

ISNB 2-910426-10-6.

- R'évolution des particules, Maison de l'Amérique Latine, Paris. Text by J. Leenhardt.

- Expresions Actuelles, Espace Chevreul, Nanterre . Text by C. Frerot.

- Dibujo de mujeres contempoaneas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico . Text by R. Tibol.

- Textos posibles, Galeria Kahlo-Coronel , Mexico . Text by Juan Coronel.

- Ruinas de olor liquido, Museo Universitario del Chopo , Mexico . Text by P. Badani.

- Imagenes traspuestas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico . Text by C. Blas Galindo.

- Image-Object, traveling exhibition through 8 museums in Mexico . Text by R. Tibol.

- Border Space, Mount Allison University Owens Gallery, Sackville. Text by H. Chiasson.

- 3D .NB.200, Galerie Restigouche, Centre National d'Exposition and traveling in Canada .

Catalogue citation : pp. 15 to 17. Texts by S.Smith and H. Chiasson.

- Shell Atlantic , Shell Resources Centre, Calgary . Text by R. Dietz.

- Young Contemporaries '80 , London Regional Art Gallery . Text by P. O'Brien.

- Moody-Scapes, Dalhousie University Art Gallery , Halifax . Text by C. Frazer.

- Young Contemporaries '78 , London Regional Art Gallery and traveling in Canada .

Catalogue citation: pp. 3 to 4. Text by P. O'Brien.

 

Reviews / Articles / Interviews:

BAUER, N. “Art out of a place, New Brunswick Bicentennial Exhibition.” ArtsAtlantic #20, Canada , 1984.

BEDARD, C. “Tower-Tour”, Introduction to the Exhibition catalogue. Canadian Cultural Center, Paris , France . 1997.

BLAS GALINDO, C. “Pat Badani”, Artes Visuales, El Financiero #23, Mexico, 1990.

ESPINOSA DE LOS MONTEROS,S. “Pat Badani, complice de sus suenos”, Vertigo #18, Mexico , 1988.

FRY. G. “The Bright Side of the Coin”, ArtAtalntic, winter/Spring, Canada , 1980.

GONZALES-QUIJANO, J. “Imagenes Traspuestas”, El Universal , Mexico , September 5, 1987.

GONZALES-QUIJANO, J. “Pat Badani, femininidad y agresion”, El Universal , Mexico , January 23, 1988.

GURHOLTZ, S. “Exploring Art Media”, interview for F.C.T.V. television channel # 10, New Brunswick , August 26, 1986.

JOHNSON, J. “Herbarium, Art Holds Mirror up to Nature”, Mexico City News , Mexico , July 2, 1988.

KILFOIL, C. “Coup d'Oeil”, interview for C.B.F.A.T. television channel #11, New Brunswick , April 6, 1983.

De LUNA, A. “Pat Badani, pinturas de la sugerencia”, Uno mas Uno, cultural section, Mexico, October 22,1988.

De LUNA, A. “El Arte en Mexico ”, Uno mas Uno, cultural section, Mexico , December 20, 1988.

DOMINO , CH. “On creuse la fosse de Bable”, BEDARD, C. “Tower-Tour”, Introduction to the Exhibition catalogue. Canadian cultural Center, Paris , France . 1997.

DOMINO, CH, “Pat Badani”, article in the exhibition catalogue, “Geographiques”, FRAC Corse, Corsica , France , 1997.

LAMONTAGNE, V. “Where Life is Better”, Valerie Lamontagne interviews Pat Badani, Exhibition catalogue, I Space, Chicago, USA, September 5, 2003.

MACMASTERS,M. “Los colores y sabores de la mujer en el Foro de Arte Contemporaneo.” El Nacional , Mexico , August 6, 1986.

MC NAIRN, A. “3D-NB-200, Works by Fifteen New Brunswick Sculptors”, ArtsAtlantic # 21, Canada, 1975.

MOYSSEN, X. “Mujer-imagen-objeto”, El Porvenir, cultural section, Mexico , November 21, 1987.

O'BRIEN, P. “Young Contemporaries'78”, Arts Canada , Canada , December/January 1979.

OXMAN, N. “Contra el arte, por el arte”, Uno mas Uno, cultural section, Mexico , November 21, 1987.

PINEDA , M.E. “La pintura de Pat Badani” El Sol de Mexico en la Cultura , Mexico , August 10, 1986.

PYTHOUD, L. “Clin d'œil”, L'Oeil magazine international d'art # 468, France , January-February 1995.

De RIVERO, N. “Las Causas de las Mujeres”, interview for “Radio Educacion”, Mexico , July 1986.

ROSENFELD, R. “Pat Badani: On the Wall”, ArtsAtlantic , Canada , March 1985.

SABAT, C. “Visual Arts in Review”, The Daily Gleaner, New Brunswick :

-June 9, 1978;
-16 June, 1979;
-October 21, 1979;
-September 6, 1980;
-November 1, 1980;
-February 7, 1981;
-October 30, 1982;
-September 17, 1983;
-June 9, 1984,
-October 19, 1986.

SANCHEZ-MENDOZA, C.G. “Pat Badani, una expresion de la realidad”, El Heraldo , Mexico , October 19,1986.

SANTOSCOY, T. “Seductora y extrana exposicion de Pat Badani”, El Sol de Mexico en la Cultura , Mexico , July 22, 1986.

SCOTT-FOX, L. “Dibujo de mujeres contemporaneas”, Artes de Mexico, Nueva Epoca # 11, Mexico, Spring 1991.

TIBIOL, R. “Pat Badani, femeninidad y argresion”. Introduction to the “Mujer objeto” exhibition catalogue, foro de Arte contemporaneo, Mexico City , Mexico .

TIBOL, R. “Ser y ver mujeres en las artes visuales”, pp. 10 to 14. Plaza & Janez, 2002.

TOWNSEND-GAULT, C. “Pat Badani, Owens Gallery”, Vanguard , Canada , November 1984.

VILLEGAS, T. “Pat Badani, Canadian Cultural Centre”, Art Nexus # 26, International. October-

November, 1997.

 

Net Archives of participating Events / Festivals

http://www.file.org.br

http://www.file.org.br/works.php?works_id=1044&lang=en

http://rhizome.org/member.rhiz?user_id=1000315

http://www.isea2000.com/an/pop_symp_village.htm

http://www.mecad.org/netaforas_v3/intro-on-line.htm

http://www.dshed.net/networking/content/categories/other.html

http://www.stunned.org/imma/netart_open.htm

http://www.istanbulmuseum.org/reload/

http://www.freewords.org/biennial/artist/hometrans.html

http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004/parti04.htm

http://www.newformsfestival.com/ (NFF04-Technography)

http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/pp/eventd.cgi?e=24953&date=

http://www.treasurecrumbs.com/theupgrade/international-artists.html

http://www.javamuseum.org/2005/final/index.html

http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/kuenst.htm

 

Public Collections

-Museum Collection, Alberta Culture 

-The Canada Council Art Bank 

-New Brunswick Art Bank 

-University of New Brunswick  

-Bank of Montreal  

-Shell Canada Resources 

-Norcen Energy Resources 

-Imperial Oil 

-Royal Bank of Canada

Her works are included in private collections in several countries.

 

Art Grants

- Illinois State University

2006 - Large University Research Grant

2005 - Professional Development Grant (travel)

2004 - Professional Development Grant (travel)

- The Illinois Arts Council

2003 - Exhibition Assistance Grant

- The Canada Council for the Arts

2005- Media Arts Travel Grant

2004- Media Arts Travel Grant

2002- Media Arts Research Grant to Established Artists ($20,000 One-Year Grant)

2001- Media Arts Presentation Grant

2000- Media Arts Presentation Grant

1986-87- “B” Grant ($15,000 One-Year Grant)

1983- Long Term Project Grant

1980- Short Term Project Grant

1979- Visiting Artist Grant

- Cultural Resources Department , New Brunswick , Canada

1987- Project Grant

1983- Project Grant

1979- Project Grant

1978- Project Grant

- Mexico-Canada Project Grant

1991- Economic Development Branch of the State of Oaxaca , Mexico

 

Collaborations for the development of art projects involving :

-Multimedia production

-Audiovisual production

-Industry

-Transdisciplinary Collaborations and co-authorships

-Artists' collectives

2002

 

2000

1999

1999

 

1996

1994 / 97

1993

 

1990 / 93

1987

1982 / 84

- Where are you from, Performance & Webcast project – Pat Badani and an Interdisciplinary Research

Board from the USA , Canada , France and Singapore .

- Home Transfer, Net_Art - Pat Badani and architects in the USA , France and India .

- Housebroken, Urban and Internet project- Pat Badani and medical specialists in Paris , France .

- Directions-Direcciones, CDRom project , ZYGOTE productions - Paris , France .

- Last and Least, Smoke, Audiovisual production ZYGOTE productions - Paris , France .

- Urban Projects, Community project – Pat Badani and Bakers in Paris , France .

- Poilâne , Paris , food industry, bread-bowl production-Paris, France

- La Mise en songe, Pat Badani/Claude Beausoleil , interactive 3D book -co-authorship with writer in

transit between Montreal , Mexico City and Paris .

- Robin-Hood Project, Pat Badani/Lucio Aquino , Community project in Oaxaca , Mexico .

- La Quinonera (Alternative Space), contributing artist - artists' collective in Mexico City .

- ConneXion ( Alternative Space) founding member - artists' collective in Fredericton , N.B., Canada .

 

Published Essays - Lectures – Panel Discussions

2006

 

2005

 

 

 

 

 

2004

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

2002

2001

2000

1998

1987

1987

1981

- Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction. Panel member. Colloquium in Visual Culture Roundtable.

Department of Art History, School of Art, Illinois State University.

- FILE International Electronic Festival & Symposium. Symposium participant. Centro Cultural FIESP, São Paulo, Brazil.

Paper published online: http://www.file.org.br/file2005/textos/symposium/eng/patriciabadani.htm.

-Where are you from? Where are we going-Technological space across contemporary global sites?

Paper published in conference proceedings. International Conference on Art and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

-Where are you from? – The Networked Sphere. Colloquium speaker. Center for Art and Technology,

Northwestern University, Evanston, Il.

-Where are you from? – Making Art of Databases. Colloquium speaker. Electronic Visualization Laboratory,

University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, USA.

-Where are you from? – The Networked Sphere. Paper published in conference proceedings.

New Forms Festival ‘04, International Conference, Old and New Forms:

A Post-Traditional Technography Of World Media Arts, Vancouver Art Gallery,Vancouver, BC, Canada.

-Inter-Media practice. Lecturer. Film, Video and New Media Deaprtment. School of the Art Institute of Chicago,Illinois, USA.

- Social Space & Subjectivity, Artist Lecture, College of Fine and Applied Arts,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Illinois , USA .

- Artist Lecture, School of Art, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, USA.

- Artist Lecture, Art Department , Sacramento State University , Sacramento , California , USA .

- S.A.I.C Presenters. Society of Photographic Educators. National Conference. Cincinnati , Ohio , USA .

- New Technologies /Cultural and Commercial Partners. Canadian Cultural Center. Paris , France .

- The Cultural Politics of Postmodernism– Graduate Center , City University of New York . USA .

- Arte joven : Mexico/Cuba – Museo de Arte Moderno. Mexico City , Mexico .

- CARFAC National Conference (Canadian Artist Representation), Ottawa , Ontario , Canada .

 

Jury Member

2006- End of year show: “Manifest.” Columbia College, Interactive Arts and Media, Chicago, IL, USA.

1983- National Selection Committee for the Canada Council Art Bank . Canada .

1982- Regional Selection Committee for the New Brunswick Art Bank. Canada .

1976- Regional Selection Committee for Alberta Culture. Canada .

 

Research Interests

Contemporary Art and New Media theory

Visual culture

Social Space & Subjectivity / Communicational Space

Net.art / database art

Psychogeography

Spatio-temporal constructions linking physical and virtual territories

 

Languages

- English

- Spanish

- French

- Reads only : Portuguese, Italian


 
Projects 2006 - 1999
-New Media Projects
-Where Life is Better
-Housebroken
Projects 1999 - 1997
-Cultures & Ferments
-Borderlines
-Tower-Tour
Projects 1997 - 1993
-Géographiques
-R'èvolution des Particules
-Photo/Drawing
Professional Information
-Biographic Note
-C.V.
-Statement / Texts
e-mail: pbadani@ilstu.edu


all images © Pat Badani 1990-2006