ASU Herberger College School of Art Faculty:
2006-2007 Exhibition

April 14 through September 9, 2007

MURIEL MAGENTA

Muriel Magenta
Club M: Avatars, 2007
Video
42" flat monitor
Courtesy of Murial Magenta, Anna Thorlaksdottir, Andrew Sullivan, Robert Bergan and Tim Garner

Muriel Magenta

Muriel Magenta is a “new-genre” artist working in video, computer art, Web technology, installation, multimedia performance and sculpture. She explores the interface among various electronic media, while continuing her involvement with gallery installation. Her larger objective is to create a visual experience in an actual space, and then transmit it over electronic networks into virtual environments and vice versa.  In Club M: Avatars, she pursues this approach to creative research.

Club M: Avatars features a diverse group of Magenta’s animated female characters. She considers each character an alter ego, simulating a discrete aspect of her own persona. The avatars reside at Club M, a cyberspace locale with an internet address. They appear on video in actual spaces for specific museum and gallery installations. In this work, the avatars are juxtaposed on an animated street mural, referencing Magenta’s urban background.

Solo exhibitions of Magenta’s installations have been presented at: LACE, Los Angeles; University of Southern California; Kansas City Art Institute; Gallery 10, Washington, DC; Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; City Bank (57th and Park Avenue), New York; Scottsdale Center for the Arts; and the ASU Art Museum at Arizona State University.

Magenta’s video works have been screened internationally and throughout the U.S. including: Internationaler Videokunstpreis, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; 14th International Hamburg Short Film Festival, Germany; 2nd Microwave Festival, Hong Kong; Brussels International Film Festival; New Cinema: 33rd Pesaro Film Festival, Rome; Medien Operative Berlin; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany.

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