International Media Art Award
of the Arts Foundation NRW
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Los Angeles-based artists Julia Meltzer and David Thorne produce videos, photographs, installations, and published texts. From 1999 to 2003, their projects centered on state secrecy and the production of the past. Current works focus on the ways in which visions of the future are imagined, claimed, and realized, specifically in relation to faith and global politics.
Recent projects have been exhibited in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Akbank Sanat Gallery (Istanbul), the 2006 California Biennial, Apex Art (New York), Momenta (New York), and as part of the Hayward Gallery’s (London) traveling exhibition program. Video work has been screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The New York Video Festival, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival, among many others.
Julia Meltzer is an artist and director of Clockshop, a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles. She has produced videos and installations for exhibition, screening, and broadcast for the past fifteen years. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Toronto International Film Festival. As a director and founder of Clockshop, Julia has worked with both artists and civic leaders to produce events and public art projects in the city of Los Angeles. She received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a recipient of an Art Matters grant, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Damascus, Syria in 2005–6.
David Thorne lives and works in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of a 2007 Art Matters grant and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, and a 2004 recipient of a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship. David completed his MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2004. He recently collaborated with Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, and Katya Sander on the project 9 Scripts from a Nation at War for documenta 12.
Recent projects have been exhibited in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Akbank Sanat Gallery (Istanbul), the 2006 California Biennial, Apex Art (New York), Momenta (New York), and as part of the Hayward Gallery’s (London) traveling exhibition program. Video work has been screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The New York Video Festival, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival, among many others.
Julia Meltzer is an artist and director of Clockshop, a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles. She has produced videos and installations for exhibition, screening, and broadcast for the past fifteen years. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Toronto International Film Festival. As a director and founder of Clockshop, Julia has worked with both artists and civic leaders to produce events and public art projects in the city of Los Angeles. She received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a recipient of an Art Matters grant, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Damascus, Syria in 2005–6.
David Thorne lives and works in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of a 2007 Art Matters grant and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, and a 2004 recipient of a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship. David completed his MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2004. He recently collaborated with Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, and Katya Sander on the project 9 Scripts from a Nation at War for documenta 12.
