11 October 2001: Jordan Crandall
Biography
Jordan Crandall is an artist and media theorist. Solo exhibitions during
the past year include the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz;
ARTLAB-Spiral Gallery in Tokyo; the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico
City; the Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie; the Kunst-Werke in
Berlin; Sandra Gering Gallery in New York; the Kitchen in New York; and (in
cooperation with V2_Organization, Rotterdam) the TENT Centrum Beeldende
Kunst in Rotterdam. Group exhibitions include InSITE in San Diego and
Tijuana; Net_Condition and CNtrL[SPACE] at the ZKM in Karlshrue; Greater New
York at PS1 in New York; and Documenta X in Kassel. An anthology of Crandall
's critical writing on technology and culture, with an introduction by Peter
Weibel, will be published in 2001 by Cantz Verlag and the Zentrum für Kunst
und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlshrue. Crandall's current book is
Suspension (Documenta X, 1997). He is co-editor of Interaction: Artistic
Practice in the Network (New York: D.A.P., 2001). Crandall is founding Editor of Blast: 
www.blast.org
Crandall has written on technology and culture for a variety of media,
including Artforum, Atlantica, trANS.arts.cultures.media, and CTHEORY. He
lectures widely on the cultural and political dimensions of new technology,
including such institutions as Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Vienna; the
Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran Museum in Washington DC; the
University of Sao Paulo and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sao Paulo; the
Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris and the Université Paris 8; and
the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. He has participated in
many international conferences including ARCO in Madrid; Artifices4 in
Saint-Denis; Object vs. Pixels in Amsterdam; the film+arc Biennial in Graz;
the Festival of Computer Arts in Maribor; the Conference on Internet and
Society at Harvard University; "Media Arts in transition" at the Walker Art
"center" , "Global Circuits" at the Institute of International Visual Arts
(inIVA), London; and the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium at UC
Berkeley. He has organized many online conferences including "Networks and
Markets," in conjunction with the Institute of International Visual Arts
(inIVA) in London, and "Artistic Practice in the Network," in collaboration
with Eyebeam Atelier in New York. He holds a seat on the Advisory Board of
Social Movement Studies: a journal of cultural, political, and social
protest (Routledge). He regularly serves as a visiting critic and has
recently served as Visiting Professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des
Beaux-Arts, Paris.
Crandall's videos have been presented at many international film and media
festivals including the World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam; the
transmediale International Media Art Festival Berlin; the Montreal
International Festival of New Cinema and New Media; the MIX Festival at
Anthology Film Archives in New York City; the European Media Art Festival in
Osnabruck, Germany; and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
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