ANDY HOLTIN | Models, theories and stories we tell | February 26 – April 2, 2016.
English & German text + artist CV below
 The Resonable Expectation of Privacy (Holtin with J. Burton), wood. electrics, 2008 |
 You made this happen (Holtin with E. Wey), 2-channel video installation,unsynchronized, 2016 II VIDEO-LINK >> |
 You made this happen (Holtin with E. Wey), 2-channel video installation, unsynchronized, 2016 |
 You made this happen, drawing consisting of five sketches, 2016 |
 Checkin' out you checkin' out me, surveillance cameras, 2014 II VIDEO-LINK >> |
 Exhibition view |
 Glance, Unsynchronized video installation, 2011/2014 II VIDEO-LINK >> |
 Exhibition view |
 The View (Holtin with G. Moncayo); cardboard, 3D printed figure, 2010 |
 Exhibition view |
 Passage, 3-channel video installation, unsynchronized, 2011/2016 II VIDEO-LINK >> |
 Trying to remember only damages the memory, it's best to just leave it alone, installation with rocking chair and lights, 2015 II VIDEO-LINK >> |
Ausstellungstext
Andy Holtins erste Einzelausstellung in Deutschland bei krupic kersting zeigt eine aktuelle Auswahl neuer Medienobjekte und Videoinstallationen.
Die Werke in dieser Ausstellung fokussieren auf das Potenzial und die Grenzen des Verstehens der Welt durch repräsentative Modelle. Sie besetzen ein Leerzeichen zwischen präzise-wissentlich sowie vorsätzlich falsch.
„Checkin' out you checkin' out me“ ist solch eine interactive Installation wie oben beschrieben. Zwei Überwachungskameras begegnen einander. Während ein Soundtrack ihre Beziehung beschreibt, verlagern die an sich kalten Überwachungskameras den Blick auf menschliche Gefühle.
Seine kleine Arbeit „Trying to remember only damages the memory. It's best to just leave it alone“ ist ein poetischer Ruhepol. Mit seiner skulpturalen Installation (ein Schaukelstuhl beleuchtet mit einem ständig wechselnden künstlichen Tag- und Nachtlicht) schafft er das Modell eines kleinen in ungeregelte Zeit erweiterten Moments. Als ein Modell der Erfahrung oder des Gedächtnisses versucht es einerseits sehr genau zu sein, während es gleichsam losgelöst die Zeit verklärt.
Während Arbeiten wie „Checkin' out you checkin' out me“ oder „Trying to remember (...)" Anthropomorphismen und die Humanisierung von Objekten aufnehmen, ist die 3-Screen Video- Installation "Passage“, unter Holtins ersten Arbeiten die menschliche Formen und Performance mit einbeziehen.
Dies führt zu Werken, die gleichzeitig Aufzeichnungen und Live-Performances sind. Da die Interaktionen zwischen den Videos sind vorhersehbar sind entsteht in der Tat sinnvolle Interaktion ausschließlich in der Wahrnehmung der Zuschauer. Die Ereignisse in „Passage“ werden als Choreographie wahrgenommen, wobei das Zusammenspiel zwischen Videobildern und dem Video als Objekt, folglich als Echtzeitverhalten empfunden wird.
Andy Holtin erhielt seinen MFA am Virginia Commonwealth University’s Sculpture and Extended Media program. Holtin ist Associate professor of sculpture an der American University in Washington, D.C. und leitet das Univerity’s graduate studio program in Berlin.
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ANDY HOLTIN | Models, theories and stories we tell | 26. Februar – 2. April 2016
Andy Holtin’s first solo show in Germany - taking place at Krupic Kersting - will feature a very current range of new media objects and video installations.
His work uses technological systems to create performative objects and interactive installations, incorporating an exploratory range of materials and processes, pursuing projects that explore mechanisms as metaphor for human experience and perception. The works in this exhibition consider the potential and limitations of understanding the world through representative models, occupying a space between compellingly accurate and knowingly, willfully false.
„Checkin' out you checkin' out me“ is such an interactive installation as described above. Two surveillance cameras' movements address one another, while a soundtrack complicates their relationship, shifting the surveillance device’s cold suspicion to another range of human feeling.
A small piece "Trying to remember only damages the memory. It's best to just leave it alone" creates a model (a rocking chair illuminated by an ever changing artificial day and night light) of a small moment extended into unregulated time. As a model of experience or memory it attempts to be accurate while at the same time distorted.
While works like „Checkin' out you checkin' out me“ or „ Trying to remember (...)“ have incorporated anthropomorphism or humanizing of objects, the 3-screen video installation „Passage“ is among Holtin’s first to involve human forms and performance while still relying on mechanical or mediated interactions. In this piece, performers Kelly Bond and Ben Wegman construct an open- ended narrative of movement, stillness, avoidance, and encounter as they simply move through the space.
This footage is then cut into discrete sections; with each video being displayed by a separate digital video device, the videos are allowed to loop at their own unsynchronized intervals. This independence results in untimed and spontaneous moments of interaction between the video subjects – both within and between each device – moments that are constantly shifting as the video loops drift from one another.
This results in works that are at once recordings and live performances, in that the interactions between the videos are not scripted or predictable, and in fact any meaningful interaction exists exclusively in the viewers’ perception of the events unfolding before them. The events in Passage are perceived as volitional and choreographed, heightening the interplay between video imagery and video as object, as recorded material becomes real-time behavior.
Andy Holtin received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Sculpture and Exended Media program. Holtin is an associate professor of sculpture at American University in Washington, D.C. and also directs the univerity’s graduate studio program in Berlin.
CV - ANDY HOLTIN
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2016 | True Mirror; Espace Commines; Paris, France Models, theories, and stories we tell; Solo exhibition, Kupric & Kersting; Cologne, Germany |
2015 | Inaugural, Pt 1; Hilbert Raum; Berlin, Germany Andy Holtin & Galo Moncayo: Recent Works; University of Mary Washington; Fredericksburg, VA Technovisual: Art in the Age of Code, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Washington, DC Moving Target; Kupric Kersting Galerie; Cologne, Germany PAPER/WORK; Rockelmann& Galerie; Berlin, Germany |
2014 | MASS Gallery; Austin, TX |
2013 | Synesthesia IV; Art Laboratory; Berlin, Germany |
2011 | A Theater of Objects; Flashpoint Gallery; Washington, DC The View: Sculpture and Video on the Modeled Landscape; Georgetown University Gallery; Washington, DC Old Fashioned New Media; Flashpoint Gallery; Washington, DC Hypotheses; Solo exhibition; Gallery Four; Baltimore, MD Encore, Satellite exhibition, Transmediale.11; MMX Open Art Venue; Berlin, Germany |
2010 | Intimacy Issues; University of Cincinnati Show V; MMX Open Art Venue; Berlin, Germany Reach; Collaborative solo exhibition; Fowler Arts Center; Chautauqua, NY; The world as we know it; Collaborative solo exhibition; American University Museum; Washington, DC |
2009 | Options 2009 Biennial; Washington DC InLight Richmond 2009; Richmond VA We all need a creation myth, III; Raum D; Quartier21 in the Museums Quartier; Vienna, Austria Worlds Apart, Collaborative solo exhibition; The Front Gallery; New Orleans, LA Designing Intelligence?; Schmidt Center Gallery; Florida Atlantic University Washington Project for the Arts 2009 Auction; Katzen Museum; Washington, DC |
2008 | The Reasonable Expectation of Privacy; Solo exhibition, Galerie 35; Berlin, Germany Renew/React; Krasl Art Center Biennial Sculpture Invitational; St Joseph, Michigan Untold Stories of Being Where You Are; Takt Kunstprojecktraum; Berlin, Germany Dimensions Variable; Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX |
2007 | unt[at]make; UNT faculty and students exhibition; Maker Faire 2007; Austin, TX In Security; Conduit Gallery Project Room; Dallas, TX Schattenreisender, IES project space; Berlin, Germany; Public installation comercio, politica, familia…, Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo; Collaborative solo exhibition; Guayaquil, Ecuador Andy Holtin: Sculptures, Solo exhibition; Sarrat Gallery, Vanderbilt University; Nashville, TN Very Close, Solo exhibition; Tilt Gallery and Project Space; Portland, OR By Chance; DC Arts Center; Washington, DC Insecurity; 500x Project Room Collaborations; Dallas, TX Search, Pabellon el Universo, Planetario Alfa science and culture museum; Collaborative solo exhibition; Monterrey, Mexico |
2006 | Search; Galeria Distrito Catorce’s ECO Project Space; Monterrey, Mexico Size Matters; Fe Gallery; Pittsburgh, PA Action/Reaction; Haggerty Gallery, Univ. of Dallas; Irving, TX Robotics and Emergent Systems, Exhibition and symposium; IU School of Fine Arts Gallery; Bloomington, IN Wish Auction; Dallas Center for Contemporary Art; Dallas, TX |
2005 | Attention Spans; Second Street Gallery; Solo exhibition; Charlottesville, VA Out of Site; Site-specific installation invitational; Denton, TX |
2004 | Subtle Nothings; The Borowsky Gallery; Philadelphia, PA Machines, Maps, and Memory; Maryland Art Place; Baltimore, MD On the Line; District of Columbia Arts Center; Washington, DC It’s About Time; Georgia Southern University Gallery; Statesboro, GA |
2003 | Reach; Target Gallery, Solo exhibition; Alexandria, VA Between Things; Residency exhibition; Freed-Hardeman Univ.; Henderson, TN Interventions Project; Fairfax, VA and Washington, DC Fresh Meat, Kim Foster Gallery; New York, NY |
2002 | International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture; Hamilton, NJ Reach/Touch; Solo installation Freed-Hardeman University Henderson, TN MFA Thesis Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University; Richmond,Rising Visions; 1708 Gallery; Richmond, VA |
CURATORIAL
To Berlin and Back Again: Alumni of the MFA Studio Berlin program; Goethe Institute; Washington, DC; 2016
The Accuracy of the Ordinary: Elizabeth McTernan and Isabel Manalo;
Hilbert Raum; Berlin Germany; 2015
Strategic Acts of Seeing and Knowing; group exhibition, Hilbert Raum; Berlin, Germany; 2015
The Temporary Art Repair Shop: Tobias Sternberg; Transformer; Washington, DC; 2015
PAPER/WORK; group exhibition, Rockelmann& Galerie; Berlin, Germany; 2015
Untold Stories of Being Where You Are; Causality Labs with Jenene Nagy & Ryan Mandell; Takt Kunstprojecktraum; Berlin, Germany
UNT[at]Make; Maker Faire 2008; Austin, TX
Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Sole juror; Texas A&M Univ, Commerce, TX; 2007
Texelectronica, Internat’l symposium and exhibition, Asst. Director; Ft Worth, TX; 2006
Bytes and Pieces; UNT Fine Arts Gallery, Co-curator; Denton, TX; 2006
Graduate Exchange Juried Exhibition; University of North Texas; Denton, TX; 2006
Red Room Projects; Richmond, VA; 2004
EDUCATION
M.F.A. 2002 Sculpture & Extended Media, Virginia Commonwealth University
B.A. 1998 Art, emphasis drawing (summa cum laude), Freed-Hardeman University
ACADEMIC
Associate Professor of Sculpture American University, Washington, DC; 2008-present
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator of Sculpture, University of North Texas, Denton, TX; 2004-2008
Berlin Studio Study-Abroad Program Creator and Director Visiting Artist/Lecturer
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA; 2015
Academy of the Arts, Bergen, Norway, 2013-14Boise State University, 2011
McDaniel College, 2011
CultureLab, New Castle University; New Castle, UK; 2010
Arduino & Interactive Systems Workshop;
MMX Open Art Venue; Berlin, Germany; 2010
Visiting Artist; Maryland Institute College of Art; 2010
Visiting Artist; Louisiana State University; 2010
Interactive systems workshop, lecture, Artist’s Talk; HacDC; Washington, DC; 2010
Visiting Artist; Pennsylvania State University; 2010
Visiting Artist & Panel Discussant, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; 2009
Artist’s Talk, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; 2008
Artist’s Talk, Pecha Kucha Berlin, 2008
Artist in Residence; IES Berlin program; Summer 2007
Visiting Artist; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; 2006
Visiting Artist, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; 2005
Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; 200
Visiting Artist, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; 2002
