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catherine mazza |
Cat Mazza (b. 1977 Washington DC) is an artist whose work combines craft with digital media to explore the overlaps between textiles, technology and labor. She is the founder of microRevolt, a web-based project that hosts the freeware knitPro. Mazza is a 2007 Rockefeller Media Arts fellow in New Media and a 2008 Creative Capital grantee in Film/Video. Recent work exhibits in She Will Always Be Younger Than Us concurrent with Judy Chicago in Thread highlighting contemporary artists working with fiber and feminist concepts at the Art Gallery of Calgary and the Textile Museum of Canada. Past work showed at the Triennale di Milano (Milan, Italy), the Museum of Arts and Design (New York City), Garanti Gallery (Istanbul, Turkey) and new media festivals Futuresonic (Manchester UK), FILE (São Paulo, Brazil) and Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) where her work received a 2005 "Digital Communities" award. She has spoken about her work at multiple venues including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the New Museum, the New School for Social Research and Harvard University. Mazza’s work has been written about in the New York Times, Modern Painters, and multiple books including KnitKnit: Profiles and Projects of Knittings New Wave, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century and Preble's Artforms. Mazza was a founding staff member of the New York City art and technology center Eyebeam from 1999-2002. She received her MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2005), her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (1999) and and is currently Assistant Professor of Art at UMass, Boston. |