CAT MAZZA

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catherine mazza

Cat Mazza 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, a 2008 Creative Capital grantee in Film/Video and a 2009 Craft Research Fund recipient.

In 2010 her work exhibits at the Museum of Contemporary Craft (Portland, Oregon), the Institute for Contemporary Art (San Jose, California) and the Jönköpings läns Museum (Jönköpings, Sweden). Past work has shown 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 several books including KnitKnit: Profiles and Projects of Knittings New Wave 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 is currently Assistant Professor of Art at UMass, Boston.