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 has received support from Creative Capital (2008 grantee in Film/Video), Rockefeller Media Arts (New Media fellow 2007) MacDowell Colony (2009) and the Craft Research Fund (2009).

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, England), FILE (São Paulo, Brazil) and Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) where her work received a 2005 "Digital Communities" honorary mention. Her work in the last year has exhibited at the Institute for Contemporary Art (San Jose, CA), the Jönköpings läns Museum (Jönköpings, Sweden), the Museum of Contemporary Craft (Portland, Oregon), the Sheldon Art Museum (Lincoln, NE) and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Her work will exhibit in the forthcoming exhibition Craft Futures (2012) at Smithsonian Museum of American Art's Renwick Gallery in Washington DC. 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, Artforum, and several books including KnitKnit: Profiles and Projects of Knittings New Wave and Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture.

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), a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (1999) and is currently Assistant Professor of Art at UMass, Boston.