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Jo-Anne Green
Born
Jo-Anne Green

(1959-08-14)14 August 1959
Johannesburg, South Africa
Occupation(s)Artists Books, Arts Administrator, Digital Artist, Educator, Painter, Photographer, Printmaker, Writer

Jo-Anne Green (born August 14, 1959 Johannesburg, South Africa)[1] is a printmaker, visual artist,[2] artist, arts administrator, writer, and educator who lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She cofounded several non-profit organizations to support net art and experiments in digital and electronic literature and art.

Education[edit]

Green attended the University of the Witwatersrand where she graduated with a BFA Honours in Printmaking, majoring in Art History and Painting, in 1981.[3] In 1983, she moved to the United States[1] where she attended Southeastern Massachusetts University (now UMASS Dartmouth) and Lesley University, graduating with an MFA in Visual Arts (1989) and an MA in Arts Administration (2003). In 1999, at the University of New Mexico's High Performance Computing Center, Green founded the artist-in-residence program and managed the Art Technology Center until June 2001,[4] when she returned to Boston to complete her MS in Art Administration at Lesley University in 2003.[1] She also taught part-time at Emerson College.[1]

Personal life[edit]

Green has lived in Boston for thirty-two years and in Albuquerque, New Mexico (UNM) from 1996-2001. She worked as a Graphic Designer at the University of New Mexico’s High Performance Computing Center where she founded the artist-in-residence program[4] that led to the formation of the Art Technology Center (ATC):[5] it was there, in 2001, that she met her current partner Helen L. Thorington. Green was Program Coordinator for both the ATC and the Arts of the Americas Institute at UNM from 1999-2001. She returned to Boston in 2001, and joined New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. in 2002: she designed websites, brochures, logos and postcards; and engaged in grant writing and fundraising, among other responsibilities.[citation needed]

Work[edit]

Green had her first art exhibition, with Kim Berman, in Johannesburg (1982). She made prints, paintings, artist’s books and installations, many of them grappling with Apartheid, violence, and chronic pain which she suffered for more than thirty years. In 1989, her MFA Thesis exhibition was accepted by the Cambridge Multicultural Arts, Center; she participated in numerous group exhibitions in Boston and New York. Her one-of-a-kind artist book, “Waiting and Remembering,” was acquired by the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts at Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa where it was shown at the inaugural exhibition of the collection.[citation needed]

Green co-founded Cultural Resistance in 1985,[3] organizing South African art exhibitions and video screenings, and designing and publishing a monthly newsletter, UNCENSORED, with her collaborators Kim Berman and Rachel Weiss. Cultural Resistance was a project of Fund for a Free South Africa (FreeSA) where she volunteered from 1984-1990, culminating in Nelson Mandela’s visit to Boston.

Green was co-director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA) from 2002 to 2016 where she founded Upgrade! Boston and curated exhibitions at Art Interactive,[6] funded by the LEF Foundation) and the Huret & Spectre Gallery (funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts). NRPA was founded in 1981 to foster the development of new and experimental work for radio and sound arts. It commissioned and distributed 300 works for New American Radio (newamericanradio.org). While at NRPA, Jo-Anne Green also wrote essays that focused on art processes, including Interactivity and Agency in Real-Time Systems.[7]

In early 1996, NRPA extended its mandate to net art.[2] To achieve this, Helen Thorington founded Turbulence.org and Jo-Anne Green joined her in 2002.[8] Turbulence commissioned, exhibited, and archived 356 works that creatively explored the Internet as a site of production and transmission;[9][2] and supported experimentation with distributed real-time multilocation performance events. The site was produced in New York and Boston and got about 150,000 to 250,000 visitors per month as of 2006.[10] It was also home to two blogs: Networked_Performance[11][12] and Networked_Music_Review. Other major projects include Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art); Mixed Realities (2007);[13][2][14] Pulsed Pull Installation[15] Upgrade! Boston;[16] and New England Initiative II.[17] This site defined network performance as "any work that is enabled by computer networks ... which engage users in a performative experience."[18][19][20][21]

She has also organized several exhibitions at Pace Digital Gallery(PDG), Manhattan, New York as well as Green co-organized multiple symposia at PDG as well as the Floating Points speaker series at Emerson College, Boston Massachusetts.

Exhibitions and curations[edit]

Green uses digital technology and her background as a painter and photographer for her art. Green has exhibited her artwork in Johannesburg, Boston, and New York, mounting her first solo exhibition at Different Angle Gallery in 1990.[22] The opening of the exhibition celebrated Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress.[citation needed]

Title Type Year
Pursuing Reality: Possibilities, Harvard Arboretum [1], [2] Solo 10/20/2023-2/18/2024
Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts Opening Exhibition, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa Group 2019
Five, Greylock Arts, Adams, Massachusetts, United States Group [3] 2012
Greylock's Anatomy, Greylock Arts, Adams, Massachusetts Group 2011
Violence Online Festival 6.0, newmediafest.org Group 2003
Coming and Going: Beyond the Homeland, Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts Group 1992
Caution Art, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Group 1991
Voices From South African Artists, Stuart Levy Gallery, New York, New York Group 1990
Well, as a result... Different Angle Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts[23] Solo 1990
Works on South Africa and Slavery, Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989[24] Two-person 1989
Five South African Artists, 301 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts Group 1989
Evils of Power, UMASS Dartmouth Art Gallery, Dartmouth, Massachusetts Group 1986
Women's Work: Political Art by Women, Femmecore Space, Boston, Massachusetts Group 1986
Choices: Four South African Artists, Four Walls Gallery, Hoboken, New Jersey Group 1986
Between the Covers: Artist's Handmade Books, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts Group 1985
Symphonies and the System, Trevor Coleman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Two-person 1982
Curator
Title Role Year
KIKI: Migrant Family Life in a South African Compound, a traveling exhibition of photographs by Roger Meintjies; Clark University, Worcester, MA; New England School of Photography, Boston, MA; Pianocraft Gallery, Boston, MA; Boston Public Library, Boston, MA; and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Co-curator 1991
South African Mail: Messages from Within, Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts Co-curator 1991
An Act of Resistance: Making Community(ies), Mobius, Boston, Massachusetts Co-curator 1993
DIY or DIE: an Upgrade! New York, Turbulence and Rhizome Net Art Exhibition, IAO Gallery, Upgrade! International Oklahoma City, OK and online at Rhizome.org and Turbulence.org Co-curator 2006
David Crawford: Retrospective, Pace Digital Gallery, New York, New York[25] Co-curator 2010
Arrested Time: Nathaniel Stern with Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, Greylock Arts, Adams, Massachusetts[26][27] Curator 2010
Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting the Adamses, Greylock Arts and MCLA Gallery 51, Adams, Massachusetts[28] Co-curator 2008
Internet Art in the Global South, Johannesburg Art Fair, South Africa Co-curator 2009
Turbulence.org New England Initiative II: Networked Art Commissions, Art Interactive, Cambridge Massachusetts Curator 2006

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Giuliano, Charles. "Greylock Arts in Adams Celebrates Five Years - Charles Giuliano - Berkshire Fine Arts". www.berkshirefinearts.com. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  2. ^ a b c d Regine (2007-03-05). "Interview with Jo-Anne Green". We Make Money Not Art. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  3. ^ a b "networked_performance". www.turbulence.org. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  4. ^ a b "Jo-Anne Green - Monoskop". monoskop.org. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  5. ^ Mellas-Ramirez, Laurie. UNM Arts Extends Scope with New Research Centers, Public Affairs, University of New Mexico, August 22, 2000.
  6. ^ McQuaid, Cate. Most illuminating (in Capturing the overlooked), Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, August 20, 2008
  7. ^ Green, Jo-Anne (October 30, 2010). "Interactivity and Agency in Real Time Systems" (PDF). Belem, Para, Brazil: SoftBorders - 4º Congresso Internacional de Artes e Novas Mídias.
  8. ^ Miranda, Maria; Neumark, Norie (July 2007). "On the Internet: Turbulence and 1001 Nights of Networked Performance". IEEE MultiMedia. 14 (3): 4–5. doi:10.1109/MMUL.2007.57 – via Computer.org.
  9. ^ "Celebrating Women in E-Lit". Electronic Literature Lab. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  10. ^ Arias-Mission, Alain (2006). "Show: John Giorno's "Millions of Stars Coming into My Heart Welcome Home"". American Book Review. 26 (4): 19. doi:10.1353/abr.2006.0154 – via Project Muse.
  11. ^ Thorington, Helen (2006). "The networked_performance blog". Contemporary Music Review. 25 (1–2): 193–197. doi:10.1080/07494460600647675.
  12. ^ Regine (2007-03-05). "Interview with Jo-Anne Green". We Make Money Not Art. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  13. ^ Schroeder, Franziska, ed. (2009). Performing technology: user content and the new digital media: insights from the two thousand + nine symposium. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub. ISBN 978-1-4438-1445-4. OCLC 477141702.
  14. ^ "Mixed Realities". The NEXT. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  15. ^ "Pulse Pool Installation". The NEXT. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  16. ^ "Upgrade! Boston". The NEXT. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  17. ^ "New England Initiative II". The NEXT. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  18. ^ Riel, Michael; Thorington, Helen (2022). "Networked Performance: How Does Art Affect Technology and Vice Versa?" (PDF). Siggraph.
  19. ^ Davidson, Drew, ed. (2010). Cross-Media communications: an Introduction to the art of creating integrated media experiences. Pittsburgh, Pa.: ETC Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-557-28565-5.
  20. ^ Davidson, Drew, ed. (2010). Cross-Media communications: an Introduction to the art of creating integrated media experiences. Pittsburgh, Pa.: ETC Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-557-28565-5.
  21. ^ Papagiannouli, Christina (2016). Political cyberformance: the Etheatre Project. Palgrave pivot. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-57703-0. OCLC 936199757.
  22. ^ Silver. Joanne, "Green’s art digs into her African roots." Boston Herald, Boston, Massachusetts, March 30, 1990
  23. ^ "Boston Arts Listing 3-19-1990" (PDF).
  24. ^ "South Africa and Slavery" (PDF).
  25. ^ "David Crawford: Retrospective" (PDF). Pace Digital Gallery.
  26. ^ Green, Jo-Anne. "Arrested Time Curatorial Statement". Greylock Arts.
  27. ^ Meuninck-Ganger, jessica. "Arrested Time, booklet with essay by Jo-Anne Green". Academia.edu.
  28. ^ "Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting The Adamses". Greylock Arts.

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