Artist Info: Ben Worley / Bean Summer
Bio
Statement
This is an experimental exploration of new media using images and sounds, combined with technology to communicate messages both random and intentional. This will document a contemporary method of creating art with computers, which results in disorganized images from the unique point of view of an artist with dyslexia. According to Bean, art is randomized information. This work presents old media in a new context and uses information to create new understandings or knowledge within the art domain. These images are part of an experimental exploration in new media using digitized information. The exhibit also reveals a body of work that is in constant development. Historically, this work builds on the Dadaist art movement by incorporating video-montage and use of strange juxtapositions. It also picks up on Walter Benjamins (1936) ideas on art in the mechanical age, but with a shift in focus to art in a digital age, where work can be produced in excess and be created and published immediately. Computers and the advent of new technology enable the artist to produce work at an incredible rate. Approximately 40,000 original and appropriated images are used in this multimedia venture.
Artist's CV
EDUCATION
2009 Master of Fine Art, Ernest G. Welch School or Art an
Design at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
2002 Bachelor of Arts with a focus in Studio Art, The College of Wooster,
Wooster, Ohio. Cum Laude
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Get This Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, Information: Experiments in
Digital Prints
2007 Beep Beep Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, Encyclopedia Studies
2005 L’Avenue Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, Bean: Works 1995-2005
2005 Aurora Coffee, Atlanta, Georgia, Cowboys
2002 MacKenzie Gallery, Ebert Art CenterThe College of Wooster,
Wooster, Ohio. Excess: A DVD multimedia Installation (Video and
Sculpture).
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, in California at the Oasis
Dome on Sunday night.
2008 Rialto Center 2007-2008 Visual Art Series, Atlanta, Georgia, On the
Verge. Curator: Susan Todd-Raque
2007 The Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 2007 Atlanta
Biennial, Curator: Stuart Horodner.
2006 YOYO Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, The Exquisite Corpse
2006 GET THIS GALLERY, Atlanta, Georgia Pen Pal
2006 Desot O Row Gallery Savannah, Georgia Pen Pal
PUBLIC WORK
1998 Sequoyah High School, Canton, Georgia, Assimilation for School
Courtyard
2000 College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, Group Murals for College
2002 College of Wooster Library, Wooster, Ohio, Installation of Book
Sculpture: Waterfall.
2007 Georgia State University Library, Atlanta, Georgia, Encyclopedic
Experiments.
2008 Le Flash,Nuit Blanche in Castleberry Hill, Atlanta Georgia, I acted.
SELECTED VIDEO PERFORMANCES, DVD, VIDEO SHOWS.
2009 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, in California at the Oasis
Dome on Sunday night.
2008 Director, Editor of documentary “Eyedrum: The 10 Year Affair” DVD.
2008 May 7th, June 4th, July 2nd, August 6th. Video Bean and Vice Magazine presents a summer series o
concerts and Video Performace, MJQ Concourse, Atlanta, Georgia.
2008 D.A.R // ELECTRIC CIRCUS, Video for Le Castle Vania, Adelaide, South Australia
2007 The Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 2007 Atlanta
Biennial, Curator: Stuart Horodner.
JURIED ART SHOWS
2008 Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery. Georgia State
University, Atlanta, Georgia. Marilu Knode
selects: 2008 Juried Student Show
2007 Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery. Georgia State
University, Atlanta, Georgia. Kojo Griffin
selects: 2007 Juried Student Show
GROUP SHOWS
2009 Beep Beep Gallery, Popaganda, New Bean International
2009 Mint Gallery, Animal Overdose, Animal Study 9
2008 Beep Beep Gallery, Micro Show, VideoBEanMicroVIDEO
2008 Mint Gallery,REMIXT, Atlanta, Georgia, Tape Mix 1.
2007 Young Blood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, Seasons
2007 Limelight Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, Poor Traits (Video Installation)
2006 Limelight Gallery at Binders, Atlanta, Georgia, Two many layers of
micro madness, Curators: by Craig Dongoski
and Joe Peragine
2006 Recollection Vintage show. Bill Halman, Atlanta, Georgia, Attiiee
(Video Installation).
2005 YoYo Boutique & Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, Explorations in Screen
Printing
2005 L’ Avenue Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 27
2005 YoYo Boutique & Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, Toy Art Show
2005 Young Blood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, SK8R Die 2!
2004 Atlanta Underground Film Fest, Atlanta, Georgia. Experimental
Works a+b
2003 Young Blood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, SK8R Die!
2003 EYEDRUM Art and Music Gallery, Community Values
2000 MacKenzie Gallery, Ebert Art Center The College
Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, As Crazy as We are. . .
HONORS AND AWARDS
2008 Curators Award, Rialto Center 2007-2008 Visual Art Series, Atlanta,
Georgia, On the Verge.
2007 Director’s Award, Kojo Griffen Selects, Ernest G. Welch School of Art
& Design Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2002 The Netta Strain Scott Prizes in Art, College of Wooster,
Wooster,Ohio.
1998 Senior Drawing Award in Art, Sequoyah High School, Canton,
Georgia.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record, Ernest G. Welch
School of Art and Design at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record, Ernest G. Welch
School of Art and Design at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
2007 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record, Ernest G. Welch
School of Art and Design at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
2006 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Meditations with Professor Craig
Dongoski, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State
University, Atlanta, Georgia.
2001 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Drawing, Art Department, Wooster,
Ohio.
2000 Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record, Radio Work Shop,
Communication Department College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.
1999 Art Instructor, Grades K-12, Camp Cherokee, Canton, Georgia.
1998 Art Instructor, Grades K-12, Camp Cherokee, Canton, Georgia.