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Kai (Kari) Altmann, known also as Hitashya, is an American conceptual artist, musician, performer and director. She is also known as a thought leader, curator, influencer and public speaker who was involved in the Post-Internet art movement and its network of creators. Moving on from the genre in 2012-15, Altmann now identifies as a New World artist, who makes music as Hitashya. Her work has been shown at the New Museum and the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing and at TKTKs in Geneva, Switzerland, Prague, Czech Republic, and Bangkok. Altmann's work has been reviewed in Art in America, Dummy magazine, and TK.
Currently based in Mumbai and Goa, India, Altmann has been based in New York, London, Milan, Amsterdam, Prague, Geneva, Dubai, UAE; Delhi, India; Bangkok and Koh Samui, Thailand.
Early life and education
Altmann was born in Dallas, Texas and graduated from MICA in Baltimore, Maryland in 2008 with a BFA in Film and Video.
Career
Her work includes performances, installations, sculptural objects, videos, music, DJ sets, social media feeds, websites, paintings, photography, 3D images, graphics, social projects, and language [Do you mean writing?]. Tropes in her work include performers, virtuality and tangibility, Online and Offline Blended,[clarification needed] Production Experiments / the Global Supply Chain,[clarification needed] Image and Material Class Equity,[clarification needed] First and Third World practicing equality, the holistic merging of different genres and philosophies, Sci-Fi and fantasy tropes.
Hhellblauu, a controversial work which was created from an online project for a similarly controversial group show called "Troll" in 2010 by Keehnan Konyha and Jacob Gaboury at 131 Chrystie in New York City. This show also included several other Post Internet and Post Western artists such as Fatima Al Qadiri and Khalid Al Ghallabari, and invited works around the concept of “trolling”. Hhellblauu was cited by Art in America critic Brian Droitcour in his article “The Perils of Post Internet Art.”[1] His arguments were rebutted by other critics such as Mark Gens at Georgetown University[2] and which received informal responses from artists Altmann and Katja Novitskova among others.
Soft Mobility was featured by the New Museum in 2014 along with physical solo shows in Geneva and Bangkok in 2018 and 2019.
Altmann's first commercial solo art show, "XOMIA," took place at Ellis King Gallery[where?] in 2015. It included performers and dynamic objects, a video wall and a soundtrack. Many of her presentations in art shows include performers and music as well as other experiential elements like lighting, scent, and sound. They also include documentary images, online content, and social media performance as part of the overall work.
Other major group shows featuring Kai’s work include Post Internet at UCCA Beijing, which
She helped to define the Post-Internet movement[how?] and now works to define New World, Pan Optic, Post Western, Post Production and Ambiguationist Art.[how?]
Other solo projects include Core Samples, a collaboration with Dis Magazine and American Medium in 2011, Essence of Entity (Smart Mobility) in New York in 2012, Soft Mobility Abstracts with the New Museum in 2014, TTOA & Soft Mobility at Forde in Geneva, 2018, Flexia XLE: Oasis in Prague, 2019, and TTOA: Native Arrangement II in the nomadic Final Hot Desert project,[3] at Rozel Point, Utah, 2020.[4]
Selected awards and commissions
- 2012 Art Dubai Global Art Forum 6 Commission for a video collaboration with Fatima Al Qadiri
- 2012 Platform Commission by the Hirshhorn and the Goethe Institute
- 2014 Serpentine Gallery Extinction Marathon Video Commission in London
- 2014 New Museum First Look Commission by Lauren Cornell, New York City
- 2014 A Rhizome and TASML Beijing Net Art Prix
- 2019 Asian Cultural Council, New York, fellowship
Other work
Her editorial and curatorial projects [which is which?] include R-U-In?S, Garden Club and XLE.LIFE. The former two were archived in Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology and featured other artists like Emily Jones, Iain Ball, Matteo Giordano, Sam Hancocks, Sebastian Moyano, Katja Novitskova and Timur Si-Qin.
Altmann makes music, performs and DJs as Hitashya.
Press to be incorporated into career and as references.
Lectures and residencies
Kai’s lectures
Altmann was an invited guest resident and lecturer at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 2015, and has completed several other residencies, lectures, and projects around the world.
References
PhDs, Papers and Courses which mention Kai’s work
External links
Category:Living people Category:American digital artists Category:New media artists Category:American sound artists Category:People from Dallas Category:Maryland Institute College of Art alumni Category:21st-century American artists Category:American women artists Category:Post-conceptual artists Category:Artists from Texas Category:Artists from Dallas Category:Interdisciplinary artists