Brad Troemel
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Brad Troemel is an American artist, writer, instructor and graduate student based in New York.
Career
From 2008-2009, he served as the director of his own apartment gallery in Chicago called Scott Projects (Scott being his middle name).[1] Starting in 2009, Troemel, along with his girl friend Chicago suburbanite Lauren Christiansen, made photoshopped images that depicted irreverent installation scenes and sculptures on the Tumblr website titled ‘Jogging’,[2] a project considered influential in defining the aesthetic taste of art on the internet at that time. Many of the activities on JOGGING were deemed inane and pointless by many critics, but were also admired for their stupidity.[3]
In 2010, his work evolved into the production of participatory systems and art events on the internet, such as the project Ready or Not It’s 2010, a call to arms wherein hundreds of artists staged an impromptu online exhibition on the Facebook wall of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Another example of this type of work includes the 2010 Meme Generator project, The Internet Artist, which featured hundreds of posts from anonymous members of the internet art community vengefully making fun of each other through the site’s LOLcat-inspired format.
In 2011, with Jon Vingiano, Troemel launched the user-generated website Blind Mist, which went on to win a 2011 Rhizome Commission.[4] Troemel has written about [5] and displayed his work in a number of emerging galleries that focus on internet-related art, including Richmond’s Reference Art Gallery, Philadelphia’s Extra Extra Gallery,[6] Berlin’s Future Gallery,[7] Chicago’s Golden Age, and Houston’s The Joanna.
Education
Troemel graduated with a BA in Visual Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[8] His undergraduate thesis, titled Free Art, described the internet as a place where more egalitarian access to art could be found.[8] His writing tends to focus on the decentralization of art’s hierarchies [9] and describing ways that high art can learn from pop culture. He is a regular writer at Dis Magazine [10] and has had writing featured on 491,[11] YA5,[12] and Art Fag City.
He has been an instructor and MFA student at NYU Steinhardt since 2010.[13] Troemel has been featured in a number of lectures and panel discussions at such places as the Queens Museum of Art,[14] Concordia University,[15] and Bard CCS.[16]
References
- ^ "about". Scottprojects.com. 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^ "Immaterial Incoherence: Art Collective JOGGING". Rhizome.org. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^ "Tanner America". Rhizome.org. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^ Reply to this Post. "Rhizome Commissions 2011". Rhizome.org. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^ Johnson, Paddy. "The Rise of the Online Gallery". Thelmagazine.com. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^ "Brad Troemel: PRE-CAREER RETROSPECTIVE: WORKS FROM 2009-2010". eexxttrraa.com. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^ "Brad Troemel: Interventions". //thefuturegallery.org. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - ^ a b Clara, Janina. "Liberal Arts and Visual and Critical Studies Undergraduate Symposium". Fnewsmagazine.com. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^ "From Clubs to Affinity: The Decentralization of Art on the Internet". Fourninetyone.com. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^ "Brad Troemel". dismagazine.com. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^ Schneider, Bret (2011-03-09). "New Productive Systemas". //fourninetyone.com. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - ^ "YA5 issue 1" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^ "New York University". Nyu.edu. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^ Museum, Queens. "QMA Chat Room: Gene McHugh, Brad Troemel and Laurel Ptak". Vimeo.com. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^ "Brad Troemel – Free Art". Vimeo.com. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
- ^ "Constant Dullaart's Public Interfacial Gesture Salon Mixes Faces at Bard". Blogs.artinfo.com. 2011-03-28. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
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