Marcin Ramocki / Resume

138 Bayard St. Brooklyn NY 11222 * email: marcin(at)ramocki.net

Selected projects/exhibitions

2008       Pulse Miami, featured by Sienese Shredder.

ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, screening/event organized by Henry Zemel.

International Amsterdam Film Festival, Amsterdam, official selection.

Your Documents Please (2), ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan

THE PROGRAM, (DVF) Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX, curated by Carolyn Sortor.

Frameout Festival, Vienna, official selection.

CSW Zamek Ujazdowski , Warszawa, screening, curated by M&M Golebiewski.

Bunkier Sztuki, (8 BIT premiere in Poland), Krakow, curated by M&M Golebiewski.

.txt, NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada

Rocolectiv -Festival 08, Bucharest, Romania, official selection

Your Documents Please, Itami Museum, Itami, Japan, curated by Alma on Dobbin,

Rumiko Tsuda and Daniel Georges

Homo Ludens Ludens, LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries, Gijón, Spain,

curated by Erich Berger, Laura Baigorri and Daphne Dragona.

Game On, Australian Center for Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia, special

event curated by Tim Webster.

Red on Green Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, screening

Handclaps, Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany

Telfair’s Technology and Art Week, Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA

Future Films, Bologna, Italy, official selection

2007       Vialartis Valencia, Valencia, Spain, public art project

blogger skins, Artmoving Projecs , NYC

MOCA Underground, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL

Abstract Horror, Galapagos Art Space, organized by A. Namenwirth

Independents, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, curated by Kelly Gordon

Art Futura, Barcelona, Spain

Cinemateque, Winnipeg, CA

Digital-Political Time Lapse, Humanities Gallery (LIU), NY, curated by A. Namenwirth

Vertices, Galapagos Art Space, NY, organized by Willis Baxter Johnson

Digital Art Weeks, ETH/Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH

Automatic Update, MOMA, NYC, curated by Barbara London

MAPPING VJING FESTIVAL 2007, Geneve CH

Calgary Underground Film Festival, official selection

Full Frame Film Festival, NC, official selection

Bradford Film Festival, UK, official selection

BYDESIGN 07’, North West Film Forum, Seattle, curated by Peter Lucas

Cinema Zet, Brussels, Belgium

Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, curated by Steve Seid

Alamo Draft House / Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin, Texas

              “8 BIT: Canadian Premiere”, La Societe des Arts Technologiques, Montreal

curated by Cindy Poremba (Feb 17)

“Avant Gaming” Wexner Center, Columbus OH, curated by Chris Stults

  “Multiples & Editions”, Front Room Gallery, NYC

  “Digiscape: Unexplored Terrain” Pace Digital Gallery, NYC, curated by China Blue,

(catalogue)

2006       “8 BIT” (with Justin Strawhand) MOMA, NYC, world premiere,

               curated by Barbara London (Oct 07)

  “Anti-Pharmakon”, Artmoving Projects, NYC, solo exhibition

  “BITFILM” Festival, Hamburg, Germany, featured

  “DiVa” Artfair, Miami, USA, featured by artMoving Projects & KBP (catalogue)

“Art + Game”, Brussels, Belgium

“Blip” Festival, NYC, featured

2005 “Texty (Flux 2)”, Artmoving Projects, NYC, project room installation

“Evolving Patterns”, Harold Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City NJ, group show curated by Midori Yoshimoto

“Torcito Project”, RES Artist Residency, Puglia, Italy

“Living Pictures”, Jamaica Ctr for the Arts, NYC, group show curated by Heng-Gil Han (catalogue)

“Yo Net Graph Interporn”, Artmoving, NYC, group show curated by Aron Namenwirth

2004 “Kissing the Dog”, New Jersey City Museum, screening of “Neofeudal Screensaver”

            “Sleeper Cell”, Artmoving, NYC, group show

“Infinite Fill”, Foxy Production, NYC, group show curated by Cory Arcangel

“Japanatious” web project launch on Rhizome.org/New Museum

“Neofeudal Screensaver” Anthology Film Archives Courtyard Gallery, solo exhibition

2003    “In-securities”, Collective Unconscious, NYC, collaboration with Pavol Liska

“Y not”, No Moore Club, NYC; multimedia live event in conjunction with a music concert

“Xenotransplantation”, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland, collaboration with Brian Conley

“Virtual Singer” web project launch on Rhizome.org/New Museum

“Xenotransplantation”, installation at the New Jersey City University, NJ

2001    “BitStreams” Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

  “War!” project included into sound art section of the exhibition.

2000    Immaterial.org,  “Neofeudal Screen Saver”, online launch.

 “Technology and Identity”, Duncan Gallery, Stetson Univ., FL,  group exhibition.

“Art and Technology, Working Relations” Ormond Memorial Museum, Ormond B, FL

 Group exhibition featuring 8 digital artists.

1999    “Drawing: Past and Future”, Arts on Douglas Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

1998     “Limits, Edges, Boundaries” White Box gallery, NYC, group exhibition,

curated by Ernesto Restrepo.  

“East-West, Visions in Between” Arthur Ross Gallery, Phila, group show

“Taking of the Gallery ” Philadelphia Museum of Art, group exhibition/performance

“17 National Juried Competition” Gallery 1708, Richmond, VA, group exhibition,     curated by Donald Kuspit.       

“Ramocki, Riley and Ross” .Jaffe-Friedie Gallery, Dartmouth College, NH

Selected Curatorial Projects

September 2008(Arthouse, Austin TX), “Reset/Play”, co-curated with Paul Slocum, participants: Cory Arcangel, Michael Bell-Smith, Mike Beradino, Brody Condon, Alex Galloway, JODI, Guthrie Lonergan, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Michael Smith, Eddo Stern and Keita Takahashi.

November 2007(NYC), June 2008(Philadelphia): “B I T M A P; as good as new”, participants: Cory Arcangel, Chris Ashley, Mike Beradino, Mauro Ceolin, Petra Cortright, Paul Davis, DELAWARE, Notendo (Jeff Donaldson), Eteam, Dragan Espenschied, Christine Gedeon, Kimberley Hart, Daniel Iglesia, JODI, Olia Lialina, LoVid, Kristin Lucas, David Mauro, Jillian Mcdonald, Tom Moody, Aron Namenwirth, Mark Napier, Nullsleep, Marisa Olson, Will Papenheimer, Prize Budget for Boys, Jim Punk, Akiko Sakaizumi, Paul Slocum, Eddo Stern and CJ Yeh.

June 2007: “SELF 2.0”, group show curated by Marcin Ramocki and Sakurako Shimizu; participants: Mike Beradino, Charles Beronio, Zachary Biberstine, Kara Hearn, Jia Lim, Laura Nova.

Jan 2006: “SUPERLOWREZ”, group show curated by Marcin Ramocki; participants: Joe Amrhein, Brian Conley, Matt Freedman, Kristin Lucas, Jillian McDonald, Joe McKay, Akiko Sakaizumi, Jude Tallichet.

June 2005: “Code Residue”, group show curated by Marcin Ramocki; participants: Joe Amrhein, Mira Fiedleander, Joe McKay, Tan Lin, Carlo Zanni.

June 2004: “F#&k” Perfection, group show curated by Marcin Ramocki; participants: Brice Brown, Don Burmeister, Joseph Burwell, Brian Conley, Kelly Copper, James Fotopoulos, Matt Freedman, Michael Joo, Mimi Kim, Winifred McNeill, Jason Ogden, Sakurako Shimizu, Justin Strawhand, Steven Thompson.

VertexList: founder and artistic director,  2003/08

Selected Bibliography

“In the Event That… You’ve Had Nintendonitis since 1985”, Philadelphia City Paper,

by Molly Eichel

“8 BIT”, The Times, Polish edition, Warszawa

“Breakfast Show”, ABC Radio Melbourne, Australia, interview by Red Symons, April 2008

“8 BIT in Feature Films”, Citta Del Campo: Radio Metropolitana, Bologna, Italy, interview by Francesco Locane, Jan 2008

“Even Boring Blogs Are Things of Beauty In Some Artists' Eyes”, The Wall Street Journal by Andrew Lavalle, Dec 2007

“blogger skins”, Serial Consign, by Greg J. Smith, Dec 2007

“Blogger Skins at ArtMoving Projects”, Art Fag City, by Paddy Johnson, Dec 2007

“Rhizome News: Blogger Skins”, Rhizome.org, by Caitlin Jones, Dec 2007

“Torcito Project, Sonic Portraits””, Neural,  by Vito Campanelli, Nov 2007

“8 BIT at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's Ring Auditorium”, Washington City Paper, by Mark Jenkins, Oct 2007

"8 BIT: Way cool artistry of Pac-Man", What's on Winnipeg, by Allison Gillmor, Oct 2007

 "8 BIT: Too many levels not enough action", Winnipeg Sun, by David Shmaichel, Oct 2007

"Getting into the game: New documentary 8 Bit deconstructs video game culture - literally", Uptown Magazine, by Walter Forsberg, Sept 2007

“Galapagos/vertexList Media Art in Williamsburg, Brooklyn”, http://disquiet.com/, by Marc Weidenbaum, August 2007

“Marcin Ramocki on The Militant Embrace of Technology”, http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/ by Regine Debatty, August 2007

“BYDESIGN 07’”, The Stranger, by Jen Graves, March 2007

“Game Nation”, Pennsylvania Gazette, by Samuel Hughes, March 2007

“Digiscape: Unexplored Terain” catalogue essay by Jill Conner, Feb 2007

La Revanche des Nerdz, on ZtŽlŽ (Quebec TV), Feb 2007

“Pixel Picture”, Montreal Mirror, by Eric Lejion, Feb 2007

“8-bit: la nostalgie des vieilles consoles de jeux vidŽo”, La Presse, by Nicolas Ritoux, Feb 2007

“They Got Game Boy”, Hour, by Meg Hewings, Feb 2007

“Marcin Ramocki, NEWER THAN EVER”, Useless, interview, Feb 2007

“Blip>Blip>Art”, Columbus Dispatch, by Nick Chordas, Jan 2007

“8 BIT Movie: Some Fast and Messy Notes”, WeMakeMoneyNotArt.com, Dec 2006

“10 Best Films of 2006”, ART FORUM, by Barbara London, Dec 2006

“Quand l’art se prend au jeu”, Liberation (France) by Astrid Girardeau, Nov 2006

“Cinema Pixeldiso”, Gamesetwatch.com, by Matt Hawkins, Oct 2006

“8 Bit”, BPM, by Tony Philips, Nov 2006

“Video Game Culture Thrives in New Documentary”, Reeler, by Paddy Johnson, Oct 2006

“Marcin Ramocki: 8 BIT”, Flavorpill, Oct 2006

“8-Bit: The Best Game Movie Ever Made”, VH1 Game Break, Oct 2006

“Marcin Ramocki”, WPS1 Radio, interview, Oct 2006

“8 BIT”, ABC World News, interview, Oct 2006

“Marcin Ramocki's 8 BIT”, MoMa Calendar, Sept 2006

“Democrazy”, Zing Magazine, by Aron Namenwirth, Oct 2006

“Anti-Pharmakon in Williamsburg”, Nowy Dziennik, by Ewa Kara, Sept 2006

“History and Development of Digital Art”, paperback, published in Taipei, by Cin Juz Yeh,2006

“Dateline Brooklyn”, Artnet Magazine, by Stephen Maine, Jan 2006

“Marcin Ramocki at Artmoving Projects”, Tom Moody Blog, by Tom Moody, Dec 2005

“Digital Futures”, NY Arts Magazine, by Midori Yoshimoto, June 2005

“Living Pictures”, catalogue essay by Heng-Gil Han, April 2005

“Paying for my Sins”, TART (Canada), by Jillian McDonald, Jan 2005

'The Infinite Fill Group Show”  NEW YORK TIMES: ART IN REVIEW, Aug 6, 2004, by Roberta Smith

'The Infinite Fill Group Show” Time-Out NY, Merilly Kerr, Aug 2004

“Kod Cyfrowy Nowej Kultury”, Nowy Dziennik, by Ewa Kara, Feb 2004

“Code, Shadows and (Non)Grids”, WBURG.com, by Carol Schwartzman, fall 2003

Selected Writing

“Surfing Clubs: organized notes and comments”, as part of “Obsolescence and the Culture of Human Invention” conference, NSCAD, Halifax, May 2008

“Bitmap vs. vector”, catalogue essay, Drexel university, Philadelphia 2008

“DIY, The Militant Embrace of Technology”, DAW07, Zurich, CH 2007 (Springer)

“vertexList: An Attempt at Disclosure”, Taipei National Museum Jounal , Taiwan 2006

“Making 8 BIT”, Sienese Shredder, NYC 2006

“Gameboys and Gamegirls”, Yard Magazine, NYC 2005

Education

BA   Dartmouth College, 1995

MFA  University of Pennsylvania, 1998

Teaching and Lecturing

ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany “What Was Old is New Again”, lecturer/panelist, 2008

NSCAD, Halifax, “Obsolescence and the Culture of Human Invention”, lecturer/panelist, 2008

ETH, Zurich, panelist, 2007

CUNY SI, visiting lecturer, 2007

UC Berkeley, visiting lecturer, 2007

Massachusetts college of Art, visiting lecturer, 2007

Ohio State University, visiting artist, 2007

Pratt   Brooklyn, visiting lecturer, 2006

Pace  NYC, visiting lecturer, 2006

CUNY NYC, visiting lecturer, 2005

New Jersey City University, NJ, Assistant Professor – New Media, 2000 – present

Stetson University, FL, Assistant Professor, 1998 - 2000

University of Pennsylvania, PA, Adjunct, 1998