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Jeff Mann is a creator of electric art, using computer, electronics, sound, video, and telecommunications media, with a primary focus on interactive installation works, and research interests in physical computing and digital interface to real-world environments. In 2005 with Michelle Teran he was awarded second prize in the VIDA 8.0 Art and Artificial Life International Competition for their work Liveform:Telekinetics. Previously, Mann has operated a private gallery of electric art in Toronto, been a guiding member of the board for InterAccess artist-run electronic media arts centre, and was the founder of Toronto’s Art & Robotics Group in 1996. Since graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1987, he has worked exclusively in electronic media art and education, teaching at OCAD and at Ryerson University, and working at InterAccess, Charles Street Video, the Banff Centre, and other institutions. Since 2002, he has been living part-time in Amsterdam and Berlin. Exhibitions include "LiveForm:Telekinetics", InterAccess, Toronto; Waag Society, Amsterdam; BEAP, Perth; ARCO, Madrid; and Vooruit, Ghent (2002-2006); "Machine Life", Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston (2004); "Hotwired Live Art 2", the Banff Centre for the Arts (2001); "The Nature of the Machine", Cambridge Galleries (1999); "SpaceProbe", InterAccess (1997); "Electric Skin", Gallery 401, Toronto (1995); and "TV FreeNet", The Western Front, Vancouver (1994). URLs http://www.jeffmann.com |
