Heidi Kumao Explained

Heidi Kumao (born 1964) is a video and machine artist, and professor at the University of Michigan.[1] She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship[2] [3] and a Creative Capital Emerging Fields Award.[4]

Work

In her work, Kumao projects video, often stop-motion animation, onto various surfaces, including machines.[5] Her 1994 work, Feed, projected animations from zoetrope machines onto surfaces such as "a player-piano scroll, a paper screen, blank photograph frames, and the interior of a cardboard box."[6]

In 2005, Kumao created a series of machines suggesting women's legs for the piece Misbehaving: Media Machines Act Out. The legs were named "Protest," "Resist," and "Translator." With videos embedded into the legs' torsos, the machines acted out "tableaus of protest" such as stomping on the floor, writhing on the ground or dance.[7]

Kumao broke her back in 2011. Her work has since incorporated aspects of the body. Other works explore human constraint, such as human trafficking and Japanese-American internment camps.[8]

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Faculty: Heidi Kumao . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240621215056/https://stamps.umich.edu/people/heidi-kumao . 21 June 2024 . 13 March 2016 . . University of Michigan.
  2. News: McGovern . Judy . 10 April 2009 . U-M's Laura Kasischke and Heidi Kumao win Guggenheim Fellowships . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180719233826/https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/04/laura_kasischkea_university_of.html . 19 July 2018 . 4 March 2016 . . Michigan Live.
  3. News: Untitled - 1990 - Heidi Kumao . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210511203018/https://www.artic.edu/artworks/120069/untitled . 11 May 2021 . 6 March 2016 . . en.
  4. Web site: Projects: Misbehaving: Media Machines Act Out . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170118041355/http://creative-capital.org/projects/view/123 . 18 January 2017 . Creative Capital.
  5. Book: Hirsch . Robert . Robert J. Hirsch . Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels . Erf . Greg . . 2014 . 9781317911142 . Burlington, MA . 85 . en . 898770983 . 3 November 2024 . Google Books.
  6. Licata . Elizabeth . December 1994 . Buffalo - Heidi Kumao - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center . live . . 33 . 4 . 87 . . limited . https://web.archive.org/web/20231110231630/https://www.artforum.com/events/heidi-kumao-212662/ . 10 November 2023 . 3 November 2024.
  7. Book: Wosk . Julie . Julie Wosk . My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves . . 2015 . 9780813563398 . New Brunswick, New Jersey . en . 913556754.
  8. Chase . Alisia . November–December 2014 . Review: Surviving Confinement: Video Sculpture by Heidi Kumao . live . . 42 . 3 . 36 . 10.1525/aft.2014.42.3.36 . https://archive.today/20241104-042158/https://heidikumao.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Afterimage_review_all_2014-sml.pdf . 4 November 2024 . 4 March 2016 . heidikumao.net . free.
  9. Web site: Grantees: Heidi Kumao: Emerging Fields, 2002 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307051423/https://creative-capital.org/grantees/view/151/project:123 . 7 March 2016 . 4 March 2016 . Creative Capital.
  10. Green . Roger . January–February 2009 . Heidi Kumao: Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts . . 28 . 1 . 73 . 0889-728X.
  11. News: 10 April 2009 . Guggenheim Fellows Awarded to Two University of Michigan Faculty . . US Fed News Service.
  12. Web site: 10 November 2008 . Accolades - Awards . live . https://archive.today/20241104-043939/https://record.umich.edu/articles/accolades-290/ . 4 November 2024 . 3 November 2024 . The University Record - University of Michigan.
  13. Web site: First Robert Johnson Fellow in Residence . live . https://archive.today/20241104-045123/https://www.vcca.com/first-robert-johnson-fellow-in-residence/ . 4 November 2024 . 3 November 2024 . Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. 10 March 2008 .

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