Bio:
Victoria Bradbury is a new media artist weaving programming code, physical computing, body and object.
She is Associate Professor and Chair of New Media at University of North Carolina Asheville. Victoria is a recipient of a $44,000 Epic MegaGrant to develop new research integrating physical computing with the Unreal Engine. With Suzy O'Hara, she co-edited Art Hack Practice: Critical Intersections of Art, Innovation and the Maker Movement (Routledge, 2019). Victoria has also published writing in Neural Magazine, the CITAR Journal, the Media-N Journal, and ISEA and xCoAx Proceedings.
She was a member of the New Media Caucus Board of Directors from 2012 - 2023 and served on the Media Arts Project Board and xCoAx Scientific Committee and ISEA Programming Committee. Victoria completed a practice-based PhD, "The Performativity of Code in Participatory New Media Artworks" with CRUMB at the University of Sunderland, UK, in 2015 and an MFA in Electronic Integrated with Alfred University in 2009.
Victoria has led art hacking events and workshops including The City is The City (is The City) at Baltan Labs (Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2015), Thinking Digital Arts // Hack (Newcastle UK, 2014), and the Into Practice Book Sprint at Banner Repeater (London, UK). She was a member of the British Council team for Hack the Space, Tate Modern. (London UK, 2014) and participated in the IMMERSION: Art and Technology workshops (Shanghai, China, 2012) and Digital Media Labs (Barrow, UK, 2014). Her artworks have been exhibited at Revolve Gallery, Harvestworks, The Albright Knox, Hallwalls Gallery, The Front NOLA and The New Britain Museum of American Art.
Artist Statement:
Seeking new modes of making with time, I came to programmatic artworks as a way out of, then back into performativity. At the heart of my practice is a hands-on, experimental process that regards both analog and digital with equal weight and balance. Creating interactive installations led me to question how programmatic artworks that are void of a traditional stage-audience dichotomy can be considered performative.
My participatory projects enact objects as nodes, broadening their relevance by centralizing them as tools to address wider ideas while exploring historical, social, or political systems. I have engaged this strategy while navigating the streets of Beijing in search of every Pizza Hut and while using sculptural proxies for accusers in two works that explore historic witch trials through interactive media.
CV:
EXHIBITIONS | EVENTS | LIVE VIDEO | PERFORMANCE | SCREENINGS | FESTIVALS
2022 “Mother Bear Mother Hen.” Future Bodies Symposium Exhibition. (Juried group exhibition). New Media Caucus, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
2021 “Blue Boar VR” and “Electronic Ginseng.” 2021 New Media Faculty and Staff Exhibition. (Invited group exhibition). UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC.
2020 InterGlass China Exhibition (group exhibition). Heijan City Museum, China.
2020 S-WITCH (solo exhibition). The Front Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2020 Electronic Ginseng 2.0. Redirect Exhibition. Curated by Suzie Dittenber with Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville. Revolve Gallery.
2019 Blue Boar VR. IEEE-GEM Conference Exhibition. Curated by Nicholas O'Brien. Yale University.
2019 With or Without You Video. Family Time Screening. CAA Conference. Curated by Myrel S. Chernick and Niku Kashef.
2018 Electronic Ginseng 2.0 video. Maker Movement. Albert van Abbehuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Curated by Megan Erasmus and Tom Veeger
2018 Re-Processed Garden | Revolve Gallery Terrestrial Exhibition | Asheville, NC
2018 The Hannah Festival and Directory | The North UK
2017 Mountain Picnic | Center for Craft, Creativity and Design Craft City Event | Asheville, NC
2017 Skirting Color // Stitching Code | xCoAx 2017 Exhibition | Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea | Lisbon, Portugal
2017 Electronic Ginseng 2.0 | BHCI 2017 Interactions Gallery | Sunderland, UK
2017 Skirting Color // Stitching Code | {Re}Happening 2017 | Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center | Black Mountain, NC
2017 Skirting Color // Stitching Code Video | Have Your Own screening event with Hot Cabinet | NYC
2017 The Hannah Festival and Directory | The North UK
2016 Victoria Bradbury: Assay // Hearsay solo exhibition | Electronic Art Gallery at CO State | Ft. Collins, CO
2016 Art2Code | Catalogue by v1b3 | online
2016 LAM Gallery Concrete Plastic Event featuring Armseye Magazine Issue II with Haway the Lasses | Los Angeles, CA
2015 The Late Shows | The Core Science Central | Newcastle UK
2015 Gateshead Arts Creative Makings Exhibition | Gateshead Library Gallery, Gateshead UK
2015 The Hannah Festival and Directory | The North UK
2015 The City is The City (is The City) | Invited Workshop Leader | BALTAN Labs | Eindhoven NL
2015 A Yorkshire Hack | Invited Participant | Digital Utopias Conference | Hull UK
2015 Hack the City | Invited Participant | Sheffield Methods Institute | Sheffield UK
2014 Show Me the Money: Images of Finance 1700 to the Present | NGCA Gallery and traveling | Sunderland UK
2014 Data Raft | Up the Creek/Under the Cloud Exhibition with Alexia Mellor | University of Sunderland UK
2014 Future Talent | Thinking Digital Arts | St. Mary's | Gateshead UK
2014 Digital Futures | Invited Artist Presenter | V & A at the White Building | London UK
2014 Hack the Space | Tate Modern Turbine Hall | London UK
2014 The Hannah Festival and Directory | The North, UK
2014 Thinking Digital Arts // Hack | Co-Lead Artist with Lalya Gaye | New Bridge Project | Newcastle UK
2013 Attaya Projects showcase with Lalya Gaye | B&D Studios | Northern Design Festival| Newcastle UK
2013 Witch Pricker in Dear Angel | curated by Suzy O'Hara | Globe Gallery | Newcastle UK
2013 Build-A-Boat | New Bridge Project PH Space | Newcastle UK
2013 Into Practice Book Sprint | at Banner Repeater | London UK
2013 Ventriloquisms for Fun and Profit | BASIC.FM screening | Newcastle UK
2013 Datarama: Ventriloquisms for Fun and Profit | Performance | curated by Isabella Streffen | Pixel Palace | Newcastle UK
2013 Hot Cabinet: Guilty Pleasure, The Quest for Extraterrestrials | curated by Tiffany Joy Butler |Video Screening | Brooklyn NY USA
2012 Mealtime Toasts from China | or-bits.com 128kbps objects | curated by Marialaura Ghidini | Newcastle UK
2012 From Lausanne to Beijing 7th International Fiber Art Biennale | Nanching China
2012 Vacant Quarters | Witness Material | with Steina Vasulka, Elisabeth Tolson curated by Nick Garofoli | Cuchifritos Gallery NYC USA
2012 Feijiacun Shangrila Open Studio Exhibition | curated by Filipa Reis | Beijing China
2011 Blue Boar | New Britain Museum of American Art New Media Space | New Britain CT USA
2011 Conversation Pieces | Purdue University | curated by Shannon McMullen | Purdue IN USA
2011 Fine Art Faculty Biennial | Ball State University | Muncie IN ISA
2011 End-to-End | Harvestworks Digital Media Center | curated by Moyi Zhang | NY NY USA
2011 Monkey Thunder BOOM | Muncie Civic Theatre, Gordy Fine Arts | Muncie IN USA
2011 Peepshow: It’s Complicated | Squeaky Wheel the Ukrainian Cultural Center | Buffalo NY USA
2011 Metabellum III: Performed at Triskelion Arts Dance Festival | Brooklyn NY USA
2011 Metabellum II: Performed at Rapture:Rupture Artists and Models | Buffalo NY USA
2011 Metabellum: Collaborative Performance with Dance and Electronic Art | Ball State Univ. | Muncie IN USA
2010 Beyond/In Alternating Currents | Albright Knox Art Gallery | curated by Holly Hughes | Buffalo NY USA
2010 From Lausanne to Beijing 6th International Fiber Art Biennale | Beijing China
2010 Home Sweet Home | solo exhibition | Olean NY USA
2010 MOCA JAX | Artist Studio Tour | Jacksonville FL USA
2010 In Our Days of Burning | live video | choreographer Miriam Wolf | Dixon Place | NY NY USA
2009 The Summit | 5 Points Theatre | Jacksonville FL USA
2009 Artist Television Access | solo screening | San Francisco CA USA
2009 Hallwalls | solo screening and monitor installation | curated by Carolyn Tenant | Buffalo NY USA
2009 Screens From the Centrally Isolated | Squeaky Wheel | Buffalo NY USA
2009 Momento Mori | WARPhaus Gallery | Gainesville FL USA
2009 The Midway | Two-Person Exhibition with Alicia Eggert | Hornell NY USA
2009 The Southern Tier Biennial | Olean NY USA
2009 Peepshow | Squeaky Wheel at the Ukrainian Cultural Center | Buffalo NY USA
2008 Various Explorers | #354 workspace.showspace | solo exhibition | Rochester NY USA
2008 BORDEREDROB | exchange with CAFA Media Lab | Beijing China
2008 Dagaocun Art District 2008 International Artist Exhibition | Beijing China
2008 Imagine and Red Gate Studios Open Studio Exhibition | Beijing China
2008 The Sustainable Circus | Gallery MC | NY NY USA
2008 Burchfield-Penney Grand Opening Video Screening | curated by Jan Nagle | Buffalo NY USA
2008 Loop Video Art Festival | Catalonia Rambla Hotel | Barcelona Spain
2008 555: A Pre-Enactment of the Apocalypse | Turner Gallery | Alfred NY USA
2007 Parabola | Turner Gallery | Alfred NY
2007 Lincoln Center Family Art Show | Cork Gallery at Avery Hall | NY NY USA
2007 Loop Sanctuary IV: Dreaming a New Reel | The Chapel + Cultural Center at Rensselaer | Troy NY USA
2006 Project One | CenterStage | Baltimore MD USA
2006 Out of Order | Maryland Art Place | Baltimore MD USA
2005 Watcher | Gallery 815 | Baltimore MD USA
2004 Dead End | 3rd Floor South | Baltimore MD USA
2004 Pyrokinetic | 3rd Floor South Gallery | Baltimore MD USA
2003 Fluxus Readings with Alison Knowles | MICA | Baltimore MD USA
WRITING
Art Hack Practice: Critical Intersections of Art, Innovation and the Maker Movement (2019). Co-edited with Suzy O'Hara. Routledge, NY, NY.
"xcoax 2017, Lisbon" (Review) | Neural Magazine: Issue 58 | Autumn 2017
Proceedings of Open All Ports Conference, 15th Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology New London, Connecticut, USA (2016). Code Performativity in Witch Pricker.
EDUCATION
University of Sunderland | Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss | Sunderland UK | 2015
Doctor of Philosophy, PhD | Supervisor: Beryl Graham | 2015
Alfred University New York State College of Ceramics | Alfred NY | 2009
Master of Fine Arts in Electronic Integrated Arts
Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore MD | 2003
Bachelor of Fine Arts in General Fine Art | Magna Cum Laude
Burren College of Art | Ballyvaughan Ireland | 2001
Semester of Study
BOOK LAUNCH EVENTS
Art Hack Practice panel in conversation | Panel led by Suzy O'Hara with Hannah Redler-Hawes (ODI), Marc Garett (Furtherfield), Irini Papadimitriou (FutureEverything) | Copy That? Surplus Data in an Age of Repetitive Duplication opening night at the Open Data Institute (ODI) | February 4, 2020.
Art Hack Practice: Critical Intersections of Art, Innovation and the Maker Movement | Panel led by Suzy O'Hara with Jasmin Grimm, TSAO Yidi and Nora O’Murchú | Vorspiel/CTM opening night | January 17, 2020.
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2016 Signal Culture | Toolmaker-in-Residence | Olean NY
2014 Digital Media Labs | @Octopus Collective | Barrow-in-Furness | Cumbria UK
2014 - 15 Creative Makings Residency | Gateshead Libraries | Gateshead UK
2008 Imagine Gallery Residency | Feijiacun District | Beijing China
FELLOWSHIP
2010-2012 Faculty Fellow | Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts | Ball State University | IN USA
AWARDS and FUNDING
2022 Digital Fluency and Experiential Learning: Promoting Digital Humanities in Undergraduate Research | National Endowment for the Humanities Community Connections Implementation Grant | $149,410. Co-Director
2020 Epic MegaGrant | $44,000 to develop new physical computing projects that interface with the Unreal Engine.
2013 Arts Council England Funding | Presentation at ISEA2013 and establishment of Into Practice
2011 Creative Arts Grant | Ball State University | IN USA
2011 Curricular Activities Grant | Ball State University IN USA
2009 Cite International Des Arts Paris | Cite Fellowship Winner | Alfred University USA
2009 Best in Show | The Southern Tier Biennial | Olean NY USA
2009 SUNY Thayer Fellowship for the Arts | Film and Video Category Finalist | Purchase NY USA
1999-2003 Neinken Foundation Grant | Bucks County PA USA
ARTIST TALKS, PRESENTATIONS, INVITED SCHOLAR
October 2023 | Artist Talk, City Tech, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY.
June 2020 | Future Focus Fragile Worlds At Ars Electronica, hosted by Future Everything with Irini Papadimitriou, Suzy O'Hara and panelists Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde and Paolo Cirio.
June 2020 | Future Focus Session I: Art Hack Practice Future Everything with Irini Papadimitriou, Suzy O'Hara and panelists Ellen Pearlman, Olga Mink, Olof Mathé and respondent Jessica Thompson.
June 2020 | Future Focus Session I: Art Hack Practice Future Everything with Irini Papadimitriou, Suzy O'Hara and panelists Marc Garrett, Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde, Yidi Tsao and respondent Marialaura Ghidini.
May 2020 | Future Focus Session I: Art Hack Practice Future Everything with Irini Papadimitriou, Suzy O'Hara and panelists Hannah Redler Hawes, Julie Freeman, Clare Reddington, Mugendi K. M’Rithaa, Tania Aedo and respondents Garnet Hertz and Saki Mafundikwa.
November 2017 | CAA Conversations Podcast: Jason Bernagozzi and Victoria Bradbury invited, hosted by Ellen Mueller
September 2017 | Invited Artist Talk, Visiting Artist Series | Sarah Lawrence College | Bronxville, NY
October 2016 | Invited Artist Talk | Revolve Gallery and Media Arts Project | Asheville, NC
June 2016 | Guest critic | CRUMB Curating Master Class | University of Sunderland | Sunderland UK
February 2016 | New Media Caucus Showcase | Washington D.C.
January 2014 | Up the Creek/Under the Cloud Exhibition Talk with Alexia Mellor | University of Sunderland UK
September 2013 | Into Practice Sharing Session | ISIS Arts | Newcastle UK
February 2013 | Talk on Makerspaces in China | Makerspace | Newcastle UK
November 2012 | Artist Presentation | Guangzhou Polytechnic University | Guangzhou China
October 2012 | Artist Presentation | Xinchejian Makerspace | Shanghai China
September 2012 | Project Presentation | Barcamp | Shanghai China
March 2012 | Artist Presentation | AHRC Block Grant Training | The Baltic Newcastle UK
February 2011 | New Media Caucus Showcase | New York NY
PANEL
Digital Weaving, Textile Design and Production | ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 14 | (Panel Presentation) | UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC | October 13, 2023.
Redirect Exhibition artist panel | January 24, 2020 | Mediated by Lei Han with Ben Duvall, Janna Dyk, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee and Victoria Bradbury | Revolve Gallery.
Reframing Innovation: Art, the Maker Movement and Critique | College Art Assosiation Conference | February 13, 2019 | New York, NY.
Writing Within the Disciplines | First-Year Colloquium Panel | March 2018 | UNCA Asheville, NC
Skirting Color // Stitching Code: Versioning Albers in the Browser | Xcoax 2017 | Artwork Paper Presentation | Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa | July 7 2017 | Lisbon Portugal
ICLC: International Conference on Live Coding 2016 | Invited Panelist | McMaster University | October 12-15 | Hamilton Ontario Canada
xCoAx Conference 2015 | Making a Magic Lantern, Horror Vacui Data Projector | Paper presentation | Glasgow Scotland
xCoAx Conference 2014 | Ventriloquism in Code-Based Participatory Artworks | Paper presentation | Porto Portugal
ISEA2013 Conference | Learning from the CRUMB Method | Paper presentation | Sydney Australia
New Media Caucus Panel | CAA Conference 2012 | Code as Craft | LA CA USA
Re:Wire Media Art Histories Conference 2011 | Paper Presentation: The Colonial Vegetables Sewn Sampler and Blue Boar:
Remapping Histories Through New Media | Liverpool UK
CRUMB New Media Discussion List 2011 | Invited Respondent | Online
New Media Caucus Showcase 2011 | CAA Conference | NY NY USA
CAA Conference 2010 | Hypotechnology: Artists Remix the Anachronistic with the Present | Chicago IL USA
Futures of Digital Studies Conference 2010 | Panel Moderator |Gainesville FL USA
PRESS
Burnaway | "Slow Connection: TSA GVL presents REDIRECT in Asheville". by Kate Averett | February 13, 2020
WLOS Asheville | UNCA turns weekend of fun into an art form | April 2017
The Guardian | "Smart art: Hack the Space at Tate Modern" | June 2014
TechMog | "Tate Modern Houses Epic Hackathon" | June 2014
Channel 4 News | "Turning Data into Works of Art at Tate Modern" | June 2014
V & A Blog | "CDOs, the new Chief Electrical Officers?" | June 2014
NBMAA Blog | "Media History Through the Eyes of a Blue Boar" | November 2011
The Hartford Courant | "'Blue Boar' Exhibit Inspired By Witchraft Trials" | October 2011
NBMAA Blog | "Relational Aesthetics: The Art of Sociability" | June 2011
The Buffalo News | "Albright Knox offers Largest, Most Diverse Exhibition" | Jan 2011
First Coast Connect with Melissa Ross | WJCT Public Radio Interview on The Summit | Dec 2010
New York Theatre.com | Review | The Only Friends We Have | Aug 2009
Buffalo Rising | An Evening of Shorts at Hallwalls | Mar 2009
The Artery Magazine | Interview | Mar 2009
The Buffalo News | Squeaky Wheel’s Annual Party is Worth a Peek | Interview | Feb 2009
PUBLICATIONS/CATALOGUES ABOUT ARTWORKS
REDIRECT Exhibition Catalog | 2020
Conversation Pieces | Curated by Shannon McMullen | 2011
Metabellum | Self-published Book | 2011
Beyond/In Western NY 2010: Alternating Currents | Text by Holly Hughes
From Lausanne to Beijing: 6th International Fiber Art Biennale Catalogue | China Arcitecture and Building Press | 2010
The Light In The Background is the Sun | Self-published Book | 2009
Madame Blueberry's Vidioptiscope Raree Peepshow | Self-published Book| 2009
Process is Concept | Alfred University | 2009
CURATORIAL
2023 Digital Weaving, Textile Design and Production | The New Media Gallery (Group exhibition) | Asheville, NC
2023 Psychasthenia 4 | The New Media Gallery (Solo exhibition of an interactive game by Joyce Rudinsky and Victoria Szabo) | Asheville, NC
2018 Terrestrial Exhibition | Revolve Gallery | Exhibition with Angela Ferraiolo, Cyane Tornatzky and Cristina Molina | Asheville, NC
2018 Re:Happening | John Cage Room | a curatorial collaboration between Victoria Bradbury, Carmelo Pampillonio, Alec Sturgis, Colby Caldwell, and Walker Farrell | The Media Arts Project + Revolve, in conjunction with BMCM+AC | Black Mountain, NC
2014 and 2016 Post-Screen: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures | University of Lisbon | Portugal
2010 Was Here | Hudson Beach Glass Gallery | video loop | Phila. PA, Beacon NY USA
2009 Fixation | video loop | Central Academy of Fine Arts Media Lab | Beijing China
2009 Loop Video Art Festival | Alfred Student Video Series | Barcelona Spain
SELECTED WORKSHOPS LED
2019 The Glass Electric: Hot-Glass Sculpting, Assemblage, Color, Observation | Summer 2019 Session 3: Natural History | Pilchuck Glass School | Washington
2015 Coding the Past / Coding The Future: Linking local stories with Processing | Central Library | Newcastle UK
2014 Thinking Digital Arts // Hack | New Bridge Project Space | with Lalya Gaye curated by Suzy O'Hara | Newcastle UK
2014 Into Practice Book Sprint | Banner Repeater | London UK
2014 Lantern Making and Hacking Electronics | Gateshead Arts | Gateshead UK
2014 Dynamic Animations with HTML | Gateshead Arts | Gateshead, UK
COMMUNITY ENGAGED TEACHING EVENTS
2019 HACK IT! DIY Divine Tools | Asheville Mini Maker Faire | Led with Leslee Johnson | UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC
2017 HACK IT! DIY Dystopia: Surviving a Techno-apocalypse | CrAFT Studio | UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC
2017 Advanced Interactive Design Student Showcase | Collider Space | Asheville, NC
SCENIC DESIGN and PRODUCTION
2008 Under the Table Theatre | Scenic Designer | The Only Friends We Have | tour: Soundance, Brooklyn, NY USA
Berkshire Fringe Festival, Stockbridge MA USA, Filuren, Arhus, Denmark
2007 The Combustibles | Burnt Umber | Scenic Designer | The New York Clown Festival | Brooklyn NY USA
2007 The Juilliard School Dance Division | Scenic Designer | Senior Dance Choreographers 2007 | NY NY USA
2006-2007 | The Juilliard School | NY NY USA | Properties Stock Manager/Artisan
2004-2006 | Center Stage | Baltimore MD USA | Properties Artisan
2003 | Glimmerglass Opera | Cooperstown NY USA | Costume Crafts
COMMUNITY ARTS
Community Arts Partnership Mentor | Baltimore MD USA | 1999-2003
The Great Halloween Lantern Parade | Molly Ross Artist Assistant | Baltimore MD USA | 2003
CLASSES and WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
Augmented Narratives: Expanding the Possibilities of AR through Improvisational Worlding | led by 4if at the New School NYC Media Labs | September 2017
British HCI Maker Day: Digital Make Believe (also on the organizing team) | Sunderland Fab Lab | University of Sunderland UK | July 2017
Future Fabulators Workshop with [fo.am] and Times Up | xCoAx | Porto Portugal | June 2014
CRUMB Short Course curated and taught by Beryl Graham | London UK | February 2014 & January 2015
Attaya Projects Physical Computing Workshop | Northern Design Festival | Newcastle UK | October 2013
Design Fiction Workshops with ISIS Arts and Gabriella Arrigoni | The Big M | Newcastle UK | Sept 2013
Immersion Art and Technology Workshops | Shanghai Biennial China | with Graham Harwood and Eric Lee, Jeffrey Shaw, Ulf Langheinrich, Joseph Nechvatal, Linda Lai, Roy Ascott | Oct 3-16 2012
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center | NY NY USA | Audio for Visual Artists | Nov 2010
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center | NY NY USA | Advanced MAX/MSP in Performance | Nov 2009
Seeing and Hearing Data in MAX/MSP/Jitter | Nov 2009
Circuit Bending Workshop | BENT Festival | Eyebeam Gallery | NY NY USA | 2006
Introduction to Microcontrollers | Eyebeam Gallery | Brooklyn NY USA | 2006
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
New Media Caucus | Board member 2012 - 2023 | Former chair and member of Communications Committee
CITAR Journal | Editorial Board 2017-2020
Media Arts Project | Board Member 2017-2019
ISEA Programming Committee | 2022-present
xCoAx Scientific Committee | 2018-present
British HCI Conference Program Committee | 2018-19
Member of Into Practice | a UK-based collective of artists, curators and researchers that exists to provide knowledge that facilitates practice
Makerspace Newcastle | Member | 2013-15
Xinchejian Hackerspace Shanghai | Member | 2012