Joe McKay

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

2007 - UC Berkeley, Practice of Art MFA
2000 – 2001 Whitney Independent Study Program
1989-1993 BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Major in Studio, Minor in Art History

Teaching

2009 Spring "Digital Media 2", Stanford
2009 Spring "Game Art", UC Berkeley
2008 Fall "Foundations of American Cybercultures", UC Berkeley, podcast
2008 Spring "Artdm112 - Digital Imaging", Diablo Valley College
2008 Spring "Artdm110 – Photoshop", Diablo Valley College
2007 Fall "Electronic Art 1" Stanford University,
2007 Summer "Art 8" UC Berkeley, introduction to art

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2009

Feb 28 - "the future is not what it used to be" Postmasters Gallery, NEw York, Curator Magdalena Sawon
Feb 3 - "Aesthetics of Gaming", PACE University, Curator Michelle Kasprzak
Spring - "Realtime", online Rhizome commission.

2008

Nov 7 – Dec 20 "Schematic: New Media Art from Canada", Curators Michelle Kasprzak and Heather Corcoran
Sept 6 – Nov 2 "RESET/PLAY", Arthouse, Texas, Curators: Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum
April – June "TRY AGAIN" La Casa Encendida, Madrid
March 30 – June 1 "Off the Grid" Neuberger Museum of Art, Curators: Galen Joseph-Hunter, Jacqueline Shilkoff, Tianna Kennedy, and Tom Roe
February "Deadpan III" The Lab (performance), Curator: Jonn Herschend

2007

Sept 7 – Oct 7 "Loss of Signal" VertexList , Brooklyn, NY. (Solo Show)
April 18 " 8-bit screening, and Big Ups demonstration", PFA, Berkeley CA, Curator: Steve Seid
April 30 "The return of Balance" (with Greg Niemeyer), The Falaki Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, Curator Aida Eltorie
May 18 "Fermata", Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley CA, Curator: Elizabeth Newboe

2006

September "The Golden Hour", Gigantic Art Space, New York, Curators: Susanna Cole and Erin Donnelly
August "NextNew 2006 : Art and Technology" ICA, San Jose, CA, Curator: Cathy Kimball

2005

July "Six Outdoor Projects at LIU", Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY. Curator: Matt Freedman
June "Code Residue", VertexList, Brooklyn, NY. Curator: Marcin Ramoki
May "Iam5" Parkers Box International Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
April "robo-performance", Artists' television access, San Francisco
March screening of "The Color Game" at the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Curator: Steve Seid

2004

Nov "Game Overature II" Color Game (interactive computer installation), Curator: Free 103.9, Brooklyn, New York,
July "The Infinite Fill Show" Foxy Production, New York, NY. Curator: Cory and Jamie Arcangel
July "Presence of Light" Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, NY. Curator: Kathleen Gilrain
Mar "Color Game" WeeWerks, Toronto, Ont.
Jan "Loading", Vertex List, New York, (Solo Show)

2003

Nov "ZKM", Robots No Follow (video), Karlsruhe, Germany.
June "Outpost", Smack Mellon Gallery, New York, Curator: Ada Ruby
June "Radiator Festival" Robots No Follow (video), Nottingham, England
Feb "transmediale.o3", Robots No Follow (video) Berlin, Germany.
Feb "Animations", Everything's Coming Up Roses (video), Kunstwerk Berlin, Germany.

2002

Oct "Prosthesis", collaboration with Matt Freedman, im n iL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

2001

Oct "Animations", Everything's Coming Up Roses (video), P.S.1 Contemporary Art, LIC, NY.
Oct "The Electric Donut", Joe McKay and Kristin Lucas, Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago, IL. (solo show)
July "The Electric Donut", Joe McKay and Kristin Lucas, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Media Z Lounge, NY, NY. (solo show)
May "Whitney Independent Study Program, Year End Show", (kinetic sculptures, performance)
Jan "Stand Clear" (sound installation), Elevator, Art in General, NY.

2000

Nov Simulcast Convention 2000: New York, computer and video performance, Collaboration with Kristin Lucas, Sally McKay, Tim Hirzel, and DJ Mr. E, Postmasters Gallery, NY, NY.
Sept "Proposals from Halifax", One week in October, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
June "Church of What's Happenin' Now", Simulcast Convention 2000: Columbus, collaboration with Kristin Lucas and Sally McKay, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH.
May "May Show", Project Space, Sculpture Center, New York (solo show)
May "Joe McKay / Sandy Plotnikov", YYZ, Toronto, Ontario

Awards

2006 Eisner Award, UC Berkeley

Press

2006 Feb NYFA Interactive "introducing…"(nyfa.org) Chris Ashley
2004 New York Times, "Sampling Brooklyn, Keeper of Eclectic Flames", Holland Cotter, Jan 23rd
2003 New Yorker, “Goings on About Town”, July 7th 2003, p.15
2002 New Art Examiner, "The Electric Donut", January - February 2002, p.67