Myfanwy Ashmore
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Myfanwy Ashmore (born 1970, North York, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian conceptual artist who has been involved in information art, new media art, gameart, video art, interactive art, internet art since 1995. She studied at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, in 1990, graduated from the Sculpture-Installation department at the Ontario College of Art in 1996, and received her MFA from York University in 1998.
As well as being an international exhibiting artist, currently she is a technician at the Ontario College of Art and Design in the Academic Computer Centre. She has received numerous grants as well as awards from various councils and artist run centres. Most recently she was nominated and short listed for the prestigious 2003 K.M. Hunter award through the Ontario Arts Council.
She is known for her controversial soma/somo project, a series of networked decaying grapefruits that communicate with the viewer and vice versa—for which she received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, which promptly ended up in debate in Canadian Parliament and inevitably the media. She has continued to make work that is difficult to distribute, that sometimes exists in an undefined space, or has not been exhibited until much later when there are appropriate venues.
She is also known for the software art work entitled "mario battle no.1" was made in 2000, distributed by Year01.com and runme.org and is in keeping with this tradition, distributed with ROM and emulator on floppies across North America, generally outside the gallery system.
She has exhibited alongside Yoko Ono, Sol Lewitt, Liam Gillick, Robert Gober, George Brecht, lo-bat, COVOX, Mark Hosler of negativland, Norman White and others.
[edit] External links
- Mario Battle No. 1.
- Mario Battle No. 1
- April 2006 Interview With Myfanwy Ashmore
- Quotes from Canadian Parliamentary Debate
- Canadian Parliamentary Debate Document
- Advocacy Article Defending the Canada Council for the Arts - by Shirley Thompson
- Curatorial Brochure of exhibition at Mercer Union - curated and written by Dave Dyment
- Myfanwy Ashmore's homepage
