Ken Feingold

Exhibitions & Public Presentations — Selected Highlights

Fellowships / Grants / Co-productions / Commissions

• 2010 Pollock-Krasner Foundation
• 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
• 2003 Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship
• 2002 FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool
• 1999 Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
• 1998 Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) Karlsruhe and i3Net (European Network for Intelligent Information Interfaces)
• 1997 ICC Biennale, Tokyo
• 1991 New York State Council on the Arts
• 1988 US/Japan Friendship Commission and NEA; Creative Artists Exchange Program
• 1988 National Endowment for the Arts
• 1988 New York Foundation for the Arts
• 1987 The Jerome Foundation
• 1987 The Checkerboard Foundation
• 1986 The Bush Foundation Fellowship for Artists, St. Paul
• 1986 Film in the Cities
• 1985 The Contemporary Art Television Fund; ICA, Boston
• 1985 New York State Council on the Arts
• 1984 The McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Artists
• 1982 The Andrew Mellon Foundation / Minneapolis College of Art & Design
• 1981 National Endowment for the Arts
• 1981 Film in the Cities
• 1979 National Endowment for the Arts

Awards

• 2000 Fundación Telefónica; Vida 3.0 (Life 3.0), Madrid
• 1996 DNP Internet '97 Interactive Award; Dai Nippon Printing, Tokyo
• 1996 Prix Ars Electronica, Honorable Mention, Interactive Art
• 1992 Videonale-Preis; Bonn Videonale

Collections (Institutions)

• Art Center, Pasadena
• Bonn Kunstverein
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
• ETH Zürich
• Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
• Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
• Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
• Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach
• McGill University Library
• Minneapolis College of Art & Design Video Archive
• Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica
• Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya
• National Gallery of Canada
• National Library of Australia
• New York Public Library
• New York University, Bobst Library
• Rotterdam Public Library
• University of Alabama
• University of Maryland
• University of Stockholm Library
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe

Teaching Experience

• 1977–1985 Minneapolis College of Art & Design — Associate Professor of Fine Art
• 1980/81 San Francisco Art Institute — Guest Faculty
• 1989–1994 Princeton University, Visual Arts Program — Special Lecturer in Visual Art and Council on the Humanities
• 1990–1991 Hunter College, Film and Theater Department — Guest Associate Professor
• 1993–1994 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, School of Art — Adjunct Associate Professor
• 1993–1998 School of Visual Arts, New York, MFA Photography and MFA Computer Art Programs — Faculty


• Visiting artist talks, workshops, and critiques at Harvard University, Brown University, Pratt Institute, Ithaca College, Art Center College of Art & Design, CalArts, Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Bard College, and The Royal University College of Fine Arts (Stockholm).

Monographs on the Work of Ken Feingold

• Ken Feingold: Figures of Speech, ed. Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, CSW Łaźnia, 2014
• Ken Feingold Selected Works 1978–2007; essays by Matthew Biro, Ken Feingold, Erkki Huhtamo, David James, Robert Riley; Ken Feingold Studio, New York, 2012

Selected Bibliography on the Work of Ken Feingold

• Technics Improvised: Activating Touch in Global Media Art, Timothy Conway Murray, University of Minnesota Press, 2022
• The Cabinet of Wolfgang von Kempelen: AI Art and Creative Agency, Dejan Grba; Proceedings of Possibles, ISEA2022, Barcelona, 2022
• Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation: The Birth of a Medium, Paul Crowther; Routledge, 2019
• Language Art in the Age of Panophonia, MATLIT: Materialities of Literature, v. 6, n. 2, p. 87–98, Aug 2018
• Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface, Kris Paulsen, MIT Press, 2017
• Emergence in Interactive Art, Jennifer Seevinck; Springer International Publishing, 2017
• Interactive Digital Art, Penesta Dika, Logos Verlag Berlin, 2017
• On-line/Off-line: Between Text and Experience: Writing as a Lifestyle; J. Pluciennik & P. Gardenfors (eds.), Jagiellonian University Press, 2016; "From an E-narrative Poem towards an Interactive Work of Art. Media Convergence Illustrated with DOWN by Zenon Fajfer and The Surprising Spiral by Ken Feingold", Bodzioch-Bryła, B.
• History of Philosophy in Art, Kwang-rae Lee, Mimesis Co., 2016
• Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945–1980, ed. David James, Adam Hyman, John Libbey Publishing Ltd., 2015
• Art: multiplied mediatization, Wilke, Jürgen; in Mediatization of Communication, edited by Knut Lundby, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2014
• Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media, M. Ryan, L. Emerson, B. Robertson, eds.; "Chatterbots", Ragnhild Tronstad; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014
• Channels of Ventriloquism in New Media Artworks, Victoria Bradbury, CITAR Journal, Vol 6, No. 1, 2014
• The Work of Authorship, ed. Mireille van Eechoud, Amsterdam University Press, 2014
• Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture, Heinrich Falk, Routledge 2014
• A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon, Routledge 2012
• Digital Art and Meaning, Roberto Simanowski, University of Minnesota Press, 2011
• Interactive Storytelling, Ruth Aylett et al, Springer Science and Business Media 2011
• Art + Science Now, Stephen Wilson, Thames and Hudson, 2010
• Beyond Mediations, Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, "Zamek" Culture Centre Publications, 2010
• Art Investigating Science: Critical Art as a Meta-discourse of Science, Maciej Ożóg, in Cognition and Creativity: Digital Arts and Culture, University of California Irvine, 2009
• Modes of Spectating, ed. Allison Oddey, Christine A. White, Intellect Ltd. 2009
• Art and Electronic Media, Edward Shanken, Phaidon Press, London 2009
• Sculpture Today, Judith Collins, Phaidon Press, London 2008
• Media Art Histories, Oliver Grau, ed. (essay by Erkki Huhtamo), MIT Press 2007
• Kempelen — Man in the Machine, Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest and ZKM, Karlsruhe 2007
• New Philosophy for New Media, Hansen, Mark B.N.; MIT Press Cambridge 2004
• Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age, Margot Lovejoy, Routledge, London/New York 2004
• Closed Circuit Videoinstallationen, Kacunko, Slavko; Logos Verlag Berlin 2004
• Rakastaa, Ei Rakasta (Love Me or Leave Me), Sakari, M., others; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki 2004
• Internet Art, Rachel Greene; Thames and Hudson, London 2004
• Understanding Art, Lois Fichner-Rathus; Thomson Wadsworth, Belmont, CA 2004
• Art, Lies, and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Adrian George, ed; Tate Liverpool 2003
• Video Art, Michael Rush; Thames and Hudson, London 2003
• Atomic Time: Pure Science and Seduction, Jonathan P. Binstock; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Oct 2003
• Digital Art, Christiane Paul; Thames and Hudson, London 2003
• Affect as medium, or the 'digital-facial-image', Mark B.N. Hansen, Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 2 No. 2 Aug 2003, London
• The 47th Corcoran Biennial: Fantasy Underfoot, Jonathan P. Binstock, essay by Matthew Biro; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Dec 2002
• Screen Savers, Carly Berwick; Art News, Sept 2002
• media city Seoul 2002, ed. Wonil Rhee, Seoul Museum of Art, Sept 2002
• Reviews: Whitney Biennial 2002, Michael Wilson; frieze, no. 68 Jun/Jul/Aug 2002
• Multiple Voice, Bob Nickas; Artforum, May 2002
• A New York, Biennale Outre-Tours, Libération, Paris; 14 Mar 2002
• Biennal I sargad stad, Norra Västerbotten, Skellefteå, Sweden; 13 Mar 2002
• Gentech-ästhetik, Sven Drühl, Kunstforum International, Jan–Mar 2002
• Pasada en Limpio, Ana Tiscornia, Brecha (Uruguay) N° 850- 15 Mar 2002
• As American as Jambalaya: Whitney Biennial Displays the Variety That Defies National Stereotyping, Blake Gopnik, Washington Post Thursday, Mar 7, 2002
• New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative, ed. Martin Rieser and Andrea Zapp; British Film Institute, London 2001 (book and DVD)
• Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, S. Wilson, MIT Press, 2001
• Devices of Wonder, B.M. Stafford and F. Terpak; Getty Research Institute, 2001
• Unter der Haut, Claudia Posca; Kunstforum International, Band 155, Juni Juli 2001
• Under the Skin / Unter der Haut, ed. R. Heidt-Heller; Hatje Cantz Verlag 2001
• net_condition: art and global media, ed. P. Weibel and T. Druckrey; MIT Press 2001
• Vida Artificial, R. Bosca and S. Caldana; Ciberpais (El Pais), Madrid, No. 8, Feb 2001
• Presence, Absence, and Knowledge in Telerobotic Art, Machiko Kusahara, in The Robot in the Garden, ed. Ken Goldberg, MIT Press, Cambridge 2000
• New Media in Late 20th-Century Art, Michael Rush, Thames and Hudson, London 1999
• Art in Review: Ken Feingold, Ken Johnson, New York Times; Feb 26, 1999
• Art on Robotics, Toshiharu Itoh, InterCommunication 28, Tokyo; Spring 1999
• Faux Documentary and the Memory of Realism, Allen Feldman, American Anthropologist, Vol. 100, No. 2, Jun 1998
• Media Art History, Hans-Peter Schwarz; Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) Media Museum and Prestel, Karlsruhe 1997
• Between Modernism and Conceptual Art, Robert C. Morgan, McFarland & Co., 1997
• Graphis Web Design Now, Coupland, K.; Graphis Press, New York; 1997
• Hardware Software Artware, ed. Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) Institut for Visual Media Karlsruhe and Cantz Verlag, 1997
• ICC Biennale 97, exhibition catalog; NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, 1997
• Was is dat?, Christiane Fricke, Kunstforum International, no. 137, Jun–Aug 1997
• Pionere Interaktiver Kunst, Söke Dinkla, Karlsruhe and Cantz Verlag, 1997
• Interact! Schlüsselwerke Interaktiver Kunst, Söke Dinkla, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg and Cantz Verlag, 1997
• SurReal Time Interaction or How to Talk to a Dummy in a Magnetic Mirror?, Erkki Huhtamo, artintact3, Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe (ZKM) and Cantz Verlag, 1996
• Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments; ed. Mary Anne Moser; MIT Press, Cambridge 1996
• Moving Images, Robert C. Morgan; Performing Arts Journal; 53, 18.2, 1996
• 3rd Biennale de art contemporain de lyon; ed. Prat, Raspail, Rey; exhibition catalog; Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1995
• Excavation Area: Ken Feingold, Erkki Huhtamo; Intercommunication 14, Tokyo; Aug 1995
• Interactive Media Festival 1995; ed. Timothy Druckrey, Lisa Goldman; exhibition catalog, Los Angeles; Jun 1995
• Galleries-Downtown: Synaesthesia, Gérard Nicolas, The New Yorker; 5.1.95
• Synaesthesia, ed. Ronnie Cutrone and Mary Nykaza, Mary Anthony Galleries, NY, exhibition catalog, Mar 1995
• Culture on the Brink, Bender and Druckrey, eds., M. Morse article "What do Cyborgs Eat?", Dia Art Foundation/Bay Press, 1994
• Echte of Virtuele Werkelijkheid, Ineke Schwartz, De Volkskrant, Amsterdam, 12.2.94
• Pleased to Meet Me, Amy Taubin, Village Voice, New York, Aug 16, 1994
• The History of the Interface in Interactive Art, Söke Dinkla, MediaScape, Zagreb; 6.1994
• Art and Technology: Iterations, A. Morgan, Art in America, Apr 1994
• Iterations: The New Image, T. Druckrey, editor; Intl Cntr. Photography/MIT Press, Mar 1994
• Interaktivität stellt neue Herausforderungen an die Entwickler, Söke Dinkla, Horizont Nr. 5/94; Feb 1994
• Vom simulierten Dialog zur Simulation des Lebens, Söke Dinkla, Mediagramm, Karlsruhe; Jan 1994
• Animal Identifications, Laura U. Marks; Parachute No. 72, Nov 1993
• Subversive Film Festival, Amos Vogel, Cineaste, Vol. XIX No. 4, 1993
• Interactive Art: Touching the 'Body in the Mind', Regina Cornwell, Discourse 14.2, 1992
• Video Art, Piotor Krajewski, Kino, No. 7, Jul 1992, Warsaw
• Random Access, Söke Dinkla, MediaGramme; Karlsruhe, Jun 1992
• New York in Review: "Ken Feingold: 'The Surprising Spiral'", Gretchen Faust, ARTS Magazine, 5.92
• Ken Feingold and The Surprising Spiral, C. Ruffert, ARTIST, Bremen, May 1992
• Bitte Berühren (Please Touch), Jeffrey Shaw, ed.; Center for Art and Media Technology, Institute for Visual Media, Karlsruhe, catalog, May 1992
• Exhibition of the Interactive Art, Erkki Huhtamo, ed.; Museum of Contemporary Art/OTSO Gallery, Helsinki, catalog, 4.1992
• The Surprising Spiral: Where Sand and Logic Don't Meet, Regina Cornwell; essay/artist's book, Galerie Rene Coelho, Amsterdam 1992
• Making Strange, Amy Taubin, Village Voice, 2.18.92
• Travel in Strange Worlds, Rainer Wilde, Neue Osnabr cker Zeitung, Sept 5.91, Osnabr ck, Germany
• Artbacteria Swarm on the Mediamile, Jurgen Klaus, NRZ, Germany
• Computers Help Truth-Seekers, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany
• En la Frontera Interactiva del Media Art, Erkki Huhtamo, El Guia, November 1991, Barcelona
• Illuminating Video, Hall and Pfifer, eds; M. Morse article, 1991
• A History of Video Installations, Nakajima Takashi, Image Forum Magazine, May 1990, Tokyo
• Image World: Meta-Media, J. Hanhardt, L. Phillips, M. Heiferman, Whitney Museum Exhibition Catalog, November 1989-Jan 1990
• 1989 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum Exhibition Catalog; Essay by John G. Hanhardt, NY
• WorldWide Video Festival; Simon Biggs, Mediamatic, Dec 88, Amsterdam
• Media Art in Review, Limbo Magazine No.2, Autumn 88, Tokyo
• Reclamations, Simon Biggs; Mediamatic, Vol 2. No.2, Nov 87, Amsterdam
• Dissonant Landscapes, Bob Riley, Institute of Contemporary Art Exhibition Catalog, Nov 87, Boston
• Met installaties meer zintuigen inschakelen, Erik Quint, Haagsche Courant, 11 Sept 87, The Hague
• Het Kijkhuis World Wide Video Festival Catalog; The Hague, Sept 87
• Video Art: An Historical Sketch Christine Tamblyn, High Performance, Vol. 10 No.1, June 1987
• l'epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Centre Georges Pompidou, Exhibition Catalog, May 1987, Paris
• Videonale 86 Exhibition Catalog, Sept 86, Bonn
• Het Kijkhuis World Wide Video Festival Catalog
Sept 86, The Hague
• Resolution: A Critique of Video Art, Exhibition Catalog,ed. Patti Podesta, including articles by A. Taubin, L. Relyea; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, May 1986, Los Angeles
• Video: Ken Feingold, Michael Nash; High Performance, Vol9 No.1, May 1986, Los Angeles
• Irony (The Abyss of Speech), Gary Reynolds, Vinyl (Minneapolis), 12.85
• Talking Back to the Media, Festival Exhibition Catalog, Nov 85, Amsterdam
• ICA Screenings show bridge between video art, television, Shawn McGivern, Boston Globe, Nov 15 85, Boston
• Featured Screenings Catalog, American Film Institute, Sept 85, Los Angeles
• Featured Screenings (Premieres of New Work), AFI National Video Festival; Corrine Kenner, L.A. Weekly, Sept.13, 1985
• C.A.T. Fund: Video Art Catalyst?, Deborah Goldan, The Independent, July 85, New York
• At the Whitney Biennial / Good Morning America, Charles Hagen, Artforum; Summer 85, New York
• Art: "Signs" Exhibition at the New Museum, Michael Brenson, The New York Times, May 17, 1985, New York
• Les Videos Extremes de Ken Feingold, Dorothee Lalane; Liberation, May 6, 1985, Paris
• 1985 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, Catalog
• Video Works from the "Public Domain", Robert L. Pincus; Los Angeles Times, 2.3.85
• Engaging Public Television, David James, Artweek, February 85, Los Angeles
• Public Domain: 14 Video Artists Catalog, L.A.C.E., January 85, Los Angeles
• Signal Approach, Christina Ritchie; The Funnel, Exhibition Catalog, Jan 85, Toronto
• Mediated Narratives, Bob Riley, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalog, November 1984, Boston
• Second Video Rio Exhibition Catalog, Centro Cultural Mendes, Oct 84, Rio de Janeiro
• The Whitney Biennial: Video, Amy Taubin; Millennium Film Journal #13, 1984, New York
• The Electronic Gallery, Diane Hellekson; Minnesota Monthly, August 1984, Minneapolis
• From TV to video e Dal video all TV, C. Borelli and A. Muntadas; Galleria d'arte moderna, Feb 84, Bologna
• Prime Time: Ken Feingold, Bob Riley; Exhibition Catalog; Institute of Contemporary Art, Jan 84, Boston
• Cuts and Sketches: "5dim/MIND" by Ken Feingold, Valerie Ellis, Afterimage, January 84, Rochester, NY
• Rebel Rouser, J.Hoberman, The Village Voice, Oct 25, 1984, NY
• Ken Feingold's "5dim/MIND" and "New Building Under the Water", Amy Taubin, The Kitchen, Oct 83, NY
• A Whitney Sampler, Marita Sturken, Afterimage, Oct 83, Rochester
• Head Hunting at L.A.C.E., David James, Artweek, Oct 83, Los Angeles
• HEADHUNTERS Tim Martin and Patti Podesta, LACE Exhibition Catalog, Sept 83, LA
• Museum Pieces: 1983 Whitney Biennial Video Section, Amy Taubin, The Village Voice, May 23, 1983, NY
• 1983 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, Catalog
• Golden Age of Video Art, Pat Wadsley and Jill Kirschenbaum; CUE, Jan 18, 1980, New York
• Six Films by Ken Feingold David James; Journal of the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; Number 14, April 1977