ABOUT
The Monument Project, 'An Important Work,' Margaret Morton, Ford Foundation,'Super Interesting,' Suhair Kahn, Google Arts, 2018 NYC Dept. Cultural Affairs Creative Engagement grant, 2019 Creative Time/NEW INC-New Museum shortlist, 2020 Artist Relief -Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant Bloom, Finalist, Haleakalā National Park Summer 2021 Art Residency,NY Academy of Science Magazine /Gala posters 2017 Cloud Mapping Project, 'Fantastic and Beautiful,' Barbara Bloemink,Cooper Hewitt (Smithsonian), Guggenheim Hermitage 95 Chimes, 'A Moving Experience,' Karen Levitov, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery (formerly Jewish Museum) Fire; A Love Triangle, 'Compelling,' Bomb Magazine Animal Patterning Project, 'An Artist of Interest,' Werner H. Kramarsky Archives, MOMA, City Arts 2021 recipient (NYC Dept. Cultural Affairs/NYFA),MIT's Leonardo pavilion @ the wrong biennale no5 “counting its viewership in the millions, the wrong just might be the world’s largest art biennale — the digital world’s answer to venice” - the new york times
Debra Swack is a digital and sound artist with degrees in art and computer science who creates transformative participatory experiences about the most important issues of our time. Her writings have been published by MIT Press, and she is included in Art and Innovation at Xerox Parc (MIT Press, 1999). In July 2019, she was selected by the New York Academy of Science, Pratt Institute and Guerilla Science, to participate in Conveying Science Through Art Public Engagement, supported by the Sloan Foundation, Science Sandbox and the National Science Foundation, who believe that public engagement in science is critical to a well-functioning society. The Monument Project mixed reality public art work, about heroes and the democratization of memorialization was shortlisted by Creative Time and NEW INC at the New Museum in 2019 from over 600 applicants, and was a 2020 recipient of a COVID Artist Relief grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation and a 2018 recipient of a Creative Engagement grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with Microsoft, the Siddhartha School, and the Rubin Foundation. Her work is a catalyst for change, innovation, and collaboration in helping to solve world problems. For example, Bloom addresses plant consciousness, The Emotions after Charles Darwin addresses universality of emotions on a neuro-biological level regardless of race, age and gender, and the consequences of CRISPR, Cloud Mapping Project addresses climate change, surveillance, artificial intelligence, and Animal Patterning Project addresses climate change, genetics, environmental displacement through urbanization, our co-existence in urban spaces, and the rise of infectious diseases such as COVID. In 2021 Animal Patterning Project, a recipient of a City Arts grant from the NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs and New York Foundation of the Arts was selected for Doomscroll - MIT's Pavilion @ the Wrong Biennale no5 and featured in becoming Feral, supported by the Center of History and Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. 95 Chimes was selected in 2021 for the Art and Science exhibit at the Dipignano Copper Museum in Italy. Cloud Mapping Project (originally presented at the Pera Museum in Istanbul in 2014, MIT Press 2017) is on exhibit in the Wuhan Biennale at the Qintai Art Museum, from December 28th, 2022 through May 31, 2023, invited by Qiu Zhijie, curator of the Chinese Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2017. Little Wars; the Carousel Project (mastered at Banff Centre in 2002 and exhibited in 2003-4 at the Beecher Center for Arts and Technology at the Butler Institute) was a recipient of a Dymystifying NFT Award/Metaverse exhibit from the New York Foundation for the Arts December 15-31, 2022, curated by Laura O'Reilly of Technology Gap.
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