Jenifer Wightman
Everyday, humans flip fossil fueled switches. These invisible streams of electrons run our computers, escalators, elevators, fans and lights. If there is one ritual common among us all, it is energy use. Fossil fuels come primarily from solar energy captured by carboniferous and devonian era plants and animals. We are burning millions of years of fossilized sunlight in 300 years of industrialized society. You may request decal images of fossils for you to place on your own lighting fixtures. Ideally, you will agree to send me a photo of your mounted fossil decal. Examples of the fossils to be 'lit' are horse-tails, club mosses, scale trees, and ferns. More images to choose from are coming.
I am a research scientist specializing in greenhouse gas accounting and life cycle analysis for assessing sustainable bioenergy production systems. I began making science-based conceptual art in 2002. I live and work in Brooklyn, NY.
In general, I create science-based conceptual work. I like working with scientific graphics, living pigments, and language. I like process, rot, puns, metaphor, and the exponential function. I'm obsessed with the notion of infinite growth on a finite planet. My work explores the transition of biophysical states that co-evolve manifestations of culture and ecosystems.
2012
Installation: Ion Landscapes, Strati Lab, Nyack, NY (April)
2011
Installation: Energy as Ritual, Art in Odd Places, 14th Street, NY, NY (October)
Juried Show: Napkins, Group Show, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA
2010
Workshop: Energy Agency, CONFLUX and 350.org 10/10/10, Marble Cemetery, NY, October 9.
Installation: Ephemeral Artist, Collective Consumption group show, DUMBO, NY, September 24-26.
Mail Art: SCENTED LETTERS, FAAN, February 14.
Installation: STILL LIFE, X-Initiative B.Y.O.A., New York, February 3-4.
Installation: EAT MY WORDS, 18 Rabbit Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, January 8-February 15.
2009
Installation: Graphic Dinner, One Night Stand Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, December 6
Performance: Blue Water, impromptu collaboration for Performa, on the streets of Soho, NY, November 7
Installation: Alexandrine, Central Park, NY, June 14
Performance: Pirate Librarian for Rob Strati’s Pattern Library on the Waterpod, Pier 17, NY, June 21-22
2008
Documentary: Visualizing Meaning, 8 minutes, http://www.cornell.edu/video/details.cfm?vidID=157&display=player
Publication: "Winogradsky Rothko: Bacterial Ecosystem as Pastoral Landscape," journal of visual culture, vol. 7(3)
Installation: Clapper, on the roadside of Route 120, North Plainfield, NH, December 25-January 3
2007
Commission: Copying the Masters, Bissel Gallery inaugural show, Ithaca, NY, September 9-October 3
Installation: monument, for Accessibility, Sumter SC, October 13-October 28
Installation: Garden of Eden, for Åmot Gard, Bygstad Norway, August 4-6
Workshop Lead: Graphic Language, poetry workshop stimulated by scientific diagrams, Columbia, SC
2006
Installation: Vector, Courtyard Café, Ithaca, NY, June 1-October 1, http://martha.mannlib.cornell.edu/charts
Installation: 245 cans: Installations in Public Libraries
Juried Show: Burning Bush, Bomb-in-Chain, NYPFD, Johnson Art Museum, Ithaca, NY, April
2005
Installation: One, One Night Stand Gallery, Ithaca, NY
Performance: Holometaboly, Highwire Gallery, Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA
Competitor: National Poetry Slam, Albuquerque, NM
2004
Installation: Winogradsky Rothko, Emerson Hall, Ithaca, NY, August 1-November 1
Installation: Corn and Beans, Stolen, Hanshaw Road, Ithaca, NY, June 7-August 27
Juried show: Nickle and Dime, Community School of Music and Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY, May
Juried show: Brand, Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, March
Competitor: National Poetry Slam, St. Louis, MO
Residencies:
MacDowell, NH
Nordic Artists' Centre, Norway
University of S. Carolina
NYFA Bootcamp
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