Artist Statement

My works embody the beautiful and unsettling potential of digital technology. Usually shrouded in innocuous applications, I expose these technologies to be fantastic and bizarre extensions of human desire and power by embedding them in art pieces. These installations anthropomorphize the machine and explore the ways in which technology augments human experience and perception. Inspired by organic patterns and systems, artificial intelligence and symbolism, my works are responsive and aware.

My recent work has been primarily in video, crafting luminous, dream-like environments populated by models of swarms and biological growth on the brink of consciousness: charting digital extensions of human imagination.

Many of my works are made collaboratively. Making art with another person is like a long conversation that happens in images, words, sounds and movement over the course of weeks or months. The resulting art piece is an artifact of that conversation.

Presently I am a resident artist at Million Fishes Arts Collective and an Interactive Art Engineer at Obscura Digital.

Contact: mary @ maryfranck.net | CV

Education

BA Studio Art: Conceptual and Information Art, San Fransisco State University

Selected Exhibitions

2012
Head of the Table: The Lab

2011
Permutae: CounterPULSE
Current
Art Fag Potluck Salon

2010
Beast
Alchemy
Senior Show, SFSU Art Department
Tasku! And the Dusk of Time
Television of Tomorrow Show 2010
Everyone Intimate Alone Visibly: Z-Space, Joyce SoHo, Dance Place

2009
Video Games, Artist Television Access
Langton Labs
ATA Film and Video Festival, Artist Television Access
Arts in the City of Oakland, Frank Ogawa Plaza
Park(ing) Day, 7th and Howard, San Francisco
LoveTech, Il Pirata
Priceless: Belden Town
Studio Gracia Salon, Studio Gracia
CIA Salon, Martin Wong Gallery
Stimulus, CELLspace

2008
Chance Operations, Climate Theater
Priceless, Belden Town
Mission Arts and Performance Project (MAPP)
Eclecticism, Tango Art Space

Memberships

Ardent Heavy Industries, False Profit, Million Fishes Art Collective

Teaching

“Intro to TouchDesigner for Projection Mapping,” taught at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and at Million Fishes Oct 2011.

“Intro to Max/Jitter for Interactivity Programming and Computer Vision,” taught at San Francisco State University and at Langton Labs Oct 2009.

Grants

False Profit, Priceless Grant 2009
False Profit, Priceless Grant 2008