Bio
Nanette Wylde is a conceptual artist and cultural worker with a passion for artists' books. She is a native of California where she makes her home with one spousal unit, one cat, and an abundance of edible and decorative plant life. She has a BA in Behavioral Science from San José State University. Her MFA is from Ohio State University. Wylde is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at California State University Chico where she developed and heads the digital media/electronic arts program.
Artist's Statement
My work starts with a question. Some unanswered phenomenon will go nagging around my gray matter, repeating itself in hushed, slightly obsessive tones until I satisfy with research–extensive research. And then a response. While it is the research that points me to answers, it is the actual making of the work, completing the project that satisfies the question.
My interests include: language, personality, difference, beliefs, systems, ideas, movement, reflection, identity, perceptions, structures, stories, socialization, definitions, context, memory, experience, change, and residue. These manifest in the creation of socially reflective, language based works, generally of hybrid media.
Websites
slippage.net
conceptuallybound.org
hungerbutton.org
Contact Information
Phone:
eMail: nw at preneo dot com
Website: preneo.com
Affiliations
Bay Area Book Artists, CAA, Electronic Literature Association, PCBA, Seattle Print Arts, SIGGRAPH, Southern Graphics Council, YLEM
Exhibitions
Recent Selected Exhibitions:
2008
• What Does Compassion Look Like?, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, Washington
• Visionary Landscapes, Northbank Artists Gallery, Vancouver, Washington
• 21st Stuttgart Filmwinter: Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany
• Inscribing Meaning: Context of Text in Visual Art, GCSU Museum Focus Gallery, Milledgeville, Georgia
• The Qi Project, The Krause Center for Innovation Art Gallery, Los Altos Hills, California
• File Rio 2008, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Meaning Matters: Projects from PreNeo Press, The Humanities Center Gallery, Chico, California
2007
• Moving Cultures (. . . all over the map), Euphrat Museum, Cupertino, California
• Crossroads, Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York, New York
• File 2007, Galeria de Arte do SESI, São Paulo, Brazil
• Corporate Art Expo '07, The Lab, San Francisco, California
• cyber feminism past forward, Vienna, Austria
• Access, Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York, New York
2006
• Pabellon dd, Juan Ismael Art Center, Puerto del Rosario, Canary Islands, Fuerteventura, Spain
• Bound to Inspire, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, California
• FILE Rio, Telemar Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• The Art of Book Art, 1212 Gallery, Burlingame, California
Professional Services
• Curation specializing in exhibitions of artist' books, digital media, net.art
• Consultation: Print on Demand publishing for artists
Teaching & Workshops
California State University Chico, Department of Art & Art History
Curation
• Conceptually Bound 3: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books, University Art Gallery, CSU Chico, 2007 & Mohr Gallery, Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View, California, 2008
• Slippage: fragilities and instabilities in the phenomena of meaning, in conjunction with ISEA 2006, net.art, 2006
• Small Colored Squares, Humanities Center Gallery, CSU Chico, 2005
• Conceptually Bound 2: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books, Coyote Gallery, Butte College, Oroville, California, 2002
• Conceptually Bound: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books, 1078 Gallery, Chico, California, 2001
• Making Meaning: Banners & Icons by Kent Manske, Humanities Center Gallery, CSU Chico, 2000
• Narrative Structures, at ART-TECH: Silicon Valley Institute of Art and Technology, San José, California, Co-curated with Monica Vasilescu, 1998
