Project College
Resume:
Marc Herbst
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abqppn@r.postjobfree.com
Education
Fine Art CalArts Valencia California MFA 2001
Visual Communications, SIAC Chicago Illinois Post-Baccalaureate 1999
Anthropology Colby College Waterville Maine BFA 1995
School for International Training Cochabamba Bolivia Sustainable Economics Program 1994
Selected Media/Cultural Projects
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Co-founder/editor 2001- present
www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org
The Journal focuses on wrapping ne a rt, anti-authoritarian activism and media theory into productive, contemporary
thought. Various responsibilities include brainstorming issues, art projects and presentations. Designing material. Editing
texts. Maintaining correspondences with writers and artists. Performances and presentations. Act as a publisher for a
selection of supported and autonomous writing projects.
Indymedia.org co-founderreporter 1999 - 2003
www.indymedia.org, www.la.indymedia.org, www.killradio.org
Participated in the f irst Indymedia outlet during i ts creation during the WTO riots in Seattle. Went on to
found and organize the Los Angeles Indymedia Center. A t various times responsible for updating web
c ontent, organizing the audio collective. Co-founded the web-radio station Killradio.org a s a spin-off
project.
October Surprise Co-founder/organizer. 2004
www.theoctobersurprise.org
Using North East Los Angeles as a speci c site for action, the project aimed t o reinvigorate grassroots a ctivity and
individual and neighborhood-by-neighborhood cultural production.
CalArts Student Newspaper Editor-in-Chief 1999- 2001
www.calarts.edu/newspaper
Created then edited this innovative billboard-sized student newspaper.
Solo Exhibits/Projects
2008
California Herbs and Spice Company (with Christina Ulke), Reading Room, Hamburg Germany
The Journalism of the Future, Sea And Space Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2007
Slide Archive (long-term instillation), Machine Project, Los Angeles CA
Move! Activate! Remember!, Southern Exposure, San Francisco CA*
2005
Your Stars Will Abandon You, Independent Poster Project, Los Angeles CA
Star Left Performance Project, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA*
2004
Power to the Playgroup! (with Christina Ulke) Crazy Space Santa Monica CA
Photocopy Diversity Project, Independent Poster Project, Los Angeles CA
2003
Plant Media Project, Installation at 331/3 Gallery and Bookstore, Los Angeles CA
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2009
Performing Economies, Fellows of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles CA*
2008
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa CA*
Play Groups, South London Gallery, London England
Feeling Peaceful, Southern Exposure, San Francisco CA*
We, Lizabeth Olveria Gallery, Culver City CA*
Hopeless and Otherwise, Southern Exposure, San Francisco CA*
The Red and the Blue, Occidental College Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2007
The Meeting Table, performance/reading at LaXart, Los Angeles CA*
Talking History, performance/reading at ProQM, Berlin Germany*
Between People Park Projects, LA CA
Psychobotany, Machine Project, Los Angeles CA. Organized by the Center for Tactical Magic
A Warning Shouldn't Be Pleasant, West Los Angeles College, Los Angeles CA
Neo Dolce, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles CA
Cannon, Library of the Escuela Superior de Artes, M rida, Yucatan, Mexico
Documenta 12 magazine project archive*
2006
Fine Print: Alternative Media at P.S.1, Queens NY*
Atlas Project, Pist Prota, Copenhagen Denmark
A Los Angeles Llegaron y por Hollywood se Pasearon Mexico City Book Fair, Mexico DF
Civic Matters, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA*
Proposals for Antonio, Los Angeles Times, January 25th, Los Angeles CA
Los Angeles Cabaret, School for Panamanian Unrest, LA>2005
Fresh, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Groundworks, (With Chrisitna Ulke) Carnegie Mellon University Galleries, Pittsburgh PA
Old News, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA. Curated by Jacob Fabricius
2004
Power to the Playgroup! (solo exhibition with Christina Ulke) Crazy Space Santa Monica CA
Class:C, California Biennial Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
Magazine Stand, Rebel Rebel, New Chinatown Barbershop, Los Angeles CA*
Adventures in Los Feliz, Site-specific installation, Los Angeles CA. Curated by Corrine Weiss
Plant Media Project, GardenLab, Art Center College of Design Wind Tunnel, Pasadena CA
My Apartment,(with Christina Ulke) 3 Fireplaces and 2 Bathtubs, MAK Center,Hollywood CA
Library Sites, Urban intervention in Copenhagen Denmark. Organized by Pia Ronicke
2003
What is to Be Done?, (With Maria Karlsson and Christina Ulke) Lenin Museum, Tempere Finland
Reclaiming Public Space, Artist s Television Access, San Francisco CA*
Sandwiched, (with Christina Ulke) Site-Specific performances in LA. Curated by Jacob Fabricius
Poster Project; Pretty Lies, Dirty Truthes, BC Space; Laguna Beach CA*
2002
Speaker s Corner, (With Christina Ulke) Freewaves Festival, Chung King Road, Los Angeles CA.
American Lullaby, (With Christina Ulke) Capture Now, Kunstverien Dusseldorf Parkhaus,
Dusseldorf Germany.Curated by Horten
Under the Ceiling, A Movement, (With Christina Ulke) Democracy When, LACE, Los Angeles CA.
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Bag Piece, Have a Nice Summer (Graduate Exhibition), Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica CA
Residenzflicht, (With Christina Ulke) Ars Moralis, Gallerie Classen-Small, Bremen Germany
2000
This is the World, (catalogue contribution with Pia Ronicke) Nordic Biennial, Moss Norway
No One is Illegal; Closet Show, Yellow House, Los Angeles CA
Car Piece, With Christina Ulke) La La Land, KunstFactor, Berlin Germany
1998
Two Models of Society, The Ides of March, ABC No Rio, New York NY
Current Undercurrents, Brooklyn Museum of Art; Brooklyn NY
Pot Project, Site-specific installation. New York Subway System, NY
Scholarships, Stipends, Honorariums, Residency s
2008 Hamburg City Residency Program. With Projectgruppe Hamburg Germany
2004 Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council Grant for the October Surprise
2004 Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council Grant for the October Surprise
2004 Ahmondson Grant for Study at CalArts
2001 Media Alliance Stipend for Alternative Media Coverage
2000 Soros Foundation Open Society Grant for LA Indymedia Center
1995 Hoovey Pepper Prize- Colby College award for excellence in Studio Art
1995 Albion Small Award- Colby College award for excellence in Anthropology
Signi cant Teaching Experience
UC San Diego Visual Art Department- Visiting Professor 2004 - 2009
Working with undergrads and post-bacc students in performance art, sculpture
and other visual practices.
University of Southern California Roski School of Art- Graduate Thesis Advisor 2009
Sundown Schoolhouse Experimental College- Teacher/Advisor 2006 - 2007
The structure of the Schoolhouse explores alternative modes of pedagogy
through semester long classes. Students engage on the level of both subject-
matter and critique of school structure.
CalArts - Teaching Assistant to Michael Asher 2001
Led critiques of student artwork, presented topical lectures
Selected Conferences and Panel
College Art Associaton- Relocating Art and Its Public* February 2008
Publico Transitorio- Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art * November 2007
Participated on the Keynote LA panel at the MOCA in Los Angeles.
Fine Print- PS1* March 2006
Performative presentation on inventing antiwar culture
Whispering in the Dark- Empyre Listserve* Nov. 2006
Month-long digital discussion guest discussing the commodi cation of discourse
Jornadas 2005- Cordoba (Argentina) Cultural Center* Sept 2005
Are We On the Same Page? - Southern California Consortium of Art Schools* April 2005
Selected Guest Lectures/Academic Residencies
University of Indiana, Indianapolis- Week-long residency* February 2010
UC Riverside- Michael Wilson. Topics in Contemporary Art* May 2009
CalArts- Andrea Bowers Art Class* April 2009
Otis- School of Public Practice lecture* March 2009
CalArts- Sam Durant and Nancy Buchanan Art Class* March 2009
UC Santa Barbara- Week-long magazine project with students* February 2009
UC Irvine- Graduate Lecture Series* M ay 2008
Cooper Union- Student Lecture Series A pril 2008
Cal Arts- Corrina Schnitt, Mapping October 2006
University of Southern California- Graduate Art Lecture Series* October 2006
University of Southern California- Andrea Zittel, New Genres Class* April 2006
Massachusetts Institute of Art, Graduate Art Lecture Series* March 2006
Cal Arts- Tom Lawson and Walead Beshty, Critical Responses* February 2006
UC Irvine Graduate Program - Visiting Artist Lecture Series* April 2005
Cal Arts - Natalie Bookchin, Interventions Class April 2005
UCLA - VidArt, Art Department undergraduate lecture series* March 2004
Scripps College - Tran, T Kim-Trang, Intro To Media Studies February 2004
Otis College - Graduate Seminar* March 2003
CalArts Critical Studies Lecture Series* November 2002
UC San Diego - Christina Ulke, Senior Seminar for Computer Topics M ay 2004
Art Center - Eddo Stern, Computer Games and Gadgets July 2001
Selected DIY Lectures/Conferences/Events
Chicago Retreat 2009, Lumpen Prosperity Sphere, Chicago IL (DIY gathering of radical artists) January 2009
Culture Jamming, Beyond Baroque, Venice CA (on media and activism) April 2008
ArtSpa, Sea and Space Gallery, LA CA (On collabortion and sharing) November 2007
Troops out Now Coalition, Federal Building encampment, LA CA* (Led encounter-group) September 2007
Inventing Anti-war, LA CA* (On building a culture of resistance) August 2005
October Surprise, Highland Park CA (Site-speci c interventions project) Sept 2004
May 2 nd 2 004
Sundown Salon, Glassel Park CA (On radical gardening )
Version Fest, Chicago IL (Presented concepts of social technology) April 2004
Bluestocking Books, NYC NY * (Reading of issue 3 Journal of Aesthetics and Protest) November 2003
16 Beaver Group, NYC NY* (Reading of issue 3 Journal of Aesthetics and Protest) November 2003
Lothringer 13, Munich Germany* (Reading of issue 3 Journal of Aesthetics and Protest) July 2003
Soft Scull Press, Brooklyn NY* (Reading of issue 3 Journal of Aesthetics and Protest) March 2003
Nomads and Residents_LA, LA CA* (Panel on literary countercultures) February 2003
Anarchist Antiwar conference, LA CA* (Presented culture s roll in creating resistance to war) October 2002
Selected Reviews
Volume and the JoA&P are out We Make Money Not Art online review, December 1 st, 2008
Games and Theory Freize Magazine by Jonathan Griffin, October 2008
"Art Workers Coalition" Artforum by Julia Bryan-Wilson, January 2008
Between People- Four artists on Connecting Artforum Online Critic s Pick by Annie Buckley, August
2007
Psychobotany Artforum Online Critic s Pick by Matthew Wilder, May 2007
For Your Social Consideration LA Citybeat by REBECCA EPSTEIN. December 7, 2006
Streetsignism LA Weekly by Doug Harvey, November 16th 2006
Your Stars will abandon you Clamor Magazine by Arthur Stamoulis, March-April 2006
Editors Pick LA Weekly by Peter Frank, August 30, 2005
"This is Chicano Art?" Los Angeles Times Magazine by Josh Kun, January 9, 2005.
"Grassroots Culture LA" Art-US by Robby Herbst, November 2004
"Art events sweep Northeast LA" Los Angeles Times by Daniel Hernandez, October 10th 2004.
"Tactics without Tears" Res Magazine May/June 2004*
"3 fireplaces and 2 Bathtubs" ArtForum Online Critic s Pick, February 2004
"Zine Spotlight" Clamor Magazine by Keith McCrea, November 2004*
"Best Underground Art Space" LA Weekly Best of Issue, by Andrea Richards, Oct. 23 2003
"Sandwiched" Northeast Issues by Jacob Fabrius, Spring 2003
"A Curator Who Wears His Art" NY Times by Meghan Dailey, September 22nd 2003
"Zine Review" Fifth Estate by Sunfrog January/February 2003*
"School Walls Are Worth the Notice" LA Times by Richard Fausset, December 16th, 2002
"Reel World" Bay Guardian by Michael Fox, Sept 25th 2002
"Pen Pals" Chicago Reader by Martha Bayne, May 31st 2002
"Chinatown Media Lab" Flash Art by Karl Erikson, May-June 2001
"Its Chinatown" Coagula Magazine, May 2001
"China Town" Art in America by Michael Dunkin June 2001
Selected Writing
"On Fashion", The New Materialism: How the Earth Becomes Who it Is, Clayton Crockett and
Jeff Robbins editors. Columbia University Press, 2010.
"Composing Something other than Joy" in Whirwinds, Team Colors editors. AK Press 2010*
"Economic Crisis" in Art Work edited by Temporary Services, White Walls 2009*
"Beautiful Dissonance" in A Kingdom at Any Cost, Michael Wilson Editor. 2009.
Its easy not to think Essay for Joshua Mittleman exhibition at Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles 2009.
Radical Gardening Essay in Sundown Salon Book, Fritz Haeg editor. Evil Twin Publishing 2009.
Red, Black article on Andrea Bowers InterReview Magazine issue 5, 2005.
Its red with yellow below Exhibition Review for Fuse Magazine To Be Published.
Santa Monica Burgers with Michael Asher InterReview Magazine issue 5, 2005.
Tightrope Walking Cakewalk #5 June 2002.
Pia Ronicke Catalog Essay for the Nordic Biennial Catalog, 2001. Co-written with Pia Ronicke.
Skills
Language Skills- German, Spanish
Linoluem/woodcut printing, woodshop skills
Computer Skills HTML/Dreamweaver, Flash (basic javascript), Photoshop, Illustrator.
* All projects marked with an asterisk are done in collaboration with the
Journal of Aesthetics and Protest.
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