Lorna Mills

Lorna Mills
Born Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Education University of Toronto
Known for digital art, net art

Lorna Mills is a Canadian Net.art and new media artist who is known for her digital animations, videos, and GIFs. She currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.[1]

Early life

Lorna Mills was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.[1] From 1993-1994 she studied Digital Media Studies at the Information Technology Design Center at the University of Toronto.[2]

Career

In 1990, Mills was a founding member of the Red Head Gallery, an artist-run gallery, in Toronto.[2]

In 1994, Mills began working as a game programmer for children's CD-ROMs and then for web programs.[3] At the same time, she began making digital animations.[4]

Starting in 2005, Mills began making GIF based art.[4] In 2013, her GIFs were projected at the Art Gallery of Ontario as a part of the David Bowie exhibition, David Bowie Is....[5] She also co-curated a GIF exhibition with Anthony Antonellis in Berlin titled When Analog Was Periodical.[6]

In 2014 Mills was also selected to curate a "pavilion" as a part of the Wrong Biennial, an online net-art biennial.[7] She also curated a video series, entitled Ways of Something, based on art historian John Berger's 1971 documentary Ways of Seeing.[8] For this video, Mills invited thirty different web-based artists per episode to create a single minute of footage about their contemporary practice.[8] "Ways of Something" has included work by several key participants in the Net.Art and New Media fields including LaTurbo Avedon, Jeremy Bailey, Jacob Ciocci, Rollin Leonard, Faith Holland, Nicole Killian, Rosa Menkman, Sara Ludy, Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Carla Gannis, Jenniffer Chan, Anthony Antonellis, Claudia Hart and Angela Washko Chiara Passa among others.

She also participated in The House in the Sky exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London.[9]

Mills often refers to her art process as "obsessive".[10] She has stated that this is due to the fact that internet art like hers that can be based on images that she finds from surfing on the web can encourage lengthy production.[4]

In 2016 Mills was the keynote speaker at the Pratt Institute's Pratt Upload (2016) patterns of the Mind.[11]

In March 2016, Mills presented Mountain Light/Time in Times Square, NYC as part of the Midnight Moment Project.[12]

Mills is represented by TRANSFER in Brooklyn, New York and DAM Gallery in Berlin.[13]

Ways of Something

"Ways of Something", is a collection of 1 minute videos compiled and curated by Mills and released in March 2015. Commissioned by The One Minutes, at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, it was a contemporary remake of John Berger’s BBC documentary, "Ways of Seeing" (1972).[14][15] The first episode consisted of one-minute videos by 113 web-based artists who commonly work with 3D rendering, gifs, film remix, webcam performances, and websites to describe the cacophonous conditions of artmaking after the internet. "Ways of Something" was created in four episodes.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Lorna Mills", Art F City, Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Lorna Mills CV", Persona Volare, Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Lorna Mills Interview", Triangulation, Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 Sandals, Leah. "Lorna Mills on GIF Art, Internet Aesthetics, and NYC Fairs", Canadian Art, Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Galperina, Marina. "David Bowie Art GIFS by Lorna Mills and Friends at "David Bowie Is..." ", Animal New York, Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "When Analog Was Periodical", Anthony Antonellis, Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  7. ↑ Henry, Joseph. "The Wrong Biennial Claims a Stake for Net Art", ArtInfo, Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  8. 1 2 "Sally McKay and Lorna Mills", Digital Media Tree, Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  9. ↑ "The House in the Sky", Hayward Gallery, Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  10. ↑ "Lorna Mills Biography", Persona Volare, Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  11. ↑ "Pratt Institute | School of Art | Graduate School of Art | Graduate Digital Arts and Animation | Pratt Upload (2016) Patterns of the Mind | Keynote Speaker". www.pratt.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  12. ↑ "Times Square Arts: Midnight Moment". www.timessquarenyc.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  13. ↑ "Times Square Arts: Lorna Mills". www.timessquarenyc.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  14. ↑ Cathy Wade (12 March 2015) "Ways of Something: 85 Artists, One Minute at a Time", this is tomorrow (magazine). Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  15. ↑ Maria Fedorova (4 March 2015) "Lorna Mills at Western Front", Temporary Art Review. Retrieved 22 October 2016.

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