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1 | About | |||||
2 | Kole Kovacs | kkovacs.net | Born 1991, Pennsylvania | Kole Kovacs (b. 1991, Pennyslvania) is a queer, trans, non-binary artist, designer, and DJ based in Western Mass. Kole makes collaborative works with cameras, computers, and friends. He's currently working on a series of portraits that explore a poetics of trans vision and gender as an interface. He's interested in playful spaces where the structures that are set up to contain us fail over and over again. | ||
3 | Education | |||||
4 | Ithaca College Image Text Ithaca Master of Fine Arts | 2020-2022 | Ithaca, NY | Hybrid image and text works and experimental publishing | ||
5 | University of Cincinnati College of Design, Art, Architecture & Planning Bachelor of Science | 2009-2014 | Cincinnati, OH | User-centered and research-focused design methodologies | ||
6 | Group Exhibitions | |||||
7 | CMND/CNTRL Heiress Gallery | 2023 | St. Petersburg, FL | |||
8 | A Different Green Afternoon Quaid Gallery | 2023 | Tampa, FL | |||
9 | Digital Slip A.P.E. Arts | 2023 | Northampton, MA | digital slip brought together four artists--Alyssa Moore, Sarah Holloway, Kole Kovacs, and Emma Safir—to consider the human aspects of our digital infrastructures. Their collective push against the invisible and the arbitrary results in unruly, infectious, and textile interventions. Together, their work asks: what options do we have beyond surveillance and autocomplete, rigid interfaces and concealed networks? Glitches become a slippery place, a human break in the streamlined feed. As infographics rebel and a keyboard morphs into woodgrain, viewers are invited to consider how they can reimagine their own relationships with both hardware and software. Meanwhile, the digital window becomes fabric, uncooperative, a thicker glow. | ||
10 | Stick Show Co-Curated with Michael Osgood A.P.E. Arts as part of a week-long ARC Residency | 2023 | Northampton, MA | Stick Show is a multi-faceted celebration of sticks and the beauty of nature's found objects. Stick Show featured a special collection of sticks found by ‘artists’ and ‘non-artists’ alike; drawings, images, paintings, sculptures, and videos with sticks as both subject and object matter; and an open invitation to community members to contribute sticks to a group sculpture. | ||
11 | Ouroboros Essex Flowers | 2022 | New York, NY | |||
12 | Nothing But Flowers Quaid Gallery | 2021 | Tampa, FL | |||
13 | SFPC Code Societies Showcase Prime Produce | 2018 | New York, NY | |||
14 | Experience | |||||
15 | Editor From Here on Out | 2021-current | ||||
16 | Co-founder, editor, designer and developer imagetextinter.net | 2020–2021 | ||||
17 | Design Experience | 2011-current | ||||
18 | Teaching | |||||
19 | Co-Leader Queer Teens Group WiseBodies | 2019-2021 | Kingston, NY | We navigate the queer universe through conversation, games, drawing, writing, laughter, show-and-tell, visioning, image-making, asking questions, watching films, reading books, storytelling, and more! | ||
20 | Assistant Teacher KNOW Class & CIRCLE Class WiseBodies | 2019-2020 | Kingston, NY | Sexuality education for all ages in a fresh, age appropriate, honest, and uplifting way that supports the whole individual and the whole community. | ||
21 | Residencies | |||||
22 | Resident DJ with Community Rave Network | 2020-2023 | Hudson Valley, NY | A web of djs && collaborators finding ourselves and each other on the dance floor | ||
23 | School for Poetic Computation Code Societies Resident | 2018 | Westbeth Artists Community West Village NY, NY | "Examined the ideological and mythological attributes of computation, concentrating on the poetics and politics of culturally embedded software." | ||
24 | Talks & Readings | |||||
25 | Reading from becoming a third thing at Essex Flowers | 2022 | New York, NY | |||
26 | The Past, Present, & Future of the CAPTCHA | 2022 | Ithaca, NY | For the Image Text Ithaca Curriculum | ||
27 | Perpetual Beta - Workshop & Lecture Design Research Society, 2014 | 2014 | Umeå, Sweden | |||
28 | Book Fairs | |||||
29 | Exhibitor at Cincinnati Art Book Fair | 2023 | Cincinnati, OH | |||
30 | Exhibitor with Image Text Ithaca Press Printed Matter Art Book Fair | 2022 | New York, NY | |||
31 | Exhibitor at Cincinnati Art Book Fair | 2019 | Cincinnati, OH | |||
32 | Publications | |||||
33 | becoming a third thing self-published book (forthcoming) | 2022 | Thesis work for Image Text Ithaca | |||
34 | Art & writing in Ouroboros Image Text Ithaca Press | 2022 | Group thesis publication developed collaboratively with Image Text Ithaca class of 2022 and designed and curated by Paul Soulellis. Launched in conjunction with Ourobouros group show at Essex Flowers. | |||
35 | Art & writing in How to Make a Working Paper Clock Image Text Ithaca Press | 2022 | Part of a series of 3 broadsheet posters curated by Nicholas Muellner and Catherine Taylor, led by Tonya Foster, and designed by Elana Schlenker | |||
36 | Art in "We Wanted More: The Image Text Intiative" FOAM Magazine, #60: Glyphs | 2021 | "Our interest lies in the current creation and consumption of images and text, which is why the following contributions look closely at current crossroads and intersections of the two. What meanings and stories can one medium give or take from the other? And how can they influence our thinking or the way we perceive and navigate a world of fact and fiction." | |||
37 | Art in Lazy Susan III Blue Arrangements | 2021 | "What goes around comes around right? There’s enough to go around. Plenty to go around even. Take a spin around the block after, turn around in the cul-de-sac, roundabout, rotary, go full circle, do a couple laps. There’s plenty to go around." | |||
38 | Photographs in Fade / Fail / Flow Oranbeg Press | 2020 | Too far in distance Just close enough to connect the dots. | |||
39 | four friends zine self-published broadside | 2019 | double sided broadsheet Edition of 100 collaborative project with Rahul Dev, Kyle Mace & Ash Strazzinski | |||
40 | all eyes under the same sun self-published zine | 2019 | 24 pages, Black & White Laser Print Second Edition, Edition of 20 | |||
41 | door open, window closed self-published zine | 2019 | 24 pages, Color Laser Print Second Edition, Edition of 20 | |||
42 | here are 10 possible meanings self-published zine | 2019 | 24 pages, Color Laser Print Second Edition, Edition of 20 | |||
43 | felicidade self-published zine | 2019 | 32 pages, Color Laser Print Edition of 120 collaborative project with Kyle Mace | |||
44 | Scholarships & Awards | |||||
45 | Park School of Communications Fellowship Ithaca College | 2020-2022 | ||||
46 | Cincinnatus Scholar University of Cincinnati | 2009-2014 | ||||
47 | Dean's List University of Cincinnati | 2009-2014 | ||||
48 | This CV was inspired by the spreadsheet CVs of Mindy Seu & Laurel Schwulst. | |||||
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