Nate Harrison is an artist and writer working at the intersection of intellectual property, cultural production and the formation of creative processes in electronic media. He has produced projects and exhibited for The American Museum of Natural History, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Kunstverein in Hamburg and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, among others. He has also lectured at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Experience Music Project, Seattle and the University of Glasgow, among others. In 1997 Nate founded the New York electronic music microlabel töshöklabs, which has been featured in publications such as XLR8R, URB and CMJ. He has also recorded for the CO.AD and Record Camp labels. Nate co-directed the project space ESTHETICS AS A SECOND LANGUAGE from 2004-2008. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, a Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts and is a doctoral candidate, Art and Media History, Theory and Criticism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. Currently Nate is on the faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and lives in Brooklyn, New York
Through archival research Carla Herrera-Prats' work comments on the cultural
and economic transactions that flow, often invisibly, in
the context of a transnational world. Her projects juxtapose
photography and material from different sources questioning
the documentary value of both images and text. She was
co-director of the gallery Acceso A in Mexico City and
currently is part of the collaborative CAMEL. Herrera-Prats
has shown her individual work in Canada, Colombia, Japan,
Mexico, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and the United States,
in venues such as Centro de la Imagen, Museo Dolores Olmedo,
Centre Vu, Artists Space, Art in General, and The Contemporary
Museum of Baltimore, among others. From the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura
y las Artes she received the "Jóvenes Creadores" scholarship and support
for studies abroad. She has also been recipient of the
Interdisciplinary Grant from CalArts, the Van Lier Foundation Fellowship,
the Jumex Collection Support, and the LEF Foundation pre-production grant.
Herrera-Prats was recently teaching as a Visiting Artist at the California
Institute of the Arts, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
and taught the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard
University. Carla Herrera-Prats received her BFA at "La Esmeralda," in
Mexico City, and her MFA in Photography at CalArts, Los Angeles. She has
been a participant at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York.
www.carlaherreraprats.com
www.camelcollective.com