Media:
Photography, Video, Mobile, Computer Art, Installation, Multi-media performance, Web technology
Current Employment:
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Women and Art
Director, Neighborhood Narratives Program
Faculty, Mason Gross School of Art
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
191 College Ave., 2nd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
- 1998 MPS Interactive Media; Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (Terminal Degree)
- 1987 BA, Gallatin School of Individual Study, New York University
- 1998-99 Thesis Mentors: Mary Lucier and Shimon Attie
- Film/Video Arts, New York City; Artist/Mentor Program: 1994 Leslie Thornton, 1995 Edin Velez
- 1990 Les Recontres d’Arles, France. Photo Studies: Graciela Iturbide
- 1989-94 International Center of Photography, New York City. Photo Studies: Duane Michals, MaryEllen Mark, Sophie Calle
Creative Research:
2005 – on-going
NEIGHBORHOOD NARRATIVES2005 – on-going
Founder, director: In 2005, Neighborhood Narratives (http://www.neighborhoodnarratives.net), was launched as a trans-disciplinary locative education curriculum utilizing mobile web 2.0 technologies to engage students within the layered experience of nature, technology, and culture of place and space. The project has been successfully piloted in Philadelphia (PA), New York (NY), New Brunswick (NJ), Tokyo, London, and Rome, where the international network of classes has been simultaneously linked together in order to investigate the local/global dialectic and how that relationship is being transformed in a mediated world.
COLLABORATION: CENTER FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH
Neighborhood Narratives is unique in that it has developed an important collaboration with New York University’s Center for Creative Research (http://www.centerforcreativeresearch.org), a new research entity within the Graduate School of Arts and Science. This long-term partnership provides Neighborhood Narratives with an additional lens through which to examine the body as agent and site, and movement as physical architecture in urban space. The Center for Creative Research (CCR) is a multi-year pilot project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, designed to create and implement innovative long-term strategies for artist-university interaction that complement existing models. The Center is currently made up of eleven Founding Fellows (Ann Carlson, Bebe Miller, Dana Reitz, David Gordon, Eiko Otake, Elizabeth Streb, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Liz Lerman, Margaret Jenkins, Pat Graney and Ralph Lemon); Artist-in-Residence, Ain Gordon; Project Director, Dana Whitco; and Senior Advisor, Sam Miller, President of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC).
Teaching Experience:
2009 – 2011
VISITING SCHOLAR, INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN AND ART, RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY; FACULTY, MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF ART
- University-wide integration of Neighborhood Narratives
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, THE CANADIAN FILM CENTRE, MEDIA LAB
- Locative workshop
2008 - 09
LECTURER, DEPT OF WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY.
- Initiated Neighborhood Narratives curriculum into Dept of Women’s and Gender Studies.
2008
PT LECTURER, DEPT. OF PHOTO AND IMAGING, TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY.
- Integrated Neighborhood Narratives into the curriculum of Photo and Imaging
2004-2007
PROGRAM DIRECTOR, NEW MEDIA INTERDISCIPLINARY CONCENTRATION, SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS & THEATER, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
- Developed overall program vision
- Collaborated across six Communications and Media Arts disciplines and with other schools on program development (Computer Science, Urban Geography, Theater, Liberal Arts).
- Created, taught and directed curriculum, including international collaborations (Tokyo, Rome, London)
- Hired visiting faculty
- Implemented visiting lecturers program of international artists and scholars
- Engaged in fundraising activities
- Formed liaisons with external creative partners
- Engaged students in professional artistic projects
2007
FACULTY, NEIGHBORHOOD NARRATIVES, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY ROME, ITALY
- Initiated the School of Communications & Theater curriculum in Rome
- Integrated an interdisciplinary student group into an arts based campus
- Linked class with Tokyo Neighborhood Narratives class
- Led a special class field trip to the Venice Biennale
VISITING FACULTY, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LONDON, ENGLAND
- Visited all School of Communications and Theater classes as peer evaluator
FACULTY, COMPUTER ARTS, INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY/BARD COLLEGE OF ART, GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES, NEW YORK CITY
- Taught digital arts theory via creative assignments to photo-based students
2003
ARTIST-IN-THE-SCHOOLS, MANHATTAN ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY, NEW YORK CITY
- Developed curriculum for 2004 in which the 6th and 8th graders at MAT would work with Hana Iverson to develop digital albums of oral histories, memoir writing with artifacts and digital photographs to explore their lives in Chinatown neighborhood of New York City
- Funded by the New York Foundation for the Arts
INSTRUCTOR, INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY, NEW YORK CITY
- Taught a variety of courses in video art practice, digital art theory and production
VISITING INSTRUCTOR, CENTRO DE LA IMAGEN. MEXICO CITY
- Taught a variety of courses in video art and installation
2007
CROSS/WALKS: WEAVING FABRIC ROW
BOROWSKI GALLERY, GERSHMAN Y, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
- A neighborhood portrait composed of site-specific delivery via cell phone on Fabric Row (4th Street)
- Interactive audio installation in the Borowski Gallery that integrates the remote/local platform
- Web site http://www.cross-walks.org.
- Collaboration with students from Neighborhood Narratives, Temple University. Funded by the Samuel L. Fels Fund, Temple University and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
2006
A CONVERSATION AT THE TABLE
THE FABRIC WORKSHOP MUSEUM, PHILADELPHIA
- Sound Installation, for “Mind” group collaboration: Hana Iverson, Clarissa Sligh, Andrea Poulsen, Blaise Tobia, and Virginia Maksymowicz. Funded by the Fabric Workshop Museum
2004
BILL DIARY
- The International Center of Photography, New York City. Mixed media large scale photo work
2000 - 2003
VIEW FROM THE BALCONY
THE MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET, NEW YORK CITY
- Site-specific audio and video installation and web project created for the Eldridge Street Project http://www.viewfromthebalcony.org. Funded by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Covenant Foundation.
1998
ASTHMA, KLINIKZENTRUM, BAD SULZA, GERMANY
- Two-channel slide and sound installation.
1997
HOME: TIP OF THE ICEBERG, DORFMAN PROJECTS, NEW YORK CITY; MEMORY AND LOSS, MARY ANTHONY GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY; PULSE ART, NEW YORK CITY
- Video panel
1996
BABY, PULSE ART, NEW YORK CITY
- Multi-panel photo and text work
- Catalogue essay by Alex Sweetman
1995
BILL DIARY, MOORE COLLEGE OF ART, PHILADELPHIA, PA
- Mixed media photo + sound installation
1994
SOLO EXHIBITION, MUSEO UNIVERITARIO DEL CHOPO, MEXICO CITY
- Asthma, multi-channel slide and sound installation
- Walk, single channel video;
- Sorrow’s Stance, three-channel video installation;
- Bill Diary, mixed media photo installation;
- Sister, photo based mixed media artist book;
- Baby, multi-panel photo and text work;
- Catalogue essay by Miriam Seidel.
- Funded by the Museo del Chopo.
- Artist book: photo/text.
- Three-channel video installation
1993
SISTER; CURRENT WORKS, SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, KANSAS CITY, MO
- Mixed media artist book
LAS NEUVAS MAJAS, LA CASONA II SECRETARIA DE HACIENDA, MEXICO CITY
WOMEN ON WOMEN, ARTSQUAD, EASTON, PA
SORROW’S STANCE, 494 GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY
Selected Video Screenings:
2009
CROSS/WALKS: WEAVING FABRIC ROW
Philly Stories: MindTV – Independence Public Media of Philadephia
2000
WALK, Arts Interlude Video Wall, New York City
1998
HOME, Women Make Movies, New York City
1997
HOME
- Pulse Art, New York City
- Jewish Video Exhibition, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California
- Charlotte Film and Video Festival, Charlotte, North Carolina
- Carolina Film and Video Festival, Charlotte, North Carolina
- Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, Victoria, British Columbia.
WALK, New York Expo of Film and Video, New York City
1995
WALK
- Broadcast by Free Speech TV, Denver, Colorado
- Art in General, New York City.
- Denver International Film Festival, Denver, Colorado.
- Charlotte Film & Video Festival, Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Carolina Film and Video Festival, Charlotte, North Carolina
- Images ’95 Festival of New Film and Video, Toronto, Canada
- Intimate Visions, Centro de l’Imagen, Mexico City.
- Broadcast by “Independents,” WNYC TV, New York City.
- Controversy, Censorship and Truth, B’nai Jeshrun, New York
- Three-channel video
SORROW’S STANCE
- Planta Zona, Mexico City
- Act of Video Festival, Downtown Community Television, New York City
- New Works. Broadcast as single channel video by MNN Cable Television, New York City
1998 – 2004
HB IMAGES, INC. VIDEO AND MULTI-MEDIA PROJECT DESIGN
- Clarissa Sligh (Jake)
- Aviva Slesin (Hidden Children and their Rescuers)
- Rosalind Solomon (To Highlands)
- Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas (Installation, Grounds for Sculpture)
- Linda Troeller (The Erotic Lives of Women)
- Nancy Azara (Spirit House of the Mother and Other Works)
- Bruce Ledbetter (Push)
SOUND DESIGN. AUDIO PORTION OF EXHIBITION SANDY GROUND, ARTIST: CLARISSA SLIGH, SMITHSONIAN INST., WASHINGTON, D.C.
Curricula:
NEIGHBORHOOD NARRATIVES
- New York University
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Temple University Philadelphia
- Temple University London
- Temple University Tokyo
- Temple University Rome
- Co-teachers: Steve Bull, David Gordon (Center for Creative Research), Siobhan Thomas (London), Ron Carr (Tokyo)
http://www.neighborhoodnarratives.net
Bibliography
http://leoalmanac.org/resources/curriculum/locativemedia/narratives.asp
Neighborhood Narratives invites students to examine the city as a virtual and mixed reality space and investigates the complex means by which cell phones, GPS, mobile recording devices and social network games affect their knowledge of and relation to lived space.
At Temple, NN linked the main campus of Temple University with its international campuses in London, Tokyo and Rome. The complex historical, cultural, socio-political and economic contexts that affect each city, affect the classroom dynamic, thus heightening the global exchange of information.
- Temple University, Philadelphia
The class sponsored the Identification-Culture-Belief Forum, a monthly public forum to discuss issues of culture and the creative process in contemporary American society. The forum was hosted by a panel comprised of a rotating faculty member, a student and an outside guest participant, attended by members of the Identification-Culture-Belief class and open to members of the Temple/SCT and arts communities at large.
Students approached the social and political issues raised in the class through both public dialogue and the exploration of everyday experience. On-going discussion lead to final creative project presentations.
MULTI-MEDIA INSTALLATION
- Temple University, Philadelphia
Approaches the immersion in, or interaction with the moving image, sound and/or text. The class looks at how to transform traditionally static viewing spaces into active participatory fields, interlinking space and time, fiction and reality, and spatialization through sound via large screen projections, monitor images and interactive systems.
AUTONOMOUS TOY ROBOTS
- Temple University, Philadelphia
Collaboration with Computer Science, co-taught by Hana Iverson and Rolf Lakamper, investigated social and spatial interaction with Lego Mindstorms. The class playfully invented, implemented and evaluated models of human behavior that form the basis of social conventions and interaction. The understanding of space and behavior is used both in the realm of robotics and when creating player simulation in computer games. Students worked in cross-disciplinary teams to learn concepts and procedures in a hands-on, interactive environment.
GAME OF LIFE- Temple University, Philadelphia
The course considers game interaction, and the ways our lives and media integrate. The class examined how observation and participation in everyday gaming structures can be translated into an interface. Students analyze digital environments to explore interactive narrative, resulting in the creation of an interactive universe of their own construction.
INTRO NEW MEDIA I- Temple University, Philadelphia
A foundation level course covering different areas of new media theory and practice
INTRO TO NEW MEDIA II,- Temple University, Philadelphia
Physical interface in public place: The class explores key technologies, ideas, applications, data, and policies that inform and shape the emerging geoweb of public space.
PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMPUTER ARTS- International Center of Photography/Bard College
This course introduces a survey of work in computer arts, linking them to digital engagement in photography. Networks, installations, data-bases, and all points between object and signal.
VIDEO AND VIDEO INSTALLATION
- Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
Single or multi channel video, installation, integration with performance and/or network: This class experiments with space and projection, integrating the capability of all forms of video imagery.
Professional Publication:
2009
“Recollection and Restoration: View from the Balcony,” by Hana Iverson; Orchard Shul Art Project catalogue, Editor: Cynthia Beth Rubin, New Haven, Conn.
“Place Matters: Locative Media as Public Art Education,” by Hana Iverson; Second Nature: International Journal of Creative Media, Editor: Shiralee Saul. Publisher: School of Media and Communication, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
“The Neighborhood Narratives Project: New Dialogues with/in the Mediated City”, by Hana Iverson and Rickie Sanders, Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University;
MediaCity: Situations, Practices, Encounters. Editors: Frank Eckardt, Jens Geelhaar, Laura Colini, Katharine S. Willis, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Ralf Hennig. Publisher: Frank & Timme, Berlin.
2006
“Neighborhood Narratives”, by Hana Iverson, Steve Bull and Nick West; Leonardo eJournal Locative Media
http://leoalmanac.org/resources/curriculum/locativemedia/narratives.asp
2005
“Cool Hunting Blog”, review of Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) conference by Hana Iverson and Sabine Seymour.
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2005/09/blog_from_ars_1.php
2002
“Mirror, Mirror: ID/entity - Portraits in the 21st Century,” by Hana Iverson; Afterimage, March 1, 2002
Reviews:
2008
Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues, peer reviewed article by Susan Chevlowe, curator Jewish Museum, New York City, Number 14, Spring 2008
2007
“Weaving a History: Temple Students have used today’s technology to capture the yesterdays of Philadelphia’s storied Fabric Row,” by Dianna Marder, Philadelphia Inquirer June 14, 2007
“Bridging the Analog/Digital Divide,” feature article Temple Faculty Herald, Feb. 2007 http://www.temple.edu/herald/NMICFeb07.htm
2000
“Hana Iverson at Eldridge Street Synagogue”, Miriam Seidel, Art in America, Jan.2000
“Returning to the Fold On Their Own Terms”, Stanley Meises, The Forward (NYC), Nov. 24, 2000
“World of Our Mothers”, C.Carr, Village Voice, Sept. 19, 2000
”Immigrant Song”, Billie Cohen, Time Out NY, Aug.24, 2000
“Fabric of Their Lives”, Susan Josephs, Jewish Week (NYC), May, 2000
1997
“Pulse”, Robert Costa, Cover Magazine, (NYC), March 1997
1995
“Iverson and the Body as the House of the Soul”, Ambra Polidori, Sabado, Mexico, Jan. 28, 1995
1994
“Many Exhibits that Fight Against AIDS”, Luis Enrique Ramirez, La Journada, Mexico City, Dec. 9, 1994
“The Body as Container”, Francisco Santiago, Reforma, Mexico City, Dec. 8. 1994
“Photography and Video Tell her Own Story”, Guillermina Ochoa, Suma, Mexico City, Dec. 1, 1994
Published Photographs:
1999 Luna Cornea, Numero 13. Mexico City
1994 Luna Cornea, Numero 4. Mexico City
Permanent Collections:
Donnell Library Media Center, New York City
Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, Ca.
Grants:
2005 - on-going
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Neighborhood Narratives/Center for Creative Research. Part of $500,000 bi-annual grant for CCR programming
2009
Philadelphia Stories, WHYY, Public Television $2,500
2008
Creative Capital – finalist.
Nominee, Renew Rockefeller New Media Grant
2005
Junior Faculty Research Grant, Temple University, $20,000
2003
Covenant Foundation, New York City, $15,000
NYFA Artist-in-the-Schools, Manhattan Academy of Technology, New York City, $5,000
2002
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, $7,000
1998
Tisch School of the Arts, Interdisciplinary Project Grant, New York City, $1,000
1994
Artist/Mentor Program - Film/Video Arts, New York City, with Edin Velez, $500 in-kind
1993
Artist-in-Residence, Downtown Community Television, New York City, $500 in-kind
Fellowships, Honors, Awards:
1996
Silver Shorty Award, “Home”, Victoria Ind. Film and Video Festival
Honorable Mention, “Home”, New York Expo of Film and Video
Honorable Mention, “Home”, Video Competition, Judah L. Magnes Museum
1995
Honorable Mention, “Home”, Carolina Film and Video Competition
Director’s Choice Award, “Walk”, Charlotte Film and Video Festival
1994
Selected Participant, Artist/Mentor Program - Film/Video Arts, New York City
1993
Selected Artist, Artist-in-Residence, Downtown Community Television, New York City
Merit Award Winner, “Sister”, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Mo.
Lectures:
2010
Panelist, Cultural Heritage Project, New Haven, Conn.
“Artists Reflect on Cultural Heritage Project as Process”
Presenter, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, Ill.
Site Variations: The Shifting Ground of Public Art
“The Neighborhood Narratives Project: Investigating Public Sites for New Encounters”
Facilitator for The Feminist Art Project
College Art Association Conference, Chicago, Ill.
“Distributing Ourselves: New Media Art, Curating, Networks, and Collaborations”
Led by Beryl Graham of the curatorial consortium CRUMB with responses and discussion from School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Jon Cates, Bruce Jenkins, Abina Manning, and Adelheid Mers.
Presenter, Claiming Creativity, Columbia College, Chicago Illinois
Creativity and Research:
“Embodied Praxis and Mobile 2.0: Artists, Research and Neighborhood Narratives”
with Dana Whitco, Project Director, Center for Creative Research
2009
Panel Moderator, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Belfast, Ireland
“Restating Place: Four Perspectives on the Socio-Spatial Dialectic”
2008
Presenter, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Singapore
Technologies of Place: “Neighborhood Narratives: New Dialogues with/in the Mediated City,”
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Keynote Speaker, Practices: “Public Sites for New Encounters”. MediaCity Conference, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
2007
Presenter, Public Programs: “Neighborhood Narratives”. International Center of Photography
2006
“Neighborhood Narratives”, Global Temple Conference, Temple University
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Presenter: “Neighborhood Narratives”. Center for Creative Research Summer Summit, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
2005
-Artist talk collaboration with Eiko Otake. Hiroshima Peace Conference, Penn State University.
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Panelist: “Violence/Action/Memory”. Identification/Culture/Belief Forum, Temple University.
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Presenter, Situated Storytelling: “Neighborhood Narratives”. Digital Storytelling Conference, San Francisco,
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Presenter, Augmented Body: “Used Clothing” a concept for furnishing clothes with additional information, created by Martin Mairinger (Austria); Moderator: “Narrative Mapping and Networked Storytelling”. “Taking Liberties: Freedom, Creativity and Risk in the Media Arts” sponsored by the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC)
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Presenter: New Media Interdisciplinary Concentration. “Share, Share Widely” New Media Education Conference organized by the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) in collaboration with the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
2002
-Artist talk, Video and New Media Speaker Series: “Narrative Interfaces”, Temple University.
-Artist talk, Undergrad Design, Parsons School of Art, NewYork City.
2001
-Artist talk, Jersey City Arts Council, Jersey City, NJ
-Artist talk, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
-Project presentation, Special Exhibitions Committee, The Jewish Museum, New York City
1998
-Artist talk, Peekskill Artist Collective, Peekskill, NY
1995
-Artist talk, Graduate Art Seminar, Graduate Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado, Boulder
1994
-Artist talk, Downtown Community Television
Professional Membership:
Academy of Digital Arts
College Art Association
Inter-Society for Electronic Arts
Independent Association of Film and Video Artists
Past Member:
Actor’s Equity
Screen Actors Guild