Andrea Polli
Columbia College
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.andreapolli.com

Inside the Mask

Andrea Polli is a digital media installation and performance artist living in Chicago, Illinois; She is currently Assistant Professor of Computing at Columbia College Chicago and an adjunct faculty member of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Polli has presented her performance work with eye and motion tracking devices in France, Brazil, the UK, and throughout the US. To support this work and the production of an Audio CD, Active Vision, she has performed artists' residencies at Rensellaer Polytechnic, Harvestworks, Franklin Furnace, and The University of California at San Diego.

Each of these residencies support work which is documented in detail in the article Active Vision in the October 1999 issue of the Leonardo Journal. A retrospective article about her work from 1991-1998, Virtual Space and the Construction of Memory, is published in the Spring 98 issue of Leonardo. Recent exhibitions, presentations, and performances include: the Imagina 98 Conference, The Digital Whole in Monaco, the CAiiA 98 conference, Re-FramingConsciousness, Observatoriia in Vilnius, Lithuania, and The Gun as Image at the Florida State University Fine Arts Museum.

Her work has also been shown in Reykyavik, New York City, Hamburg, Cleveland, Indianapolis, and South Bend, where she received an Art and Social Justice Award. She has produced several large scale community-based technology-oriented public art projects. In 1999, she was web and CD-Rom project director and coordinator for Ping Chong's Undesirable Elements/Chicago (http://acweb.colum.edu/projects/undesire), sponsored by the Duncan YMCA Chernin's Center for the Arts, The Museum of Contemporary Art, and Columbia College. Previous public art projects created for the internet were presented this year in Reality Bites, a panel presentation at the College Art Association Conference. As a visiting artist at Alfred University in New York, she produced the multimedia performance/exhibition May I Help You