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Artist: Kelly Dobson |
| Exhibition: Tactical Action |
| Date: April 14 2004 - June 10 2004 |
Curator: Lea Rekow
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Bio:
Kelly Dobson grew up in a junkyard in Detroit, Michigan. From the age of four she was doing odd jobs such as smashing windows and hauling parts from one area of the yard to another. She had machine friends. By six she was holding car funerals and secretly stashing beloved car parts in her own hidden burrow in the far side of the lot. Abandoning the instability of the lot as a teenager in 1990, Dobson began studies in medicine and art, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Cornell Universitys Department of Architecture, Art and Planning and a Master of Science degree from MITs Visual Studies Program. Currently, as a researcher and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, she is developing a new method of personal, societal, and psychoanalytical engagement termed Machine Therapy. Combining art, design, neuroscience, and engineering, Dobson explores connections between people and machines, empathic opportunities, and transitional object architectures. Machine Therapy is a response to the overwhelmingly pervasive effects of machines in everyday life. Machine Therapy is tangentially about the parapraxis of machine design -- what machines do and mean for people other than what we consciously designed them to do and be used for.
Dobson has performed/lectured at MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts (1999 2002), the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. (December 1999), and Metapolis, an institute of architecture in Barcelona, Spain (October November 2002). Her work has been in many national and international shows including solo exhibitions at Cornell Universitys Tjaden Gallery, and group exhibitions at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum in Ithaca, New York (1994), the Witte de With in Rotterdam, The Netherlands (July September 2000), The MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts (October 2001), The Kitchen in New York, New York (December 2001), Beall Center for Art
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