PROJECTS

Adventures:

Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, Greensboro, NC
Residency Dates: July 5 - July 13, 2007 < On Being Elsewhere >

Collaborations:

Wish You Were Here, 2007 < www.wishyouwereheresound.com >
Interactive Sound Installation, Artists: Colin Asquith, Terry Nauheim, and Jennifer Schmidt
Installation: pre-recorded audio greeting cards, card display racks, microphones, real-time recording

A site for interactivity and reception, "Wish You Were Here" is a collective soundscape of audio greeting cards intended to be experienced within the hands of participants through physical and aural sampling. Our sounds are of field recordings, fragmented and manipulated to reinterpret the conventional notion of a sentiment in the model of a greeting card. Re-contextualizing recorded material within this format places limits—including time, compression, and availability—while initiating an accessible, portable, and participatory narrative. Systems of exchange become evident through the selective re-authoring and re-playing of these sounds, quoting a theoretical giver and receiver. Through the opening and closing of cards on display, the gesture of a greeting becomes amplified, defining a space that is, at once, personal and public, intuitive and mechanical.

Publications:

"The Cell Block & the White Cube: A Dialogue Between Jennifer Schmidt, Aron Fischer & Temporary Services"
During the summer and fall of 2003, I participated in a written dialogue with the artist group Temporary Services and Aron Fischer surrounding the project Prisoners' Inventions and the theoretical implictions of critical art practice. It is being published in two forms: within the Boston online arts magazine Big, Red and Shiny, and within a booklet by Temporary Services. < read article here >

"Art in Academia", Issue 35, Big Red & Shiny < read article here >
Art teaching art ....some thoughts, and...curators with spears!

"If We Ran the Whitney", Issue 06, Big Red & Shiny < read article here > < referential blurb >
Jennifer Schmidt contributes an article as to why artists Stefano Pasquini and Christine Tarkowski should be in there too!

Collezioni: Edge Magazine - May, 2002

Events:

Event Horizon - Printed Broadsides & Performative Happenings < www.event---horizon.com >
Davis & Union Squares, Somerville MA, and Project Space, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. April 12-16, 2008

Contributors: Erika Adams (Boston, MA), Razan Alazzouni (Boston, MA), Chad Arnholt (Boston, MA), Elaine Bay (Boston, MA), Janine Biunno (Boston, MA), Rob Erickson (Brooklyn, NY), Noah Fischer (Brooklyn, NY), Melinda Go (Boston, MA), Rebecca Bird Grigsby (Boston, MA), Harvey Loves Harvey (Boston, MA, Brooklyn, NY), Lisa Hecht (Milwaukee, WI), Alysia Kaplan (Chicago, IL), Louise Krampien (Boston, MA), Norma Lopez (Boston, MA), Jessica Marx (Boston, MA), Stefano Pasquini (Bologna, Italy), Rhonda Ratray (Boston, MA), Vinicius Sanchez (Boston, MA), Jennifer Schmidt (Brooklyn, NY), Jessica Scott-Dutcher (Boston, MA), Victoria Shen (Boston, MA), Kirk Snow (Boston, MA), Marcelino Stuhmer (Milwaukee, WI), Pedro Velez (Puerto Rico) with Gamaliel Rodríguez-Ayala (Oslo, Norway), Gabe Ventura (Boston, MA), Stefanie Vermillion (Boston, MA), W&N (Puerto Rico), Marine Wallon (Paris, France), Terrance Wong (Boston, MA), Tina Ye (Boston, MA), Jennifer Yorke (Chicago, IL). -Organized by Jennifer Schmidt

Event Horizon seeks to create a site for inquiry into the nature of current events & history through the use of print media, performance, and individual interpretation. Artists within Event Horizon interpret and re-present topics, headlines, graphics, and text found in widely circulated newspapers, broadsides, and fliers to produce creative, critical, and poetic interplays of information. The reader’s ability to translate and creatively respond to “popular” issues will underscore a story or subject’s meaning, thereby exposing “the style” of interpretation as a determinant element of how events or topics are individually understood and communicated to a larger public. You're welcome to engage notions of the “newsworthy” through absurdist, practical, educational, comic, mundane, and dramatic presentations of topical material.

This project is made possible with support from the Puffin Foundation & the IACE at Tufts University / SMFA

Boston Ravioli - The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Temporary Services
A collaborative project involving Temporary Services and Screenprinters at SMFA, Boston. September 23-25, 2003

Contributors: Jennifer Schmidt, Meg Rotzel, Aimee LaPorte, Jenn Pipp, Tim Dziewit, Alicia Gibson, Daniel Espeset, Abraham Schroeder, Aaron Luckman, Robin Kukiel, William Matelski, Christina Koski, Katie Klencheski, Kirsten Gronberg, Emmy Grant, Red76 Arts Group, Jane Palmer and Marianne Fairbanks, Michael Wolf, Melinda Fries(ausgang.com), Chuck Jones, Dan S. Wang, and Temporary Services.

Temporary Services and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston are making large, twelve-inch ravioli. The ravioli and most of the filling are not edible but it should still be a delight to cut them open and find out what is inside. Our ravioli have see-through plastic shells that have been heat-sealed on all four sides to keep the stuffing in and the rain-water out. The shells contain a variety of ingredients contributed by Temporary Services, SMFA screenprinting students, and artists from Boston and Chicago. Some of the items are practical. Other items encourage different types of play. Some ingredients are simply intended to amuse. The ravioli will be distributed in public places. They will be attached to walls with staples and double-sided tape. They will be left in front of doorways and strung up on clothes lines in town squares. The ravioli are gifts to unsuspecting passersby that encounter them. The project is intended to engage a wide range of people. Anyone that sees or takes a ravioli becomes the audience for this gesture.

Mybrary @ BUILD Art Space- San Francisco CA
A pro-literacy art project developed by Elliot Lessing, in collaboration with Jennifer Schmidt, the Internet Archive Bookmobile, and the community of San Francisco. August 22- September 12, 2003.

Made by the public and offered to the public, Mybrary hopes to expand people's awareness of the promise of literacy, liberty and access. Mybrary is an art installation that behaves like a library. Circulating books and media are available for loan to Mybrary Cardholders. Reference and Special Collections are available for viewing. All books, reading lists & commentaries were supplied by the public-at-large, with original text-based artwork and media contributed by artists. Mybrary bookjackets designed by Jennifer Schmidt. Mybrary cards designed by Elliot Lessing

Community Projects:

Artist-In-Residence at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts

During June and July of 2002, Artist-In-Residence Jennifer Schmidt worked with women and children at the YWCA Home Life Management Center, a transitional shelter in Wilmington, on projects that illustrated individual histories and identity. By taking photographs of their surroundings, family, and friends at the YWCA-- the women were able to illustrate their personal relationships, and to commemorate events in their lives such as childbirth, the planning of a wedding, work, and everyday routines. Used as inspiration and as source material, the photographs were then included in the construction of a book along with writings, and magazine collages. Near the end of the program, an audio CD called Keepsake was created featuring interviews with the women about their projects and future aspirations.

Exhibitions Curated/Organized:

Bit Logic @ GASP Gallery, Boston MA
September 2005

The artists in “Bit Logic” use graphic means to re-represent signs, symbols, imagery and events in the everyday, in order to create intimate ideological spaces of contemplation about the nature of subjectivity, interpretation, and experience. A perceptual horizon is implied, as bits of language, narrative, history, identity, and intent are translated and re-configured in unsuspecting formats— shifting our “habits of seeing and knowing” that which is familiar in relation to media communication, the photographic document, the branding of products, digital presence, and traditional motifs and customs.

Artists:
Heidi Cody (Brooklyn, NY)
Jennifer Schmidt (Brooklyn, NY)
Chantal Zakari (Boston, MA)
Zoe Sheehan Saldana (Brooklyn, NY)
Christine Tarkowski (Chicago, IL)

Organized by Jennifer Schmidt and Chantal Zakari
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LINGO @ ONI Gallery, Boston MA
April 27- May 25, 2002

ONI Gallery is proud to present LINGO. Curated by Jennifer Schmidt and Mathew Nash, Visiting Faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, LINGO is an exhibition featuring artists who are investigating the contextual significance of language through the use of printed media, photography, sculpture, and video. Artists exhibited in LINGO take signs, sounds, gestures, and marks appropriated from conversations, advertisements, literature, music, or personal history and inscribe them with new meaning by manipulating the conditions/rules that determine how language becomes intelligible. Through the suggestion of the incomprehensibility of language, each artist creates his own lingo, unique to her special interest in particular images and words, and the ideas they imply.

Artists:
Matthew Christensen (Boston, MA)
Jason Dean (Brooklyn, NY)
Erik Geschke (Minneapolis, MN)
Emily Gibson (Boston, MA)
Lisa Hecht (Montreal, Canada)
Jay Heikes (Minneapolis, MN)
Michael Hutcherson (Boston, MA)
Terry Nauheim (Baltimore, MD)
Matthew Nash (Boston, MA)
Stefano Pasquini (Bologna, Italy)
Jennifer Ramsey (Chicago, IL)
Meg Rotzel (Boston, MA)
Jennifer Schmidt (Boston, MA)
Scott Speh (Brooklyn, NY)
Susannah Kite Strang (Chicago, IL)
Jeff Teuton (Boston, MA)
Pedro Velez (Chicago, IL)
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13/Proof @ Anchor Graphics, Chicago IL
October 1999

Artists:
Joel Alpern
Hye Jeong Cho
Gina Mendez-Firvida
Marguerite French
Kati Hanimagi
Robbin O’Harrow
Lisa Hecht, Alysia Kaplan
Kathleen Kranach
Jennifer Ramsey
Jennifer Schmidt
Susannah Kite Strang
Hye Jin Yoo

Organized by Jennifer Schmidt
Curated by Mark Pascale

Packing List Enclosed @ 2nd Floor Apt, Chicago, IL
May 1999

Artists:
Chris Francione
Kati Hanimagi
Alysia Kaplan
Mark Porter
Jennifer Schmidt
Holly Wilson

Curated by Jennifer Schmidt
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Screenprinted T-Shirts and Textiles

Poster Design