New Media Artists

The two new media artists I chose to research because of interest are Lida Abdul and Mark Tribe. I thought it would be interesting to choose a man and a woman to look at. 

Lida Abdul was born in 1973 in Kabul, Afganistan. She lived in Germany and India as a refugee before making the trek to the United States. She attended the University of California at Irvine and obtained an MFA in 2000. She has exhibited her art all around the world. Her mediums of choice are photography, video, film, installation, and performance. 

Lida Abdul: "There is the desire to speak in them, as if everything had to be spoken at the same time, the sounds of all the words simultaneously expressed but remaining intelligible, even to myself. There is a certain automatism about them as I am sure there must be to all true witnessing. Maybe I am wrong But I am convinced that the body has its own memory banks that the mind always use. This for me is the paradox, the pornography of a necessary act that would require of some women to reveal everything, everything in order to really know if they have suffered."

Mark Tribe the artist, curator, and Brown University professor, enjoys art, technology and politics in his New Media work. He has an MFA in Visual Art from Brown University. He currently lives in Providence and New York City. He has had shows at many museums including our close neighbor MASS MoCA. He founded Rhizome. org, an online resource for New Media artists. He is very involved in the New Media community. 

After looking over some samples of their work, I am more interested in Lida Abdul. I feel her history and her unique cultural videos are very intriguing and leave the viewer with a lot of room for interpretation. I have seen her video in person and at the time i was very engaged and interested in it.