Rachel Strickland
2005 Fellow
San Francisco, CA
Emptiness Can Hold Things
An interactive installation inspired by Japanese painting and landscape design. Viewers of the work find themselves in a polylinear video environment that combines architecture and cinematic construction to investigate Japanese definitions of place.
Selected Works
Film
Fuera de Marco (Out of Frame) (2004)
Allons-y Alonzo: Souvenirs of a Landscape (2001)
Portable Effects (1988-present)
Recess: Incidents in the Playground (1987)
Rebuilding an Old Japanese House (1981)
Just Blue (1979, co-director with Glorianna Davenport)
Kalopaskha (Good Easter) (1975, co-director with Elaine Negroponte)
Grace Going Awkwardly (1974)
Installation
Portable Effects: A Survey of Nomadic Design Practice (1997)
Placeholder: Landscape and Narrative in a Virtual Environment (1993, co-director with Brenda Laurel)
Backyard Transformations (1998-1991, co-director with Jill Wright and Benjamin Bergery)
Accomplishments
Rachel Strickland’s research and art practice of the past 30 years has focused on cinematic dimensions of the sense of place, the animate and ephemeral projections of architectural space, and new paradigms for narrative construction in digital media. Her film and video production experience includes directing, cinematography and editing in both documentary and interactive genres. Strickland earned a Master of Architecture degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a concentration in cinéma vérité. She has taught and pursued a vision of experimental cinema at universities and research labs including MIT, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Atari, Apple, and Interval Research Corporation. Her work has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Banff Centre for the Arts, the San Francisco Exploratorium, and Ars Electronica, among others.
Education
1976 M.Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1972 B.S. Architecture and Filmmaking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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