Jeff Mann
Jeff Mann (Hamilton, Canada, 1963) is a creator of electric art, using computers, electronics, robotics, sound, video, and telecommunications media. Since the mid-1980's, his work in online artists networks, telepresence performance, and interactive installation, has presaged some of the most exciting trends in new media art today. From 1987-2002 he was one of the primary forces behind InterAccess, now recognized as among the top electronic media art centres in Canada, and in 1996 he founded Toronto's Art & Robotics Group. Since 2003 he has been based mainly in Europe, and currently lives in Berlin. Mann's work has been exhibited in Canada, the USA, the Netherlands, Australia, Spain, Belgium, Germany, and Korea. He has received numerous grants, commissions and residencies for his work, and in 2005 was awarded second prize in the VIDA 8.0 Art & Artificial Life International Competetion, together with collaborator Michelle Teran. Mann has also worked as a teacher at the Ontario College of Art and at Ryerson University, and as a freelance consultant and collaborator with many leading new media artists and institutions in Canada and Europe.
Exhibitions include LiveForm:Telekinetics, InterAccess, Toronto; Waag Society, Amsterdam; BEAP, Perth; ARCO, Madrid; Vooruit, Ghent; and the 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (2002-2006); Machine Life, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston (2004); Hotwired Live Art 2, the Banff Centre for the Arts (2001); The Nature of the Machine, Cambridge Galleries (1999); SpaceProbe, InterAccess (1997); Electric Skin, Gallery 401, Toronto (1995); and TV FreeNet, The Western Front, Vancouver (1994). (2025)
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