Marilène Oliver
Associate Professor, Fine Arts
Coordinator, Media Arts
Office: 3-85 Fine Arts Building
marilene@ualberta.ca
https://www.marileneoliver.com
Areas of Teaching and Research
Teaching: Studio Art with a focus in Printmaking and Media Arts/Intermedia
Research: Digital medical imaging, datafication, virtual reality, artificial intelligence
Biography
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, MA and MPhil, Royal College of Art, MSc Imaging, University of Edinburgh
Marilène Oliver works at a crossroads somewhere between new digital technologies, traditional print and sculpture, her finished objects bridging the virtual and the real worlds. She works with the body translated into data form in order to understand how it has become 'unfleshed', in the hope of understanding who or what it has become. Oliver uses various scanning technologies such as MRI, CT, and PET to reclaim the interior of the body and create works that allow us to materially contemplate our increasingly digitized selves.
Marilène Oliver was born in the UK in 1977 and studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and then at the Royal College of Art where she obtained an MPhil with the practice based research project 'Flesh to Pixel, Flesh to Voxel, Flesh to XYZ' on the use of medical imaging in contemporary art. Oliver has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe, and North America in both private and public galleries, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Academy (UK), MassMoCA, Knoxville Museum of Art (USA) Frissarias Museum (Greece) and Kunsthalle Ahlen (Germany), Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg) and The Glenbow Museum (Canada). Her work is held in a number of private collections around the world as well as a number of public collections such as The Wellcome Trust, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Knoxville Museum of Art.
In 2018 Oliver was selected to present her research at TEDMED. Oliver leads LASERAlberta, a series of arts and science public talks affiliated with Leonardo/ ISAST. Oliver currently leads the research projects Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology, Know Thyself as a Virtual Reality and Multi–Dimensional Digital Print.
Since 2009, Oliver has collaborated with the contemporary dance company Van Grimde Corps Secrets in Montreal, Quebec.Oliver is currently collaborating on two new projects with VGCS called Transes and MutationsAI. These are two large scale transdisciplinary creations involving dance, sculpture, installation, AI generated video, robotics and sound to speculate a post technological world when humans are trying to disentangle themselves from their data bodies and return to a simpler way of being and knowing.
For more information about Marilène Oliver's projects and research, please visit www.marileneoliver.com.
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