Andrea Grover

Andrea Grover (born July 1970)[1] is an American curator, artist, and writer. She founded the Aurora Picture Show film center in her front room in 1998.

Biography

Grover graduated from Syracuse University and has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[2] She moved to Houston, Texas in 1995.[1] She was a Core Fellow in residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

In 2010, now living on Long Island, she became Associate Curator of the Parrish Art Museum, New York City.[2][3]

On July 14th, 2016 it was announced that she will be taking over as executive director of Guild Hall of East Hampton, effective September 1st, 2016.[4]

Aurora Picture Show

In 1997 Grover purchased an old church in Sunset Heights, Houston, converting the rear into living accommodation.[1][5] In 1998, Grover founded Aurora Picture Show, a non-profit organization that screens non-commercial films, in the church building.[6] Its first showing attracted a standing-room only crowd of 100.[5] The "microcinema," as it is described, is now located near Kirby in Houston, Texas. According to the website, "Aurora has hosted over 400 visiting artists and presented over 4000 films and videos" including the premieres of Isaac Julien's "True North" in 2007, and Laurie Anderson's film, "Hidden Inside Mountains".[7]

Crowdsourcing

Grover is known as a supporter for crowdsourcing in art.[8] In an interview with Leah DeVun for Wired Magazine, Grover explains that her interest in crowdsourcing formed out of her "fondness" for "early video collectives like Top Value Television, Videofreex, and Raindance."[9] Her interest in creating "non-commodity-based artwork" led her to crowdsourcing. In another interview, Grover claims that crowdsourcing is growing rapidly, because "we're experiencing a moment in time where technology is allowing for people to cooperate in large numbers on all sorts of things."

In 2007 Grover stated that the original term for "crowd sourcing" was "relational art." While it would seem that crowdsourcing is a relatively new phenomenon, Grover claims that is only "a new term to describe something that already existed before the term was in common use." In the interview for Wired, Grover explained that crowdsourcing eliminates a financial barrier that prohibits most people from participating in art, as "Internet real estate is essentially free." Grover finds that the primary appeal of crowdsourcing is the satisfaction that is obtained through working with a community.[9]

Grover hosts the 'Indirect Collaboration: Collective Creativity on the Web' blog, which serves as a forum for discussing crowdsourcing in creative projects.

In Fall 2007, Grover offered a class at the University of Houston, called Participation Art. The course presented a history of participation art since the 1960s, while also allowing students to create crowdsourced art.[10]

Notable projects

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Aurora Picture Show: An Interview with Andrea Grover", Temporary Art Review (The Luminary Center for the Arts), March 19, 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  2. 1 2 "Parrish Art Museum Announces New Associate Curator", Hamptons Online, December 22, 2010. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  3. ↑ Carol King (March 16, 2011) "On Long Island, Local Inspiration and Global Ambition", The New York Times. "And Ms. Sultan has also just hired Andrea Grover, the founder of Aurora Picture Show, an experimental movie house in Houston, to dream up more connections between the art history of the area and the art of today."
  4. ↑ http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/East-Hampton-Village/487682/Andrea-Grover-Named-New-Executive-Director-Of-Guild-Hall
  5. 1 2 Molly Glentzer (October 23, 2001) "Small-scale Aurora Picture Show enjoys success", Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-18. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-09-22. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
  8. 1 2 Nicole Davis (October 13–19, 2006) "Give it a name: ApexArt tries to pinpoint an art movement", Downtown Express (New York), Vol. 19 (22). Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  9. 1 2 Leah DeVun (July 9, 2007) "(Q&A) Your Assignment: Art: Looking at how crowds produce and present art" (interview), Wired, page 1 of 2. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  10. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-23. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
  11. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
  12. ↑ http://www.hcponline.org/calendar.asp?show=82&calid=48
  13. 1 2 Leah DeVun (July 9, 2007) "(Q&A) Your Assignment: Art: Looking at how crowds produce and present art" (interview), Wired, page 2 of 2. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  14. ↑ http://www.xymara.com/inmyx/index/inmyx307/ae-200703-index/ae-200703-neverbeentoteheran.htm
  15. ↑ http://gentleridevan.blogspot.com/2009/05/lessons-in-sky-filmic-tribute-to.html
  16. ↑ http://gentleridevan.blogspot.com/2009/09/menil-movies.html

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