Organizers:	Art Interactive 130 Bishop Allen Drive Cambridge MA 02139 617.498.0100 info@artinteractive.org www.artinteractive.org Judith Hoos Fox, curator 617.522.0414
Gallery space:	2700 square feet, minimum
Exhibition contents:	32 garments, 4 installation works, 6 accessories, 2 plasma screen projections, 3 projected videos
Dates available:	November 2004 forward
Exhibition design:	Materials for mounting and exhibiting garments as well as architectural and graphic elements are included. Institutions will supply own computers, printers, projectors and screens as outlined in contract.
Interpretive texts:	Introductory text panel, texts for each of 3 sections, and extended labels for each work are designed and provided in electronic form.
Brochure:	A publication with checklist, essay and illustrations will be produced and available to venues at discounted rate.
Programs:	Proposed list of workshops and lectures available.

Exhibition team

Curators
Judith Hoos Fox currently works independently after nineteen years at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College and positions at the ICA Boston, the MFA, Boston and the Museum of Art, RISD. The exhibitions she has organized place contemporary art and design in the context of current cultural trends. Oh Boym! A Sideshow of Design, presenting the work of designers Laurene Leon and Constantin Boym, is currently on view at Vitra in New York City. She organized The Body as Measure, an exhibition that examined artists’ embrace of the body as a tool of measurement and RE:formations/design directions at the end of a century that included the work of fashion designer Tunji Dada. Projects in development include one person exhibitions of the work of Monika Larsen Dennis, Annette Lemieux and Roni Horn. In addition she is co-curator of Material Evidence: A Passion for Process, an exhibition that examines contemporary art founded in craft and obsessive expressions. In development is the exhibition Branded and On Display that includes the work of Conrad Bakker, Bennekom & Scheltens, Matthew Brannon, Diller and Scofidio, Sylvie Fleury Yukio Fujimoto, Terence Gower, Andreas Gursky, Takhashi Murakami, Donna Nield.

Associate Curator and Exhibition Coordinator, Rachael Arauz is a member of the Curatorial Committee at Art Interactive. She is a Boston-based independent curator who has worked at museums including the National Gallery of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She holds a Ph.D. in American and modern art from the University of Pennsylvania, and has organized exhibitions for the Williams College Museum of Art, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, and, most recently, a solo show of drawings by Randall Sellers that will open at Miller Block Gallery in April 2004.She is currently co-organizing a Keith Haring exhibition for the Reading Public Museum that will open in September 2005. She brings to Pattern Language her experience in coordinating and installing mixed media exhibitions such as Cornell/Duchamp: In Resonance (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1998), as well as extensive academic research skills.

Winnie Wong, associate director of Art Interactive and a member of its curatorial committee, is research assistant in European Art at the MFA, Boston. She received her MA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture. Her thesis on the Hollywood Product Placement Industry received the MIT Thesis Award in 2002. Current research includes the translation of renowned Hong Kong novelist Dung Kai Chung’s “The Catalog” (excerpts published in Thresholds, Spring 2001), the history of museum stores (published in Chicago Art Journal, Spring 2002), and the intersection of trademark law, branding culture and art history.

Exhibition design
Architect Charles Fox will work with August Ventimiglia to develop a dynamic installation. Charles Fox, principal of his own architectural firm for over twenty years, has museum and exhibition experience. He designed the conservation laboratory for the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, an initial plan for the Bennington Museum of Art expansion, the print room renovation for Wellesley College and the design of the Wellesley College Museum’s Centennial exhibition series.

August Ventimiglia is a sculptor and architect with a background in anthropology. He has worked as an exhibition designer and preparator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and has also designed exhibition furniture and fixtures for museum galleries and retail spaces including Urban Outfitters and Betsey Johnson. He currently works in a Boston architectural office firm as well as serving as consultant for exhibition design.

Moneta Ho has been designing interactive projects since 1999, drawing on a background in architecture, painting, game design and media studies. Currently, Ho is completing her graduate degree in Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is investigating the theory and practice of digital media production.

Fashion consultant
Galya Rosenfeld is an American-Israeli clothing designer, scientist of fashion and creative entrepreneur. Since 1999, Rosenfeld has participated in exhibitions both in the US and abroad. Her most recent, a solo exhibition entitled One-Of/Of-One, was held at the Felissimo Design House in New York City. Rosenfeld studied Design at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem and in Paris at the Ecole Nationale Superière des Arts Decoratifs. She has been awarded the Meisler Award for Outstanding Design and the Lokeman Award for Applied Design. Her work has appeared in Collezioni Edge Magazine, Clear Magazine, Worth Global Style Network, TheMode.tv and Black Book Magazine. The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds three works by Rosenfeld in its collection. Rosenfeld teaches at the California College of the Arts where she offered a studio fall 03 that presented the tenets of this exhibition. Outstanding student proposals have been incorporated in the exhibition.

Video Producer
Paul Stern is an accomplished producer of broadcast, educational and promotional programs. His national broadcast credits include ABC News, PBS, the Discovery Channel and the History Channel. He produced for the prime-time series, Discover Magazine, which presents a variety of science subjects in a story format on the Discovery Channel. Also for the Discovery Channel, Stern recently completed two hour-long programs for a new series on competition. He has produced for This Week in History, a series on The History Channel presenting a variety of historical subjects. Stern is senior producer for Body & Soul, a national PBS series of half-hour programs that examine the mind/body connection. He has also completed the broadcast documentary, Surprises in Mind, funded by the CPB and the Annenberg Foundation. The program takes an in-depth look at the human capacity for mathematical thinking. His awards include a Cine Golden Eagle, the National Education Film & Video Festival Golden Apple, and three International Film & Video Festival medals. Paul Stern is also a principal of Vox Television, Inc., a production company serving broadcast, educational and corporate clients. Vox produces original programs and provides professional production services. For the exhibition Stern will produce a collage of images of the works in the show being worn. This will be projected in the gallery in several locations.

Registrar
Former registrar at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Louann Drake Boyd has been working as an independent registrar for the last nine years. Her clients include The Mount Holyoke Museum College Art Museum, the MIT Museum, the Museum of our National Heritage, Addison Gallery of American Art at Philips Academy, the Longyear Museum in Brookline, and the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Experienced in complex international projects involving a vast range of materials and objects, Boyd’s professionalism will help insure the safe travel and transport of this exhibition through its tour.

Textile Conservator
Deirdre Windsor, an independent textile conservator, provides comprehensive conservation services of historic and contemporary textiles or costumes for museums and private collectors nationwide. She was formerly the Director and Chief Conservator of the Textile Conservation Center at the American Textile History Museum. She holds a BFA in Textile Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. With a Samuel H. Kress fellowship she pursued training in textile conservation at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Institute of Archaeology Summer School. She has presented numerous published papers on textile conservation and display issues for the American Institute of Conservation and the International Committee of Museums Conservation Committee. In 2001, Windsor was awarded the Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation from the American Academy in Rome to research the evolution of the treatment of Coptic textiles. Recent conservation and exhibition mounting projects for traveling exhibitions include the Society for the Preservation of New England’s Antiquities Cherished Possessions: A New England Legacy and the costumes from Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years, Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. Her involvement will insure the safe handling of works of art in the exhibition.

Photographer
Andrew Brilliant, an artist living and working in Boston, will provide photographic documentation of the exhibition for the archives of AI and for publicity and press needs. His photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Boston. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Fogg Museum at Harvard University hold his work. Details Magazine, Glamour r Magazine, Newsweek, Boston Magazine and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine fashion section have published his work. Brilliant’s consistent interest is in photographing what people wear and do not wear.

Press Relations and Development Consultant
Stephanie Davenport launched the development and media campaign for the project. Stephanie is a Boston-based arts consultant. She developed an expertise in media relations and corporate sponsorships working for a range of organizations in New York City, including the French Embassy Trade Commission, Philip Morris Management Corp., and France Telecom North America. Stephanie holds a masters degree from MIT in Comparative Media Studies.

Development
An undergraduate degree in art history from Wellesley College, coupled with a master of Business Administration from F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and consulting experience at Accenture, KPMG, Wellington Management and Procter & Gamble promise success for the funding effort for Pattern Language. Lidney Debolt Motch is working to re-enter the world of non-profit while she continues her role in CZK Real Estate Development, a partnership that promotes building community with Greater Boston.

Press Relations
Qi Xu, a practicing architect trained at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and the Southeast University, Nanjing in China has joined Art Interactive to initiate and manage press relations for the exhibition during its time in Cambridge and for the duration of its international tour. Her experience at the University of Art Gallery at the University of Wisconsin grounds her for this new endeavor. She is currently a designer at Perkins & Will in Boston where she is working on the Optics/Biomedical building at the University of Rochester.

Intern
A recent graduate from Connecticut College with a BA in art and architectural studies, Nina Brilliant plans to pursue graduate study in arts administration and art history. As an intern she is researching and preparing materials for the website and assisting in administrative tasks.