Carrie Dashow is a New York City based interdisciplinary artist working in the intersection of video,
performance and new media. Through combining and reading space, interaction and energy with an
anthropological, formalist and geomantic slant, Ms. Dashow creates content. Her work reveals the
subliminal as a counterpoint to everyday existence by employing concepts that contest fact-based
reality. Using available public tools – a greeting, an island, building, friend, forest, map, history, camera
Carrie examines the undercurrent of visible space, which result in tactile, experiential and more real
than real performance and video. Much of her work takes place in social and collective situations, either
on the street, in communities, relationships and even classes. Her participatory-style performances
amongst diverse audiences in turn reveal a momentary sense of community and possibility. Her work
plays with our psychological understanding of reality, replacing what we see inside out.
Ms. Dashow holds a Master’s degree in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY and a BFA in Video and Performance from The San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited at venues internationally from St. Petersburg, Seoul, Paris and Berlin to New York, L.A. and Pittsburg, PA. Including P.S. 1/MOMA, UCLA Hammer Museum, ExitArt, Jessica Murray Projects, Gigantic ArtSpace, Printed Matter, Eyebeam, Andy Warhol Museum, in mines, public parks, campgrounds, campervans and her living room. Some projects are: hello, a personal quest to greet a million people, Negotiable Camera Ensemble, and the Subliminal History of New York State (SHNYS) including Under Island, and the 13th screen. Some awards: Merit scholarship; RPI, Finishing Funds (’03 and ‘07); Experimental Television Center, Radio and Sound Art Grant (w/ Matt Bua ‘02); Media Alliance. In 2002, her and collaborators won a BESSIE in New Media for The MIR2 project at Smack Mellon Studios, organized by Ward Shelly. In 2007, Ms. Dashow received the New York State Council on the Arts Independent Project Grant for the video component of the SHNYS project. Together with the TANK and Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, they are recipients of the Rockefeller Advisory Committee's New York State Music Fund grant for the singing component to the state wide tour and TANK residency. Completing the SHNYS: Route of Progress tour along the Erie Canal Summer 2007, documents including a 5 hour community made video, a tunebook with 53 new participations and songs and an online songmap were exhibited last Fall at Eyebeam in their 10 yr anniversary show. Included in this exhibition and project is the 13th screen, a multi channel self editing system conceived of and produced by Carrie and built with the help of a programmer. This system is used to create collaborative videos based on shooters as editors. Summer 2008 Carrie was invited to create a piece with the 13th screen and her Purchase New Media students to be shown at the ZERO1 Festival of New Media Art. The 13th screen will be debuting Sukkot Synchronicity, a commission by the Jewish Museum in 2009. This past Spring 2008, Under Island was included Exit Art’s new performance archive S.E.A. Also in 2009, she will create an onsite Archive of Lost Thought for Matt Bua’s b-Home project at Mass MOCA. Artist Residencies include; the TANK, Experimental Television Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Contemporary Artist's Center (North Adams, MA), Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, Woman's Studio Workshop and Eyebeam.
Carrie co – directs the Society for a Subliminal State, a fledgling organization that agitates against the exclusive use of empirical evidence in the search for truth fostering the belief that there many different types of digging that may be productively undertaken. The Society sponsors events, has a quarterly newsletter and a growing membership program.
An Artist in Residence in NYC public schools from 1998 - 2006, Carrie taught video and media literacy to staff and students through a variety of Arts in Education organizations including Henry Street Settlement, Young Audiences NY, Artsgenesis, The Kitchen, Electronic Arts Intermix, the Drawing Center, The Dia, Eyebeam and Magic Box.
Ms. Dashow has taught Video and New Media classes at Rutger’s, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and The International Center of Photography. She is currently Part-Time faculty of New Media at Purchase College, SUNY.