Carrie Dashow is an interdisciplinary working in the intersection of performance and video. 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, 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, campervans and her living room.

Projects include: hello, a personal quest to greet a million people, Negotiable Camera Ensemble, Dividiation: an interactive video divination dvd device to be released through CollectivEye later this winter and the Subliminal History of New York State (SHNYS) . Awards include: Merit scholarship; RPI, Finishing Funds; Experimental Television Center (ETC), Radio and Sound art Grant; Media Alliance. Her and collaborators won a BESSIE in New Media for The MIR2 project at Smack Mellon Studios, organized by Ward Shelly. Ms. Dashow recently received a New York State Council on the Arts Independent Project Grant for the video component of the SHNYS performance project. As well as together with the TANK and Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, the proud recipients of the Rockefeller Advisory Comittee's New York State Music Fund Payola pay off grant for a singing componet to the tour and residency at the Tank. The SHNYS Tour is presently being planned for Summer 2007. Artist Residencies include; the TANK, Experimental Television Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Contemporary Artist's Center (North Adams, MA), Woman's Studio Workshop and Eyebeam.

An Artist in Residence in NYC public schools since 1998, Carrie taught video and media literacy to staff and students through a variety of Arts in Education organizations: Henry Street Settlement, Young Audiences NY, Artsgenesis, The Kitchen, Electronic Arts Intermix, the Drawing Center, The Dia, Eyebeam and Magic Box.

Spring 2006, she taught Video production and history/concept as a visiting professor at Rutgers in the Visual Arts and Critical Studies program.

Carrie Dashow is a Part-Time faculty of New Media at Purchase College.

Public art works include hello, an attempt to greet 1 million people individually. hello landed her an invitation to Good Morning America, from which she produced hello Good Morning America , a non traditional documentary. Here she combines original broadcast video with footage taken from a camera hidden in her broach. hello GMA has been featured in festivals from L.A. to St. Petersburg, USSR. For MIR2, she designed the elaborate communication system for the collaboratively created space station at Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn. MIR2 was awarded a Bessie for Installation and New Media in 2002. As an A.I.R. at Eyebeam and through a finishing funds grant from the Experimental Television Center she exhibited; 10 cameras, Caumsett, Long Island , a 10 channel synchronized video installation (Eyebeam, Fall 03). Spring 2004, she produced Red Light Relay; connecting West Hall to Fulton Street , a public art event in Downtown Troy (April, 2004). Using light as a link, unknown neighbors participated using apartments and offices lights to communicate and network between each other as well as to the historic and modern constructions of Troy, NY. The event concluded with free cake for all in the red lit glass public walkway at the end of the street. With Media Alliance's radio sound art grant (02), she and collaborator Matt Bua bought The Unseen Machine ( USM ), a mobile activity unit in guise of a 1976 Dodge Campervan. USM has performed various public interventions and drive by's; the Kitchen's Summer Fair (03), Eyebeam, D.U.M.B.O arts festival ('04). As part of Grizedale Art's Romantic Detachment show sponsored by the Henry Moore Foundation of Great Britain, the USM was parked in the PS1/MOMA Queens courtyard as part of Bua, Bercowetz and Dashow's performance, installation. Massive research on Roosevelt Island led the threesome to believe that a monster lay at rest in disguise of the island. At PS1/MOMA as well as on the Island Carrie, along with Sxip Shirey, and three island boys (Tyler canon, Stefan Iliescu and James Barniker) directed a non-fictional lecture/performance renegade slide show projected outdoors, powered by a van, in a public park based on the evidence found. Special Thanks to Island Historian, Judy Berdy.

Summer 2005, collaborating with Matt Bua and Jesse Bercowetz, they exhibited Pent up and UnderGone, a collaborative solo show. Using what they learned on Roosevelt Island as a departure point they created a parallel time of now where people have undergone and the land happily reclaims itself. At Jessica Murray Projects in Chelsea, NYC.

The Under Island story now expands into the rest of New York State with the new project called the Subliminal History of New York State. Chapter 1 begins with Under Island. Working with Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, the two have rewritten the original texts of Under Island into Shape Note songs. (A 18th century unaccompanied vocal style traditional to Upstate NY and Western MA. In the summer of 2006, Carrie and Jesse created The Rosendale Edition of this story with the Century House Historical Society. A participatory singing event was held in the Widow Jane Mine, a defunct cement mine in Rosendale NY. A larger tour is now in the works for the Erie Canal route of the story, it will include mini self made residencies in towns along route, singing schools and multi-channel video workshops with local participants, learning history and lore, tapping in to an ongoing story of living land and retelling the combination anew at each location in a participatory manner.

Ms. Dashow began her undergraduate study in Media and Communication at Antioch College in Ohio. She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994 with a BFA in New Genres (Video and Performance Art). She received her Master's Degree in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she was awarded a full merit scholarship for her studies.

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