Lorna Mills

Lorna Mills is a Canadian Net.art and new media artist who is particularly well known for her digital animations, videos, and GIFs. She currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.[1]

Early life

Lorna Mills was born in Calgary, Alberta.[1] From 1993-1994 she studied Digital Media Studies at the Information Technology Design Center at the University of Toronto.[2]

Career

In 1990, Mills co-founded the Red Head Gallery, an artist-run gallery, in Toronto.[2]

In 1994, Mills began working as a game programmer for children's CD-ROMs and then for web programs.[3] At the same time, she began making digital animations.[4]

Starting in 2005, Mills began making GIF based art.[4] In 2013, her GIFs were projected at the Art Gallery of Ontario as a part of the David Bowie exhibition, David Bowie Is....[5] She also co-curated a GIF exhibition with Anthony Antonellis in Berlin titled When Analog Was Periodical.[6]

In 2014 Mills was also selected to curate a "pavilion" as a part of the Wrong Biennial, an online net-art biennial.[7] She also curated a video work, entitled Ways of Something, based on art historian John Berger's 1971 documentary Ways of Seeing.[8] For this video, Mills invited thirty different web-based artists to create a single minute of footage about their contemporary practice.[8] She also participated in The House in the Sky exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London.[9]

Mills often refers to her art process as "obsessive".[10] She has stated that this is due to the fact that internet art like hers that can be based on images that she finds from surfing on the web can encourage lengthy production.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Lorna Mills", Art F City, Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Lorna Mills CV", Persona Volare, Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Lorna Mills Interview", Triangulation, Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sandals, Leah. "Lorna Mills on GIF Art, Internet Aesthetics, and NYC Fairs", Canadian Art, Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Galperina, Marina. "David Bowie Art GIFS by Lorna Mills and Friends at "David Bowie Is..." ", Animal New York, Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "When Analog Was Periodical", Anthony Antonellis, Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  7. ↑ Henry, Joseph. "The Wrong Biennial Claims a Stake for Net Art", ArtInfo, Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Sally McKay and Lorna Mills", Digital Media Tree, Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  9. ↑ "The House in the Sky", Hayward Gallery, Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  10. ↑ "Lorna Mills Biography", Persona Volare, Retrieved 24 August 2014.