Monte Masi is a South Australian artist, curator and arts educator.
Biography
Monte Masi was born in Adelaide in 1983 and is a performance-based video artist. (Samstag page) He has a Bachelor of Visual Art (Hons) and a Master of Visual Art from the University of South Australia (MA Thesis) and a Master of Fine Art (Social Practice) from the California College of the Arts. He lectures at
Adelaide Central School of Art
Adelaide Central School of Art is an independent, not-for-profit, accredited higher education provider of tertiary courses in the visual arts, located in Adelaide, Australia. Adelaide Central School of Art uses the atelier model of visual arts ...
and was a founding member of the artist-run initiative FeltSpace. He has exhibited in Australia and the United States.
Artistic style and subject
Masi works in the field of
performance-based video art
Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting ...
. His videos feature him in the “roles of critic, curator, fan and artist simultaneously, questioning how these operate within contemporary art and the complementary and problematic aspects of each”. His artworks can be viewed o
Vimeo
Awards/Prizes/Residencies
Masi was awarded a
Samstag Scholarship in 2012.
Further reading
* Huppatz, Matt (2011)
''FELTspace Gold'' Adelaide, SA
* Knights, Mary (2010). ''Heartlines : 27–28 February 2010''. SASA Gallery, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA.
* Knights, Mary Alison (2011)
''Vague Possibilities'' University of South Australia.
* Lawton-Masi, Monte (2012). ‘This will be (me) on video : an investigation into the production and distribution of online 'vernacular' video in order to critically inform a body of original contemporary artworks’.
hesis University of South Australia.
References
External links
Monte Masi on VimeoMonte Masi on YoutubePersonal website
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Living people
1983 births
Artists from South Australia
Australian contemporary artists
Artists from Adelaide
20th-century Australian artists
21st-century Australian artists
Australian art teachers