MIAMI, FLA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami announced today the finalists for Open Call: Web Based Art, a new initiative to discover and showcase experimental works of art by contemporary artists from around the world at any stage of their career. This year’s 10 finalists have a wide range of experience and showcase a diversity of practice with three artists based in Miami, as well as artists from across the U.S. and internationally – including Japan, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and Greece. Each season of Open Call, ICA Miami will highlight works in a different medium; the inaugural edition of this program invited artists working in digital and web-based media to submit an original work for inclusion in a dedicated exhibition at the ICA Miami, on view from August 21 through September 13, 2015. One work featured in the exhibition will be selected by the museum for acquisition into the ICA Miami’s growing collection of contemporary art.

“Open Call furthers ICA Miami’s mission to constantly seek out and provide our audiences with access to the most unconventional, boundary-pushing art work we can find,” said ICA Miami Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Alex Gartenfeld. “We look forward to presenting the inventive work of this year’s 10 finalists at the museum for the program’s inaugural exhibition, and to choosing one of these works to acquire into our collection.”

For the 2015 edition of Open Call, a jury comprised of established arts professionals, including Simon Castets, Director, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York; Alex Gartenfeld, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Raphael Gygax, Curator, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; and Ceci Moss, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, selected the 10 finalists from an application pool of over 270 artists to be featured in the ICA Miami’s exhibition.

The finalists for Open Call: Web Based Art include artists who are advancing the genre of digital art and new media, delivering new forms of aesthetic experience to the viewer and illuminate the non-traditional channels continuing to emerge in art. Artists featured in the exhibition include Willie Avendano, AdrienneRose Gionta, Takuji Kogo with Mike Bode, Jillian Mayer, Dionysia Mylonaki, Byron Peters, UBERMORGEN, Andrew Norman Wilson, Daniel Wilson, and Damon Zucconi.

ICA Miami is the official art partner for III Points Music, Art & Technology Festival 2015, and the exhibition will travel to Mana Wynwood in Miami to be displayed on the main festival grounds from October 9-11, 2015.

The Finalists
Willie Avendano currently lives and works in Miami. He has exhibited at the Pew Center of Humanities: New Spaces New Formats, Philadelphia; and Shea Stadium, Brooklyn. Avendano has given lectures and workshops at III Points Festival and Miami Beach Urban Studios, Miami; and at NYU in New York. He received a B.S. in Computer Science at Columbia University, New York in 2012.

AdrienneRose Gionta is an artist, curator, and educator whose work has been exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach, as well as galleries in Miami including David Castillo Gallery, Dimensions Variable, 6th Street Container, and Locust Projects; Girls’ Club, Ft. Lauderdale; Art and Culture Center of Hollywood; and Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach. Her work is included in the private collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, among others. Gionta currently lives in Miami, where she works as a professor of visual arts at Nova University and Florida Atlantic University.

Takuji Kogo is an artist and founder of *CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS, a platform for international collaborative art projects. His projects have been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Seoul Museum of Art; Art Metropole, Toronto; the Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden; Multimedia Art Asian Pacific, Beijing; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Nam June Paik Art Centre, Seoul; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. He currently lives and works in Japan. Mike Bode has been a *CANDY FACTORY collaborator since 2000 and has worked with Kogo on several projects.

Jillian Mayer is an artist whose work and performances have been premiered at galleries and museums internationally such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Art Museum; Bass Museum, Miami Beach; and film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, and the New York Film Festival. In 2010, her video “Scenic Jogging” was one of the 25 selections for the Guggenheim’s Youtube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video and was exhibited at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; and Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany.

Dionysia Mylonaki has exhibited work at Transmediale 2015, Berlin; SXSW, Austin; Victoria & Albert Museum and FutureFest, London; and Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool. She received her MFA from the Royal College of Art, London in 2013. She currently lives and works in London.

Byron Peters is an artist and writer who lives and works in London. His solo and collaborative projects have recently been presented at The Southbank Centre, London; The White Building, London; The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art at UCL, London; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; and The New School for Social Research, New York. Peters is a founding member of the Vancouver-based organization Coupe and The San Francisco Labor Archives and Research Center Advisory Committee.

UBERMORGEN is Lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, artists who work in installation, video, code and performance. They have exhibited work in SFMOMA; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Malmö Konsthall, Sweden; NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; ARCO Madrid; and the New Museum, New York.

Andrew Norman Wilson is an artist based in New York. His work has exhibited at MoMA PS1, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; CCS Bard, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Project Native Informant, London; Fluxia in Milan, Yvon Lambert in Paris, the New York Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Images Festival. He has lectured at Oxford University, Harvard University, Universität der Künste Berlin, and CalArts.

Daniel Wilson is an artist currently based in New York and Berlin. His work has been exhibited at Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow; culturaDigital, Rio de Janeiro; the Copenhagen Art Festival; MoMA PS1, and the New Museum, New York. He is currently part of the New Museum’s incubator program NEW INC.

Damon Zucconi has exhibited work at New Museum and JTT, New York; and Project Gentili, Prato, Italy. He received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2007. Zucconi currently lives and works in New York.