Above: Stills from single channel video piece The Geometric Boundary Structures, now showing in the Faculty Triennial exhibition
Laleh Mehran and Christopher Coleman are frequent collaborators and co-founders of CO-LAB, an event based initiative that “brings together interdisciplinary makers and thinkers to create conversational bridges… and intends to instigate and inspire collaboration amongst branches of art, culture, politics and science.” Both Coleman and Mehran are currently professors in Electronic Media Art & Design and Digital Media Studies.
Artist bios:
Laleh Mehran received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Electronic Time-Based Media. Her work has been shown individually and as part of art collectives at the Next 5 Minutes 4 Tactical Media Festival in Amsterdam, Holland; the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabruck, Germany; Ponte Futura in Cortona Italy; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA; the Orlo Video Festival in Portland, Oregon; the Carnegie Museum of Art; The Georgia Museum of Art; The Andy Warhol Museum; and the Pittsburgh Biennial at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in Pittsburgh, PA.
Chris Coleman received his BFA in his native state from West Virginia University in 2001 and his MFA from New York State University at Buffalo in 2003. Coleman was twice a participant in the VIPER Basel Festival in Switzerland and has had his work in exhibitions in Singapore, Finland, Sweden, Italy, Germany, France, China, the UK and Latvia. In North America he has had solo shows at Big Orbit in Buffalo NY, Pratt at Munson Williams Proctor in NY, and NE plus Ultra in Toronto as well as exhibitions at the Albright Knox in Buffalo NY, Spaces Gallery in Cleveland OH, and other shows in Minneapolis MN, Austin TX, and New York City to name a few.
See more from Laleh Mehran at http://lalehmehran.com and Chris Coleman at http://digitalcoleman.com