MacArthur Foundation - Newswire - Brief Article

Afterimage, Jan-Feb, 2002

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced 23 MacArthur fellows for 2001. Each of the recipients will receive $500,000 over five years with few stipulations as to how the money is spent--the fellows themselves are considered best equipped to decide how to best further their projects with this level of funding.

Of the 23 fellowships, three were granted to individuals directly involved in the media arts: Inigo Manglano-Ovale is an artist and associate professor at the College of Architecture and The Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago. Through the use of photography, video, sound and sculptural media, Manglano-Ovale's installation work traverses the molecular scale of DNA as well as the perspective derived from modern architecture. David Wilson, founder and proprietor of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, located in Culver City, California, is simultaneously an artist, designer and curator. Described as Wilson's own art Installation, the museum provides commentary on how humans organize and archive cultural artifacts, and it blurs the distinctions between museum, mausoleum and library. Dave Hickey is a professor of Art Theory and Criticism at The University of Nevada in Las Vegas. An art critic and art historian whose work engages academic and general audiences alike, Hickey displays an "encyclopedic knowledge" of art history, consistently presenting his ideas in a widely accessible yet intellectually challenging manner.