by pixelpusher (last updated Monday 18 June 2007)

pixelpusher (Evan Raskob, USA) is a contemporary multimedia artist whose works spans video, sound, installation, performance, and interactive art. Recent exhibitions include Waving / Drowning, a gallery show of human movements crystallized into a series of digital prints, sculptures, and interactive software, and Drawn Together, an interactive installation project exploring creative crowd sourcing in hand drawn music videos, featured at The Big Chill festival this past August.

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• Evan Raskob, born 1977, USA, lives and works as a fine artist, consultant, and educator in the UK
• Previous solo exhibitions include: Waving/Drowning at The Post Modern, Swindon, and 10 Gales Gallery, London
• Recent exhibitions include Drawn Together at The Big Chill Festival, August  2010
• Upcoming shows include:  Tint Arts’ Unleashed Devices at Watermans, London, September-October 2010 and more – check the blog for details!
• Assisted artist Robert Whitman on a series of works at Pace Wildenstein Gallery in New York City from 2004-2008
• Created a unique, wall-and-ceiling-based live visual performance system for 750 3rd Ave., New York City, home of Fairchild Publications
• Founded and teaches for Openlab Workshops (http://openlabworkshops.org), an Open Source software education venture completely run by and for artists and designers.
• Co-organized Immersion, a regular experimental audio-visual performance night from 2006-2008
• Lectures at UK universities, including in Digital Screen Arts at UCA, Farnham, where he is developing a Video Games Arts Degree for fall 2010
• Recently created a visuals DVD for VJLoops using Open Source video games engine Fluxus.

Topics of Interest

• Creative collective conscious in the modern age
• Open source art and culture
• Using software to create art
• Crowd sourcing in modern art
• Alternative days out, summer festival features and contemporary art
• Live performance using digital tools