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Christopher T. Bowne  Artist Statement Someone enters a room. What kind of room? A bar maybe? A saloon? Regardless, they enter. They commandeer the nearest individual, an unobtrusive drunk, by wrestling the drunk into an arm bar. The drunk screams, thinking its someone else. His thoughts are feverish. They finally caught up to me! The stranger stills the drunk by speaking into his (the drunk's) ear. The drunk stops screaming and listens. What is production? the voice in his ear asks. What does it mean to produce? The drunk is stunned. No one has ever asked him this before. In the context of engaging with contemporary artistic discourse, I see production as a form of reflexive research; of finding a place, a niche, where the produced and its history can stand and make some kind of sense. Curriculum Vitae EXPERIENCE TYLER SCHOOL OF ART Elkins Park, PA Graduate Assistant 2005-current ADDECO, INC.  Lake Forest, CA Temp 2002-2005 CLICKABILITY, INCORPORATED San Francisco, CA Software Developer 2000-2002 EAST BAY EXPRESS Emeryville, CA Ghostwriter 2001 NETFORCE, INCORPORATED San Francisco, CA Software Developer 1998-2000 EDUCATION TYLER SCHOOL OF ART, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, ELKINS PARK Pending MFA in Sculpture, 2007. SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, CHICAGO Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio, 2003. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY  Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, 1997. EXHIBITIONS Installation: The Narrator's Friend A solo, one-night only sculpture installation at flux, 3000 N Hope St., Philadelphia, PA 19133. March, 2 2007. Performance: Reception. A 3 hour performance during the Oct. 7 opening reception for the group show: “Custody Battle.” Penrose Gallery, Penrose building, Tyler School of Art, Penrose Ave., Elkins Park, PA 19027. Oct. 7-Oct 14, 2006. Installation: Zombie A solo, one-night only 2-channel high-definition video installation at The Barber Shop, 708 Oak Lane Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19126. Sept. 16th, 2006. A series of untitled drawings. These were included in the following group show: Untitled Space in association with London Gallery Studio 9 presents "(We Are) All Drawing" February 10-28, 2005 at Untitled Space, Los Mesejo 27 Madrid, Spain. Installation: Rise and Fall of the Gypsum Market. This was shown at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37 Wabash building, 9th fl. exhibit space. Nov 17th - Nov 24th, 2002. PUBLICATIONS/LECTURES Participant in symposium: 'Inquiries Into Empathy' on February 6, 2007 at Temple Gallery, Philadelphia. Contributed a paper: Empathy and Technology to the symposium occurring in conjunction with the exhibition 'Empathetic' at Temple Gallery, November 4, 2006 - February 17, 2007. Short story: The Witness. This was a contest winner and was included in the short story anthology “Storied Crossings.” Scribes Hill Publishing, 2002.
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