Andrea Mancuso arrived in Iceland from Saudi Arabia where she had been living and teaching, and brought a curiosity about the landscape as a built environment. She was recently awarded The Kingdom Photography Award for her photographs of Saudi Arabia. Andrea works as virocode, a collaboration between herself, Claudia D’Aura and Peter D’Auria that explores the balance between the inorganic and the organic through an art-making practice that seeks to capture and reveal blossoming inorganic life. virocode has long been concerned with investigating symbiotic relationships between the organic and inorganic—in a non-judgmental manner and with an open question about our collective relationship to the Anthropocene. By virtue of the wide lens through which virocode approaches the world, alterations within the current epoch are just that, and our intense relationship with the non-biological has only just begun.
In a sense, it is only right when things go wrong—-therefore, virocode.
virocode has been exhibiting work in photography, video, installation and the digital arts throughout the United States and in Europe including: The Museum of Modern Art and Paul Robeson Gallery in the New York City metropolitan region; Artist Television Access, Artspace, Southern Exposure Gallery, and the Emanuel Walter and Etholl McBean Galleries in San Francisco; The Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California, Diverseworks Art Space in Houston, Texas, The University of Arizona Art Gallery, in Tucson, Arizona, Impakt Festival in The Netherlands, the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruck, Germany and at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, CEPA gallery, Squeaky Wheel and Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York. virocode began working together at the State University of New York at Buffalo, studying with Marion Faller, Paul Sharits and Tony Conrad. Andrea Mancuso received her PhD in Visual Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her MFA in Performance/New Genre from the San Francisco Art Institute.
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