Francisco Theodoro (“Chico”) MacMurtrie http://amorphicrobotworks.org/works Selected exhibitions 2013 Chrysalis, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (solo show) The Robotic Church, a site-specific installation and performance series at the ARW in the former Norwegian Seaman’s Church in Redhook, Brooklyn (solo show) The Wizard’s Chamber, featuring Organograph project by Geo Homsy | Chico MacMurtrie | Bill Washabaugh, Kunsthalle Winterthur (group show), curated by Lara Pan, Switzerland Kinesthetics: Art Imitating Life, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY, (group show) Chrysalis, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona (solo show) 2012 Organograph exhibition of the winning model of the Climate Clock International competition, by Geo Homsy, Chico MacMurtrie, Bill Washabaugh, City Hall San Jose, CA Totemobile Reactivation, 9th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China Skeletal Reflections Art and Artificial Life: Vida 1999-2012, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid 1 Inflatable Hexagons, Inflatable Architecture Intervention Inflatable Robotic Arts in Canada (solo), Video Pool Media Arts Center, Winnipeg, Canada 2011 Totemobile Transformer, Le 360, curated by Richard Castelli, Bethune Cultural Capital 2011, France Todays Art Festival, Den Haag, The Netherlands Birds, Inner Space, Biomorphic Wall Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irivine, CA (solo show) Birds Richard L. Nelson Gallery / UC Davis, CA 2010 Inflatable Architectural Growth ZER01 Biennial, curated by Steve Dietz, San José, CA Inflatable Architectural Growth SF Fine Art Fair, San Francisco Inflatable Architectural Body Inner Space (solo show) The National Gallery of Macedonia, Čifte Amam, curated by Melentie Pandilovski, Skopje, Macedonia Birds (solo show) Project Space Muffatwerk, Munich, Germany 2009 Inflatable Architectural Growth Commission E-Arts Beyond festival, curated by Zhang Ga, TV Tower Shanghai, China Birds, Petit Mal, curated by Alejandra Labastida, MUAC, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City 2 Birds, Fundacion Telefonica Award exibition, El Matadero, Madrid, Spain 16 Birds and Inflatable Architectural Body Solo exhibition, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh 2008 16 Birds Synthetic Times, curated by Zhang GA, National Art Museum of China, Bejing. Inflatable Architectural Body Machines and Souls, curated by Montxo Algora, Museo de la Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain 2007 The Floating Tree: A Condominium for Birds Anable Basin, East River, New York Inflatable Architectural Bodies Solo exhibition, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York City Totemobile Premiere, Citroen showroom C42, Champs-Elysees, Paris, France Birds MU Exhibition Space, Eindhoven, Holland THE HORNY CHILDREN Feedback, curated by Christiane Paul, Laboral, Gihon, Spain, 2006 Birds Experimental Arts Foundation, Adelaide, Australia Inflatable Bodies Malaga, Spain 2005 Ten new Horny Kids New Los Angeles Art Fair for Contemporary and New Art, Los Angeles, CA Too Big Dog Monkey, Cave of the Subconcious and YoYo Berimbau Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh PA 3 Forest of Totem Poles The Columbus Museum of Art and Design, Columbus, IN Ten new Horny Kids Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Experiments with Inflatable Bodies Elektrische Stadt Festival, Dresden, Germany 2004 Retrospective exhibition, The Amorphic Evolution, 1987-2004: The Amorphic Landscape, The Cave of the Subconscious, Too Big Dog Monkey, Skeletal Reflections, Telescoping Totem Pole, Floaters, Retrospective Drawings, Maquettes, and Video Installation; curated by Richard Castelli. European Cultural Capital 2004, Lille, France Fetus to Man Permanent installation commissioned by the city of Lille, France European Cultural Capital Performance Control and Lighting Tree (Fabrication and Exhibition) Robodock Festival, Rotterdam, Holland 2003 Fetus to Man, (Study) Personal Space, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, NY The Cave of the Subconscious and Too Big Dog Monkey Exit Art Festival, Paris, France The Cave of the Subconscious, Too Big Dog Monkey, Skeletal Reflections Via Festival, Maubeuge, France YoYo Berimbau and the Growing Raining Tree Machine Visions, Harvestworks, New York, NY Skeletal Reflections (Video) Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting, Pescara, Italy Growing Raining Tree Three-year installation at The Center for Contemporary Art’s UN-Museum, Cincinnati, OH Skeletal Reflections ArtBots, Eyebeam Atelier, New York, NY YoYo Berimbau and Bird Girl Engaging Characters, Art Interactive. Cambridge, MA Horny Drummer Boy Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY 4 2002 The Ancestral Path through the Amorphic Landscape NÖ Donaufestival, Krems, Austria Too Big Dog Monkey, Showcase Performance, Brooklyn Waterfront Festival, Brooklyn, NY Skeletal Reflections Digital Crossover, Muffathalle, Munich, Germany Too Big Dog Monkey Biennial Exhibition: The S-Files, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY 2001 Skeletal Reflections (Video) VIDA LIFE 4.0 International Competition. Awarded Honorary Mention and included in the organization’s Best of LIFE 4.0. Sponsored by the Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain Ensembles from the " The Ancestral Path " Lubijiana Gallery, Lubijiana, Slovenia The Ancestral Path Maribor Computer Arts Festival, Maribor, Slovenia SEDUCTION OF THE BIRD GIRL Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Skeletal Reflections EXPO2000 World Fair, Hanover, Germany The Ancestral Path through the Amorphic Landscape Nottingham: NOW Festival, Co-commissioned by NOW and Muffathalle Munich, Germany 1999 Urge to Stand (permanent interactive outdoor sculpture) Children’s Place, Yerba Buena Center San Francisco, CA The Dog Monkey's Journey through the Amorphic Evolution Klangart Festival, Osnabruck, Germany KornHaus, Bern, Switzerland A SELECTION FROM THE AMORPHIC SOCIETY Areal, 99 Bruck, Germany Lincoln Center: Out of Doors Festival, New York, NY 1998 5 TELESCOPING TOTEM POLE Robotronika, Institut für Neue Kulturtechnologien, Vienna, Austria The Dog Monkey's Journey through the Amorphic Evolution Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany 1997 Installation and Robotics Workshop ESC, Graz, Austria The Dog Monkey's Journey through the Amorphic Evolution Prater, Berlin Germany Forum Telecom, Lisbon, Portugal V2 Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Telescoping Totem Poles Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Growing into your cultural Skin — The Cave of the Subconcious Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA The Super Dog Monkey Cleveland Performance Festival, Cleveland, OH Robotic Performance Arte Chido, Mexico City, Mexico Children’s Robotics Workshop Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA Mission Science Workshop San Francisco, CA The Bay Area Discovery Museum San Francisco, CA 1996 The Amorphic Evolution Art Futura, Madrid, Spain Theater Tacheles, Berlin, Germany Rearview Mirror to Reality Festival, Linz, Austria Muffathalle, Munich, Germany Sound Culture Festival, The Lab, San Francisco, CA Robotic Installation Munich International Airport, Munich, Germany Robotic Performance Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA Children’s Robotics Workshop Mission Science Workshop, San Francisco, CA The Bay Area Discovery Museum, San Francisco, CA 1995 6 Featured Artist in the BBC production "Pandemonium" Featured Artist in Mark Dery’s book ESCAPE VELOCITY: CYBER CULTURE AT THE END OF THE CENTURY, published by New Line Productions, Inc. 1994 Primitive Behavior Patterns Automata 1994, Mie, Japan Horny Children X Terressa, Mexico City, Mexico Exit Festival, Creteil, France Teaching Artist in Residency Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL Artist in Residency: The Merge of the Horny Children into Dream State Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 1993 Primitive Behavior Patterns ArtTec, Nagoya, Japan Drumming and Drawing Subhuman Kawasaki, Japan The Dog Monkey with the Zaccho Dance Theater Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA 1992 Trigram: A Robotic Opera (with Bruce Darby) Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA Featured in the Discovery Channel production “The Next Step” Amorphous Den Bosch, Netherlands Den Haag, Netherlands Eindhoven, Netherlands Arhus, Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark Tumbling Man Crash Club, Phoenix, AZ 7 AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS (SELECTION) 2012 Climate Clock Initiative Award for the Organograph, a proposed kinetic public sculpture, by Geo Homsy and Chico MacMurtrie and Bill Washabaugh for the City of San Jose 2010 CEC Artslink award for the Amorphic Robot Works in the Balkans workshop and exhibition of Inflatable Architecture Inner Space, Skopje, Macedonia 2008 Third prize in Hybrid Art, VIDA Life 11.0, Art & Artificial Life International Competition, for Sixteen Birds 2007 Honorable Mention in Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica, for Totemobile Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship 2005 Winning Entry and Grant Recipient, Long Island City in Context, for A Tree for Anable Basin 2003 Artist’s Fellowship, Computer Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Project Grant, Daniel Langlois Foundation, for Skeletal Reflections 2002 Individual Project Grant, Daniel Langlois Foundation, for Skeletal Reflections New York State Council on the Arts Grant 2001 Honorary Mention, VIDA Life 4.0, Art & Artificial Life International Competition for Skeletal Reflections 1999 Lannan Foundation Grant (via Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco) for the production of The Cave of the Subconscious The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Grant (via Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco) for the production of The Cave of the Subconscious 1997 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation California Arts Council Fellowship 1995 Visual Artist Fellowship Grant in New Genre – Performance Arts, National Endowment for the Arts 1992 Collaborative grant for Trigram: A Robotic Opera, National Endowment for the Arts 1991 Distinctions for Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica, for Tumbling Man: An Experiment in 8 Cooperation for Two Participants Grant for Interdisciplinary Artist (New Langton Arts), National Endowment for the Arts Arts International grant, Eastern European Tour of The Ancestral Path 1990 San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts Grant for Interdisciplinary Artist (New Langton Arts), National Endowment for the Arts Honorary Mention in Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica, for The Trees are Walking 1988 Grant for Interdisciplinary Artist (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits), National Endowment for the Arts COMMISSIONS 2012 Awarded commission for the production of Organograph, a kinetic public sculpture by Geo Homsy and Chico MacMurtrie and Bill Washabaugh for the City of San Jose as part of the Climate Clock Initiative 2009 Commission from eArts Beyond, Shanghai, for the production for Inflatable Architectural Growth 2007 Commission from Citroen, Paris, for the production of Totemobile 2003 Awarded commission from Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati for the production of Growing, Raining Tree 2002 Awarded commission from Cultural Capital 2004 for the production of Fœtus to Man for the City of Lille, France 1999 Awarded commission from the City of San Francisco for the production of Urge to Stand TEACHING POSITIONS 2011 2009 1994 Parsons / New School, New York Parsons / New School, New York Teaching Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago Art Institute Artist Residencies 2011 Residency Finalist with Geo Homsy and Bill Washabaugh in the San Jose Climate Clock Competition for Organograph, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA 1994 Artist in Residency: The Merge of the Horny Children into Dream State 9 Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 1998 Performing Artist Residency, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA 1988-1991 Artist in Residency, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA 10