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Eileen
Botsford is a New Media Public Artist and the Founder and
Creative Director of EBnefsi Design www.ebnefsi.com,
a New Media Public Art Collaborative based in London and
Athens and working internationally.
She holds a BAhons in Public Art and Design from Chelsea
College of Art & Design and an MFA in Theatre Design
form The
Slade School of Fine Art.
Eileen works as a New Media Public Artist, on vast spectrum
of on-site and on-line projects and commissions, and has
exhibited on an international basis in group and solo exhibitions.
Public Art projects include the ‘Public Screen’
at the 1st Thessaloniki
Biennale of Contemporary Art 07, new media window
displays such ones for Vivienne Westwood at Selfridges,
London, and a variety VJing commissions for a number of
prestigious events, www.ebnefsievents.com
as well as Net Art pieces such The
Journey.
One of her recent talks was at the International Interdisciplinary
Conference “Science and Art”, Athens, Eugenidis
Foundation. On 'The use of the natural human form
and its existence through digital formats and mass exposure
methods, for presentation within the public domain'.
Eileen has accepted a number of sponsorships for her work
including that of the Stavros
Niarchos Foundation, Athens, and has won 2nd Best Experimental
Video Award 05 at Strange Screen VI, Salonica
Cinema Museum.
Past exhibitions include Art
Athens 2005, Cyber Arts 2005, Ars
Electronica, Austria, Art
Interactive for ‘New Media / New Work’ 2006
MA, USA, and ‘Beautiful
Decay’ 2006 Loose Projects, Sydney, Australia.
Within 2006, her award winning piece ‘Cycle’
was broadcasted internationally on SKY TV four times. Publications
and interviews include Vogue
Hellas Sept.07, ‘Greek Modern Pioneers 06’
The British Council, and various online publications. Eileen
has also recently been interviewed by Athens
International and BBC Radio
which you can also listen to online.
In March 2007 Eileen created a New Media Video display for
the play ‘Murder
in the Cathedral’ by T.S. Elliot, which took
place at St.
Paul’s Church,, Covent Garden, London.
Her latest solo exhibition was called The
Bodymode Show first exhibited at The
Pearlfisher Gallery, London May 2007 and with plans
to travel. Her latest group exhibitions include 'First Person'
which took place in October 2007 at the Van
Brunt Gallery, Beacon N.Y and ‘Heterotopias’
which took place at the Thessaloniki
Centre of Contemporary Art
September 2007.
Other of Eileen’s projects include Stairwell Art www.stairwellart.com,
a company specializing in stairwell specific art and www.tosoma.org
which is working in partnership with Nomadic
Collaborations in which she also the Net Art Director.
Eileen
is currently working towards her next 2 big exhibitions
; 'Human' and 'Between Habitats'aswell
as working as the Creative Director of 'World
2.5'
Eileen
is also founder of
tosoma.org
which is one of the most recent EBnefsi babies….Enjoy.
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