Lisa Marie Patzer employs a variety of technological formats to sort out and make visible ideas that are significant to understanding historic, cultural, and social spheres of influence. Her initial inspirations are in both analog and new media technologies, which she then unpacks through other mediums such digital prints, video, and installation. In uncovering the functionality of the technology, Patzer reveals how the nuances of those systems can be correlated to the capabilities of our senses. Her current work explores the use of machine learning technologies and computer vision to “see” archival images. Producing scans of found-footage films, she processes the film strips using computer machine learning algorithms, then hand paints and applies photo transfer processes, yielding formal and conceptual connections that beguile the viewer.
Artist Biography
A 2019 Pew fellow and researcher for the Code /Art Research Program, Lisa Marie in 2018 became the first video artist in residence at the Icebox Project Space, producing a large-scale exhibition exploring the history of surveillance technology and the 4th Amendment. In 2020, she was awarded a grant from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation to create large scale prints and reverse-lit lightboxes using machine learning algorithms and wallpaper sample archives and to continue her work with image transfers from found footage. She currently works out of The Studios @ The Delaware Contemporary Art Museum.
Education
2013
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
MFA, Film and Media Arts
Awards and Honors
2021
Sachs Program for Arts Innovation Grant
2020
Philadelphia Independent Media Fund, Scribe Video Center
2019 Pew Center for the Arts Fellowship
Artist Merit Scholarship, Vermont Artist Residency
2018 Project Seed Grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Video Artist in Residence, Icebox Project Space
2011 Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association Award
Seed Grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
2010 Project Distribution Grant, Temple University
2009 Provost’s Commission on the Arts, Temple University
Beatrice Deglin Leder Graduate Award, Temple University
2008 Project Grant, Temple University
2005 Artist Residency, The Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute
2002 Artist Scholarship,Vermont Artist Residency
Bibliography
Print Media
The Temple News, “Alumna uses digital media to explore surveillance,” Veronica Thomas, (January, 2018)
Chester County Press, “Pop-Up Art KSQ Holds Four Shows at First Friday Art Stroll”, Richard Gaw, (November, 2018)
Westword Newspaper, “ART BEAT, ” Michael Paglia, (November, 2002)
Online Periodicals
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, “Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Visual Artist Lisa Marie Patzer,” Adam Clair, (October, 2020)
Philadelphia Weekly, “Troupe de Fetishe,” Roberta Fallon, (December, 2017)
Website Publications
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, “Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Visual Artist Lisa Marie Patzer,” Adam Clair, (October, 2020)
Metro, “Da Vinci Fest brings curiosity out at a safe distance,” Molly Given, (October 22, 2020)
AL DÍA Culture, “‘Philadelphia Forthcoming’ dives into the architectural past and future of the City ov Brotherly Love,” Nigel Thompson, (October,2020)
WHYY, “Philly art exhibit examines what to expect when you’re expecting privacy,” Peter Crimmins, (July, 2018)
Chadd’s Ford Live, “Mixed Media: Artist moves west,” Caroline Roosevelt, (December, 2017)
Denver News and Arts, “Art In Motion, Lisa Marie Patzer Explores Negative Space in 3-D,” Xian Kinne, (April, 2002)
Exhibitions
Solo
2018
A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
Curators: Ryan McCartney and Timothy Belknap
2010
Troupe de Fetishe, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational
Group
2022
Inquiry: At the Intersection of Curiosity, Dupont Gallery II, Delaware Contemporary Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Curator: Chase Dougherty
Illuminated Harmonics, Hatch Gallery, Delaware Contemporary Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Philadelphia Forthcoming: An Endless Urban Portrait, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Juror: Jared Markman
2019
An Unclear View, IndieGrits Labs, Columbia, SCJuried ExhibitionOut-of-Site for Design Philadelphia, Twenty-Two Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Jurors: Gaby Heit and Belinda Haikes
OFF-SITE, Chris White Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Juror: Pop Up Art KSQ
2017
Technologic, Final Friday’s, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
11th Annual Juried Exhibition, Googleworks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
Juror: Lisa Tremper Hanover
2016
20/92 Video Festival, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
Jurors: Ryan McCartney and Timothy Belknap
2014
The Video Show, 3rd International Juried Exhibition of Video and Media Installation, Raritan Community College, Raritan, NJ
Jurors: Josh Azzarella, Lydia Grey, John Harford, Kelly Oliver, and Ann Tsubota
Other
2019
A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, adapted for the Media Upper Providence Free Library, curated by the Media Council on the Arts, Media, PA
2016
Profile Confusion, online screening, Philly Tech Week, Philadelphia, PA
2015
a.k.a. Profile Glitch, online narrative, International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Vancouver, BC
2012
Kaleidoscope, rear-projected video for theatrical production of Ray Bradbury’s radio show, Festival International, Lafayette, LA
2011
Screening of Troupe de Fetishe, University Film and Video Association Conference, Boston, MA
2010
Kaleidoscope, rear-projected video for theatrical production of Ray Bradbury’s radio show, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
