Cat Mazza

Monday, February 13 at 6:00pm

Falvey Hall 1301 W Mt Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD 21217, USA

Cat Mazza is an artist whose work
combines craft with digital media to
explore the overlaps between textiles,
technology, and labor. She is the founder
of microRevolt, a web-based project that
hosts the freeware knitPro and was a
founding staff member of Eyebeam, an art
and technology center in New York City.
Her work has been exhibited extensively
both nationally and internationally,
including at the Triennale di Milano in
Italy, the Museum of Arts and Design in
New York City, the Garanti Gallery in
Istanbul, Turkey, the San Jose Institute
of Contemporary Art in California, the
Jönköpings läns Museum in Sweden, and
the Museum of Contemporary Craft in
Portland, Oregon. Her work will exhibit
in the forthcoming exhibition, 40 Under
40: Craft Futures, at the Renwick Gallery
in Washington, DC, a Smithsonian
American Art Museum. Mazza’s work has
been written about in The New York Times,
Artforum, and several books, including
KnitKnit: Profiles and Projects from
Knitting’s New Wave and Dark Matter: Art
and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture.
She is currently an assistant professor of
art at University of Massachusetts Boston.
Her talk is part of the Fiber Department’s
Mixed Media Series.