2015 Arts Writing Award Grantee Joanne McNeil Debuts Just Browsing

JUST BROWSING: Premiere and Artist Talk Oct. 19, 2017, 7 pm at Fridman Gallery RSVP at Eventbrite The recipient of our 2015 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, Joanne McNeil has completed her grant-supported project Just Browsing, a five-part video series investigating what it means to be an internet user. Just Browsing will premiere at Fridman Gallery in New York City on Oct. 19. McNeil and her coproducer Nicole Antebi will be in attendance and will introduce each episode in the series. The screening is to be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker and her coproducer.

Each episode in McNeil’s series begins with a topic of inquiry and leads the audience through the narrator’s own investigation of overlapping subjects using books and a web browser. The episodes toggle between new and old forms of media along with animation and live-action sequences filmed at New York’s legendary speakeasy bookstore Brazenhead Books.

Written and directed by McNeil, with cinematography, editing, and motion graphics by Antebi and music by Vince Clarke, Just Browsing will go live on the artist’s website later this year.

Joanne McNeil is a writer interested in the ways that technology is shaping art, politics, and society. She was a recipient of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation 2015 Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art and a resident at Eyebeam. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Domus, Dissent, Frieze, The Baffler, and other publications. She is working on a book about internet users called Lurk.

Nicole Antebi works in non-fiction animation, motion graphics, installation. She was the 2015 animator-in-residence at Circuit Bridges, New York and was recently awarded a Jerome Foundation Grant in Film/Video for a forthcoming animated film about El Paso and Ciudad Juàrez in the early 1990’s. Her work has been shown at Anthology Film Archives, Torrance Art Museum, The Crocker Museum, Dallas Contemporary, and the Armory Center for the Arts, among other art institutions and alternative spaces.