Bull.Miletic

Bull.Miletic
Education San Francisco Art Institute
Notable work "Heaven Can Wait", "Ferriscope", "Zoom Blue Dot"
Style Contemporary art, Video art, Video installation
Awards The Bay Area Award, New Langton Arts; Video Maker Award, Bay Area Video Coalition; The Norwegian Video Award, Oslo Screen Festival
Website www.bullmiletic.com

Synne T. Bull (Norwegian, born 1973) and Dragan Miletic (American, born Yugoslavia 1970) are two visual artists who work together as a collaborative duo called Bull.Miletic. They are principally known for their video installation works.

Short biography

Bull and Miletic met at San Francisco Art Institute where they began to work as Bull.Miletic in 2000.[1] They currently live and work in Oslo, Norway.

Exhibitions

Bull.Miletic have shown internationally at venues including Venice Biennale, California Biennial, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Victorian Arts Center, Melbourne, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade. Their work has been reviewed in Artforum, Aftenposten, Billedkunst, Kunstkritikk, Mousse Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, and Rhizome among others.[2][3][4][5][6] Bull.Miletic's work is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery.[7]

Awards and grants

Bull.Miletic were the recipients of the Bay Area Video Coalition's Video Maker Award, Oslo Screen Festival's Best Norwegian Video Award and have received professional grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Arts Council Norway, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Office for Contemporary Art Norway[8] and CEC ArtsLink[9] among others. They lectured in programs such as Art, Technology, and Culture Lecture Series, at the University of California Berkeley in 2011 and SCMS Annual Conference 2013 Chicago. Their work has been nominated for Rockefeller Media Art Award as well as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's SECA Art Award. They were artists in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts[10] in 2003, at Künstlerhause Bethanien Berlin[11] in 2004, at Nordic Artists’ Center Dale in 2006, and at Cité internationale des arts Paris in 2007.

Bull.Miletic initiated and organized several exhibitions including Net.Film[12] in 2002 and the Urban Images[13][14] symposium at Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2010, documented in the volume Urban Images: Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture[15] published by Sternberg press in 2011. In 2012 they were Visiting Artists at the Cinema and Media Studies,[16] University of Chicago and were part of the art research project "re:place"[17] in association with Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and The Grieg Academy, which culminated in the survey exhibition This Must be the Place.[18] Currently they are working on a joint art research project entitled Aerial View in Motion.

Public collections

Publications

  • "Urban Images: Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture," edited by Synne Bull and Marit Paasche. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1934105405
  • "Cities Reimagined" edited by Bull.Miletic. Novi Sad: Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, 2010. ISBN 978-86-84773-68-7
  • "Unfinished: Scars of the Past / Face of the Future," edited by Bull.Miletic. Belgrade: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007. OCLC 271570720
  • "Checkpint Charley: Charley 04," edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick. Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2006. ISBN 978-3980426565
  • "Bull.Miletic: Slow Seeing," edited by Bull.Miletic. Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2004. ISBN 3-932754-51-4

References

  1. ↑ Helfand, Glen. "Next Generation." San Francisco Chronicle, May 22, 2003.
  2. ↑ Tišma, Andrej. "Kreativna Simbioza." Dnevnik, August 15, 2004.
  3. ↑ Helfand, Glen. "San Francisco Critics' Picks." Artforum, June 9, 2005.
  4. ↑ Baker, Kenneth. "'Listening Post' brings the Internet into view." San Francisco Chronicle, August 4, 2007.
  5. ↑ Moseng, Maria. "Urbane bilder." Billedkunst, No.6, 2010.
  6. ↑ Helsvig, Simen Joachim. "Nasjonsvisjoner." Kunstkritikk, December 11, 2014.
  7. ↑ Held, Jr. John. "An Artful Journey: Paule Anglim (?-2015)". SFAQ, April 4, 2015.
  8. ↑ http://www.oca.no/contributors/synne-and-dragan-bull-and-miletic
  9. ↑ http://www.cecartslink.org/grants/participants/projects_awardees_2005.html
  10. ↑ http://www.headlands.org/artist/synne-dragan-bull-miletic/
  11. ↑ http://www.bethanien.de/en/artists/bull-miletic/
  12. ↑ http://artport.whitney.org/resources/netartexhibitions.shtml
  13. ↑ http://www.urbanimages.no/
  14. ↑ http://www.digicult.it/news/urban-images-symposium/
  15. ↑ http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1347&bookId=242&l=en
  16. ↑ https://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/events/2012/what-cinematic
  17. ↑ http://www.khib.no/english/artistic-research/artistic-research-at-bergen-academy-of-art-and-design/artistic-research-projects/re-place/
  18. ↑ http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/kinokino-centre-for-art-and-film-presents-this-must-be-the-place/
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