ABOUT

Biography

Diane Bertolo works with pixels and paper to create works that are informed by the concept of impermanence and that use the structure of language as an engine of meaning. The evolving visual language takes pleasure in the spectacle of disintegration and plays with chaos, logic and uncertainty.

Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions including “Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant Garde of the 70s” at the Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY; “today.getDate()” at the Burchfield-Penny Art Center, Buffalo, NY; “Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Postwar America” at the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; “Telematic Connection: The Virtual Embrace” at the San Francisco Art Institute, and “Fragile Algorithm” at BKBX, Brooklyn, NY. In addition, her work has been shown in numerous media festivals including the “Mostra de Video Independent” in Barcelona, Spain,  La Biennale de Montral, and the “LA Freewaves Festival” at MOCA in Los Angeles. Fellowships and awards include The New York Foundation for the Arts (Emerging Forms for Digital Art and again for Computer Art) The Jerome Foundation and Greenwall Foundation (via Turbulence.org), and The National Endowment for the Arts.

CV upon request.

Selected Texts

Excerpt from “Death. The end…and what next?” by Sylvie Parent from the online essay for Out of this World at La Biennale de Montreal, 2000.

Excerpt from “Some Assembly Required: Ten Fragments Toward a Picture of Collage” by Mark Alice Durant in Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America published by The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY.

Review of today.getDate() by Keith Sanborn, published on the thing.