I'm Against It
Stephen Slappe
October 25-November 14, 2014
Statement
Stephen Slappe (b. Charleston, WV) is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Slappe's work has exhibited and screened internationally in venues such as Centre Pompidou-Metz, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's TBA Festival, The Horse Hospital (London), The Sarai Media Lab (New Delhi), Consolidated Works (Seattle), Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), and Artists Television Access (San Francisco). His projects have been funded by multiple grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission. Slappe is an Associate Professor of Video & Sound at Pacific Northwest College of Art. He is an active curator and organizer of video and film exhibitions including Subduction Zone at The Front (New Orleans) and Out of the Great Northwest at The Horse Hospital (London). Slappe programs theatrical screenings out of his collection of 16mm films including Rolling Deep: Skateboarding Films 1965-1980, Static Age: The Culture of Early Television, and Dial D for Design. His most recent project is an iOS app entitled 8, available on iTunes.
www.stephenslappe.com
itunes.apple.com/us/app/id859604306
1000skateboardvideos.tumblr.com
Stephen Slappe (b. Charleston, WV) is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Slappe's work has exhibited and screened internationally in venues such as Centre Pompidou-Metz, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's TBA Festival, The Horse Hospital (London), The Sarai Media Lab (New Delhi), Consolidated Works (Seattle), Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), and Artists Television Access (San Francisco). His projects have been funded by multiple grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission. Slappe is an Associate Professor of Video & Sound at Pacific Northwest College of Art. He is an active curator and organizer of video and film exhibitions including Subduction Zone at The Front (New Orleans) and Out of the Great Northwest at The Horse Hospital (London). Slappe programs theatrical screenings out of his collection of 16mm films including Rolling Deep: Skateboarding Films 1965-1980, Static Age: The Culture of Early Television, and Dial D for Design. His most recent project is an iOS app entitled 8, available on iTunes.
www.stephenslappe.com
itunes.apple.com/us/app/id859604306
1000skateboardvideos.tumblr.com
