Embodied: Art and Technology in Dialogue

Opening Reception: March 7
Virtual Panel Discussion: March 20, 6pm

Join us for the latest collaboration between the Institute for Electronic Art and RoCo. "Embodied" brings together recent video, multi-media, and performance artworks by Slinko, Stephanie Sutton, and Zorica Čolić. The artists are former and upcoming residents at IEA and the exhibition is curated by Myles Calvert, director of IEA.

The works of Stephanie Sutton, Slinko, and Zorica Čolić engage in a profound and layered exploration of identity, transformation, and the interplay between personal history and contemporary culture, all conveyed through powerful imagery of the body. Each artist, in their unique way, examines the body as a vessel of memory, change, and narrative, using it as a metaphor to delve into broader themes of human experience and selfhood.

Together, Sutton, Slinko, and Čolić share an investigation into the fluidity of personal and collective histories, highlighting how identity is constantly in flux. Their works collectively form a narrative that bridges individual introspection with the shared experience of navigating an ever-evolving world. Through their distinct approaches, they invite viewers to reflect on how the body both shapes and is shaped by the passage of time, societal influences, and the complexities of the self.

Image: Fit Tech (2023) by Stephanie Sutton

About the Artists

Slinko (b. Ukraine) is a multidisciplinary artist living in the United States. Her practice encompasses a wide range of media, including political satire, drawing, moving image, performance, printmaking, and graphic design. Drawing from her experiences growing up in East Ukraine’s Donbas region during the final years of the Soviet Union, Slinko’s perspective blends personal narratives with scholarly insight. Keenly aware of the disillusionment and dispossession that mark her own lived experience of history, Slinko emphasizes resilience, hope, and humor to give tangible forms to personal agency. Slinko earned her MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, and has been awarded the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. She has been an artist resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Bemis Contemporary Art Center, The Drawing Center in New York, RAIR in Philadelphia, BANFF Centre, and Santa Fe Art Institute, and Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University among many others. In 2024, Slinko was the inaugural Gene Zwozdesky Artist in Residence at MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada.

Stephanie Sutton’s performances for the camera employ conventions of labor and ritual to complicate assumptions of discipline and destabilize virtues of self-control through the critical lenses of feminist theory, identity politics, and medical pathologies. Sutton's work is recognized for its success in transgressing the limits of the isolated subject and redirecting self-consciousness onto the viewer. Sutton earned her MFA from University of Georgia, and her BFA at Georgia State University. She is currently Assistant Professor in Photography and Expanded Media at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Zorica Čolić is a visual artist and educator, born in Serbia and based in New York City. Using a wide range of media such as video, sound, found objects, text and installation, she explores issues around the human body as a cultural symptom, focusing on how its health and well-being intersect with politics, sexuality, gender, class, and economy. Čolić was a resident artist at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, SOMA summer program in Mexico City, Institute for Electronic Arts, and International Summer Academy, Salzburg, to name a few. She is a 2023 NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts. She has been exhibiting in solo and group shows internationally, including exhibitions in New York at: Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, Microscope Gallery, WhiteBox, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, and in Europe: Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany, The Energy Museum of Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia, and more. She earned an M.F.A. in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University and a B.F.A. in Painting from Academy of Arts (Novi Sad, Serbia). Čolić also publishes her texts and media works, most recently, a video and text “Cutaneous Vision” were included in the Issue “Touch” of the Flat journal, published by UCLA’s department of Design Media Arts.

About the Curator

Myles Calvert was born in Collingwood, Ontario. He attended the University of Guelph with a focus in printmaking, before traveling to London, UK where he completed his MA in Printmaking, at Camberwell College of Art (University for the Arts, London). Major bodies of work included installations of screen-printed toast and the idolization of popular British celebrity culture. During this time, he worked for the National Portrait Gallery before moving to Hastings in East Sussex, to teach printmaking at Sussex Coast College (now East Sussex College) and become the Duty Manager of the newly established Jerwood Gallery (now Hastings Contemporary). Four formative years were spent as a Visiting Professor in Expanded Media at Alfred University (New York State College of Ceramics) and Alfred State College of Technology, teaching across print-based mediums including core foundations programs, senior advising, and graduate mentorship. Four additional years were spent at Winthrop University within the department of Fine Arts as an Associate Professor with a focus on printmaking and foundations courses. Recent residencies include Art Print Residence (Barcelona, Spain) and Proyecto’ace (Buenos Aires, Argentina), a lecture/workshop at PUCP (Pontificia Universidad Catòlica del Perú) in Lima, the Tamarind Institute (Albuquerque, NM), and the McColl Center (Charlotte, NC). Myles is currently the Director of the IEA (Institute for Electronic Arts) at Alfred University, New York.

The Institute for Electronic Art

All artists are previous residents of the The Institute for Electronic Arts, a high technology research studio facility within the School of Art and Design, NYSCC, Alfred University, New York. The IEA encourages and supports projects that involve interactive multi-media systems, experimental sonic/video production, digital imaging, and publications. The IEA is committed to developing cultural interactions spurred by technological experimentation and artistic investigations.

The Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University supports these artists with residencies, access to facilities, equipment, and technical expertise, allowing them to expand and deepen their research. The New Media residency program, which emphasizes video, sound, installation, and cutting-edge image-making technologies, plays a pivotal role in the development of their ongoing and new projects.