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strikeWare Collective

Multidisciplinary, Multidisciplinary Art, Multimedia, Public Art, Sculpture / Installation, Visual / Media

Awards Received

Independent Artist

2021

About the Artist

strikeWare members are Mollye Bendell, Christopher Kojzar and Jeffrey L. Gangwisch. Together, we work and play with virtual and augmented realities, time-based media, customized hardware, digital fabrication, and interactive media.

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Featured Work

Photos

12 monitors mounted on wooden rafters laid on the floor, showing captures from four videos placed underwater looking upward, each video feed duplicated and mirrored twice. Paper boats made from newspapers proclaiming recent unfortunate events sail over the view of an overcast day.
The first nine graduates of the Peale Center each have a circular plaque dedication on the church pew entitled "Ode to the Nine Graduates". Each plaque subtly distinguishes something unique about their lives. An augmented reality feature is incorporated in the bench design Gertrude Anderson - Nellie Anderson - Gertrude Deaver - Fannie McCabe - Mollie Taylor - Violet Thompson - William Murray - Walter Scott - Mamie Neale were the names of the graduate
This church pew is a call back to the connection between church and schools in the black community. The earliest schools founded by black community members were almost exclusively linked to Baptists, Methodists, and Catholic faiths. It was more than Sunday school and many students sat on church benches of the 19th century before desks had been incorporated into the classroom.
“Our friends at H. [Havre de Grace], just before the commencement of the rebellion, built a school-house only to see it burned to the ground by the southern branch of the same clique who burned the colored orphan asylums and churches in New York." ◦ Edmonia Highgate, the first teacher of “Darlington School,” now known as Hosanna School in Harford County
Coral Reef transports the interactor into a future in which the building had been underwater for centuries, leaving only the pillars of the basement. Underwater, the user discovers a natural environment populated with tropical fish and imagined coral.

Videos

  • Renovations - A Walk-thru Tour

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    strikeWare's 'Renovations' examines the history of African-American education in Baltimore from the founding of the city's first public high school for Black students to the present day. The show is open 12-4 every Saturday and Sunday at the Carroll Mansion and runs through March 1st. We're also doing a gallery talk on February 8th at 2pm. Renovations uses media such as virtual and augmented reality, interactive sculpture, and immersive projection to draw out the hidden narratives and ongoing struggles in our educational system.
    Medium: video
    Year: 2020
    Details: 7 minutes

  • LIVE Art Talk: strikeWare

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    Baltimore-based collective strikeWare, a finalist for the 2020 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, is driven to rethink and breakdown tangible and intangible hierarchies. In conversation with Joy Davis, Manager of Adult and Community Program, its members discuss the collaborative process, the importance of creating art experiences in museums and other historic spaces, and using historic institutions as a catalyst for their work.
    Medium: Video
    Year: 2021
    Details: 40 minutes