August 28, 2006
Meet the Flockers: Mary Jeys
When my father got a job at an academically significant university, my parents moved our family to a historically significant suburb of Boston, Massachusetts from Houston, Texas.
After years of Montessori training, my parents switched me into public school, a transition I’m still recovering from. (what? you can’t major in pouring skills?) I spent all of my years in middle school on ice as a figure skater. I still have a box of medals somewhere from the small singles and major precision competitions. Precision figure skating, for those who don’t know, is a sport where roughly 20 girls do routines as a group in formation. It is scored the same way as Olympic figure skating is: judged on a 6.0 point scale with points for technical and artistic merit. This sport is international, although not Olympic. I traveled to Alaska and Finland for these competitions.
Following my college graduation, I moved to Dublin, Ireland for 5 months in 2001. Two days before my first international sculpture group show at Dublin Castle that nasty September business occurred. It was still an awesome installation, if under-documented.
I work at Hunter College working as the assistant to a socially engaged media and experimental arts program, Integrated Media Arts in the Department of Film and Media.
I’ve been showing my work in New Jersey and Texas. In February, I co-organized and video curated a symposium on propaganda at the CUNY Graduate Center called Where the Truth Lies.
I’m living in Brooklyn and am currently working on a campaign for John McClane (Die Hard series) in 2008.
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thanks for suggesting this. I think it’s been pretty cool.