Anthony SMYRSKI
Anthony SMYRSKI
update: 2013.2.1
Profile
Born in 1980. Graduated from The University of the Arts in 2002.
Recent 5 main activities are Megawords at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012, The Philadelphia Museum of Art; Megawords at the ICA Portland Maine, 2012, ICA @ MECA: Living as Form, 2011, Creative Time NYC; One is the Loneliest Number, 2011, The Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art; Here., 2011, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
Anthony has received a 2012 Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a 2008 Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Award
About works / performance
Megawords is an experimental media project that takes the form of an independently published photography magazine and related installation projects and public events. Through our work we create an ongoing narrative that examines daily life in cities through the documentation of our surroundings and experience, with a voice free from commercialization and competing novelties.
We do this by working with artists, photographers, designers, writers, musicians and creative people in a collaborative manner to make a self-published, biannual printed magazine that offers an alternative viewpoint to the prevailing messages of advertising and commerce in mass print and online media. In the magazine we seek depth, meaning and relevance. We look at how people live, how they face adversity, how they have fun, how they bend the rules, how they seek freedom through acts of dissent, how they make and think about art and culture, and how they love. We do this without fear of showing the unpleasant or unusual, the imperfect, incomplete and impermanent. The ideas and images in the magazine encourage our audience to make a leap into the dark, to rethink their environments, neighborhoods and lifestyles, and to draw their own conclusions from the narrative we've presented.
Untitled Installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Untitled Various issues of Megawords Magazine
