About the Artist in Digital Residence: Egilė Rad is a Lithuanian artist based in New York. Her practice spans sculpture, video, and painting, with an interest in minimalist forms. Her work reflects a pragmatic attitude toward culture, often looking for ways to communicate her love for America and to make Americans love America too. She studies Art History and Visual Arts at Columbia University.
About #bitres: As a means of expanding Co-Lab Project's programming into the digital realm, rotating guest curators select artists to participate in an Instagram-hosted month-long residency. Artists are given full control of the @colabprojectsbitres Instagram account, and all images posted by the artist are categorized by hashtags representing the artist name in residency. Original concept by Sean Ripple.
About the current Guest Curator: Sean Ripple is an artist, writer, and curator based in Austin, TX. His projects are often improvisational and interventionist in nature and rely heavily on social media and the Internet to frame the outcomes of a feverish dedication to an idea. Ripple has been exhibiting with Co-Lab Projects since its founding in 2008. He has mounted exhibitions, projects, and interventions at Neue Welt, Time Being Books, The Contemporary Austin, Pump Project, The Museum of Human Achievement, Wurhaus, The Gatehouse Gallery at Laguna Gloria, inside private homes, numerous big box and department stores, and on internet platforms such as Tumblr, Flickr, Vine, Facebook, and Instagram.
