Eng Angie

Angie Eng born in 1969 in San Francisco California. In 1993 she moved to New York City to pursue her career in live video art. During this time she became involved in the downtown electronic arts scene and has collaborated on numerous time-based performance projects. She co-founded The Poool a live video/music performance group with Nancy Meli Walker and Benton Bainbridge in 1996-1999. Her work has been performed as live video and screened at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, Lincoln Center Video Festival, Champ Libre-Montreal, Lillenium, The Kitchen (NYC) The New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC), Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, Roulette and Experimental Intermedia. She received numerous awards and commissions including: Manhattan Cultural Council grant, Harvestworks, a Jerome Foundation Centennial Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, Experimental Television Center and from private foundations. In the Fall 2005 with a sponsorship she travelled to Niger to shoot video of the Tuared nomads for an upcoming video project, Radial Routes.