Annie Ok is a multimedia artist living and working in New York City. Her work is an expression of entropic congruity and organic abstract deconstruction, inspired by nature, science, mathematics, evolution, dysfunction, ambivalence and ambiguity.
She was a long-time senior artist of RUN Collection, a New York based experimental art collaborative founded by Susan Cianciolo which delved into all aspects of creativity: fine art, handwork, fashion, music, film, performance, books, etc. Past collaborators include: Rita Ackerman, Aaron Rose, Mark Gonzalez, Chris Johanson, Tom Sachs, Cheryl Dunn, Terry Richardson, Julian LaVerdiere, Paul Myodaand, Mark Borthwick, Bless, The Purple Institute, Sonic Youth, among many others. RUN Collection has been exhibited at Alleged Gallery, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, and Creative Time's The Anchorage in New York, as well as the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Gallery at the Purple Institute in Paris, and Pitti Imagine in Italy.
Annie Ok's additional past projects include limited edition one-of-a-kind hand-made exhibition books for Alleged Press and the Purple Institute; and collaborations with video artist Doug Aitken for his "loaded 5x" ada'web project for the 1997 Whitney Biennial at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and his "New Sexual City" for the 2006 Guangzhou Triennial at the Guangdong Museum of Art in China.
Co-founder and director of Art Center, a virtual exhibition space showing the work of selective contemporary artists, based in the metaverse Second Life. Art Center's inaugural group show "you are here" set a precedent by showing top NY artists' work in Second Life for the first time. The roster includes those who have shown previously at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Alleged Galleries, Deitch Projects, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Creative Time's The Brooklyn Anchorage, Bronwyn Keenan, American Fine Arts, Thread Waxing Space, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery & many others worldwide. In May 2007, Art Center presented "Destroy Television", a mixed reality installation by futurist Jerry Paffendorf and metaverse architect Christian Westbrook, curated by and in collaboration with Annie Ok. This exhibition occurred simultaneously in Second Life at Art Center as well as in NYC at Fuse Gallery. In June 2007, Art Center presented the Second Life premiere of "77 Million Paintings" by Brian Eno, in partnership with The Long Now Foundation and blueair.tv. This exhibition happened concurrently with the real world one at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Brian Eno and Alexander Rose's avatar sculptures were created by Annie Ok.
Founder of metacollaborative, creative innovators coming together for life enhancing projects.
Annie Ok is a Creative Consultant to MTV Networks on their virtual worlds initiative. She was Metaverse Evangelist to MTV's virtual world vLES, the virtual Lower East Side, which is currently in alpha.
Directed, produced and wrote machinima videos for MTV. Co-directed a documentary for Eyebeam's Invisible Threads mixed reality project, in collaboration with artists Jeff Crouse and Stephanie Rothenberg. Conceptualized and assistant directed videos for Nokia, in collaboration with GH avisualagency. Recently directed the video for Iron Man in Second Life.
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