Full Name Synne T. Bull and Dragan Miletic Notable work "You Are Here", "The Island of Pelicans", "Par hasard", "Heaven Can Wait", "Ferriscope" Awards The Bay Area Award, New Langton Arts; Video Maker Award, Bay Area Video Coalition; The Norwegian Video Award, Oslo Screen Festival Education San Francisco Art Institute Known for Contemporary art, Video art, Video installation | ||
Synne T. Bull (Norwegian, born 1973) and Dragan Miletic (American, born Yugoslavia 1970) are two visual artists who work together as a collaborative duo called Bull.Miletic. Bull.Miletic produce "film- and video-based installations that link the mediating effect of cinema with urban spaces." Bull.Miletic often invent or repurpose recording techniques and projection mechanisms.
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Short biography
Synne T. Bull is currently a PhD Research Fellow at IMK, University of Oslo. Bull holds an BFA and MFA in New Genres form San Francisco Art Institute and an MA in Art History from University of Oslo. Bull is a professor of contemporary art at Nordland Kunst- og Filmfagskole and was a professor of art at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2009-2015).
Dragan Miletic is currently an Artistic Research Fellow at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Miletic received MFA in New Genres at San Francisco Art Institute and BFA at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Novi Sad.
Bull and Miletic met at San Francisco Art Institute where they began to work as Bull.Miletic in 2000. They currently live and work in Oslo, Norway.
Exhibitions
Bull.Miletic have shown internationally at venues including Venice Biennale, California Biennial, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Victorian Arts Center, Melbourne, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade. Their work has been reviewed in Artforum, Aftenposten, Billedkunst, Kunstkritikk, Mousse Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, and Rhizome among others. Bull.Miletic's work is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery.
Awards and grants
Bull.Miletic were the recipients of the Bay Area Video Coalition's Video Maker Award, Oslo Screen Festival's Best Norwegian Video Award and have received professional grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Arts Council Norway, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Office for Contemporary Art Norway and CEC ArtsLink among others. They lectured in programs such as Art, Technology, and Culture Lecture Series, at the University of California Berkeley in 2011 and SCMS Annual Conference 2013 Chicago. Their work has been nominated for Rockefeller Media Art Award as well as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's SECA Art Award. They were artists in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2003, at Künstlerhause Bethanien Berlin in 2004, at Nordic Artists’ Center Dale in 2006, and at Cité internationale des arts Paris in 2007.
Related activities
Bull.Miletic initiated and organized several exhibitions including Net.Film in 2002 and the Urban Images symposium at Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2010, documented in the volume Urban Images: Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture published by Sternberg press in 2011. In 2012 they were Visiting Artists at the Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago and were part of the art research project "re:place" in association with Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and The Grieg Academy, which culminated in the survey exhibition This Must be the Place. Currently they are working on a joint art research project entitled Aerial View in Motion.