Biography
Some Background Info to Ground Your Visit
Pravin Sathe holds a Master's degree ('08) from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. He presented his Master's Thesis, "Suspended on a Road from Here to There" on 8 May 2008. A graduate of New York University's College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) he received his B.A. in 2003, double majoring in Politics and Economics.
He is a former NYC Teaching Fellow, teaching mathematics at Washington Irving High School from 2003 to 2005. He has written for Pop + Politics dot com, Wiretap and NY Arts Magazine on issues ranging from copyright law, technology and its effect on society to politics and the arts.
He continues to work with the video artist Tony Oursler on special projects. Their last collaboration was an online catalogue of Mr. Oursler's Studio: Seven Months of My Aesthetic Education (Plus Some) which debuted at the d'Orsay in Paris, France and traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC (Pravin was also a participant in the piece). His website for Mr. Oursler's career work was featured at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is also a collaborator with the Dia Art Foundation on their web projects which most recently culminated with the launch of Rosa Barba's Vertiginous Mapping.
Together with Mary Guiteras and Dodd Loomis, he founded SOLID HANG in early 2001. SOLID HANG produces work that is cooperatively built. SOLID HANG's most recent work was Sam Shepard's La Turista and Terrence McNally's Bringing It All Back Home. Between these two large productions, SOLID HANG also created a storytelling series that featured multiple artists. It ran for three episodes in New York City.
His own work has been displayed at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Brookhaven, New York, ITP and the CUNY Grad Center. His work has also been featured on infosthetics, We Make Money Not Art, Core77 and BlackBook Magazine Online. He is the recipient of the Tisch School of Arts (TSoA) Graduate Scholarship and the 2007-2008 May and Samuel Rudin Scholarship.