Anney Bonney

Born in the Midwest, Anney Bonney escaped from Wellesley College to live in a treehouse on Kauai before a stint in Rio, settling down in New York as an artist for the last 25 years+ where she is a painter and experimental film maker. She was also a contributing Arts Editor at Bomb Magazine. Her collaboration with Kitchen music curator Ben Neill resulted in the video "Moon Charms" (mix by D.J. Spooky), was commissioned by the Rio Cine Festival and selected as best experimental short in the Houston Festival, was one of five works streamed for the worldís first Internet Film Festival held by Time Warner in 1997, went to the Berlin Film Festivalís Transmediale at Podewil, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and toured Japan in the Image Forum Festival (summer 2001). Her DVD, Suspended Frequencies, (interactive sound by Liz Phillips) was featured as a special event installation at the Lincoln Center Video Festival. Her video and interactive sound installation collaboration with Liz Phillips, "Shaded Bandwidths", premiered in June and July at the Anchorage under the Brooklyn Bridge (sponsored by Creative Time with support from NYSCA and Franklin Furnace).
In 2002, her video, Cascadence (sounds by Holland Hopson) won the Grand Prize for Animation at the Rutgers University Film and Video Festival. Her video, "In A Waken" (excerpt from Root of an Unfocus by John Cage, performed by Anthony de Mare) was selected by the IFP/West LA Film Festival, transmitted via the Fluxus Festival in Brazil. Her rendition of Meredith Monkís Double Fiesta (also performed by de Mare) premiered at Taos Talking Pictures Festival in April and the Tribeca Film Festival in May. Summer of 2002 her video "Tantric Transformation" was presented at the Sonology Conference in Melbourne, Australia, Edinburgh and Paris. She teaches Video Art in the College of Art & Design @ SUNY Purchase. Always pleased to be included in Davidís Unity Gain experiments....ya