Synne T. Bull (Norwegian, born 1973) and Dragan Miletic (American, born

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1970) are two

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who work together as a collaborative duo called Bull.Miletic. They are principally known for their

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artworks and contributions in the fields of

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, and

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Short biography

Bull and Miletic met at

San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximatel ...

where they began to work as Bull.Miletic in 2000. Since 2005, Bull.Miletic's work has been represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery. They currently live and work in

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Exhibitions

Bull.Miletic have shown internationally at venues including

Japan Media Arts Festival The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held since 1997 by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. The festival begins with an open competition and culminates with the awarding of several prizes and an exhibition. Based on judging by a ...

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

, California Biennial, WRO Media Art Biennale,

Trondheim Kunstmuseum The Trondheim Art Museum ( no, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, previously ''Trøndelag Kunstgalleri'') is an art museum located in Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The museum shows temporary exhibitions of international and regional art in dia ...

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States. Located in Yerba Buena Gardens, YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that celebrates local, nati ...

, San Francisco, German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin,

Pasadena Museum of California Art The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) was an art museum located in Pasadena, California, United States, showcasing art and design originating from California. The museum was founded by long-time Pasadena residents and art collectors Rober ...

Pacific Film Archive The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA, formerly abbreviated as BAM/PFA) are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and archive associated with the University of California, Berkeley. Lawrence Rinder was Director from ...

, Berkeley, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita,

Henie Onstad Art Center The Henie Onstad Kunstsenter is an art museum located at Høvikodden in Bærum municipality in Viken county, Norway. It is situated on a headland jutting into the Oslofjord, approximately southwest of Oslo. History The artcentre was foun ...

, Høvikodden, and

Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade The Museum of Contemporary Art ( sr, Музеј савремене уметности, Muzej savremene umetnosti) is an art museum located in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 1958 as the Modern Gallery, making if one the first museums of this t ...

. Their work has been reviewed in

Artforum ''Artforum'' is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art. The magazine is distinguished from other magazines by its unique 10½ x 10½ inch square format, with each cover often devoted to the work of an artist. Notably ...

Aftenposten ( in the masthead; ; Norwegian for "The Evening Post") is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 copies in 2015 (172,029 printed copies according to University of Bergen) and estimated 1.2 millio ...

, Billedkunst, Kunstkritikk, Mousse Magazine,

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, and Rhizome among others.

Recognition

Bull.Miletic were the recipients of the Excellence Award at the

, Video Maker Award at the

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, Best Norwegian Video Award at the Oslo Screen Festival 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 The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 2011, SCMS Annual Conference 2013 Chicago and Arts + Design Mondays at

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA, formerly abbreviated as BAM/PFA) are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and archive associated with the University of California, Berkeley. Lawrence Rinder was Director fro ...

in 2017. Their work has been nominated for the Rockefeller Media Art Award as well as

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was ...

SECA Art Award The SECA Art Award is a contemporary art award program that has been organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) and supported by its auxiliary SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) since 1967 to honor San Franc ...

. 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 the

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in Paris in 2007. In 2012, they were Visiting Artists at the Cinema and Media Studies,

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

and in 2017, Bull.Miletic were inaugural Art + Science Artists-in-Residence at

Related activities

Bull.Miletic initiated and curated several exhibitions including ''Net.Film'' in New York. In 2010, they co-organized ''Urban Images'' symposium at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. In 2012, they were part of the art research project "re:place" in association with

Bergen Academy of Art and Design Bergen Academy of Art and Design ( no, Kunst- og designhøgskolen i Bergen) or KHiB was one of two independent and accredited scientific institutions of higher learning in the visual arts and design in Norway (The other is Oslo National Academy ...

, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and The

Grieg Academy The Grieg Academy ( no, Griegakademiet) is a disputed historical term used to refer to the higher education music programs in Bergen, Norway (birthplace of composer Edvard Grieg), as well as various collaborations across music institutions in Bergen ...

, which culminated in the survey exhibition ''This Must be the Place''.

Public collections

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–194 ...

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* Lørenskog kulturhus, Norway

Publications

* "Urban Images: Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture," edited by Synne Bull and Marit Paasche. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2011. * "Cities Reimagined," edited by Bull.Miletic. Novi Sad: Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, 2010. * "Unfinished: Scars of the Past / Face of the Future," edited by Bull.Miletic. Belgrade: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007. * "Bull.Miletic: Slow Seeing," edited by Bull.Miletic. Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2004. * "Bull.Miletic: The Island of Pelicans," edited by Bull.Miletic. Montréal: Centre d'exposition Circa, 2003.

References

External links

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