Emine Mira Ava Hunter (née Burke) is an often-nomadic visual artist, born in Vancouver. She is a second-generation whirling dervish, an environmentalist, an optimist and she loves music, knitting and her disaster stray calico, Burak. She has spent the last decade touring the world at large with Mercan Dede, and is one of the original members of his performance ensemble Secret Tribe. She graduated from NSCAD University in Halifax, where she fell in love with her magnificent husband and primary collaborator, fellow visual artist Derek Hunter. She was awarded the Ellen Battell Stoeckel fellowship to study at Yale University, where she met Mary Mattingly. In 2009 Mira worked and lived onboard Waterpod™ project in New York City with Mary and Derek, among other artists, engineers and visionaries. She is currently pursuing her MFA at Columbia University in New York.
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>>Time Piece 2011 from Mira Hunter on Vimeo. "(Time Piece) captures the fleeting nature of transformation by arresting and reanimating time." -Anna Craycroft, curator. This is a video excerpt from an installation of the same name. The work documents a series of glass explosions captured using a custom bullet time ring of 35 mm film tourist cameras. Special thanks to Sally Burke and John Greig. <top>
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>>Maybe it was the inspiring Columbia University campus life, but I produced a perfectly robust baby girl. After 56+ hours of labour at home (mostly) in our little oceanside cottage in British Columbia, Ora Mae Pamuk Hunter was born at 11:20 am Wednesday July 6th 2011, surprising all the staff at our local rural hospital at 10 lbs 10 oz. We are all doing really well. <top>
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>>In relation to her recent series of self destructing postcards, Mira Hunter created the short video The Tear Collector for a greeting card that ever so slowly cries itself into oblivion. Special thanks to Derek Hunter for all his help, and to Marina Abramovic for making eating an onion look so effortless. <top>
The Tear Collector, 2011 from Mira Hunter on Vimeo
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>>The Hunters have been invited to present their 65 camera ring projects at Dorkbot, the international lecture series dedicated to People Doing Strange Things With Electricity. The 30230223rd Dorkbot NYC meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 at Location One in SoHo. The meeting is free and open to the public. PLEASE BRING SNACKS AND DRINKS TO SHARE! All I can say is, I really want a Dorkbot T Shirt.
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>>'MIRA HUNTER captures the fleeting nature of transformation by arresting and reanimating time. To create her video Time Piece, Hunter ste up a ring of 65 cameras to simultaneously photograph a gas bomb explosion in the round. The images were then compiled to create a stop motion animation that apprehends the fullness of change in each still moment.' - Anna Craycroft, excerpt from the exhibition catalogue. Review in the Columbia Spectator >>
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