Whistlegraph is composed of artists Jeffrey Scudder, Camille Klein, and Alex Freundlich, who draw, sing, and make videos together. The group formed during the 2020 pandemic in a cabin in Ashland, Oregon, which remains their creative base. Over the past few years, they have honed a distinctive style and practice that speaks to embodied cognition, art education, and experimental composition for live performance.
The group’s TikTok @whistlegraph is an important platform for their work, where they regularly engage with their 2.2 million current followers. Whistlegraph has also toured, performed, and led educational workshops at Kunstverein Hamburg (Germany), Rhizome, The Schneider Museum of Art (Ashland, OR), Oneroom Gallery (Providence, RI), Willem de Kooning Acadamie (Rotterdam, Netherlands), OCCII (Amsterdam, Netherlands), and the Banana School (Bananskole; Copenhagen, Denmark).
Jeffrey Scudder (b. 1989) is an artist, coder, gamer, and educator from Assonet, MA, who received a BFA from Ringling College of Art + Design (2011) and an MFA in Sculpture at the Yale School of Art (2013). He has given performance lectures and taught courses about media art, software, and human-computer interaction at UCLA, the Parsons New School for Design, and as an assistant professor of emerging media and digital art at Southern Oregon University. He also keynoted India HCI and Korea HCI in 2019.
Camille Klein (b. 1996) is a visual artist from Portland, Oregon. She found her expressive voice making collages as an illustrator for the alt teen magazine Rookie from 2013-2015. At Oberlin College, where she received a BA in studio art (2018), she started making sculptures, textiles, and paintings. Her work develops new relationships between shapes, materialities, and terrains of emotional experience.
Alex Freundlich (b. 1997) is an artist, musician, and snail breeder (heliciculturalist) from Los Angeles, CA. He received a BA in Studio Art at Oberlin College (2019), and lectured at DWeb Camp and the SF Art Book Fair in 2019. Recently, Freundlich has produced paintings in his exploration of new strategies for making pictures using traditional, digital, and unconventional materials. He makes music under the name Song Hope Spring Book.
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