Biennial of the Americas Denver 2010

The 2010 Biennial of the Americas is an international event that celebrates the culture, ideas and people of the Western Hemisphere, hosted by the City of Denver.

Morgan Packard and Joshue Ott

Birth Year2005
City of OriginHuntington, Indiana and St. Louis, Missouri
City of ResidenceDenver, Colorado and Brooklyn, New York
VenueMcNichols Main Stage: The Nature of Things
StatementAudio-Visual duo Joshue Ott and Morgan Packard's work, while often quite abstract, daring and experimental, is informed by the discipline, structure, and craft of their former study in more traditional art forms — figurative drawing, classical harmony and counterpoint, theater, jazz improvisation. The result is an immersive, engrossing multi-sensory experience with fascinating strength and agility.

Over the past several years, both Ott and Packard have emerged as exciting new voices in the experimental electronica and live cinema scenes, both as individual artists and as a collaborative duo. Recent highlights include performances at prestigious festivals: Mutek (Montreal, Canada), Plateaux (Torun, Poland), Communikey (Boulder, Colorado), a collaborative DVD release: "Unsimulatable", and an iPhone/iPad app: "Thicket".