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| [Nettime-bold] "NO SENSORS" Monday April 9, (7-9pm) @ FUN, NYC |
===== Cristine Wang NY ARTS Magazine 46 Mercer St. 7Fl NYC 10013 tel: 212-274-8993 fax: 226-3400 email: Nyartsmaga@aol.com website: http://www.nyartsmagazine.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/Title: No Sensors a symposium on Mainstream Technophilia vs. Radical Critical Practise
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Monday, April 9 (7-9 pm) @ FUN, 130 Madison Street, New York City / F-train to East Broadway / Lower East Side "NO
SENSORS": a symposium on [Mainstream Technophilia vs
keynote
speakers:
organised
by: CRISTINE WANG
"No Sensors" a symposium on Mainstream Technophilia vs. Radical Critical Practise brings together a notable group practising within the field of emerging media technologies, who are committed to the opposition of a simple acceptance of popular notions of art-making practise, but rather, propose a critical investigation into the socio-economic, political and ideological ramifications of global information structure systems, wherein: "the medium is NOT the message"....
Natalie Bookchin: "Computer Games, Virtual Pets + the Net" is a two-part project that addresses the politically volatile subjects of genetics + biotechnology. "In this work, I do my best to avoid quiet artistic contemplation of ethical issues + the pros + cons of genetic research while for-profit scientists + their corporate backers get on with their business." Natalie
Bookchin is an artist who works with the net, computer games + other unpopular
art forms. She lives in L.A. + is a member of the faculty at CalArts.
Her new project in development is "Man-ALife", an on-line virtual human
pet game + a PR campaign/art project called "BioTaylorism". Recent projects
also include organizing <net.net.net>, an eight month series of lectures
and workshops at CalArts, MoCA, L.A. + Laboratorio Cinematek in Tijuana,
México, + "Street Action on the Superhighway" a series about the
spaces between art + activism, + between the streets + the net <www.street-action.net>.
She has been a part of the collective RTMark <rtmark.com> + has
collaborated on projects with artists including Alexei Shulgin, Heath Bunting,
Jin Lee + Lev Manovich. She exhibits her work + lectures regularly
throughout Europe + the US. Her work is frequently covered in national
+ int'l journals including NY Times, Art Forum, El Pais, + the BBC
on line. In 1999-2000 she received grants for project development
from Creative Capital, Creative Time, Walker Art Center/Jerome Foundation,
MECAD/the Media Center of Art + Design in Barcelona, the Andy Warhol Foundation
+ the Daniel Langlois Foundation.
Marina Grzinic: "Troubles with Life + the Internet" Marina Grzinic will speak about her collaborative project with Aina Smid for the world wide web: "Axis of life", and about 0100101110101101.org’s project: "life_sharing" (commisioned by the Walker Art Center). She will discuss relations of narration on the Internet and radical criticism. Marina Grzinic, philosopher, media artist, and curator from Slovenia, works at the Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana. She is taking part in the Apex Art Residency Program from April 1 to 30. Marina
Grzinic has written 5 books. Her last book is Fiction Reconstructed.
Eastern Europe, Post-Socialism and the Retro-Avant-Garde (Vienna: Edition
selene in collaboration with Springerin, Vienna, 2000). In
the year 2000 some of her essays were published in the following books:
Grzinic, “Exposure Time, the Aura, and Telerobotics" in The Robot in
the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet,
ed. Ken Goldberg (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000); Grzinic, "Strategies
of Visualisation and the Aesthetics of Video in the New Europe" in Culture
and Technology in the New Europe: Civic Discourse in Transformation in
Post-Communist Nations, ed. Laura Lengel (London: Ablex Publishing
Company, 2000); Grzinic’ s text Spectralization of Europe is included
in The Net_Condition: Art and Global Media, eds., Peter Weibel
and Timothy Druckrey, MIT press, 2000.
Jenny
Marketou:
Since 1995 she has been working in different media, including photography,video, video events involving dj’s + performers, public performances, web-based telepresence environments + networking technologies. Her multimedia web-based environment, "Smellbytes.Tm", has been exhibited internationally, including such venues as: Tribes Gallery, NY (Dystopia + Identity in the Age of Global Communications); The Swiss Institute, NY ("Tenacity"); Cal Arts + Moca, LA, ("<Net.Net.Net>"); and ZKM, Karlsruhe,Germany, ("Net_Condition"), Her work, "Translocal: Camp in My Tent", an interactive video and telepresence networked environment has been exhibited at Witte de With, Rotterdam,1996 (Manifesta I) and Art + Idea, Mexico City, among others locations. "@Electric Eve", an interactive video installation was part of “Women and the Art of Multimedia,” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Invencao, Sao Paulo and at the Viper Film + New Media Festival among others. She co-organized along w/ Steve Dietz (Walker Art Center), the "Open Source Lounge", Medi@terra 2000 Festival Athens, Greece. She has also received numerous grants and residencies including the Banff Center for the Arts,1997, Banff, Canada; and most recently the International Artists Residency OMI, 2000 ,New York and the MECAD Research Grant,2000-2001, Barcelona, Spain,for her web based project “ Z_neeferGale.com”.
Alex Galloway (Moderator) is Director of Content & Technology at Rhizome.org. He learned computer programming in 1982 on an Apple II+. Since then he has pursued careers in both the humanities and computing sciences. He received a BA in Modern Culture & Media from Brown University (1996), and is working on a PhD in the Literature Program at Duke University. He has written on theoretical issues surrounding digital technologies and is developing new interfaces for navigating information on Rhizome.org. Alex has spoken widely on art and culture, including lectures at the following institutions: ARCO, Ars Electronica, Duke University, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, New Langton Arts, Next 5 Minutes, UC Berkeley, University of South Carolina, and the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM). Alex has also published various texts in journals, books, catalogs, magazines and web 'zines, and is editing the forthcoming Rhizome book. He has worked on several Internet art projects including "Every Image" + "StarryNight", + did the back-end programming on the new Rhizome Generative Logo. He is currently working on a web-based artwork called "Carnivore"--after the FBI software of the same name--that uses packet-sniffing technologies to create vivid depictions of raw data.
Timothy Druckrey (Closing Remarks) Timothy Druckrey is an independent curator, critic and writer concerned with issues of media history, representation, and technology. He has taught in graduate programmes at the International Center of Photography, the School of Visual Arts. He lectures internationally about the cultural impact of digital media, the transformation of representation, + communication in interactive + networked environments. He co-organized the international symposium "Ideologies of Technology" at the Dia Center of the Arts (and co-edited the book available from Bay Press: Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology) and co-curated the exhibition "Iterations: The New Image" at the International Center of Photography + edited the book published by MIT Press. As a theorist of contemporary media, he has curated exhibitions and has contributed extensively to numerous print + net publications, including Artforum, Telepolis, and adaweb. He is currently writing a study of the relationships between technology + photography called Photography, Technology and Representation (forthcoming from Manchester University Press), edited Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation (Aperture) collecting essays on the social impact of digital technology, + working in curatorial collaboratives for exhibitions in New York (Formulations) and Helsinki. He is co-editor, along with Peter Weibel, of net_condition: Art + Global Media (MIT Press / ZKM Karlsruhe,Germany).
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