[Nettime-bold] Shu Lea Chang's new project

[diane ludin <duras@thing.net>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 14, 2001

"Baby Play" premiers at  NTT/InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo
A new Net installation by Shu Lea Cheang

June 22-July 29, 2001

For more information about "Baby Play," please visit:
http://www.ntticc.or.jp

To participate in "Baby Play," please visit:
http://babyplay.ntticc.or.jp

"Baby Play" interlinks a large-scale foosball field ("Baby Play" is
derived
from the French name for foosball, "baby foot") with the Net as a
ME-motion
(memory-emotion) playing field.  "Baby Play" is installation 1.0 of
Cheang's "Locker Baby" project (2001-2002), which features three Net
installations based on a fictional scenario set in the year 2030.
Produced
by the Dolly Polly Transgency (DPT) with genes extracted from deep sea
pearls, the clone generation of Locker Babies are born out of Tokyo coin

lockers and entrusted to retrieve our collective deposits of ME-motion
data
on the Net.

"Baby Play" is comprised of an immense foosball playing field (15m x
7.5m),
22  inflatable designer locker babies (140cm in height), 8 playing rods
(5m
in length), a large-scale projection and a "Baby Play" website.  As
local
gallery participants engage in a game of  foosball, the image of the
ball
bouncing in the actual playing field is sent to the ME-motion virtual
field
on the Net.  The movement of the ball in the actual playing field is
tracked by 36 touch sensors and sent to the "Baby Play" website where
the
virtual moving ball retrieves sound and text files as ME-motion data.
The
public is invited to utilize the 36 virtual lockers for data deposit and
to
play ball on the Net.

Cheang, recognized internationally as one of the leading artists
creating
works that link physical and online spaces, has previously exhibited at
two
Whitney Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Taipei
Biennale 2000, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; ICC Biennale 1997,
InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo,  and created the Guggenheim
Museum's first web based art project, entitled"Brandon."
Baby Play is curated by Hisanori Gogota at NTT[ICC].
For further information contact:
Hisanori Gogota <gogota@ntticc.or.jp>
or Julia Friedman <Info@juliafriedman.com>


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