Title: N e t w o r k A c t i v i t y : at Harvestworks
*For
Immediate Release*
"Network Activity" organised by Cristine Wang (curator new media arts) (Launch of new network projects commissioned by The Alternative Museum) **Monday,
February 12, 2001 (6-8pm)**
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ YAEL
KANAREK:
[Yael Kanarek is a media artist living in New York. "World of Awe" is based on a journal describing the adventures of a traveler in search of lost treasure. World of Awe versions 1995, 1997 and 2000 have been added to Rhizome's Artbase. Ms. Kanarek is an artist-in-residence at Eyebeam Atelier and Harvestworks. She has been showing her online and offline work internationally. "World of Awe" has been included in festivals in Brazil, France, England, Germany and the USA. The "World of Awe" screen saver is available through "Refresh, the art of the screen saver" on artmuseum.net.] TINA
LAPORTA:
[Tina LaPorta is a media artist living in New York. In 1999 she won a commission from Turbulence.org; NY (with funds from The National Endowment for the Arts) to produce an online project entitled "Distance" which was selected as a semi-finalist in the Global Information Infrastructure (Gii) Award in the Arts + Culture category. As an Artist in Residence at Ars Electronica: Future Lab; Linz, Austria, she created her first online work: "Traces". Recent exhibitions include "Technically Engaged" show at AIR Gallery, NYC and "Dystopia and Identity in the Age of Global Communications," exhibition at Tribes Gallery in NYC.] JENNIFER
+ KEVIN MCCOY:
[Jennifer and Kevin McCoy are varied media artists living in New York. Group exhibitions include "Greater New York" at P.S.1, "Tenacity" at the Swiss Institute, "The Art Entertainment Network" at the Walker Arts Center. Int'l arts festivals include: Poland, Japan, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Holland. In 1999 they received a NYFA grant in computer arts, a Jerome grant through the Walker Arts Center, and were artists in residence at the Worldviews program at the World Trade Center and Harvestworks Media Center. Articles about their work have appeared in Spin Magazine, Feed, and The Independent.] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The
TAM Digital Media Commissions
Committee members for Digital Media Commissions 2000: Edward Earl (Curator of Digital Media, International Center for Photography); Marcus Pinto (Artist/TAM Webmaster); Cristine Wang (Curator New Media Arts) ; and Virgil Wong, (Artist & Webmaster for Cornell Medical Center). Digital Media Commissions 2000 was generously funded with support from the Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City with a Cultural Challenge Grant; and from the Electronic Media & Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts. <www.alternativemuseum.org> Harvestworks
Digital Media Art Center
The Harvestworks DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CATALOGUE features biographical information and work samples from composers + visual artists. LISTEN IN: Special presentations of new music technology, Artists in Residence projects, and works by other media artists using technology. TELLUS MEDIA is a series of innovative + experimental sound works produced and/or distributed by Harvestworks on cassette, CD + CD-ROM. Harvestworks' programs provide the artist with production studios, grant opportunities, education, communal lab practice and distribution. <www.harvestworks.org> Cristine
Wang (Curator New Media Arts)
Streaming video interviews w/ contemporary artists include: Granular Synthesis (by Mark Dery, as part of "Art In the Anchorage 2000 series" produced by Creative Time, Altoids + Rhizome.org), GH Hovagimyan, and Jonas Mekas (in production): <http://ova.zkm.de>. Future upcoming projects/collaborations include: Art Editor for Tribes Magazine (Issue 10) (a literary + arts journal available at the MoMA, Whitney, ICA Bookstores); Co-Curator w/Mark Amerika and Alt-X "Histories of Net.art: Fictions + Factions" an online + offline exhibition tracing the fictional + real histories of art-making on the world wide web; online + offline collaborations w/ NY Arts Magazine International, and 450 Broadway Gallery, New York. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: CAROL PARKINSON
CRISTINE WANG
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