*For Immediate Release*
Defining Lines:
<Breaking Down Borders>
curated by Cristine Wang
http://cristine.org/borders
August 24-26, 2001
Borderhack 2.0 <Delete the Border>
organised by Fran Ilich
a camp at the US-Mexico Border
http://de-lete.tv/borderhack
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**Participating Artists**
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Mark Amerika
Betty Beaumont
C5 Corp
David Crawford
Douglas Davis
Andy Deck
Electronic Disturbance Theater(EDT)
Epidemic-C / 0100101110101101.ORG
Fakeshop
Peter Fend
Joy Garnett
Paul Garrin
Marina Grzinic & Aina Smid
Wenda Gu
Ingo Gunther
Fran Ilich
I/O/D
Irational.org
Jodi.org
Eduardo Kac
Yael Kanarek
Knowbotic Research
Tina LaPorta
Jenny Marketou
Jennifer + Kevin McCoy
Emil Memon
MEZ (aka Mary-Anne Breeze)
Mark Napier
Netochka Nezvanova
Marko Peljhan
RTMark
Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud)
Linus Torvalds
Stephen Vitiello
Ade Ward
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**Essays**
"Bandwidth in the Context of Contemporary Art"
an interview with Catherine David by Marleen
Stikker
"The Work of Art in the Age of Digital
Reproduction"
by Douglas Davis
"Who does the Internet serve?"
by the Electrohippies Collective
"Troubles with Life + the Internet"
by Marina Grzinic
"Negotiating Meaning: the Dialogic Imagination in
Electronic Art"
by Eduardo Kac
"Code as Law"
a presentation by Lawrence Lessig
"Database as a Symbolic Form"
by Lev Manovich
"Z-niffing the net: Hacking and Hacktivism"
by Jenny Marketou
"On Electronic Civil Disobedience"
by Stefan Wray
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**Intro statement by the curator, Cristine Wang**
This exhibition will attempt to present a
comprehensive survey of the work of artists who
are
breaking down the borders or boundaries that
define artistic practise in the 21st century.
From the computer DESKTOP, to DOWNLOADABLE
COMPUTER VIRUSES, OPEN SOURCE AND CODE
CRACKING SOFTWARE, and E-BOOKS, to
ALTERNATIVE NETWORK BROWSERS,
OPERATING SYSTEMS and
SHAREWARE/FREEWARE, DOMAIN NAME
SERVERS, to GAMING PATCHES, LISTSERVS,
ONLINE THEATER (in the form of activism, or
ELECTRONIC PROTEST)--what constitutes "ART" is
being
re-defined as EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES and mediums
are
giving artists the "TOOLS" and a new means of
expression. In addition, our notions
or definitions of the tangible, physical "BORDER"
"TERRITORY" or
"OWNERSHIP/PROPERTY" is being transformed in the
virtual realm
of cyberspace. The idea of territory becomes one
of "INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY" and "COPYRIGHT/LEFT". Geopolitical,
and
topographical territories are being replaced with
domain of the Corporations and Governmental
Agencies (ICANN) who control the "space" of the
World Wide Web. Borders
existing on the network, tracing the idea of
"open" borders vs. "closed" borders, similarly we
look at "firewalls", "encryption", "carnivore";
in contrast to "open source",
"General Public License" (and therefore the ideas
of
"authorship") "sharing of files", "data
transfer". The "SERVER" or "HARD
DRIVE" as the new territory where "HACKING" and
"ART" exchange
fertile ground in the realm of the digital
NETWORK we know as the Internet.
Artists and Activists have their say in the wide
open territory of the WWW, creating a hybrid
art form called "PRACTIVISM" (--Paul Garrin).
Hackers and Activists merge
and become "HACKTIVISTS" (--Electronic
Disturbance Theater). A new form
of electronic theater or digital performance art
is developing, that of the Online Protest, or
"VIRTUAL SIT-IN".
At the beginning of the 21st century, we see that
the words of Joseph Beuys has its corollary
in the electronic realm:
"...Social Sculpture--how we mold
and shape the world in which we
live: SCULPTURE AS AN
EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; EVERYONE IS
AN ARTIST...All around us the
fundamentals of life are crying
out to be shaped, or created."
[--Joseph Beuys]
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view the exhibition online at:
http://cristine.org/borders
For more information contact:
Cristine Wang (curator) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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