>Subject: Dia Center for the Arts >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Dia Center for the > Arts > > 2/16/2000 > > Gary Simmons: Wake > A Project for the Web at Dia Center for the Arts > > On February 16, 2000, Gary Simmons will launch a project for the world > wide web, > entitled Wake, the twelfth in Dia's series of artists' projects for > the web. The address for > the project is http://www.diacenter.org/simmons. > > For Wake, his first project for the web, Gary Simmons has photographed > empty ballrooms > and other dance spaces redolent of an earlier era. As the viewer moves > the mouse over the > screen, image fragments appear then quickly fade, making it impossible > to view any of his > nine haunting scenes in its entirety and at one time. Mediated by a > soundtrack comprised > of the humming of old but well-known songs that are still popular > favorites, these sites > seem generated as much by involuntary memory as by technical > intervention. As with > Simmons' earlier work, including his chalk drawings and more recently > his photographs of > pedagogical spaces, absence and the ephemeral are as palpably charged > as what is present > and lasting. > > > Previous projects which can still be visited on Dia's website include > Francis Al�s' The > Thief, Arturo Herrera's Almost Home, Diller + Scofidio's Refresh, > Kristin Lucas's > Between a Rock and a Hard Drive, Claude Closky's Do you want love or > lust?, Tim > Rollins and K.O.S.'s Prometheus Bound, Cheryl Donegan's Studio Visit, > and Molissa > Fenley's Latitudes. > > > > > > > >......................... > > http://www.e-flux.com > > > > >To be removed from the e-flux mailing list write to [EMAIL PROTECTED], >please include the word "unsubscribe" in the subject field.
