Hi Lauren
I felt guilty about not replying to this for ages but I couldn't think of
*anything* teenager related, which says quite a lot about me , I think.
Ruth's reply prompted me think a bit harder and I remembered Michael Daines who
was a bit of a star on Rhizome as a teenager in the 2001 or so. The one that
people remember is "the body of michael daines" but he also made a couple of
other good things including a rather droll work called "it is now safe to turn
off your computer" . There's a Rhizome memory lane editorial here:
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2707
I couldn't find any of the actual pieces though..
hope it's all going well!
michael
--- On Mon, 5/31/10, Ruth Catlow <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Ruth Catlow <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Media Art and Teenage
To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity"
<[email protected]>
Cc: "LWright" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, May 31, 2010, 1:15 PM
Hi Lauren,
Sorry for the tardy reply
Been meaning to get back to you with a few suggestions.
Jeanie finlay makes beautiful work (film, live, networked media, all sorts)
with different groups of people Including this, Teenland, film
http://www.jeaniefinlay.com/wordpress/?p=3
Classic early (and controversial) netart notable for it's uncomfortable
intimacy and heat
http://www.mouchette.org/
I found this on Turbulence---Beyond the Fire is an interactive documentary by
Sesh Kannan which tells the stories of teenage war refugees and their journeys
to the U.S. http://archive.itvs.org/beyondthefire/
Although this probably wouldn't make ideal gallery viewing, an online component
of this nature might connect with the experience of a section of local Margate
teenagers. Could be a great spur for work with the gallery education/outreach
programme
An old favourite of mine is Boys in the Hood - video, Axel Stockburger
http://art-action.org/proposition/catalogue/detail_cat.php?codeoeuvre=B13152&lang=en&qui=reali&oeuvre=B13152
"interviews with players of the controversial computer game "Grand Theft Auto".
The players deliver their perspective of the narrative space of the game by
giving detailed descriptions of locations, movements, and actions in the game.
These subjective accounts of a shared space lead to a diffusion of the borders
between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’."
This from the 2008 Whitney Bienniale sounded pretty spectacular
http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=events&page=at_park_performances
Teenage Lontano
Marina Rosenfield invited 40 teenagers to engage in a musical performance.
Under a speaker installation suspended overhead in the vast Drill hall, each
teenager wears a set of headphones and mp3 player containing an original vocal
score, derived from Gyorgy Ligeti's 1967 piece Lontano for orchestra. As the
choir performs Rosenfeld's "cover version" of the Ligeti work, electronic
sounds sweep in circles around the architecture of the drill hall from a single
horn rotating, like a turntable, at 33 1/3 r.p.m.
David Valentine (Mediashed) - Video Sniffing
Commercial (made using hacked CCTV footage) around Southend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRQjLRm1xD8
and
The Duelists (cctv freerunning film) made in Manchester's Arndale Centre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwueQrsTxXM&feature=related
Golan Levin Kamal Nigam ,Jonathan Feinberg Dumpster(visualization of online
teenage breakup texts)
http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/bvs/thedumpster.htm
Hope these are helpful. It's a great subject for a show.
: )
Ruth
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Subject: [NetBehaviour] Media Art and Teenage
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:29:46 +0100
Hello NetBehaviourists,
For those who don’t recognise my name, I’m a former full-fledged Furtherfielder
(Assistant Director and Co-Curator of HTTP) who is now in a new role, but still
an adjunct of sorts, and very much (perhaps more than I knew!) a Furtherfielder
at heart.
I’ve been a NetBehaviour lurker and sometime-participant for a long time now –
I hope you don’t mind my calling on you for some help. I know this is a forum
where an interesting discussion might arise… So here goes…
My new role is Curator at Turner Contemporary, an arts organisation in Margate,
Kent soon (next year) to open a new gallery. The first big project I’m really
getting stuck into is a major exhibition now called Teenage, which will open
next summer. It will examine how Teenage – principally as a complex experience
with an ambivalent rap in contemporary culture – has been represented in art
since about 1900. It will also consider ‘Teenage’ as a concept with an
interesting and compelex history, resulting in the ambivalence we now have as a
culture toward young people – we both envy them for their youth, and media and
capitalism do all they can to exploit that image, but we also collectively fear
them (if the press ‘they’ get is any indication…)
The project arose from lots of really good work they’ve been doing here long
before my time with both young people and older people reflecting on their own
experiences as teenagers. For those who don’t know it, Margate is now quite a
deprived town so many of their experiences are quite difficult, but it also has
a really interesting history wrt teenage – many people from all over the
country will have spent holidays here in their youth, and it became quite
famous as a place for different groups like Mods and Rockers to hang out (and
sometimes fight!). So many people have much more positive memories and
associations.
The show will probably include artworks but also other stuff like music,
photographs, etc. I’m very very keen that it include some great media art works
and have been doing some research, but wondered if anyone had made, seen or
knew of any thing, recent or not so recent, that might be relevant for me to
look at.
I’m also happy to hear your thoughts on the project generally, or your
reflections on the idea of ‘teenage’. It’s quite a tricky project to put
together as a curator, esp as it’s being led by someone from our learning team.
It needs to be relevant to lots of different audiences – local, regional,
national, international – but I don’t want it to be anything like a dry
historical survey. So, any and all thoughts very much appreciated!
Best to all,
Lauren
Lauren A Wright
Curator
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