(((REMINDER: ***TONITE AT 6PM!!!)))
*For Immediate Release*
You are invited to attend an OPEN FORUM in conjunction with the exhibition
currently on view at Tribes Gallery through January 13:
"Dystopia + Identity in the Age of Global Communications" curated by Cristine
Wang
http://www.tribes.org/dystopia
**DYSTOPIA + IDENTITY PANEL DISCUSSION:
“ON THE PRESENTATION OF ONLINE ART IN PHYSICAL SPACE”**
**SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 2001 (6-8PM)**
TRIBES GALLERY 285 EAST THIRD STREET 2FL NEW YORK CITY (btw Avenue C and D) F
train to 2nd Avenue (East Village)
A small panel of 9 presenters (artists, critics, curators) will discuss the
problematics of the presentation of online work in physical space.
Panelists: ANDY DECK, RICARDO DOMINGUEZ, JON IPPOLITO, BARBARA LONDON, JENNY
MARKETOU, SAUL OSTROW, CHRISTIANE PAUL, HELEN THORINGTON, MARK TRIBE, AND
MACIEJ WISNIEWSKI.
Panelists will each give a 10 minute verbal presentation. A question + answer
period will follow. All presentations will be to a live audience and will be
videotaped and archived for web streaming at a later date on
http://netart-init.org
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**AFTERPARTY!!!**
please join us for a drink + some new media chat in front of the fireplaces
with the panelists: andy deck, ricardo dominguez, jon ippolito, jenny
marketou, barbara london, saul ostrow, christiane paul, helen thorington,
mark tribe and maciej wisniewski on:
**Saturday, January 6 (8-10 pm)**
NO MALICE PALACE
197 E 3rd Street
(btw Avenue A and B)
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++ ABOUT THE PANELISTS: ANDY
DECK: makes public art for the Internet that resists generic categorization:
collaborative drawing spaces, game-like search engines, problematic
interfaces, informative art. Deck has made art software since 1990, initially
using it to produce short films. Since 1994, he has worked with the Web using
the sites artcontext.com and andyland.net. An avid critic of corporate
culture and militarism, Deck's hybrid news-art projects have addressed a
variety of issues that are regularly misrepresented in the mass media. In the
interest of preserving this available alternative media, and sensing the
drift of the Internet toward a marketing and entertainment medium, he has
allied himself with open source software developers, optimizing his work for
use with the Linux operating system, and publishing source code for much of
his software. His works have been exhibited at: Art on the Net (Machida City
Museum, Tokyo), Net_Condition (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany), War Bulletin Board
(Postmaster's Gallery, NYC), Graffic Jam (Thing.net, NYC) 1998 Prix Ars
Electronica (Linz, Austria), Mac Classics (Postmaster's Gallery, NYC). Andy
studied for a Post-diplôme, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts
Décoratifs, Paris; and received his MFA in Computer Art at School of Visual
Arts, NYC. He has taught at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo,
Sarah Lawrence College, and New York University. Currently he teaches at the
School of Visual Arts. For more info: http://www.artcontext.com
RICARDO DOMINGUEZ: is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater
(EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit In technologies in 1998 in
solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He is Senior
Editor of The Thing (bbs.thing.net). A former member of Critical Art Ensemble
(1987 to 1994 - developers of the theory of Electronic Civil Disobedience in
the late 80's). Currently a Fake_Fakeshop Worker (www.fakeshop.com), a hybrid
performance group, presented at the Whitney Biennial 2000. Ricardo has
collaborated on a number of international net_art projects: with Francesca da
Rimini on Dollspace (www.thing.net/~dollyoko), the Aphanisis Project with
Diane Ludin. Artificial_Geographic with Fakeshop at Next5Minutes, and
distributedhuman.net a recombinant project with net.artist Zhang Ga. He also
presented EDT's SWARM action at Ars Electronica's InfoWar Festival in 1998
(Linz, Austria). His first digital zapatismo project was in 1996 - 97, a
three month RealVideo/Audio network project: The Zapatista/Port Action at
(MIT). His essays have appeared at Ctheory (www.ctheory.org) and recently an
article in "Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas," (Routledge,
2000), edited by Coco Fusco. He Edited EDT's forthcoming book Hacktivism:
network_art_activism, (Autonomedia Press, 2001). For more info:
www.thing.net/~rdom
JON IPPOLITO: is part of the artistic team of Blais/Frank/Ippolito (formerly
Cohen/Frank/Ippolito), and is Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the
Guggenheim Museum, New York. While most other collaborative teams present
their work as a "unified front," Joline Blais, Keith Frank, and Jon Ippolito
create installations, books, and Web projects that emphasize physical,
verbal, or mental struggles among the three
