September 1, 2006 Turbulence Commission: "THE ESSENCE OF A NATION: CHINESE VIRTUAL PERSONS ON THE NET" by XiaoQian http://turbulence.org/Works/XiaoQian/ [needs Macromedia Flash Player plugin; Internet Explorer 5+, Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0+, or Safari 1.0+]
My name is XiaoQian, I am an artist and I create virtual persons online. For this website I created 6 chinese virtual persons: Mu Yuming a painter, Shaxpir a hip-hop singer, Wang Shy a ghost in a traditional garden, He Zhengjun a carpenter working with wood and text, Yi Zhe a guest in a wedding and myself XiaoQian. My e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] "THE ESSENCE OF A NATION: CHINESE VIRTUAL PERSONS ON THE NET" is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. BIOGRAPHY XiaoQian is a Chinese artist. Her art is to create virtual persons online. She has also designed herself as a virtual person. Her real life identity may never be disclosed. Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
