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An Installation of Web-based Artworks
Curated by J.D. McPherson
Internet art (often called net art) is art that uses the internet as its primary platform. Rather than simply online documentation of artworks, these pieces were created specifically for the internet, and take advantage of one or more of its technological characteristics. This diverse collection of artworks includes code-altered image abstractions, networked performances, interactive websites, and other expressions in this exciting new form. The installation remains on display through March 26 with regular gallery hours after the festival.
J.D. McPherson is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in video, music, installation and any other forms of expression which can best communicate his ideas. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Tulsa in 2008 focusing on Interdisciplinary Art. He is the chair of Living Arts’ New Media Committee, past instructor of Video Art and currently is in charge of technology at Holland Hall School in Tulsa, Ok. He will also be having a one person exhibit at Liggett Studio in April, 2009 entitled Mealer/Cleaver.
FEATURED ARTIST: Mathwrath
Mathwrath's work draws mainly from the aesthetics and ideas of old technology and vaporware to deal with "information pollution" and our digital footprints we leave behind.
Works in this exhibit:
www.mathwrath.com - all-encompassing digital portfolio of the artist.
Death of a Salesman - Real-time, web performance of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" over forums of bot-created websites for pyramid schemes.
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FEATURED ARTIST: Gregory Chatonsky
Chatonsky's body of work, including interactive installations, networked urban devices, photographs and sculptures, speaks to the relationship between technologies and affectivity and attempts to create new forms of fiction.
Chatonsky’s Works:
Possible Bodies
By manipulating keyboard inputs, you instigate and control a dance battle between Fred Astaire and some industrial machinery.
État du Monde (World State)
A young woman appears to be sick. Sometimes she looks better. Often, she becomes very sick. Somewhere else, governments are overthrown, people die, raw materials become scarce. Everything starts all over.
Casablanca @ Home
Casablanca (1943) is a film about traduction. Here, the web translates the film into monochromes, Amazon.com book titles, and real-time Flickr.com photographs.
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FEATURED ARTIST: Antoine Schmitt
Time Slip - Site which analyzes RSS news feeds, then presents them in the future tense, provoking the motive energy of unpredictability and risk.
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FEATURED ARTIST: Patrick Cunningham
TelePorch – A cross-city artwork. Live projections from Chicago, Ill to Tulsa and back with the inspiration from Amish communities and their ability to improve the bonds of community.
Other ArtWorks and Artists Included:
12 Glowing Men - Martijn Henricks
Enhanced fragment of Sidney Lumet's "12 Angry Men"
Britney Cluster - Bob Paris, Deven Langston, Brian Glass
Site which compares google hits for "cluster bombs" to google hits for "Britney Spears", then analyzes public psychic toxicity.
Mrs. Cory Arcangel - Scarlet Electric
Part fansite, part cultural critique, part exercise in stalking-- a website devoted to renowned digital media artist Cory Arcangel.
Wave - James Shaeffer
A combination of generic HTML marquee code and memories of the family at the beach.
A is for Apple - David Clark
A complicated archive of links between network interconnectivity and the cultural, religious, cryptographic, and agricultural purposes of apples.
Appended - After Francis Bacon (1,2, & 3) - Edmond Salsali
An interactive, digital exploration of the junction between figuration and abstraction.
Playdamage - Curt Cloninger
A massive, dischordant, ongoing multimedia journal. 70+ screens and growing all the time.
World of Female Avatars - Evelin Stermitz
A survey project for expanded understanding of women and their relation to their bodies.
Spamology - Irad Lee
A live, rich, audiovisual representation of word frequencies in the spam email messages.
Smoke, Mirrors - Chris Collins
"Billowing", regenerative clouds of smoke, generated by web code.
Living ArtSpace No Charge
Thursday (OPENING) & Friday, February 26 & 27, 5:00-7:00pm
(Artist’s talk at 5:30pm during opening)
Saturday, February 28, 1:00-7:00pm and
Sunday, March 1, 1-4pm
Saturday, February 28, 1:00-7:00pm and Sunday, March 1, 1-4pm
Exhibit remains on display through March 26 Regular Gallery Hours after the Festival are Sat, 1-4pm and Thurs, 5-8pm