Electromediascope Fall 2008: Opening Networks
September 12, 2008—September 26, 2008Specific dates: September 12, 19 and 26
Location: Atkins Auditorium
The world has recently entered a different and more fluid phase of online interactivity through multiple mediums including the World Wide Web. Increasingly robust, ubiquitous computing devices are replacing older desktop computers and leading to less restrictive and potentially more creative and collaborative every day human-to-humans-to-networked-machines interactivity.
Mobile phones, digital cameras and gaming devices are increasing the potential for innovative and creative uses of wireless digital media. Individual artists and groups of people who know and don't know each other are initiating projects that make use of networked media to explore creative and critically engaging uses of information technology.
Opening Networks will feature in-person presentations by Mark Daggett and Jon Phillips who will introduce their own work and other digital media projects on consecutive Friday evenings.
September 12: Visiting artist Mark Daggett will show how corporations, artists and gamers, among others, are using the technical nature of networks and social software to reshape concepts of community.
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September 19: Visiting artist Jon Phillips will analyze the state of remix culture and mashups and questions whether they are sustainable cultural software that has the potential to run continuously and further expand into the mainstream of contemporary art.
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September 26: Three works will be viewed and discussed by Curators Patrick Clancy and Gwen Widmer: Scalable City by Sheldon Brown, Drift by Carl Burton and Spectropia by Toni Dove.
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Image: Scalable City, Sheldon Brown., USA, 2007, 4:04 min. Cinematic output from multiuser computer game environment. Image still courtesy of the artist.