MTAA
Bio:MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates) is a Brooklyn, New York-based conceptual and net art collaboration founded in 1996. Their studies of networked culture, the economics of art, digital materials, and the institutional art world take the form of web sites, installations, sculptures, and photographic prints. Their work has been commissioned by The Alternative Museum, Creative Time, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc., and The Whitney Museum of American Art and has been exhibited by PS1 Art Center (New York, 2000), The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, 2000) and Eyebeam (New York, 2002).
Title:
Five Small Videos About Interruption and Disappearing
Description:
Five Small Videos About Interruption And Disappearing are inspired by the early video-based performance art work of Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci among others. Intrigued by the repetitive gestures and everyday actions in these early video art performances, MTAA updated the forms and themes to a contemporary interactive medium. This piece was commissioned by The Alternative Museum of New York City.
URLs, two choices:
http://www.mteww.com/five_small_videos/
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http://www.alternativemuseum.org/exh/riverwhid/riverwhid.html
Peter Horvath
Bio:
Peter Horvath works in video, sound, photo-based and new media. Camera in hand since age 6, he inhaled darkroom fumes until his late 20's, then began exploring art forms in new media. Immersed himself in digital technologies at the birth of the Web, co-founded 6168.org a site for net.art, and adopted techniques of photo-montage which he uses in his net based and 2D works. Exhibitions include the Whitney Museum Of American Art's Artport, the 17th Stuttgarter Filmwinter (Stuttgart, Germany) FILE 2003 (Sâo Paulo, Brazil), the Chiang Mai New Media Art Festival (Chiang Mai, Thailand), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec City, Canada) as well as venues in New York, Tokyo, London, and numerous net.art showings. He is a founding member of the net.art collective Hell.com. He likes to consider a future when high bandwidth will be free.
Title:
Intervals
Intervals explores a series of characters whose investigation of self and identity unfold and elide through a sequence of cinematic interludes. Hovering through an amorphous landscape we begin by observing the mirror images of four animated figures. At once seductive and illusive, these portraits successively expose their most intimate selves through accounts of lost innocence, fear of the unknown, masculine ritual and the mystery of love. Here identity is subject to slippages, distortions, and to filmic alter egos that mimic and echo their subjects' memory. INTERVALS is a 2004 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:
http://turbulence.org/Works/horvath/
David Crawford
Bio:
David Crawford (b. 1970, Riverside, CA) studied film, video, and new media at the Massachusetts College of Art and received a BFA in 1997. In 1999, his "Here and Now" project was commissioned by New Radio and Performing Arts with funds from National Endowment for the Arts. In 2000, Crawford's "Light of Speed" project was a finalist for the SFMOMA Webby Prize for Excellence in Online Art. In 2003, his "Stop Motion Studies" project received an Artport Gate Page Commission from the Whitney Museum of American Art and an Award of Distinction in the Net Vision category at the Prix Ars Electronica.
Title:
SMS13
Description:
The "Stop Motion Studies" extend my long-standing interest in narrative and, in particular, look at the subway as a stage upon which social dynamics and individual behavior are increasingly mediated by digital technology. As one of the most vibrant and egalitarian networks in our cities, subways bring people from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds into close contact with each other. This process plays a significant role in shaping both the character of a city as well as our individual identities.
In this remix of footage originally shot for previous installments in London, Paris, Boston, New York, and Tokyo, each installment's modular structure has provided a library of building blocks that have been edited into a linear animation approximately 5 minutes long. The algorithmic montage constituting each clip's DNA remains intact, while the individual sequences are now composited within a linear framework. The speed of the transitions is based on network connection speed. "SMS13" is a 2004 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., for its Turbulence Web site. It was made possible by a grant from the LEF Foundation.
URL:
http://www.turbulence.org/studios/crawford/sms13
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
BIO:
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES ( www.yhchang.com ) was founded in Seoul, Korea, by Young-hae Chang, C.E.O., and Marc Voge, C.I.O.
Title:
Perfect Victoria (from Victoria Defiled)
Description:
PERFECT VICTORIA could have been inspired by an Allen Ginsberg chanting-while-playing-the-squeezebox performance of Blake's "The Tiger." There was something about his adding a rudimentary beat (was he stomping his foot?) and music to poetry that really woke us up. Sort of like, Wow, he really gets a lot of noise out of such a simple setup. O.K., so Victoria isn't too rhythmic yet, but we're working with her on it.
URL:
http://www.yhchang.com/PERFECT_VICTORIA.html
Yael Kanarek & Evann Siebens
Bio:
Yael Kanarek is a new media artist. She has been developing her integrated media project World of Awe ( www.worldofawe.net ) since 1995. At the core of World of Awe is The Journal--an original narrative that uses the ancient genre of the traveler's tale to explore the connections between storytelling, travel, memory and technology.
Selected for the Whitney biennial 2002, Ms. Kanarek is a recipient of the Jerome Foundation Media Arts grant, the New York Foundation for the Arts 2001 fellowship award and the Alternative Museum Digital Commission 2000. She has been an artist-in-residence at Harvestworks collaborating on Music for World of Awe with composer Yoav Gal. In 2002 she completed Chapter 2 of the Traveler's Journal commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Recently, Ms. Kanarek launched an interactive net.dance in collaboration with dance filmmaker Evann Siebens, commissioned by Turbulence.org and was R&D resident at Eyebeam, collaborating with bnode architecture studio on the mRB project. Ms. Kanarek is represented by Bitforms gallery in New York City.
In October 2002 World of Awe was awarded the CNRS/UNESCO Lewis Carroll Argos prize in France and in June 2003 Ms. Kanarek won the 1 st prize in the Netizens International Net Art competition in Rome, Italy.
Evann Siebens is a dance filmmaker. She recently directed and co-produced a documentary on hula dancers and the Hawaiian community that was broadcast on PBS' documentary series POV (point-of view) August 5, 2003, was featured on CNN, NPR's Fresh Air and received support from the NEA, NYSCA, NIPAD and ITVS. Ms. Siebens recently completed a short documentary for the Limón Dance Company that will be broadcast on PBS and a dancefilm series with Gabri Christa. Her short films POTHEAD and do not call it fixity... have been seen at film festivals around the world and have been shown on arts networks in Canada and Europe. She has recently been working on a dance film/new media installation entitled image/Word.not_a_pipe= that was presented by the Frankfurt Ballett in Germany. Evann also works as a dance cinematographer and videographer and has filmed dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bill T. Jones, Jose Navas, Sara Rudner, Molissa Fenley, Peter Boal, Eiko, and Lucinda Childs.
Title:
World of Awe: Portal, 2003
Description:
PORTAL is an interactive net.dance work created as part of the meta-project World of Awe. The work, which is a collaboration between media artist Yael Kanarek and dance filmmaker/choreographer Evann Siebens with music by composer Yoav Gal, follows a traveler passing from the physical world to a virtual world called the Sunset/Sunrise. The work touches on the spatial and aesthetic relationship between virtual and physical spaces, as well as the relationship between user and digital content. Cinematic and kinetic, the traveler uses dance as her main mode of communication and means to travel between worlds. This ambiguity between the real and unreal is reflected in the work: analog footage is mixed with digital resolutions as the figure moves from a New York City street to a square 'womb' to a digitally created desert landscape. Traditional dance film techniques, as seen in kinesthetic editing and image creation are combined with interactive techniques and screen design. with interactive techniques and screen design. Portal was commissioned by Turbulence.org with funding from the Greenwall Foundation.
URL
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/yael/
Yan Breuleux
BIO:
Yan Breuleux completed his collegiate and university studies in visual arts to then dedicate his artistic production to video and electronic arts. Over the last few years, he has produced several videos and performances mixing music and images done in collaboration with artists, composers and performers. Notable is his musical video series Noise , A-B-C Light , Clima(x) produced in collaboration with the composer Alain Thibault. Within the context of the A-B-C Light project he was invited as artist in residence at the Centre for new media at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris. This project also received an honorable mention at the prestigeous Prix Ars Electronica (1998) and a nomination in the category of best video of the year at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (1999). In 2000, Yan Breuleux was invited to present A-Live at the Transmediale festival in Berlin. Presently, he is pursuing a project entitled Faustechnology , in collaboration with Alain Thibault, (PURFORM.COM). The performance was presented at Elektra (2000) in Montréal as well as at the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts Symposium (2000) in Paris. Yan Breuleux also participated in the SonicActs festival in Amsterdam as a VJ artist. Within the context of the "Québec NewYork" event, he was to present the Faustechnology performance in collaboration within the context of the ELEKTRA NewYork organized by ACREQ.
Title:
Neverendingstories
Description:
While touring NeverEndingStories , the visitor composes the image of our time, bringing out its preoccupations regarding developments in genetics, ecological disequilibrium, geopolitical conflicts, the world of consumption, entertainment, and the evolution of new technologies. With these various interchangeable and interrelated tableaux, the work presents a critical vision of the Western world and of the capitalist values it imposes. This critical vein is all the more forceful in that it is actively tested by the visitors.
URL:
www.neverendingstories.org