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d/Art/07 Web :
JiHyun Ahn
Michael Takeo Magruder
calin man
Conor McGarrigle
Adriaan Stellingwerff
All images are courtesy of the associated artist.
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d/Art/07 Web 13 July - 29 July
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Each year brings new possibilities, themes, trends and ideas which fuel the imaginative and creative excursions into the web as a site for new screen experiences and interactions. The dual themes of new narrative form and surveillance are to the fore. With new applications including Google earth and networked remote cams the web harvests images acting as an extraordinary apparatus to divine and apprehend the media sphere as a realtime eye on the world. New narrative forms too, both playful and grotesque, confound and entertain in an exhibition featuring five new works from the big wide world of the web. |
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JiHyun Ahn www.jihyunahn.com/cir
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human morality. But no one blames them because they have their own fates and their own circumstances. Biography: JiHyun was born in Seoul, Korea and spent her childhood in Japan, where she was exposed to many unique animation films. She studied architecture and interior design at Yonsei University in Korea. During her college, spending more time on manipulating 2D and 3D graphic software, she moved her interest forward to computer graphics and studied flash and video animation in School of Visual Arts in New York. Recently, she graduated her master's program and has endeavored to create animation projects, which were reflective of her quirky imagination and sensibilities. |
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Michael Takeo Magruder www.takeo.org/nspace/ns022/ Synopsis: Continuum reflects upon the evolution of our collective history through the real-time analysis of global news information networks. As no event transpires in isolation, each moment of our existence is defined by the sum of an infinite number of interconnected occurrences. Given that no individual can absorb and process the totality of this information, how can we obtain an informed notion of the present? Additional Credits: commissioned by Oog online, De Volkskran |
Biography: Michael Takeo Magruder is an American artist based in the UK deploying New and Technological Media within Contemporary Art contexts. He is a long-standing member of King's Visualisation Lab located in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. His artworks have been showcased in over 160 exhibitions and 30 countries. His interests concern the simultaneous utilisation and dissection of new technologies as a means to explore the formal structures and conceptual paradigms of the digital realm. He seeks to create artworks in which there are no divisions between technologies, aesthetics, and concepts.
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calin man revoltaire.net/appendxship Synopsis: achtung user! you are interacting with two characters of a pointless web site story: Vaporetto Papavero browses Canal Grande and Gondolina Terraferma surfs Laguna. They should meet but nothing happened. Biography: Biography: b.: 1961; place of residence: Arad, Romania. education: B.A. in literature, Timisoara University, Romania; chief-editor and designer of intermedia magazine; member of kinema ikon group. works on cd-rom, net.art, hypermedia installation. participates on many international digital art exhibitions and festivals all over the world [selection]: 2005: Metanarrative(s)? Mediateca CaixaForum Barcelona; 2003: presentation, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The 50th Venice Biennale, Romanian pavilion, 2003 (artist and curator); |
Videobrasil, Sao Paulo; 2002: EMAF; FILE / Shared Work, Sao Paulo; 2001: 49th Venice Biennale, Romanian pavilion, context project; d>art01exhibition, Sydney; 2000: ISEA 2000 revelation, Forum des Images, Paris; VIPER, Basel; 1998: ISEA 98 revolution, Liverpool; 1997: OSTranenie, Bauhaus institute, Dessau; 1995:retrospect kinema ikon, Centre Georges Pompidou ; 1994: Sao Paulo Biennial. awards: 2005 Honorable mention _ project netarts.org 2005 by Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts Tokyo; Best Net Art Project Award, Prog:ME, 1st Festival of Electronic Media of Rio de Janeiro; 2002 The JavaArtist of the Year Award 2002; 2001 First place _ FILE [Festival internacional de linguagem eletronica], Sao Paulo; Recognition _ CYNETart, International Festival for computer-based Art in Dresden; 2000 Second prize _ INFOS 2000 (off-line) "net.art" contest, Ljubljana; Second place _ FILE [Festival internacional de linguagem eletronica], Sao Paulo; 1995 Prize of Municipality of Murska Sobota _ Biennial of Murska Sobota, Slovenia. |
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Conor McGarrigle www.stunned.org/bono/googlebono.htm Synopsis: We know that for a visitor to Dublin an important attraction is the possibility that they may see U2 frontman and international celebrity Bono. The Bono Probability Positioning System version 2 Google Bono (beta) utilises Dublin's extensive surveillance camera network in conjunction with facial recognition software, Google Maps and advanced probabilty techniques to allow visitors to determine the |
probability of seeing Bono in any of the most probable locations in Dublin's city centre in real time. Google Bono is a Google maps mashup incorporating live traffic camera imagery from Dublin's extensive network of surveillance cameras bringing together the ubiquity of urban surveillance with the cult of celebrity into another overhyped web2.0 application we didn't know we needed but now can't do without. Biography: Conor McGarrigle is a Dublin based new media artist, curator and founder of online arts space Stunned.org. His art explores themes of mapping, surveillance, psychogeography, narratology and tactical media for the artist |
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Adriaan Stellingwerff www.eternalsunset.net Synopsis: Eternal Sunset creates the experience of a continuous sunset through the use of live images from existing online webcams around the world. As the sunset moves westward, Eternal Sunset tunes into different webcams, chasing the sunset around the globe. Eternal Sunset is a virtual space where time is passing but where the daily cycle of day and night has come to a freeze at sunset; a space where the sun is always going down but never goes under. Complementing the increased efficiency and productivity associated with the internet, Eternal Sunset celebrates the romantic beauty enabled by that same technology. Enjoy that special moment forever! |
Biography: Adriaan Stellingwerff is an internet artist and web developer. He has worked in the field of new media and screen-based arts for over 8 years. Combining his technical background as Mechanical Engineer with his interest in the arts, he started working as a new media arts curator and producer in the Netherlands in 1998. Between 1998 and 2003 Adriaan curated and organised three major international exhibitions of interactive installation art (artinoutput.nl). In 2003 Adriaan moved to Sydney where he worked as the Program Manager at d/Lux/MediaArts for two years between 2004 and 2006.In 2005 Adriaan was awarded a Rhizome commission for his net.art work Eternal Sunset, which is exhibited internationally. Adriaan is currently one of the directors of Infoding.com, a web development business he co-founded in 2006
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