[Nettime-bold] Re: Technically engaged at AIR Gallery>>

[cristine wang <cristinewang@yahoo.com>]

hey tina + everyone:

if you read the posting i sent out, it just
stated the FACTS...

there isn't anything to clarify in private.

those projects were COMMISSIONED by the
Alternative Museum as part of the Digital Media
Commissions 2000, made possible by a generous
grant from the New York State Council of Cultural
Affairs, Cultural Challenge Grant.

i will cite The Walker Art Center + Gallery 9
Jerome Foundation Grants, which includes Diane
Ludin this year, and in lieu of presenting her
Walker ARt/Gallery 9/ commissioned project, she
is exhibiting something else, which i think as
artists, given the wonderful opportunity to
install a new work in a specific physical
location, why would you even fathom presenting
work commissioned by another institution which
has not even been launched yet...?

It's as if Shu Lea Cheang was commissioned by the
Guggenheim Museum for "Brandon" web based work,
and AIR gallery decided they would like to show
it, even before it premiered on the Guggenheim
museum website, i am sure a lawsuit and/or
forfeiting of grant monies would ensue...

It's standard procedure for digital commissions:

http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/jerome/g9_jerome_02.html

Kind regards,
Cristine Wang


--- Tina LaPorta <laporta.interport@rcn.com>
wrote:
> dear ms. wang,
> i would think that it would be in yours and the
> museum's best 
> interest to contact the artists privately to
> clarify any 
> misunderstandings you may have concerning the
> participating artists 
> works and the contract, rather than making your
> announcement public 
> on rhizome and thingist mailing lists.
> 
> Tina LaPorta
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 06:08:00 -0800 (PST)
> >From: cristine wang <cristinewang@YAHOO.COM>
> >Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: "Technically
> Engaged" at AIR, NYC
> >To: Jennifer Crowe <jennifer@rhizome.org>
> >Sender: owner-list@rhizome.org
> >Reply-To: cristine wang
> <cristinewang@YAHOO.COM>
> >
> >*erratum*
> >
> >AIR Gallery will be premiering new work
> >commissioned by The Alternative Museum's
> Digital
> >Media Commissions 2000:
> >
> >Yael Kanarek: "Roam 1.0"
> >Tina LaPorta: "Re:mote_corp@REALities"
> >Jennifer + Kevin McCoy: "Every TV, Every
> Episode"
> >
> >These projects were developed during a 6-month
> >cyber residency at the museum.
> >
> >The recipients received a $3000 honorarium to
> >develop a new project for a networked
> environment
> >for The Alternative Museum's Digital Media
> >Collection.
> >
> >The completed project will be presented
> >exclusively on the Alternative Museum website
> for
> >a period of at least 12 months.
> >
> >The artist retains copyright to the work.
> >
> >The artist grants the Alternative Museum the
> >non-exclusive right to archive and present the
> >project in perpetuity.
> >
> >((**Please kindly include the above on all
> press
> >releases + publications relating to the above
> TAM
> >Digital Media Commissioned Projects.**))
> >
> >Kind Regards,
> >
> >Cristine Wang
> >Curator New Media Arts
> >The Alternative Museum
> >594 Broadway New York 10012
> >http://www.alternativemuseum.org
> >http://www.alternativemuseum.org/tam_monitor
> >
> >--- Jennifer Crowe <jennifer@rhizome.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>  ++++++++++++++++++
> >>
> >>  AIR Gallery is pleased to announce:
> >>
> >>  Technically Engaged
> >>
> >>  New and ongoing work from Yael Kanarek,
> Tina
> >>  LaPorta, Diane Ludin, and
> >>  Jennifer & Kevin McCoy.
> >>  Curated by Jennifer Crowe.
> >>
> >>  Also opening:
> >>
> >>  <CONTENT="null">
> >>  An installation by debra l. hampton
> >>
> >>  January 6-27, 2001
> >>  Opening Reception Jan. 6, 7:00-10:00pm
> >>  After party, location TBA
> >>
> >>  AIR Gallery
> >>  40 Wooster St., 2nd Floor
> >>  New York, NY 10011
> >>  (212) 966-079
> >>  Gallery Hours: Tu-Sa, 11am-6pm
> >>
> >>  ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>
> >>  Technically Engaged presents new and
> ongoing
> >>  artworks from New York-based
> >>  women and their collaborators who work in
> the
> >>  digital realm. Diverse in
> >>  their subjects and method of engagement
> with
> >>  the digital, these artists
> >>  will present work that traces and tracks
> the
> >>  flow of information and
> >>  persons, as well as the flow of cultural
> >>  knowledge. This exhibition
> >>  proposal arose out of a series of group
> >>  meetings where the artists shared
> >>  their current work and discussed what it
> means
> >>  for them to engage, as
> >>  women, with the digital.
> >>
> >>  Yael Kanarek will create an installation
> >>  extending her ongoing Web project,
> >>  World of Awe, an online journal and virtual
> >>  environment describing the
> >>  adventures of a traveler in search of lost
> >>  treasure. The installation will
> >>  contain two components: a computer running
> a
> >>  local version of the World of
> >>  Awe Web site and two drawings on C-prints
> >>  created in situ at the exhibition
> >>  opening on January 6th of World of Awe's
> >>  digital desert landscape that
> >>  evidence the travel of visitors through of
> the
> >>  Web site.
> >>
> >>  Diane Ludin's Data Mirror: Touchable Video
> is a
> >>  semi-interactive
> >>  installation focused on the emerging data
> >>  interface used to draft a working
> >>  copy of the Human Genome. This installation
> >>  will include two touch screen
> >>  monitors, a video switcher, computer and
> wall
> >>  collage of data sequences
> >>  from the publicly funded governmental
> database
> >>  used to record the research
> >>  and development of code in assembling a
> working
> >>  copy of the Human Genome.
> >>
> >>  Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's Every Shot Every
> >  > Episode is a visualized
> >>  database in which television shots are
> >>  categorized, rationalized, and
> >>  displayed with custom media players. The
> >>  computer has underlined the play
> >>  of surfaces that structure our consumption
> of
> >>  media. In this piece,
> >>  television is reexamined as a data field in
> >>  which meaning is generated in a
> >>  new, critical, way from the same old
> material.
> >>  Each day, three different
> >>  categories will be on view.
> >>
> >>  Tina LaPorta's Re:mote_corp@REALities is a
> >>  video and sound installation
> >>  that explores the desire for communication
> >>  between geographically separated
> >>  participants mediated by the surface of the
> >>  computer screen. In
> >>  Re:mote_corp@REALities, video clips from
> >>  CUseeMe online chat sessions
> >>  simulated by LaPorta dissolve one into the
> >>  next, while an audio track based
> >>  on various interviews fills the gallery
> with
> >>  sound. Both the artist and
> >>  viewers are "witness to an emerging
> >>  intersubjectivity-- a syntax unique to
> >>  on-line culture."
> >>
> >>  Technically Engaged is part of the
> e.mergence
> >>  series at AIR Gallery, which
> >>  features presentations and exhibition
> >>  opportunities for women working in
> >>  digital, electronic, and new media art.
> Since
> >>  the first event in January
> >>  2000, e.mergence has expanded to include
> 
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