ICE Digest August 5, 2003
<2003-2004 ICE Project Grant Call for Proposals>
<Overhead Dejection at Flicker Theater>
<Virtual Art Gallery launches at ATHICA>
< X-Ray Cafe call for submissions and events list>
<Tagging>
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Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is seeking proposals for projects to be completed during
the 2003-2004 academic year. Selected proposals may receive awards up to $5,000,
technical and creative support, and assistance with the presentation of completed projects.
For more details and to download a proposal form, visit http://ice.uga.edu/cfp/
Deadline: September 22, 2003.
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OVERHEAD DEJECTION: A play conceived and built by Cal Clements and starring the poems of
Lara Glenum, Nico Issac, Sabrina Orah Mark, and Christopher McDermott as written by two
scribes and read by the poets themselves through the deity Thoth. Flicker Theater, August 6
& 7, 8:30 p.m. Admission $5.
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ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc. presents:
Virtual [log in to unmask] v.2: What I Did on My Summer Vacation
A Collection of New Media Artwork curated by Didi Dunphy
Launch Date: Thursday, August 7, 2003
Athens Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the second launch of its Virtual
Art Gallery, which has been curated by Athens' artist Didi Dunphy. Ms Dunphy reviewed 40
submissions before deciding on the six sites included in Virtual [log in to unmask] v.2. Please
note that none of the artists will know -- until this announcement goes out -- that their sites
made the final cut.
Unlike the first incarnation of ATHICA's Virtual Art Gallery, Dunphy's collection of online
artwork created specifically for the Internet medium has a thematic focus: What I Did on My
Summer Vacation, inspired by her recent "California Dreamin’ vacation." In the curator's own
words: "The artist sites I have chosen explore travel, both actual and metaphorical. With the
investigation of travel, these works consider the nature of physical site--albeit the town
you're visiting or the Internet--the social and emotional study of site and sense of place.
And, of course, with all travel (and net art viewing), the journey takes time, lyrical or critically
self-referential. My bags are packed and I’m ready to go. Keeping in mind the theme of
vacation, please visit the following sites."
1. Jorn Ebner (London, UK): Lee Marvin Toolbox (www.leemarvintoolbox.net)
The Lee Marvin Toolbox contains nine objects for orientation and navigation through
existence. Its soundtrack kicks in upon opening the first window: it is a re-recorded cover
version of Lee Marvin‘s song Wanderin‘ Star from the 1969 Western Comedy Paint your
Wagon. The toolbox is in two parts. Its online version contains a descriptive handbook;
clicking the titles or the words detail on each page opens an illustrative animation. Each
animation is in itself a complex work that needs exploration as to its inner machinations of
non-linear or linear narration. Each component of the online version is available for download
in a slightly changed version as MP3, PDF and SWF-projector files. The work is composed of
small Java Scripted windows, which form a graphic pattern on the screen in order to avoid the
restrictive browser interface. (Technical Data: programming - Kenneth Kufluk & Richard
Smallwood, musical production:- Alan Gregg)
2. Andrew Hieronymi (Los Angeles, US): Floating Sushi (www.andrew3000.net/floatingsushi/),
"The subject matter of the data I use in my projects is material collected or created from
observation of everyday life. What interests me is to collect material from a local context that
is seen through a universal visual vocabulary, such as street signs, logos, pictograms, or
typography. The interfaces I have designed for my projects use for the most part basic point-
and-click navigation, but I am also trying to find navigational solutions by looking at the
vocabulary and construction of early videogames. When I borrow ideas from those games, I
try to avoid bringing to my projects narrative elements or goal-oriented challenges. I don’t
want my projects to be confused with games. In the end result, my projects offer a
juxtaposition of signs, photos or texts that aim to create unpredictable visual associations,
bringing forth semantic problems. These juxtapositions are displayed as a consequence of
the combination of the three following factors: 1) the specificities of the interface's design, 2)
the user’s own decision-making, 3) algorithms displaying data in a random manner."
3. Brooke Knight (Boston, US): An Hour of Your Time (www.altarts.org/hour)
An Hour of Your Time is an hour-long list of suggestions of activities that the viewer could be
doing besides watching the piece. The suggestions flash by at a quick one-per-second rate,
making it difficult to apprehend all that is written. Intended to frustrate and make the viewer
anxious, there are a total of 3600 activities. The work was inspired by the inclusion of a wall
clock in an installation at a Quebec museum; that clock forced one to realize how one
"spends" time. Museums, like churches and casinos, are meant to suspend time, and to
transport the viewer away from the constraints of ordinary space. Like those special spaces,
the realm of the Internet also encourages a sense of "getting lost" in that, which is presented
to you. An Hour of Your Time seeks to make that expenditure of time obvious.
4. Charles Linder (San Francisco, US): I’ll Fly Away (http://www.silentgallery.com/linder)
I’ll Fly Away, is a travel journal narrated by a series of bullet shot road signs.
3. Garrett Lynch (United Kingdom) The irreparable damage of self-realization communicated
to another, (http://www.rhizome.org/artbase/9117/webpage/)
The work shows a timer counting up. A visualization of time shown coldly, and factually. The
aging process/passage of time is that of my computers, the users facing the work and mine
simultaneously. It is identity in virtual space by the assuming of self, realization of time and
ones own age. It identifies the passage from the real to the virtual, the shared inescapable
reality which exists in both of time as something nothing can escape.
5. Jon Winet and Margaret Crane (San Francisco, US): Monument (http://
www.locusplus.org.uk/monument/)
In summer 2002, the collaboration launched Monument, an Internet-based project that takes
a multi-faceted look at contemporary social and political life in Northern England.
"Monument" investigates strategies for economic regeneration in the cities of Newcastle upon
Tyne and Gateshead. Monument is a highly subjective portrait of a metropolitan area in
transition. It obliquely comments on the ascendancy of service and knowledge-based
economies since the demise of industry and mining.
The ATHICA board was very pleased when Ms Dunphy accepted their invitation to curate
ATHICA's Virtual Art Gallery last spring. Ms Dunphy is a very well respected multi-media artist
who has made a considerable reputation for herself in the four short years since her
relocation to Athens from California. She is a part-time member of the Digital Media
department at the University of Georgia where she teaches all genres of time-based art. Ms
Dunphy's own work has been exhibited widely, most recently in the Art in Motion exhibition
in California and the Georgia Triennial. Her upcoming show, Recess, will open at the end of
August, 2003 in the UGA Broad Street Gallery. (You can view Dunphy’s web-based projects at
www.dididunphy.com and www.nmi.uga.edu/art/mc.)
Virtual [log in to unmask] v.2 is made technically possible by the volunteer efforts of
programmer and website manager, Andy Hollingsworth. Artists interested in being notified of
the next call for entries should email [log in to unmask] VA @ ATHICA will launch a new version
twice-annually.
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Alphabetical Artists List:
Jorn Ebner (London, UK)
Andrew Hieronymi (Los Angeles, US)
Brooke Knight (Boston, US)
Charles Linder (San Francisco, US)
Garrett Lynch (United Kingdom)
Jon Winet and Margaret Crane (San Francisco, US)
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Print Images available on request.
Please visit www.athica.org for a map to the gallery.
CONTACT INFO:
For more information about Virtual [log in to unmask], please contact: Didi Dunphy, Curator,
[log in to unmask] (Home number not for publication 706.208-8242)
For more information about ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc., please
contact: Lizzie Zucker Saltz, Director, Chase Street Warehouses, Unit 3 Entrance at 160 Tracy
St. off Barber. Mailing Address: PO Box 1604, Athens, GA 30603-1604 USA. (Home number
not for publication: 706.208.0702.)
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X-RAY CAFE, 261 W. Washington St., Athens, Ga. is requesting YOUR
submissions for a massive computer, laser print, digital, and xerox art
show opening Sat. Aug. 16th and running through Sept. 14th. Your
submissions may be framed or unframed. Video and work on transparencies
or light-boxes will also be accepted. The show will center around 100
framed pieces by computer artist Peter Phillips. SUBMISSIONS MUST REACH
X-RAY NO LATER THAN AUG. 12 ! 50% of the sale price from any work in
this particular show will go to X-Ray as a benefit to promote further
events. We've been overwhelmed with positive attention from both the Art
and the Music media this year! All we are asking is that YOU become part
of the history-making process and JOIN the 400 or so artists and
performers who have helped make this ground-breaking scene
occur!
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X-RAY CAFE, 261 W. Washington St., Athens, Ga. PRESENTS the FOLLOWING
EVENTS for the week of AUG 4th:
Tue. Aug. 5th : Electronic Tea Time : 4 P.M. - 8 P.M. (featuring 4 hr.
replays of BRIAN ENO film, documentary, music, and interview
footage)
Wed. Aug. 6th : THE FRIED BANANA : 4 P.M. _ 8 P.M. Electronic music and
video de-construction (whether you like your bananas fried, skinned,
sliced, diced, frozen, chunked, topped, scattered, smothered, or
covered...this is the one 4U!) T
Thur. Aug. 7th : 4 P.M.
- 8 P.M. The Lunch Ladies (Yes, these are the same decrepit old women
in white uniforms who served you your lunch on beige plastic trays in
that high school cafeteria of so long ago...but now they're back...with
a vengeance.)
-9 P.M. DJ Lawnmower Face re-mixes the films of JORGES TORRES...Don't Miss This!
Fri. Aug. 8th : ELECTRONIC MUSIC
NIGHT 12 8:30 P.M....this is THE EVENT the WHOLE WORLD is looking at
right now...a comp. CD in the works...music and art press...we've
started hosting this twice a month...due to being mobbed with
inquiries...15 min. sets of pop and experimental analog, digital, and
electronic media...tonight opening with a longer set by David Fredericks.
Sat. Aug. 9th :X-RAY Salon Night : 9 P.M. low lighting, soft music, interesting
videos, coffee, tea, and conversation...imagine going in a time machine
back to 14th century France...and realizing you left the oven
on...that's what this is like.
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EXPERIMENTAL WIRELESS ART PROJECT ENABLES VIRTUAL GRAFFITI
ATHENS, Ga. – Tagging, a term used by graffiti artists to describe writing, is the name of a
new project that will allow Internet users to cover downtown Athens with virtual graffiti. The
project allows anyone using a wireless Internet-capable (WiFi) handheld device with a Web
browser to select their location from an online map and use a stylus to "tag" images of
surrounding buildings on handheld computer screen. The graffiti is then stored in a database
and becomes part of the virtual cityscape of downtown Athens. As with traditional graffiti,
each person may add to previous graffiti or create his or her own. The results are available for
immediate viewing on the device and on the project's website, www.tagging.us. Virtual
vandals will have their chance at tagging Athens when the project is completed near the end
of September.
Tagging originated as a collaborative project launched by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE)
and the New Media Institute, two interdisciplinary programs at the University of Georgia.
Continuing the mission of using the wireless cloud over downtown Athens (also known as the
WAGzone) as a test bed for emerging wireless technology, the two groups asked artists to
develop works specifically for the wireless environment. Christopher "Kit" Hughes answered
the call with this program for virtual graffiti. Tagging first debuted in demo form at the New
Media Institute event Go Mobile or Go Home in April 2003. Since then, Tagging has grown
into an extended research project supported by a summer fellowship from the Center for
Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO).
Tagging is an art project straddling the genres of technophile net.art and visceral street
graffiti; likewise, the technological underpinnings are serving as entertainment and research.
The project integrates dynamic content with motion graphics on a foundation of database
technology. These three areas are reaching mainstream use on the Internet but have not been
fully explored in a wireless environment. While the primary objective of Tagging has been to
serve as a work of art, the users of project will provide useful feedback regarding user
interface preferences, bandwidth limitations, and the potential of location-based wireless
technology. These participants will take a first-hand part in exploring the possibilities of
these devices in the virtual cityscape of Athens. Research findings will be published in a
report written by Hughes.
www.tagging.us
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