Christiane Paul
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Works in Broooklyn, New York United States of America


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Still frame from Cory Arcangel, Various Self Playing Bowling Games (2011), as featured in Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools, curated by Christiane Paul for the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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What I appreciate about Rhizome is that even as it continues to evolve and reinvent itself year after year, seeking out emerging ideas, artists, and areas of practice, it remains firmly rooted in a historical context. This can be seen not only in its pioneering work in the field of digital preservation, but also in programming and writing that finds contemporary relevance in media archives and brings different generations into dialogue.

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DISCUSSION

jihui presents Marek Walczak -- March 28, 7 PM


jihui - Digital Salon
presents
Marek Walczak

Friday, March 28, 2003 7 PM
@ Parsons Center for New Design
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
Live Webcast @ http://agent.netart-init.org starts 7pm EST.

Marek Walczak will talk about the relationship between architecture, social
space, and interactivity -- specifically, the interactive wall for 7 World
Trade Center and other urban projects. Marek Walczak and his team recently
won the competition for "Dialog," an interactive table for the Walker Art
Center which includes a shared, gesture-based interface for thematic
explorations (and makes postcards).

Marek Walczak was trained as an architect and worked for several years for
James Carpenter Design Assoc., creating large-scale public artworks before
being enticed into the Web, where he worked with Martin Wattenberg on
"Apartment," a project that has been shown in the US and Europe and will be
part of the upcoming New York Digital Salon 10th anniversary exhibition.

jihui (the meeting point), a self-regulated digital salon, invites all
interested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc.
jihui is where your voice is heard and your vision shared.
jihui is sponsored by Digital Design Department and Center for New
Design @ Parsons School of Design

jihui is organized by agent.netart (http://agent.netart-init.org), a joint
public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT

DISCUSSION

artport gate page March 03: David Crawford


artport gate page March 03
David Crawford: Stop Motion Studies #7
http://artport.whitney.org
David Crawford's Stop Motion Studies extend his 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.

In the remix for the Whitney's artport, Crawford took previous material and
added a meta-structure which allows users to apply database logic as a
creative filter. The project's original sequential construct remains intact,
but is now nested within a categorical hierarchy. The interface supports a
spatial montage in which sequences from four cities appear simultaneously.
Users are invited to reconstruct mini-narratives based upon the paths they
take through the data.

DISCUSSION

Artport Gate Page Feb 03: Impermanence Agent -- The Agent's Story


Artport Gate Page February 03
The Agent's Story
by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Adam Chapman, Brion Moss, Duane Whitehurst
http://artport.whitney.org

The Impermanence Agent began in 1998 as a storytelling Web agent that
customized its texts and images based on monitoring of each reader's Web
browsing. Five years later, the project is turning inside out - rather than
showing each individual a story customized for them, it now shows all
visitors the stories altered by a few "featured browsers." During the month
of February 2003, the Agent's story will be progressively altered for these
browsers, with the results continually viewable, and at the end of the
month, the final version will be archived on the Whitney server. With this,
the project's weight shifts between individual experience and collective,
between long-term customization and short-term surveillance, between
impermanence and archiving. Most users now will never see our original
story, but only the results of many browser-driven alterations - not our
story, but the Agent's. So we call this next stage The Agent's Story.

Featured Browsers: Julia Flanders, Nick Montfort, and Stuart Moulthrop.
Project support provided by The NYU Center for Advanced Technology.

DISCUSSION

Reminder: jihui with Perry Hoberman -- tomorrow 1/31/03 7PM


jihui - Digital Salon
presents
Perry Hoberman

Friday, January 31, 2003 7 PM
@ Parsons Center for New Design
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
Live Webcast @ http://agent.netart-init.org starts 7pm EST.

Perry Hoberman will be discussing his current exhibition at Postmasters
Gallery. In this exhibition, Hoberman tackles one of our current dilemmas:
in a world of ever-increasingly "powerful" media technologies, our own power
to creatively make use these technologies is under constant threat on a
variety of fronts. Restrictions and surveillance are being hard-coded into
the hardware, software and networks we use daily in a process that seems
determined to make us little more than fodder for an ever-more-profitable
army of passive and fearful consumers.

Several works satirize the endless attempts to price and profit from what
has become known as "intellectual property" - a term that emphasizes
ownership above all. A series of prints is based on the ubiquitous dialog
boxes that appear whenever we open, save, close, delete, or do anything at
all with the files on our computers. Another series of prints consist of
superimposed images of every spam email message that Hoberman received over
a given period of time, in an attempt to visualize the increasing onslaught
of unsolicited advertising and to transform an utterly debased form of
communication into something beautiful. Several works deal with iconography
of the All-Seeing Eye, recently repurposed as the symbol of John
Poindexter's "Total Information Awareness System," thus shifting its meaning
from a suggestion of divine omniscience to a more earthbound ideal of total
surveillance.

Perry Hoberman is one of the pioneers of new media art, having addressed the
form, content and social implications of media technology for over twenty
years. During that time, he has exhibited internationally, with major shows
throughout the USA and Europe. His work is currently on view in the "Future
Cinema" exhibition at the ZKM Center for New Media in Karlsruhe. Hoberman
has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, and is both a 2002
Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a 2002 Rockefeller Foundation Media Art
Fellow.

jihui (the meeting point), a self-regulated digital salon, invites all
interested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc.
jihui is where your voice is heard and your vision shared.
jihui is sponsored by Digital Design Department and Center for New
Design @ Parsons School of Design

jihui is organized by agent.netart (http://agent.netart-init.org), a joint
public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT

EVENT

jihui presents Perry Hoberman -- Fri 1/31/03 7 PM


Dates:
Fri Jan 31, 2003 00:00 - Mon Jan 20, 2003

jihui - Digital Salon
presents
Perry Hoberman

Friday, January 31, 2003 7 PM
@ Parsons Center for New Design
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
Live Webcast @ http://agent.netart-init.org starts 7pm EST.

Perry Hoberman will be discussing his current exhibition at Postmasters Gallery. In this exhibition, Hoberman tackles one of our current dilemmas: in a world of ever-increasingly "powerful" media technologies, our own power to creatively make use these technologies is under constant threat on a variety of fronts. Restrictions and surveillance are being hard-coded into the hardware, software and networks we use daily in a process that seems determined to make us little more than fodder for an ever-more-profitable army of passive and fearful consumers.

Several works satirize the endless attempts to price and profit from what has become known as "intellectual property" - a term that emphasizes ownership above all. A series of prints is based on the ubiquitous dialog boxes that appear whenever we open, save, close, delete, or do anything at all with the files on our computers. Another series of prints consist of superimposed images of every spam email message that Hoberman received over a given period of time, in an attempt to visualize the increasing onslaught of unsolicited advertising and to transform an utterly debased form of communication into something beautiful. Several works deal with iconography of the All-Seeing Eye, recently repurposed as the symbol of John Poindexter's "Total Information Awareness System," thus shifting its meaning from a suggestion of divine omniscience to a more earthbound ideal of total surveillance.

Perry Hoberman is one of the pioneers of new media art, having addressed the form, content and social implications of media technology for over twenty years. During that time, he has exhibited internationally, with major shows throughout the USA and Europe. His work is currently on view in the "Future Cinema" exhibition at the ZKM Center for New Media in Karlsruhe. Hoberman has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, and is both a 2002 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a 2002 Rockefeller Foundation Media Art Fellow.

jihui (the meeting point), a self-regulated digital salon, invites all
interested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc.
jihui is where your voice is heard and your vision shared.
jihui is sponsored by Digital Design Department and Center for New
Design @ Parsons School of Design

jihui is organized by agent.netart (http://agent.netart-init.org), a joint public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT