Christiane Paul
Since the beginning
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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Discussions (67) Opportunities (5) Events (47) Jobs (2)
EVENT

jihui digital salon presents Christina McPhee -- Thurs, March 17 @ 7:00 pm


Dates:
Thu Mar 17, 2005 00:00 - Thu Mar 10, 2005

jihui Digital Salon presents
Christina McPhee

Thurs, March 17, 2005 @ 7:00 pm
jihui - Digital Salon
Parsons Design Lab
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
http://agent.netart-init.org

Christina McPhee will discuss her work on digitally transformed landscapes, in particular her most recent project “Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries,” which consists of a live online data project and an architectural installation of C prints, sound and video, and is currently shown at Transport Gallery, Los Angeles.

Christina McPhee creates large digital chromogenic prints from medium format documentary photography, digital video, digital photos, and drawings made on site at seismically active zones in central California: from Carrizo Plains about 150 miles north of Los Angeles -- called the Cadillac of San Andreas Fault geomorphology -- to nearby Parkfield, where a 6.0 quake on September 28, 2004 has delivered a rich trove of geomorphologic data.

In the online diaries, Christina McPhee -- in collaboration with writer Jeremy Hight and information designer Sindee Nakatani -- draws from live, micro-seismic measurements and compiles hourly updates into number sequences that collide with an archived seismic database from the recent quake. The diaries are a live communication from a continuously active seismic landscape. Like fragmentary pages from a cinematic notebook, the data triggers Flash movies in which sound, text and visual narratives juxtapose the intangible, intimate and local sense of place with the “big data reality” of the continuous seismic activity in California imagined as a darker take on the romantic American western landscape. Layers of fiction trigger from the disturbances, much like the way human memory reconfigures itself after shock.

Christina McPhee is a multimedia artist whose digitally transformed landscapes mesh painterly, architectural and technological detail within an atmosphere of chiaroscuro and baroque complexity. She develops technologically nuanced topographies in net art, installation, performance, painting and photography. Her performances, video, and net art have been shown in exhibitions, festivals, and electronic media archives around the world, including Cybersonica/Convergence at the ICA New Media Center, London; California Museum of Photography; back_up/Lounge|lab at Bauhaus-University Weimar; Victoria Film Festival, Victoria, BC; FILE Sao Paulo, and Digital Arts and Culture at RMIT Melbourne. Her writing on phenomenology, trauma and memory in electronic art and architecture includes "Net Baroque" in Life in the Ruins: A CTheory Reader, edited by Marilouise and Arthur Kroker (2004) and "Aphasia/Parrhesia" for http://www.drunkenboat.com (2005).
http://www.christinamcphee.net

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 made possible through the generous support from the Digital Design Department and Parsons Design Lab of the Parsons School of Design
A joint public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT


DISCUSSION

DISCUSSION

artport gatepage March 05: Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries by Christina McPhee, Jeremy Hight, Sindee Nakatani


artport gatepage March 05:
Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries
by Christina McPhee, Jeremy Hight, and Sindee Nakatani
http://artport.whitney.org

Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries is an exploration of seismic memory: hourly compi=
lations of live microseismic data from a central California site 'crash=

EVENT

jihui presents Jonah Brucker-Cohen & Katherine Moriwaki, Fri. 2/25, 7 PM


Dates:
Fri Feb 25, 2005 00:00 - Sun Feb 20, 2005

Jihui Digital Salon presents
Jonah Brucker-Cohen & Katherine Moriwaki

Friday, Feb. 25, 2005 @ 7:00 pm
jihui - Digital Salon
Parsons Design Lab
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
http://agent.netart-init.org

Jonah will discuss his work on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks" in both physical and online instantiations that attempt to challenge accepted notions of network interaction -- from software manipulation and rule-based systems to translating virtual processes and conventions into the physical world. Among the projects he will discuss are "BumpList," an email community for the determined, "Alerting Infrastructure!", a website hit counter that destroys a building, "PoliceState," a fleet of radio-controlled police cars whose movements are dictated by keywords sniffed on a local network, and "SimpleTEXT" a performance that is controlled by participants through text messages from their mobile phones.
Projects and Work: http://www.coin-operated.com/projects
Personal site and Blog: http://www.coin-operated.com

Katherine will discuss her work on "socially fashioned" networks, which utilizes a combination of wearable technologies, varying degrees of network infrastructure, and social behavior for deployment and propagation. Unlike fixed networks, spontaneous ad-hoc networks rely upon mobile and flexible infrastructure that can dynamically reconfigure based on necessity and circumstance. As these communication devices are integrated into intimate personal objects, into accessories and clothing, the statement that "the people are the network" becomes increasingly resonant. She will discuss the projects "RECOIL," "Inside/Outside," "Oscillating Windows" and "Umbrella.net" as examples of "socially fashioned" networks.
Projects and Work: http://www.kakirine.com

Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and Ph.D. candidate in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. Previously he worked as a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe in Dublin. He received a Masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and spent two years there as an Interval Research Fellow creating interactive networked projects. His work and thesis focuses on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks," which includes projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group) and a recipient of the ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and Technology and Fundacioin ARCO. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including Wired magazine and Rhizome.org and his work has been shown at events such as DEAF (03 / 04), UBICOMP (02 / 03 /04), CHI (04), Transmediale (02 / 04), ISEA (02 / 04), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (ICA; 04), the Whitney Museum of American Art's artport (03), Ars Electronica (02 / 04), and the ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe (04-05).

Katherine Moriwaki is an artist and researcher investigating clothing and accessories as the active conduit through which people create network relationships in public space. Formerly a Design Fellow at Parsons School of Design, Katherine co-developed and taught "Fashionable Technology," a ground-breaking course integrating wearables and fashion. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group at Trinity College Dublin, her work has appeared in IEEE Spectrum Magazine, and numerous festivals and conferences including numer.02 at Centre Georges Pompidou (02), Break 2.2 (03), Ubicomp (03 / 04), eculture fair (03), Transmediale (04), CHI (04), and ISEA (04). She is a 2004 recipient of the Araneum prize from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO.

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 made possible through the generous support from the Digital Design Department and Parsons Design Lab of the Parsons School of Design
A joint public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT


DISCUSSION

artport gatepage Valentine's Day Special: "To Vincent With Love" by Jillian Mcdonald


artport gatepage February 05

A Valentine's Day Special:
"To Vincent With Love" by Jillian Mcdonald

http://artport.whitney.org

The February gatepage for artport features a Valentine's Day Special by Jil=
lian Mcdonald who continues her explorations of pop culture's obsession wit=
h stardom. At a time where a major part of Western entertainment industries=
is built around the fantasies of either becoming a celebrity or "taking pa=
rt" in every aspect of celebrities' private lives, Mcdonalds work uses digi=
tal technologies' potential for image manipulation to explore these cultura=
l fantasies in a literal way. Casting herself in mini-movies with "famous" =
actors, Mcdonald uses a satirical approach to probe the multiple subtexts o=
f celebrity obsession.

"To Vincent with Love" casts Mcdonald next to Vincent Gallo: on the bed wit=
h Vincent, in the tub with Vincent, on the phone with Vincent