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| SCANZ Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand July 3-16 2006 New Plymouth New Zealand Aotearoa http://www.scanz.net.nz Fax +64 6 757 3232 |
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Selected International Artists[in alternating alphabetical order]
C5 — represented by Steve Durie & Bruce Gardner (USA)C5 Corporation specializes in cultural production informed by the blurred boundaries of research, art, and business practice. Focus is on the development of tactical strategies involving information visualization, databases, and distributed networks. The C5 Landscape Initiative is the organzations most recent and ongoing work. A series of projects involving mapping, navigation and search of the landscape using GIS (Geographic Information Systems). The projects are designed to take place over 5 years and are an extension of C5's exploration into data visualization systems as art. The Landscape Initiative examines the changing conception of the Landscape as we move from the aesthetics of representation to those of information visualization and interface. Bruce Gardner & Steve Durie have been chosen by C5 for this residency assignment. Their main focus during the residency will to continue work in progress for the C5 Landscape Initiative and engage in all manner of participation during the SCANZ event. Bruce Gardner has been a cornerstone in the organizations achievements since its inception. He most recently was the lead on the 3d visualization and sculpting data model set for the Analogous Landscape project. As one of C5 most coveted athletic performers, a mountain climber and a competitive cyclist, Bruce often leads C5 expeditions. Steve Durie, also a founding member, has been involved in a variety of C5 projects most notedly the lead for the SoftSub project and more recently the GPS Media Player. Steve's recent interests include: platforms as art, tools and embodiment, visualization, information/perception theories, social networks, and metrics culture.
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu Pictured (L to R):
Diana BurgoyneDiana describes herself as a digital folk artist and can do amazing things with a banana and a few circuits. A common theme
in her work is the relationship between society, technology, and environment.She investigates these relationships
through the use of sound, performance, and installation. In creating the sound, I use integrated circuits.
Diana humanizes these dehumanized materials by creating technology that looks "hand-made", and in her performance she uses a powerful tool: the body. This tool juxtaposed with
technology creates tension and situations analogous to society. Installation allows her to connect the
viewer physically to the piece. Giving the viewer an active role makes them part of "the system" referred to in the work. Her work does not makes specific comments or criticisms of society, culture,
or technology but rather stimulates the viewer to raise questions.
Xiu Li Young & Jim Bell (Canada)Xiu Li YoungXiu Li Young is an artist who likes to play with a computer and is based in Montreal. Her past performance work has progressively evolved to include experimentation with complex digital interfaces where she enjoys rearranging, manipulating, exposing, subduing, collecting, destroying and altering perceptions concerning issues that confront sexuality, identity, popular culture, mass media representation, feminism, ethnicity, gender and minority politics. Her studies include Studio Art at Concordia University, Women Studies at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, East Asian Studies at McGill University, and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has been a member of Studio XX, a digital media intervention center for women, since 1995.Jim BellJim Bell is a new media artist and audio professional based in Montreal. He has exhibited and performed in Canada, United States, Australia and Italy, and is a recent recipient of a Media Arts production grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. He has worked as a sound recordist and in post-production for various short and feature length films, and as a sound designer for art installations and theatrical projects. Over the past several years he has produced a number of installation works featuring audio and video, interactive sensor technology and kinetic elements, exploring correlations between natural and constructed worlds, obsolescence and novelty, control and communication, perception and meaning.
Nina Czegledy (Canada/Hungary)Nina Czegledy, media artist, curator and writer, has initiated
collaborative international projects, produced digital works and has lead
and participated in workshops, forums and festivals. Resonance, Digitized
Bodies and the Aurora projects reflect her art and science and technology
interest. The Transmutation collaborative installation is shown in May 2006
at OKNO in Brussels. She exhibited as part of the ICOLS group, and
participated in the Girls and Guns exhibits. Czegledy curated media
programs shown in over 34 countries, initiated Points of Entry, an
Australian/New Zealand digital arts collaboration. Her academic lectures
lead to numerous publications in books and journals. Czegledy is the
president of Critical Media, curator for Circuit4.ca culturbase, member of
the LEAuthors and Leonardo SpaceArt Network. An Advisor to UNESCO DigiArts
Portal's African Network, Czegledy is a member of Unesco's Arab States
DigiArts group as well as Leonardo''s Yasmin group. Nina Czegledy is Senior
Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto, Adjunct Associate Professor, Concordia
University, Montreal and the current Chair of the Inter Society for the
Electronic Arts (ISEA).
Wolfgang Staehle (USA)Wolfgang Staehle, widely recognized as one of the pioneers of internet art was born in Stuttgart in 1950 and has been living in New York since 1976. In 1991 he founded THE THING, an independent media project which began as a bulletin board system (BBS) and became one of the seminal online- and offline- forums for net.art. His works have been shown at Fondation Cartier in Paris, Gagosian Gallery in New York, Transmediale 02 in Berlin, Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh and at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In October 2004 Staehle participated in the "Time Zones" exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. Staehle's work explores the dynamics, sensations and implications of connectivity.
Using contemporary technological resources, he creates
a new understanding of landscape by taking the next logical
step in the lineage of image making: painting, photography,
film and video are now replaced by a real time digitally
transmitted image.
Derek Holzer & Sara Kolster (Netherlands)Derek Holzer [US/NL]Holzer [USA 1972] is a sound and radio artist with a background in free radio, net.radio and streaming media technologies. He was involved with some of the first net.radio experiments in Hungary (Pararadio) and Czech Republic (Radio Jeleni). He has also worked with Re-lab, a net.radio group in Latvia who gradually shifted their focus towards broader issues of 'acoustic spaces' and networked audio communications. In August 2001, Derek participated in the Acoustic Space Lab, which brought together an international team of 30 sound artists, community radio activists, and scientists to experiment with a 32 meter antenna, recording sounds and data from planets, communication satellites and the surrounding environment. Recently, his work has focused on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations, on the electromagnetic resonances in our everyday environment, as well as the use of free software such as Linux and Pure-Data.Sara Kolster [NL]Kolster [NL 1978] is a visual artist with a background in design. Recently, the focus of her work shifted more towards video and film; capturing details from urban locations, visualizing fragments of stories of these environments. She uses different strategies, from time-based media (video, film, photography) to appropriated research methods belonging to different observational disciplines (journalism, documentary & archeology)."I choose my images carefully, with a main focus on details and close-ups. The
camera observes, looking for stories behind objects and locations.
In my work, i emphasize the uninhabitated environment in
which human appearance seems to be even more accentuated.
This environment, obviously designed by humans, shows inevitably
their traces. Questions as, who lived there or what has happened,
i leave to be answered by the viewer." Pictured: Derek Holzer and Sara Kolster
Ken Gregory (Canada)Winnipeg artist Ken Gregory has been working with DIY interface design, hardware
hacking, audio, video, and computer programming for over
10 years. His provocative and creative performance and
installation work has been purchased by the National Gallery
of Art Canada, and exhibited in Winnipeg, other parts of
Canada and at many international media and sound arts festivals.
In 2005 he was awarded a Sound and Vision Media Arts residency
at the Banff Centre for the Arts, received a Canada CouncilMedia
Arts Research Grant, was sound designer for two short films
The Snow Queen and Around Sanford, and exhibited at the
National Gallery of Canada. Anything is part of Gregory's
palette, and by using cut-and-paste techniques, random
juxtapositions, and careful manipulations, he crafts unique
art works. These works are presented in the form of gallery
installations, live performances, live radio broadcasts,
custom computer software and audio compact discs. Gregory
has also done extensive work as a sound engineer, composer, and audio designer for independent film, performance, media and video.
Andrea Polli (USA)Andrea Polli is a digital media artist living in New York City. She is currently an Associate Professor of Film and Media at Hunter College. Polli's work addresses issues related to science and technology in contemporary society. Her projects often bring together artists and scientists from various disciplines. She has exhibited, performed, and lectured nationally and internationally. She is currently working in collaboration with meteorological scientists to
develop systems for understanding storms and climate through
sound. For this work, she has been recognized by the UNESCO
Digital Arts Award 2003 and has presented work in the 2004
Ogaki Biennale in Gifu, Japan and at the World Summit on
the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland. Her work
in this area has also been presented at Cybersonica at the
ICA in London and awarded funding from the New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs and the Greenwall Foundation.
As a member of the steering committee for New York 2050,
a wide-reaching project envisioning the future of the New
York City region, she is currently working with city planners,
environmental scientists, historians and other experts to
look at the impact of climate on the future of human life
both locally and globally.
Avatar Body Collision — Helen Varley Jamieson, Karla Ptacek, Leena Saarinen, Vicki Smith (New Zealand, UK, Finland, New Zealand)We are the Colliders: four women who met online in 2001 through the[abc]experiment, and who came together to form Avatar Body Collision. We are a collaborative,
globally distributed performance troupe who live (mostly)
in London, Helsinki, Aotearoa/New Zealand and cyberspace.
A central thematic in our work is the relationship of the
body to the machine, and in particular, to examine what it
means to be human in a world of intelligent machines. We
devise and rehearse online using chat software that is cross-platform
and free to download. Our primary software applications are
the Palace (a 2D graphic-sonic chat application) and iVisit
(web cam conferencing application) and our own custom-built Upstage browser-based software.
Upcoming projects deploy mobile phones, Wifi and other mobile
Internet technologies to extend our performative mobility and include a street
spectatorship. We play with mixed realities in a variety
of formats. Pictured: Karla Ptacek and Leena Saarinen
Out-of-Sync — Norie Neumark and Maria Miranda (Australia)In 2005 Sydney based duo Out-of-Sync were selected telephone participants for
the online fluxus work In one Year and out the other by
Ken Friedman, with Melody Sumner Carnahan; their War of
the Words video was included in the (New York) New School
Graduate Faculty's conference "Words, Images, and the Framing of Social Reality" and shown at the CCA in Glasgow; and The 4th Floor was commissioned by Timothy
Murray for Metamute online. The Perpetual E.motions Project
was selected for MAF2005 in Thailand, SoundToys, April
2005 and rhizome.org (January 2005) along with their project
Séance which was selected for ISEA 2004.Consisting of Norrie
Neumark and Maria Miranda, Out-of-Sync have a significant
record of international exhibitions and projects across
media that includes net art, video, interactive formats
and installation. Neumark also co-edited At a Distance:
Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (MIT PRESS 2005) with Annmarie Chandler.
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