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| <nettime-ann> Turbulence Commissions: Jillian McDonald and Dane Watkins |
. February 17, 2014 1. Turbulence Commission: "From the Valley of the Deer" by Jillian McDonald 2. Turbulence Commission: "Psychographics: Consumer Survey" by Dane Watkins 1. "From the Valley of the Deer" by Jillian McDonald http://turbulence.org/works/fromthevalleyofthedeer [For mobile devices] "From the Valley of the Deer" is an augmented reality artwork based on Valley of the Deer, a video installation produced in Scotland in 2013. In each city where the installation is exhibited, local GPS coordinates will be haunted by characters and scenes from the video, discoverable on walking tours near the exhibition site. These apparitions may also be stumbled upon as 'Points of Interest' by passersby, the locations visited long after by spirits of a distant valley. "From the Valley of the Deer" is a 2013 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence website. It was funded by the Jerome Foundation. BIOGRAPHY Jillian McDonald is a Canadian artist who divides her time between New York and Canada. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Pace University. She is hopelessly in love with northern places, snow, fog, and the ocean, and since 2006 has watched a healthy amount of horror films. She spent much of the past year living and working in Northeastern Scotland. Solo shows and projects include the Esker Foundation in Calgary; Moti Hasson Gallery, Jack the Pelican Presents, and vertexList in New York; The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and Rosenthal Gallery in San Francisco; Hallwalls in Buffalo; La Sala Narañja in Valencia, Spain; and YYZ in Toronto. Her work has been included in group exhibitions and festivals at The Chelsea Museum and The Whitney Museum's Artport in New York; The Edith Russ Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany; MMOCA in Madison, Wisconsin; Onsite at OCADU and YYZ Gallery in Toronto; The International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Mérida, Venezuela; The Sundance Film Festival in Utah; La Biennale de Montréal; and the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie in Caen, France. Her work was the subject of a 2013 radio documentary by Paul Kennedy on CBC's IDEAS. It has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art Papers, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Border Crossings, and The Village Voice, among others. A discussion of her work appears in several books including Better Off Dead, edited by Sarah Juliet Lauro and Stalking by Bran Nicol. McDonald has received grants and commissions from The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Canada Council for the Arts, Soil New Media, Turbulence.org, The Verizon Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Experimental Television Center, and Pace University. She lectures regularly about her work and has attended numerous residencies including The Headlands Center for the Arts in California, Lilith Performance Studio in Sweden, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace Program in New York, The Western Front in Vancouver, and The Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta. In 2012 she represented Canada at the Glenfiddich international residency in Dufftown, Scotland. 2. "Psychographics: Consumer Survey" by Dane Watkins http://turbulence.org/works/psychographics Corporations use state of the art technology to examine every aspect of your lifestyle and generate a unique psychological and demographic consumer profile. There are three archetypes of consumerism: "Basic Consumer -- Merchandiser"; "Average Consumer -- Passive Spectator"; and "Advanced Consumer -- Networker". "Psychographics" is an online survey that helps you to evaluate your consumer status. Take the survey and discover your archetype! "Psychographics: Consumer Survey" is a 2014 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence website. It was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. BIOGRAPHY Dane Watkins' (aka eatmydata) research-based, context-responsive practice examines how conventional drawing and animation techniques can be developed and shown in digital environments, such as the web, computer-driven installation, and mobile devices. In the past few years Watkins has developed an extensive body of drawings, animations and interactive surveys that reveal audience motivations through experimentation with transactional media. Currently, he is lead artist on the "Whose Data?" project at Knowle West Media Centre, UK. The project, in partnership with Western Power and Siemens, investigates how local communities can make the most of their personal data. "Like" us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/nrpa.org http://facebook.com/turbulence.org Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/turbulenceorg Turbulence.org [email protected] http://turbulence.org http://new-radio.org _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann