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| [Nettime-bold] "Taystes" |
*For Immediate Release* November 13, 2001 "Taystes", a new web-based work by New York artist Jenny Marketou http://www.taystes.net will premier as an interactive installation commissioned by: Cornerhouse Gallery / futuresonic, Manchester, UK "Broken Channel" exhibition 15 November - 21 December, 2001 http://www.cornerhouse.org http://www.futuresonic.com ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Big Brother is Watching you... "TaystesROOM" will have its world premier at the exhibition "BROKEN CHANNEL", at Cornerhouse Gallery, UK in association with FUTURESONIC (the UK's festival of electronic and sonic arts). This exhibition will also feature the work of 2 other artists: Harun Farocki and Ravi Deepres. The three artists examine a world of high tech surveillance and voyeurism, whether sinister and controlling or personal and erotic. For the exhibition, New York based artist, Jenny Marketou, has constructed "taystesroom", an elaborate, interactive installation; it uses mirrors and the internet to create a voyeuristic arena. The installation evokes the erotic tension of watching and being watched, seeing and being seen, tracking and being tracked; and explores the new vectors of desire that erupt in an increasingly technological and networked surveillance of voyeurs . TaystesROOM prizes open observational technologies to reveal erotic fantasies of control, hacking into surveillance cams drawing you into a world of voyeurism where the watchers are watched and the trackers tracked. Where Ravi Deepres has slipped between the wire to enter military complexes and gain aesthetic perspectives on state-of-the-art bugging, tastesroom breaks into closed circuits to examine networks of surveillance that are at once intimate and global. Taystes has a sonic open source component which is dynamically generated as the application extracts and generates sounds (in real time) while it is searching for taysty tid bits of information in the surveillance databody, not unlike a detective, sifting through the body of evidence. Special Acknowledgements: Installation Design: Andreas Angelidakis (architect, Greece) Sound Component: Ile Cvetkoski (dj, artist,musician, Macedonia) Special thanks to HULL TIME BASED ARTS for their generous support of the sonic component of Taystesroom. http://www.timebase.org/ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: About the artist: Jenny Marketou is a New York based artist. She has been working in different media, including photography,video, public performances, computer installations, using internet, telepresence environments and interfaces, networking technologies and artificial smells. Her work has been shown internationally including "CTRL [SPACE], ZKM, Karlsruhe, "Markers Art / Re:Duchamp Exhibition" 49 Venice Biennial, Italy;represented Greece in Sao Paolo Biennial 1998; Net_Condition, ZKM Karlsruhe, Manifesta I, Rotterdam; "Tenacity", Swiss Institute, NYC. Her lectures include: "Invencao", Sao Paolo, Brasil; <net.net.netat MoCA, LA; Her grants + artist residencies include: ART OMI, MECAD, Barcelona, Banff Center, Canada; She is readying herself for "Art Hack: Open Source Lounge" at Media Z Lounge (New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC) with Steve Dietz, Walker Art Center, and Anne Barlow, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC). Her work has been reviewed and published in: Speigel, Flash Art, El Pais, Artbyte, NY Times, Art Press, and TemaCeleste among others. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: for further information contact either: Cornerhouse Gallery (Jude Holmes) tel: 0161.200.1517 email: [email protected] --------------------- Original Message Ends -------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Melentie Pandilovski Director Contemporary Arts Center - Skopje Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje Republic of Macedonia Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541 Tel/Fax: +389.2.214.495 Mobile: +389.70.217.075 http://www.scca.org.mk ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold