| Sarah Cook on Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:24:19 +0100 (CET) |
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| [oldboys] Database Imaginary exhibition - interview online |
"... Now that databases have become instantiated in nearly every aspect of contemporary culture, I think it’s important for artists to recuperate what this mass of numbers might mean in lived experience or, on the opposite end of the spectrum, to get a certain sense of the sublime..." - Steve Dietz This week on Rhizome you can find an interview by Kevin McGarry with the curators of the exhibition Database Imaginary: Sarah Cook, Steve Dietz and Anthony Kiendl. > http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=15882&text=30434#30434 The exhibition, which presents 23 works made by 33 artists between 1971 and 2004, is in its last weeks at the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre, Canada (it closes January 23, 2005) but will be touring Canada, the US and UK/Europe through mid 2006. The next venue is the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, opening in mid March 2005. The exhibition website, which is regularly updated images and texts, is at http://databaseimaginary.banff.org Artists in the exhibition: Cory Arcangel, Julian Bleecker, Natalie Bookchin, Kayle Brandon & Heath Bunting, Alan Currall, Beatriz da Costa, Hans Haacke, Harwood/Mongrel, Agnes Hegedus, Axel Heide, Pablo Helguera, Lisa Jevbratt/C5, George Legrady, Lev Manovich, Jennifer + Kevin McCoy, Muntadas, onesandzeros, Scott Paterson, Philip Pocock, Edward Poitras, David Rokeby, Warren Sack, Jamie Schulte, Thomson&Craighead, Brooke Singer, Gregor Stehle, University of Openess, Angie Waller, Cheryl L'Hirondelle Waynohtew, Marina Zurkow A catalogue for the exhibition will be available in late spring 2005. The exhibition was co-organized by the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library, and made possible with funding from The Canada Council for the Arts, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, Canadian Heritage (Museums Assistance Program), and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. We'd love to hear what you think of the show! Sincerely, Sarah Cook ----- Dr. Sarah Cook, New Media Curator / Research School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland CRUMB web resource for new media art curators http://www.crumbweb.org BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead http://www.balticmill.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]