Syndicate: Stadium: New Projects | Lawler | Goldsmith and Paulsen | Wisniewski

[Ron Wakkary <rwakkary@stadiumweb.com>]

New Projects at STADIUM:
	http://stadiumweb.com

Louise Lawler WITHOUT MOVING / WITHOUT STOPPING
	http://stadiumweb.com/without_moving/without_stopping

Kenneth Goldsmith with Clem Paulsen FIDGET
	http://stadiumweb.com/fidget

Maciej Wisniewski TURNSTILE PART II
	http://stadiumweb.com/turnstile

Stadium is pleased to announce the launch of three new projects.

Louise Lawler's Without Moving/Without Stopping is a series of QTVR
(QuickTime Virtual Reality) movies of the Museum fur Abgüsse Klassischer
Bildwerke in Munich and captions written by the artist. The many captions
are not fixed to the specific movies. Each time a page is downloaded, new
captions and new relations between captions and images will appear. The
lack of fixed relations is intrinsic to Without Moving/Without Stopping
where the viewer is engaged in a series of 'frameless' photographs.  Each
QTVR affords a 'total' picture of the scene, but because the viewer must
constantly frame and reframe the image, the work goes beyond traditional
still panoramic photographs,  investigating the concepts of frames and
boundaries. Without Moving / Without Stopping is an instance where a
picture is worth a thousand pictures and a caption contextualizes only a
moment.

Fidget is a java applet programmed by Clem Paulsen based on Kenneth
Goldsmith's Fidget, a transcription of recordings by Goldsmith in which he
spoke every body movement he made for thirteen hours on June 16, 1997
(Bloomsday). Goldsmith and Paulsen's collaboration have reconfigured the
text of Fidget to substitute the human body with the computer. The java
applet reduces the text of Fidget into its constituent elements of words
and phrases. The relationships between these elements is structured by a
dynamic mapping system that is organized visually and spatially instead of
grammatically. In addition, the java applet invokes duration and presence.
The applet is divided into 'chapters' for each of thirteen hours. Each time
the applet is downloaded it begins at the approximate time of day it is
being viewed and every mouse click or drag that the user initiates is
reflected in the visual mapping system. The sense of time is reinforced by
differing font sizes, background colors and degree of "fidgetness" for each
hour (these parameters may also be altered by the user) and the diminishing
contrast and eventual fading away of each phrase as seconds pass. Fidget is
a collaboration between Stadium, the Whitney Museum of American Art at
Philip Morris, and Printed Matter.  A collaboration with Goldsmith and
vocalist Theo Bleckmann commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art,
is made available online at Stadium via Real Audio. The text of Fidget is
also available online.

Turnstile Part II, by the artist Maciej Wisniewski is an XML (Extensible
Markup Language) based server application and Java client applet that
together cull live network 'objects' like lines of HTML code, text from web
pages, chat and email and from Stadium itself, incoming and outgoing email,
telephone calls, faxes and regular mail. In essence, virtual turnstiles are
placed at various nodes within the internet, the Stadium network and its
physical space. Turnstile Part II turns to the network as a source but the
work dissolves into the 'space' of the network as defined by Turnstile Part
II; a space where a telephone call to 411 from Stadium share proximity to
rants in the "ALL FEMANAST SUCK!!" chat room. Turnstile Part II defines the
network by searching objects based on keywords and various matching
strings. In its first weeks the keywords are: 'love' and 'loneliness'. The
ambient eavesdropping of Turnstile Part II extends the critical defining of
the network as space. The fractured syntax and combination of languages
express in a twitch manner the space of the network but it is one that can
be disrupted further by 'clicking' on a line of text to reveal its network
source, however, 'click' the same line again and another source will be
revealed showing that although this is a shared space it is not a static
one.

Stadium is dedicated to exploring the possibilities of the network as a
site for aesthetic production and distribution. Its focus is on
collaborating with artists to produce site-specific art works that are best
realized on the network, as well as documenting past works of ephemeral
media.

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