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MTAA

October 3, 2002; 8:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

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September 2002

 
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An evening spent catching up with MTAA.

T. Whid and M. River took the opportunity to consider recent past projects and updated the group regarding their current work and process.  T. Whid and M. River reviewed the Website Unseen and Updates series, discussed the installation work at PS1 and SmackMellon, perused new works in progress at Tinjail.com, and provided highlights of the new features at MT Enterprises WorldWide.  MTAA used the meeting to contextualize a body of work via a presentation based on reflection.

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Michael Rees

July 24, 2002; 6:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Sculptural User Interface

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July 2002

 
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Discussing his work against ideas about artificial intelligence, artificial sculpture, and art history with special emphasis on his hybrid virtual/physical practice.

Michael Rees began his fantastic talk with a review of his early work as a post-minimalist sculptor and his studies with Joseph Beuys as a Fulbright scholar.

He went on to describe work done in the early 90′ that crossed an interest between Pygmalion, in the context of the discourse of male construction of the feminine and dog shows. That eventually led to the engagement with rapid prototyping machines and the integration of digital media into his sculptural work.

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Christiane Paul

April 24, 2002; 6:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

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April 2002

 
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Christiane Paul provided an overview of the hypertext scene.

She began with a pre-web history of hypertext by describing Ted Nelson’s 1961 dream of hypermedia: grand collaborations in linked reading and writing that connect to reader-response criticism and theories of post-modernism and
post-structuralism.

Paul moved into the strategies and structures of hypertext by highlighting a number of projects created in Storyspace, the hypertext writing software. Michael Joyce’s Twilight Symphony uses a compass tool to access different timeframes of the story, as in east for past and west for future. Jane Yellowlees Douglas takes a different approach with her hourglass structure of I Have Said Nothing. No matter what the chosen metaphor, Paul pointed out that these structures are essential for holding the user’s interest in an environment in which one could be easily lost.

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Mark Napier

April 3, 2002; 6:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Waiting Room

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March 2002

 
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Mark Napier made a second engaging appearance at this month’s Upgrade!

He discussed works from his virtual studio—potatoland.org, including RIOT, FEED, net.flag, and The Waiting Room.

Napier explained RIOT as an alternative browser with two goals in mind. One goal is for the browser to be a public domain; the other is to break down the notion of individual web territories. RIOT seeks to expose the myth of separate non-intrusive realms on the Internet by dismantling the software that separates them. The program is based on physical riots that similarly break down boundaries of privacy and ownership such as the Lower East side squatters’ riots in 1999. The piece is currently showing at the 2002 Whitney Biennial.

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Alex Galloway

July 26, 2001; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
http://www.rhizome.org/object.php?o=1676&m=2408

 

 

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July 2001

Alex Galloway began his presentation talking about his work as a programmer and senior editor for Rhizome.org and reviewed three collaborative projects he’s been involved with. 

The award winning StarryNight, is a collaboration with Martin Wattenberg and Mark Tribe. The project provides an alternative interface to the Rhizome database linking database objects as constellations in a starry night sky. Every Image, is a screensaver that feeds off the Rhizome database to browse through text objects and icons associated with it. This work focuses on the visual effect as a network collage. The third piece was the Rhizome logo that was programmed to respond and alter to IP addresses of visitors to the site. Read On »

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Cary Peppermint

November 16, 2000; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

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November 2000

This month at Upgrade!, Peppermint presented an overview of his past projects and his newest obsession: the “one-click artwork”.

Cary Peppermint’s work might be the most overtly “American” in flavor of all of the Upgrade! artists.  From eBay auctions to online performances, Peppermint presents a particularly Americanized critique of e-consumption mixed with a hearty dose of wit. 

Early online performances like Mashed Potato Supper and Conductor Number One: Getting in Touch With Chicken involved the artist and his collaborators (human and not!) in attempts to complete real time communication circuits. More recent projects like the eBay auction Use Me as a Medium and the e-commerce compendium An American Art Work in Progress feature Peppermint’s unconventional approach to finding the aesthetic in online shopping and the creation of artistic value. Read On »