a ---------NEWS & EXHIBITIONS--------- IMAGES OF WORK Prairie Art Gallery April, 2008 We'll be exhibiting Grafik Dynamo in a solo show at the Prairie Art Gallery in April. More soon. Tributaries Launching February, 2008 I'm really happy to announce that a new project by J.R. Carpenter that I'm curating, Tributaries and Text-Fed Streams, has begun its soft launch. Check it out. PATH March, 2008 I'll be showing a new project, PATH, at Akbank Art Centre in Istanbul, opening March 4, 2008. Curated by Basak Senova. Western Front Board September, 2007 I'm really happy to announce that I've joined the Board of Directors at the Western Front. ArtCamp 2007 September 8, 2007 Following on the heels of the radically interesting ArtCamp06, Upgrade! Vancouver and New Forms Festival will present ArtCamp07 on September 8, 2007. The event will take place at Intersections Digital Studios at Emily Carr Institute. Scotland & Vancouver Come to Vancouver July 27, 2007 Upgrade! Vancouver and Upgrade! International will present a screening of international art videos from Scotland and Vancouver on July 27, 2007. The event will take place at Open Studios, 252 East 1st Avenue, off Main Street (around back). Starts at 10pm. IF 07 November 15, 2007 Kate Armstrong will be presenting Black Wiki at Interactive Futures 07: The New Screen, in Victoria, Canada. Curators Steve Gibson, Julie Andreyev and Randy Adams. Do Not Cut A Fresh Angel May, 2007 Do Not Cut A Fresh Angel will be published in the Kootenay School of Writing- W13 "The Paraliterary Issue", edited by Donato Mancini, with Jeremy Todd and Andrew Klobucar. Artifice and Intelligence May 17, 2007 Upgrade! Vancouver is happy to be co-presenting with The Capilano Review the launch of TCR 2-50, "Artifice and Intelligence" with a book party and panel at Intersections Digital Studios (IDS) at Emily Carr on May 17th, 2007 starting at 7:30pm. The panel will feature Sandra Seekins, David Jhave Johnston, Laura U. Marks, Jim Andrews, Kate Armstrong, and Darren Wershler-Henry and will be moderated by Andrew Klobucar. TV of Tomorrow March 13, 2007 Grafik Dynamo is participating in the TV of Tomorrow exhibition at Yerba Buena Centre in San Francisco. DIY or Die December 1-31, 2006 Grafik Dynamo is participating in the DIY or Die exhibition at IAO Gallery in Oklahoma City, in celebration of the ten year anniversaries of Turbulence and Rhizome. Presented in collaboration with Upgrade! New York. The Robots are Back! January 16-20, 2007 The Mawhrin-Skel robots are coming back to celebrate Art's Birthday at the Western Front. OK City November 30-December 3, 2006 The 2nd annual exhibition and meeting of Upgrade! International will be taking place in Oklahoma City. Ars Electronica 2006 September, 2006 We're happy to announce that Upgrade International will be part of this years Ars Electronica festival in Linz. Interactive Screens in Banff August 12-18, 2006 Kate Armstrong was happy to join a really fantastic group of participants at the Interactive Screens 06 event at the Banff New Media Institute in lovely Banff, Alberta. ISEA August 7-13, 2006 IN[ ]EX was part of the Container Culture exhibition at the 13th International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA 2006) & ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge in San Jose, California. Emergency Biennale July 8 - August 19, 2006 IN[    ]EX will be participating in the Emergency Biennale/Vancouver stop, along with Rebecca Belmore, Hank Bull, Antonia Hirsch, Ken Lum, Mo Salemy, Jayce Salloum, Sabina Bitter & Helmut Weber. “Emergency Biennale in Chechnya” nvolved a call to artists from all over the world to create two copies of a work that would fit in a suitcase—one for Chechyna, the other one for a touring exhibition around the world. For each stop, new artists are invited the exhibition (organized by a local partner) and a suitcase of their works is sent to Chechnya for new exhibitions organized there. Sitebody Specific June 10, 2006 Kate Armstrong, M. Simon Levin, Paul Ternes, and Jay Hirabayashi participated in Carolyn Deby's informal cross-arts discussion examining site-specific performance at the Dance Centre Junee 10, 2006. Tapestry Public Art Commission May 17, 2006 bnode has been shortlisted for the Tapestry public art commission, along with Jill Anholt, Claudia Cuesta & Bill Baker, Susan Point, and Karen Kazmer & Todd Davis. Vancouver Exhibition Dates June 16-July 1, 2006 Container Culture: in[    ]ex: Vancouver will be exhibited June 16-July 1 centering around two venues: Centre A (2 West Hastings Street) and at the World Urban Festival at Great Northern Way from Jun. 19-25 as part of the UN World Urban Forum. We Will Talk and Talk May 25, 2006 Kate Armstrong, Jean Routhier, Simon Levin, Laurie Long, Bobbi Kozinuk, Alice Ming Wai JIm, and Leonard Paul will give a talk "Rhythms of Urbanity: Mapping the Public Sphere Through Socio-Political Forces" at the Vancouver Art Gallery on May 25, 2006 at 7pm. Read About Our Robots March 28, 2006 Our robot residency at the Western Front has been written up on the networked_performance blog. The residency, called Mawhrin-Skel, involves Joelle Ciona, Deanne Achong, Kate Armstrong, Matt Smith, David Floren, and is curated by Peter Courtemanche. The opening has been scheduled for May 11, 2006. Come and see our machines! Media Art in Public Urban Space March, 2006 Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett will be exhibiting Grafik Dynamo at Transmedia 29:59, a year long exhibition on the pedestrian level video billboard at Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown Toronto. Grafik Dynamo will be exhibited during the month of March. CC + BC = In[    ]ex February 10, 2006 Kate Armstrong, M. Simon Levin, Laurie Long, Bobbi Kozinuk, Manuel Pina, Leonard Paul, and Jean Routhier have received a Canada Council grant for In[    ]ex. We've also gotten word that we are being graciously supported by the BC Arts Council. This is going to make producing a 10,000 piece participatory audio sculpture a lot easier. Rabble January 19, 2006 Kate Armstrong joined Michael Tippett and Will Pate on Roland Tanglao's podcast Roland's Rabble so tune in for our discussion about net art, haggis, personal publishing, citizen journalism, and the relentlessness of death. Support Turbulence November 30, 2005: Along with Cory Arcangel, Andy Deck, Jason Freeman, Mariam Ghani, Peter Horvath, Yael Kanarek, Michael Takeo Magruder, Michael Mandiberg, MTAA, Yoshi Sodeoka, Helen Thorington and Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, Kate Armstrong is participating in the 2005 fundraising drive for Turbulence. Get out your chequebooks! Year Zero One Blog November 18, 2005: Read Kate Armstrong's report on the first Upgrade International event in NYC on the Year Zero One blog. On Board Video In November 1, 2005: Kate Armstrong has joined the programming commitee at Video In . Container Culture October 15, 2005: Kate Armstrong, M. Simon Levin, Laurie Long, Bobbi Kozinuk, Manuel Pina, Leonard Paul, and Jean Routhier will be collaborating to produce an exhibition for ISEA 2006 in San Jose, California. The piece is part of the Container Culture exhibition at ISEA and is curated by Alice Ming Wai Jim and Centre A. Upgrades Unite! September 23-25, 2005: The entire Upgrade network - which used to just be Vancouver and New York, but which has expanded in the last year to include Seoul, Tel Aviv, Montreal, Boston, Oklahoma City, Chicago, Munich and Scotland, will come together at Eyebeam Atelier for a conference and exhibition. Robots, Lots of Them July 24, 2005: Kate Armstrong will be participating in Observer/Responder, a residency and exhibition at the Western Front from September 2005 to January 2006. Art 101 Fall 2005: Kate Armstrong will be teaching IAT 100 at Simon Fraser University in Fall 2005. Furtherfield Review July 11, 2005: Alison Coleman has reviewed Grafik Dynamo at Furtherfield.org. Test Pattern Detected May 5, 2005: Pattern Language, a location aware fiction project commissioned by the MDCN for Sonic Scene, will launch in connection with the Mobile Digital Commons Network Symposium: Sampling the Spectrum: The Politics, Practices and Poetics of Mobile Technologies, that is taking place May 5th - 8th, 2005 in Montréal, Canada. Grafik Dynamo at Prix Ars Electronica March 2, 2005: Grafik Dynamo has been invited to enter Prix Ars Electronica in the Net Vision category. Grafik Dynamo Launch February 15, 2005: Grafik Dynamo, a net art work by Kate Armstrong & Michael Tippett that loads live images from blogs and news sources on the web into a live action comic strip, launches today. Grafik Dynamo is a 2004 commission for Turbulence. Upgrade Talk February 15, 2005: Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett will give a talk at Upgrade 2.0 to launch their new net art collaboration Grafik Dynamo, a 2004 commission for Turbulence. 730 pm at Western Front in Vancouver, Canada. DIVA300 January 2005: Kate Armstrong will be teaching Digital Visual Arts 300 at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design starting in January 2005. Kingsway Commission December 17, 2004 bnode, with Kate Armstrong, Innes Yates and Marc Baumgartner, are one of three teams shortlisted for a public art commission at 1 Kingsway. Tanked Up November 1 & 2, 2004: Kate Armstrong will be participating in a think tank on the theme of "Language, Art, Programming and Networks: The Relationship of New Media Literature to Literature" at the University of Iowa and the Obermann Centre for Advanced Studies. Also participating are Mark B. Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles, Dee Morris, Brian Kim Stefans, Thomas Swiss and Joseph Tabbi. Audio and Interactivity October 24, 2004: Upgrade 2.0 @ NFF is a special event taking place in connection with the New Forms Festival in Vancouver, Canada from 12 - 7:30 on Sunday, October 24th. The event will feature an afternoon of artists talks centering on themes of audio and interactivity and will include Vitamins For You, In The Nursery, Ben Nevile, NomIg, Matt Roberts and Nathan Wolek of the Mobile Performance Group, and artists from Reverie: Noise City including Jean Routhier, Igor Santizo, Alberto Guedea, Elizabeth Fischer, and Ken Roux. The talks will be followed by a reception at Open Studios at 252 East 1st Avenue starting at 5:30. In with the Old, In with the New October 15, 2004: Kate Armstrong will moderate the "Invisible Technologies: Locative Media and Psychogeography" panel at the New Forms Festival as part of the Old Forms and New Forms - A Post-Traditional Technography Of World Media Arts Conference. The event will take place at the Vancouver Art Gallery at 210 pm. Panelists are Narendra Pachkhede, Karlis Kalnins, M. Simon Levin and Grant Kien. Ne Plus Ultrasonic Spring 2005: Kate Armstrong has been commissioned by the Mobile Digital Commons Network to create a locative audio walk for Sonic Scene. The project will be located in the city of Montreal and is funded by Heritage Canada. Novel Chart Spring 2005: Kate Armstrong has been commissioned by I-Projects and the Charles Scott Gallery in Vancouver, Canada, to make a net art piece titled Novel Chart. I-Projects is curated by Deanne Achong and David MacWilliam and is funded through the Canada Council for the Arts. Le Upgrade October 1, 2004: Upgrade! Montreal curated by tobias v. van veen will launch at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). Upgrade! Montreal is the third affiliate in the series, which also includes Upgrade 2.0 in Vancouver and Upgrade in New York City. H - ELO June 23, 2004: Kate Armstrong has been added to the database at the Electronic Literature Organization , which promotes and facilitates the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. RES Magazine May/June 2004: Read about Kate Armstrong's mobile phone artwork PING in the May/June issue of RES magazine. Article by Shana Ting Lipton. Turbulence Commission May 20, 2004: Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett have received a Turbulence commission for Grafik Dynamo, a net art work that uses XML and RSS feeds to load live images from blogs and news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. The project is a 2004 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site, and was made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Intimate Transactions on fAf April, 2004: Linda Carroli has cited me in an interesting new essay about Keith Armstrong's Intimate Transactions project. Got a Moment? May 15, 2004: Funerals for a Moment, a project by kanarinka with a.rios, Andrea Moed, Andy Milk, Cat L., Christy Georg, Daniel Ganin, Dave Raymond, Devin, Dillon Paul, Holly Tavel, iSkot, jb, Jeremy Beaudry, jess loseby, Jessica Poser, jhave, joseph and donna, Josephine Dorado, Kate Armstrong, kurt braunohler, Lee Walton, M. River of MTAA, Maryan Newbury, Masa Masuyama, Melissa, Mo Johnston, natalie loveless, Oren Bernstein, Rigel Ranciato, Ruth, Teri & Owsley, Teri D'Ignazio, timothy cahill, Vic, wavelady, Zeke, and others, will be happening at the Psy-Geo-Conflux in New York on May 15, 2004. Nothingness in Toronto April 15-24, 2004: Catalogue:Nothingness will be shown at the Images Festival in Toronto, April 15-24, 2004. Comment On Dit "PING" En Francais? February - May 2004: PING will be workshopped at the Université Paris 1: "La création interactive : entre narrativité et jouabilité" in Paris, France. O Yeah January 24 - February 14, 2004: Re: (o)(o), a group show investigating the possibilities of electronic-mail as a tool for new artistic explorations, featuring work by Kate Armstrong, opens at the Access Artist Run Centre in Vancouver, Canada, January 23, 2004. Curator: Alberto Guedea. Helen of the Culture Project January 26, 2004: Helen of Purgatory, a new play written and directed by Anne Marie Cummings, dramaturges: Kate Armstrong and Philippe Bodin, will open at the Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street, New York, January 26, 2004 at 7pm. Pre/amble.it December 1, 2003: Read the review of Pre/amble on Italian net.art journal Neural.it Here Now October 31, 2003: Kate Armstrong's article "Data and Narrative: Location Aware Fiction" is up at the TrAce Online writing centre in Nottingham, England. Read it here. Touche November 3, 2003: Touche, a new play by Anne Marie Cummings, dramaturges: Kate Armstrong and Philippe Bodin, will open at the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, New York, November 3rd, 2003. Pre/amble November 1 & 2, 2003: Kate Armstrong is curating Pre/amble, a 2 day festival of Art and Psychogeography that will take place in and around the Western Front in Vancouver, Canada, and will also present PING during the festival. Go to site. SB_Catalogue September 27-28, 2003: Kate Armstrong will be contributing to the catalogue for the Scrambled_Bites project at the Western Front. Scrambled_Bites is intended as a forum for research, demonstration, and critical dialogue and includes three artist-in-residence projects, artist talks, workshops, presentations, streaming events, and a catalogue. More about Scrambled_Bites. PING Me 24/7 September 12 - November 2 2003: PING will be part of the 24/7 New York - Vilnius exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania, curated by Kestutis Kuiznas & Raimundas Malasauskas. Nothingness, South American Style August 15, 2003: Catalogue: Nothingness will be exhibited as part of Arte Digital Rosario 2003, curated by noneart and Gabriel Otero from the Centre of Expresiones Contemporaneous (CEC) in Rosario, Argentina. MAD in Madrid October 24 - November 16, 2003: Kate Armstrong's Catalogue: Nothingness will be exhibited as part of MAD '03, the 2nd Meeting of Experimental Arts in Madrid, Spain. Experience the Panel August 1, 2003: Steve DiPaola, Arthur Kroker, Semi Ryu and Kate Armstrong will appear on the panel "Experience the Virtual", moderated by Susan Kozel, at the New Forms Festival at 4pm on August 1st, 2003. PING Revisited July 12, 2003: Read "A Psychogeographical account of PING and PsyGeoConflux 2003" by Kate Armstrong on the Year Zero One Forum: Issue #12 - Summer 2003:Psychogeography - Space, Place and Perception. LIVE from Vancouver July 30 - August 2, 2003: Kate Armstrong and Jeremy Turner will present IN_CORP, a performance installation in a virtual environment, at the New Forms Festival in Vancouver, Canada, July 30 - August 2, 2003 PsyGeoConflux in New York May 8-11, 2003: Kate Armstrong will present PING at Glowlab's PsyGeoConflux event in New York City May 8-11, 2003. Read the New York Times article here. (May 12th, 2003) Irish Museum of Modern Art April 24, 2003: See The Relation Papers at the 2003 Net Art Open at the Irish Museum of Modern Art L'ecommerce detournata April 15, 2003: Catalogue: Spring 2003: Nothingness has been reviewed in Italian net art magazine Neural.it Catalogue: Spring 2003 LAUNCH March 30, 2003: Catalogue: Spring 2003: Nothingness will have its official launch at the net_works: net.artists talking offline panel event in Surrey on Sunday, March 30, but you can see Catalogue right now. Launch project Istanbul Biennial March 28, 2003: See the Relation Papers at the Istanbul Museum Web Biennial 2003 Net art in Canada exhibition March 27, 2003: See Kate Armstrong in Wilfried Agricola de Cologne's new net art exhibition I-Highway Panel: net_works: net.artists talking offline March 25, 2003: Kate Armstrong will appear on a panel with Jim Andrews, Deanne Achong, Randy Adams and Jeremy Turner at the Surrey Art Gallery Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 2pm Sometimes a Frankfurter is just a Frankfurter March 23, 2002: imageWord.not_a_pipe , a collaborative media installation with Evann Siebens, Mathieu Borysevicz, Yannis Adoniou and Kate Armstrong, will be presented by the Frankfurt Ballet at the Bockenheimer Depot on March 23, 2003. Mediatopia launch March 20, 2003: Mediatopia's net based exhibition and symposium on networked technology features Kate Armstrong's Blood Experiments and an interview. Mediatopia Canada Council Grant February 27, 2003: Kate Armstrong has been awarded a new media production grant from the Canada Council for the Arts Artists Talk January 15, 2003: Kate Armstrong will present an Artists Talk in connection with the Techlab Residency at the Surrey Art Gallery on Sunday, February 2nd, 2003. CBC Radio Interview December 17, 2002: Paul Grant interviewed Kate Armstrong about her new net.art project Catalogue for CBC Arts Report on Tuesday. Audio clip coming soon. Techlab Artist in Residence November 21, 2002: Kate Armstrong will be the new Techlab Digital Media Artist in Residence at the Surrey Art Gallery from December 2, 2002- March 30, 2003. You can see it from Argentina November 15, 2002: Constellation N. Praxis, by Donato Mancini and Kate Armstrong, will be part of the Artmedia 2002 festival at the Universidad Maimonides in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 20-21, 2002 imageWord.not_a_pipe in Monaco November 1, 2002: imageWord.not_a_pipe , a collaborative media installation with Evann Siebens, Mathieu Borysevicz, Yannis Adoniou and Kate Armstrong, will be part of the Monaco Dance Forum December 11-15, 2002 Explanation in Saskatchewan October 5, 2002: Look for Kate Armstrong at the Fifth Parallel Gallery in Regina Oct. 8 - 19 and at Neutral Ground from Oct. 17 - Nov.16 as part of Mike Haller's exhibition of emerging artists. DRIFT August 29, 2002: Drift: A Generative Psychogeographical Event went off without a hitch on one of the last days of summer. Read Special Airplane's summary here or view Rhizome.org's announcement. (archived image) Screening of The Last Dark Day August 20, 2002: The Last Dark Day, a film by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett, will be screened at 5:45 at the ANZA Club, 3 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, as part of the 48 Hour Film Festival Blood Experiments & Mediatopia.org August 19, 2002: Blood Experiments will be part of Mediatopia.org's upcoming exhibition in the category of Convergent Bodies and the Institutional Brain. More soon Crisis & Repetition at the Canadian Consulate August 7, 2002: Crisis & Repetition was featured in Book Notes 08/02 at the Upper North Side by the Canadian Consulate General in New York The Thing Review July, 2002: Security and the Unrepresentable : Kate Armstrong's reading of Knowbotic Research's Breaking News :: Minds of Concern installation at the New Museum of Contemporary Art 's Open_Source_Art_Hack exhibit. Run, Circuit, Run July 23, 2002: See Circuit on Jess Loseby's cyber-kitchen installation Low-fi.org.uk selects the Relation Papers July 4, 2002: The Relation Papers is featured on low-fi locator:mapping space / memory See the Relation Papers on furtherfield.org May 7, 2002: The Relation Papers is featured on experimental net art collective furtherfield.org The Relation Papers now on Digitalsouls.com April 16, 2002: Site [seeing] on Digitalsouls.com: new media, philosophy, culture Reckoning is Curator's Pick March 1 - August 31, 2002: Reckoning is curator's pick for March in The Digital Pocket Gallery: Net Artists respond to their Hard Drives by Boston-based intermedia collective iKatun.com, in collaboration with 536 Gallery. More: fAf E-zine and Neural Online Book Launch March 7, 2002 : Kate Armstrong presented selected arguments from Crisis & Repetition: Essays on Art and Culture at White Box, 525 West 26th Street, New York b	xx PATH PATH is a 12 volume bookwork with text generated by the physical movement of an anonymous individual living in the city of Montreal between 2005-2007. Each time this individual accessed the internet using public wi-fi over the course of this 2 year period they were tagged wiuth a textual passage exploring themes of visual, personal, and spatial patterns as reflected in the lives of fictional characters. Accumulating over time, these behavioral and technological points of contact come to form an intricate fabric of language that both reveals and conceals the pattern of a life lived in the city. The project, 12 volumes in English and a 12 volume translation into Turkish, will show at the Akbank Art Centre in Istanbul, Turkey, opening March 8th, 2008. Curated by Basak Senova. xx xx Why Some Dolls Are Bad Why Some Dolls Are Bad is a dynamically generated graphic novel built on the facebook platform. The work assembles a stream of images that match certain tags and dynamically mixes them with original text in order to produce a perpetually changing narrative. Users who subscribe to the application in facebook can capture pages from the graphic novel and save, reorder, and distribute them. The novel engages themes of ethics, fashion, and the self, and invites a re-examination of artifice, contagion, cap-sleeved mohair tunics, Freudian tension, perspex cabinetry, and false-seeming things in nature such as Venus Flytraps, among other things. Why Some Dolls Are Bad will premiere at The New Screen: Interactive Futures 2007 in Victoria, Canada, in November, 2007. xx xx The Upgrade! Vancouver Gatherings on art, technology and culture in Vancouver, Canada. Curated by Kate Armstrong. The series is part of Upgrade International. xx xx ArtCamp07: Re:Use ArtCamp07: Re:use is a one-day un-conference that aims to bring the open, participatory and creative energy of BarCamp to the world of art in an interdisciplinary forum. It is a hybrid conference/workshop/etc event in which participants come together to show work, demo artworks, projects, research or technology, and talk about ideas. Geared toward creatively parsing concepts of Re:Use with reference to contemporary art, media and design, ArtCamp07 is about leading or participating in sessions, asking interesting questions, showing what you’re doing, sharing what you’re thinking about, meeting, eating and greeting. Space is limited: Sign up on the wiki xx xx Analogue Wiki Analogue Wiki is a performance/installation that uses a blackboard and chalk to build a wiki in physical space. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, participants are invited to revise a written statement. At intervals, the wiki will be photographed and the images printed and displayed in sequential order as a history of the changes that have been made. At various points the wiki will be manually reverted to an earlier state based on the photographic documentation. xx xx ArtCamp: The World's First un-Conference on Art ArtCamp, the World's First un-Conference on Art, is a co-production between New Forms Festival and Upgrade! Vancouver that takes place on September 21, 2006, replacing the New Forms Festival Conference. ArtCamp aims to bring the open collaborative process of a wiki into physical space. It is a self-organizing event geared toward sharing practices and ideas on art, media, networks and culture. The idea is to create an event in which conference structures are overturned in favour of collective, self-organizational models. ArtCamp is an experiment in bringing these principles into action in the context of art discourse, production and practice. xx xx IN[    ]EX In[    ]ex is an audio sculpture which creates a mesh network by releasing thousands of embedded wooden blocks into the world. The mesh network collects and processes data to form a sound environment in the space of a shipping container. This project takes place in the context of shipping and distribution of goods and the movement of people in the two port cities of Vancouver, British Columbia, and San Jose, California. In[    ]ex engages both the subject of things and the mechanisms by which things are distributed in the global economy. In[    ]ex is a collaborative project by Kate Armstrong, Bobbi Kozinuk, M. Simon Levin, Laurie Long, Leonard Paul, Manual Pina, and Jean Routhier and is curated by Alice Ming Wai Jim. The piece will first be exhibited in connection with Centre A and the World Urban Forum in Vancouver, Canada in June 2006, and then in San Jose, California in connection with the Container Culture exhibition at ISEA in August. xx xx The Problem of Other Minds The Problem of Other Minds is a voice activated robotic sculpture in a glass orb which unspools a roll of paper when it hears words that it recognizes. On the spool of paper are thoughts, observations and diagrams. xx xx Om Om is an audio art project that uses podcasting to deliver instruction sets that have their roots in guided meditation. The audio pieces, which are automatically downloaded to your computer or mobile device, become interspersed with your everyday patterns of living and use calm satire to direct attention to underexplored facets of the surrounding world. Om is a commission of I-Projects and the Charles H Scott Gallery in Vancouver, Canada. Coming September 2006. xx xx Grafik Dynamo Grafik Dynamo is a net art work by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett that loads live images from blogs and news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. The images are accompanied by narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought bubbles and randomly displayed. Animating the comic strip using dynamic web content opens up the genre in a new way. Together, the images and narrative serve to create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and expectation in the reader, as they are sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes perfectly in sync, and always moving and changing. A narrative sequence emerges but is never closed. Grafik Dynamo is a 2004 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. xx xx Pattern Language Pattern Language is a location-aware fiction project that attaches patterns of narrative to individuals as they move through the city of Montreal. Each person’s path is logged in the system and compiled into a document that can be read online. The work is meant to engage with the rhythms of the city: by evolving according to the patterns of an individual, each story forms both a map or trace of movement and a fabric of sound. Narrative fragments associated with each hotspot correspond to the point of view of one character, so that repeatedly logging into the system from a single hotspot will produce a narrative from a single point of view, while moving between hotspots will insert new characters and perspectives into the text. Pattern Language was commissioned by the Locative Media Lab and the Mobile Digital Commons Network with funding from the New Media Research Networks Fund at the Department of Canadian Heritage. xx xx Catalogue CATALOGUE: Nothingness is a net.art work that uses description, image, email and javascript to interrogate some of the cultural and mechanical forms that operate in online shopping. The work is designed to exist on a parallel plane with commercial shopping sites and to offer a menu of small interventions that extend outward into the world. The theme of nothingness was chosen for the catalogue in order to defamiliarize common structures found in online shops by substituting imaginary objects, states of being, and existential drama for regular items and marketing strategies. Catalogue was realized as part of the Techlab digital media artist-in-residence program at the Surrey Art Gallery and was funded through a New Media production grant from the Canada Council for the Arts xx xx PING PING is an experiential wireless project that uses a telephone menu system to distribute active commands to users who call in using a cell phone. The choices made by the caller when navigating the telephone system produce directions for physical movement through the city. Voice by Jennifer Silverman. The presentation of PING at the Psy-Geo-Conflux festival in New York May 8-11th, 2003 was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. PING will be presented at the CAC in Vilnius, Lithuania September 12 - November 2, 2003 as part of the 24/7 New York - Vilnius exhibition. xx xx Pre/amble Pre/amble is a two day festival of art and psychogeography which takes as a starting point the exploration of the city, an interest in dialogue surrounding methods of psychogeography, and the intersection of psychogeography with contemporary art practices. Pre/amble will take place in Vancouver, Canada on November 1 & 2, 2003. Pre/amble is presented by Special Airplane, Upgrade 2.0 and the Western Front Artist Run Centre. More about Pre/amble xx xx Special Airplane Special Airplane is a media arts organization that hosts events for net culture in Vancouver, Canada. For a complete list of Special Airplane events, go to www.specialairplane.org xx xx IN_CORP IN_CORP is a recombinant textual visualization that is driven by audience movement within the found architecture of the Muse virtual environment. The installation offers a continually evolving 64,000 permutation statement on the subject of incorporation as an idea that intersects across several systems, including legal, religious, corporate, philosophical, and biological. As users enter and exit the space they recombine textual fragments, creating new statements about the notion of being and becoming present. Audio by Jeremy Turner. Exhibited at New Forms Festival, July-August 2003. xxxxxxx xx Explanation Part of an ongoing series of functional concept experiments, Explanation offers an ornamental framework of radio buttons which display, in rollover, explanations for a spectrum of questions relating to belief, photosynthesis, the magnetic poles of the earth, the invention of elevators, and the relative notion of size. xx xx DRIFT :: A Generative Psychogeographical Event In collaboration with Social Fiction Special Airplane presented Drift :: A Generative Psychogeographical Event on August 29th, 2002. more xx xx A Statement Conveying Fundamental Character Read A Statement Conveying Fundamental Character, a creative essay on Matthew Buckingham's installation Definition (2000), as part of PS.1 / MoMA's Special Projects Writers Series xx xx The Relation Papers Using data from a 1966 behavioral experiment testing the influence of the perception of time categories on individual behavior, The Relation Papers presents a fictional vision of two characters - The Simulating Subject and The Hypnotized Subject - as they undergo questioning at the hands of The Experimenter, his Confederate, and an Outside Observer. xx xx Blood Experiments Blood Experiments is a javascript application which uses recombinant language fragments to create a statement on the subject of blood, or experiments, or love. The intentional visual simplicity of the work emphasizes the vague authoritative language used in connection with these subjects - which are deeply personal and not at all interchangeable - and is meant to be unsettling and prone to violent readings xxxxxxx xx imageWord.not_a_pipe imageWord.not_a_pipe is a media & dance collaboration with Evann Siebens, Mathieu Borysevicz, Yannis Adoniou and Kate Armstrong. Visually inspired by Magritte, the installation / performance, which uses motion sensors and live image mixing, was part of the Monaco Dance Forum December 11-15, 2002 and was presented by the Frankfurt Ballet at Bockenheimer Depot in March, 2003. xxxxxxx xx Constellation N.Praxis Constellation N.Praxis is a 'pataphysical javascript star-chart by Donato Mancini & Kate Armstrong. The functionality of the work is meant to invoke the impossiblity of tracing individual destiny in the stars: each star is visible until it is approached, when it flickers and disappears according to the pattern determined by the actions of the user. xx xx Syndrome Syndrome is an online installation using text and video which proposes to explore the notion of the sublime as centered in the psychiatric conditions the Jerusalem Syndrome and the Stendhal Syndrome, with emphasis on the "moment" of aesthetic and/or religious ecstasy in which the loss of self occurs. xxxxxxx xx Found Media Project The Found Media Project is a performance installation in which existing webcams are used to present an experimental dance work. In collaboration with Evann Siebens. xxxxxxx xx Point Conceived as an argument in which portions of the accusational statements being thrown back and forth are obscured, mimicking the pace of coldness and anger, Point uses fleeting popups of defaced or damaged maps, text which fractures at random, and hidden code notes that appear when the mouse is at rest to convey the mental and verbal responses of the lovers. The incomplete images and phrases, along with the metaphor of loss or being lost, are meant to convey the fractured perspective of experience and navigation within a shared landscape. xx xx Circuit Commissioned by the cyber-kitchen installation project, Circuit uses flash to explore the electrical schematic as a crossover between the functional and the visual. xx