Hi all and node.london is a grassroots from my perspective, in so much
as it has been co-ordinated by individuals rather than institutions.
I've attended several cross-disciplinary meetings of London based
institutions, keen to see a media arts event in London, but incapable of
agreeing on what it should look like, or how best to achieve it. So,
node.london should be congratulated for managing, where others have
failed, to fill a well recognised gap.
As a prelude to the events in March, I'd like to draw your attention to
the first of three new net art works at Tate Online, co-commissioned
with the Whitney's artport. The Dumpster, by Golan Levin with Kamal
Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg, launched today at both sites:
http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/ & http://artport.whitney.org/.
The Dumpster is an information visualisation using data from web logs to
plot the romantic lives of teenagers in 2005. Accompanying the work
you'll also find a text on 'Social Data Browsing' by Lev Manovich
http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/bvs/manovich.htm, and an new overarching
essay to the net art section at Tate Online by Charlie Gere on 'Network
Art and the Networked Gallery':
http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/networkgallery.htm.
All contribute topical points about the role of the gallery or
institution 21st century, as well as the nature of curation and artistic
practice today. Two more Tate / Whitney co-commissions will follow in
March, to coincide directly with node.london, along with an online panel
discussion to debate all these issues still further.
If data be the food of love, play on,
Jemima
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