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hi all you are all invited to make comments on structures in art, culture, political issues, communication on the comment board "Public Desktop", by Jonah Brucker-Cohen. For you running OS X you can install "Public Desktop" and be part.... -eva s.t.r.u.k.t.u.r. is a critical examination of the underlying principles of structures in art, culture and communication. The Gallery acts as an interrelated space, connected like a network node with the local community and the global network. Each artist creates work based on process and exchange with the general public, by using GPS, the Internet, cell phones or through dialogue in the Gallery, creating hybrid authorship of the artwork. Participating artists are Jonah Brucker-Cohen with "Public Desktop", by using an application that is dynamically updated, the desktop image transforms into a global comment-board. Theorists, critics and artists from around the globe are invited to write comments straight to the desktop in the gallery; http://www.coin-operated.com/publicdesktop David Goldenberg, Ilze Black and Wim Salki with "Dreaming About the Future", the artists create a Think Tank in the gallery, visioning the future of art practice in the year 2030, part of the post autonomous The gallery will be a place for exchange and ideas in a participatory process through discussions and talk-ins. "Dreaming About the Future" examines a range of tools through the active exploration of participation of a contemporary practice along fundamentally different principles to those we have inherited. The reconstruction of a new model along the lines of a post autonomous practice allows the possibility of breaking down not only the existing positions available in art, but also the available ideas and means for staging a practice. This erosion of the existing model is no more than removing the ideological model of the cold war, which continuos to distort any idea that the role of a contemporary practice fulfills, along with its link to a colonial mechanism with a global empire, which is unacceptable. Jim Costanzo's "datamap_2004", by using GPS and the Internet to transfer data to the gallery Costanzo expose how we are all part of the digital global economy, human rights movement and surveillance, by following the footsteps of John Brown. There will be a daily update of the datamap with a comment-board; Trebor Scholz with "Twenty-Four Dollar Island", creates a collaborative map of Lower Manhattan by inviting citizens to contribute their stories to an online database, a way to expose the history hidden in New York City. Trebor Scholz is distributing 5.000 postcards around Lower Manhattan. http://24dollarisland.net/ ..... Opening reception 7-9 PM, May 7 Exihibition May 7 - May 28, 2004 After Party at Hyperoffice 9-11 PM at 34 Howard Street Artist's Talk, Tuesday May 11, at 7PM the:artist:network 424 Broadway,NY, NY 6th floor (btw. Howard an Canal St) Gallery Hours Thursday-Saturday 2-5 PM or by appointment (212) 431-1625 http://www.theartistnetwork.org Curated by Eva Sjuve ...... -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .