Hi all
i usually try not to forward so many announcements, but i'd love a
report from someone in vancouver who will be seeing this exhibition...
as it ties closely to work we've done at crumb looking at other
exhibitions which marry recent new media art projects with specific
histories of art (like Simon Pope's curated exhibition Art for
Networks, and the co-curated exhibition Database Imaginary).
First hand impressions of the exhibition welcome!
thanks
Sarah
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> From: Western Front Exhibitions <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 27 January 2007 22:54:00 GMT
> To: Western Front Exhibitions <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Opening Friday, Feb 2, 8pm :: Before the Internet: Networks
> and Art
>
> Before the Internet:
> Networks and Art
> Curated by Peter Courtemanche and Candice Hopkins
>
> February 3 - March 10, 2007
> Opening Friday, February 2, 8pm
>
> Following a trajectory from correspondence art to collaborative
> publications to early new media, this exhibition documents the ways in
> which artists have used and transformed systems of communication
> and recognizes the role of Robert Filliou, Western Front, Image Bank,
> Intermedia, N.E. Thing Co., and others in the development and
> participation in early network projects.
>
> This exhibition includes objects, ephemera, and documentation of three
> decades of networked art such as manifestos, correspondence art, slow
> scan images, fax transmissions, music exchanges, collaborative
> publications, and documentation of community TV, video and radio
> projects. Included are Gary Lee Nova’s Dead Letter Campaign, N.E.
> Thing Company’s Telex Project, Nam June Paik’s Cybernetic Manifesto,
> Image Bank’s Annual Report, International Image Exchange Directory,
> and Colour Bar Research, Porta Filliou by Robert Filliou,
> collaborative publications by Dana Atchley and others, and materials
> related to the Pac Rim Slow Scan Project, The World in 24 Hours, La
> Plissure du Texte, and Planetary Network.
>
> Early concepts of networked art have their origins in what Robert
> Filliou and George Brecht called the “Eternal Network” (Fęte
> Permanente), a continually expanding multitude of communicative nodes,
> not for the purposes of creating art objects, but for instigating
> artistic actions and events and creating exchanges on an international
> scale. Before the Internet documents this shift in emphasis from the
> object and its interpretation to relationships and interactions.
> Together, they represent a time that pointed towards globalization and
> its ideals as well as the importance of “present-ness” through
> real-time events, collaborations, connections and the desire for
> communication.
>
> The Western Front gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada
> Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council through the Government of
> British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, and our members and
> volunteers. The Western Front is a member of the Pacific Association
> of Artist-Run Centres (PAARC).
>
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