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*Next at HTTP: A SCAN Showcase ======================* Opens 7pm Saturday 15th January 2005 **DATA AGENCY** Fenlandia by Susan Collins dotdotdot by Igloo Reverb by Lorie Novak (AS)RAM by Neil C Smith We invite you to the opening of the exhibition to view the work and to meet some of the artists in person. Artists Private View- 7pm Saturday 15th January 2005 then open to 30th January, Friday - Sunday: 12 noon- 5pm =============================== Data Agency is a SCAN showcase of live, real-time, online media arts. Combining found data with content produced by webcams, streamed audio, generative programmes and their own sounds and visuals, these artists reconfigure the original function and meaning of the data to create their own, new devices and meanings, to enhance online arts projects. *Susan Collins* Fenlandia features a series of gradually unfolding, digital landscapes created by images harvested from webcams in rural, technological sites (Silicon Fen in Norfolk, Silicon Valley in the M4 corridor, and Silicon Glen in Scotland) around the UK. The data feed from the webcams updates the images pixel by pixel, recording fluctuation in light and movement throughout the day. At any one time the viewer experiences a different version of the image as the pixels change and the piece expands - Fenlandia extrapolates and develops traditional devices of the landscape tradition in painting. Commission by Film and Video Umbrella *Igloo* dotdotdot is a new web and installation work. It is the net's first interactive radio-streaming, motion capture project and is an on-line choreographic work where viewers select the soundtrack whilst driving the performance animations. *Lorie Novak* Reverb examines the cultural relevance of photographs by interspacing media images of significant moments from the last 50 years with highly personal images which place the viewer within a deeply political and historical context. Direct broadcasts and archived sounds of historical events, political speeches, and personal testimonies create different sound/image permutations each time the piece is played. *Neil C Smith* (AS)RAM Through improvisation and self-generating artworks, Oxford-based artist Neil C Smith places the creative process in real-time, often remixing the work of other artists; much of his work is unrecorded and ephemeral. (AS)RAM is an online development of Neil's solo performance Radio Access Memory, an improvised remix of live radio. *Data Agency is a SCAN exhibition produced in association with Furtherfield at HTTP* Online exhibition http://www.scansite.org December 2004 - May 2005 *About SCAN* SCAN is the new media arts agency in the South of England with a commitment to the delivery and facilitation of collaborative works. The organisation provides a fertile space for individuals and organisations to share resources in the realisation of quality projects and experimental initiatives using emergent technologies and practices. Using the SCAN website, the physical spaces of our member organisations and the expertise of our partner organisations, it provides a focal point for a wide spectrum of digital arts practice. Data Agency is supported by Arts Council of England Press release for print (322k) http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib2/data_agency_press_release.pdf Gallery website http://www.http.uk.net Getting to HTTP http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.htm HTTP is a non-profit organisation run by artists and curators of Furtherfield.org & Dosensos http://www.furtherfield.org http://www.dosensos.org