Artists talk and symposium: Nintendo and New World Narratives with Mary
Fuller and Henry Jenkins (assistant professors of literature at MIT)
and a hypertext performance / reading by Caroline Guyer from "Quibbling",
her new hypertext from Eastgate Systems
performance: Saturday, January 23, 8pm, Music by Neil Leonard
admission $6.00
In January, the Space will present a show of installation art, hypertext
literature, and interactive music, all of which utilize digital
technology. The "Computer Is Not Sorry" introduces the work of artists who
investigate the computer as artistic object. "Interactivity" is a primary
feature of computers. With applications and methods ranging from simulated
warfare to user-friendly interfaces, the computer is made to mimic human
response. Interactivity is a lie. The computer is not really sorry when it
apologizes, but this mimicry of manners fulfills our innate need for
complete cycles of communication. The Computer Is Not Sorry explores
various facets of this virtual humanity.
Installations
+ Jennifer Hall is the Director of Do While Studio, a Boston
non-profit work space dedicated to the education and creation of art and
technology, and teaches design, sculpture, and the media arts at the
Massachusetts College of Art. Her installation is a conversation between
two computers, and is a response to our anthropocentric perception of the
tools we develop. "Our culture wants to desperately to believe the
promises associated with what we have termed interactivity and virtual
reality. Is this obsession misdirected and why do we think these are new
ideas? After all, reading a good book is both an interactive and a virtual
experience."
+ Tim (Robots from Hell) Anderson is a researcher at MIT's
Laboratory of Manufacturing and Productivity, working on a 3D
printer/sculpture-making machine. Several of his robots are included in
the 1992 Small Computer and the Arts exhibition at the Franklin Institute
in Philadelphia. The Do While Gallery in Boston is currently hosting
"Robot Art", a one-person show of Anderson's work. His "Tissue Mobile"
installation at the Space will include a pendulum driven by muscle tissue.
+ Chris Burnett, a former Charlestown resident, is an artist and
critic who teaches media and computer art at the Kansas City Art
Institute. His books and computer interactive works have been exhibited at
the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Fuller Art Museum in Brockton,
Massachusetts, and elsewhere. His installation, "Muto[scape]: A Panorama
of Animation Specimens" explores the mixed culture of popular animation
within hypermedia and physical structures based on the zoetrope, an early
animation device.
+ Greg Garvey is Assistant Professor of Design Art at Concordia
University in Montreal teaching computer graphics and multi-media. He has
exhibited environmental installations in New York and Boston and has
collaborated with a number of choreographers producing dance videos. His
installation "Catholic Turing Test" challenges the sinner in the
confessional to decide whether or not a priest or a computer is hearing
the confession. In doing so the user/sinner can experience the ecstasy of
forgiveness in a Manichean system governed by binary logic.
Hypertext
The show will present recent hypertext literature published by Eastgate
Systems, Inc. of Watertown, Massachusetts.
+ "Its Name was Penelope" by Judy Malloy. Malloy is a book,
electrographic, and computer artist as well as an associate editor of
Leonardo and Leonardo Electronic News. She believes that affordable
book-size computers will enable the proliferation of new types of
responsive books and collaborative storytelling. "Its Name was Penelope"
is based on books from Homer's Odyssey; the narrator is a woman
photographer. Malloy writes, "Every reader chooses how and when to enter
each file, and random record generation makes each file appear different
to each reader."
+ Victory Garden by Stuart Moulthrop. Moulthrop, a former Yale
English Literature teacher, learned about hypertext in 1985, an event he
says changed his life. Now he "lives in the sunbelt and thinks about the
late age of print." With authors Michael Joyce, Nancy Kaplan, and John
McDaid, he is co-founder of the TINAC electronic arts collective.
Moulthrop's current projects include "Leni's Texts", a study of conspiracy
fiction, and "Grass", a multi-author hypertext. Victory Garden is a
portrait of the day the United States went to war in the sands of Kuwait
and Iraq.
Music
+ Neil Leonard is a saxophonist/clarinetist and assistant director
and instructor at the Massachusetts College of Art Computer Arts Learning
Center. For the past six years he has concentrated on composition,
creating works for interactive computer music systems, film, video, and
performance. Neil has harnessed chaos theory to create "an algorithmic
house band" that provided a set of compositions for an educational
television series, and he has developed systems in which computer software
varies musical output according to how Leonard is playing his saxophone.
"The Computer Is Not Sorry" catalog, with essays by Chris Burnett and
University of Florida professor and 1993 SIGGRAPH Art Show Chair Simon
Penny, will be available at the show or by contacting the Space. In
addition to the print catalog, both video and hypertext catalogs of the
show will be available. "The Computer Is Not Sorry" is curated by George
Fifield and Brian Wallace.
the Space is one of Boston's principal alternative arts centers. It is a
non-profit arts organization funded by the National Endowment for the
Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Engelhard Foundation, The Massachusetts
Cultural Council, The Andy Warhol Foundation and your generous
contributions. the Space is a member of the National Association of
Artists Organizations (NAAO). It provides a forum for innovative projects
in the the visual and performing arts. the Space has a tradition, in its
seven years, of presenting new voices from diverse backgrounds, show ing
visual, installation and performance art as well as presenting poetry and
video.
For more information contact:
the Space
107 South Street
Boston, MA 02111
617-451-0602
fax: 451-0621
Or e-mail: gwf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Fuller and Henry Jenkins (assistant professors of literature at MIT)
and a hypertext performance / reading by Caroline Guyer from "Quibbling",
her new hypertext from Eastgate Systems
performance: Saturday, January 23, 8pm, Music by Neil Leonard
admission $6.00
In January, the Space will present a show of installation art, hypertext
literature, and interactive music, all of which utilize digital
technology. The "Computer Is Not Sorry" introduces the work of artists who
investigate the computer as artistic object. "Interactivity" is a primary
feature of computers. With applications and methods ranging from simulated
warfare to user-friendly interfaces, the computer is made to mimic human
response. Interactivity is a lie. The computer is not really sorry when it
apologizes, but this mimicry of manners fulfills our innate need for
complete cycles of communication. The Computer Is Not Sorry explores
various facets of this virtual humanity.
Installations
+ Jennifer Hall is the Director of Do While Studio, a Boston
non-profit work space dedicated to the education and creation of art and
technology, and teaches design, sculpture, and the media arts at the
Massachusetts College of Art. Her installation is a conversation between
two computers, and is a response to our anthropocentric perception of the
tools we develop. "Our culture wants to desperately to believe the
promises associated with what we have termed interactivity and virtual
reality. Is this obsession misdirected and why do we think these are new
ideas? After all, reading a good book is both an interactive and a virtual
experience."
+ Tim (Robots from Hell) Anderson is a researcher at MIT's
Laboratory of Manufacturing and Productivity, working on a 3D
printer/sculpture-making machine. Several of his robots are included in
the 1992 Small Computer and the Arts exhibition at the Franklin Institute
in Philadelphia. The Do While Gallery in Boston is currently hosting
"Robot Art", a one-person show of Anderson's work. His "Tissue Mobile"
installation at the Space will include a pendulum driven by muscle tissue.
+ Chris Burnett, a former Charlestown resident, is an artist and
critic who teaches media and computer art at the Kansas City Art
Institute. His books and computer interactive works have been exhibited at
the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Fuller Art Museum in Brockton,
Massachusetts, and elsewhere. His installation, "Muto[scape]: A Panorama
of Animation Specimens" explores the mixed culture of popular animation
within hypermedia and physical structures based on the zoetrope, an early
animation device.
+ Greg Garvey is Assistant Professor of Design Art at Concordia
University in Montreal teaching computer graphics and multi-media. He has
exhibited environmental installations in New York and Boston and has
collaborated with a number of choreographers producing dance videos. His
installation "Catholic Turing Test" challenges the sinner in the
confessional to decide whether or not a priest or a computer is hearing
the confession. In doing so the user/sinner can experience the ecstasy of
forgiveness in a Manichean system governed by binary logic.
Hypertext
The show will present recent hypertext literature published by Eastgate
Systems, Inc. of Watertown, Massachusetts.
+ "Its Name was Penelope" by Judy Malloy. Malloy is a book,
electrographic, and computer artist as well as an associate editor of
Leonardo and Leonardo Electronic News. She believes that affordable
book-size computers will enable the proliferation of new types of
responsive books and collaborative storytelling. "Its Name was Penelope"
is based on books from Homer's Odyssey; the narrator is a woman
photographer. Malloy writes, "Every reader chooses how and when to enter
each file, and random record generation makes each file appear different
to each reader."
+ Victory Garden by Stuart Moulthrop. Moulthrop, a former Yale
English Literature teacher, learned about hypertext in 1985, an event he
says changed his life. Now he "lives in the sunbelt and thinks about the
late age of print." With authors Michael Joyce, Nancy Kaplan, and John
McDaid, he is co-founder of the TINAC electronic arts collective.
Moulthrop's current projects include "Leni's Texts", a study of conspiracy
fiction, and "Grass", a multi-author hypertext. Victory Garden is a
portrait of the day the United States went to war in the sands of Kuwait
and Iraq.
Music
+ Neil Leonard is a saxophonist/clarinetist and assistant director
and instructor at the Massachusetts College of Art Computer Arts Learning
Center. For the past six years he has concentrated on composition,
creating works for interactive computer music systems, film, video, and
performance. Neil has harnessed chaos theory to create "an algorithmic
house band" that provided a set of compositions for an educational
television series, and he has developed systems in which computer software
varies musical output according to how Leonard is playing his saxophone.
"The Computer Is Not Sorry" catalog, with essays by Chris Burnett and
University of Florida professor and 1993 SIGGRAPH Art Show Chair Simon
Penny, will be available at the show or by contacting the Space. In
addition to the print catalog, both video and hypertext catalogs of the
show will be available. "The Computer Is Not Sorry" is curated by George
Fifield and Brian Wallace.
the Space is one of Boston's principal alternative arts centers. It is a
non-profit arts organization funded by the National Endowment for the
Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Engelhard Foundation, The Massachusetts
Cultural Council, The Andy Warhol Foundation and your generous
contributions. the Space is a member of the National Association of
Artists Organizations (NAAO). It provides a forum for innovative projects
in the the visual and performing arts. the Space has a tradition, in its
seven years, of presenting new voices from diverse backgrounds, show ing
visual, installation and performance art as well as presenting poetry and
video.
For more information contact:
the Space
107 South Street
Boston, MA 02111
617-451-0602
fax: 451-0621
Or e-mail: gwf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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