FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 15, 2003
Turbulence Spotlight: "Life Support" by Annette Weintraub
http://www.annetteweintraub.com/lifesupport/index.html

Hall for dreamers or impersonal machine? "Life Support" explores the
subjective experience of space. It looks at the way in which medical
environments affect behavior, perception and healing. The symbolism of
space is deeply ingrained, perhaps physiological. We read the underlying
messages of rooms dedicated to waiting, to sleep, or to death through
their design, ambience and contents. The word 'hospital' comes from the
Latin 'hospes', the same root as hospitality and hotel, meaning guest or
host. A contemporary hospital might contain vestiges of the cruciform
design of the Renaissance hospital, the panopticon of the prison, or the
compartmentalization of industrial architecture. "Life Support" explores
this symbolic coding of space and its underlying mythologies. It draws
upon depictions of medical spaces in advertising, popular culture and
film and their reintegration into our vocabulary of space. Four spatial
hybrids mixing 2D and 3D representation act as narrative containers for
issues of hierarchy, mechanization, privacy and identity. Movement
through space and narrative movement are linked, as in a walking meditation.

BIOGRAPHY

Annette Weintraub is a media artist whose projects embed layered
narratives within an variety of architectural constructs. Her work is an
investigation of architecture as visual language and the symbolism of
space. Her work has been presented at the International Art
Biennial-Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes 2002, Buenos
Aires, Argentina, The 5th Biennial of Media and Architecture in Graz
Austria, The Whitney Biennial 2000, The International Center for
Photography/ICP, The International Film Festival Rotterdam,
Thirteen/WNET TV's Reel New York.Web and in numerous other national and
international exhibitions. She received a Silver Award in l.D.
Magazine's Interactive Media Review, and her work has been featured in:
Aperture, Art in America, Artforum, ArtByte, Arts@Large, Graphis, The
New York Times, Newsweek, New York Magazine, The Boston Globe, and
Leonardo. Commissioned works include projects for Turbulence, CEPA, and
The Ruschlikon Centre for Global Dialogue.

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