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> From: Yael Kanarek <yael@treasurecrumbs.com>
> Date: Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:48:55 PM US/Eastern
> To: theupgrade@treasurecrumbs.com
> Subject: The Upgrade! w/Mary Flanagan: Tuesday, September 30
>
> Dear all,
>
> Join us on Tuesday, September 30 to a gathering with Mary Flanagan.
> Mary will discuss her recent work with search engines, viruses, and
> networked art and will present a work-in-progress game engine hack,
> [domestic]. Currently she is occupied with the social implications of
> ubiquitous computing and computer culture as it relates to the
> personal and the everyday. Paramount to this interest is the concept
> of data visualization and how the intimate or the private becomes
> public and vice versa.
>
> Mary Flanagan holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and studied
> film studies and experimental filmmaking. Currently Flanagan's
> creative work focuses on networked/computer based art, installation,
> and game design. Flanagan's work has been shown internationally at
> venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art's Artport, the
> Moving Image Centre in Auckland, DataTerra: All Star Data Mappers,
> Sydney, Central Fine Arts Gallery, New York, the Guggenheim Gallery
> Online at Chapman University, University of Arizona, University of
> Colorado at Boulder, New York Hall of Science, and the Whitney Museum
> of American Art 2002 Biennial.
>
> As a maker and a theorist, Flanagan's essays on digital art,
> cyberculture, and gaming have appeared in periodicals such as Art
> Journal, Wide Angle, Convergence, and Culture Machine, as well as
> several books. Her co-edited collection reload: rethinking women +
> cyberculture with Austin Booth was published by MIT Press in 2002, and
> reskinning is scheduled for 2004 from MIT. Her projects have been
> funded by the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Cultural
> Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also the
> creator of The Adventures of Josie True, the first web-based
> adventure game for girls, and is collaborating on a new online game
> environment to teach Java programming to girls with NYU faculty. Prior
> to teaching, Flanagan was a producer/designer at Human Code, an Austin
> based software developer, garnering over 20 international awards for
> titles created for The Discovery Channel, Creative Wonders/ABC, and
> Knowledge Adventure. Flanagan has taught digital art and cybercultural
> studies at SUNY Buffalo, Concordia University (Montreal), and the
> University of Oregon. She currently teaches at Hunter College and
> lives and works in New York.
>
> URL: http://www.maryflanagan.com
>
> When/Where:
> Tuesday, September 30, 7:30 PM (talk begins at 8:00 sharp)
> Eyebeam
> 540-548 west 21st street
> Between 10 & 11 Ave
>
> See you then.
>
> Best,
> Yael Kanarek
>
> About our host: Eyebeam is a not-for-profit organization established
> in 1996. Through its Education, Moving Image and Exhibition divisions
> the organization works to expand the public's appreciation and
> understanding of media art. As part of its mission and efforts to
> provide support for artists working within the intersection of art,
> science, and technology, Eyebeam is excited to act as host for The
> Upgrade! events and activities since April 2000.
>
> Yael Kanarek :: NYC
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