FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 5, 2004
Turbulence Commission: "Stand By Your Guns" by Jillian Mcdonald
http://turbulence.org/Works/mcdonald/

From movies/television and computer/video games to political posturing
and gangster rap, weapons have become as "embedded" in our everyday
lives as US journalists were in the military during the "major combat"
phase of the 2003 Iraq war. "Stand By Your Guns" confronts us with the
ubiquity of guns and how violent simulations translate into real life
shootings. It is an absurdist piece that both glorifies the weapon and
masquerades as an entertainment arcade.

BIOGRAPHY

Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian performance and media artist who lives
and works in New York City. Her web projects include "Things are Okay"
and "Home Like No Place" which were produced in residency at Trinity
Square Video in Toronto, and La Chambre Blanche Gallery in Quebec City.
"Home Like No Place" was featured at La Biennale de Montreal 2002. "Me
and Billy Bob" was launched in May 2003 and "Ivy League" is part of
StudioXX's Virtual Garden project. "Advice Lounge," created in residency
at Videographe and featured at FCMM in Montreal, will be performed live
at Saskatoons Spasm New Media Festival in Spring 2004. Mcdonald
received a Canada Council for the Arts Grant for the creation of four
new media projects in 2003. Her projects have been featured at
Kanonmedia (Vienna), Emmedia (Calgary), Hive Projects (Toronto), Rhizome
(New York), Javamuseum, CIAC (Canada), DIAN (Germany), the Web Biennial
in Istanbul 2003, and the Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie.
Mcdonald teaches computer art at Pace University where she co-directs
the Pace Digital Gallery.

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