Lecture Series Co-presented by Turbulence.org and Emerson College
ALEX GALLOWAY: "The Hidden World of Code" + MARY FLANAGAN
Wednesday 03.17.04, 7:00 p.m. (EST, USA)
Bill Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont Street, Boston
Live online at http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints
All lectures are free and open to the public
Is the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely
exchanged information or a regulated, highly structured virtual
bureaucracy? Reading from his new book "Protocol," Alex Galloway will
examine the underbelly of the Internet and how it both limits and
facilitates artistic practice. From hacked PlayStations to Web robots we
will look at how artists are wrestling with the hidden world of computer
code. As a representative of RSG, Galloway will also present here the
first release of the Macintosh OSX version of the award-winning software
" Carnivore Personal Edition."
BIOGRAPHIES
ALEXANDER R. GALLOWAY is Assistant Professor of Media Ecology at New
York University. Galloway previously worked for six years as Director of
Content and Technology at Rhizome.org. He is a founding member of the
software development group RSG whose data surveillance system Carnivore
was awarded a Golden Nica in the 2002 Prix Ars Electronica. The New York
Times recently described his work as "conceptually sharp, visually
compelling and completely attuned to the political moment." His first
book, "PROTOCOL: How Control Exists After Decentralization," will appear
in March 2004 from The MIT Press.
MARY FLANAGAN holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and studied film
studies and experimental filmmaking. In the 1990s, Flanagan was a
producer/designer at Human Code, an Austin based software developer,
garnering over 20 international awards for titles produced for The
Discovery Channel, Creative Wonders/ABC, and Knowledge Adventure.
Currently Flanagan's projects are primarily networked and computer-based
works that investigate everyday life and the influence of technology,
including net.culture, computer gaming, and mundane technological tools.
The works are created for the net or installation. Flanagan's artwork
has been shown internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of
American Art 2002 Biennial, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, Whitney Museum of
American Art's Artport, the Moving Image Centre in Auckland, Central
Fine Arts Gallery, New York, the Guggenheim, University of Arizona,
University of Colorado Boulder, New York Hall of Science, and
galleries/events in Spain, the UK, Norway, Japan, Denmark, Canada,
Australia, France, Italy, Slovenia, and the US. Flanagan's projects have
been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Cultural
Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
As an activist media maker, she is the creator of "The Adventures of
Josie True," the first web-based adventure game for girls, and is
collaborating on a new project to teach middle school girls computer
programming, "RAPUNSEL." 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_ was
published by MIT Press in 2002, and _reskin_ is due in 2004. She has
taught media art and technocultural studies at SUNY Buffalo, Concordia
University in Montreal, and the University of Oregon. Flanagan now
teaches at Hunter College in Manhattan, and lives and works in New York.
http://www.maryflanagan.com.
FLOATING POINTS: NET ART NOW is a speaker series examining some of the
current critical areas being explored by net-based artists:
interactivity, visualization, Internet protocol, software art,
generative art, mapping, and games. The series considers contemporary
theoretical and conceptual issues in net art, challenging notions of the
art object, the artist and the audience.
Earlier talks are archived at http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints
For more information about Floating Points, please send an email to
turbulence@turbulence.org
